Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher

Vigilance
{T}: Add an amount of {C} equal to Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher's toughness. This mana can't be spent to cast spells from your hand.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Dazzling Sphinx

Flying
Whenever Dazzling Sphinx deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Daxos of Meletis

Daxos of Meletis can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.
Whenever Daxos of Meletis deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library. You gain life equal to that card's mana value. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Azor, the Lawbringer

Flying
When Azor, the Lawbringer enters the battlefield, each opponent can't cast instant or sorcery spells during that player's next turn.
Whenever Azor attacks, you may pay {X}{W}{U}{U}. If you do, you gain X life and draw X cards.

Psychic Network

Each player plays with the top card of their library held against their forehead, revealed to each other player.

Scheming Fence

As Scheming Fence enters the battlefield, you may choose a nonland permanent.
Activated abilities of the chosen permanent can't be activated.
Scheming Fence has all activated abilities of the chosen permanent except for loyalty abilities. You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate those abilities.

Aqueous Form

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't be blocked.
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Vega, the Watcher

Flying
Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, draw a card.

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Azorius Charm

Choose one —
• Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
• Draw a card.
• Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Scholarship Sponsor

When Scholarship Sponsor enters the battlefield, each player who controls fewer lands than the player who controls the most lands searches their library for a number of basic land cards less than or equal to the difference, puts those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

Unexpectedly Absent

Put target nonland permanent into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library.

Expel from Orazca

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If you have the city's blessing, you may put that permanent on top of its owner's library instead.

Chaos Wand

{4}, {T}: Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of that library in a random order.

Disempower

Put target artifact or enchantment on top of its owner's library.

Case the Joint

Draw two cards, then look at the top card of each player's library.

Not Forgotten

Put target card from a graveyard on the top or bottom of its owner's library. Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Portent

Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Hinder

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put that card on the top or bottom of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Stolen Identity

Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Warrant

Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Warden

Create a 4/4 white and blue Sphinx creature token with flying and vigilance.

Warrant // Warden

Duelist's Heritage

Whenever one or more creatures attack, you may have target attacking creature gain double strike until end of turn.

Psychic Surgery

Whenever an opponent shuffles their library, you may look at the top two cards of that library. You may exile one of those cards. Then put the rest on top of that library in any order.

Wandering Archaic

Whenever an opponent casts an instant or sorcery spell, they may pay {2}. If they don't, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Explore the Vastlands

Each player looks at the top five cards of their library and may reveal a land card and/or an instant or sorcery card from among them. Each player puts the cards they revealed this way into their hand and the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. Each player gains 3 life.

Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands

Island

Strict Proctor

Flying
Whenever a permanent entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability to trigger, counter that ability unless its controller pays {2}.

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip {2}

Staff of Titania

Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of Forests you control.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, create a 1/1 green Forest Dryad land creature token. (It's affected by summoning sickness.)
Equip {3}

Sword of Hearth and Home

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle.
Equip {2}

Wizened Snitches

Flying
Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed.

Haunting Imitation

Each player reveals the top card of their library. For each creature card revealed this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's 1/1, it's a Spirit in addition to its other types, and it has flying. If no creature cards were revealed this way, return Haunting Imitation to its owner's hand.

Farewell

Choose one or more —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all graveyards.

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Doomskar

Destroy all creatures.
Foretell {1}{W}{W} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

Sejiri Shelter

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Sejiri Glacier

Sejiri Glacier enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.

Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier

Single Combat

Each player chooses a creature or planeswalker they control, then sacrifices the rest. Players can't cast creature or planeswalker spells until the end of your next turn.

Deep Gnome Terramancer

Flash
Mold Earth — Whenever one or more lands enter the battlefield under an opponent's control without being played, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Do this only once each turn.

Plains

Slash the Ranks

Destroy all creatures and planeswalkers except for commanders.

Lapse of Certainty

Wand of Denial

{T}: Look at the top card of target player's library. If it's a nonland card, you may pay 2 life. If you do, put it into that player's graveyard.

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Slip Through Space

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Mirror-Sigil Sergeant

Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a blue permanent, you may create a token that's a copy of Mirror-Sigil Sergeant.

Light of Promise

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature."

Mind's Dilation

Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, that player exiles the top card of their library. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Synthesis Pod

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
{1}{U/P}, {T}, Exile a spell you control: Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a card with mana value equal to 1 plus the exiled spell's mana value. Exile that card, then that player shuffles. You may cast that exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Aerial Extortionist

Flying
Whenever Aerial Extortionist enters the battlefield or deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may cast it.
Whenever another player casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card.

