msem-instigator

Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards in your graveyard.
Flashback {3}{U/B}{U/B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Invigorate 5. (Choose a creature with the least power among creatures you control and put five +1/+1 counters on it.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may reveal a creature card from your hand. If you do, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's 1/1 and is an artifact in addition to its other types.

Your starting life is 24.
{X}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of a creature card with mana value X chosen at random. If X is 11 or greater, choose a creature with mana value X or greater instead. Activate only as a sorcery and only once each turn.

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Acolyte of Life.
Remove two counters from Acolyte of Life: It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Acolyte of Water.
Surpass {5}{U} ({5}{U}: Transform this creature. This costs {1} less to activate for each counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Exile target creature. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with your choice of X counters on it from among +1/+1, flying, first strike, lifelink, or vigilance.

Exile a nonland card from target opponent's graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. (Copies of permanents enter as tokens.)

Escalate {1}{W} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or both —
• Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
• Abound, abound. (To abound, you may cast a spell that costs less than this from your hand without paying its mana cost.)

Distorted (This creature can be blocked by tapped creatures but not untapped creatures.)
As you choose targets for an instant or sorcery spell, choose up to one additional target.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, gain control of another target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

First mate—Your starting deck contains twelve or more creature cards and they all share a creature type. (If this card outside the game is your chosen first mate, you may swap it with a card in your opening hand.)
As Adam of the Ironside enters, choose a creature type. Adam becomes that type.
Adam gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control of the chosen type.

At the beginning of combat on your turn, up to one target artifact you control becomes a creature in addition to its other types and gains “This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control” and “{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control.”

Indestructible
Legendary permanents you control have indestructible.

{1}: Choose one. Activate only once each turn.
• Adaptive Servitor gets +1/+1 and gains first strike until end of turn.
• Adaptive Servitor gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Search your library for a creature card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. It gains haste until end of turn. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the end step.

{G}: Tap Adaptive Troll. It gains indestructible until end of turn.
At the beginning of each upkeep, if Adaptive Troll was dealt lethal damage last turn, put a counter of your choice on it from among vigilance, deathtouch, reach, trample, and +1/+1.

Flying
Whenever another creature you control enters, Adavene, Dean of the Arts deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may exile it, then return it to the battlefield.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Swamps, you may exile target creature card from your graveyard. If you do, create a tapped token that's a copy of it except it's a black Mummy.

Flash
When Adiran Distractor enters, return up to one target creature you control and up to one target creature you don't control to their owners' hands.

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land an opponent controls could produce.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile two permanent cards from your graveyard.
You may cast Adiran Survivors from your graveyard.

Haste
Whenever two or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, tap those creatures, then gain control of target creature you don't control until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. After this phase, there's an additional combat phase.

Menace
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, 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.”)

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Tap target creature and put two stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Flying, haste
Whenever Adoroth, the Baneful attacks, forebode. (Create a tapped colorless Omen artifact token with “{T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.”)
{1}{R}{R}: Adoroth, the Baneful deals 4 damage to any target. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.