Elspeth Conquers Death

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile target permanent an opponent controls with mana value 3 or greater.
II — Noncreature spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast until your next turn.
III — Return target creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter or a loyalty counter on it.

The Brothers' War

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Create two tapped Powerstone tokens.
II — Choose two target players. Until your next turn, each creature they control attacks the other chosen player each combat if able.
III — The Brothers' War deals X damage to any target and X damage to any other target, where X is the number of artifacts you control.

Tom Bombadil

As long as there are four or more lore counters among Sagas you control, Tom Bombadil has hexproof and indestructible.
Whenever the final chapter ability of a Saga you control resolves, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a Saga card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Counterspell

Kenrith's Transformation

Enchant creature
When Kenrith's Transformation enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green Elk creature with base power and toughness 3/3. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)

Island

Plains

Forest

Evolution Sage

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Flux Channeler

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

Satyr Enchanter

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, draw a card.

In the Darkness Bind Them

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I, II, III — Create a 3/3 black Wraith creature token with menace. The Ring tempts you.
IV — For each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Mountain

War of the Last Alliance

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Search your library for a legendary creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
III — Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Create a 2/2 red Goblin Shaman creature token with "Whenever this creature attacks, create a Treasure token."
II — You may discard up to two cards. If you do, draw that many cards.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

{1}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki

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

The Elder Dragon War

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 — The Elder Dragon War deals 2 damage to each creature and each opponent.
II — Discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards.
III — Create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying.

The Kami War

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
II — Return up to one other target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then each opponent discards a card.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

O-Kagachi Made Manifest

O-Kagachi Made Manifest is all colors.
Flying, trample
Whenever O-Kagachi Made Manifest attacks, defending player chooses a nonland card in your graveyard. Return that card to your hand. O-Kagachi Made Manifest gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the mana value of that card.

The Kami War // O-Kagachi Made Manifest

Urabrask

First strike
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Urabrask deals 1 damage to target opponent. Add {R}.
{R}: Exile Urabrask, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you've cast three or more instant and/or sorcery spells this turn.

The Great Work

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — The Great Work deals 3 damage to target opponent and each creature they control.
II — Create three Treasure tokens.
III — Until end of turn, you may cast instant and sorcery spells from any graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead. Exile The Great Work, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Urabrask // The Great Work

Historian's Boon

Whenever Historian's Boon or another nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
Whenever the final chapter ability of a Saga you control triggers, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.

Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage

Flash
Flying
You may cast historic spells as though they had flash. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Satsuki, the Living Lore

{T}: Put a lore counter on each Saga you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
When Satsuki, the Living Lore dies, choose up to one —
• Return target Saga or enchantment creature you control to its owner's hand.
• Return target Saga card from your graveyard to your hand.

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.

Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Blood Crypt

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

Breeding Pool

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

Hallowed Fountain

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

Sacred Foundry

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

Steam Vents

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

Stomping Ground

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

Watery Grave

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

Resourceful Defense

Whenever a permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target permanent you control.
{4}{W}: Move any number of counters from target permanent you control to another target permanent you control.

Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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.

Destiny Spinner

Creature and enchantment spells you control can't be countered.
{3}{G}: Target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental creature with trample and haste until end of turn, where X is the number of enchantments you control. It's still a land.

Enchantress's Presence

Extinguish All Hope

Jukai Naturalist

Lifelink
Enchantment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Sterling Grove

Other enchantments you control have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)
{1}, Sacrifice Sterling Grove: Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Sythis, Harvest's Hand

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Bear Umbra

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, untap all lands you control."
Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Swamp

Starfield of Nyx

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
As long as you control five or more enchantments, each other non-Aura enchantment you control is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.

Arcane Signet

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

One Ring to Rule Them All

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — The Ring tempts you, then each player mills cards equal to your Ring-bearer's power.
II — Destroy all nonlegendary creatures.
III — Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature card in that player's graveyard.

Tale of Tinúviel

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Target creature you control gains indestructible for as long as you control Tale of Tinúviel.
II — Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
III — Up to two target creatures you control each gain lifelink until end of turn.

There and Back Again

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Up to one target creature can't block for as long as you control There and Back Again. The Ring tempts you.
II — Search your library for a Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
III — Create Smaug, a legendary 6/6 red Dragon creature token with flying, haste, and "When this creature dies, create fourteen Treasure tokens."

Barad-dûr

Barad-dûr enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {B}.
{X}{X}{B}, {T}: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {W}.
{1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Starfield Mystic

Enchantment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever an enchantment you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Starfield Mystic.

