Binding the Old Gods

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Swamp

Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Tome of Legends

Tome of Legends enters with a page counter on it.
Whenever your commander enters or attacks, put a page counter on Tome of Legends.
{1}, {T}, Remove a page counter from Tome of Legends: Draw a card.

Forest

Willbreaker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes the target of a spell or ability you control, gain control of that creature for as long as you control Willbreaker.

Corpsejack Menace

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Forgotten Ancient.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from Forgotten Ancient onto other creatures.

Snakeskin Veil

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)
Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Varolz, the Scar-Striped.

Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Drown in Ichor

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Haunted Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
Haunted Mire enters tapped.

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Blood Curdle

Destroy target creature. Put a menace counter on a creature you control. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Ruinous Intrusion

Exile target artifact or enchantment. Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the mana value of the permanent exiled this way.

Slippery Bogbonder

Flash
Hexproof
When Slippery Bogbonder enters, put a hexproof counter on target creature. Then move any number of counters from among creatures you control onto that creature.

Winding Constrictor

If one or more counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead.
If you would get one or more counters, you get that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters instead.

Cultivate

Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Jarad's Orders

Search your library for up to two creature cards and reveal them. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

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.

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Phyrexian Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.
II — Destroy all nonartifact creatures.
III — Exile all opponents' graveyards.

Tyrite Sanctum

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Target legendary creature becomes a God in addition to its other types. Put a +1/+1 counter on it.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Tyrite Sanctum: Put an indestructible counter on target God.

Family's Favor

Whenever you attack, put a shield counter on target attacking creature. Until end of turn, it gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, remove a shield counter from it. If you do, draw a card." (If a creature with a shield counter on it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)

Command Tower

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

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Woodland Chasm

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
Woodland Chasm enters tapped.

Sol Ring

Arcane Signet

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Exotic Orchard

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

Out of the Tombs

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two eon counters on Out of the Tombs, then mill cards equal to the number of eon counters on it.
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can't, you lose the game.

Osai Vultures

Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a carrion counter on Osai Vultures.
Remove two carrion counters from Osai Vultures: Osai Vultures gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Scavenging Ghoul

At the beginning of each end step, put a corpse counter on Scavenging Ghoul for each creature that died this turn.
Remove a corpse counter from Scavenging Ghoul: Regenerate Scavenging Ghoul.

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.")

Bounty Hunter

{T}: Put a bounty counter on target nonblack creature.
{T}: Destroy target creature with a bounty counter on it.

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.

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.

Edifice of Authority

{1}, {T}: Target creature can't attack this turn. Put a brick counter on Edifice of Authority.
{1}, {T}: Until your next turn, target creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated. Activate only if there are three or more brick counters on Edifice of Authority.

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.

Jeweled Amulet

{1}, {T}: Put a charge counter on Jeweled Amulet. Note the type of mana spent to pay this activation cost. Activate only if there are no charge counters on Jeweled Amulet.
{T}, Remove a charge counter from Jeweled Amulet: Add one mana of Jeweled Amulet's last noted type.

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

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.

Tangle Wire

Fading 4 (This artifact enters with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an untapped artifact, creature, or land they control for each fade counter on Tangle Wire.

Mindbender Spores

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
Whenever Mindbender Spores blocks a creature, put four fungus counters on that creature. The creature gains "This creature doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a fungus counter on it" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fungus counter from this creature."

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.

Paradox Zone

Paradox Zone enters with a growth counter on it.
At the beginning of your end step, double the number of growth counters on Paradox Zone. Then create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of growth counters on Paradox Zone.

Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Haste
Whenever Skullbriar, the Walking Grave deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Counters remain on Skullbriar as it moves to any zone other than a player's hand or library.

Hexavus

Flying
Hexavus enters with six +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Hexavus: Put a flying counter on another target creature.
{1}, Remove a counter from another creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on Hexavus.

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.

Sporogenesis

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fungus counter on target nontoken creature.
Whenever a creature with a fungus counter on it dies, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each fungus counter on that creature.
When Sporogenesis leaves the battlefield, remove all fungus counters from all creatures.

Mosswood Dreadknight

Trample
When Mosswood Dreadknight dies, you may cast it from your graveyard as an Adventure until the end of your next turn.

