Return to Theros: Arc 1 – Beginning Change
Lore: After the Xenagos fiasco, five gods awoke from a long slumber: Bibliod, Stellaria, Chroneffius, Populusque, and Hysteria. In order; the gods of fate, space, time, order, and chaos. Foretold to be awoken by a great injustice, that moment came the instant that one Elspeth Tirel was killed by the embodiment of justice; Heliod.
Chroneffius attempted to right the past, but was stopped by Athreos. Stellaria attempted force, but was tricked by Phenax. Hysteria and Populusque attempted to work in tandem, but only ended up arguing. Finally Bibliod took his chances. Walking straight up to Heliod himself, he gave a prophecy foretelling the end of his rule as God of Light. A strange grin never left his face.
U= Blue/ B= Black/ R= Red/ W= White/ G= Green/ T= Tap
Bibliod, God of Fate
Legendary Enchantment Creature – God
2/U/W/R – 1/7
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue, white, and red is less than ten, Bibliod isn't a creature.
U/W/R /T- Put a creature token onto the battlefield that is a copy of another creature on the battlefield; or return target non-land permanent you control to its owners hand; or return target instant or sorcery from your graveyard to your hand.
Taking the form of a robed human with a covered head, Bibliod has all but been forgotten with only some scribes and librarians still giving offerings to him. His weapon is a tome formed of the overlapping ideas, lives, and stories of Theros.
Stellaria, God of Space
Legendary Enchantment Creature – God
2/G/R/U – 5/5
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to green, red, and blue is less than ten, Stellaria isn't a creature.
G/R/U/T- Target creature you control and target creature you don't control fight; or give target creature you control +3/+3 and trample; or sacrifice a creature and draw X cards where X is that creature's converted mana cost.
Taking the form of an elf, Stellaria guards those who seek shelter and punishes those with ill intent. Her weapon is a rather large axe in the shape of a tree.
Chroneffius, God of Time
Legendary Enchantment Creature – God
2/B/U/G – 4/6
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black, blue, and green is less than ten, Chroneffius isn't a creature.
B/U/G/T- Exile target enchantment; or return target card from your graveyard to your hand; or destroy target creature with toughness four or greater.
Taking the form of a vampire, Chroneffius maintains the flow of time in Theros and can only be stopped by Athreos or Erebos. His weapon is a giant clock formed by the spirals of ages and the stars of Nyx.
Populusque, God of Order
Legendary Enchantment Creature – God
2/W/G/B – 3/5
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white, green, and black is less than ten, Populusque isn't a creature.
W/G/B/T- Prevent all damage that be dealt to target creature; or all creatures you control gain +0/+2 until end of turn; or put a 2/2 white soldier enchantment creature token onto the battlefield under your control.
Taking the form of an armored warrior, Populusque enforces the celestial good and the eternal balance. He is against killing and uses a staff made from all of the morals in the plane as his weapon of choice.
Hysteria, God of Chaos
Legendary Enchantment Creature – God
2/R/B/W – 5/3
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to red, black, and white is less than ten, Hysteria isn't a creature.
R/B/W/T- When target creature dies this turn deal two damage to target creature, player, or planeswalker; or all creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn; or put two 1/1 red goblin enchantment creature tokens onto the battlefield under your control.
Taking the form of a goblin, Hysteria controls the hedonism and 'creativity' of Theros' inhabitants. She is a walking conduit for madness and wields twin axes made from all of the insanity in the plane.
Return to Theros: Arc 2 – Stripped from Nyx
Infuriated by the prophecy; the White god sealed Bibliod and his 'siblings' in mortal forms, letting them succumb to the perils of the plane. Populusque took to the armies, preferring to spend his life in battle. Stellaria took to the woodlands, fighting off monsters and protecting the commoners. Chroneffius took to haunted areas, letting the spirits know that their time had come. Hysteria took to the mountains to spread her influence among the minotaur clans and the goblin clans.
Bibliod started a new life as the lowly commoner/ oracle; Bib. Building a small nameless shrine, Bib spread the true stories of the gods among the mortals. Every heinous act or hypocritical movement was revealed for all eyes – including the death of Elspeth Tirel. Heliod's solution: smite the lowly creature that dare besmirch his name.
Bib held a smile the entire time he told his tales. Bib held a smile as Heliod aimed at him. Bib held a smile as he was smote by the sun spear…
All of Theros shook as the embodiment of destiny was thrown to the underworld, and the entire pantheon of gods was torn in two as war started among the gods.
Bib, The Truth Speaker
Legendary Creature – Human Wizard
3/U – 0/6
Bib cannot declare an attack.
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your deck. If it is a non-land card you may send it to the graveyard. If you do, send X cards from the top of target opponent's deck to the graveyard where X is equal to the card's converted mana cost. If a card with X in its cost is discarded this way, X equals the number of lands you control.
Still in the form of a hooded human, Bib spends his days spreading the true tales from the realm of the gods. All was going to plan, now he just needed to wait.
Stella, The Earthshaker
Legendary Creature – Elf Berserker
5/G – 5/5
Stella cannot declare an attack.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have target creature you control gain +1/+1 and fight target creature you don't control. Whenever Stella is targeted with a spell put one 2/2 green Wolf enchantment creature token onto the battlefield under your control.
Still in the form of an elf, Stella spends her days protecting and rebuilding the forests of Theros. Her wolf companions bow no one else; not even Nylea.
