Showdown of the Skalds

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile the top four cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
II, III — Whenever you cast a spell this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Good-Fortune Unicorn

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

Gruul Spellbreaker

Riot (This creature enters with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)
Trample
During your turn, you and Gruul Spellbreaker have hexproof.

Third Path Iconoclast

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.

Gremlin Tamer

Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, create a 1/1 red Gremlin creature token.

Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, manifest dread if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. Otherwise, you may turn a permanent you control face up. (To manifest dread, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one —
• Cloak a card from your hand. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each colorless creature you control.

Ob Nixilis, the Adversary

Casualty X. The copy isn't legendary and has starting loyalty X. (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power X. When you do, copy this spell. The copy becomes a token.)
+1: Each opponent loses 2 life unless they discard a card. If you control a Demon or Devil, you gain 2 life.
−2: Create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target."
−7: Target player draws seven cards and loses 7 life.

Likeness Looter

Flying
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{X}: Likeness Looter becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except it has flying and this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.

Akawalli, the Seething Tower

Descend 4 — As long as there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, Akawalli, the Seething Tower gets +2/+2 and has trample.
Descend 8 — As long as there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, Akawalli gets an additional +2/+2 and can't be blocked by more than one creature.

Dance of the Manse

Return up to X target artifact and/or non-Aura enchantment cards each with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If X is 6 or more, those permanents are 4/4 creatures in addition to their other types.

Growing Dread

Flash
When Growing Dread enters, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Whenever you turn a permanent face up, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

The Jolly Balloon Man

Haste
{1}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control, except it's a 1/1 red Balloon creature in addition to its other colors and types and it has flying and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.

Havengul Lich

{1}: You may cast target creature card in a graveyard this turn. When you cast it this turn, Havengul Lich gains all activated abilities of that card until end of turn.

Sprite Dragon

Flying, haste
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Sprite Dragon.

Inquisitive Glimmer

Enchantment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Unlock costs you pay cost {1} less.

Master of Death

When Master of Death enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Master of Death is in your graveyard, you may pay 1 life. If you do, return it to your hand.

Nyx Weaver

Reach
At the beginning of your upkeep, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
{1}{B}{G}, Exile Nyx Weaver: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Angelfire Ignition

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It gains vigilance, trample, lifelink, indestructible, and haste until end of turn.
Flashback {2}{R}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Spider Spawning

Create a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach for each creature card in your graveyard.
Flashback {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Halana and Alena, Partners

First strike, reach
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control, where X is Halana and Alena's power. That creature gains haste until end of turn.

Ral, Crackling Wit

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a loyalty counter on Ral, Crackling Wit.
+1: Create a 1/1 blue and red Otter creature token with prowess.
−3: Draw three cards, then discard two cards.
−10: Draw three cards. You get an emblem with "Instant and sorcery spells you cast have storm." (Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Mayhem Devil

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, Mayhem Devil deals 1 damage to any target.

Ajani, the Greathearted

Creatures you control have vigilance.
+1: You gain 3 life.
−2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and a loyalty counter on each other planeswalker you control.

Bartolomé del Presidio

Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bartolomé del Presidio.

Falkenrath Aristocrat

Flying, haste
Sacrifice a creature: Falkenrath Aristocrat gains indestructible until end of turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on Falkenrath Aristocrat.

Advent of the Wurm

Create a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample.

Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Maelstrom Wanderer

Creatures you control have haste.
Cascade, 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. Then do it again.)

Caesar, Legion's Emperor

Whenever you attack, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, choose two —
• Create two 1/1 red and white Soldier creature tokens with haste that are tapped and attacking.
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Caesar, Legion's Emperor deals damage equal to the number of creature tokens you control to target opponent.

Ghave, Guru of Spores

Ghave, Guru of Spores enters with five +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God has all loyalty abilities of all other planeswalkers on the battlefield.
+1: You draw a card. Each opponent exiles a card from their hand or a permanent they control.
−3: Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
−8: Each opponent who doesn't control a legendary creature or planeswalker loses the game.

