One Ring to Rule Them All
Three chapters that trace a villain's arc: temptation, ruin, and the reckoning. Chapter one designates a Ring-bearer among your creatures, then mills every player equal to that creature's power. The mill hits everyone equally, but the numbers only run one way if you have the biggest body, so this chapter quietly stocks your opponents' graveyards with the fuel the Saga will spend later. Chapter two is the pivot that gives the whole structure its shape: a nonlegendary wrath that spares your legendary creatures while clearing everything else, feeding another wave of creatures into those same yards. Chapter three collects on it all, making each opponent lose one life for every creature card in their graveyard. That is the internal engineering separating it from a slow-motion Damnation: the wipe from chapter two swells each opponent's yard the turn before the final chapter tallies it, so the mill and the mass destruction feed a single clock. And the payoff is life loss aimed only at opponents, not damage and not a drain: nothing you gain from it, nothing combat math or prevention effects touch, nothing that can be redirected. The honest cost is tempo. Four mana and two full upkeeps pass before anything closes, a bet that the game stays slow enough for the debt to come due when the third lore counter is added and the Saga sacrifices itself.
