Melek, Izzet Paragon

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may cast instant and sorcery spells from the top of your library.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your library, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Trap the Trespassers

Secret council — Each player secretly votes for a creature you don't control, then those votes are revealed. For each creature with one or more votes, put that many stun counters on it, then tap it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Birthday Escape

Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Risk Factor

Target opponent may have Risk Factor deal 4 damage to them. If that player doesn't, you draw three cards.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Hit the Mother Lode

Discover 10. If the discovered card's mana value is less than 10, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the difference. (To discover 10, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 10 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.)

Sulfurous Blast

Sulfurous Blast deals 2 damage to each creature and each player. If you cast this spell during your main phase, Sulfurous Blast deals 3 damage to each creature and each player instead.

Demonfire

Demonfire deals X damage to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
Hellbent — If you have no cards in hand, this spell can't be countered and the damage can't be prevented.

Invoke the Firemind

Choose one —
• Draw X cards.
• Invoke the Firemind deals X damage to any target.

Fierce Guardianship

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

Flame of Anor

Choose one. If you control a Wizard as you cast this spell, you may choose two instead.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Flame of Anor deals 5 damage to target creature.

Magic Missile

This spell can't be countered.
Magic Missile deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

The Flame of Keld

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Discard your hand.
II — Draw two cards.
III — If a red source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player this turn, it deals that much damage plus 2 to that permanent or player instead.

Kykar, Wind's Fury

Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
Sacrifice a Spirit: Add {R}.

Gandalf, Friend of the Shire

Flash
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Gandalf, Friend of the Shire as your Ring-bearer, draw a card.

Gandalf the Grey

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• You may tap or untap target permanent.
• Gandalf the Grey deals 3 damage to each opponent.
• Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
• Put Gandalf on top of its owner's library.

Lightning Helix

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Frantic Firebolt

Frantic Firebolt deals X damage to target creature, where X is 2 plus the number of cards in your graveyard that are instant cards, sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.

Frantic Purification

Destroy target enchantment.
Madness {W} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Display of Power

This spell can't be copied.
Copy any number of target instant and/or sorcery spells. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Galvanize

Galvanize deals 3 damage to target creature. If you've drawn two or more cards this turn, Galvanize deals 5 damage to that creature instead.

Incendiary Flow

Incendiary Flow deals 3 damage to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Inescapable Blaze

This spell can't be countered.
Inescapable Blaze deals 6 damage to any target.

Beacon Bolt

Beacon Bolt deals damage to target creature equal to the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Beacon of Destruction

Beacon of Destruction deals 5 damage to any target. Shuffle Beacon of Destruction into its owner's library.

Explosive Singularity

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may tap any number of untapped creatures you control. This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature tapped this way.
Explosive Singularity deals 10 damage to any target.

Vanquish the Horde

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Destroy all creatures.

Devious Cover-Up

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may shuffle up to four target cards from your graveyard into your library.

Press the Enemy

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Invoke the Winds

Gain control of target artifact or creature. Untap it.

Pact of Negation

Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Arc Lightning

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Burst Lightning

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.)
Burst Lightning deals 2 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage instead.

Homing Lightning

Homing Lightning deals 4 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature.

Wizard's Retort

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Wizard.
Counter target spell.

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Treason of Isengard

Put up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Amass Orcs 2. (To amass Orcs 2, put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Chain Lightning

Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to any target. Then that player or that permanent's controller may pay {R}{R}. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Gandalf of the Secret Fire

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand during an opponent's turn, exile that card with three time counters on it instead of putting it into your graveyard as it resolves. Then if the exiled card doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from that card. When the last is removed, you may play it without paying its mana cost.)

Gandalf the White

Flash
You may cast legendary spells and artifact spells as though they had flash.
If a legendary permanent or an artifact entering or leaving the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Lightning Blast

Lightning Blast deals 4 damage to any target.

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Leyline of Sanctity

If Leyline of Sanctity is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Invoke the Divine

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.

Beacon of Immortality

Double target player's life total. Shuffle Beacon of Immortality into its owner's library.

Breaking of the Fellowship

Target creature an opponent controls deals damage equal to its power to another target creature that player controls. The Ring tempts you.

Olórin's Searing Light

Each opponent exiles a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, Olórin's Searing Light deals damage to each opponent equal to the power of the creature they exiled.

Cliffgate

Cliffgate enters the battlefield tapped.
As Cliffgate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than red.
{T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Arcane Signet

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

Electrostatic Bolt

Electrostatic Bolt deals 2 damage to target creature. If it's an artifact creature, Electrostatic Bolt deals 4 damage to it instead.

Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Guttersnipe deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Pelargir Survivor

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
{5}{U}, {T}: Target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Izzet Signet

Stone Quarry

Stone Quarry enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Volcanic Island

Gateway Plaza

Gateway Plaza enters the battlefield tapped.
When Gateway Plaza enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
Once each turn, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from the top of your library. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Sorcerer Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
When Sorcerer Class enters the battlefield, draw two cards, then discard two cards.
{U}{R}: Level 2
Creatures you control have "{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell or to gain a Class level."
{3}{U}{R}: Level 3
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, that spell deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of instant and sorcery spells you've cast this turn.

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.

Leyline of Punishment

If Leyline of Punishment is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Players can't gain life.
Damage can't be prevented.

Leyline of Singularity

If Leyline of Singularity is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
All nonland permanents are legendary.

Scalding Viper

Whenever an opponent casts a spell with mana value 3 or less, Scalding Viper deals 1 damage to that player.

Steam Clean

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Scalding Viper // Steam Clean

Beacon of Tomorrows

Target player takes an extra turn after this one. Shuffle Beacon of Tomorrows into its owner's library.

Call Forth the Tempest

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 of your library in a random order. Then do it again.)
Call Forth the Tempest deals damage to each creature your opponents control equal to the total mana value of other spells you've cast this turn.

You Find the Villains' Lair

Choose one —
• Foil Their Scheme — Counter target spell.
• Learn Their Secrets — Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Vandalize

Choose one or both —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target land.

Gandalf's Sanction

Gandalf's Sanction deals X damage to target creature, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.

You See a Guard Approach

Choose one —
• Distract the Guard — Tap target creature.
• Hide — Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Lava Axe

Lava Axe deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Lavabrink Floodgates

{T}: Add {R}{R}.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may put a doom counter on Lavabrink Floodgates or remove a doom counter from it. Then if it has three or more doom counters on it, sacrifice Lavabrink Floodgates. When you do, it deals 6 damage to each creature.

The Battle of Bywater

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Then create a Food token for each creature you control. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Simon, Wild Magic Sorcerer

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 3 or greater, roll a d20.
1-9 | Each player draws a card.
10-19 | You draw a card.
20 | Copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Fiery Inscription

When Fiery Inscription enters the battlefield, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Fiery Inscription deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Melek, Reforged Researcher

Melek, Reforged Researcher's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs {3} less to cast.

Aberrant Mind Sorcerer

Psionic Spells — When Aberrant Mind Sorcerer enters the battlefield, choose target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard, then roll a d20.
1—9 | You may put that card on top of your library.
10—20 | Return that card to your hand.

Wild-Magic Sorcerer

The first spell you cast from exile each turn has cascade. (When you cast your first spell from exile, 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 of your library in a random order.)

Kaho, Minamo Historian

When Kaho, Minamo Historian enters the battlefield, search your library for up to three instant cards, exile them, then shuffle.
{X}, {T}: You may cast a spell with mana value X from among cards exiled with Kaho without paying its mana cost.

Lava Coil

Lava Coil deals 4 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Lava Flow

Saruman the White

Ward {2}
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, amass Orcs 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Reliquary Tower

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

Public Thoroughfare

Public Thoroughfare enters the battlefield tapped.
When Public Thoroughfare enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you tap an untapped artifact or land you control.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Erebor Flamesmith

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Erebor Flamesmith deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Boros Locket

{T}: Add {R} or {W}.
{R/W}{R/W}{R/W}{R/W}, {T}, Sacrifice Boros Locket: Draw two cards.

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.

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.

Plateau

Island

Plains

Leyline of Combustion

If Leyline of Combustion is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Whenever you and/or at least one permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, Leyline of Combustion deals 2 damage to that player.

Runaway Steam-Kin

Whenever you cast a red spell, if Runaway Steam-Kin has fewer than three +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on Runaway Steam-Kin.
Remove three +1/+1 counters from Runaway Steam-Kin: Add {R}{R}{R}.

Imodane, the Pyrohammer

Whenever an instant or sorcery spell you control that targets only a single creature deals damage to that creature, Imodane deals that much damage to each opponent.

Leyline of Lightning

If Leyline of Lightning is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, Leyline of Lightning deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Pit of Offerings

Pit of Offerings enters the battlefield tapped.
When Pit of Offerings enters the battlefield, exile up to three target cards from graveyards.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled cards' colors.

Meandering River

Meandering River enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Glamdring

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +1/+0 for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to that damage without paying its mana cost.
Equip {3}

Network Terminal

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}, {T}, Tap another untapped artifact you control: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Heartflame Duelist

Instant and sorcery spells you control have lifelink.

Heartflame Slash

Heartflame Slash deals 3 damage to any target. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Heartflame Duelist // Heartflame Slash

Electrostatic Field

Defender
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Electrostatic Field deals 1 damage to each opponent.

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