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Achievement Unlocked - Building a Literal Elder Dragon Highlander Deck - Elder Dragons Highlander
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $10.99
Scion of the Ur-Dragon

Flying {2}: Search your library for a Dragon permanent card and put it into your graveyard. If you do, Scion of the Ur-Dragon becomes a copy of that card until end of turn. Then shuffle.

Creature
Scion of the Ur-Dragon (c17) 192
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 5Price: $14.75
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (moc) 348
1
Dragon's Hoard

Whenever a Dragon enters the battlefield under your control, put a gold counter on Dragon's Hoard. {T}, Remove a gold counter from Dragon's Hoard: Draw a card. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Dragon's Hoard (scd) 264
1
Fist of Suns

You may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast.

Artifact
Fist of Suns (plst) C17-211
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: 23Price: $85.03
Arcades Sabboth

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Arcades Sabboth unless you pay {G}{W}{U}. Each untapped creature you control gets +0/+2 as long as it's not attacking. {W}: Arcades Sabboth gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Arcades Sabboth (dmr) 187
1
Arcades, the Strategist

Flying, vigilance Whenever a creature with defender enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card. Each creature you control with defender assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature
Arcades, the Strategist (plst) M19-212
1
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (dmr) 151
1
Bloom Tender

{T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Creature
Bloom Tender (2x2) 138
1
Chromium

Flying Rampage 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.) At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Chromium unless you pay {W}{U}{B}.

Creature
Chromium (chr) 74
1
Chromium, the Mutable

Flash This spell can't be countered. Flying Discard a card: Until end of turn, Chromium, the Mutable becomes a Human with base power and toughness 1/1, loses all abilities, and gains hexproof. It can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Chromium, the Mutable (m19) 214
1
Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
1
Faeburrow Elder

Vigilance Faeburrow Elder gets +1/+1 for each color among permanents you control. {T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Creature
Faeburrow Elder (dmc) 149
1
Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of a creature or creature card. Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea and untap it.

Creature
Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea (bro) 185
1
Minion of the Mighty

Menace Pack tactics — Whenever Minion of the Mighty attacks, if you attacked with creatures with total power 6 or greater this combat, you may put a Dragon creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking.

Creature
Minion of the Mighty (afr) 156
1
Nicol Bolas

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Nicol Bolas unless you pay {U}{B}{R}. Whenever Nicol Bolas deals damage to an opponent, that player discards their hand.

Creature
Nicol Bolas (plst) A25-209
1
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager

Creature
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen (m19) 218Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen (m19) 218
1
Orator of Ojutai

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. Defender, flying When Orator of Ojutai enters the battlefield, if you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast this spell, draw a card.

Creature
Orator of Ojutai (c17) 67
1
Palladia-Mors

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Palladia-Mors unless you pay {R}{G}{W}.

Creature
Palladia-Mors (chr) 82
1
Palladia-Mors, the Ruiner

Flying, vigilance, trample Palladia-Mors, the Ruiner has hexproof if it hasn't dealt damage yet.

Creature
Palladia-Mors, the Ruiner (m19) 219
1
Piru, the Volatile

Flying, lifelink At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Piru, the Volatile unless you pay {R}{W}{B}. When Piru dies, it deals 7 damage to each nonlegendary creature.

Creature
Piru, the Volatile (mh2) 207
1
Rivaz of the Claw

Menace {T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Dragon creature spells. Once during each of your turns, you may cast a Dragon creature spell from your graveyard. Whenever you cast a Dragon creature spell from your graveyard, it gains "When this creature dies, exile it."

Creature
Rivaz of the Claw (dmu) 215
1
Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Sylvan Caryatid (ths) 180
1
Vaevictis Asmadi

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Vaevictis Asmadi unless you pay {B}{R}{G}. {B}: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {R}: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {G}: Vaevictis Asmadi gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Vaevictis Asmadi (chr) 89
1
Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire

Flying Whenever Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire attacks, for each player, choose target permanent that player controls. Those players sacrifice those permanents. Each player who sacrificed a permanent this way reveals the top card of their library, then puts it onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card.

Creature
Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire (plst) M19-225
1
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When Wall of Blossoms enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (jmp) 442
1
Wall of Omens

Defender When Wall of Omens enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (2x2) 33
1
Wall of Roots

Defender Put a -0/-1 counter on Wall of Roots: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Wall of Roots (ncc) 319
1

Enchantments

Quantity: 4Price: $67.96
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
1
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
1
Rhythm of the Wild

Creature spells you control can't be countered. Nontoken creatures you control have riot. (They enter the battlefield with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)

Enchantment
Rhythm of the Wild (nec) 142
1
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
1

Instants

Quantity: 18Price: $252.52
An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (snc) 51
1
Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (2x2) 170
1
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (voc) 102
1
Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (2x2) 175
1
Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (onc) 104
1
Boros Charm

Choose one — • Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Boros Charm (onc) 116
1
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (afc) 79
1
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (moc) 273
1
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
1
Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant
Deflecting Swat (c20) 50
1
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (c20) 35
1
Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Harrow (znc) 69
1
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (afc) 161
1
Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant
Nature's Claim (plst) IMA-177
1
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (moc) 198
1
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
1
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (moc) 211
1
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 32
1

Lands

Quantity: 35Price: $585.45
Arid Mesa

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

Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 244
1
Blood Crypt

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

Land
Blood Crypt (plst) DIS-171
1
Bloodstained Mire

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

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ktk) 230
1
Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Breeding Pool (rna) 246
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (moc) 398
1
Field of the Dead

Field of the Dead enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever Field of the Dead or another land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land
Field of the Dead (m20) 247
1
Flooded Strand

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

Land
Flooded Strand (ktk) 233
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mom) 281
1
Godless Shrine

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

Land
Godless Shrine (rna) 248
1
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
1
Haven of the Spirit Dragon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Dragon creature spell. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Haven of the Spirit Dragon: Return target Dragon creature card or Ugin planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Haven of the Spirit Dragon (scd) 304
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
1
Jetmir's Garden

({T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.) Jetmir's Garden enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Jetmir's Garden (snc) 250
1
Mana Confluence

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

Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
1
Marsh Flats

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

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
1
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Misty Rainforest: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mom) 280
1
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As Overgrown Tomb enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (grn) 253
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
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
1
Raffine's Tower

({T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.) Raffine's Tower enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Raffine's Tower (snc) 254
1
Reflecting Pool

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

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
1
Sacred Foundry

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

Land
Sacred Foundry (grn) 254
1
Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
1
Spara's Headquarters

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.) Spara's Headquarters enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 257
1
Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Steam Vents (grn) 257
1
Stomping Ground

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Stomping Ground (rna) 259
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
1
Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) As Temple Garden enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Temple Garden (grn) 258
1
Verdant Catacombs

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

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
1
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (grn) 259
1
Windswept Heath

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

Land
Windswept Heath (ktk) 248
1
Wooded Foothills

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

Land
Wooded Foothills (ktk) 249
1
Xander's Lounge

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.) Xander's Lounge enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Xander's Lounge (snc) 260
1

Sorceries

Quantity: 12Price: $51.04
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (scd) 124
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
Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Exhume (jmp) 230
1
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (dmc) 133
1
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (plst) A25-96
1
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (dmr) 170
1
Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Patriarch's Bidding (mh2) 275
1
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (2x2) 155
1
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (jmp) 270
1
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (clb) 837
1
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (2xm) 110
1
Unburial Rites

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback {3}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Unburial Rites (2x2) 95
1

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