The Eternal Wanderer

No more than one creature can attack The Eternal Wanderer each combat.
+1: Exile up to one target artifact or creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of that player's next end step.
0: Create a 2/2 white Samurai creature token with double strike.
−4: For each player, choose a creature that player controls. Each player sacrifices all creatures they control not chosen this way.

Cataclysmic Gearhulk

Vigilance
When Cataclysmic Gearhulk enters the battlefield, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Sculpted Sunburst

Choose a creature you control, then each opponent chooses a creature they control with equal or lesser power. If you chose a creature this way, exile each creature not chosen by any player this way.

Vantress Gargoyle

Flying
Vantress Gargoyle can't attack unless defending player has seven or more cards in their graveyard.
Vantress Gargoyle can't block unless you have four or more cards in hand.
{T}: Each player mills a card.

Trinket Mage

When Trinket Mage enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Stolen Goods

Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Sphinx's Revelation

Confounding Conundrum

When Confounding Conundrum enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, if that player had another land enter the battlefield under their control this turn, they return a land they control to its owner's hand.

Azorius Signet

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Aura Extraction

Put target enchantment on top of its owner's library.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Metamorphose

Put target permanent an opponent controls on top of its owner's library. That opponent may put an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Thaumatic Compass

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control seven or more lands, transform Thaumatic Compass.

Spires of Orazca

(Transforms from Thaumatic Compass.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Untap target attacking creature an opponent controls and remove it from combat.

Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca

Pyxis of Pandemonium

{T}: Each player exiles the top card of their library face down.
{7}, {T}, Sacrifice Pyxis of Pandemonium: Each player turns face up all cards they own exiled with Pyxis of Pandemonium, then puts all permanent cards among them onto the battlefield.

Aven Mimeomancer

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a feather counter on target creature. If you do, that creature has base power and toughness 3/1 and has flying for as long as it has a feather counter on it.

Pyramid of the Pantheon

{2}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. Put a brick counter on Pyramid of the Pantheon.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if there are three or more brick counters on Pyramid of the Pantheon.

Dream Trawler

Flying, lifelink
Whenever you draw a card, Dream Trawler gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Whenever Dream Trawler attacks, draw a card.
Discard a card: Dream Trawler gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.

Sol Ring

Rune of Flight

Enchant permanent
When Rune of Flight enters the battlefield, draw a card.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it has flying.
As long as enchanted permanent is an Equipment, it has "Equipped creature has flying."

Temporary Lockdown

When Temporary Lockdown enters the battlefield, exile each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less until Temporary Lockdown leaves the battlefield.

Lantern of Insight

Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed.
{T}, Sacrifice Lantern of Insight: Target player shuffles.

Combat Research

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)

Medomai's Prophecy

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I — Scry 2.
II — Choose a card name.
III — When you cast a spell with the chosen name for the first time this turn, draw two cards.
IV — Look at the top card of each player's library.

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Silverblade Paladin

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Silverblade Paladin is paired with another creature, both creatures have double strike.

Consulate Crackdown

When Consulate Crackdown enters the battlefield, exile all artifacts your opponents control until Consulate Crackdown leaves the battlefield.

Wedding Invitation

When Wedding Invitation enters the battlefield, draw a card.
{T}, Sacrifice Wedding Invitation: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. If it's a Vampire, it also gains lifelink until end of turn.

Mishra's Bauble

{T}, Sacrifice Mishra's Bauble: Look at the top card of target player's library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Happily Ever After

When Happily Ever After enters the battlefield, each player gains 5 life and draws a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are five colors among permanents you control, there are six or more card types among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard, and your life total is greater than or equal to your starting life total, you win the game.

Guiding Spirit

Flying
{T}: If the top card of target player's graveyard is a creature card, put that card on top of that player's library.

Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control. If you do, draw a card.
{3}{W}{W}: Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

Security Bypass

Enchant creature
As long as enchanted creature is attacking alone, it can't be blocked.
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, it connives." (Its controller draws a card, then discards a card. If they discarded a nonland card, they put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Staggering Insight

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

Aetherspouts

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on the top or bottom of their library.

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Octopus Umbra

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 8/8 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap target creature with power 8 or less."
Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Flaming Fist

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks, it gains double strike until end of turn."

Fumble

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Gain control of all Auras and Equipment that were attached to it, then attach them to another creature.

Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Demolition Field: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Righteous Authority

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each card in its controller's hand.
At the beginning of the draw step of enchanted creature's controller, that player draws an additional card.

Hand of Vecna

At the beginning of combat on your turn, equipped creature or a creature you control named Vecna gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Equip—Pay 1 life for each card in your hand.
Equip {2}

Greatsword of Tyr

Whenever equipped creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it and tap up to one target creature defending player controls.
Equip {W} ({W}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

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