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Commander 2018 Set Review — Gold (Pt 2), Artifacts, and Lands - Juggling Hot Potatoes with Xantcha
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Est deck cost: $791.65
Salt Sum: 31.69
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Commander

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Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

Xantcha, Sleeper Agent enters the battlefield under the control of an opponent of your choice. Xantcha attacks each combat if able and can't attack its owner or planeswalkers its owner controls. {3}: Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

Creature
Xantcha, Sleeper Agent (cmm) 362
1

Artifact

Quantity: 11Price: $22.81
Coveted Jewel

When Coveted Jewel enters the battlefield, draw three cards. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of Coveted Jewel. Untap it.

Artifact
Coveted Jewel (moc) 353
1
Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact
Crawlspace (dmr) 217
1
Crown of Doom

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn. {2}: Target player other than Crown of Doom's owner gains control of it. Activate only during your turn.

Artifact
Crown of Doom (c14) 55
1
Crystal Chimes

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Crystal Chimes: Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Artifact
Crystal Chimes (plst) C15-250
1
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
1
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (cmm) 382
1
Heartstone

Activated abilities of creatures cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Artifact
Heartstone (sth) 134
1
Rakdos Cluestone

{T}: Add {B} or {R}. {B}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Rakdos Cluestone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Rakdos Cluestone (dgm) 143
1
Rakdos Keyrune

{T}: Add {B} or {R}. {B}{R}: Rakdos Keyrune becomes a 3/1 black and red Devil artifact creature with first strike until end of turn.

Artifact
Rakdos Keyrune (rtr) 232
1
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (scd) 272
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
1

Creature

Quantity: 12Price: $35.86
Bloodgift Demon

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Creature
Bloodgift Demon (scd) 69
1
Carnage Gladiator

Whenever a creature blocks, that creature's controller loses 1 life. {1}{B}{R}: Regenerate Carnage Gladiator.

Creature
Carnage Gladiator (mm3) 155
1
Combustible Gearhulk

First strike When Combustible Gearhulk enters the battlefield, target opponent may have you draw three cards. If the player doesn't, you mill three cards, then Combustible Gearhulk deals damage to that player equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Creature Artifact
Combustible Gearhulk (scd) 128
1
Dread

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it. When Dread is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Creature
Dread (lrw) 107
1
Geode Golem

Trample Whenever Geode Golem deals combat damage to a player, you may cast your commander from the command zone without paying its mana cost. (You still pay any additional costs.)

Creature Artifact
Geode Golem (cmm) 386
1
Inferno Titan

{R}: Inferno Titan gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Whenever Inferno Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Creature
Inferno Titan (cmm) 235
1
Kaervek the Merciless

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, Kaervek the Merciless deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.

Creature
Kaervek the Merciless (scd) 233
1
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When Noxious Gearhulk enters the battlefield, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (moc) 260
1
Patron of the Vein

Flying When Patron of the Vein enters the battlefield, destroy target creature an opponent controls. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Creature
Patron of the Vein (voc) 135
1
Sower of Discord

Flying As Sower of Discord enters the battlefield, choose two players. Whenever damage is dealt to one of the chosen players, the other chosen player also loses that much life.

Creature
Sower of Discord (cmm) 187
1
Walking Desecration

{B}, {T}: Creatures of the creature type of your choice attack this turn if able.

Creature
Walking Desecration (ons) 180
1
Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink When Wurmcoil Engine dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Creature Artifact
Wurmcoil Engine (2xm) 308
1

Enchantment

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Battle Strain

Whenever a creature blocks, Battle Strain deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

Enchantment
Battle Strain (ody) 177
1
Bedlam

Creatures can't block.

Enchantment
Bedlam (plst) USG-175
1
Binding Agony

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, Binding Agony deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

Enchantment
Binding Agony (mir) 106
1
Curse of Bloodletting

Enchant player If a source would deal damage to enchanted player, it deals double that damage to that player instead.

Enchantment
Curse of Bloodletting (dka) 85
1
Destructive Urge

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a land.

Enchantment
Destructive Urge (usg) 180
1
Dust Corona

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and can't be blocked by creatures with flying.

Enchantment
Dust Corona (plc) 97
1
Festering Wound

Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put an infection counter on Festering Wound. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Festering Wound deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of infection counters on Festering Wound.

