Aven Courier

Flying
Whenever Aven Courier attacks, choose a counter on a permanent you control. Put a counter of that kind on target permanent you control if it doesn't have a counter of that kind on it.

Iron Apprentice

Iron Apprentice enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
When Iron Apprentice dies, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target creature you control.

Tchotchke Elemental

Whenever you create a token or put a counter or a sticker on another permanent, put a knickknack counter on Tchotchke Elemental. Use a unique item that completely fits on Tchotchke Elemental for each knickknack counter.
Tchotchke Elemental gets +1/+1 for each knickknack counter on it.

Icatian Moneychanger

Icatian Moneychanger enters with three credit counters on it.
When Icatian Moneychanger enters, it deals 3 damage to you.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a credit counter on Icatian Moneychanger.
Sacrifice Icatian Moneychanger: You gain 1 life for each credit counter on Icatian Moneychanger. Activate only during your upkeep.

Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Heirloom Mirror

{1}, {T}, Pay 1 life, Discard a card: Draw a card, mill a card, then put a ritual counter on Heirloom Mirror. Then if it has three or more ritual counters on it, remove them and transform it. Activate only as a sorcery.

Inherited Fiend

Flying
{2}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Put a +1/+1 counter on Inherited Fiend.

Heirloom Mirror // Inherited Fiend

Backstreet Bruiser

Defender
As long as there are two or more counters among creatures you control, Backstreet Bruiser can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Cephalid Vandal

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a shred counter on Cephalid Vandal. Then mill a card for each shred counter on Cephalid Vandal.

Medicine Runner

When Medicine Runner enters, you may remove a counter from target permanent.

Goldberry, River-Daughter

{T}: Move a counter of each kind not on Goldberry, River-Daughter from another target permanent you control onto Goldberry.
{U}, {T}: Move one or more counters from Goldberry onto another target permanent you control. If you do, draw a card.

Livio, Oathsworn Sentinel

{1}{W}: Choose another target creature. Its controller may exile it with an aegis counter on it.
{2}{W}, {T}: Return all exiled cards with aegis counters on them to the battlefield under their owners' control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Ludevic's Test Subject

Defender
{1}{U}: Put a hatchling counter on Ludevic's Test Subject. Then if there are five or more hatchling counters on it, remove all of them and transform it.

Ludevic's Abomination

Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination

Sensei Golden-Tail

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
{1}{W}, {T}: Put a training counter on target creature. That creature gains bushido 1 and becomes a Samurai in addition to its other creature types. Activate only as a sorcery.

Soul Diviner

{T}, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.

Falco Spara, Pactweaver

Flying, trample
Falco Spara, Pactweaver enters with a shield counter on it.
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast spells from the top of your library by removing a counter from a creature you control in addition to paying their other costs.

Trap Digger

{2}{W}, {T}: Put a trap counter on target land you control.
Sacrifice a land with a trap counter on it: Trap Digger deals 3 damage to target attacking creature without flying.

Bribe Taker

Trample
When Bribe Taker enters, for each kind of counter on permanents you control, you may put your choice of a +1/+1 counter or a counter of that kind on Bribe Taker.

Daredevil Dragster

At end of combat, if Daredevil Dragster attacked or blocked this combat, put a velocity counter on it. Then if it has two or more velocity counters on it, sacrifice it and draw two cards.
Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Celestial Regulator

Flying
When Celestial Regulator enters, choose target creature you don't control and tap it. If you control a creature with a counter on it, the chosen creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Tasha, the Witch Queen

Whenever you cast a spell you don't own, create a 3/3 black Demon creature token.
+1: Draw a card. For each opponent, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard and put a page counter on it.
−3: You may cast a spell from among cards in exile with page counters on them without paying its mana cost.
Tasha, the Witch Queen can be your commander.

Briber's Purse

Briber's Purse enters with X gem counters on it.
{1}, {T}, Remove a gem counter from Briber's Purse: Target creature can't attack or block this turn.

Dragon's Hoard

Whenever a Dragon you control enters, put a gold counter on Dragon's Hoard.
{T}, Remove a gold counter from Dragon's Hoard: Draw a card.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Sphere of Annihilation

Sphere of Annihilation enters with X void counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile Sphere of Annihilation, all creatures and planeswalkers with mana value less than or equal to the number of void counters on it, and all creature and planeswalker cards in graveyards with mana value less than or equal to the number of void counters on it.

