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Commander Focus — Azor, the Lawbringer - The Winking Sphinxter
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $737.96
Salt Sum: 59.5
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $1.99
Azor, the Lawbringer

Flying When Azor, the Lawbringer enters the battlefield, each opponent can't cast instant or sorcery spells during that player's next turn. Whenever Azor attacks, you may pay {X}{W}{U}{U}. If you do, you gain X life and draw X cards.

Creature
Azor, the Lawbringer (rix) 154
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 12Price: $47.58
Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
1
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (cmm) 941
1
Conjurer's Closet

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Artifact
Conjurer's Closet (2xm) 243
1
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (cmm) 382
1
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (cmm) 398
1
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (cmm) 961
1
Prismatic Lens

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

Artifact
Prismatic Lens (cmm) 403
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
1
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (scd) 279
1
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmm) 414
1
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (cmm) 415
1
Worn Powerstone

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

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (cmm) 984
1

Creatures

Quantity: 23Price: $123.13
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
Brago, King Eternal

Flying Whenever Brago, King Eternal deals combat damage to a player, exile any number of target nonland permanents you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Creature
Brago, King Eternal (khc) 82
1
Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Chasm Skulker. When Chasm Skulker dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Chasm Skulker. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature
Chasm Skulker (moc) 218
1
Deadeye Navigator

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{1}{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

Creature
Deadeye Navigator (mm3) 36
1
Eldrazi Displacer

Devoid (This card has no color.) {2}{C}: Exile another target creature, then return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Creature
Eldrazi Displacer (plst) OGW-13
1
Felidar Sovereign

Vigilance, lifelink At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 40 or more life, you win the game.

Creature
Felidar Sovereign (plst) BFZ-26
1
Galepowder Mage

Flying Whenever Galepowder Mage attacks, exile another target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Galepowder Mage (clb) 694
1
Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature
Grand Abolisher (cmm) 27
1
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV (2x2) 221
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 (cmm) 340
1
Identity Thief

Whenever Identity Thief attacks, you may exile another target nontoken creature. If you do, Identity Thief becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. Return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Identity Thief (ncc) 224
1
Iona, Shield of Emeria

Flying As Iona, Shield of Emeria enters the battlefield, choose a color. Your opponents can't cast spells of the chosen color.

Creature
Iona, Shield of Emeria (mm2) 20
1
Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (plst) ISD-61
1
Lavinia of the Tenth

Protection from red When Lavinia of the Tenth enters the battlefield, detain each nonland permanent your opponents control with mana value 4 or less. (Until your next turn, those permanents can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)

Creature
Lavinia of the Tenth (dgm) 80
1
Linvala, Keeper of Silence

Flying Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.

Creature
Linvala, Keeper of Silence (jmp) 119
1
Llawan, Cephalid Empress

When Llawan, Cephalid Empress enters the battlefield, return all blue creatures your opponents control to their owners' hands. Your opponents can't cast blue creature spells.

Creature
Llawan, Cephalid Empress (plst) TOR-42
1
Loxodon Gatekeeper

Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Loxodon Gatekeeper (plst) RAV-25
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
Nephalia Smuggler

{3}{U}, {T}: Exile another target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Nephalia Smuggler (2x2) 61
1
Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Psychosis Crawler (moc) 371
1
Thalia, Heretic Cathar

First strike Creatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Thalia, Heretic Cathar (emn) 46
1
Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Flying Sphinx spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign or another Sphinx enters the battlefield under your control, reveal the top four cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Creature
Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign (hou) 52
1
Void Winnower

Your opponents can't cast spells with even mana values. (Zero is even.) Your opponents can't block with creatures with even mana values.

Creature
Void Winnower (bfz) 17
1

Enchantments

Quantity: 16Price: $76.01
Absolute Grace

All creatures have protection from black.

Enchantment
Absolute Grace (usg) 1
1
Absolute Law

All creatures have protection from red.

Enchantment
Absolute Law (usg) 2
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
Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (c17) 57
1
Collective Restraint

Domain — Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {X} for each creature they control that's attacking you, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Enchantment
Collective Restraint (plst) INV-49
1
Consulate Crackdown

When Consulate Crackdown enters the battlefield, exile all artifacts your opponents control until Consulate Crackdown leaves the battlefield.

Enchantment
Consulate Crackdown (aer) 11
1
Crackdown

Nonwhite creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Enchantment
Crackdown (mmq) 15
1
Frozen Aether

Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Frozen Aether (plst) PLC-54
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
Greater Auramancy

Other enchantments you control have shroud. (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Enchanted creatures you control have shroud.

Enchantment
Greater Auramancy (shm) 7
1
Kismet

Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Kismet (6ed) 27
1
Leyline of Sanctity

If Leyline of Sanctity is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Enchantment
Leyline of Sanctity (m20) 26
1
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (clb) 730
1
Skybind

Constellation — Whenever Skybind or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, exile target nonenchantment permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Skybind (jou) 25
1
Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {X} for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Enchantment
Sphere of Safety (c16) 77
1
Test of Endurance

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 50 or more life, you win the game.

Enchantment
Test of Endurance (dmr) 32
1

Instants

Quantity: 4Price: $43.62
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 (cmm) 84
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 (cmm) 49
1
Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Return to Dust (cmm) 52
1
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (cmm) 841
1

Lands

Quantity: 39Price: $437.07
Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (2x2) 320
1
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Command Beacon: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (cmr) 349
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 420
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (cmm) 993
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
Hall of the Bandit Lord

Hall of the Bandit Lord enters the battlefield tapped. {T}, Pay 3 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.

Land
Hall of the Bandit Lord (plst) CHK-277
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 (woe) 263
10
Kor Haven

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{W}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn.

Land
Kor Haven (nem) 141
1
Mystic Gate

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

Land
Mystic Gate (cmm) 1013
1
Nimbus Maze

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains.

Land
Nimbus Maze (afc) 252
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 (cmm) 423
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (woe) 262
10
Reflecting Pool

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

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
1
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 425
1
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (cmm) 426
1
Scavenger Grounds

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

Land
Scavenger Grounds (cmm) 1027
1
Serra's Sanctum

{T}: Add {W} for each enchantment you control.

Land
Serra's Sanctum (usg) 325
1
Skycloud Expanse

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

Land
Skycloud Expanse (cmm) 1035
1
Terrain Generator

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Land
Terrain Generator (clb) 926
1

Planeswalkers

Quantity: 2Price: $1.29
Dovin Baan

+1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gets -3/-0 and its activated abilities can't be activated. −1: You gain 2 life and draw a card. −7: You get an emblem with "Your opponents can't untap more than two permanents during their untap steps."

Planeswalker
Dovin Baan (kld) 179
1
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

Sorceries

Quantity: 3Price: $7.27
Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (moc) 172
1
Fractured Identity

Exile target nonland permanent. Each player other than its controller creates a token that's a copy of it.

Sorcery
Fractured Identity (c17) 37
1
Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (2x2) 280
1

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