Budget Alternatives to Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader

When The Everflowing Well enters, mill two cards, then draw two cards. Descend 8 — At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, transform The Everflowing Well. // (Transforms from The Everflowing Well.) {T}: Add {U}. Whenever you cast a permanent spell using mana produced by The Myriad Pools, up to one other target permanent you control becomes a copy of that spell until end of turn.

Flying {7}{U}: Adapt 4. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)

{T}: Mill two cards. Then if there is a colorless creature card in your graveyard, transform this creature. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) // {6}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I, II, III — Until your next turn, whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, target player mills cards equal to that spell's mana value. IV — Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

{T}: Add {U}. Spend this mana only to pay a disturb cost or cast an instant or sorcery spell.

Flying, trample, haste As long as there are fewer than eight cards in your graveyard, The Warring Triad isn't a creature. {T}, Mill a card: Target player adds one mana of any color. (Activate only as an instant.)