msem-instigator

When Maaru, Tomb Guardian enters, create three Treasure tokens.
Each Treasure you control is an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to the number of Treasures you control.

[+1]: Create a tapped colorless land token named Far-Off Lands with “{T}: Add one mana of any color.”
[–1]: Choose a color. Untap all lands you control that could produce that color.
[–6]: Draw a card for each differently named land you control.

[+1]: Return a land you control to its owner's hand. Create a tapped colorless land token named Far-Off Lands with “{T}: Add one mana of any color.”
[–1]: Discard a card. Return to your hand a card from your graveyard that shares a color with that card or a color of mana it could produce.
[–3]: For each color pair, you may pay that mana. Create X X/X green and blue Elemental creature tokens, where X is the number of times you do.

First mate—Each nonland card in your starting deck is an instant or has flash. (If this card outside the game is your chosen first mate, you may swap it with a card in your opening hand.)
Flash
When Mable enters, you gain 2 life and draw a card.

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.

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.

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.”)

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.)

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

(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}

Indestructible
Whenever this creature enters or transforms into Mahara, recruit. (Create a 0/0 white Soldier Army creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Army you control.)
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Mahara.

Armies you control attack each combat if able.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, recruit. (Create a 0/0 white Soldier Army creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Army you control.)

Double strike, vigilance
Whenever Major Benjamin Stout enters, attacks, or dies, recruit. (Create a 0/0 white Soldier Army creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Army you control.)

Haste
Sacrifice a creature or discard a card or reappropriate or pay 2 life: Makias, Marked Marauder gets +1/+0 until end of turn. (To reappropriate, exile exactly two cards from your hand and/or graveyard.)

[+1]: Scry 2. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player this turn, draw a card.
[–2]: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token is 4/4 and has vigilance.
[–7]: You get an emblem with “At the beginning of your draw step, draw two additional cards” and “Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each card you've drawn this turn.”

When Makshi, Patron of Blades enters, search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}. Spend this mana only to cast Equipment spells and activate abilities of Equipment.

{T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.
{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Scry 2, then draw a card.
{4}, {T}, Discard a card: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

[+2]: Up to one target creature gains deathtouch until your next upkeep.
[–3]: Target player sacrifices a creature and discards a card.
[–8]: Exile all creature cards from all graveyards, then create an X/X black Horror creature token with indestructible, where X is the total power of creatures exiled this way.

Whenever a non-Serf creature you control enters, create a 0/1 black Serf creature token.
Sacrifice a Serf: Target creature you control gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

When Mana Potion enters, scry 1, then draw a card.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Mana Potion: Add two mana of any one color.

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

When Mana Rose enters, you gain 2 life and scry 2.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.