msem-instigator

Flying, menace
Whenever another creature you control deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice it.
If you would draw a card, you may instead return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Menace
When The Duneborn Host enters, mill four cards.
Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Whenever a card leaves your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy target creature with the greatest power or tied for greatest power among creatures on the battlefield. Then if there are no creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice The Empty Throne.

Death knell — All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn. (As a creature you control dies, trigger one death knell of that creature or another permanent you control.)
{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Choose a card in your graveyard with mana value less than the sacrificed creature's mana value. You may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Cards in graveyards, exile, and libraries lose all abilities and card types.

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, its controller loses 1 life.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature that player controls.

Whenever The Feller of Greatwoods enters or attacks, you may sacrifice two noncreature permanents. For each permanent sacrificed this way, reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield and the rest into your graveyard.

Flying
Creatures you control have “{T}: Add {C} or one mana of any color.”
{X}: The Finest Specimen gets +X/+X until end of turn.

Whenever The First Idol attacks, create an Idol token. (It's an artifact with “{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.”)
Sacrifice three Idols: Return The First Idol from your graveyard your hand.

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a nonland permanent, destroy that permanent.
{3}{U}{B}{R}: Exile target creature or planeswalker card in a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it.

[+1]: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. That player loses 2 life.
[0]: Create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying for each loyalty counter on The Flock.
[–6]: You get an emblem with “If a permanent you don't control would leave the battlefield, you may instead exile it, then return that card to the battlefield under your control. It's a 1/1 blue Bird creature with flying.”

[+1]: Create a 0/1 blue Illusion creature token.
[–2]: Put target creature on top of its owner's library.
[–6]: You get an emblem with “Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills six cards.”

While searching your library, you may play basic land cards from your library.
You may play an additional land each turn.

Attacking creatures you control have trample.
Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may remove any number of +1/+1 counters from that creature. If you do, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each counter removed this way.

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
As long as your main library has ten or fewer cards in it, you may cast spells without paying their mana costs.

(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.

(Add a quest counter as this enters. Sacrifice after 3.)
Whenever the second card is put into your graveyard from anywhere each turn, add a quest counter.
1, 2 — You may sacrifice a creature. When you do, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
3 — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

(Add a quest counter as this enters. Sacrifice after 3.)
At the beginning of your end step, if you have more cards in hand than an opponent, add a quest counter.
1, 2 — Target opponent exiles the top card of their library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. (You still pay its costs.)
3 — Create three Treasure tokens.

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.

Cards in your hand have lifecycle {3}.
{2}{G}, Sacrifice four creatures: Create two tapped 4/4 green Chimera creature tokens.
Lifecycle {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Create two tapped 1/1 colorless Elemental creature tokens.)

If a red source you control would deal damage, it deals that much damage plus 1 instead.
I, II — Exile the top card of your library. If it's red or a Mountain, you may play that card this turn.
III — Return target red instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

(Add a quest counter as this enters. Sacrifice after 3.)
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, add a quest counter.
1, 2 — Scry 3.
3 — Create a blue and green enchantment token named The Heart with “Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any color.”

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.

Trample
Whenever a creature you don't control dies, you gain 2 life.
Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.