(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, search your library, graveyard, and/or outside the game for an instant or sorcery card you own, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
No professors, no grades, no room for mistakes.
(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, tap target artifact or creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, draw a card.
The pace of Kamigawa's development meant that Jin-Gitaxias's intel was already outdated when the invaders arrived.
(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, create two 1/1 blue Kraken creature tokens with trample.
Noncreature spells you cast have convoke. (Your creatures can help cast those spells. Each creature you tap while casting a noncreature spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
At the beginning of your end step, untap up to four target creatures.
(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, draw three cards, then discard a card.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Copy target spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
"On my signal, disable the safeguards. Let's blow these metal freaks right back to their own world!"
—Gav Beleren, mage-ring engineer
Ward
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, draw a card.
: 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.
(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 this Saga.
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 this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
Draw two cards.
"If something seems impossible, you probably haven't tried asking for help."
—Niambi, cleric of Dominaria
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand, one into your graveyard, and one on the bottom of your library.
On the precipice of eternity, Elspeth made a choice. The fight would not end without her.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Teferi gave them time. Karn gave them a chance. But it was Melira who paid the ultimate price to free Ajani from Phyrexia's grasp.
Flying
As long as you control a transformed permanent, this creature has "When this creature dies, draw a card."
Even before Phyrexia's forces arrived on Tarkir, Silumgar's draconic brood had a discerning eye for valuables.
: Add . Spend this mana only to activate abilities.
After years of fabricating visions for naive customers of the Obscura, Stafano was flummoxed by the nightmarish scenes that played out unbidden in his mind's eye.
When this creature enters or dies, choose one —
• Draw a card, then discard a card.
• Shuffle up to four target cards with mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard into your library.
: Transform this creature. Activate only as a sorcery. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
The Magic Mirror of Vantress showed Catrina a twisted vision of black oil and bloody machines.
Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Soon she understood that it was not the vision that had been twisted, but her own mind.
Flying
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 blue and red Elemental creature token.
On Kylem, the omens of impending invasion went largely unnoticed, drowned out by the everyday fanfare of Valor's Reach.
When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. Put a stun counter on that creature if you control another Knight. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
"Ingress without proper writ of extraplanar intent? Unacceptable!"
Whenever you cast a legendary spell, untap Rona.
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
: Transform Rona. Activate only as a sorcery. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to Rona, that source's controller exiles a card from their hand at random. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield under your control. Otherwise, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.
"At last, I am compleat."
Flash
Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.)
Hexproof
"Good luck getting through a class-seven proxy ward, creep."
This spell can't be copied.
Choose one. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, you may choose both instead.
• Copy target spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
• Create a token that's a copy of target creature.
Flying
: Transform this creature. Activate only as a sorcery. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
Together with her beloved falcon, she had explored every waterway on Zendikar, from the Tazeem highlands to the inland sea.
Flying
When this creature transforms into Skyclave Invader, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand.
With her guidance, the oil coursed freely across the world.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 0/2, has defender, and loses all other abilities.
Old glitches in mage-ring function became critical tools in Vryn's defense.
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
The owner of target nonland permanent puts it into their library second from the top or on the bottom.
"Now's not a good time."
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
Flying
Just as all seemed lost, the griffin riders of Zhalfir arrived with the force of a gathered storm.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap two other untapped creatures you control. If you do, this creature can't be blocked this turn.
Islandcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
Draw X cards.
Wrenn reached out to Teferi through the Blind Eternities, and an impossible connection flared across the vast emptiness.
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
Tap up to two target creatures. Put a stun counter on either of them. Then put a stun counter on either of them. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Flying, vigilance
: Create a 2/2 white and blue Knight creature token with vigilance. Activate only if you've cast two or more spells this turn.
Phyrexia broke the laws of reality to invade the planes. On Xerex, reality merely bent around the invaders.
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
Flying, vigilance
When this creature enters, put a flying counter on each creature that convoked it.
Target creature has base power and toughness 4/3 until end of turn.
Draw a card.
Patient and observant, the people of Zhalfir lurked beyond the veil of time until their moment came to finally strike at Phyrexia.
Deathtouch
: Transform this creature. Activate only as a sorcery. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
The Consulate of Kaladesh had always valued his particular talent for extracting information . . .
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, draw a card.
. . . but the Chrome Host's methods were far more efficient.
Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.)
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Ayara deals X damage to target opponent or battle and you gain X life, where X is the sacrificed permanent's mana value.
: Transform Ayara. Activate only as a sorcery. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, return up to one target artifact or creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Ayara cherished her new machine servitors just as much as she once did her many suitors: not at all.
Flash
When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. That creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
: Transform this creature. Activate only as a sorcery. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
Mudcreep loved the taste of the funny oil that leaked from the wrecked machines in Urborg.
When this creature transforms into Blightsower Thallid or dies, create a 1/1 green Phyrexian Saproling creature token.
Then one day, Mudcreep started to feel funny itself.
Sacrifice another Phyrexian: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, incubate X, where X is its power. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and ": Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.
"All worlds will know perfection."
—Elesh Norn
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Night fell all at once. Specifically, on the Phyrexian.
, , Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Incubate 3. (Create an Incubator token with three +1/+1 counters on it and ": Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
The elves of Lorwyn sought perfection. The Etched Host supplied it.
Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.)
Lifelink
Doji found the Phyrexian's essence foul, but every drop added an hour to their life.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
"For the good of all, those who stand against the harmony of Phyrexia must be cut down."
—Ajani Goldmane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Daretti looked down disdainfully. "You call yourself machines? Where's the elegance? Nothing but ugly piles of scrap."
, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Bodies too damaged to survive phyresis are collected and broken down into useful raw materials.
When this creature dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
"No refunds."
—Chammi, curio vendor
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
• Choose target battle. If an opponent protects it, remove three defense counters from it. Otherwise, put three defense counters on it.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -4/-4.
When enchanted creature dies, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Kicker—Sacrifice an artifact or creature. (You may sacrifice an artifact or creature in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets -6/-6 until end of turn instead.
Strixhaven braced for another Oriq assault, but something far worse arrived.
Flying
When this creature dies, each player mills two cards. Then you may exile this card. When you do, put target creature or battle card from your graveyard on top of your library. (To mill two cards, a player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
When this enchantment enters, incubate 3. (Create an Incubator token with three +1/+1 counters on it and ": Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Whenever a Phyrexian you control dies, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn. Creatures that are green and/or white get an additional -2/-2 until end of turn.
As oil began to pour from Ikoria's crystals, some monsters developed strange mechanical mutations. Others were simply pulled under.
Swampcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Backup 2 (When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.)
Menace
When this creature enters, Phyrexians you control gain menace until end of turn.
Other Phyrexians you control get +1/+1.
, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Convoke
Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it.
Spells you cast from exile have convoke.
Lifelink
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Incubate 2. Activate only as a sorcery. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and ": Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
At the beginning of your end step, if an artifact or creature was put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
As oil seeped into their funeral shrouds, Tolvada's dead rose to join the invaders' ranks.
(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, target opponent discards two cards.
Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has two or fewer cards in hand, this creature deals 2 damage to them.
When the courts fell, Eldraine's fae turned from their usual pranks to deadlier tricks.
(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, choose one or both —
• Destroy all legendary creatures.
• Destroy all nonlegendary creatures.
Menace, deathtouch
Whenever Marchesa attacks, remove all counters from up to one target permanent.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you haven't been dealt combat damage since your last turn, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
Flash
When this Siege enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -13/-13 until end of turn.
When this enchantment enters, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
The eerie magic animating Innistrad's zombies rendered them immune to phyresis, making them crucial to the plane's defense.
(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, it deals 3 damage to any other target and you gain 3 life.
Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Grandmother Ravi Sengir and you gain 1 life.
"I do enjoy a good apocalypse."
Exile target creature. Incubate 3. (Create an Incubator token with three +1/+1 counters on it and ": Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
As the harvesters bore away the last of his limbs, what remained of Urabrask heard Elesh Norn say, "Leave the traitor be."
Destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.
Draw a card.
"You were my mistake. I will forever bear the weight of your horrors, and of your end."
Menace
When this creature enters, each player mills three cards. (To mill three cards, a player puts the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)
: Transform this creature. Activate only as a sorcery. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When this creature transforms into Hideous Fleshwheeler, put target permanent card with mana value 2 or less from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Freedom became a distasteful memory, a thing to fear and destroy.
When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.
"Tell Boss Umezawa there's a new gang moving in on our territory. I'm forwarding their insignia. Watch for it elsewhere."