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Bringing Magic to Life - Celebrating with a Bang! - Aunt Sam
Deck Size: 93
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $297.11
Salt Sum: 50.3
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $1.99
Zedruu the Greathearted

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the number of permanents you own that your opponents control. {U}{R}{W}: Target opponent gains control of target permanent you control.

Creature
Zedruu the Greathearted (c16) 231
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 13Price: $44.60
Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn. Pay 50 life: Aetherflux Reservoir deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (plst) KLD-192
1
Azorius Cluestone

{T}: Add {W} or {U}. {W}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Azorius Cluestone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Azorius Cluestone (dgm) 136
1
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (scd) 259
1
Boros Signet

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

Artifact
Boros Signet (onc) 126
1
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (plst) C14-54
1
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (moc) 364
1
Mindslaver

{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Mindslaver: You control target player during that player's next turn. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)

Artifact
Mindslaver (plst) MRD-206
1
Pacification Array

{2}, {T}: Tap target artifact or creature.

Artifact
Pacification Array (aer) 168
1
Prototype Portal

Imprint — When Prototype Portal enters the battlefield, you may exile an artifact card from your hand. {X}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card. X is the mana value of that card.

Artifact
Prototype Portal (plst) SOM-195
1
Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (plst) TMP-306
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (plst) CMD-261
1
Spellbook

You have no maximum hand size.

Artifact
Spellbook (plst) 10E-343
1
Worn Powerstone

Worn Powerstone enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (scd) 288
1

Creatures

Quantity: 17Price: $33.25
Aura Thief

Flying When Aura Thief dies, you gain control of all enchantments. (You don't get to move Auras.)

Creature
Aura Thief (plst) UDS-26
1
Aven Mindcensor

Flash Flying If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.

Creature
Aven Mindcensor (clb) 688
1
Bazaar Trader

{T}: Target player gains control of target artifact, creature, or land you control.

Creature
Bazaar Trader (wwk) 72
1
Clone

You may have Clone enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Creature
Clone (m14) 47
1
Grid Monitor

You can't cast creature spells.

Creature Artifact
Grid Monitor (mrd) 183
1
Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer

{W}{U}, {T}: Put a bribery counter on target creature you don't control. Its controller draws a card. Creatures with bribery counters on them can't attack or block.

Creature
Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer (bbd) 223
1
Hanna, Ship's Navigator

{1}{W}{U}, {T}: Return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Hanna, Ship's Navigator (nec) 139
1
Hellkite Tyrant

Flying, trample Whenever Hellkite Tyrant deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Creature
Hellkite Tyrant (c21) 172
1
Mistmeadow Witch

{2}{W}{U}: Exile target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Mistmeadow Witch (2x2) 256
1
Platinum Angel

Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

Creature Artifact
Platinum Angel (plst) CN2-214
1
Primordial Ooze

Primordial Ooze attacks each combat if able. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on Primordial Ooze. Then you may pay {X}, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it. If you don't, tap Primordial Ooze and it deals X damage to you.

Creature
Primordial Ooze (5ed) 261
1
Rust Elemental

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice an artifact other than Rust Elemental. If you can't, tap Rust Elemental and you lose 4 life.

Creature Artifact
Rust Elemental (mrd) 234
1
Steel Golem

You can't cast creature spells.

Creature Artifact
Steel Golem (10e) 344
1
Taniwha

Trample Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) At the beginning of your upkeep, all lands you control phase out. (They phase in before you untap during your next untap step.)

Creature
Taniwha (mir) 95
1
Wall of Denial

Defender, flying Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Wall of Denial (plst) ARB-16
1
Wall of Omens

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

Creature
Wall of Omens (2x2) 33
1
Windborn Muse

Flying Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Creature
Windborn Muse (onc) 91
1

Enchantments

Quantity: 18Price: $76.66
Aggressive Mining

You can't play lands. Sacrifice a land: Draw two cards. Activate only once each turn.

Enchantment
Aggressive Mining (m15) 127
1
Assemble the Legion

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a muster counter on Assemble the Legion. Then create a 1/1 red and white Soldier creature token with haste for each muster counter on Assemble the Legion.

Enchantment
Assemble the Legion (onc) 115
1
Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped. Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (kld) 5
1
Celestial Dawn

Lands you control are Plains. Nonland permanents you control are white. The same is true for spells you control and nonland cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. You may spend white mana as though it were mana of any color. You may spend other mana only as though it were colorless mana.

Enchantment
Celestial Dawn (plst) TSB-3
1
Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Enchantment
Darksteel Mutation (voc) 84
1
Enchanted Evening

All permanents are enchantments in addition to their other types.

