Runo Stromkirk

Flying
When Runo Stromkirk enters, put up to one target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If a creature card with mana value 6 or greater is revealed this way, transform Runo Stromkirk.

Krothuss, Lord of the Deep

Flying
Whenever Krothuss, Lord of the Deep attacks, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of another target attacking creature. If that creature is a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent, create two of those tokens instead.

Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep

Swamp

Quest for Ula's Temple

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put a quest counter on Quest for Ula's Temple.
At the beginning of each end step, if there are three or more quest counters on Quest for Ula's Temple, you may put a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Kiora Bests the Sea God

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token with hexproof.
II — Tap all nonland permanents target opponent controls. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
III — Gain control of target permanent an opponent controls. Untap it.

Deranged Assistant

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Sea-Dasher Octopus

Mutate {1}{U} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)
Flash
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Stormsurge Kraken

Hexproof
Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, Stormsurge Kraken gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Stormsurge Kraken becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."

Gyruda, Doom of Depths

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with even mana values. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
When Gyruda enters, each player mills four cards. Put a creature card with an even mana value from among the milled cards onto the battlefield under your control.

Toxrill, the Corrosive

At the beginning of each end step, put a slime counter on each creature you don't control.
Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 for each slime counter on them.
Whenever a creature you don't control with a slime counter on it dies, create a 1/1 black Slug creature token.
{U}{B}, Sacrifice a Slug: Draw a card.

Apprentice Necromancer

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Apprentice Necromancer: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.

Satoru Umezawa

Whenever you activate a ninjutsu ability, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Each creature card in your hand has ninjutsu {2}{U}{B}.

Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire

Deathtouch
Boast — {1}{B}: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Wonder

Flying
As long as Wonder is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Cryptic Serpent

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Striped Riverwinder

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Scourge of Fleets

When Scourge of Fleets enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Waker of Waves

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.
{1}{U}, Discard Waker of Waves: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Dream Eater

Flash
Flying
When Dream Eater enters, surveil 4. When you do, you may return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. (To surveil 4, look at the top four cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Spawning Kraken

Whenever a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent you control deals combat damage to a player, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.

Deep-Sea Kraken

Deep-Sea Kraken can't be blocked.
Suspend 9—{2}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{U} and exile it with nine time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if Deep-Sea Kraken is suspended, remove a time counter from it.

Archetype of Imagination

Creatures you control have flying.
Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.

Counterspell

Alchemist's Retrieval

Cleave {1}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Return target nonland permanent [you control] to its owner's hand.

Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Islandwalk, swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island or a Swamp.)
Whenever Wrexial, the Risen Deep deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Fake Your Own Death

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Dark Ritual

Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Negate

Unmarked Grave

Search your library for a nonlegendary card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Thirst for Discovery

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a basic land card.

Sky Diamond

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Helm of the Host

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste.
Equip {5}

Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Arcane Signet

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

Dimir Guildgate

Dimir Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Acquisition Octopus

Whenever Acquisition Octopus or equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Reconfigure {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Octoprophet

When Octoprophet enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Sol Ring

Dimir Signet

Steelfin Whale

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Whenever an artifact you control enters, untap Steelfin Whale.

River Serpent

River Serpent can't attack unless there are five or more cards in your graveyard.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Master of Death

When Master of Death enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Master of Death is in your graveyard, you may pay 1 life. If you do, return it to your hand.

Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa, Glorious Resurrector onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Sunken Hollow enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Serpent of Yawning Depths

Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents you control can't be blocked except by Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Junk Winder

Affinity for tokens (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each token you control.)
Whenever a token you control enters, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Heartless Summoning

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
Creatures you control get -1/-1.

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Darkwater Catacombs

High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Extract from Darkness

Each player mills two cards. Then you put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Incarnation Technique

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it.)
Mill five cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Careful Study

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Halimar Depths

Halimar Depths enters tapped.
When Halimar Depths enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.

Stormtide Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Quicksilver Amulet

{4}, {T}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Thran Dynamo

Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Obsessive Stitcher

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{2}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Obsessive Stitcher: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Temple of Deceit

Temple of Deceit enters tapped.
When Temple of Deceit enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Zombify

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Trench Behemoth

Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Untap Trench Behemoth. It gains hexproof until end of turn.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target creature an opponent controls attacks during its controller's next combat phase if able.

Shipbreaker Kraken

{6}{U}{U}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When Shipbreaker Kraken becomes monstrous, tap up to four target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps for as long as you control Shipbreaker Kraken.

Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Callidus Assassin

Flash
Polymorphine — You may have Callidus Assassin enter tapped as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "When this creature enters, destroy up to one other target creature with the same name as this creature."

Lochmere Serpent

Flash
{U}, Sacrifice an Island: Lochmere Serpent can't be blocked this turn.
{B}, Sacrifice a Swamp: You gain 1 life and draw a card.
{U}{B}: Exile five target cards from an opponent's graveyard. Return Lochmere Serpent from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

Command Tower

Tromokratis

Tromokratis has hexproof unless it's attacking or blocking.
Tromokratis can't be blocked unless all creatures defending player controls block it. (If any creature that player controls doesn't block this creature, it can't be blocked.)

Island

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded an instant or sorcery card this way, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{2}, Sacrifice Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only as a sorcery.

Breaching Leviathan

When Breaching Leviathan enters, if you cast it from your hand, tap all nonblue creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch
When Baleful Strix enters, draw a card.

Tainted Indulgence

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard.

Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

Crush of Tentacles

Surge {3}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If this spell's surge cost was paid, create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.

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