The Cruelty of Gix

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.
II — Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
III — Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Clement, the Worrywort

Vigilance
Whenever Clement, the Worrywort or another creature you control enters, return up to one target creature you control with lesser mana value to its owner's hand.
Frogs you control have "{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell."

Valley Mightcaller

Trample
Whenever another Frog, Rabbit, Raccoon, or Squirrel you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Valley Mightcaller.

Spore Frog

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

Swamp

Forest

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.)

Mowu, Loyal Companion

Vigilance, trample
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on Mowu, Loyal Companion, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Tatsunari, Toad Rider

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, if you don't control a creature named Keimi, create Keimi, a legendary 3/3 black and green Frog creature token with "Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life."
{1}{G/U}: Tatsunari, Toad Rider and target Frog you control can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with flying or reach.

Chatterfang, Squirrel General

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus that many 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens are created instead.
{B}, Sacrifice X Squirrels: Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn.

Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater have cascade.

Fang of Shigeki

Rayami, First of the Fallen

If a nontoken creature would die, exile that card with a blood counter on it instead.
As long as an exiled creature card with a blood counter on it has flying, Rayami, First of the Fallen has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, protection, reach, trample, and vigilance.

Erebos's Emissary

Bestow {5}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
Discard a creature card: Erebos's Emissary gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If Erebos's Emissary is an Aura, enchanted creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn instead.
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

The Raven Man

At the beginning of each end step, if a player discarded a card this turn, create a 1/1 black Bird creature token with flying and "This creature can't block."
{3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Nadu, Winged Wisdom

Flying
Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand. This ability triggers only twice each turn."

Sol Ring

Bortuk Bonerattle

Domain — When Bortuk Bonerattle enters, if you cast it, choose target creature card in your graveyard. Return that card to the battlefield if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of basic land types among lands you control. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Command Tower

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

Exotic Orchard

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

Arcane Signet

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Reasonable Doubt

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Suspect up to one target creature. (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)

Counterspell

Negate

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}.

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Combat Research

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."
As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)

Volrath, the Shapestealer

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature.
{1}: Until your next turn, Volrath, the Shapestealer becomes a copy of target creature with a counter on it, except it's 7/5 and it has this ability.

Grim Giganotosaurus

{10}{B}{G}: Monstrosity 10. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each creature with power 4 or greater your opponents control. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When Grim Giganotosaurus becomes monstrous, destroy all artifacts and creatures other than Grim Giganotosaurus.

Radagast, Wizard of Wilds

Ward {1}
Beasts and Birds you control have ward {1}.
Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, choose one —
• Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
• Create a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury

+2: Create a 1/1 green Elf Druid creature token with "{T}: Add {G}."
−2: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
−6: Draw a card for each green creature you control.
Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury can be your commander.

Capture Sphere

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Enchant creature
When Capture Sphere enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Strategic Planning

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Divide by Zero

Return target spell or permanent with mana value 1 or greater to its owner's hand.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Deadly Brew

Each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. If you sacrificed a permanent this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Stern Dismissal

Return target creature or enchantment an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Eaten by Piranhas

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a black Skeleton creature with base power and toughness 1/1. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)

Witherbloom Campus

Witherbloom Campus enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.

Quandrix Campus

Quandrix Campus enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
{4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Accomplished Alchemist

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

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.

Tainted Isle

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

Island

Ertai Resurrected

Flash
When Ertai Resurrected enters, 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.

Hidden Cataract

Hidden Cataract enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Hidden Cataract: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Greenwarden of Murasa

When Greenwarden of Murasa enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
When Greenwarden of Murasa dies, you may exile it. If you do, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Song of Stupefaction

Enchant creature or Vehicle
When Song of Stupefaction enters, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Fathomless descent — Enchanted permanent gets -X/-0, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.

Ashnod's Intervention

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand."

Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creature sources.
Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea and untap it.

Seton's Desire

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.
Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, all creatures able to block enchanted creature do so.

Take Flight

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has flying and "Whenever this creature attacks, draw a card."

Blood Researcher

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Blood Researcher.

Eternal Taskmaster

Eternal Taskmaster enters tapped.
Whenever Eternal Taskmaster attacks, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Genesis

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Genesis is in your graveyard, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Blossom Prancer

Reach
When Blossom Prancer enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or enchantment 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, you gain 4 life.

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Drain Power

Target player activates a mana ability of each land they control. Then that player loses all unspent mana and you add the mana lost this way.

Bequeathal

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, you draw two cards.

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.)

Arcane Flight

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Glarb, Calamity's Augur

Deathtouch
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells with mana value 4 or greater from the top of your library.
{T}: Surveil 2.

Rampant Frogantua

Trample
Rampant Frogantua gets +10/+10 for each player who has lost the game.
Whenever Rampant Frogantua deals combat damage to a player, you may mill that many cards. Put any number of land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped.

Garruk, Cursed Huntsman

0: Create two 2/2 black and green Wolf creature tokens with "When this creature dies, put a loyalty counter on each Garruk you control."
−3: Destroy target creature. Draw a card.
−6: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +3/+3 and have trample."

Garruk's Harbinger

Hexproof from black
Whenever Garruk's Harbinger deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, look at that many cards from the top of your library. You may reveal a creature card or Garruk planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Inspiring Call

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

{T}, Remove a counter from another permanent you control: Populate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Proliferate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Eagle Vision

Freerunning {1}{U} (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.)
Draw three cards.

Deep Goblin Skulltaker

Menace
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Deep Goblin Skulltaker. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

Select decks to compare

Deck A:

Deck B: