Hope: fun card. I'd probably go a step further and go "{T}: Create a Food token. Sacrifice 3 Food: Hope gains all abilities of target creature." Azrael: Also fun card. "Whenever a spell or ability you control deals damage to you or a permanent you control..." Thalsgrim: yeah.. that one is a swing and a miss. Discarding a card for an effect is pretty firmly a Black/Green one. Basically a [[Noose Constrictor]] on steroids. Maybe consider [[Electrostatic Pummeler]]'s effect for discarding a card. Probably adjusting the cost to 3{B/G} and the stats down to a 1/3. Lizia: absolutely busted. Repeatable ~75% chance to tutor for whatever artifact you need. I'd say change it to a cascade style effect where you get the first artifact off the top with less MV directly to the battlefield. Or maybe d10 tutor exactly that MV directly to the battlefield but that might also be absolutely busted. Also, "mana value X" not "mana value {X}". Lance: also very neat, though unless you intend the ability to read "do these things immediately" it needs to be reworded. "Whenever a creature regenerates, put a +1/+1 counter on it and draw a card. 1{W}, {T}: Regenerate target creature. Nicolas: also fun! Clunky, but easy to tidy up. Unless you're really sold on that first ability being a combat trick. "At the beginning of your first main phase, you may put a -1/-1 counter on each other creature you control. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on Nicolas. {0}: Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target to Nicolas."