Forty cards. Four gods.

{R}{W} · Instant

The Cyclopes' Thunderbolt deals 10 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If that permanent would die this turn, exile it instead. Draw a card.

Hesiod 139–146 names the Cyclopes as the makers of Zeus's thunderbolt. A single enormous strike removes a monster; Zeus doubles it into a barrage.

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{3}{W}{W}{R} · Sorcery

Exile all creatures your opponents control with power 4 or greater. For each creature exiled this way, create a 4/4 red Giant creature token. Exile The Titanomachy.

Hesiod 617–735 makes Zeus's freed allies decisive in overthrowing the Titans. Exiling the great opposing powers and establishing a victorious Giant host is a gameplay adaptation of that reversal, not literal transformation of Titans into allies.

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{2}{W}{U} · Instant

Exile up to two target artifacts or enchantments. For each permanent exiled this way, its controller creates a 4/4 red Giant creature token. Draw a card.

In Library 1.2.1 Zeus releases the prisoners whose aid will win the war. Removing a constructed or magical restraint releases a substantial body in its place; this can free your own allies or give an opponent a dangerous consolation.

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{W}{U} · Instant

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control. Its controller creates a 0/1 colorless Construct artifact creature token with defender. Draw two cards.

Library 1.1.7 describes Rhea giving Cronus a wrapped stone instead of the newborn Zeus. The threatened permanent is spared and the attacker receives a harmless-looking stone; drawing cards sustains the future the deception preserved. Other decks can use the Construct as material or a crew member; under Athena it is a 4/4 defender with vigilance and trample, a meaningful blocker.

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{1}{U}{R} · Legendary Creature — Cyclops · 3/4

The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs {2} less to cast. Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, create a Treasure token.

Hesiod 139–146 names Brontes, Steropes, and Arges and emphasizes their strength and craft. The three craftsmen supply one especially well-prepared intervention every turn; their work produces both a discount and the next reserve of power.

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{2}{U}{R} · Enchantment

At the beginning of your end step, exile Nectar of the Deathless. When you do, draw X cards and create X Treasure tokens, where X is the greatest mana value among creatures you control.

Hesiod 639–653 has Zeus restore the imprisoned Hundred-Handed Ones with nectar and ambrosia before asking their aid. An established ally's strength becomes an astonishing reserve of knowledge and supplies, consumed in one feast.

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{2}{W}{U} · Legendary Creature — Nymph Advisor · 2/4

Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Library 1.2.1 places Metis's assistance before the war and credits her with the means to make Cronus release Zeus's siblings. Her counsel supplies both the next plan and the means to execute it, chosen rather than drawn blindly.

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{1}{W}{U}{R} · Sorcery

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once — • Draw two cards. • Create two Treasure tokens. • Create a 3/3 white Bird creature token with flying. Exile The Lots of the Cosmos.

Library 1.2.1 ends the war with Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades dividing the cosmos by lot. Three allocations become a choice between knowledge, buried wealth, and creatures of the sky. These associations are creative mechanical interpretations, not a claim that the source awards cards or birds.

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{3}{R}{W} · Legendary Creature — Giant · 6/6

Vigilance, reach Whenever The Hundred-Handed Ones attacks, it deals 6 damage to each of up to three target creatures defending player controls.

Hesiod 713–735 describes Cottus, Briareus, and Gyes overwhelming the Titans with volleys of stones. Three full-strength strikes enact their artillery while their vigilance and reach leave the coalition defended.

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{2}{R}{W} · Enchantment

Whenever three or more creatures you control attack, put a +1/+1 counter on each of them. They gain double strike until end of turn.

Library 1.2.5 explains that Styx and her children fought for Zeus, earning Styx her authority over divine oaths. The player commits a coalition to battle and receives enduring strength plus a decisive combat reward; the enchantment adapts collective allegiance, not the source's later punishments for perjury.

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{3}{G}{G} · Sorcery

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of lands you control. It deals damage equal to its power to each creature your opponents control.

Poseidon tears Nisyros from Kos and buries Polybotes beneath it. New ground becomes the force of a single enormous blow.

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{1}{G}{U} · Instant

Return all attacking creatures to their owners’ hands. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Odyssey 5.365–387: Poseidon shatters the raft when land seems close. A committed advance collapses while another shore becomes accessible.

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{G}{U} · Instant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If you lost life this turn, draw two cards.

Odyssey 9.528–535: the injured Polyphemus invokes his father against Odysseus. Suffering makes the answering act of vengeance more rewarding.

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{1}{U} · Enchantment — Aura

Enchant artifact, creature, or land Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with “{T}: Add {C}.” and loses all other card types and abilities.

Odyssey 13.153–164: Poseidon petrifies the Phaeacian ship and roots it by the shore. A mobile source of power becomes inert geography.

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{4}{G}{U} · Sorcery

Reveal the top twelve cards of your library. Put up to four land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand. Exile The Sea Makes Way.

