Pako, Arcane Retriever

Partner with Haldan, Avid Arcanist
Haste
Whenever Pako, Arcane Retriever attacks, exile the top card of each player's library and put a fetch counter on each of them. Put a +1/+1 counter on Pako for each noncreature card exiled this way.

Aboshan's Desire

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has flying.
Threshold — Enchanted creature has shroud as long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Arni Slays the Troll

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Target creature you control fights up to one target creature you don't control.
II — Add {R}. Put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature you control.
III — You gain life equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.

Artful Dodge

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Flashback {U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Bountiful Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Bountiful Landscape: Search your library for a basic Forest, Island, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {G}{U}{R} ({G}{U}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Breath of Darigaaz

Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.)
Breath of Darigaaz deals 1 damage to each creature without flying and each player. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage to each creature without flying and each player instead.

Bridgeworks Battle

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn. It fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Tanglespan Bridgeworks

As Tanglespan Bridgeworks enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.

Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks

Careful Cultivation

Enchant artifact or creature
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it gets +1/+3 and has reach and "{T}: Add {G}{G}."
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard Careful Cultivation: Create a 1/1 green Human Monk creature token with "{T}: Add {G}."

Cartouche of Strength

Enchant creature you control
When Cartouche of Strength enters, you may have enchanted creature fight target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.

Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Charge Through

Target creature gains trample until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Choose Your Weapon

Choose one —
• Two-Weapon Fighting — Double target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
• Archery — This spell deals 5 damage to target creature with flying.

Collective Resistance

Escalate {G} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Target creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Command Tower

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

Commander's Sphere

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

Consuming Tide

Each player chooses a nonland permanent they control. Return all nonland permanents not chosen this way to their owners' hands. Then you draw a card for each opponent who has more cards in their hand than you.

Decisive Denial

Choose one —
• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Dire-Strain Rampage

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land. If a land was destroyed this way, its controller may search their library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Otherwise, its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Flashback {3}{R}{G}

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Exotic Orchard

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

Experimental Overload

Create an X/X blue and red Weird creature token, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Then you may return an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Experimental Overload.

Explore

You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.

Fae Flight

Flash
Enchant creature
When Fae Flight enters, enchanted creature gains hexproof until end of turn.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has flying.

Fertile Ground

Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Fiery Inscription

When Fiery Inscription enters, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Fiery Inscription deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Forest

Frontier Bivouac

Frontier Bivouac enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.

Gaea's Gift

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains reach, trample, hexproof, and indestructible until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Growth Spasm

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Honored Heirloom

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{2}, {T}: Exile target card from a graveyard.

Hunter's Insight

Choose target creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker this turn, draw that many cards.

Hydroelectric Specimen

Flash
When Hydroelectric Specimen enters, you may change the target of target instant or sorcery spell with a single target to Hydroelectric Specimen.

Hydroelectric Laboratory

As Hydroelectric Laboratory enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory

Inscription of Abundance

Kicker {2}{G}
Choose one. If this spell was kicked, choose any number instead.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
• Target player gains X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures they control.
• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.

Island

Izzet Guildgate

Izzet Guildgate enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

K-9, Mark I

Negative — As long as K-9, Mark I is untapped, other legendary creatures you control have ward {1}.
Affirmative — {1}{U}, {T}: Target legendary creature can't be blocked this turn.
Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Lantern of Revealing

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}, {T}: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, you may put it on the bottom of your library.

Letter of Acceptance

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Letter of Acceptance: Draw a card.

Lightning Spear

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has trample.
{2}{R}, Sacrifice Lightning Spear: It deals 3 damage to any target.
Equip {1}

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Mountain

Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Negate

Niblis of Frost

Flying
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Omen of the Hunt

Flash
When Omen of the Hunt enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
{2}{G}, Sacrifice Omen of the Hunt: Scry 2.

Once and Future

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Put up to one other target card from your graveyard on top of your library. Exile Once and Future.
Adamant — If at least three green mana was spent to cast this spell, instead return those cards to your hand and exile Once and Future.

Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Orcish Lumberjack

{T}, Sacrifice a Forest: Add three mana in any combination of {R} and/or {G}.

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.)

Psychic Paper

As Psychic Paper becomes attached to a creature, choose a creature card name and a creature type.
Equipped creature has ward {1}, it can't be blocked, and its name and creature type are the last chosen name and creature type.
Equip {2}

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Ravenform

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Foretell {U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Reclaim

Put target card from your graveyard on top of your library.

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.

Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Return to Nature

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.

Road

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Ruin

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Ruin deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control.

Road // Ruin

Rogue's Passage

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

Rugged Highlands

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Run Away Together

Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.

Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
−2: Target artifact you control becomes a copy of another target artifact or creature you control until end of turn, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Search for Tomorrow

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Slip Through Space

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Spell Rupture

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Spring

Mind

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)
Draw two cards.

Spring // Mind

Stump Stomp

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

Burnwillow Clearing

Burnwillow Clearing enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing

Sundering Eruption

Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

Volcanic Fissure

As Volcanic Fissure enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.

Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure

Swiftwater Cliffs

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Sword Coast Sailor

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, this creature can't be blocked this turn."

Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Temur Battle Rage

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.
Ferocious — That creature also gains trample until end of turn if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Two-Handed Axe

Whenever equipped creature attacks, double its power until end of turn.
Equip {1}{R}

Sweeping Cleave

Target creature you control gains double strike until end of turn. (Then exile this card. You may cast the artifact later from exile.)

Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave

Unsubstantiate

Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.

Veil of Secrecy

Target creature gains shroud until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. (A creature with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Splice onto Arcane—Return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Vessel of Volatility

{1}{R}, Sacrifice Vessel of Volatility: Add {R}{R}{R}{R}.

Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

Wild Shape

Choose one. Until end of turn, target creature you control has that base power and toughness, becomes that creature type, and gains that ability.
• 1/3 Turtle with hexproof.
• 1/5 Spider with reach.
• 3/3 Elephant with trample.

Wilt

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

You Come to a River

Choose one —
• Fight the Current — Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Find a Crossing — Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

You Find the Villains' Lair

Choose one —
• Foil Their Scheme — Counter target spell.
• Learn Their Secrets — Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

You See a Guard Approach

Choose one —
• Distract the Guard — Tap target creature.
• Hide — Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Haldan, Avid Arcanist

Partner with Pako, Arcane Retriever (When this creature enters, target player may put Pako into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
You may play lands and cast noncreature spells from among cards you exiled that have fetch counters on them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

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