(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, return target nonbattle permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature tokens you control get +1/+0 and have lifelink.
At the beginning of your end step, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.
Angry ghosts poured through and pummeled the Invasion Tree, filling the heavens with the rhythms of war.
(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, return up to one target creature to its owner's hand.
Flying
Vertex Paladin's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.
The literal-minded Phyrexians made the greatest mistake possible on Xerex: they tried to understand what they were seeing.
When this creature enters, create two 1/1 blue and red Elemental creature tokens.
Whenever you cast a spell that has convoke, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and each battle they protect.
When Kogla and Yidaro enters, choose one —
• It gains trample and haste until end of turn.
• It fights target creature you don't control.
, Discard this card: Destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. Shuffle this card into your library from your graveyard, then draw a card.
Vigilance, menace, lifelink
Whenever Kroxa and Kunoros enters or attacks, you may exile five cards from your graveyard. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
When the Invasion Tree reached the Underworld, it found only teeth and fury.
Other Knights you control get +1/+1.
, : Tap another target creature.
"How kind of our foes to move in such perfect, predictable unison. Split into squadrons and execute the Lion's Claw!"
Vigilance
Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a backup ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn.
In the shield's gleaming surface, the Phyrexian saw a reflection of what it once had been, and paused.
Flying, vigilance
This creature gets +1/+0 for each transformed permanent you control.
Much to the Phyrexians' delight, sheer curiosity drove many to willingly surrender to compleation.
If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes black instead.
At the beginning of your first main phase, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card if it has three or more colored mana symbols in its mana cost. If you do, add three mana in any combination of its colors and put it into your hand. If you don't reveal it, put it into your hand.
Vigilance
At the beginning of your end step, exile target noncreature, nonland card from your graveyard. Create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
, , Sacrifice a Spirit: Choose target card exiled with Quintorius. You may cast that card this turn without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead.
Trample, haste
Whenever you attack, target attacking creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If it's attacking a battle, put a +1/+1 counter on it instead.
The Phyrexian juggernaut found itself crushed between a rock and a hard place.
Flying, first strike, haste
Whenever Rankle and Torbran deals combat damage to a player or battle, choose any number —
• Each player creates a Treasure token.
• Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
• If a source would deal damage to a player or battle this turn, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.
When this enchantment enters, incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and ": Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Phyrexians you control get +1/+1.
, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
No amount of spilled oil and crushed metal could slake her bloodlust.
First strike, deathtouch
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Creatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever Thalia and The Gitrog Monster attacks, sacrifice a creature or land, then draw a card.
"I've heard much about you from my daughter," Multani rumbled. "There was a time when I'd balk at your aid, phantom, but she has shown me the merit in Urborg's strange ways."
"Gnshhagghkkapphribbit," replied Yargle.
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
, Sacrifice another creature: Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. If you control eight or more lands, repeat this process once.
Flying, haste
Zurgo and Ojutai has hexproof as long as it entered this turn.
Whenever one or more Dragons you control deal combat damage to a player or battle, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. You may return one of those Dragons to its owner's hand.
Vigilance
: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if this permanent is a creature.
Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
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.)
Folded by an imaginative child, animated by a mischievous kami, and blessed by an otherworldly angel.
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has flying.
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
"Just like dodging stampedes in the Makindi Trenches back home!"
Reach
, : Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
Silence quickly went from an annoying library rule to an imperative for survival.
, : Target opponent mills three cards. Put a land card from their graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control. It gains "If this land would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else."
, , Sacrifice Realmbreaker: Search your library for any number of Praetor cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Though no bigger than a hand, the surveyors were as vital to the resistance as the largest war constructs.
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 2. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Equip
: Add one mana of any color.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target creature or enchantment.
Ephara blessed the defenders of Theros with godfire, a Nyx-infused incendiary substance that burned without fuel.
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add or .
Having learned of New Capenna's Halo supply, Elesh Norn dispatched Atraxa herself to bring the world to heel.
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add or .
The Copper Host brought a hideous mockery of new life to Amonkhet's death-cursed desert.
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add or .
The Invasion Tree's branches snaked through the streets of Otawara, turning Kamigawa's soaring city into a clouded nightmare.
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add or .
On the surface of Ixalan's vast tar pits, Phyrexian oil glistened, and old bones began to stir.
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add or .
The Roil, Zendikar's planewide immune system, rose in full force against the threat of Phyrexian infection.
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add or .
As oil seeped from Ikoria's crystals, strange metallic mutations emerged in monsters all across the plane.
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add or .
Kaladesh's wondrous inventions and glowing aether were of utmost interest to Jin-Gitaxias and his Chrome Host.
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add or .
Deep in Eldraine's wilds, strange eyelike appendages twined among the vines and faerie lights.
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add or .
The sky darkened and the seas turned to oil as the gods of Theros themselves fell to New Phyrexia.
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add or .
Serra was a symbol of hope to Dominaria, so Norn defiled her temples with monuments to Phyrexia.
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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 .
, Sacrifice three other creatures: Exile Elesh Norn, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery.
(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 this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).
When Heliod enters, return target enchantment card that isn't a God from your graveyard to your hand.
: Transform Heliod. Activate only as a sorcery. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
You may cast spells as though they had flash.
Spells you cast cost less to cast for each card your opponents have drawn this turn.
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).
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.
, 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.
Menace
When Sheoldred enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature or planeswalker of their choice.
: 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.
(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 this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).
Trample
When Etali enters, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among the nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
: Transform Etali. Activate only as a sorcery.
Trample, indestructible
Whenever Etali deals combat damage to a player, they get that many poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
First strike
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Urabrask deals 1 damage to target opponent. Add .
: 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.
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — This Saga 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 this Saga, then return it to the battlefield (front face up).
Reach
: Transform Polukranos Reborn. Activate only as a sorcery. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
Reach, lifelink
Whenever Polukranos or another nontoken Hydra you control dies, create a 3/3 green and white Phyrexian Hydra creature token with reach and a 3/3 green and white Phyrexian Hydra creature token with lifelink.