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Archetypes of Imagination - Making a Cantrip Commander Deck - Archetypes of Imagination - Building a Cantrip Deck
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Commander

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Bria, Riptide Rogue

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Other creatures you control have prowess. (If a creature has multiple instances of prowess, each triggers separately.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Bria, Riptide Rogue (blb) 379

Commander

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Lands

Qty: 33 Price: $74.48
Cascade Bluffs

{T}: Add {C}. {U/R}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Cascade Bluffs (tdc) 345
Ferrous Lake

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

Land
Ferrous Lake (tdc) 361
Fiery Islet

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U} or {R}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Fiery Islet (who) 278
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (tdm) 280
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (tdm) 283
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Riverglide Pathway

Land
Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (plst) ZNR-264Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (plst) ZNR-264
Riverpyre Verge

{T}: Add {R}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control an Island or a Mountain.

Land
Riverpyre Verge (dft) 260
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (tdc) 393
Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

{T}: Add {R}. Channel — {3}{R}, Discard this card: Create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance (neo) 276
Stormcarved Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Stormcarved Coast (inr) 285
Training Center

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

Land
Training Center (cmm) 434

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 (tdc) 105
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (tdc) 320
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (tdc) 106
Talisman of Creativity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (pip) 244

Artifacts

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Sorceries

Qty: 18 Price: $80.62
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 (drc) 101
Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Sorcery
Chart a Course (blc) 110
Crash Through

Creatures you control gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Draw a card.

Sorcery
Crash Through (plst) M19-133
Enter the Enigma

Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Enter the Enigma (dsk) 52
Full Throttle

After this main phase, there are two additional combat phases. At the beginning of each combat this turn, untap all creatures that attacked this turn.

Sorcery
Full Throttle (dft) 127
Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Gitaxian Probe (mb2) 28
Haze of Rage

Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Sorcery
Haze of Rage (tsr) 169
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (mkc) 156
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (tdc) 159
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (tdc) 161
Relentless Assault

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Sorcery
Relentless Assault (mb2) 132
Renegade Tactics

Target creature can't block this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Renegade Tactics (j25) 590
Rise from the Tides

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Rise from the Tides (inr) 82
Season of Weaving

Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. {P} — Draw a card. {P}{P} — Choose an artifact or creature you control. Create a token that's a copy of it. {P}{P}{P} — Return each nonland, nontoken permanent to its owner's hand.

Sorcery
Season of Weaving (blb) 68
Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery
Serum Visions (otc) 112
Slip Through Space

Devoid (This card has no color.) Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Slip Through Space (plst) OGW-47
Warlord's Fury

Creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Warlord's Fury (dom) 151
World at War

After the second main phase this turn, there's an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all creatures that attacked this turn. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
World at War (plst) ROE-172

Sorceries

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Creatures

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Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature
Archmage Emeritus (tdc) 145
Balmor, Battlemage Captain

Flying Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain trample until end of turn.

Creature
Balmor, Battlemage Captain (fdn) 237
Crackling Cyclops

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Crackling Cyclops (fdn) 83
Dragon's Rage Channeler

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) Delirium — As long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and attacks each combat if able.

Creature
Dragon's Rage Channeler (mb2) 56
Drake Hatcher

Vigilance, prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put that many incubation counters on it. Remove three incubation counters from this creature: Create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Creature
Drake Hatcher (fdn) 35
Goblin Electromancer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Goblin Electromancer (tdc) 99
Harmonic Prodigy

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) If an ability of a Shaman or another Wizard you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Harmonic Prodigy (mh2) 132
Haughty Djinn

Flying Haughty Djinn's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Haughty Djinn (tdc) 154
Khenra Spellspear

Creature
Khenra Spellspear // Gitaxian Spellstalker (mom) 151Khenra Spellspear // Gitaxian Spellstalker (mom) 151
Kiln Fiend

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Kiln Fiend (j25) 139
Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Creature
Murmuring Mystic (j25) 107
Pinnacle Monk

Creature
Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246
Slickshot Show-Off

Flying, haste Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Plot {1}{R} (You may pay {1}{R} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Slickshot Show-Off (otj) 146
Stormcatch Mentor

Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Stormcatch Mentor (blb) 234
Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Creature
Talrand, Sky Summoner (otc) 116
Third Path Iconoclast

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.

Creature
Third Path Iconoclast (tdc) 307
Valley Floodcaller

Flash You may cast noncreature spells as though they had flash. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Birds, Frogs, Otters, and Rats you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap them.

Creature
Valley Floodcaller (blb) 79
Veyran, Voice of Duality

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Veyran gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If you casting or copying an instant or sorcery spell causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Veyran, Voice of Duality (tdc) 310
Young Pyromancer

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

Creature
Young Pyromancer (tdc) 95

Creatures

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Enchantments

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Shark Typhoon

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value. Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Shark Typhoon (dsc) 127

Enchantments

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Instants

Qty: 24 Price: $80.44
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 (drc) 70
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (dsc) 113
Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Draw a card.

Instant
Consider (tdc) 148
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Crimson Wisps

Target creature becomes red and gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.) Draw a card.

Instant
Crimson Wisps (j25) 533
Cryptic Command

Choose two — • Counter target spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures your opponents control. • Draw a card.

Instant
Cryptic Command (plst) IMA-48
Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Disdainful Stroke (woe) 47
Expedite

Target creature gains haste until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Expedite (cmr) 413
Fists of Flame

Draw a card. Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and gets +1/+0 for each card you've drawn this turn. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Instant
Fists of Flame (j25) 550
Flame of Anor

Choose one. If you control a Wizard as you cast this spell, you may choose two instead. • Target player draws two cards. • Destroy target artifact. • Flame of Anor deals 5 damage to target creature.

Instant
Flame of Anor (ltr) 203
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (tdc) 153
Great Train Heist

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2}{R} — Untap all creatures you control. If it's your combat phase, there is an additional combat phase after this phase. + {2} — Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn. + {R} — Choose target opponent. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to that player this turn, create a tapped Treasure token.

Instant
Great Train Heist (otj) 125
Leap

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Leap (plst) STH-35
Mental Note

Mill two cards. Draw a card.

Instant
Mental Note (plst) JUD-46
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (tdc) 158
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (tdc) 160
Psychotic Fury

Target multicolored creature gains double strike until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Psychotic Fury (dis) 68
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (blc) 111
Rush of Inspiration

Instant
Rush of Inspiration // Crackling Falls (mh3) 257Rush of Inspiration // Crackling Falls (mh3) 257
Savage Beating

Cast this spell only during combat on your turn. Choose one — • Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. • Untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Entwine {1}{R} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Savage Beating (cmm) 252
Strix Serenade

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Strix Serenade (mh3) 71
Swan Song

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

Instant
Swan Song (ltc) 197
Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.

Instant
Thought Scour (2x2) 65
Untimely Malfunction

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target. • One or two target creatures can't block this turn.

Instant
Untimely Malfunction (dsk) 161

Instants

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