Goldberry, River-Daughter

{T}: Move a counter of each kind not on Goldberry, River-Daughter from another target permanent you control onto Goldberry.
{U}, {T}: Move one or more counters from Goldberry onto another target permanent you control. If you do, draw a card.

The Eldest Reborn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker.
II — Each opponent discards a card.
III — Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Song of Eärendil

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Scry 2, then draw two cards.
II — Create a Treasure token and a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
III — Put a flying counter on each creature you control without flying.

Fall of Gil-galad

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Scry 2.
II — Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
III — Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, draw two cards." Then that creature fights up to one other target creature.

The Weatherseed Treaty

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 — Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
II — Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
III — Domain — Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains trample until end of turn, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Korvold and the Noble Thief

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
III — Exile the top three cards of target opponent's library. You may play those cards this turn.

The Princess Takes Flight

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile up to one target creature.
II — Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains flying until end of turn.
III — Return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

The Shire

The Shire enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {G}.
{1}{G}, {T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Create a Food token.

Power Conduit

{T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Choose one —
• Put a charge counter on target artifact.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Temple Garden

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

Mines of Moria

Mines of Moria enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {R}.
{3}{R}, {T}, Exile three cards from your graveyard: Create two Treasure tokens.

Elesh Norn

Vigilance
Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you or a permanent you control, that source's controller loses 2 life unless they pay {1}.
{2}{W}, Sacrifice three other creatures: Exile Elesh Norn, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

The Argent Etchings

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Incubate 2 five times, then transform all Incubator tokens you control.
II — Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain double strike until end of turn.
III — Destroy all other permanents except for artifacts, lands, and Phyrexians. Exile The Argent Etchings, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings

Greater Auramancy

Other enchantments you control have shroud. (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Enchanted creatures you control have shroud.

Kiora Bests the Sea God

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token with hexproof.
II — Tap all nonland permanents target opponent controls. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
III — Gain control of target permanent an opponent controls. Untap it.

Vorinclex

Trample, reach
When Vorinclex enters the battlefield, search your library for up to two Forest cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
{6}{G}{G}: Exile Vorinclex, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.

The Grand Evolution

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Mill ten cards. Put up to two creature cards from among the milled cards onto the battlefield.
II — Distribute seven +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control.
III — Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "{1}: This creature fights target creature you don't control." Exile The Grand Evolution, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution

Sheoldred

Menace
When Sheoldred enters the battlefield, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker.
{4}{B}: Exile Sheoldred, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard.

The True Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — For each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls.
II — Each opponent discards three cards, then mills three cards.
III — Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. Exile The True Scriptures, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).

Sheoldred // The True Scriptures

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.

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.

Cacophony Unleashed

When Cacophony Unleashed enters the battlefield, if you cast it, destroy all nonenchantment creatures.
Whenever Cacophony Unleashed or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, until end of turn, Cacophony Unleashed becomes a legendary 6/6 Nightmare God creature with menace and deathtouch. It's still an enchantment.

Scroll of Isildur

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Gain control of up to one target artifact for as long as you control Scroll of Isildur. The Ring tempts you.
II — Tap up to two target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of them.
III — Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

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.

Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {X} for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

The Eighth Doctor

When The Eighth Doctor enters the battlefield, mill three cards.
Once during each of your turns, you may play a historic land or cast a historic permanent spell from your graveyard. If you do, it gains "If this permanent would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else."

Peri Brown

The first historic spell you cast each turn has convoke. (Your creatures can help cast it. Each creature you tap while casting it pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

The Sixth Doctor

Time Lord's Prerogative — Whenever you cast a historic spell, copy it, except the copy isn't legendary. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic. A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Shield of the Oversoul

Enchant creature
As long as enchanted creature is green, it gets +1/+1 and has indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)
As long as enchanted creature is white, it gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Narci, Fable Singer

Lifelink
Whenever you sacrifice an enchantment, draw a card.
Whenever the final chapter ability of a Saga you control resolves, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that Saga's mana value.

Composer of Spring

Constellation — Whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. If you control six or more enchantments, instead you may put a creature or land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Battle at the Helvault

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — For each player, exile up to one target non-Saga, nonland permanent that player controls until Battle at the Helvault leaves the battlefield.
III — Create Avacyn, a legendary 8/8 white Angel creature token with flying, vigilance, and indestructible.

Prismatic Omen

Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Rivendell

Rivendell enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Bombadil's Song

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. The Ring tempts you. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

The Akroan War

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Gain control of target creature for as long as The Akroan War remains on the battlefield.
II — Until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able.
III — Each tapped creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

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