msem-instigator

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black. (It can't be targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything blue or black.)
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of Fanaticism deals 3 damage to up to one target creature and you gain 3 life.
Equip {R}{W}

Enchant creature
When Synergistic Curiosity enters, create a 2/2 blue Rogue creature token.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and can't be blocked by creatures with flying.

Haste
Whenever Tailor of Terror attacks, you may exile a creature card from your graveyard. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Tailor of Terror.

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains lifelink until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with “{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”)
III — For each color, return up to one target creature card of that color from your graveyard to your hand.
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Vigilance
When Tamaak Confidant enters, you gain 6 life if you control three or more Satrapies.

Choose two —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature.
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken artifact or enchantment.
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken planeswalker or battle.
• Return a permanent card from a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn to the battlefield under your control.

Flying, trample
If a creature card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it with a soul counter on it instead.
Whenever Tamaak's Devourer deals combat damage to a player, put a creature card exiled with a soul counter on it onto the battlefield under your control.

Menace
Whenever Tamaak's Mouth attacks, defending player sacrifices a nonland permanent.

Flying
Whenever a player taps a land for mana, return that land to its owner's hand unless they pay 1 life.
At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent controls no tapped lands, transform Tamaak, Drought of Life.

Flying
{2}{R}: Target creature attacks this turn if able.

Tap target creature. Put a stun counter on it.
Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

When Tempting Shahmaran enters, gain control of target creature. Untap it and it gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, exile that creature and put X +1/+1 counters on Tempting Shahmaran, where X is that creature's power.
Tempting Shahmaran has all activated abilities of cards exiled with it.

When Temur Falconer enters, create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Whenever a creature you control with flying deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, put a +1/+1 counter on Temur Falconer.

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Audition for black. (Create a 1/1 Construct Actor creature token, a Cleric Role giving 2/2 and lifelink, or a Warlock Role giving 2/1 and flying. Roles replace older ones.)
III — Until end of turn, if a creature you don't control would die, instead exile it and that creature's controller loses 2 life.
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As this permanent transforms into The All-Consuming Swarm, counters on her become loyalty counters instead.
[+2]: Create three 1/1 black and green Insect creature tokens with flying.
[–3]: For each permanent type, each opponent sacrifices a permanent of that type.

Whenever a creature you control dies, put a unity counter on The Blacksmith's Banner.
Creatures you control have vigilance and get +1/+1 for each unity counter on The Blacksmith's Banner.

Destroy all creatures. Amass Soldiers X, where X is the number of creatures destroyed this way. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Soldier. If you don't control one, create a 0/0 black Soldier Army creature token first.)

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Destroy target creature you don't control with the greatest power.
II — Until your next turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and planeswalkers you control.
III — Exile target card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Create a 1/1 colorless Construct Actor creature token.
II — Create a Food token and a Weapon token. (A Weapon token is an Equipment with equip {2} and “Equipped creature gets +1/+1.”)
III — You may exile The Disappearance of Faye if you control five or more tokens. If you do, return a card from your graveyard to your hand. If you didn't exile it, draw a card.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
II — Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
III — Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

When The Grand Plot enters, search your library for up to three Saga cards with different names with mana value X or less, exile them, then shuffle.
The Grand Plot has all chapter abilities of cards exiled with it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a lore counter on The Grand Plot. When you do, you may sacrifice it. If you do, draw a card.

Flying
When you cast The Grand Simurgh, search your graveyard and the top five cards of your library for any number of nonlegendary creature cards with total mana value 5 or less and put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

First strike
Whenever The Heart-hardened or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. If this is the third time this ability has resolved this turn, you draw three cards and you lose 3 life.