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

Rootborn Defenses

Populate. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Vigilance
Other creatures you control get +2/+2.
Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2.

Tiller of Flesh

Whenever you cast a spell that targets one or more permanents, 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.)

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.

Norn's Choirmaster

Flying, first strike
Whenever a commander you control enters or attacks, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Infected Defector

When Infected Defector 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.)

Norn's Inquisitor

When Norn's Inquisitor enters, 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.

Phyrexian Awakening

When Phyrexian Awakening enters, 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.

Mondrak, Glory Dominus

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.
{1}{W/P}{W/P}, Sacrifice two other artifacts and/or creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Mondrak, Glory Dominus. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Charge of the Mites

Choose one —
• Charge of the Mites deals damage equal to the number of creatures you control to target creature or planeswalker.
• 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.)

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.

Essence of Orthodoxy

Flying
Whenever Essence of Orthodoxy or another Phyrexian you control enters, 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.)

Norn's Decree

Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls deal combat damage to you, that opponent gets a poison counter.
Whenever a player attacks, if one or more players being attacked are poisoned, the attacking player draws a card.

Excise the Imperfect

Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller incubates X, where X is its mana value. (They 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.)

Progenitor Exarch

When Progenitor Exarch enters, incubate 3 X times. (To 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.)
{T}: Transform target Incubator token you control.

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.)

Anointed Procession

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

White Sun's Twilight

You gain X life. Create X 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block." If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures. (Players dealt combat damage by a creature with toxic 1 also get a poison counter.)

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Arcane Signet

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

Sol Ring

Glistening Sphere

Glistening Sphere enters tapped.
When Glistening Sphere enters, proliferate.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Corrupted — {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters.

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."

Phyrexian Vindicator

Flying
If damage would be dealt to Phyrexian Vindicator, prevent that damage. When damage is prevented this way, Phyrexian Vindicator deals that much damage to any other target.

Indoctrination Attendant

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
When Indoctrination Attendant enters, you may return another permanent you control to its owner's hand. If you do, create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block."

Windborn Muse

Flying
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Annex Sentry

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

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Basilica Shepherd

Flying
When Basilica Shepherd enters, 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.)

Jawbone Duelist

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

Mandible Justiciar

Lifelink
Whenever another artifact you control enters, Mandible Justiciar gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Norn's Annex

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {W/P} for each of those creatures.

Rebuff the Wicked

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

Attentive Skywarden

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

Phyrexian Rebirth

Destroy all creatures, then create an X/X colorless Phyrexian Horror artifact creature token, where X is the number of creatures destroyed this way.

Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Mite Overseer

First strike
During 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.)

Suture Priest

Whenever another creature you control enters, you may gain 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Vulpine Harvester

Whenever one or more Phyrexians you control attack, return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield if its mana value is less than or equal to their total power.

Norn's Wellspring

Whenever a creature you control dies, scry 1 and put an oil counter on Norn's Wellspring.
{1}, {T}, Remove two oil counters from Norn's Wellspring: Draw a card.

Cathars' Crusade

Whenever a creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

True Conviction

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Blightsteel Colossus

Trample, infect, indestructible
If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

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.)

Skrelv's Hive

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block."
Corrupted — As long as an opponent has three or more poison counters, creatures you control with toxic have lifelink.

Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink
When Wurmcoil Engine dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

Seedpod Caretaker

When Seedpod Caretaker enters, choose one —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature you control.
• Transform target Incubator token you control.

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Infested Fleshcutter

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, 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.)
Equip {2}{W}

Mirrex

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if Mirrex entered this turn.
{3}, {T}: 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.)

Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

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

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.")

Mana Tithe

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Rogue's Passage

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

Moonshaker Cavalry

Flying
When Moonshaker Cavalry enters, creatures you control gain flying and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Phyrexian Censor

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

Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is Esper Sentinel's power.

Filigree Vector

When Filigree Vector enters, 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.)

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.

Idyllic Tutor

Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

The Seedcore

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast Phyrexian creature spells.
Corrupted — {T}: Target 1/1 creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters.

The Mycosynth Gardens

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{X}, {T}: The Mycosynth Gardens becomes a copy of target nontoken artifact you control with mana value X.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Plains

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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.

Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice Jeweled Lotus: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Door of Destinies

As Door of Destinies enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Panharmonicon

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

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