Shadowy Backstreet

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
Shadowy Backstreet enters tapped.
When Shadowy Backstreet enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Underground Mortuary

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
Underground Mortuary enters tapped.
When Underground Mortuary enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
Undercity Sewers enters tapped.
When Undercity Sewers enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Thundering Falls

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
Thundering Falls enters tapped.
When Thundering Falls enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Doors of Durin

Whenever you attack, scry 2, then you may reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Until your next turn, it gains trample if you control a Dwarf and hexproof if you control an Elf.

Blink

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I, III — Choose target creature. Its owner shuffles it into their library, then investigates. (They create a Clue token.)
II, IV — Create a 2/2 black Alien Angel artifact creature token with first strike, vigilance, and "Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, this permanent isn't a creature until end of turn."

Errant and Giada

Flash
Flying
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast spells with flash or flying from the top of your library.

Novice Inspector

When Novice Inspector enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Virtue of Loyalty

At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Untap those creatures.

Ardenvale Fealty

Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance. (Then exile this card. You may cast the enchantment later from exile.)

Virtue of Loyalty // Ardenvale Fealty

Wojek Investigator

Flying, vigilance
At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate once for each opponent who has more cards in hand than you. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Healer's Hawk

Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Get Lost

Destroy target creature, enchantment, or planeswalker. Its controller creates two Map tokens. (They're artifacts with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Steel Seraph

Prototype {1}{W}{W} — 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.)
Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control gains your choice of flying, vigilance, or lifelink until end of turn.

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

Confounding Riddle

Choose one —
• Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.

Deduce

Draw a card. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Spyglass Siren

Flying
When Spyglass Siren enters, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Horned Loch-Whale

Flash
Ward {2}
Horned Loch-Whale enters tapped unless it's your turn.

Lagoon Breach

The owner of target attacking creature you don't control puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Horned Loch-Whale // Lagoon Breach

The Bath Song

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Draw two cards, then discard a card.
III — Shuffle any number of target cards from your graveyard into your library. Add {U}{U}.

Regal Bunnicorn

Regal Bunnicorn's power and toughness are each equal to the number of nonland permanents you control.

Spellbook Vendor

Vigilance
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay {1}. When you do, create a Sorcerer Role token attached to target creature you control. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.")

Ozolith, the Shattered Spire

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
{1}{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Tishana's Tidebinder

Flash
When Tishana's Tidebinder enters, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as Tishana's Tidebinder remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Subtlety

Flash
Flying
When Subtlety enters, choose up to one target creature spell or planeswalker spell. Its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
Evoke—Exile a blue card from your hand.

Zephyr Singer

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Flying, vigilance
When Zephyr Singer enters, put a flying counter on each creature that convoked it.

Dryad Arbor

(Dryad Arbor isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G}.")

Andúril, Flame of the West

Equipped creature gets +3/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, create two tapped 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying. If that creature is legendary, instead create two of those tokens that are tapped and attacking.
Equip {2}

The Princess Takes Flight

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile up to one target creature.
II — Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.
III — Return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Glimmer Lens

For Mirrodin! (When this Equipment enters, create a 2/2 red Rebel creature token, then attach this to it.)
Whenever equipped creature and at least one other creature attack, draw a card.
Equip {1}{W}

Guardian of Ghirapur

Flying
When Guardian of Ghirapur enters, exile up to one other target creature or artifact you control. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Case of the Gateway Express

When this Case enters, choose target creature you don't control. Each creature you control deals 1 damage to that creature.
To solve — Three or more creatures attacked this turn. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — Creatures you control get +1/+0.

Archangel Elspeth

+1: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.
−2: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It becomes an Angel in addition to its other types and gains flying.
−6: Return all nonland permanent cards with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Surge Engine

Defender
{U}: Surge Engine loses defender and gains "This creature can't be blocked."
{2}{U}: Surge Engine becomes blue and has base power and toughness 5/4. Activate only if Surge Engine doesn't have defender.
{4}{U}{U}: Draw three cards. Activate only if Surge Engine is blue and only once.

Miner's Guidewing

Flying, vigilance
When Miner's Guidewing dies, target creature you control explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

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.

Skrelv, Defector Mite

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Skrelv, Defector Mite can't block.
{W/P}, {T}: Choose a color. Another target creature you control gains toxic 1 and hexproof from that color until end of turn. It can't be blocked by creatures of that color this turn. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Elesh Norn

Vigilance
Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you or a permanent you control, that source's controller loses 2 life unless they pay {1}.
{2}{W}, Sacrifice three other creatures: Exile Elesh Norn, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

The Argent Etchings

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Incubate 2 five times, then transform all Incubator tokens you control.
II — Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain double strike until end of turn.
III — Destroy all other permanents except for artifacts, lands, and Phyrexians. Exile The Argent Etchings, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings

Sunfall

Exile all creatures. Incubate X, where X is the number of creatures exiled this way. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Contagious Vorrac

When Contagious Vorrac enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If you didn't put a card into your hand this way, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Nissa, Resurgent Animist

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color. Then if this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an Elf or Elemental card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Nissa, Ascended Animist

Compleated ({G/P} can be paid with {G} or 2 life. For each {G/P} paid with life, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Create an X/X green Phyrexian Horror creature token, where X is Nissa, Ascended Animist's loyalty.
−1: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
−7: Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 for each Forest you control and gain trample.

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
{4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Stern Scolding

Counter target creature spell with power or toughness 2 or less.

Kitesail Larcenist

Flying, ward {1}
When Kitesail Larcenist enters, for each player, choose up to one other target artifact or creature that player controls. For as long as Kitesail Larcenist remains on the battlefield, the chosen permanents become Treasure artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color" and lose all other abilities.

Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel

Flash
Flying
Whenever Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel deals combat damage to a player, put a chorus counter on it. Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are four or more chorus counters on Malcolm, you may cast the discarded card without paying its mana cost.

Chrome Host Seedshark

Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Faerie Mastermind

Flash
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card.
{3}{U}: Each player draws a card.

Bramble Familiar

{T}: Add {G}.
{1}{G}, {T}, Discard a card: Return Bramble Familiar to its owner's hand.

Fetch Quest

Mill seven cards. Then put a creature, enchantment, or land card from among the milled cards onto the battlefield.

Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest

Sentinel of the Nameless City

Vigilance
Whenever Sentinel of the Nameless City enters or attacks, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Endurance

Flash
Reach
When Endurance enters, up to one target player puts all the cards from their graveyard on the bottom of their library in a random order.
Evoke—Exile a green card from your hand.

Gruff Triplets

Trample
When Gruff Triplets enters, if it isn't a token, create two tokens that are copies of it.
When Gruff Triplets dies, put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to its power on each creature you control named Gruff Triplets.

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

Axebane Ferox

Deathtouch, haste
Ward—Collect evidence 4. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player exiles cards with total mana value 4 or greater from their graveyard.)

Up the Beanstalk

When Up the Beanstalk enters and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.

Bloated Contaminator

Trample
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Whenever Bloated Contaminator deals combat damage to a player, 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.

Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender has trample, hexproof, and haste as long as an opponent controls a planeswalker.
Whenever another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Syr Ginger and scry 1.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Syr Ginger: You gain life equal to its power.

Scrapwork Mutt

When Scrapwork Mutt enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
Unearth {1}{R} ({1}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Botanical Brawler

Trample
Botanical Brawler enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on another permanent you control, if it's the first time +1/+1 counters have been put on that permanent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Botanical Brawler.

Lazav, Wearer of Faces

Whenever Lazav, Wearer of Faces attacks, exile target card from a graveyard, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, you may have Lazav become a copy of a creature card exiled with it until end of turn.

Warleader's Call

Creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever a creature you control enters, Warleader's Call deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Faramir, Prince of Ithilien

At the beginning of your end step, choose an opponent. At the beginning of that player's next end step, you draw a card if they didn't attack you that turn. Otherwise, create three 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens.

Izoni, Center of the Web

Menace
Whenever Izoni, Center of the Web enters or attacks, you may collect evidence 4. If you do, create two 2/1 black and green Spider creature tokens with menace and reach.
Sacrifice four tokens: Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You gain 2 life.

Atraxa, Grand Unifier

Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
When Atraxa, Grand Unifier enters, reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each card type, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, and sorcery are card types.)

Flesh Duplicate

You may have Flesh Duplicate enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has vanishing 3 if that creature doesn't have vanishing. (A permanent with vanishing 3 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.)

Totentanz, Swarm Piper

Whenever Totentanz, Swarm Piper or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block."
{1}{B}: Target attacking Rat you control gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir

At the beginning of combat on your turn, up to one target land you control becomes an X/X green and blue Bird creature with flying and haste until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand. It's still a land.
Whenever a land creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Generous Ent

Reach
When Generous Ent enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
Forestcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Eagles of the North

Flying
When Eagles of the North enters, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn.
Plainscycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Troll of Khazad-dûm

Troll of Khazad-dûm can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
Swampcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Cosmic Rebirth

Choose target permanent card in your graveyard. If it has mana value 3 or less, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put it onto the battlefield, put it into your hand.
You gain 3 life.

Repulsive Mutation

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Then counter up to one target spell unless its controller pays mana equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.

Inga and Esika

Creatures you control have vigilance and "{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell."
Whenever you cast a creature spell, if three or more mana from creatures was spent to cast it, draw a card.

Lórien Revealed

Draw three cards.
Islandcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

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.

Kaito, Dancing Shadow

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you may return one of them to its owner's hand. If you do, you may activate loyalty abilities of Kaito twice this turn rather than only once.
+1: Up to one target creature can't attack or block until your next turn.
0: Draw a card.
−2: Create a 2/2 colorless Drone artifact creature token with deathtouch and "When this creature leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life."

Halo Forager

Flying
When Halo Forager enters, you may pay {X}. When you do, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value X from a graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Deep-Cavern Bat

Flying, lifelink
When Deep-Cavern Bat enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it until Deep-Cavern Bat leaves the battlefield.

Preacher of the Schism

Deathtouch
Whenever Preacher of the Schism attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
Whenever Preacher of the Schism attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Gix's Command

Choose two —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on up to one creature. It gains lifelink until end of turn.
• Destroy each creature with power 2 or less.
• Return up to two creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the highest power among creatures they control.

Dunland Crebain

Flying
When Dunland Crebain enters, amass Orcs 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Tangled Colony

Tangled Colony can't block.
When Tangled Colony dies, create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens with "This creature can't block," where X is the amount of damage dealt to it this turn.

Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant

When Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant enters, amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
Creature tokens you control have deathtouch.

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Meticulous Archive

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
Meticulous Archive enters tapped.
When Meticulous Archive enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Callous Sell-Sword

Callous Sell-Sword enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature that died under your control this turn.

Burn Together

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to any other target. Then sacrifice it.

Callous Sell-Sword // Burn Together

Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

The Torment of Gollum

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Amass Orcs 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Phyrexian Fleshgorger

Prototype {1}{B}{B} — 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.)
Menace, lifelink
Ward—Pay life equal to Phyrexian Fleshgorger's power.

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Snarling Gorehound

Menace
Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

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