Enchantment
Festering Wound (uds) 61
1
Fists of the Demigod

Enchant creature As long as enchanted creature is black, it gets +1/+1 and has wither. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) As long as enchanted creature is red, it gets +1/+1 and has first strike.

Enchantment
Fists of the Demigod (shm) 187
1
Frenzied Rage

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Enchantment
Frenzied Rage (dom) 124
1
Giant Spectacle

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has menace.

Enchantment
Giant Spectacle (plst) KLD-116
1
Heat of Battle

Whenever a creature blocks, Heat of Battle deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

Enchantment
Heat of Battle (sth) 88
1
Lust for War

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, Lust for War deals 3 damage to that creature's controller. Enchanted creature attacks each combat if able.

Enchantment
Lust for War (roe) 157
1
Marchesa's Decree

When Marchesa's Decree enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Marchesa's Decree (cn2) 44
1
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 308
1
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 104
1
Pretender's Claim

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature becomes blocked, tap all lands defending player controls.

Enchantment
Pretender's Claim (mmq) 151
1
Ragged Veins

Flash Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, its controller loses that much life.

Enchantment
Ragged Veins (chk) 139
1
Repercussion

Whenever a creature is dealt damage, Repercussion deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

Enchantment
Repercussion (uds) 95
1
Seizures

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, Seizures deals 3 damage to that creature's controller unless that player pays {3}.

Enchantment
Seizures (ice) 159
1
Spiteful Shadows

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to its controller.

Enchantment
Spiteful Shadows (dka) 75
1
Spiteful Visions

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Whenever a player draws a card, Spiteful Visions deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Spiteful Visions (scd) 245
1
Treacherous Link

Enchant creature All damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature is dealt to its controller instead.

Enchantment
Treacherous Link (ulg) 71
1
War Cadence

{X}{R}: This turn, creatures can't block unless their controller pays {X} for each blocking creature they control.

Enchantment
War Cadence (c13) 128
1

Instant

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Abnormal Endurance

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant
Abnormal Endurance (m19) 85
1
Backlash

Tap target untapped creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to its controller.

Instant
Backlash (inv) 234
1
Delirium

Cast this spell only during an opponent's turn. Tap target creature that player controls. That creature deals damage equal to its power to the player. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by the creature this turn.

Instant
Delirium (mir) 260
1
Hero's Downfall

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Hero's Downfall (dmc) 112
1
Necrobite

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Regenerate it. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat. Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Instant
Necrobite (m15) 105
1
Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (scd) 239
1
Renegade's Getaway

Target permanent gains indestructible until end of turn. Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy a permanent with indestructible, and if it's a creature, it can't be destroyed by damage.)

Instant
Renegade's Getaway (plst) AER-69
1
Supernatural Stamina

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant
Supernatural Stamina (cmm) 188
1
Thrilling Encore

Put onto the battlefield under your control all creature cards in all graveyards that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Instant
Thrilling Encore (bbd) 53
1
Undying Evil

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Instant
Undying Evil (dka) 77
1
Unnatural Endurance

Devoid (This card has no color.) Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Regenerate it.

Instant
Unnatural Endurance (ogw) 80
1

Land

Quantity: 37Price: $672.23
Badlands

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

Land
Badlands (3ed) 282
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
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
1
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
1
Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Canyon Slough enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Canyon Slough (akh) 239
1
Contested War Zone

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, that creature's controller gains control of Contested War Zone. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Attacking creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Land
Contested War Zone (mbs) 144
1
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land
Field of Ruin (moc) 400
1
Graven Cairns

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

Land
Graven Cairns (2xm) 320
1
Luxury Suite

Luxury Suite enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (woe) 265
8
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
1
Petrified Field

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Petrified Field: Return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Petrified Field (plst) ODY-323
1
Rakdos Carnarium

Rakdos Carnarium enters the battlefield tapped. When Rakdos Carnarium enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (brc) 194
1
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 425
1
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (cmm) 1027
1
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Smoldering Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (cmm) 1036
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (woe) 264
11
Throne of the High City

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Throne of the High City: You become the monarch.

Land
Throne of the High City (cn2) 80
1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
1

Sorcery

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Ashes to Ashes

Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.

Sorcery
Ashes to Ashes (5ed) 141
1
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (moc) 259
1
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107
1
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (scd) 111
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 (cmm) 267
1

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