Angelic Sleuth

Flying
Whenever another permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

The Thirteenth Doctor

Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Team TARDIS — At the beginning of your end step, untap each creature you control with a counter on it.

Bloodthirsty Ogre

{T}: Put a devotion counter on Bloodthirsty Ogre.
{T}: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of devotion counters on Bloodthirsty Ogre. Activate only if you control a Demon.

Staff of the Storyteller

When Staff of the Storyteller enters, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
Whenever you create one or more creature tokens, put a story counter on Staff of the Storyteller.
{W}, {T}, Remove a story counter from Staff of the Storyteller: Draw a card.

Fain, the Broker

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
{T}, Remove a counter from a creature you control: Create a Treasure token.
{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.
{3}{B}: Untap Fain, the Broker.

Ferropede

Ferropede can't be blocked.
Whenever Ferropede deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a counter from target permanent.

Glissa Sunslayer

First strike, deathtouch
Whenever Glissa Sunslayer deals combat damage to a player, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Remove up to three counters from target permanent.

Vorel of the Hull Clade

{G}{U}, {T}: Double the number of each kind of counter on target artifact, creature, or land.

Pir, Imaginative Rascal

Partner with Toothy, Imaginary Friend (When this creature enters, target player may put Toothy into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
If one or more counters would be put on a permanent your team controls, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead.

Bold Plagiarist

Flash
Whenever an opponent puts one or more counters on a creature they control, they put the same number and kind of counters on Bold Plagiarist.

Essence Bottle

{3}, {T}: Put an elixir counter on Essence Bottle.
{T}, Remove all elixir counters from Essence Bottle: You gain 2 life for each elixir counter removed this way.

Cyclopean Tomb

{2}, {T}: Put a mire counter on target non-Swamp land. That land is a Swamp for as long as it has a mire counter on it. Activate only during your upkeep.
When Cyclopean Tomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, at the beginning of each of your upkeeps for the rest of the game, remove all mire counters from a land that a mire counter was put onto with Cyclopean Tomb but that a mire counter has not been removed from with Cyclopean Tomb.

Fraying Line

When Fraying Line enters, put a rope counter on target creature you control.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may pay {2}. If they do, they put a rope counter on a creature they control. Otherwise, exile Fraying Line and each creature without a rope counter on it, then remove all rope counters from all creatures.

Eye of Doom

When Eye of Doom enters, each player chooses a nonland permanent and puts a doom counter on it.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Eye of Doom: Destroy each permanent with a doom counter on it.

Grimoire of the Dead

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead.
{T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Faithbound Judge

Defender, flying, vigilance
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Faithbound Judge has two or fewer judgment counters on it, put a judgment counter on it.
As long as Faithbound Judge has three or more judgment counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Disturb {5}{W}{W}

Sinner's Judgment

Enchant player
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a judgment counter on Sinner's Judgment. Then if there are three or more judgment counters on it, enchanted player loses the game.
If Sinner's Judgment would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment

Rasputin, the Oneiromancer

When Rasputin, the Oneiromancer enters, put a dream counter on it for each opponent you have. Each opponent creates a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.
{T}, Remove one or more dream counters from Rasputin: Add that much {C}.
{T}, Remove a dream counter from Rasputin: Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with protection from red.

Draugr Necromancer

If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile that card with an ice counter on it instead.
You may cast spells from among cards in exile your opponents own with ice counters on them, and you may spend mana from snow sources as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Foreboding Statue

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Put an omen counter on Foreboding Statue.
At the beginning of your end step, if there are three or more omen counters on Foreboding Statue, untap it, then transform it.

Forsaken Thresher

At the beginning of your first main phase, add one mana of any color.

Foreboding Statue // Forsaken Thresher

Gilder Bairn

{2}{G/U}, {Q}: Double the number of each kind of counter on target permanent. ({Q} is the untap symbol.)

Homarid

Homarid enters with a tide counter on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a tide counter on Homarid.
As long as there is exactly one tide counter on Homarid, it gets -1/-1.
As long as there are exactly three tide counters on Homarid, it gets +1/+1.
Whenever there are four or more tide counters on Homarid, remove all tide counters from it.

Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion

If you would put one or more counters on a creature or planeswalker you control or on yourself, put that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Maulfist Revolutionary

Trample
When Maulfist Revolutionary enters or dies, for each kind of counter on target permanent or player, give that permanent or player another counter of that kind.

