The Rise of Sozin // Fire Lord Sozin

A three-chapter conquest that reads like a war plan rendered in lore counters. The first chapter is a board wipe, the second is the unusual one: naming a card and pulling up to four copies from a single opponent's graveyard, hand, and library at once is closer to surgical deck-hate than removal, gutting four-of engines and combo pieces the moment you know what to name. The third chapter flips the Saga into the man who ordered it, and the design earns that transformation by seeding the payoff two chapters in advance. The wrath in chapter one fills the opposing graveyard; several turns later, once the Saga has transformed and can attack, Fire Lord Sozin swings, and his combat-damage trigger lets you pay X to reanimate creatures from that player's graveyard, including the ones your own board wipe put there. Firebending 3 is the connective tissue: three red mana appearing every time he swings, tuned to pay for the X on the same trigger it feeds. Menace makes him harder to block. The result is a threat that turns an opponent's dead army into your own, but the machine only assembles across turns, not inside one combat step: destroy the board early, deny their answers, then arrive as a body built to loot the wreckage the Saga itself created. The reanimation clause caring about a specific opponent's graveyard rather than any graveyard is the restraint that keeps it a targeted assault instead of a symmetrical value engine.