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Sphinx's Tutelage - How to Smile at Death (feat. Exclusive Time Spiral Remastered Previews) - Alesha's Amazing Automata!
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Est deck cost: $2254.20
Salt sum: 45.53
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Commander

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Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

Creature
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (dmc) 118

Commander

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Lands

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Ancient Den

{T}: Add {W}.

Artifact Land
Ancient Den (brc) 172
Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 244
Badlands

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

Land
Badlands (3ed) 282
Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (plst) DIS-171
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ktk) 230
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (2x2) 321
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
Glimmervoid

At the beginning of the end step, if you control no artifacts, sacrifice this land. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Glimmervoid (2xm) 319
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rna) 248
Great Furnace

{T}: Add {R}.

Artifact Land
Great Furnace (brc) 187
Hall of Heliod's Generosity

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{W}, {T}: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Hall of Heliod's Generosity (mh1) 241
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (afc) 246
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mom) 280
Path of Ancestry

This land enters 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
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (plst) USG-322
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mom) 277
Plateau

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.)

Land
Plateau (3ed) 284
Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Sacred Foundry

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Sacred Foundry (grn) 254
Savai Triome

({T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Savai Triome (iko) 253
Scrubland

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)

Land
Scrubland (3ed) 286
Slayers' Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {R}{W}, {T}: Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains vigilance and haste until end of turn.

Land
Slayers' Stronghold (onc) 165
Spectator Seating

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Spectator Seating (cmr) 356
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Vault of Champions

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Vault of Champions (cmr) 360
Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Vault of the Archangel (moc) 443
Vault of Whispers

{T}: Add {B}.

Artifact Land
Vault of Whispers (brc) 211

Lands

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Artifacts

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (moc) 348
Cranial Plating

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. {B}{B}: Attach this Equipment to target creature you control. Equip {1}

Artifact
Cranial Plating (brc) 136
Gate to the Afterlife

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Artifact
Gate to the Afterlife (plst) AKH-228
Hazoret's Monument

Red creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Hazoret's Monument (dmc) 183
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
Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Mask of Memory (onc) 136
Mesmeric Orb

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (2xm) 272
Mox Opal

Metalcraft — {T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Artifact
Mox Opal (2xm) 275
Perpetual Timepiece

{T}: Mill two cards. {2}, Exile this artifact: Shuffle any number of target cards from your graveyard into your library.

Artifact
Perpetual Timepiece (plst) KLD-227
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (moc) 379
Smuggler's Copter

Flying Whenever this Vehicle attacks or blocks, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact
Smuggler's Copter (nec) 160
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (scd) 279
Trading Post

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life. {1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Trading Post (brc) 169

Artifacts

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Planeswalkers

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Daretti, Scrap Savant

+2: Discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards. −2: Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield. −10: You get an emblem with "Whenever an artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step." Daretti, Scrap Savant can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Daretti, Scrap Savant (plst) CM2-4

Planeswalkers

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Creatures

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Anathemancer

When this creature enters, it deals damage to target player equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls. Unearth {5}{B}{R} ({5}{B}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Anathemancer (arb) 33
Azra Oddsmaker

At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may discard a card. If you do, choose a creature. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player this turn, you draw two cards.

Creature
Azra Oddsmaker (plst) BBD-75
Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (moc) 351
Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Creature
Chainer, Nightmare Adept (mh2) 289
Clone Shell

Imprint — When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. When this creature dies, turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature Artifact
Clone Shell (2xm) 241
Deal Broker

Draft this card face up. Immediately after the draft, you may reveal a card in your card pool. Each other player may offer you one card in their card pool in exchange. You may accept any one offer. {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature Artifact
Deal Broker (cns) 61
Dire Fleet Daredevil

First strike When this creature enters, exile target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. You may cast it this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Dire Fleet Daredevil (clb) 788
Dockside Extortionist

When this creature enters, create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Dockside Extortionist (2x2) 107
Duplicant

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Creature Artifact
Duplicant (moc) 355
Egon, God of Death

Creature
Egon, God of Death // Throne of Death (khm) 92Egon, God of Death // Throne of Death (khm) 92
Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Lifelink Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda. When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Creature
Elenda, the Dusk Rose (2x2) 207
Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar

Commanders you control have menace and deathtouch. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar (cmr) 126
Firja, Judge of Valor

Flying, lifelink Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Creature
Firja, Judge of Valor (khm) 209
Imperial Recruiter

When this creature enters, search your library for a creature card with power 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Imperial Recruiter (mh2) 281
Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Destroy target blue permanent. {1}{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Jaya Ballard deals 3 damage to any target. A creature dealt damage this way can't be regenerated this turn. {5}{R}{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Jaya Ballard deals 6 damage to each creature and each player.

