Fight the Villain! The Contest of Good and Evil Continues...

"You're practically a politician already, but I won't need a court to consider you guilty."

Agravith, the Unforgiving
Legendary Planeswalker - Agravith
Whenever you lose life or another planeswalker you control loses loyalty, put a loyalty counter on Agravith.
: Agravith deals 2 damage to each other creature and planeswalker.
: Exile your library. Agravith deals damage equal to the number of cards exiled this way to target player or planeswalker. Until end of turn, you may play cards exiled by him.


Echo of Talandris
Creature - Angel Horror
Flying
When ~ enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker.
3/2
"A fitting mockery of her knighthood." - Agravith

Judging in 24.

Thanks for the win! Your next villain is... 

"Are you sure this is a good idea, Omund, reading an unmarked tome like this? I thought you always taught us we needed to always know what we were reading!" 
Omund clears his throat and chuckles. "Why yes, of course. You know what they say - if it wasn't safe, I wouldn't be letting you do it, right?" 
The oblivious students read from the tome. "We, bearers of the shadow, vessels of our liege, give ourselves to the pentacle bearer, the one who wields the ten pronged-rod, scourge of nightmares, bane of angels, eater of dragons. We give ourselves to-", they began to chant, all too late realizing that their teacher was not the innocent man he claimed to be, as their souls were trapped in the gem of a rod. 
Omund chuckled maniacally, "Power is mine!", he said as he raised his sceptre in triumph.
A voice from behind him. "No, it is mine," the scepter spoke, and Omund was turned to ash in a split second. "Thank you for freeing me. Let me show the world what the true bane of angels looks like..." 

Deca, Rod of Ancients  
Legendary Artifact  
Whenever a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it.
Put a card exiled with CARDNAME in their owner's graveyards: Tap target creature.
Put three cards exiled with CARDNAME in their owner's graveyards: Draw a card.
Put five cards exiled with CARDNAME in their owner's graveyards: Deca becomes an 8/8 black God creature with lifelink and protection from instants. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) 

Deca currently has three cards exiled with it, allowing it to tap down three creatures. Deca is also an 8/8 God with lifelink and protection from instants.

Cursed Mentor  
Creature - Wizard Shade
, Sacrifice CARDNAME: Target creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.
, Sacrifice CARDNAME: Destroy target tapped creature.
2/2

Grand Abatement 
Enchantment 
When Grand Abatement enters the battlefield, exile all other nonland permanents, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner’s control.
Whenever a creature would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
“It’s all in the timing. Once the gates are sealed, Deca’s power will be contained and the balance will be restored.” —Zaren, Seraph of Angelfire

Fleur this is ripe for judgin'

ZephyrPhantom: I like the consideration of the innocents in your answer and the spellbarge is cool. However, the planeswalker's ult is a bit weak - I think you could make it a little more... fiery or powerful. The solution is quite straightforward, but the rest of the entry makes this a lot less bland than it could've been. 

viriss: Straightforward answer. I like how you've chosen to approach this in a nonviolent manner. The card itself is cute, but I think it would be better with flash. My one quip is that this does not address the Cursed Mentor swinging at your face to death. 

fluffydeathbringer: Unless I'm very sleep deprived, I don't necessarily see how Septa wins against Deca? Fool's Fortune does counter any destruction Deca might create, but Septa probably just swings in and dies. Plus, the fact that Deca can tap her down means that Deca mostly races her with lifelink. Cool cards, but I don't quite think they win this one. 

Neottolemo: Nice enchantment. The cards are pretty cool too, and I like the reference to Omund in the FT. It addresses the villain well too, in a way that's a bit unorthodox. Well done. 

augur: That's clever. Jahnes enters and targets Deca, either getting it controlled or forcing the mentor to sac from. From there if things don't work, Jahnes can just pop trial to secure Deca. I like this one quite a bit, though I do wonder if three mana is too little for artifact control. Trial is a wonderful design, though. 

augur wins, with Neo  as runner-up. 

The doors to the throne suddenly explode with bizarre, undirected gusts, singing of foul profanities and strange musiks unknown to the land.

Song of the Drow God
Sorcery
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can’t cast spells or activate abilities that aren’t mana abilities.)
Return up to three target creatures your opponents control to their owners’ hands.
"On the third day, Balamiya sang, and the sailors of Meigui heard no more." - Daeyang Seogsa

"I seem to recall throne-sitters like you being fond of myths where you're turned into more beffiting beasts."

Enfeeble the Haughty
Instant
Until end of turn, target nonland permanent loses all abilities and becomes a green Frog with base power and toughness 0/1.
Every frog has their origin story.

Combining Turn to Frog with Bramblecrush, effectively getting rid of Auras in a rather fashion.

"You seem quite toady, my Queen. It it because you presumed the kingdom was finally deprived of its sense of humor?"

Ringaling, Jester of Acorns
Legendary Planeswalker - Ringaling
: You may tap or untap target creature. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it doesn’t untap during its controller’s next untap step.
: Gain control of target creature with three or more counters on it.
: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature becomes tapped by a spell or ability you control, you may gain control of it."


