Capital Punishment

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for death or taxes. Each opponent sacrifices a creature for each death vote and discards a card for each taxes vote.

Forensic Gadgeteer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth

Vigilance
When Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{X}{W}{U}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Clue: You draw X cards and gain X life.

Ballot Broker

While voting, you may vote an additional time. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)

Tivit, Seller of Secrets

Flying, ward {3}
Council's dilemma — Whenever Tivit enters or deals combat damage to a player, starting with you, each player votes for evidence or bribery. For each evidence vote, investigate. For each bribery vote, create a Treasure token.
While voting, you may vote an additional time. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)

Displacer Kitten

Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Kappa Cannoneer

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Ward {4}
Whenever Kappa Cannoneer or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Kappa Cannoneer and it can't be blocked this turn.

Auton Soldier

You may have Auton Soldier enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it isn't legendary, is an artifact in addition to its other types, and has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

Merchant of Truth

Flying
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, investigate.
Clues you control have exalted. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Nuka-Cola Vending Machine

{1}, {T}: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Food, create a tapped Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Azorius Signet

Talisman of Progress

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

Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Arcane Signet

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

Fellwar Stone

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

Five Hundred Year Diary

Five Hundred Year Diary enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} for each Clue you control.
{2}, Sacrifice Five Hundred Year Diary: Draw a card.

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Council's Judgment

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

Brago's Representative

While voting, you get an additional vote. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)

Ephemerate

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Illusion of Choice

You choose how each player votes this turn.
Draw a card.

Marionette Master

Fabricate 3 (When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on it or create three 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.)
Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to Marionette Master's power.

Persuasive Interrogators

When Persuasive Interrogators enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, target opponent gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Grudge Keeper

Whenever players finish voting, each opponent who voted for a choice you didn't vote for loses 2 life.

Soulherder

Whenever a creature is exiled from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Soulherder.
At the beginning of your end step, you may exile another target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Magister of Worth

Flying
Will of the council — When Magister of Worth enters, starting with you, each player votes for grace or condemnation. If grace gets more votes, each player returns each creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield. If condemnation gets more votes or the vote is tied, destroy all creatures other than Magister of Worth.

Cyberdrive Awakener

Flying
Other artifact creatures you control have flying.
When Cyberdrive Awakener enters, until end of turn, each noncreature artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 4/4.

Split Decision

Will of the council — Choose target instant or sorcery spell. Starting with you, each player votes for denial or duplication. If denial gets more votes, counter the spell. If duplication gets more votes or the vote is tied, copy the spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Teleportation Circle

At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target artifact or creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Mirkwood Bats

Flying
Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Spark Double

You may have Spark Double enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Time Sieve

{T}, Sacrifice five artifacts: Take an extra turn after this one.

Custodi Squire

Flying
Will of the council — When Custodi Squire enters, starting with you, each player votes for an artifact, creature, or enchantment card in your graveyard. Return each card with the most votes or tied for most votes to your hand.

Disciple of the Vault

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

Nadier's Nightblade

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Deadeye Navigator

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{1}{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

Master of Ceremonies

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent chooses money, friends, or secrets. For each player who chose money, you and that player each create a Treasure token. For each player who chose friends, you and that player each create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. For each player who chose secrets, you and that player each draw a card.

Shimmer Dragon

Flying
As long as you control four or more artifacts, Shimmer Dragon has hexproof.
Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Draw a card.

Thassa, Deep-Dwelling

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
{3}{U}: Tap another target creature.

Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Urza, Lord High Artificer

When Urza, Lord High Artificer enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."
Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}.
{5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

Lieutenants of the Guard

Council's dilemma — When Lieutenants of the Guard enters, starting with you, each player votes for strength or numbers. Put a +1/+1 counter on Lieutenants of the Guard for each strength vote and create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token for each numbers vote.

Wernog, Rider's Chaplain

When Wernog, Rider's Chaplain enters or leaves the battlefield, each opponent may investigate. Each opponent who doesn't loses 1 life. You investigate X times, where X is one plus the number of opponents who investigated this way.
Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have friends forever.)

Thought Monitor

Affinity for artifacts
Flying
When Thought Monitor enters, draw two cards.

Twining Twins

Swift Spiral

Exile target nontoken creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Twining Twins // Swift Spiral

Messenger Jays

Flying
Council's dilemma — When Messenger Jays enters, starting with you, each player votes for feather or quill. Put a +1/+1 counter on Messenger Jays for each feather vote and draw a card for each quill vote. For each card drawn this way, discard a card.

