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Challenge the Stats – Outmaneuver Your Opponents - Zaffai Outmaneuvers for X=9 or more
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Est deck cost: $182.33
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Commander

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Zaffai, Thunder Conductor

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1. If that spell's mana value is 5 or greater, create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token. If that spell's mana value is 10 or greater, Zaffai deals 10 damage to an opponent chosen at random.

Creature
Zaffai, Thunder Conductor (c21) 4

Commander

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Lands

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Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Desolate Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}{R}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Land
Desolate Lighthouse (clb) 890
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (moc) 398
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
Izzet Boilerworks

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Land
Izzet Boilerworks (brc) 188
Mirrorpool

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}{C}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {4}{C}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

Land
Mirrorpool (plst) OGW-174
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mom) 280
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (moc) 416
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
Shivan Reef

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

Land
Shivan Reef (dmu) 255
Surtland Frostpyre

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {2}{U}{U}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Scry 2. This land deals 2 damage to each creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Surtland Frostpyre (khm) 271
Temple of Epiphany

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Epiphany (moc) 433

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
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (moc) 362
Pyromancer's Goggles

{T}: Add {R}. When that mana is spent to cast a red instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

Artifact
Pyromancer's Goggles (c21) 259
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
Talisman of Creativity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (clb) 876

Artifacts

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Sorceries

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Apex of Power

Exile the top seven cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among them. If this spell was cast from your hand, add ten mana of any one color.

Sorcery
Apex of Power (afc) 114
Brass's Bounty

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

Sorcery
Brass's Bounty (moc) 272
Cathartic Reunion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards. Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Cathartic Reunion (2xm) 121
Chart a Course

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

Sorcery
Chart a Course (jmp) 142
Creative Technique

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it.) Shuffle your library, then reveal cards from the top of it until you reveal a nonland card. Exile that card and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Creative Technique (c21) 49
Elemental Masterpiece

Create two 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature tokens. {U/R}{U/R}, Discard this card: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Elemental Masterpiece (stx) 182
Explosion of Riches

Draw a card, then each other player may draw a card. Whenever a card is drawn this way, Explosion of Riches deals 5 damage to target opponent chosen at random from among your opponents.

Sorcery
Explosion of Riches (scd) 140
Expressive Iteration

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Sorcery
Expressive Iteration (brc) 125
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (brc) 116
Finale of Promise

You may cast up to one target instant card and/or up to one target sorcery card from your graveyard each with mana value X or less without paying their mana costs. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. If X is 10 or more, copy each of those spells twice. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Sorcery
Finale of Promise (war) 127
Finale of Revelation

Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game. Exile Finale of Revelation.

Sorcery
Finale of Revelation (war) 51
Ignite the Future

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may play cards this way without paying their mana costs. Flashback {7}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Ignite the Future (j22) 555
Immolating Gyre

Immolating Gyre deals X damage to each creature and planeswalker you don't control, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Immolating Gyre (jmp) 20
Inspiring Refrain

Draw two cards. Exile Inspiring Refrain with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{2}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{U} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Inspiring Refrain (c21) 27
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 (clb) 799
Khorvath's Fury

For each player, choose friend or foe. Each friend discards all cards from their hand, then draws that many cards plus one. Khorvath's Fury deals damage to each foe equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Sorcery
Khorvath's Fury (bbd) 59
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (scd) 151
Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery. Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mizzix's Mastery (plst) C15-29
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 (ncc) 229
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 (j22) 63
Replication Technique

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Players may choose new targets for their copies.) Create a token that's a copy of target permanent you control.

Sorcery
Replication Technique (c21) 31
Rousing Refrain

Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end. Exile Rousing Refrain with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{1}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{R} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Rousing Refrain (c21) 56
Seize the Spoils

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Seize the Spoils (khm) 149
Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery
Serum Visions (j22) 345
Spelltwine

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. Copy those cards. Cast the copies if able without paying their mana costs. Exile Spelltwine.

Sorcery
Spelltwine (c17) 94
Strike It Rich

Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Strike It Rich (mh2) 143
Surge to Victory

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Creatures you control get +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's mana value. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player this turn, copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Surge to Victory (c21) 58
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (ncc) 237
Volcanic Vision

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Volcanic Vision deals damage equal to that card's mana value to each creature your opponents control. Exile Volcanic Vision.

Sorcery
Volcanic Vision (c21) 182

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 (stx) 37
Deekah, Fractal Theorist

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is that spell's mana value. {3}{U}: Target creature token can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Deekah, Fractal Theorist (c21) 26
Storm-Kiln Artist

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Storm-Kiln Artist (stx) 115

Creatures

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Enchantments

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Metallurgic Summonings

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is that spell's mana value. {3}{U}{U}, Exile this enchantment: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.

Enchantment
Metallurgic Summonings (c21) 122
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 (iko) 67
Sorcerer Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) When this Class enters, draw two cards, then discard two cards. {U}{R}: Level 2 Creatures you control have "{T}: Add {U} or {R}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell or to gain a Class level." {3}{U}{R}: Level 3 Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, that spell deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of instant and sorcery spells you've cast this turn.

Enchantment
Sorcerer Class (afr) 233
Sunbird's Invocation

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Enchantment
Sunbird's Invocation (scd) 159
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

Enchantments

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Instants

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Aetherspouts

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Instant
Aetherspouts (mic) 97
Comet Storm

Multikicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} any number of times as you cast this spell.) Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

Instant
Comet Storm (cmr) 411
Creative Outburst

Creative Outburst deals 5 damage to any target. Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. {U/R}{U/R}, Discard this card: Create a Treasure token.

Instant
Creative Outburst (stx) 171
Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Dig Through Time (ncc) 219
Electrodominance

Electrodominance deals X damage to any target. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Electrodominance (rna) 99
Expansion

Instant
Expansion // Explosion (grn) 224
Fast

Instant
Fast // Furious (mh2) 123
Frantic Search

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

Instant
Frantic Search (dmr) 51
Fury Storm

When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. You may choose new targets for the copies. Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Fury Storm (c18) 22
Logic Knot

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.

Instant
Logic Knot (tsr) 73
Magma Opus

Magma Opus deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Tap two target permanents. Create a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token. Draw two cards. {U/R}{U/R}, Discard this card: Create a Treasure token.

Instant
Magma Opus (stx) 203
Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Return target creature to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Instant
Mystic Confluence (ncc) 227
Opt

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

Instant
Opt (j22) 332
Outmaneuver

X target blocked creatures assign their combat damage this turn as though they weren't blocked.

Instant
Outmaneuver (usg) 205
Practical Research

Draw four cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an instant or sorcery card.

Instant
Practical Research (stx) 212
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (moc) 231
Reinterpret

Counter target spell. You may cast a spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Reinterpret (c21) 73
Reiterate

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Reiterate (tsr) 182
Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Instant
Resculpt (stx) 51
Runeflare Trap

If an opponent drew three or more cards this turn, you may pay {R} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Runeflare Trap deals damage to target player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Instant
Runeflare Trap (zen) 146
Seething Song

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

Instant
Seething Song (c21) 179
Silundi Vision

Instant
Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80
Valakut Awakening

Instant
Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (znr) 174Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (znr) 174

Instants

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