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How They Brew It - The Zero-Day Exploit - Zero-Day Exploit (Zaxara, the Exemplary EDH)
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $146.12
Salt Sum: 25.7
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $0.99
Zaxara, the Exemplary

Deathtouch {T}: Add two mana of any one color. Whenever you cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, create a 0/0 green Hydra creature token, then put X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Zaxara, the Exemplary (dmc) 176
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 7Price: $18.73
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (moc) 348
1
Astral Cornucopia

Astral Cornucopia enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it. {T}: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each charge counter on Astral Cornucopia.

Artifact
Astral Cornucopia (cm2) 172
1
Chimeric Mass

Chimeric Mass enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it. {1}: Until end of turn, Chimeric Mass becomes a Construct artifact creature with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of charge counters on it."

Artifact
Chimeric Mass (mm2) 204
1
Elementalist's Palette

Whenever you cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, put two charge counters on Elementalist's Palette. {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Elementalist's Palette. Spend this mana only on costs that contain {X}.

Artifact
Elementalist's Palette (c21) 76
1
Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice Idol of Oblivion: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Artifact
Idol of Oblivion (onc) 134
1
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (scd) 269
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
1

Creatures

Quantity: 26Price: $57.90
Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (khc) 54
1
Capricopian

Capricopian enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. {2}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Capricopian, then you may reselect which player Capricopian is attacking. Only the player Capricopian is attacking may activate this ability and only during the declare attackers step. (It can't attack its controller.)

Creature
Capricopian (c20) 58
1
Cryptic Trilobite

Cryptic Trilobite enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Cryptic Trilobite: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities. {1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Cryptic Trilobite.

Creature
Cryptic Trilobite (c20) 21
1
Endless One

Endless One enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Endless One (bfz) 8
1
Feral Hydra

Feral Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. {3}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Feral Hydra. Any player may activate this ability.

Creature
Feral Hydra (j22) 658
1
Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Creature
Grim Haruspex (clb) 754
1
Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature
Harvester of Souls (jmp) 243
1
Hungering Hydra

Hungering Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. Hungering Hydra can't be blocked by more than one creature. Whenever Hungering Hydra is dealt damage, put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive the damage to get the counters.)

Creature
Hungering Hydra (c20) 177
1
Ivy Elemental

Ivy Elemental enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Ivy Elemental (iko) 161
1
Liliana's Standard Bearer

Flash When Liliana's Standard Bearer enters the battlefield, draw X cards, where X is the number of creatures that died under your control this turn.

Creature
Liliana's Standard Bearer (moc) 255
1
Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, Midnight Reaper deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Creature
Midnight Reaper (moc) 257
1
Mistcutter Hydra

This spell can't be countered. Haste, protection from blue Mistcutter Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Mistcutter Hydra (ths) 162
1
Ochre Jelly

Trample Ochre Jelly enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. Split — When Ochre Jelly dies, if it had two or more +1/+1 counters on it, create a token that's a copy of it at the beginning of the next end step. The token enters the battlefield with half that many +1/+1 counters on it, rounded down.

Creature
Ochre Jelly (afr) 196
1
Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Pitiless Plunderer (plst) RIX-81
1
Poison-Tip Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Poison-Tip Archer (khc) 90
1
Shifting Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Shifting Wall enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature Artifact
Shifting Wall (plst) STH-140
1
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

Whenever a creature with power 1 or less is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may return that card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step if Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker is still on the battlefield.

Creature
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker (uma) 112
1
Species Specialist

As Species Specialist enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.

Creature
Species Specialist (c20) 47
1
Stonecoil Serpent

Reach, trample, protection from multicolored Stonecoil Serpent enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature Artifact
Stonecoil Serpent (eld) 235
1
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (moc) 269
1
Timeless Witness

When Timeless Witness enters the battlefield, return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Eternalize {5}{G}{G} ({5}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Timeless Witness (mh2) 179
1
Ugin's Conjurant

Ugin's Conjurant enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. If damage would be dealt to Ugin's Conjurant while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from Ugin's Conjurant.

Creature
Ugin's Conjurant (war) 3
1
Vindictive Vampire

Whenever another creature you control dies, Vindictive Vampire deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Vindictive Vampire (rna) 90
1
Voracious Hydra

Trample Voracious Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Voracious Hydra enters the battlefield, choose one — • Double the number of +1/+1 counters on Voracious Hydra. • Voracious Hydra fights target creature you don't control.

