Sméagol, Helpful Guide

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest into their graveyard.

Mindslicer

When Mindslicer dies, each player discards their hand.

Savra, Queen of the Golgari

Whenever you sacrifice a black creature, you may pay 2 life. If you do, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Whenever you sacrifice a green creature, you may gain 2 life.

Deadbridge Chant

When Deadbridge Chant enters, mill ten cards.
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sheoldred

Menace
When Sheoldred enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker of their choice.
{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

Pharika, God of Affliction

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black and green is less than seven, Pharika isn't a creature.
{B}{G}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Its owner creates a 1/1 black and green Snake enchantment creature token with deathtouch.

The Hunger Tide Rises

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I, II, III — Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token.
IV — Sacrifice any number of creatures. Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of creatures sacrificed this way and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Wight of the Reliquary

Vigilance
Wight of the Reliquary gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Lash of the Balrog

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {4}.
Destroy target creature.

Renata, Called to the Hunt

Renata's power is equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.)
Each other creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Thirsting Roots

Choose one —
• Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Dina, Soul Steeper

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina, Soul Steeper gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Beanstalk Giant

Beanstalk Giant's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.

Fertile Footsteps

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps

Uurg, Spawn of Turg

Uurg, Spawn of Turg's power is equal to the number of land cards in your graveyard.
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
{B}{G}, Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.

Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Trample
Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.
Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, that land doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Witch-king of Angmar

Flying
Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice that dealt combat damage to you this turn. The Ring tempts you.
Discard a card: Witch-king of Angmar gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Drinker of Sorrow

Drinker of Sorrow can't block.
Whenever Drinker of Sorrow deals combat damage, sacrifice a permanent.

Terror of Towashi

Deathtouch
Whenever Terror of Towashi attacks, you may pay {3}{B}. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Archpriest of Shadows

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.)
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Tribute to the World Tree

Whenever a creature you control enters, draw a card if its power is 3 or greater. Otherwise, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast.
Whenever Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

Compleated ({B/P} can be paid with {B} or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
0: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. Proliferate.
−2: Target creature becomes a Treasure artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color" and loses all other card types and abilities.
−9: If target player has fewer than nine poison counters, they get a number of poison counters equal to the difference.

Command Tower

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

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Arcane Signet

Sol Ring

Gollum, Patient Plotter

When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you.
{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Return Gollum from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

Farseek

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

Honored Hierarch

Renown 1 (When this creature deals combat damage to a player, if it isn't renowned, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes renowned.)
As long as Honored Hierarch is renowned, it has vigilance and "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Casualties of War

Choose one or more —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target creature.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Destroy target land.
• Destroy target planeswalker.

Temple of Malady

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Carrion Feeder

Carrion Feeder can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

Forest

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.)

Creakwood Liege

Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token.

Evolutionary Leap

{G}, Sacrifice a creature: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Fleshbag Marauder

When Fleshbag Marauder enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Merciless Executioner

When Merciless Executioner enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Spore Frog

Sacrifice Spore Frog: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Swamp

Plaguecrafter

When Plaguecrafter enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Honest Rutstein

When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Protean Hulk

When Protean Hulk dies, search your library for any number of creature cards with total mana value 6 or less, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni, Undying Partisan.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Old Stickfingers

When you cast this spell, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X creature cards. Put all creature cards revealed this way into your graveyard, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Old Stickfingers's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Vorinclex

Trample, reach
When Vorinclex enters, 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

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{1}{B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return Jarad from your graveyard to your hand.

Rise of the Witch-king

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you sacrificed a creature this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Old Man Willow

Old Man Willow's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
Whenever Old Man Willow attacks, you may sacrifice another creature or a token. When you do, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Find

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Finality

You may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control. Then all creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.

Find // Finality

Barad-dûr

Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {B}.
{X}{X}{B}, {T}: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Virtue of Persistence

At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Locthwain Scorn

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.

Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn

Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Revitalizing Repast

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains indestructible until end of turn.

Old-Growth Grove

Old-Growth Grove enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove

Toxic Deluge

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

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh

Allies — At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two other target legendary creatures.
Betrayal — Whenever a legendary creature with counters on it dies, draw a card for each counter on it. You lose 2 life.

Grist, Voracious Larva

Deathtouch
Whenever Grist, Voracious Larva or another creature you control enters, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, you may pay {G}. If you do, exile Grist, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control.

Grist, the Plague Swarm

+1: Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then mill two cards. Put a deathtouch counter on the token if a black card was milled this way.
−2: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
−6: For each creature card in your graveyard, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 1/1 black and green Insect.

Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm

Thran Dynamo

Alpha Deathclaw

Menace, trample
When Alpha Deathclaw enters or becomes monstrous, destroy target permanent.
{5}{B}{G}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

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