msem-instigator

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if Theoretical Scholar is embattled. (A creature is embattled if it has a counter on it or a permanent you control attached to it.)

Enspirit (As you cast this spell, you may exile a nonenchantment creature you control until this leaves the battlefield or fails to resolve. Reduce this spell's cost by the exiled card's mana value.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of the enspirited card. It gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Search your library for a nonland card not named Thin the Veil, exile it, then shuffle. If it has mana value less than or equal to the number of card types among cards in your graveyard, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you don't, put it into your hand.

{1}{B}: Target Knight or Soldier you control gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Flash
When this creature enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card in a graveyard or nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may cast a spell from your hand with mana value less than this creature's power without paying its mana cost.

When this creature enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
{2}{U}: This creature gets +2/-2 until end of turn.

When Tiller's Adze enters, draw a card.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Equip {1}

Counter target spell if it has mana value 2 or less or if this spell was foretold.
Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

First mate — Each nonland card in your starting deck is an artifact, a Pirate, or has “artifact,” “Treasure,” or “Pirate” in its printed rules text. (If this card outside the game is your chosen first mate, you may swap it with a card in your opening hand.)
Whenever Tinbeard of the Brine attacks, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of artifacts you control plus the number of Pirates you control.

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

First strike
Noncreature spells with mana value 4 or greater cost {1} more to cast.

When Titou Louoe, Bayou Shaman enters, create a blue Aura Curse enchantment token named Curse of Impotence attached to target player. The token has enchant player and “Creatures enchanted player controls get -1/-0.”

Foretell {1}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Create two X/X black Zombie creature tokens with menace, where X is the number of nontoken creatures that died under your control this turn.

Tomb of the Roseblade enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{X}, {T}, Sacrifice Tomb of the Roseblade: Search your library for an Equipment card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Torrent of Ankuliths deals 5 damage to target creature. Create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

Reach
Assault {5}{G}{G}{G} (Whenever this attacks, if it has no +1/+1 counters on it, you may pay its assault cost to put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When Towering Hydraffe assaults, create a token that's a copy of it.

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.)
Towering Wickerman can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Whenever a creature merges with Towering Wickerman, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Choose one —
• Town Justice deals damage to target creature or planeswalker equal to the greatest power among Citizens and Peasants you control.
• Town Justice deals damage to target creature or planeswalker equal to the number of Citizens and/or Peasants you control.

Enchant creature you control
Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.
{3}{G}, Sacrifice Trace the Oasis: Draw cards equal to enchanted creature's power.

I, II — Mill two cards. You gain 2 life. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Discovery — During each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell from your graveyard.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return a nontoken creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, create a 2/2 green Elk creature token.

{1}, Sacrifice Traveler's Amulet: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

When this creature enters, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Arise {2}{B}{B} ({2}{B}{B}, Exile this from your graveyard as a sorcery: Create a black token copy of it that's also a Zombie and can't block.)

Bleed {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its bleed cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Deathtouch
Treacherous Informant enters with two +1/+1 counters on it if you paid its bleed cost.
You may cast spells for their bleed costs if you lost life this turn.

Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.