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Monomania – They Call Him Baba Yaga - They Call Him Baba Yaga
Deck Size: 94
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $407.45
Salt sum: 41.89
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Commander

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Toshiro Umezawa

Bushido 1 (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Toshiro Umezawa (bok) 89

Commander

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Artifacts

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Expedition Map

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

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Jet Medallion

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

Artifact
Jet Medallion (plst) TMP-292
Primal Amulet

Artifact
Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (plst) CMD-261
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (scd) 285

Artifacts

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Creatures

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Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (j22) 117
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
Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1. {B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types. When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Creature
Chainer, Dementia Master (dmr) 299
Crypt Ghast

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.) Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (c14) 139
Falkenrath Noble

Flying Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Falkenrath Noble (j22) 414
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (scd) 80
Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature
Harvester of Souls (jmp) 243
Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Creature
Kokusho, the Evening Star (ima) 95
Magus of the Coffers

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

Creature
Magus of the Coffers (c14) 148
Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Massacre Wurm (moc) 256
Ogre Slumlord

Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token. Rats you control have deathtouch.

Creature
Ogre Slumlord (j22) 71
Overseer of the Damned

Flying When Overseer of the Damned enters, you may destroy target creature. Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Overseer of the Damned (scd) 98
Pontiff of Blight

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.) Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)

Creature
Pontiff of Blight (clb) 768
Sangromancer

Flying Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life. Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Creature
Sangromancer (scd) 103
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (onc) 141

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Enchantments

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Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

Enchantment
Black Market (clb) 739
Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (plst) JMP-231
Grave Betrayal

Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Enchantment
Grave Betrayal (rtr) 67
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Enchantment
Revel in Riches (plst) XLN-117
Sanguine Bond

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153

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Instants

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Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Instant
Cabal Ritual (tor) 51
Costly Plunder

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

Instant
Costly Plunder (2xm) 80
Cremate

Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Instant
Cremate (rtr) 59
Dark Bargain

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Dark Bargain deals 2 damage to you.

Instant
Dark Bargain (iko) 82
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) DDE-18
Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Fated Return

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains indestructible. If it's your turn, scry 2.

Instant
Fated Return (znc) 42
Grasp of Darkness

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Instant
Grasp of Darkness (m21) 102
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
Insidious Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Search your library for X cards, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.

Instant
Insidious Dreams (tor) 66
Moonlight Bargain

Look at the top five cards of your library. For each card, put that card into your graveyard unless you pay 2 life. Then put the rest into your hand.

Instant
Moonlight Bargain (c18) 114
Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step. As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Draw X cards.

Instant
Necrologia (7ed) 149★
Price of Fame

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a legendary creature. Destroy target creature. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Price of Fame (znc) 52
Scour from Existence

Exile target permanent.

Instant
Scour from Existence (bfz) 13
Skeletal Scrying

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard. You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Instant
Skeletal Scrying (plst) C14-162
Spoils of Evil

For each artifact or creature card in target opponent's graveyard, add {C} and you gain 1 life.

Instant
Spoils of Evil (ice) 163
Succumb to Temptation

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Instant
Succumb to Temptation (emn) 107
Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Instant
Sudden Spoiling (tsr) 144
Tendrils of Corruption

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant
Tendrils of Corruption (tsr) 145
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
Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant
Tragic Slip (j22) 478
Tribute to Hunger

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Instant
Tribute to Hunger (ddq) 65
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
Without Weakness

Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.) Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Without Weakness (hou) 81
Wretched Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Target player draws a card and loses 1 life. • Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Wretched Confluence (cma) 74

Instants

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Lands

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Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Land
Arcane Lighthouse (cm2) 233
Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Detection Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Land
Detection Tower (m19) 249
Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (dmc) 213
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
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Vesuva

You may have Vesuva enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.

Land
Vesuva (tsr) 289
Zoetic Cavern

{T}: Add {C}. Morph {2} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Land
Zoetic Cavern (a25) 249

Lands

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Sorceries

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Diabolic Revelation

Search your library for up to X cards, put those cards into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Revelation (m13) 87
Dregs of Sorrow

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Dregs of Sorrow (c14) 143
Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j22) 413
Finale of Eternity

Destroy up to three target creatures with toughness X or less. If X is 10 or more, return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Finale of Eternity (war) 91
Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery
Mutilate (gvl) 55
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77

Sorceries

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