"Fear not! I can keep you entertainted for an eternity now, if you so desire."

Song 'bounces' the tokens (acceptable loss of support characters, in Ringaling's opinion), leaving Maria unable to respond to Enfeeble due to no legal targets I believe. Regardless of whether she can sac in response or not she ends up as a creature and Ringaling stalls her out to gain a fine shrieking addition to his (currently nonexistent) merry zoo troupe of performers. Landwise I assume Ringaling either has ramped out to the point of mana not being a concern or is casting Song, deliberately taking a hit, and then following up with Enfeeble and himself in that order.

The King should survive in this scenario if things play out correctly, but if not...well, Ringaling would rather the kingdom have a good show than a rusty king. That, or the jester can at least annoy the Queen to death so the King can get some real work done again.

The skies darken, and a flurry of assorted flora and fauna part to make room for a shadow that descends from the sky. The soldiers flee in fear, never to be seen again.

Dramatic Entrance
Sorcery  
As an additional cost to cast CARDNAME, reveal a creature or planeswalker from your hand.
Kicker  
Return each creature with converted mana cost less than the revealed card's converted mana cost to its owner's hand. Then if CARDNAME was kicked, put that card on the battlefield. 

An unceremonious, scrawny dwarf descends from the sky. He twirls his hammer in fashionable manner, his wrist somehow not breaking. He then slams it down on the ground in dramatic fashion, sending the ground into shuddering, undulating tremors. He flashes a grin and winks, unaware of the fact that he's sent the king who needed his help flying. "What do you need?" 

Lorenoz, the Leaden Hammer 
Legendary Creature - Dwarf Warrior  
Hexproof, trample
When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, return target permanent to its owner's hand.
CARDNAME can't attack or block unless its controller pays . 
6/5

Going to close in 29 hours UNLESS someone has a WIP. Just post in the thread and I'll extend for another 24 hours if you aren't done by then.

edit: closed

Thanks for the win. Here's the next challenge based on a rather peculiar prompt I thought of the other day - see if you can figure out what it was:

As you advance into the dungeon, something is amiss. The items in the rooms, the number of etchings on each wall, the whispers in your mind all lead to one figure.

Inflection of Visions
Instant
Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If you control at least two permanents with converted mana costs equal to 2 or 7, instead counter target spell unless its controller pays

Its embrace is not one of demonic allure or holy sermons. All you need to know is of its unending love.

Warped Worshippers
Creature - Horror Cleric
Flash
At the beginning of each upkeep, you may create a token that's a copy of of target permanent with converted mana cost 1, 2, or 7, or 14.
7/7
It belches beguilements born of beloved beatings and burning benedictions.

Why reject its unerring, impeccable proclamations? Many have tried before. Many now chant its name and speak of being free.

Talisman of Truths
Artifact
~ enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a permanent with converted mana cost 2 or 7.
: Add or .

Free from the burdens of sanity and empathy, with so much they can do by giving their blood to the strong, or letting the strong make them bleed.

Gibbering Neonate
Creature - Elf Cleric
Flash
Sacrifice ~: Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
1/1

You believe it too, don't you? You must merely accept its word and ascend beyond the limits of your mind.

Effigy of the Unspoken One
Artifact Creature - Construct Horror
Trample
~ costs less to cast if you control a permanent with converted mana cost 1. The same is true for converted mana costs 2,7, and 14.
7/7
Read backwards, the confiscated scriptures speak of a lost war and a grieving survivor.

Filtriss, The Last Errathonoi
Legendary Creature - Elder Horror
~ costs less to cast if you control exactly thirteen permanents.
As long as you control another nonland permanent with the corresponding converted mana cost, Filtress has the corresponding ability:
1: Protection from planeswalkers
2: Protection from creatures
7: Protection from instants and sorceries
14: Protection from everything
14/14
Of a race lost to unspoken horrors, of a remainder with only one mindset: to rebuild.


Notes: Filtriss has 1x Gibbering Neonate, 1x Warped Worshippers, 1x Effigy of the Unspoken One, 1x Talisman of Truths, and itself in play. Assume there's been a lot of back and forth going on this game and both sides have taken heavy losses: your current life total is 7, though the rest of your game state can be as flexible as you want it to be. Both sides have ramped out enough for spellslinging of this many cards (though I suppose you might expect that with a CMC of 14...)

Due to either your or someone else's previous shenanigans at the table, you know Filtriss's 'player' has three cards in hand: 1x Inflection of Visions, 1x Gibbering Neonate, 1x Warped Worshipers. Their main interest is keeping Filtriss alive so that they can swing for 14 unblockable damage as much as possible and KO everyone out of the game.

You may (optionally) assume that this is a multiplayer EDH game, but if you do, everyone that isn't you or the Filtriss player has one legendary creature at most in play or has only varying lands. This challenge is meant to have multiple avenues to being solved, some approaches favoring flavor and some approaches favoring mechanics. Be creative and good luck!

So I honestly forgot this game existed, whoops. If anyone else wants to take a shot at the current challenge, I'll give it a week or two and see how things go from there.