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.

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

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.

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.

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 as tokens.)
Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Once each turn, when Vedu, the Deepdrinker enters or you attack with one or more Horrors, you may tap up to two target permanents. If Vedu isn't a token, put two stun counters on each of those permanents.
{2}{U}{U}, Discard Vedu: Create a token that's a copy of Vedu, the Deepdrinker, except it's 4/4 and isn't legendary. Activate only as a sorcery.

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.

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.

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.

[+1]: Augur. (Look at the top card of your library. You may sacrifice a creature to put it into your hand. Otherwise, put it back or put it into your graveyard.)
[–X]: Exile target card in your graveyard with mana value X. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
[–6]: You get an emblem with “Whenever a creature you control dies, search your library for a creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand, then shuffle.”

Haste
When Vidal enters, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an enchantment card with mana value 3 or less. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Sacrifice that enchantment at the beginning of the next end step.

Deathtouch, protection from legendary
Vielle, Undercity Wayfarer has all loyalty abilities of permanents on the battlefield that cost +1, +0, or -1. (Before cost changes. Add or remove loyalty counters from Vielle to pay their loyalty costs.)

[+1]: Each player discards a card or sacrifices a creature.
[–3]: Vikalden deals X damage to any target and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
[–5]: You get an emblem with “{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.”

First mate—Your starting deck contains one or more cards of exactly each color and each color pair. (If this card outside the game is your chosen first mate, you may swap it with a card in your opening hand.)
During each of your turns, you may cast a card of each color from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Once each turn, you may activate an additional loyalty ability of a planeswalker you control.
[+1]: You gain 1 life for each loyalty ability you've activated this turn. Scry 1.
[0]: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It can't attack or block until your next turn.
[–3]: Exile target creature with power 4 or greater.

[+1]: Exile up to one other target permanent until the beginning of its owner's next end step.
[–1]: Return another target planeswalker to its owner's hand.
[–6]: You get an emblem with “Whenever a permanent leaves the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.”

[+1]: Mill four cards, then return up to one creature card milled this way to your hand. You may activate a different loyalty ability Vivien has this turn.
[+1]: Create a 2/2 green Cat Spirit creature token with “When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.”
[–3]: Choose target creature you don't control. If it has flying, destroy it. Otherwise, up to one target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to that creature.
[–9]: Create four 4/4 green Hydra creature tokens. Creatures you control gain trample and haste until end of turn.

Flying
Once each turn, when a creature an opponent controls dies, you may create a Treasure token.
{3}{B/R}{B/R}: Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles. You may look at and play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Activate only once each turn and only as a sorcery.