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From the Brim to the Trim - Smoldering Budget and Opponents Alike - Piru, and then Piru, and then more Piru
Deck Size: 100
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Commander

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Piru, the Volatile

Flying, lifelink At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Piru, the Volatile unless you pay {R}{W}{B}. When Piru dies, it deals 7 damage to each nonlegendary creature.

Creature
Piru, the Volatile (mh2) 207

Commander

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Lands

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Archway Commons

Archway Commons enters tapped. When Archway Commons enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Archway Commons (stx) 263
Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (j22) 809
Battlefield Forge

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

Land
Battlefield Forge (bro) 257
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
Boros Garrison

Boros Garrison enters tapped. When Boros Garrison enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{W}.

Land
Boros Garrison (onc) 146
Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (dmu) 244
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 420
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (plst) RIX-186
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (plst) CON-142
Gateway Plaza

Gateway Plaza enters tapped. When Gateway Plaza enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Gateway Plaza (plst) GRN-247
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (cmm) 448
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: 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
Nomad Outpost

Nomad Outpost enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.

Land
Nomad Outpost (dmc) 222
Orzhov Basilica

Orzhov Basilica enters tapped. When Orzhov Basilica enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Land
Orzhov Basilica (brc) 191
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters 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
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (cmm) 439
Rakdos Carnarium

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

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (brc) 194
Rupture Spire

Rupture Spire enters tapped. When Rupture Spire enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Rupture Spire (cmr) 490
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (cmm) 445
Thriving Bluff

Thriving Bluff enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than red. {T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Bluff (cmm) 429
Thriving Heath

Thriving Heath enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than white. {T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Heath (cmm) 431
Thriving Moor

Thriving Moor enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Moor (cmm) 433
Transguild Promenade

Transguild Promenade enters tapped. When Transguild Promenade enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Transguild Promenade (cmr) 499

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 (cmm) 367
Boros Signet

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

Artifact
Boros Signet (onc) 126
Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
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
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) Everflowing Chalice enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (clb) 859
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (cmm) 382
Fire Diamond

Fire Diamond enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}.

Artifact
Fire Diamond (clb) 313
Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Hedron Archive (moc) 359
Marble Diamond

Marble Diamond enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}.

Artifact
Marble Diamond (clb) 320
Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink. Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mask of Griselbrand (mid) 111
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (moc) 364
Netherborn Altar

{T}, Put a soul counter on Netherborn Altar: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Then you lose 3 life for each soul counter on Netherborn Altar.

Artifact
Netherborn Altar (c20) 45
Orzhov Signet

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

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (moc) 369
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (scd) 272

Artifacts

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Sorceries

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Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (moc) 246
Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ancient Craving (j22) 376
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
Cathartic Reunion

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

Sorcery
Cathartic Reunion (2xm) 121
Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Sorcery
Chain Reaction (onc) 97
Cleansing Nova

Choose one — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery
Cleansing Nova (scd) 12
Command the Dreadhorde

Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Command the Dreadhorde (war) 82
Eiganjo Uprising

Create X 2/2 white Samurai creature tokens with vigilance. They gain menace and haste until end of turn. Each opponent creates X minus one 2/2 white Samurai creature tokens with vigilance.

Sorcery
Eiganjo Uprising (neo) 217
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (scd) 77
Imposing Grandeur

Each player may discard their hand and draw cards equal to the greatest mana value of a commander they own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Sorcery
Imposing Grandeur (voc) 24
Mythos of Snapdax

Each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest. If {B}{R} was spent to cast this spell, you choose the permanents for each player instead.

Sorcery
Mythos of Snapdax (iko) 24
Painful Truths

Converge — You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Sorcery
Painful Truths (moc) 262
Primevals' Glorious Rebirth

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Return all legendary permanent cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Primevals' Glorious Rebirth (dmc) 165
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (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
Read the Bones (moc) 267
Rite of Oblivion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a nonland permanent. Exile target nonland permanent. Flashback {2}{W}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Rite of Oblivion (mid) 237

Sorceries

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Creatures

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Ayara, Widow of the Realm

Creature
Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen (mom) 90Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen (mom) 90
Brash Taunter

Indestructible Whenever Brash Taunter is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent. {2}{R}, {T}: Brash Taunter fights another target creature.

Creature
Brash Taunter (scd) 125
Brion Stoutarm

Lifelink {R}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Brion Stoutarm deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker.

Creature
Brion Stoutarm (a25) 200
Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (moc) 351
Cadric, Soul Kindler

The "legend rule" doesn't apply to tokens you control. Whenever another nontoken legendary permanent you control enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of it. That token gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Cadric, Soul Kindler (dmc) 10
Disciple of Bolas

When Disciple of Bolas enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (ncc) 247
Duke Ulder Ravengard

At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target creature you control gains haste and myriad until end of turn. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

Creature
Duke Ulder Ravengard (clb) 272
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Deathtouch Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim (dmu) 198
Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Etali, Primal Storm (dmc) 121
Feldon of the Third Path

{2}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target creature card in your graveyard, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Feldon of the Third Path (moc) 277
Garna, the Bloodflame

Flash When Garna, the Bloodflame enters, return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from anywhere this turn. Other creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Garna, the Bloodflame (dmc) 151
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa, Glorious Resurrector onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector (mid) 103
Greven, Predator Captain

Menace Greven, Predator Captain gets +X/+0, where X is the amount of life you've lost this turn. Whenever Greven attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, you draw cards equal to that creature's power and you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Creature
Greven, Predator Captain (c19) 43
Ill-Tempered Loner

Creature
Ill-Tempered Loner // Howlpack Avenger (vow) 162Ill-Tempered Loner // Howlpack Avenger (vow) 162
Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur, Doomscourge enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (khm) 216
Lorcan, Warlock Collector

Flying Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may pay life equal to its mana value. If you do, put it onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Warlock in addition to its other types. If a Warlock you control would die, exile it instead.

Creature
Lorcan, Warlock Collector (afc) 27
Mahadi, Emporium Master

At the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token for each creature that died this turn. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Mahadi, Emporium Master (clb) 282
Moira, Urborg Haunt

Menace Whenever Moira, Urborg Haunt deals combat damage to a player, return to the battlefield target creature card in your graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn.

Creature
Moira, Urborg Haunt (dmc) 6
Priest of Fell Rites

{T}, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice Priest of Fell Rites: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery. Unearth {3}{W}{B} ({3}{W}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Priest of Fell Rites (mh2) 208
Ratadrabik of Urborg

Vigilance, ward {2} Other Zombies you control have vigilance. Whenever another legendary creature you control dies, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's not legendary and it's a 2/2 black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Creature
Ratadrabik of Urborg (dmu) 213
Vizkopa Guildmage

{1}{W}{B}: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn. {1}{W}{B}: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Creature
Vizkopa Guildmage (ima) 211

Creatures

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Enchantments

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Angelic Renewal

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may sacrifice Angelic Renewal. If you do, return that card to the battlefield.

Enchantment
Angelic Renewal (uma) 10
Flameshadow Conjuring

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, you may pay {R}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Flameshadow Conjuring (moc) 280
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Kaya's Ghostform (war) 94

Enchantments

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Instants

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Burnt Offering

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add X mana in any combination of {B} and/or {R}, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant
Burnt Offering (ice) 116
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (moc) 273
Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (mom) 98
Demonic Gifts

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

Instant
Demonic Gifts (j22) 398
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (moc) 322
Grim Return

Choose target creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

Instant
Grim Return (m14) 100
Kazuul's Fury

Instant
Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146
Makeshift Mannequin

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a mannequin counter on it. For as long as that creature has a mannequin counter on it, it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Instant
Makeshift Mannequin (arc) 20
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
Reckoner's Bargain

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.

Instant
Reckoner's Bargain (neo) 120

Instants

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Deck Info

Deck stats

20 pips - 16 cards
25 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 11 cards
40 pips - 34 cards
27 mana - 27 cards
25 pips - 20 cards
25 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 11 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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