Enchantment
Enchanted Evening (plst) SHM-140
1
Eye of the Storm

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery card, exile it. Then that player copies each instant or sorcery card exiled with Eye of the Storm. For each copy, the player may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Eye of the Storm (plst) RAV-48
1
Form of the Dragon

At the beginning of your upkeep, Form of the Dragon deals 5 damage to any target. At the beginning of each end step, your life total becomes 5. Creatures without flying can't attack you.

Enchantment
Form of the Dragon (plst) 9ED-187
1
Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (onc) 71
1
Hive Mind

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, each other player copies that spell. Each of those players may choose new targets for their copy.

Enchantment
Hive Mind (m10) 54
1
Illusions of Grandeur

Cumulative upkeep {2} (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.) When Illusions of Grandeur enters the battlefield, you gain 20 life. When Illusions of Grandeur leaves the battlefield, you lose 20 life.

Enchantment
Illusions of Grandeur (ice) 79
1
Paradox Haze

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's first upkeep each turn, that player gets an additional upkeep step after this step.

Enchantment
Paradox Haze (plst) TSP-71
1
Puca's Mischief

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exchange control of target nonland permanent you control and target nonland permanent an opponent controls with an equal or lesser mana value.

Enchantment
Puca's Mischief (plst) SHM-47
1
Statecraft

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by creatures you control.

Enchantment
Statecraft (mmq) 106
1
Stony Silence

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

Enchantment
Stony Silence (mm3) 25
1
Thought Lash

Cumulative upkeep—Exile the top card of your library. (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.) When a player doesn't pay Thought Lash's cumulative upkeep, that player exiles all cards from their library. Exile the top card of your library: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Enchantment
Thought Lash (all) 39
1
Transcendence

You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. When you have 20 or more life, you lose the game. Whenever you lose life, you gain 2 life for each 1 life you lost. (Damage dealt to you causes you to lose life.)

Enchantment
Transcendence (tor) 20
1
Wild Research

{1}{W}: Search your library for an enchantment card and reveal that card. Put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Then shuffle. {1}{U}: Search your library for an instant card and reveal that card. Put it into your hand, then discard a card at random. Then shuffle.

Enchantment
Wild Research (plst) APC-72
1

Instants

Quantity: 8Price: $47.38
Cackling Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Cackling Counterpart (mm3) 32
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
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
Dispel

Counter target instant spell.

Instant
Dispel (plst) BFZ-76
1
Mirrorweave

Each other creature becomes a copy of target nonlegendary creature until end of turn.

Instant
Mirrorweave (cm2) 162
1
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
1
Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Instant
Rewind (m21) 63
1
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (moc) 211
1

Lands

Quantity: 29Price: $77.99
Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Battlefield Forge (bro) 257
1
Clifftop Retreat

Clifftop Retreat enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Clifftop Retreat (dmr) 241
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
Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
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
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (c16) 301
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (plst) AKH-258
8
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mom) 280
7
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (moc) 420
1
Rainbow Vale

{T}: Add one mana of any color. An opponent gains control of Rainbow Vale at the beginning of the next end step.

Land
Rainbow Vale (fem) 99
1
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (dmu) 255
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
Sulfur Falls

Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Sulfur Falls (dmr) 258
1
Temple of Epiphany

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

Land
Temple of Epiphany (moc) 433
1
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (moc) 437
1

Planeswalkers

Quantity: 1Price: $0.00
Venser, the Sojourner

+2: Exile target permanent you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. −1: Creatures can't be blocked this turn. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, exile target permanent."

Planeswalker
Venser, the Sojourner (ddi) 1
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 6Price: $15.24
Cleansing Meditation

Destroy all enchantments. Threshold — If seven or more cards are in your graveyard, instead destroy all enchantments, then return all cards in your graveyard destroyed this way to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Cleansing Meditation (tor) 3
1
Harmless Offering

Target opponent gains control of target permanent you control.

Sorcery
Harmless Offering (emn) 131
1
Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.) Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Sorcery
Rite of Replication (c21) 128
1
Scrambleverse

For each nonland permanent, choose a player at random. Then each player gains control of each permanent for which they were chosen. Untap those permanents.

Sorcery
Scrambleverse (m12) 153
1
Thieves' Auction

Exile all nontoken permanents. Starting with you, each player chooses one of the exiled cards and puts it onto the battlefield tapped under their control. Repeat this process until all cards exiled this way have been chosen.

Sorcery
Thieves' Auction (plst) MMQ-218
1
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (scd) 167
1

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