Musician

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
{T}: Put a music counter on target creature. If it doesn't have "At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy this creature unless you pay {1} for each music counter on it," it gains that ability.

Towashi Guide-Bot

When Towashi Guide-Bot enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
{4}, {T}: Draw a card. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each modified creature you control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Metropolis Angel

Flying
Whenever you attack with one or more creatures with counters on them, draw a card.

Genestealer Patriarch

Genestealer's Kiss — Whenever Genestealer Patriarch attacks, put an infection counter on target creature defending player controls.
Children of the Cult — Whenever a creature with an infection counter on it dies, you create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Tyranid in addition to its other types.

Magnanimous Magistrate

Magnanimous Magistrate enters with five reprieve counters on it.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, if its mana value was 1 or greater, you may remove that many reprieve counters from Magnanimous Magistrate. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Hankyu

Equipped creature has "{T}: Put an aim counter on Hankyu" and "{T}, Remove all aim counters from Hankyu: This creature deals damage to any target equal to the number of aim counters removed this way."
Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Sanctuary Warden

Flying
Sanctuary Warden enters with two shield counters on it.
Whenever Sanctuary Warden enters or attacks, you may remove a counter from a creature or planeswalker you control. If you do, draw a card and create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token.

Magma Mine

{4}: Put a pressure counter on Magma Mine.
{T}, Sacrifice Magma Mine: It deals damage equal to the number of pressure counters on it to any target.

Instrument of the Bards

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a harmony counter on Instrument of the Bards.
{3}{G}, {T}: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to the number of harmony counters on Instrument of the Bards, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If that card is legendary, create a Treasure token. Then shuffle.

Spell Satchel

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, put a book counter on Spell Satchel.
{T}, Remove a book counter from Spell Satchel: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Remove three book counters from Spell Satchel: Draw a card.

Powder Keg

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on Powder Keg.
{T}, Sacrifice Powder Keg: Destroy each artifact and creature with mana value equal to the number of fuse counters on Powder Keg.

Jar of Eyeballs

Whenever a creature you control dies, put two eyeball counters on Jar of Eyeballs.
{3}, {T}, Remove all eyeball counters from Jar of Eyeballs: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of eyeball counters removed this way. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Oblivion Stone

{4}, {T}: Put a fate counter on target permanent.
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice Oblivion Stone: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.

Life Matrix

{4}, {T}: Put a matrix counter on target creature and that creature gains "Remove a matrix counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature." Activate only during your upkeep.

Edgar, Charmed Groom

Other Vampires you control get +1/+1.
When Edgar, Charmed Groom dies, return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control.

Edgar Markov's Coffin

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 white and black Vampire creature token with lifelink and put a bloodline counter on Edgar Markov's Coffin. Then if there are three or more bloodline counters on it, remove those counters and transform it.

Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin

Grolnok, the Omnivore

Whenever a Frog you control attacks, mill three cards.
Whenever a permanent card is put into your graveyard from your library, exile it with a croak counter on it.
You may play lands and cast spells from among cards you own in exile with croak counters on them.

Athreos, Shroud-Veiled

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your end step, put a coin counter on another target creature.
Whenever a creature with a coin counter on it dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Deadly Designs

{2}: Put a plot counter on Deadly Designs. Any player may activate this ability.
When there are five or more plot counters on Deadly Designs, sacrifice it. If you do, destroy up to two target creatures.

Magnetic Web

If a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them attack if able.
Whenever a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them block that creature this turn if able.
{1}, {T}: Put a magnet counter on target creature.

Malefic Scythe

Malefic Scythe enters with a soul counter on it.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each soul counter on Malefic Scythe.
Whenever equipped creature dies, put a soul counter on Malefic Scythe.
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Component Pouch

{T}, Remove a component counter from Component Pouch: Add two mana of different colors.
{T}: Roll a d20.
1—9 | Put a component counter on Component Pouch.
10—20 | Put two component counters on Component Pouch.

Archery Training

Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put an arrow counter on Archery Training.
Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals X damage to target attacking or blocking creature, where X is the number of arrow counters on Archery Training."

Deepglow Skate

When Deepglow Skate enters, double the number of each kind of counter on any number of target permanents.

Dread Wight

At end of combat, put a paralyzation counter on each creature blocking or blocked by Dread Wight and tap those creatures. Each of those creatures doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as it has a paralyzation counter on it. Each of those creatures gains "{4}: Remove a paralyzation counter from this creature."

