Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard.

: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Whenever you gain life, each Advisor, Artificer, and Monk you control gains vigilance and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained.

Tap three untapped Advisors, Artificers, and/or Monks you control: Draw a card.

Trample, haste

When The Balrog of Moria dies, you may exile it. When you do, for each opponent, exile up to one target creature that player controls.

Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle The Balrog of Moria, create two Treasure tokens.

When you cast this spell, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap it. It gains menace and haste until end of turn.

The Beast enters tapped with six stun counters on it. (If it would become untapped, remove a stun counter from it instead.)

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to its owner, untap The Beast and draw a card.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — Search your library for a basic Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

II — Create a 0/4 colorless Wall artifact creature token with defender.

III — You gain 2 life.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)

I — Put two stun counters on each of up to two target tapped creatures.

II, III — For each non-Saga permanent, choose a counter on it. You may put an additional counter of that kind on that permanent.

IV — Search your library for a Doctor card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle.

II — Turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, you lose life equal to its mana value.

III — You may put the exiled card onto the battlefield if it's a creature card. If you don't put it onto the battlefield, put it into its owner's hand.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)

I, II, III — Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a legendary card. You may play that card for as long as The Day of the Doctor remains on the battlefield. Put the rest of those exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.

IV — Choose up to three Doctors. You may exile all other creatures. If you do, The Day of the Doctor deals 13 damage to you.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)

I, II — You gain 2 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Exile one of them face down with a hatching counter on it, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

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.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — Search your library for a Doctor card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

II — Create a Food token and a 1/1 white Human creature token with "Doctor spells you cast cost less to cast."

III — Create a token that's a copy of target creature, except it's a legendary Alien named Prisoner Zero.

When The Everflowing Well enters, mill two cards, then draw two cards.

Descend 8 — At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, transform The Everflowing Well.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)

I — Create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

II — Put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.

III — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw two cards.

IV — Create a Gold token. (It's an artifact with "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

(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.

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, draw a card.

Trample, haste

Whenever The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice a creature that saddled it this turn. If you do, draw X cards, then put up to X land cards from your hand onto the battlefield tapped, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Saddle 1

The Grand Calcutron can be your commander.

When The Grand Calcutron enters, each player's hand becomes a program (an ordered row of revealed cards).

Players can only play the first card of their program.

If a card would be put into a player's hand from anywhere, that player reveals it and places it anywhere within their program instead.

At the beginning of each player's end step, if that player's program has fewer than five cards, they draw cards equal to the difference.

Each player shuffles all cards from their hand and all permanents they own into their library, then draws that many cards. Each player may put any number of land cards from their hand onto the battlefield. Exile The Great Aurora.

(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).

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)

I, II, III — Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token.

IV — Sacrifice any number of creatures. Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of creatures sacrificed this way and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

II — You may sacrifice a creature. If you do, search your library for a creature or basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

III — Up to two target creatures each get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn.

Trample

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Crew 3

You may cast The Indomitable from your graveyard as long as you control three or more tapped Pirates and/or Vehicles.

When The Kenriths' Royal Funeral enters, exile up to two target legendary creature cards from your graveyard. You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the greatest mana value among cards exiled this way.

Legendary spells you cast cost less to cast for each card exiled with The Kenriths' Royal Funeral.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)

I, II — Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice unless they discard a card.

III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

: Target creature an opponent controls with power less than or equal to The Master's power gains skulk until end of turn. Goad it. (A creature with skulk can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)

Whenever a creature with skulk deals combat damage to one of your opponents, put a +1/+1 counter on The Master and draw a card.

When The Mightstone and Weakstone enters, choose one —

• Draw two cards.

• Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

: Add . This mana can't be spent to cast nonartifact spells.

(Melds with Urza, Lord Protector.)

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)

I, II — Draw a card, then discard a card.

III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after II.)

I — Destroy all creatures.

II — Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put your choice of a first strike, vigilance, or lifelink counter on it.

Indestructible

When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.

: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

This spell costs less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.

Defender

: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — Create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying. You gain 2 life.

II — Whenever one or more creatures you control with flying deal combat damage to a player this turn, look at that player's hand and draw a card.

III — You may put a card you own from outside the game on top of your library.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — Destroy target tapped creature an opponent controls.

II — Whenever an Assassin you control attacks this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

III — Return target Assassin creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Whenever a creature with a -1/-1 counter on it dies, draw a card.

: Put a -1/-1 counter on another target creature.

When The Scorpion God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Whenever The Seventh Doctor attacks, choose a card in your hand. Defending player guesses whether that card's mana value is greater than the number of artifacts you control. If they guessed wrong, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you don't cast a spell this way, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

, , Exile The Stone Brain: Choose a card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for up to four cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way. Activate only as a sorcery.

Rapid Regeneration — The Swarmlord enters with two +1/+1 counters on it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game.

Xenos Cunning — Whenever a creature you control with a counter on it dies, draw a card.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — Mill three cards.

II — Return up to two target snow permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand.

III — Choose three cards in each graveyard. Their owners shuffle those cards into their libraries.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — You may exchange control of two target creatures.

II — You may exchange control of two target nonbasic, noncreature permanents that share a card type.

III — Target player loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Eminence — As long as The Ur-Dragon is in the command zone or on the battlefield, other Dragon spells you cast cost less to cast.

Flying

Whenever one or more Dragons you control attack, draw that many cards, then you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

The Watcher in the Water enters tapped with nine stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.

Draw two cards, then you may exile a nonland card from your hand with a number of time counters on it equal to its mana value. Then target opponent does the same. Cards exiled this way that don't have suspend gain suspend.

Time travel. (For each suspended card you own and each permanent you control with a time counter on it, you may add or remove a time counter.)

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

Choose one —

• Target nonsnow permanent becomes snow until end of turn.

• Target snow permanent isn't snow until end of turn.

Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Devoid (This card has no color.)

When you cast this spell, exile up to one target noncreature, nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value 4 or less. If you do, Thief of Existence gains "When this creature leaves the battlefield, target opponent draws a card."

Whenever Thieving Otter deals damage to an opponent, draw a card.

Draw a card.

Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a basic land card.

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an enchantment card.