Jin-Gitaxias

Ward {2}
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, draw a card.
{3}{U}: Exile Jin-Gitaxias, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you have seven or more cards in hand.

The Great Synthesis

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size for as long as you control The Great Synthesis.
II — Return all non-Phyrexian creatures to their owners' hands.
III — You may cast any number of spells from your hand without paying their mana costs. Exile The Great Synthesis, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis

Chrome Host Seedshark

Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (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.)

Assimilate Essence

Counter target creature or battle spell unless its controller pays {4}. If they do, you 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.)

Eyes of Gitaxias

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.)
Draw a card.

Corruption of Towashi

When Corruption of Towashi enters the battlefield, 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.)
Whenever a permanent you control transforms or a permanent enters the battlefield under your control transformed, you may draw a card. Do this only once each turn.

Thrummingbird

Flying
Whenever Thrummingbird deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Gitaxian Raptor

Flying
Gitaxian Raptor enters the battlefield with three oil counters on it.
Remove an oil counter from Gitaxian Raptor: Gitaxian Raptor gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Trawler Drake

Flying
Trawler Drake enters the battlefield with an oil counter on it.
Trawler Drake gets +1/+1 for each oil counter on it.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on Trawler Drake.

Defiler of Dreams

Flying
As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {U} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.

Serum Sovereign

Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on Serum Sovereign.
{U}, Remove an oil counter from Serum Sovereign: Draw a card, then scry 2.

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Flying
If you would proliferate, proliferate twice instead.
{1}{U/P}{U/P}, Remove three counters from among other artifacts, creatures, and planeswalkers you control: Put an indestructible counter on Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Unctus, Grand Metatect

Other blue creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, draw a card, then discard a card."
Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.
{U/P}: Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a blue artifact in addition to its other colors and types. Activate only as a sorcery. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Watchful Blisterzoa

Flying
Watchful Blisterzoa enters the battlefield with an oil counter on it.
When Watchful Blisterzoa dies, draw cards equal to the number of oil counters on it.

Meldweb Curator

When Meldweb Curator enters the battlefield, put up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Mercurial Spelldancer

Mercurial Spelldancer can't be blocked.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on Mercurial Spelldancer.
Whenever Mercurial Spelldancer deals combat damage to a player, you may remove two oil counters from it. If you do, when you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Ichor Synthesizer

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on Ichor Synthesizer.
As long as Ichor Synthesizer has four or more oil counters on it, it gets +2/+0 and can't be blocked.

Glistener Seer

Glistener Seer enters the battlefield with three oil counters on it.
{T}, Remove an oil counter from Glistener Seer: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Experimental Augury

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Serum Snare

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If that permanent had mana value 3 or less, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Mesmerizing Dose

Enchant creature
When Mesmerizing Dose enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Reject Imperfection

Counter target spell. If that spell's mana value was 3 or less, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Vivisurgeon's Insight

Draw three cards. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Shore Up

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap it. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Surgical Skullbomb

{1}, Sacrifice Surgical Skullbomb: Draw a card.
{2}{U}, Sacrifice Surgical Skullbomb: Return target creature to its owner's hand. Draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Impede Momentum

Tap target creature and put three stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Planar Incision

Exile target artifact or creature, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Jace, the Perfected Mind

Compleated ({U/P} can be paid with {U} or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gets -3/-0.
−2: Target player mills three cards. Then if a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, you draw three cards. Otherwise, you draw a card.
−X: Target player mills three times X cards.

Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim

Whenever you draw a card, put a loyalty counter on Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim.
0: Draw a card.
−2: Create a 2/2 blue Spirit creature token with vigilance and "Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."
−12: Target opponent chooses a permanent they control and returns it to its owner's hand. Then they shuffle each nonland permanent they control into its owner's library.

Slip Out the Back

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

Essence Scatter

Negate

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Hidden Cataract

Hidden Cataract enters the battlefield 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.)

The Surgical Bay

The Surgical Bay enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice The Surgical Bay: Draw a card.

Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, 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.

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.

Phyrexian Ingester

Imprint — When Phyrexian Ingester enters the battlefield, you may exile target nontoken creature.
Phyrexian Ingester gets +X/+Y, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

Ichorplate Golem

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, if it has one or more oil counters on it, put an oil counter on it.
Creatures you control with oil counters on them get +1/+1.

Gitaxian Anatomist

When Gitaxian Anatomist enters the battlefield, you may tap it. If you do, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Tezzeret, Cruel Machinist

+1: Draw a card.
0: Until your next turn, target artifact you control becomes a 5/5 creature in addition to its other types.
−7: Put any number of cards from your hand onto the battlefield face down. They're 5/5 artifact creatures.

Jace, Arcane Strategist

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
+1: Draw a card.
−7: Creatures you control can't be blocked this turn.

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash
At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards.
Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

Inexorable Tide

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Malcator's Watcher

Flying, vigilance
When Malcator's Watcher dies, draw a card.

Viral Drake

Flying
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
{3}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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.

Contentious Plan

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Draw a card.

Ripples of Potential

Proliferate, then choose any number of permanents you control that had a counter put on them this way. Those permanents phase out. (To proliferate, choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Treat phased-out permanents and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Contagion Engine

When Contagion Engine enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate twice. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)

Mordenkainen

+2: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.
−2: Create a blue Dog Illusion creature token with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of cards in your hand."
−10: Exchange your hand and library, then shuffle. You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size."

Chancellor of the Spires

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent mills seven cards.
Flying
When Chancellor of the Spires enters the battlefield, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Steady Progress

Jace Beleren

+2: Each player draws a card.
−1: Target player draws a card.
−10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Sword of Truth and Justice

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from blue.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Equip {2}

Blue Sun's Twilight

Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less. If X is 5 or more, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Borrowing 100,000 Arrows

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

Sol Ring

Arcane Signet

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

As Foretold

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on As Foretold.
Once each turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for a spell you cast with mana value X or less, where X is the number of time counters on As Foretold.

Calculated Dismissal

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Anchor to the Aether

Put target creature on top of its owner's library. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Archmage's Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Artificer's Epiphany

Draw two cards. If you control no artifacts, discard a card.

Bonder's Ornament

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}, {T}: Each player who controls a permanent named Bonder's Ornament draws a card.

Reliquary Tower

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

Sapphire Medallion

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

Sky Diamond

Sky Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Thought Vessel

Cancel

Sleep

Tap all creatures target player controls. Those creatures don't untap during that player's next untap step.

Storm of Saruman

Ward {3}
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it, except the copy isn't legendary. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

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}.)

Fabricate

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

Long-Term Plans

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.

Leyline of Anticipation

If Leyline of Anticipation is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Island

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

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