msem-instigator

When Paleontologist enters, search your library for up to two artifact and/or Skeleton cards and put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Elemental in addition to its other colors and types. Upgrade it. (Give it one of the listed counters it doesn't already have.)
• +1/+1
• Flying
• Lifelink

Once during each of your turns, you may cast a legendary creature or planeswalker spell from your graveyard.
Sacrifice Pallid Herald: Exile up to three target cards from graveyards.

Flying
When Palloren Vulture enters, each player mills two cards.

Flying
Other creatures get -1/-1.
Whenever Pan Long enters or deals combat damage to a player, return to the battlefield under your control target creature card from a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn.

Choose one or both—
• Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
• Return target creature card with mana value 1 from your graveyard to the battlefield.

You draw two cards, lose 2 life, and mill two cards.

When target creature or planeswalker dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under your control. Destroy that permanent.

Exile target creature you don't control. Its controller may search their library for a creature card with a different name, reveal it, put it into their hand, then shuffle.

Defender
Whenever Patient Cocoon is dealt damage, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

{3}{B}: Judge another target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery. (Honor it by putting a +1/+1 counter on it or condemn it by sacrificing it to draw a card.)

Create two tapped Treasure tokens. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. If you can't, they discard a card. Otherwise, that player discards a card, then if they didn't discard the chosen card, you create a tapped Treasure token. (It's an artifact with “{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”)

At the beginning of your declare attackers step, create a 0/1 white Cat creature token that's tapped and attacking. Exile that token at the beginning of the next end step.

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card. Then if a player has no cards in hand, you may transform Performer of Ambition.

Menagerie — If there are five or more creature types among creatures you control, you may search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand.

Target player discards two cards. Forebode. (Create a tapped colorless Omen artifact token with “{T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)

Voracious 1 (As this enters, you may sacrifice an artifact or creature. If you do, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Haste

{2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Destroy target creature. Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Deathtouch
When Pestilent Scavenger enters, you may mill three cards.

When Pestilent Vermin enters, target opponent loses 2 life unless they discard a card.
Whenever you cast a Tale, you may return Pestilent Vermin from your graveyard to your hand.

Deathtouch
Whenever Phantasmal Stalker deals damage to a planeswalker, destroy it.

Menace
Crew 3
You may exile two creature cards from your graveyard rather than pay Phantom Walker's crew cost.