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

Annex Sentry

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
When Annex Sentry enters the battlefield, exile target artifact or creature an opponent controls with mana value 3 or less until Annex Sentry leaves the battlefield.

Dune Mover

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
When Dune Mover enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Phyrexian Gargantua

When Phyrexian Gargantua enters the battlefield, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

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.)

Attentive Skywarden

Flying
Whenever Attentive Skywarden deals combat damage to a player or battle, transform up to one target Incubator token you control.

Contagious Vorrac

When Contagious Vorrac enters the battlefield, 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.)

Merciless Repurposing

Exile target creature. Incubate 3. (Create an Incubator token with three +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Tangled Skyline

When Tangled Skyline enters the battlefield, you gain 5 life and incubate 5. (Create an Incubator token with five +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Phyrexians you control have reach.

Sunder the Gateway

Choose one —
• Destroy target nontoken artifact or enchantment an opponent controls. Incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
• Incubate 2, then transform an Incubator token you control.

Sculpted Perfection

When Sculpted Perfection enters the battlefield, incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Phyrexians you control get +1/+1.

Alabaster Host Intercessor

When Alabaster Host Intercessor enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Alabaster Host Intercessor leaves the battlefield.
Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Basilica Shepherd

Flying
When Basilica Shepherd enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block." (Players dealt combat damage by them also get a poison counter.)

Blighted Burgeoning

Enchant land
When Blighted Burgeoning enters the battlefield, incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Ichor Drinker

Lifelink
{B}, Exile Ichor Drinker from your graveyard: Incubate 2. Activate only as a sorcery. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Eyes of Gitaxias

Incubate 3. (Create an Incubator token with three +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Draw a card.

Elvish Vatkeeper

When Elvish Vatkeeper enters the battlefield, incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
{5}: Transform target Incubator token you control. Double the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Fleshless Gladiator

Corrupted — {2}{B}: Return Fleshless Gladiator from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. You lose 1 life. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters.

Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres

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

Herbology Instructor

When Herbology Instructor enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.
{6}{B/P}: Transform Herbology Instructor. Activate only as a sorcery. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Malady Invoker

When this creature transforms into Malady Invoker, target creature an opponent controls gets -0/-X until end of turn, where X is Malady Invoker's power.

Herbology Instructor // Malady Invoker

Gurgling Anointer

Flying
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Gurgling Anointer.
When Gurgling Anointer dies, return another target creature card with mana value less than or equal to Gurgling Anointer's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Norn's Inquisitor

When Norn's Inquisitor enters the battlefield, incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Whenever a permanent you control transforms into a Phyrexian, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Paladin of Predation

Toxic 6 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get six poison counters.)
Paladin of Predation can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

Oil-Gorger Troll

When Oil-Gorger Troll enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life. Then if you control a permanent with an oil counter on it, draw a card.

Slaughter Singer

Toxic 2 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get two poison counters.)
Whenever another creature you control with toxic attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Stinging Hivemaster

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
When Stinging Hivemaster dies, create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block."

Blightbelly Rat

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
When Blightbelly Rat dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Malcator's Watcher

Flying, vigilance
When Malcator's Watcher dies, draw a card.

Necrosquito

Flying
Necrosquito enters the battlefield with two oil counters on it.
Necrosquito gets +1/+1 for each oil counter on it.
Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on Necrosquito.

Rustvine Cultivator

{T}: Put an oil counter on Rustvine Cultivator.
{T}, Remove an oil counter from Rustvine Cultivator: Untap target land.

Gulping Scraptrap

When Gulping Scraptrap enters the battlefield or dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Phyrexian Awakening

When Phyrexian Awakening enters the battlefield, incubate 4. (Create an Incubator token with four +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Phyrexians you control have vigilance.

Venomous Brutalizer

Toxic 3 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get three poison counters.)
When Venomous Brutalizer enters the battlefield, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Tyrranax Atrocity

Haste
Toxic 3 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get three poison counters.)

Testament Bearer

When Testament Bearer dies, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Jin-Gitaxias

Ward {2}
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, draw a card.
{3}{U}: Exile Jin-Gitaxias, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you have seven or more cards in hand.