Tetzimoc, Primal Death

Deathtouch
{B}, Reveal Tetzimoc, Primal Death from your hand: Put a prey counter on target creature. Activate only during your turn.
When Tetzimoc enters, destroy each creature your opponents control with a prey counter on it.

Arbiter of the Ideal

Flying
Inspired — Whenever Arbiter of the Ideal becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.

Cemetery Desecrator

Menace
When Cemetery Desecrator enters or dies, exile another card from a graveyard. When you do, choose one —
• Remove X counters from target permanent, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.
• Target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Aquitect's Will

Put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. If you control a Merfolk, draw a card.

Delif's Cube

{2}, {T}: This turn, when target creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, it assigns no combat damage this turn and you put a cube counter on Delif's Cube.
{2}, Remove a cube counter from Delif's Cube: Regenerate target creature.

Mercadian Lift

{1}, {T}: Put a winch counter on Mercadian Lift.
{T}, Remove X winch counters from Mercadian Lift: You may put a creature card with mana value X from your hand onto the battlefield.

Treasure Map

{1}, {T}: Scry 1. Put a landmark counter on Treasure Map. Then if there are three or more landmark counters on it, remove those counters, transform Treasure Map, and create three Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Treasure Cove

(Transforms from Treasure Map.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a Treasure: Draw a card.

Treasure Map // Treasure Cove

Bloodletter Quill

{2}, {T}, Put a blood counter on Bloodletter Quill: Draw a card, then you lose 1 life for each blood counter on Bloodletter Quill.
{U}{B}: Remove a blood counter from Bloodletter Quill.

Palantír of Orthanc

At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Investigator's Journal

Investigator's Journal enters with a number of suspect counters on it equal to the greatest number of creatures a player controls.
{2}, {T}, Remove a suspect counter from Investigator's Journal: Draw a card.
{2}, Sacrifice Investigator's Journal: Draw a card.

Noble's Purse

Noble's Purse enters tapped and with three coin counters on it.
{T}, Remove a coin counter from Noble's Purse: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Chitterspitter

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a token. If you do, put an acorn counter on Chitterspitter.
Squirrels you control get +1/+1 for each acorn counter on Chitterspitter.
{G}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.

Soul Echo

Soul Echo enters with X echo counters on it.
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Soul Echo if there are no echo counters on it. Otherwise, target opponent may choose that for each 1 damage that would be dealt to you until your next upkeep, you remove an echo counter from Soul Echo instead.

Venarian Gold

Enchant creature
When Venarian Gold enters, tap enchanted creature and put X sleep counters on it.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step if it has a sleep counter on it.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, remove a sleep counter from that creature.

Fasting

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a hunger counter on Fasting. Then destroy Fasting if it has five or more hunger counters on it.
If you would begin your draw step, you may skip that step instead. If you do, you gain 2 life.
When you draw a card, destroy Fasting.

Helix Pinnacle

Shroud (This enchantment can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
{X}: Put X tower counters on Helix Pinnacle.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are 100 or more tower counters on Helix Pinnacle, you win the game.

Bounty of the Luxa

At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all flood counters from Bounty of the Luxa. If no counters were removed this way, put a flood counter on Bounty of the Luxa and draw a card. Otherwise, add {C}{G}{U}.

Strixhaven Stadium

{T}: Add {C}. Put a point counter on Strixhaven Stadium.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, remove a point counter from Strixhaven Stadium.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, put a point counter on Strixhaven Stadium. Then if it has ten or more point counters on it, remove them all and that player loses the game.

Fylgja

Enchant creature
Fylgja enters with four healing counters on it.
Remove a healing counter from Fylgja: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature this turn.
{2}{W}: Put a healing counter on Fylgja.

Living Artifact

Enchant artifact
Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many vitality counters on Living Artifact.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may remove a vitality counter from Living Artifact. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Chromatic Armor

Enchant creature
As Chromatic Armor enters, choose a color.
Chromatic Armor enters with a sleight counter on it.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by sources of the last chosen color.
{X}: Put a sleight counter on Chromatic Armor and choose a color. X is the number of sleight counters on Chromatic Armor.

Dawn of a New Age

Dawn of a New Age enters with a hope counter on it for each creature you control.
At the beginning of your end step, remove a hope counter from Dawn of a New Age. If you do, draw a card. Then if Dawn of a New Age has no hope counters on it, sacrifice it and you gain 4 life.

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