Zinnia, Valley's Voice

Flying
Zinnia, Valley's Voice gets +X/+0, where X is the number of other creatures you control with base power 1.
Creature spells you cast have offspring {2}. (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast a creature spell. If you do, when that creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)

Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Flying
Whenever Korvold, Fae-Cursed King enters or attacks, sacrifice another permanent.
Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Korvold and draw a card.

The Mimeoplasm

As The Mimeoplasm enters, you may exile two creature cards from graveyards. If you do, it enters as a copy of one of those cards with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the power of the other card.

Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Karplusan Forest

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {G}. Karplusan Forest deals 1 damage to you.

Raffine, Scheming Seer

Flying, ward {1}
Whenever you attack, target attacking creature connives X, where X is the number of attacking creatures. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Bloodbraid Challenger

Cascade
Haste
Escape—{3}{R}{G}, Exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.

Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As Blood Crypt enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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.)

Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Contaminated Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Contaminated Landscape: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {W}{U}{B} ({W}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Deceptive Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Deceptive Landscape: Search your library for a basic Plains, Swamp, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {W}{B}{G} ({W}{B}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Brushland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}. Brushland deals 1 damage to you.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Foreboding Landscape

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

Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Marsh Flats: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Misty Rainforest: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
As Overgrown Tomb enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Perilous Landscape

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

Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sacred Foundry

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.)
As Sacred Foundry enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Underground River

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Seething Landscape

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

Shattered Landscape

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Shattered Landscape: Search your library for a basic Mountain, Plains, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling {R}{W}{B} ({R}{W}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sheltering Landscape

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

Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
As Steam Vents enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Stomping Ground

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.)
As Temple Garden enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Tranquil Landscape

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

Twisted Landscape

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

Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Verdant Catacombs: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)
As Watery Grave enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Windswept Heath: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Wooded Foothills

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Wooded Foothills: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Kestia, the Cultivator

Bestow {3}{G}{W}{U} (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.)
Enchanted creature gets +4/+4.
Whenever an enchanted creature or enchantment creature you control attacks, draw a card.

Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second

If you would create one or more tokens, you may instead create that many 2/2 green Cat creature tokens with haste or that many 3/1 green Dog creature tokens with vigilance.

Cruel Celebrant

Whenever Cruel Celebrant or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Vito, Fanatic of Aclazotz

Flying
Whenever you sacrifice another permanent, you gain 2 life if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it's the second time, each opponent loses 2 life. If it's the third time, create a 4/3 white and black Vampire Demon creature token with flying.

Abhorrent Oculus

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile six cards from your graveyard.
Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Aether Channeler

When Aether Channeler enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.
• Return another target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Amphibian Downpour

Flash
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies. Copies become tokens.)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1.

Become Anonymous

Exile target nontoken creature you own and the top two cards of your library in a face-down pile, shuffle that pile, then cloak those cards. They enter tapped. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Body Double

You may have Body Double enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard.

Champion of Wits

When Champion of Wits enters, you may draw cards equal to its power. If you do, discard two cards.
Eternalize {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Wizard with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Chilling Grasp

Tap up to two target creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
Madness {3}{U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Circular Logic

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard.
Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

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}.

Counterspell

Cryptic Coat

When Cryptic Coat enters, cloak the top card of your library, then attach Cryptic Coat to it. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked.
{1}{U}: Return Cryptic Coat to its owner's hand.

Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Delver of Secrets

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If an instant or sorcery card is revealed this way, transform Delver of Secrets.

Insectile Aberration

Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration

Displacer Kitten

Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Dream Eater

Flash
Flying
When Dream Eater enters, surveil 4. When you do, you may return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. (To surveil 4, look at the top four cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Elusive Otter

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Creatures with power less than Elusive Otter's power can't block it.

Grove's Bounty

Distribute X +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty

Emrakul's Messenger

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Flying
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Enduring Curiosity

Flash
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

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