The Great Synthesis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size for as long as you control The Great Synthesis.
II — Return all non-Phyrexian creatures to their owners' hands.
III — You may cast any number of spells from your hand without paying their mana costs. Exile The Great Synthesis, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis

Sheoldred

Menace
When Sheoldred enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker.
{4}{B}: Exile Sheoldred, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

The True Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — For each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls.
II — Each opponent discards three cards, then mills three cards.
III — Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. Exile The True Scriptures, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Sheoldred // The True Scriptures

Vorinclex

Trample, reach
When Vorinclex enters the battlefield, search your library for up to two Forest cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
{6}{G}{G}: Exile Vorinclex, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

The Grand Evolution

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Mill ten cards. Put up to two creature cards from among the milled cards onto the battlefield.
II — Distribute seven +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control.
III — Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "{1}: This creature fights target creature you don't control." Exile The Grand Evolution, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution

Armored Scrapgorger

Armored Scrapgorger gets +3/+0 as long as it has three or more oil counters on it.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever Armored Scrapgorger becomes tapped, exile target card from a graveyard and put an oil counter on Armored Scrapgorger.

Belbe, Corrupted Observer

At the beginning of each player's postcombat main phase, that player adds {C}{C} for each of your opponents who lost life this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Benalish Sleeper

Kicker {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell.)
When Benalish Sleeper enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, each player sacrifices a creature.

Archfiend of the Dross

Flying
Archfiend of the Dross enters the battlefield with four oil counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an oil counter from Archfiend of the Dross. Then if it has no oil counters on it, you lose the game.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, its controller loses 2 life.

Aron, Benalia's Ruin

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
{W}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Atraxa's Skitterfang

Atraxa's Skitterfang enters the battlefield with three oil counters on it.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may remove an oil counter from Atraxa's Skitterfang. When you do, target creature you control gains your choice of flying, vigilance, deathtouch, or lifelink until end of turn.

Blighted Agent

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Blighted Agent can't be blocked.

Adaptive Sporesinger

Vigilance
When Adaptive Sporesinger enters the battlefield, choose one —
• Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains vigilance until end of turn.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Bladed Ambassador

Bladed Ambassador enters the battlefield with an oil counter on it.
{1}, Remove an oil counter from Bladed Ambassador: Bladed Ambassador gains indestructible until end of turn.

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.)

Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos

Whenever you cast a Phyrexian creature or artifact creature 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.)
At the beginning of each end step, if a Phyrexian died under your control this turn, proliferate.

Blight Titan

Deathtouch
Whenever Blight Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, mill two cards, then incubate X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (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.)

Bloated Processor

Sacrifice another Phyrexian: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bloated Processor.
When Bloated Processor dies, incubate X, where X is its power. (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.)

Cephalopod Sentry

Flying
Cephalopod Sentry's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Copper Longlegs

Reach
{1}{G}, Sacrifice Copper Longlegs: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Brutalizer Exarch

When Brutalizer Exarch enters the battlefield, choose one —
• Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
• Put target noncreature permanent on the bottom of its owner's library.

Cankerbloom

{1}, Sacrifice Cankerbloom: Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Venser, Corpse Puppet

Lifelink, toxic 1
Whenever you proliferate, choose one —
• If you don't control a creature named The Hollow Sentinel, create The Hollow Sentinel, a legendary 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token.
• Target artifact creature you control gains flying and lifelink until end of turn.

Watchful Blisterzoa

Flying
Watchful Blisterzoa enters the battlefield with an oil counter on it.
When Watchful Blisterzoa dies, draw cards equal to the number of oil counters on it.

Crawling Chorus

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
When Crawling Chorus dies, create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block."

Cruel Grimnarch

Deathtouch
When Cruel Grimnarch enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you gain 4 life.

Glissa, Herald of Predation

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one —
• Incubate 2 twice. (To incubate 2, create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
• Transform all Incubator tokens you control.
• Phyrexians you control gain first strike and deathtouch until end of turn.

Moira and Teshar

Flying
Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Mercurial Spelldancer

Mercurial Spelldancer can't be blocked.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on Mercurial Spelldancer.
Whenever Mercurial Spelldancer deals combat damage to a player, you may remove two oil counters from it. If you do, when you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Chained Throatseeker

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Chained Throatseeker can't attack unless defending player is poisoned.

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.)

Darkslick Drake

Flying
When Darkslick Drake dies, draw a card.

Phyrexian Censor

Each player can't cast more than one non-Phyrexian spell each turn.
Non-Phyrexian creatures enter the battlefield tapped.

Ertai Resurrected

Flash
When Ertai Resurrected enters the battlefield, choose up to one —
• Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller draws a card.
• Destroy another target creature or planeswalker. Its controller draws a card.

Evolved Spinoderm

Evolved Spinoderm enters the battlefield with four oil counters on it.
Evolved Spinoderm has trample as long as it has two or fewer oil counters on it. Otherwise, it has hexproof.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an oil counter from Evolved Spinoderm. Then if it has no oil counters on it, sacrifice it.

Filigree Vector

When Filigree Vector enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each of any number of target creatures and a charge counter on each of any number of target artifacts.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another artifact: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Ezuri, Claw of Progress

Whenever a creature with power 2 or less enters the battlefield under your control, you get an experience counter.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control, where X is the number of experience counters you have.

Essence of Orthodoxy

Flying
Whenever Essence of Orthodoxy or another Phyrexian enters the battlefield under your control, incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Evolving Adaptive

Evolving Adaptive enters the battlefield with an oil counter on it.
Evolving Adaptive gets +1/+1 for each oil counter on it.
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, if that creature has greater power or toughness than Evolving Adaptive, put an oil counter on Evolving Adaptive.

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.

Grafted Butcher

When Grafted Butcher enters the battlefield, Phyrexians you control gain menace until end of turn.
Other Phyrexians you control get +1/+1.
{3}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Return Grafted Butcher from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Malcator, Purity Overseer

When Malcator, Purity Overseer enters the battlefield, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token.
At the beginning of your end step, if three or more artifacts entered the battlefield under your control this turn, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token.

Ichor Shade

At the beginning of your end step, if an artifact or creature was put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Ichor Shade.

Glistener Seer

Glistener Seer enters the battlefield with three oil counters on it.
{T}, Remove an oil counter from Glistener Seer: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Gore Vassal

Sacrifice Gore Vassal: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Then if that creature's toughness is 1 or greater, regenerate it.

Ichorspit Basilisk

Deathtouch
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)

Ichor Rats

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
When Ichor Rats enters the battlefield, each player gets a poison counter.

Phyrexian Rager

When Phyrexian Rager enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Plague Myr

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
{T}: Add {C}.

Glissa's Retriever

Haste, toxic 3 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get three poison counters.)
Glissa's Retriever can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Corrupted — When Glissa's Retriever dies, exile it. When you do, return up to X target cards from your graveyard to your hand, where X is the number of opponents who have three or more poison counters.

Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa

Flying, vigilance, toxic 2
Corrupted — At the beginning of your end step, each opponent who has three or more poison counters exiles the top card of their library face down. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Injector Crocodile

When Injector Crocodile dies, incubate 3. (Create an Incubator token with three +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Keskit, the Flesh Sculptor

{T}, Sacrifice three other artifacts and/or creatures: Look at the top three cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Mite Overseer

First strike
As long as it's your turn, creature tokens you control get +1/+0 and have first strike.
{3}{W/P}: Create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block." (Players dealt combat damage by it also get a poison counter. {W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Massacre Wurm

When Massacre Wurm enters the battlefield, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Nimraiser Paladin

Toxic 2 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get two poison counters.)
When Nimraiser Paladin enters the battlefield, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand.

Mycosynth Fiend

Mycosynth Fiend gets +1/+1 for each poison counter your opponents have.

Myr Convert

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
{T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color.

Phyrexian Delver

When Phyrexian Delver enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Phyrexian Ingester

Imprint — When Phyrexian Ingester enters the battlefield, you may exile target nontoken creature.
Phyrexian Ingester gets +X/+Y, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

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