Iliad 13.17–31: the sea opens before Poseidon and its creatures recognize their lord. What obstructs a mortal becomes an immense route for the god.

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{1}{U} · Enchantment

Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, draw three cards. {U}, Sacrifice Leucothea's Veil: Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn.

Odyssey 5.333–353: Leucothea gives the endangered Odysseus her veil. Help arrives when the traveler suffers, and the gift can be spent to preserve a life.

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{3}{G}{U} · Instant

Draw four cards. You may put up to two land cards from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Odyssey 5.441–463: a river stills its current and receives Odysseus. Reaching shelter restores resources and creates one turn of safety.

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{1}{G} · Creature — Horse Fish · 2/3

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Whenever a land you control enters during combat, draw two cards. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Iliad 13.17–38 gives Poseidon swift sea-crossing horses. This creature carries development forward and rewards choosing the moment of passage during a battle.

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{4}{U}{U} · Legendary Creature — Kraken · 8/8

Whenever The Trojan Ketos attacks, defending player returns two nonland permanents they control to their owners’ hands. Whenever a creature an opponent controls is returned to its owner’s hand, The Trojan Ketos can’t be blocked this turn.

Apollodorus 2.103 and the Laomedon tradition describe Poseidon’s sea-monster ravaging Troy after a broken obligation. A threatened city must give ground as the monster advances.

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{2}{G}{U} · Legendary Creature — Merfolk · 4/5

Creatures you control have trample. Whenever Triton, Poseidon's Herald attacks, you may tap up to three untapped lands you control. For each land tapped this way, create a tapped and attacking 4/4 blue Kraken creature token. Sacrifice those tokens at end of combat.

Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.330–347: Triton’s conch signals the waters to withdraw at Poseidon’s command. The temporary host is a game adaptation of a wave summoned and then recalled.

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{4}{W}{B} · Sorcery

Each opponent chooses a creature they control, then sacrifices the rest. For each opponent, choose up to one creature card in that player's graveyard. Return the chosen cards to the battlefield under your control with a finality counter on each of them. Exile The Host's Welcome.

The Hymn to Demeter's Host of Many receives the dead from every earthly allegiance. The mass arrival and exceptional release of chosen guests are a game adaptation of that jurisdiction, not a claim that Hades commanded this battle in the source.

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{1}{W}{B} · Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Flash When The Helm of Darkness enters, up to one target creature you control phases out. Equipped creature has menace and ward {2}. Equip {2}

Apollodorus describes the Cyclopes giving Hades a helmet, and the collected ancient accounts describe its invisibility. Phasing briefly conceals a creature without resetting its identity or finality counter; menace and ward represent the difficult-to-perceive wearer.

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{W}{B} · Instant

Exile target attacking creature. Creatures you control with finality counters on them gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Library 1.3.2 makes Orpheus's recovery of Eurydice depend on not looking back. This spell turns preservation of a conditional return into a decision during danger. The attacking-creature exile is a protective game abstraction, not an invented monster pursuing Eurydice in the myth.

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{3}{W}{B} · Sorcery

Destroy all creatures that don't have finality counters on them. Exile up to one target artifact or enchantment.

The underworld court includes Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Aeacus; the collected Statius passages describe judgment beside Hades. Dividing creatures by an existing mark of conditional release is a game adaptation of adjudicated status. It does not present Hades alone as the only judge.

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{W}{B} · Legendary Creature — Spirit Pilot · 2/3

Whenever one or more nontoken creatures die, create two Treasure tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a Treasure: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Ancient accounts identify Charon as the ferryman and Aristophanes' Frogs explicitly discusses the fare. Deaths produce passage money, then paying a coin recovers access to one named dead creature. Return to hand is an abstraction of passage, not a claim that Charon habitually resurrects his passengers.

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{3}{B}{B} · Legendary Enchantment

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile up to three creature cards from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, draw two cards and create two tapped Treasure tokens.

Plato's Cratylus connects Plouton's name to wealth arising from below the earth. The game turns an underworld population into buried riches. Exiling the creature cards makes that wealth a choice against bringing those same people back, rather than pretending corpses are inexhaustible coins.

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{1}{W}{B} · Legendary Creature — Human Bard · 3/2

When Orpheus enters, return target creature card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Whenever one or more creatures you control with finality counters on them attack, you draw two cards and you lose 1 life.

Library 1.3.2 describes the musician descending and persuading Hades to release Eurydice. An enter trigger petitions for a particular modest-sized creature; subsequent card draw requires taking returned people forward into danger. Combat is the game's metaphor for continuing the journey, not a claim that Orpheus led a military campaign.

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{2}{W}{B} · Enchantment — Saga

I — Mill six cards. II — Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on each of them. III — For each creature you control with a finality counter on it, you draw two cards and you lose 1 life.

