Life of Toshiro Umezawa

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I, II — Choose one —
• Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• You gain 2 life.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Memory of Toshiro

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.

Life of Toshiro Umezawa // Memory of Toshiro

Professor Onyx

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
+1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
−3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.
−8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.

Runechanter's Pike

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Equip {2}

Sol Ring

Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control.
Equip legendary creature {3}
Equip {7}

Heartless Act

Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with no counters on it.
• Remove up to three counters from target creature.

Pithing Needle

As Pithing Needle enters the battlefield, choose a card name.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Arcane Signet

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

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Collective Brutality

Escalate—Discard a card. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it. That player discards that card.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Detection Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Swamp

Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.
{B}: Nirkana Revenant gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Vendetta

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Go for the Throat

Liliana's Triumph

Each opponent sacrifices a creature. If you control a Liliana planeswalker, each opponent also discards a card.

Cast Down

Erebos's Intervention

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.
• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Feign Death

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Fated Return

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains indestructible. If it's your turn, 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.)

Dark Ritual

Skeletal Scrying

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard.
You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Succumb to Temptation

Hellish Rebuke

Until end of turn, permanents your opponents control gain "When this permanent deals damage to the player who cast Hellish Rebuke, sacrifice this permanent. You lose 2 life."

Wretched Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Supernatural Stamina

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Night's Whisper

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Malicious Affliction

Morbid — When you cast this spell, if a creature died this turn, you may copy Malicious Affliction and may choose a new target for the copy.
Destroy target nonblack creature.

Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.
{5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, Vorpal Sword gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip {B}{B}

Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered the battlefield this turn.

Ratchet Bomb

{T}: Put a charge counter on Ratchet Bomb.
{T}, Sacrifice Ratchet Bomb: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Ratchet Bomb.

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Primal Amulet

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on Primal Amulet. Then if there are four or more charge counters on it, you may remove those counters and transform it.

Primal Wellspring

(Transforms from Primal Amulet.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color. When that mana is spent to cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring

Aphotic Wisps

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Draw a card.

Oriq Loremage

{T}: Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. If it's an instant or sorcery card, put a +1/+1 counter on Oriq Loremage.

Cremate

Exile target card from a graveyard.
Draw a card.

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Moonlight Bargain

Look at the top five cards of your library. For each card, put that card into your graveyard unless you pay 2 life. Then put the rest into your hand.

Kothophed, Soul Hoarder

Flying
Whenever a permanent owned by another player is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Bloodline Culling

Choose one —
• Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
• Creature tokens get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Blood Pact

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

Mimic Vat

Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with Mimic Vat to its owner's graveyard.
{3}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with Mimic Vat. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Undying Evil

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Suffer the Past

Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Draw X cards.

Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Worn Powerstone

Worn Powerstone enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Vona's Hunger

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Each opponent sacrifices a creature. If you have the city's blessing, instead each opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control, rounded up.

Toshiro Umezawa

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

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