Chrona, The Death Whisperer
Legendary Creature – Vampire Cleric
5/B – 0/4
Chrona cannot declare an attack.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put one 1/1 black Spirit enchantment creature token with flying onto the battlefield under your control. Whenever a creature you control dies, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature your opponent controls or target opponent loses one life.
Still in the form of a vampire, Chrona spends his days releasing the spirits of the departed from Theros. He vehemently detests the Returned.
Porulen, The Immovable Object
Legendary Creature – Human Soldier
5/W – 1/4
Porulen cannot declare an attack.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Porulen is indestructible as long as he is blocking. Porulen can block an additional creature for every other creature you control.
Still in the form of a soldier, Porulen spends his days training the recruits of the army of Akros. His armor is always impeccably polished and he has yet to receive a single scratch in battle.
Teriok, The Unstoppable Force
Legendary Creature – Goblin Shaman
5/R – 4/1
Teriok cannot block.
Teriok is indestructible while she is attacking.
As long as you control a Goblin, all creatures you control gain haste. As long as you control an Ogre, all creatures you control gain lifelink. As long as you control a Minotaur, all creatures you control gain first strike. As long as you control a Giant, all creatures you control gain trample.
Still in the form of a goblin, Teriok spends her days ordering around various monster clans around Theros. Rarely has she gotten bored.
Return to Theros: Arc 3 – Dethronement
It seemed like forever as Bib wandered the underworld. With Athreos as his only companion, Bib grew bored, constantly reminded of the war above by the random rumbles of the world and the large number of new souls constantly pouring into the underworld. Bib would have went mad or lost himself if a certain story hadn't dropped into his hand with a 'poof.' Taking one glance at the cover of the pristine, white book, Bib smiled wickedly and put out a distress call to the owner of the book.
He did not expect his answer so soon, a giant bipedal cat creature wearing a white cloak. The two had a short bout before all was cleared and the beast introduced himself: Ajani Goldmane.
As the two searched the underworld for a certain funeral mask, war between the gods was only getting worse. The pantheon was nearly split in two, with Heliod's army of gods fighting Purphoros' army of gods. Nylea sided with Purphoros while Thassa sided with Heliod. Nyxian energy flowed down into Theros, corrupting most of the inhabitants with the energy. The two realms were nearly merged, if not for the timely appearance of Ajani and Bib.
Ajani fought off the gods as the excess energy of Nyx was swallowed by Bib's form, returning him to the full glory of Bibliod. Using his restored abilities, he gave his fellow wronged gods their godly abilities and forms back and faced off against Heliod who just looked smug. That is until Bib held up a golden funeral mask. Heliod had a moment to be bewildered before being skewered through the back by a very familiar spear.
Heliod fell to his knees and dissipated into energy as the revived Elspeth Tirel stood before the pantheon, soaking in all of the energy that used to be Heliod and successfully transforming her into the new deity, "Elspeth, God of Justice." Her beloved weapon gained the sheen of Nyx on its blade. The powerful spear glowed a brilliant red as "Godscorned" was smelted across the grip.
With the death of Heliod also went the death of Erebos as the death god was the literal shadow of the sun god. Knowing that somebody would need to take over, Bibliod accepted the position, giving up his red domain for black and becoming, "Bibliod, God of Life."
Things would be different now, there would be no denying that truth.
Bibliod, God of Life
Legendary Enchantment Creature - God
2/U/B/W – 2/6
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue, black, and white is less than ten, Bibliod isn't a creature.
U/B/W/T- Send the top five cards of target player's library to the graveyard; or return three cards from target player's graveyard to their library and shuffle their library; or each player sacrifices a creature.
Now lord of the underworld and master of life on Theros, Bibliod sits on his throne leisurely while letting his minions deal with the mass amounts of undead. He still takes time to give certain individuals 'proper treatment' and his prophecies are still frequent.
Ajani, Scion of the Light
Planeswalker – Ajani
2/W/W – 4
+1 Put a 2/2 white elemental creature token with flying and lifelink onto the battlefield under your control.
-3 Destroy target creature and gain life equal to the destroyed creature's toughness.
-10 Exile all non-land permanents on the battlefield and gain 6 life for every permanent exiled this way.
With anger he is dangerous. With hope, even more so.
Elspeth, God of Justice
Legendary Enchantment Creature – God
W/W/W/W/W – 5/5
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Elspeth isn't a creature.
Creatures you control gain +0/+X where X is their base toughness.
W/W/W/T – All creatures you control gain lifelink, first strike, and vigilance until end of turn.
"The crime has been corrected. Now we improve on our lives." – Elspeth, God of Justice
Godscorned
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
6 Mana
U/U/U/T – Shuffle all cards from target player's graveyard into its controller's deck.
R/R/R/T – Prevent all damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.
G/G/G/T – Reverse all stat changes that occur to target creature this turn.
W/W/W/T – All life gained this turn is changed to life loss.
B/B/B/T – All life loss this turn is changed to life gained.
"This is a constant reminder of what and who I have lost...and those beings that took my precious things away. Let those wronged by forces out of their control come to me for aid, and I shall grant it to them." - Elspeth, God of Justice
And there is Return to Theros. Yes I hate Heliod. Review, favorite, and tell me any ideas you have for cards that could be added to this or ways to flesh out the story. Thanks!