msem-instigator

Players can't get counters.
Counters can't be put on permanents.

[+1]: Mpumo, Who Stands Alone deals 1 damage to any target and you gain 1 life.
[–X]: Exile target creature with mana value X.
[–6]: Choose up to four permanents an opponent controls. That player chooses one, then sacrifices the rest.

Protection from spells
When Msuji Sureshot enters, search your library for an instant, sorcery, or Aura card that targets, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 2/1 white Sand creature token with flying.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 3/1 red Sand creature token with haste.
Whenever you cast an enchantment or artifact spell, create a 2/2 blue Sand creature token with hexproof.
Whenever a land you control enters, create a 3/3 green Sand creature token.

Create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to them this turn.

Return a permanent you control to its owner's hand.
Investigate. (Create a colorless Clue artifact token with “{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)

Choose one —
• Return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

(As you complete a condition, decode it. After all are decoded, you solve the mystery and transform it.)
When Mystery of the Dying Herds enters, create a 0/2 white Ox creature token.
A creature you control dies.
You have 4 or more life than your starting life total.

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player exiles the top card of each library face down.
Each player may look at and play cards they exiled with Mystic of Many Winds.

When Mythos Scribe enters, you may return target storied card from your graveyard to your hand. (Enchantments and legendary permanents are storied.)

[+1]: Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.
[0]: You gain 1 life for each card in your hand.
[–7]: Search your library for up to X cards, where X is the number of cards in your hand, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle.

Flying
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
At the beginning of each end step, scry X, you gain X life, and Nakia, Infinity Seer deals X damage to up to one target creature or planeswalker, where X is the number of noncreature spells you've cast this turn.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
You may put a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the returned creature's mana value from your hand onto the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Trial 2 (As you cast this spell, an opponent of your choice may pay 2 life. If they don't, they fail the trial.)
When Nascent Adversary enters, if the trial was failed, it gains haste and first strike until end of turn.

Vigilance, deathtouch
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Nataila, Raven's Repented while it's attacking or blocking alone.

[+1]: Create a 1/1 colorless Human creature token.
[0]: Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand. If you have an insight counter, return that permanent card to the battlefield instead.
[0]: You get an insight counter.
[–1]: Target creature can't attack or block until your next turn.

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)

Choose two —
• Put three +1/+1 counters on target creature.
• Target player searches their library for up to two basic land cards, reveals those cards, puts one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into their hand, then shuffles.
• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.
• Target player gains 5 life.

Exile target permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Exile target nonland permanent you control, then return it to the battlefield under your control.

At the beginning of each end step, if a creature an opponent controlled died this turn, return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal an Avatar card and/or an enchantment card from among them and put those cards onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

[+1]: Target opponent reveals their hand. Exile a nonland card from it. For as long as it remains exiled, its controller may cast that card, and it costs {2} more to cast.
[–2]: Exile target creature or planeswalker with mana value 3 or less.
[–8]: Search target opponent's library for up to twenty cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Whenever Neo-Soul Attendant or another enchantment you control enters, you gain 1 life.