msem-instigator

First mate—There are four or fewer different mana costs among nonland cards in your starting deck. (If this card outside the game is your chosen first mate, you may swap it with a card in your opening hand.)
First strike
Each spell your opponents cast that would cost less than three mana to cast costs {1} more to cast.

Advance {6}{W}{W} (Cast this for {6}{W}{W} to advance it as it enters. {6}{W}{W}: Advance this as a sorcery.)
Flying, vigilance, lifelink
Whenever Valera, Constructed Angel advances, destroy all nonartifact creatures.

Whenever you cast a spell that targets, put a loyalty counter on Valeri Kripac and create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
[+1]: Add {R}. If you spend this mana on a spell that targets, that spell can't be countered.
[–2]: Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. You may play it until the end of your next turn. If you do, exile that spell instead of putting it anywhere else.

Vigilance
Engage (This creature must be blocked each combat if able.)
Other Soldiers you control get +1/+1 and have first strike.

[+1]: Reveal the top card of your library. If it doesn't have the same name as a card in your graveyard or a permanent you control, put it into your hand. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.
[–2]: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
[–8]: Return all other cards from your graveyard to your hand. Until end of turn, spells you cast cost {5} less to cast.

Whenever Valinov Collector or another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Valinov Collector deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.

Advance {4}{B}{B} (Cast this for {4}{B}{B} to advance it as it enters. {4}{B}{B}: Advance this as a sorcery.)
Flying
Whenever Valinov Siphoner advances, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Advance {3}{R}{W}{B} (Cast this for {3}{R}{W}{B} to advance it as it enters. {3}{R}{W}{B}: Advance this as a sorcery.)
Whenever Valinov Vandal advances, target opponent sacrifices a permanent. Put a +1/+1 counter on Valinov Vandal.

Lifelink
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield from a graveyard, gain control of that creature.

As Vanquisher's Banner enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Gestalt (When this or another creature enters under your control, you may merge it with the one in play, keeping counters and attachments. They become the permanent on top plus all abilities from under it.)
If this creature would die, you may instead put a card or token merged with it into its owner's graveyard. If you do, remove all damage marked on this creature.

Hexproof
As long as an opponent controls a permanent you own, Vault Sentinel gets +4/+4.

Whenever another artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Ve'aja, the First Bloodline's power is equal to the number of Clerics you control.
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you lose X life and create X 1/1 black Cleric creature tokens, where X is that creature's power.

Flash
Embellish {5}{U} (If you cast this spell for {5}{U}, create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying when it enters the battlefield.)
Whenever Vectis Entrancer or another artifact enters the battlefield under your control, tap target creature an opponent controls. It loses all abilities until end of turn.

Whenever Vedlinn Ross becomes tapped, exile a nonland card from target opponent's graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy this turn. (You still pay its costs, including color. Copies of permanents enter the battlefield as tokens.)
Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Haste
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
If casting a noncreature spell would cause an ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Lifelink
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to embattled creatures you control. (A creature is embattled if it has a counter on it or a permanent you control attached to it.)

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, torment each opponent. (They lose 3 life unless they discard a card or sacrifice a nonland permanent.)
{3}{U/B}{U/B}: Draw a card for each opponent with ten or more cards in their graveyard. You lose that much life.

[+2]: Destroy up to one target monocolored permanent.
[–3]: Create an 8/8 Elemental creature token with flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, and lifelink that's all colors.
[–5]: Draw three cards. You pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for the next spell you cast this turn.

As this permanent transforms into Velir, put four loyalty counters on it.
[+1]: Draw two cards, then discard two cards unless you discard a land card.
[–2]: Search your library for a multicolored card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
[–4]: Exile target permanent.

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
Equipped creature has deathtouch as long as it's attacking.
Equip {1}

Flying, haste
Venwyn, the Dragon's Fang can't block.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may pay {1}{R/G}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of target creature you control with mana value 3 or less, except it's not legendary and has haste. Exile that token at end of combat.

Level experience, vigilance, trample
Prevent all but the first 1 damage that would be dealt to Verdigris Behemoth each turn. [5/5]
[level 3+] Whenever Verdigris Behemoth deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls. [7/7]

Whenever one or more other nontoken creatures die, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with “{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.”)
Whenever you sacrifice a Food, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.