msem-instigator

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Create a colorless artifact token named Lotus Petal with “{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”

Shuffle your library, then exile cards from the top until you exile an artifact card. You may put that card into your hand. Shuffle the rest back into your library.

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. You get a glory counter. (You lose glory counters before life. A player with ten or more glory counters wins the game.)

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Whenever you make first contact, you may draw a card. If you do, put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library. (You make first contact the first time each turn you cast a spell with a name not in your graveyard or control already.)

If a creature dealt damage by equipped creature this turn would die, exile that card and draw a card instead.
Equip {1}

You control equipped creature.
Equipped creature has hexproof and can't attack or block.
{3}: Attach Aetherite Shackles to target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Flash
Enchant permanent or spell
Whenever enchanted permanent or spell deals damage to a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand (if it's still on the battlefield).

When Aetherite Vein enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{U}, Sacrifice Aetherite Vein: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Defender, reach
Aetherlock Effigy can block an additional creature each combat.
When Aetherlock Effigy dies, create two 1/1 black Bird creature tokens with flying.

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike.
{1}{R}: Equipped creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Equip {2}

Tap up to two target creatures.
Flashback {3}{W/U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

When Aethermancer's Companion enters the battlefield, aetherize up to two other non-Cat permanents you control. (Create tokens that are copies of each of them, then exile them.)
Recite {5}{W}{U} (You may cast this spell from your graveyard for its recite cost. If you do, exile it when it enters the battlefield or if it would leave the battlefield.)

Flash
When Aethermancer's Familiar enters, at the beginning of the next end step, you may aetherize target creature you control. (To aetherize, create a token that's a copy of it, then exile that token.)

Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Equip multicolored creature {1}
Equip {2}

Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.
Quickdraw {U} (When a creature you control blocks or becomes blocked, you may cast this spell for {U}.)

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. You may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

At the beginning of your end step, you lose 3 life unless you sacrifice a creature.

Flash
If you would upgrade a creature you control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on it instead.
{3}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Affluent Cetanthrope and draw a card.

When Affluent Knight enters the battlefield, recruit, then recruit again. (To recruit, create a 0/0 white Soldier Army creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Army you control.)

Return up to one target creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

When Aftermath of the Surge enters the battlefield, create two Treasure tokens.
{1}{U}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Draw two cards.
{3}{U}, Sacrifice four artifacts: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. It can't block this turn.

Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
Lifecycle {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Create two tapped 1/1 colorless Elemental creature tokens.)

Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Again.
Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Target player mills X cards, where X is two plus the number of cards named Against the Waves in your graveyard. Draw a card, then conjure three cards named Against the Waves and shuffle them into your main library.