msem-instigator

Macabre Effigy enters with three charge counters on it.
{3}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from Macabre Effigy: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.

{X}, {T}, Sacrifice Macabre Ruins: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Whenever you gain life for the first time each turn, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land or creature card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, put it into your graveyard.

When Machi's Assistants enters or you gain life, you may mill four cards. When you do, you may return a permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability triggers no more than four times each turn.

Menace
Whenever Margarete or another creature you control dies, up to one target creature you control cackles. (Put a menace counter on it. If it already has menace, it deals 1 damage to each opponent instead.)
Once each turn, when Margarete or another creature you control with menace dies, you may torment each opponent. (They lose 3 life unless they discard a card or sacrifice a nonland permanent.)

If Madame Beatrice would leave the battlefield, exile her instead.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, that player reveals their hand. You may cast a card from their hand without paying its mana cost.

Disgraced 2 (This enters with two -1/-1 counters. Whenever it deals combat damage to a player, remove all -1/-1 counters from it.)
Whenever Madame Deficit attacks, you may tap target creature.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay {2}.

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever Maddened Elk attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each other attacking creature you control.

Haste
When Maddened Inferno leaves the battlefield, discard a card, then draw two cards.
Evoke {1}{R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Players can't sacrifice creatures to cast spells or activate abilities unless that player sacrifices an additional creature. The same is true for discarding cards and paying life.

Draw a card.
Agonize (You may cast this card from your graveyard by putting a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw three cards, then discard a card.

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a permanent, if it isn't a mana ability, you gain 1 life and create a Gold token. (It's an artifact with “Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”)

Menace
Stampede — Whenever Maelstrom Slicer and a creature with greater power attack, exile the top three cards of your library. You may play those cards until end of turn.

Whenever you cycle a card, scry 1. (Do this before you draw.)
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, Sacrifice Maelstromancy: Return up to three target cards with cycling abilities from your graveyard to your hand.

Protection from sorceries
Whenever Magdel, Caller of Souls attacks, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying that's tapped and attacking for each storied permanent you control. Exile the tokens at end of combat. (Enchantments and legendary permanents are storied.)

Search your library for a cryptic card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Artifacts, enchantments, and modal spells are cryptic.)

Equipped creature gets +2/+1 and has flying.
Equip Wizard or Shaman {2}
Equip {4}

Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. Scry 1.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
Exile up to one target creature you control. At the beginning of your next end step, return it to the battlefield.
Until end of turn, if a creature entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has ward {3}.
Equip {2}

Haste
Rapport — Whenever Maghbri Hunter and at least one other creature you control become tapped, Maghbri Hunter gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

Activated abilities of nonland permanents cost {2} more to activate.

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, if it isn't an extra turn, put a sage counter on Magistrate of Eras.
Remove five sage counters from Magistrate of Eras: Take an extra turn after this one.