Dread Whispers

You draw a card and you lose 1 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers

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.

Hoofprints of the Stag

Whenever you draw a card, you may put a hoofprint counter on Hoofprints of the Stag.
{2}{W}, Remove four hoofprint counters from Hoofprints of the Stag: Create a 4/4 white Elemental creature token with flying. Activate only during your turn.

Scavenged Brawler

Flying, vigilance, trample, lifelink
{5}, Exile Scavenged Brawler from your graveyard: Choose target creature. Put four +1/+1 counters, a flying counter, a vigilance counter, a trample counter, and a lifelink counter on that creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Daring Fiendbonder

Haste
Daring Fiendbonder attacks each combat if able.
{1}{B}, Exile Daring Fiendbonder from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

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

Crystalline Giant

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose a kind of counter at random that Crystalline Giant doesn't have on it from among flying, first strike, deathtouch, hexproof, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, vigilance, and +1/+1. Put a counter of that kind on Crystalline Giant.

As Luck Would Have It

Hexproof
Whenever you roll a die, put a number of luck counters on As Luck Would Have It equal to the result. Then if there are 100 or more luck counters on As Luck Would Have It, you win the game. (Count both rolls if you reroll a die.)

Evolution Sage

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Danny Pink

Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
Creatures you control have "Whenever one or more counters are put on this creature for the first time each turn, draw a card."

Tezzeret's Gambit

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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."

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.)

Agent's Toolkit

Agent's Toolkit enters with a +1/+1 counter, a flying counter, a deathtouch counter, and a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Whenever a creature you control enters, you may move a counter from Agent's Toolkit onto that creature.
{2}, Sacrifice Agent's Toolkit: Draw a card.

Plains

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.

Aurification

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, put a gold counter on it.
Each creature with a gold counter on it is a Wall in addition to its other creature types and has defender. (Those creatures can't attack.)
When Aurification leaves the battlefield, remove all gold counters from all 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.

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.

Promise of Loyalty

Each player puts a vow counter on a creature they control and sacrifices the rest. Each of those creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control for as long as it has a vow counter on it.

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.

Resourceful Defense

Whenever a permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target permanent you control.
{4}{W}: Move any number of counters from target permanent you control to another target permanent you control.

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.

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.

Titanoth Rex

Trample
Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Titanoth Rex, put a trample counter on target creature you control.

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.

Ring of Three Wishes

Ring of Three Wishes enters with three wish counters on it.
{5}, {T}, Remove a wish counter from Ring of Three Wishes: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Wishclaw Talisman

This artifact enters with three wish counters on it.
{1}, {T}, Remove a wish counter from this artifact: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. An opponent gains control of this artifact. Activate only during your turn.

Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres

When Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres enters, you may pay {3}. If you do, proliferate twice.
Whenever you proliferate, draw a card.

Staff of Compleation

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own.
{T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color.
{T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate.
{T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card.
{5}: Untap Staff of Compleation.

Flux Channeler

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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}.

Grateful Apparition

Flying
Whenever Grateful Apparition deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Denry Klin, Editor in Chief

Denry Klin, Editor in Chief enters with your choice of a +1/+1, first strike, or vigilance counter on it.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if Denry has counters on it, put the same number of each kind of counter on that creature.

Keensight Mentor

When Keensight Mentor enters, put a vigilance counter on target non-Human creature you control.
{1}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with vigilance.

The Night of the Doctor

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after II.)
I — Destroy all creatures.
II — Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put your choice of a first strike, vigilance, or lifelink counter on it.

Soul Diviner

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

Avenging Huntbonder

Double strike
Whenever Avenging Huntbonder attacks, put a double strike counter on another target attacking creature.

Celestial Convergence

Celestial Convergence enters with seven omen counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an omen counter from Celestial Convergence. If there are no omen counters on Celestial Convergence, the player with the highest life total wins the game. If two or more players are tied for highest life total, the game is a draw.

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.

Chronozoa

Flying
Vanishing 3 (This creature enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
When Chronozoa dies, if it had no time counters on it, create two tokens that are copies of it.

Contagion Clasp

When Contagion Clasp enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Court of Garenbrig

When Court of Garenbrig enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, distribute two +1/+1 counters among up to two target creatures. Then if you're the monarch, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Counters

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