msem-instigator

You gain 4 life.
Recruit. (Create a 0/0 white Soldier Army creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Army you control.)

Remove all counters from target permanent with counters. If it's a creature or enchantment, destroy it.

Haste
Sacrifice a creature or discard a card or reappropriate or pay 2 life: Makias, Marked Marauder gets +1/+0 until end of turn. (To reappropriate, exile exactly two cards from your hand and/or graveyard.)

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
Agonize (You may cast this card from your graveyard by putting a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

[+1]: Scry 2. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player this turn, draw a card.
[–2]: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token is 4/4 and has vigilance.
[–7]: You get an emblem with “At the beginning of your draw step, draw two additional cards” and “Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each card you've drawn this turn.”

When Makshi, Patron of Blades enters, search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}. Spend this mana only to cast Equipment spells and activate abilities of Equipment.

Nonenchantment spells cost {1} more to cast.
Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Prowess
When Maktali Visionary enters, investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with “{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)

{T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.
{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Scry 2, then draw a card.
{4}, {T}, Discard a card: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -X/-X, where X is 1 plus the number of counters on it.

Return target creature card with mana value 5 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Metamorph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up and cast it at any time for its metamorph cost.)

[+2]: Up to one target creature gains deathtouch until your next upkeep.
[–3]: Target player sacrifices a creature and discards a card.
[–8]: Exile all creature cards from all graveyards, then create an X/X black Horror creature token with indestructible, where X is the total power of creatures exiled this way.

Haste
Whenever Malformed Mongrel deals combat damage to a player, discard a card.

When Malicious Growth enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, put two +1/+1 counters on target land you control.
{1}{G}: Target land you control becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste and vigilance until end of turn. It's still a land.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has first strike and trample.

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.
Orchestrate—{G}, Sacrifice a land. (You may exile this card from your hand anytime you could cast a sorcery for its orchestrate cost. When you next resolve a spell, you may cast this from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0.
When Malignance is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Malignance to its owner's hand.
Lifecycle {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Create two tapped 1/1 colorless Elemental creature tokens.)

Whenever Malignant Afflicted perseveres, destroy target creature an opponent controls that dealt damage this turn. (A creature perseveres when it survives damage.)

{2}: Exile up to two target cards in a single graveyard. If two creature cards were exiled this way, create a 1/1 blue Elemental creature token with flying.

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.
You draw two cards, and you lose 2 life.

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Flying, vigilance
Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Maligned Scavenger gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -3/-3.

Whenever a non-Serf creature you control enters, create a 0/1 black Serf creature token.
Sacrifice a Serf: Target creature you control gets +0/+1 until end of turn.