Creature
Voracious Hydra (m20) 200
1
Wren's Run Hydra

Reach Wren's Run Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. Reinforce X—{X}{G}{G} ({X}{G}{G}, Discard this card: Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature.)

Creature
Wren's Run Hydra (mh2) 183
1
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (clb) 775
1

Enchantments

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Bastion of Remembrance

When Bastion of Remembrance enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (iko) 73
1
Deathreap Ritual

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Deathreap Ritual (ncc) 336
1
Faces of the Past

Whenever a creature dies, tap all untapped creatures that share a creature type with it or untap all tapped creatures that share a creature type with it.

Enchantment
Faces of the Past (scg) 35
1
Fecundity

Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller may draw a card.

Enchantment
Fecundity (uma) 165
1
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (onc) 121
1
No Rest for the Wicked

Sacrifice No Rest for the Wicked: Return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Enchantment
No Rest for the Wicked (10e) 165
1
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124
1

Instants

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Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (onc) 104
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
1
Death Denied

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Death Denied (plst) MM2-76
1
Death Wind

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Instant
Death Wind (j22) 394
1
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
1
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (moc) 309
1
Skeletal Scrying

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard. You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Instant
Skeletal Scrying (plst) C14-162
1
Thassa's Intervention

Choose one — • Look at the top X cards of your library. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays twice {X}.

Instant
Thassa's Intervention (thb) 72
1

Lands

Quantity: 36Price: $19.70
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
1
Darkwater Catacombs

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (brc) 181
1
Dismal Backwater

Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield tapped. When Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (mom) 269
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (moc) 397
1
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (moc) 398
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mom) 281
6
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
4
Jungle Hollow

Jungle Hollow enters the battlefield tapped. When Jungle Hollow enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Jungle Hollow (mom) 270
1
Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield tapped. When Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (j22) 817
1
Opulent Palace

Opulent Palace enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.

Land
Opulent Palace (dmc) 223
1
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (moc) 418
1
Quandrix Campus

Quandrix Campus enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. {4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Land
Quandrix Campus (stx) 271
1
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
6
Temple of Deceit

Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (moc) 431
1
Temple of Malady

Temple of Malady enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Malady enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Malady (onc) 169
1
Temple of Mystery

Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (moc) 434
1
Thornwood Falls

Thornwood Falls enters the battlefield tapped. When Thornwood Falls enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Thornwood Falls (mom) 274
1
Thriving Grove

Thriving Grove enters the battlefield tapped. As Thriving Grove enters the battlefield, choose a color other than green. {T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Grove (j22) 823
1
Thriving Isle

Thriving Isle enters the battlefield tapped. As Thriving Isle enters the battlefield, choose a color other than blue. {T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Isle (moc) 441
1
Thriving Moor

Thriving Moor enters the battlefield tapped. As Thriving Moor enters the battlefield, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Moor (moc) 442
1
Tolaria West

Tolaria West enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with mana value 0, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Land
Tolaria West (plst) TSR-286
1
Witherbloom Campus

Witherbloom Campus enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. {4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Land
Witherbloom Campus (stx) 275
1

Sorceries

Quantity: 15Price: $28.57
Animist's Awakening

Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.

Sorcery
Animist's Awakening (c20) 166
1
Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
1
Casualties of War

Choose one or more — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target creature. • Destroy target enchantment. • Destroy target land. • Destroy target planeswalker.

Sorcery
Casualties of War (khc) 83
1
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (moc) 295
1
Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (clb) 716
1
Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Sorcery
Damnable Pact (ncc) 245
1
Deadly Brew

Each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. If you sacrificed a permanent this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Deadly Brew (stx) 176
1
Ecological Appreciation

Search your library and graveyard for up to four creature cards with different names that each have mana value X or less and reveal them. An opponent chooses two of those cards. Shuffle the chosen cards into your library and put the rest onto the battlefield. Exile Ecological Appreciation.

Sorcery
Ecological Appreciation (stx) 128
1
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (scd) 77
1
Forever Young

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Forever Young (eld) 89
1
Gaze of Granite

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less.

Sorcery
Gaze of Granite (c21) 217
1
Mind Spring

Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Mind Spring (c20) 116
1
Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery
Pest Infestation (c21) 65
1
Primal Might

Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Sorcery
Primal Might (scd) 204
1
Wildest Dreams

Return X target cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Wildest Dreams.

Sorcery
Wildest Dreams (kld) 174
1

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