Marneus Calgar

Double strike
Master Tactician — Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, draw a card.
Chapter Master — {6}: Create two 2/2 white Astartes Warrior creature tokens with vigilance.

Teysa, Opulent Oligarch

Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, investigate for each opponent who lost life this turn.
Whenever a Clue you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Abuelo, Ancestral Echo

Flying, ward {2}
{1}{W}{U}: Exile another target creature or artifact you control. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Council Guardian

Will of the council — When Council Guardian enters, starting with you, each player votes for blue, black, red, or green. Council Guardian gains protection from each color with the most votes or tied for most votes.

Contraband Kingpin

Lifelink
Whenever an artifact you control enters, scry 1.

Trap the Trespassers

Secret council — Each player secretly votes for a creature you don't control, then those votes are revealed. For each creature with one or more votes, put that many stun counters on it, then tap it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Tangletrove Kelp

Ward {2}
At the beginning of each combat, other Clues you control become 6/6 Plant creatures in addition to their other types until end of turn.
{2}, Sacrifice Tangletrove Kelp: Draw a card.

Roaming Throne

Ward {2}
As Roaming Throne enters, choose a creature type.
Roaming Throne is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Momentary Blink

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Flashback {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Disorder in the Court

Exile X target creatures, then investigate X times. Return the exiled cards to the battlefield tapped under their owners' control at the beginning of the next end step. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Cloudshift

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Essence Flux

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If it's a Spirit, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Dispatch

Tap target creature.
Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, exile that creature.

March of Swirling Mist

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way.
Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Expropriate

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Tyrant's Choice

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for death or torture. If death gets more votes, each opponent sacrifices a creature. If torture gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent loses 4 life.

Rise and Shine

Target noncreature artifact you control becomes a 0/0 artifact creature. Put four +1/+1 counters on each artifact that became a creature this way.
Overload {4}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Bite of the Black Rose

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for sickness or psychosis. If sickness gets more votes, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. If psychosis gets more votes or the vote is tied, each opponent discards two cards.

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.

Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
{T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Conjurer's Closet

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Cranial Plating

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
{B}{B}: Attach Cranial Plating to target creature you control.
Equip {1}

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}

Coercive Portal

Will of the council — At the beginning of your upkeep, starting with you, each player votes for carnage or homage. If carnage gets more votes, sacrifice Coercive Portal and destroy all nonland permanents. If homage gets more votes or the vote is tied, draw a card.

Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Cursed Totem

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

Krark-Clan Ironworks

Nettlecyst

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact and/or enchantment you control.
Equip {2}

Thousand Moons Smithy

When Thousand Moons Smithy enters, create a white Gnome Soldier artifact creature token with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts and/or creatures you control."
At the beginning of your first main phase, you may tap five untapped artifacts and/or creatures you control. If you do, transform Thousand Moons Smithy.

Barracks of the Thousand

(Transforms from Thousand Moons Smithy.)
{T}: Add {W}.
Whenever you cast an artifact or creature spell using mana produced by Barracks of the Thousand, create a white Gnome Soldier artifact creature token with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts and/or creatures you control."

Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand

Monologue Tax

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.

Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Duelist's Heritage

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

Mechanized Production

Enchant artifact you control
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted artifact. Then if you control eight or more artifacts with the same name as one another, you win the game.

Life Insurance

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token.

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Touch the Spirit Realm

When Touch the Spirit Realm enters, exile up to one target artifact or creature until Touch the Spirit Realm leaves the battlefield.
Channel — {1}{W}, Discard Touch the Spirit Realm: Exile target artifact or creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Trial of a Time Lord

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I, II, III — Exile target nontoken creature an opponent controls until Trial of a Time Lord leaves the battlefield.
IV — Starting with you, each player votes for innocent or guilty. If guilty gets more votes, the owner of each card exiled with Trial of a Time Lord puts that card on the bottom of their library.

Virtue of Knowledge

If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Vantress Visions

Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions

Thorough Investigation

Whenever you attack, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Search the Premises

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge

Creature and planeswalker spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
+2: Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of artifacts you control. You gain X life.
−3: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
−8: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Put all artifact cards from among them onto the battlefield.

In Too Deep

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Enchant creature, planeswalker, or Clue
Enchanted permanent is a colorless Clue artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card" and loses all other abilities. (It's no longer a creature or planeswalker.)

Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

Vigilance
If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Permanents entering don't cause abilities of permanents your opponents control to trigger.

Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
You may have Phyrexian Metamorph enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

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