Creature
Jaya Ballard, Task Mage (tsr) 172
Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer

First strike Metalcraft — Creatures you control get +3/+0 as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Creature
Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer (onc) 119
Karmic Guide

Flying, protection from black Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Karmic Guide (voc) 90
Lurrus of the Dream-Den

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Lifelink Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.

Creature
Lurrus of the Dream-Den (iko) 226
Marionette Master

Fabricate 3 (When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on it or create three 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.) Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to this creature's power.

Creature
Marionette Master (brc) 109
Necrotic Sliver

All Slivers have "{3}, Sacrifice this permanent: Destroy target permanent."

Creature
Necrotic Sliver (afc) 188
Noosegraf Mob

This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever a player casts a spell, remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Noosegraf Mob (bbd) 151
Seasoned Pyromancer

When this creature enters, discard two cards, then draw two cards. For each nonland card discarded this way, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token. {3}{R}{R}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens.

Creature
Seasoned Pyromancer (2x2) 123
Sewer Nemesis

As this creature enters, choose a player. Sewer Nemesis's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in the chosen player's graveyard. Whenever the chosen player casts a spell, that player mills a card.

Creature
Sewer Nemesis (clb) 771
Shrieking Mogg

Haste When this creature enters, tap all other creatures.

Creature
Shrieking Mogg (nem) 99
Skyclave Apparition

When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less. When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Creature
Skyclave Apparition (znr) 39
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (onc) 141
Staunch Throneguard

Vigilance When this creature enters, you become the monarch.

Creature Artifact
Staunch Throneguard (cmr) 344
Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

Flying Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Creature
Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle (brc) 77
Tymna the Weaver

Lifelink At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, you may pay X life, where X is the number of opponents that were dealt combat damage this turn. If you do, draw X cards. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tymna the Weaver (c16) 48
Valki, God of Lies

Creature
Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor (khm) 114Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor (khm) 114

Creatures

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Sorceries

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Agadeem's Awakening

Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
Merciless Eviction

Choose one — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all planeswalkers.

Sorcery
Merciless Eviction (onc) 120
Mythos of Snapdax

Each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest. If {B}{R} was spent to cast this spell, you choose the permanents for each player instead.

Sorcery
Mythos of Snapdax (iko) 24
Ruinous Ultimatum

Destroy all nonland permanents your opponents control.

Sorcery
Ruinous Ultimatum (iko) 204

Sorceries

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Enchantments

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

Enchantment
Dance of the Dead (ice) 118
Goblin Bombardment

Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

Enchantment
Goblin Bombardment (mh2) 279
Reconnaissance

{0}: Remove target attacking creature you control from combat and untap it. (If you activate during end of combat, the creature will untap after it deals combat damage.)

Enchantment
Reconnaissance (exo) 17
Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Enchantment
Revel in Riches (plst) XLN-117
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (2x2) 31
Sneak Attack

{R}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice the creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Sneak Attack (dmr) 139
Tortured Existence

{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Tortured Existence (plst) STH-74
Underworld Breach

Each nonland card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment
Underworld Breach (thb) 161
Valakut Exploration

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. At the beginning of your end step, if there are cards exiled with this enchantment, put them into their owner's graveyard, then this enchantment deals that much damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Valakut Exploration (znr) 175

Enchantments

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Instants

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (2x2) 170
Crackling Doom

Crackling Doom deals 2 damage to each opponent. Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.

Instant
Crackling Doom (2x2) 196
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (moc) 322
Szat's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Each opponent sacrifices a creature they control with the greatest power. • Exile all opponents' graveyards, then create X 0/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is the greatest power among creature cards exiled this way.

Instant
Szat's Will (cmr) 152

Instants

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Deck Info

Deck stats

23 pips - 17 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 11 cards
34 pips - 25 cards
24 mana - 23 cards
22 pips - 19 cards
23 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 11 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 6 cards
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