msem-instigator

Rapport — Whenever Desraen, Serpent's Will and at least one other creature you control become tapped, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top or bottom card of target player's library. That player loses life equal to that card's mana value.

When Diao enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens.
Whenever Diao attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control with the least power among those creatures.

When Diao, Dragoon Captain enters the battlefield, create three 1/1 red and white Warrior creature tokens.
Whenever a creature you control attacks, invigorate 1. (Choose a creature with the least power among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Distorted (This creature can be blocked by tapped creatures but not untapped creatures.)
Damage dealt to tapped creatures your team controls also causes you to gain that much life.
Whenever a nontoken creature you own dies, create a token that's a copy of it.

Double strike, trample
Enchantment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you put a lore counter on a Saga you control, Douglass, Star of the Show gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

{T}, Sacrifice an Equipment: Return target Equipment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

{T}: Add {G}.
{B/G}, {T}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If that card is a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Dovon, Verdant Experimenter and you gain 1 life.

First mate — Twelve or more cards in your starting deck have “gain control” or “exchange control” in their printed rules text. (If this card outside the game is your chosen first mate, you may swap it with a card in your opening hand.)
Dr. Telsi of the Ark can't be blocked.
Dr. Telsi gets +1/+1 for each permanent you control but don't own.

{2}{U}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It gains myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may put a token that's a copy of this creature onto the battlefield tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play the top card of your library if it's a land card or a creature card with power 2 or less.

Flying
Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, Drosera and Nerium deals 1 damage to each opponent.
As long as Drosera and Nerium is tapped, you may cast spells as though they had flash.

Menace, haste
Whenever another creature dies, you get a blood counter.
{B}{R}, Pay two blood counters: Return Dthan, Who Bloodies the Sands from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Double strike
{3}{R}{W}: Create Hao'Tai's Blessing, a legendary red and white Aura enchantment token with enchant creature and “Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has flying” and attach it to Duan, the Fabled Rider.

When Duchess Odelia VII enters the battlefield, search your library for a nonland permanent card with mana value 1 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Vigilance
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, create a Treasure token unless that player pays {1}, then create a 1/1 white Merfolk creature token unless that player pays {1}.
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, {T}: Other creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain vigilance and indestructible until end of turn.

As Duke Gerard Hoff enters the battlefield, an opponent gains control of it.
Duke Gerard Hoff can't attack its owner or planeswalkers that player controls.
Creatures your opponents control get +2/+1.

If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Edgar, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard.
Unveil {4}{G}{W} ({4}{G}{W}: Transform this. Unveil only as a sorcery.)

{W}{B}, {T}: Exile target nonland permanent until Ediam, the Inside Man leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast that spell.

Whenever you cast an artifact or enchantment spell, scry 1, then create a 1/1 white Merfolk creature token.
Whenever you cast a Merfolk spell, look at the top card of your library. If it's an artifact or enchantment card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Ward—Pay 3 life and discard a card.
Once each turn, when another creature leaves the battlefield, you may have target creature become a copy of that creature until end of turn.

Vigilance
Each nontoken creature you control gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield with the same name as it.

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard with mana value less than or equal to that creature's power gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Whenever Ekebram the Scholar becomes untapped, draw a card.
Whenever you draw your third card each turn, you may transform Ekebram.

When El, Humble Apprentice enters the battlefield, search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Chosen one ({W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Transform this permanent.)