Library 1.3.2 supplies descent, petition, and a return endangered by a later choice. The chapters move from entering the realm of the dead to recovering people to rewarding their continued survival. The game permits two returned creatures so the relationship can occupy the battlefield together; this is an adaptation rather than a second Eurydice in the source.

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{1}{W} · Legendary Enchantment Creature — Nymph · 2/2

Whenever Eurydice enters or attacks, if you control a creature with a finality counter on it, draw a card. As long as Eurydice has a finality counter on it, other creatures you control get +2/+2.

Ovid's account places Eurydice's death, retrieval, and second loss at the emotional center of Orpheus's descent. The anthem makes the returned person's continued presence matter to everyone around her. She is not merely a generic corpse to sacrifice; losing her immediately diminishes the host. The battle empowerment is a creative game adaptation.

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{3}{B}{B} · Legendary Creature — Dog · 5/5

Menace Creatures you control with finality counters on them have menace. Whenever Cerberus attacks, exile up to three target creature cards from graveyards. Put two +1/+1 counters on Cerberus for each card exiled this way.

Hesiod's Theogony describes the underworld hound admitting arrivals but devouring those who try to leave. Exiling potential resurrection targets makes the guard close off escape; growing through this act makes the hound a tangible threat. The three-target limit echoes the familiar three-headed depiction. Granting menace to Hades's permitted returnees is a creative extension of his authority over the guard.

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{1}{W} · Instant

Exile target enchantment. Scry 2, then draw a card.

Iliad 5.121–132: Athena removes the mist from Diomedes's eyes so he can distinguish gods from mortals. The spell identifies and expels an enchantment, then turns revelation into selection and a card. Exile is a game adaptation of exposing a god, not a claim that Athena banishes every god she reveals.

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{R}{W} · Instant

Target creature you control deals damage equal to twice its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control. If a permanent dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Iliad 5.846–863: Athena helps Diomedes drive his spear into Ares. A mortal body must actually deliver the blow; divine empowerment can make an ordinary Soldier capable of removing a god. The exile replacement represents the wounded immortal leaving the battle.

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{3}{R}{W} · Instant

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures you control this turn. Athena Turns the Spear deals damage equal to the total power of creatures you control to each creature your opponents control.

Iliad 5.846–863: Athena deflects Ares's spear and immediately guides Diomedes's answering blow. The spell reverses the direction of battle: the defending formation survives damage, and its combined strength strikes the enemy host. Extending the one duel across an army is the set's deliberate adaptation.

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{1}{W} · Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has vigilance. Whenever equipped creature attacks, another target attacking creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {1}

Iliad 5.733–747 describes Athena putting on the aegis with its terrifying Gorgon image before entering battle. Here a bearer advances under its protection and shelters a companion. The effect is a combat interpretation of the armor, not an invented property claimed for the ancient object.

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{1}{G}{W} · Enchantment

Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Iliad 5.121–132 and 814–834: Athena's instructions determine which divine enemies Diomedes may confront, and he remembers them when Ares appears. Choosing two of four cards while committing an attack makes information a tactical resource that requires action.

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{1}{W} · Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · 2/3

Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, draw a card. Then return up to one target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Iliad 5.105–121: Sthenelus leaps down and draws the arrow out of Diomedes's shoulder. He represents mortal aid preceding divine intervention. Losing members of the formation earns information and can restore a small companion to hand for another paid deployment.

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{3}{G}{W} · Sorcery

Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token for each creature you control, then draw a card for each creature token you control. Exile Athena Among the Argives.

Iliad 5.778–834: Hera and Athena reach the faltering Argive formation, rallying courage before Athena goes to Diomedes. The army already present becomes the basis of reinforcements and overwhelming new confidence. The number of surviving bodies determines the size of the restoration.

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{2}{G}{W} · Legendary Artifact — Vehicle · 6/6

Vigilance, trample Whenever Diomedes's Chariot attacks, draw a card for each creature that crewed it this turn. Crew 2

Iliad 5.835–845: Athena steps into Diomedes's chariot, whose axle groans beneath goddess and warrior, then takes the reins. Crewing makes the participants matter; adding companions increases the insight earned on the charge.

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{1}{R}{W} · Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · 3/3

First strike Whenever Diomedes attacks, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens that are tapped and attacking. If you control a God, Diomedes gains double strike until end of turn.

Iliad 5.121–132 and 825–863: Athena gives Diomedes his father's courage and later aids the blow against Ares. He is already a capable mortal leader; a god beside him gives his attack a second, extraordinary impact.

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{2}{G}{W} · Enchantment

Creature tokens you control get +1/+1 and have reach. At the beginning of your end step, if you control fewer than six creatures, create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Iliad 5.699–824 and 907–909: the Argives give ground under Ares's assault before the goddesses intervene and end his slaughter. A thinning formation receives reinforcements, then holds with improved strength and defensive coverage. Reach is a game adaptation of a braced spear line, not an assertion of a particular aerial battle in the poem.

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