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Nearly Identical - Kwain or The Council of Four? - The Council of Knights
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $293.86
Salt sum: 32.92
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Commander

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The Council of Four

Whenever a player draws their second card during their turn, you draw a card. Whenever a player casts their second spell during their turn, you create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.

Creature
The Council of Four (clb) 271

Commander

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Instants

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Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Instant
Akroma's Will (cmr) 3
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (voc) 102
Azorius Charm

Choose one — • Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn. • Draw a card. • Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Instant
Azorius Charm (plst) IMA-192
Banish into Fable

When you cast this spell from your hand, copy it if you control an artifact, then copy it if you control an enchantment. You may choose new targets for the copies. Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. You create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.

Instant
Banish into Fable (eld) 325
Clever Concealment

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Any number of target nonland permanents you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until your next turn.)

Instant
Clever Concealment (onc) 5
Fateful Absence

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Its controller investigates. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Instant
Fateful Absence (mid) 18
Meeting of Minds

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Draw two cards.

Instant
Meeting of Minds (mom) 66
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
Resculpt

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

Instant
Resculpt (cmm) 115
Synthetic Destiny

Exile all creatures you control. At the beginning of the next end step, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal that many creature cards, put all creature cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest of the revealed cards into your library.

Instant
Synthetic Destiny (khc) 44
Your Temple Is Under Attack

Choose one — • Pray for Protection — Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Strike a Deal — You and target opponent each draw two cards.

Instant
Your Temple Is Under Attack (clb) 52

Instants

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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
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (cmm) 941
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Halo Fountain

{W}, {T}, Untap a tapped creature you control: Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. {W}{W}, {T}, Untap two tapped creatures you control: Draw a card. {W}{W}{W}{W}{W}, {T}, Untap fifteen tapped creatures you control: You win the game.

Artifact
Halo Fountain (snc) 15
Herald's Horn

As Herald's Horn enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (cmm) 953
Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Heraldic Banner (scd) 267
Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if Howling Mine is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Artifact
Howling Mine (plst) M10-212
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
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on Midnight Clock. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on Midnight Clock. When the twelfth hour counter is put on Midnight Clock, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile Midnight Clock.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (clb) 727
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (cmm) 961
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (scd) 279
The Circle of Loyalty

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Knight you control. Creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a legendary spell, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance. {3}{W}, {T}: Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.

Artifact
The Circle of Loyalty (j22) 166
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmm) 414
Wand of the Worldsoul

Wand of the Worldsoul enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has convoke.

Artifact
Wand of the Worldsoul (moc) 20

Artifacts

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Lands

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Azorius Chancery

Azorius Chancery enters tapped. When Azorius Chancery enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (brc) 175
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 420
Deserted Beach

Deserted Beach enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Deserted Beach (mid) 260
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

{T}: Add {W}. Channel — {2}{W}, Discard Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
Geier Reach Sanitarium

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

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (cmm) 1000
Idyllic Beachfront

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Idyllic Beachfront enters tapped.

Land
Idyllic Beachfront (dmu) 249
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (woe) 263
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 (cmm) 421
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) Mystic Sanctuary enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When Mystic Sanctuary enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
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 (woe) 262
Port Town

As Port Town enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, Port Town enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Port Town (cmm) 1019
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Prairie Stream enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (cmm) 1020
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 425
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (cmm) 426
Sea of Clouds

Sea of Clouds enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
Skycloud Expanse

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

Land
Skycloud Expanse (cmm) 1035
Temple of Enlightenment

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 {W} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (cmm) 1041

Lands

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Battles

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Invasion of Segovia

Battle
Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia (mom) 63Invasion of Segovia // Caetus, Sea Tyrant of Segovia (mom) 63

Battles

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Sorceries

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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
Distant Melody

Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.

Sorcery
Distant Melody (cmm) 846
Irenicus's Vile Duplication

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token has flying and it isn't legendary.

Sorcery
Irenicus's Vile Duplication (clb) 78
Valiant Endeavor

Roll two d6 and choose one result. Destroy each creature with power greater than or equal to that result. Then create a number of 2/2 white Knight creature tokens with vigilance equal to the other result.

Sorcery
Valiant Endeavor (afc) 13

Sorceries

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Creatures

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Acclaimed Contender

When Acclaimed Contender enters, if you control another Knight, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a Knight, Aura, Equipment, or legendary artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Acclaimed Contender (moc) 166
Bennie Bracks, Zoologist

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) At the beginning of each end step, if you created a token this turn, draw a card.

Creature
Bennie Bracks, Zoologist (ncc) 86
Cavalier of Dawn

Vigilance When Cavalier of Dawn enters, destroy up to one target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token. When Cavalier of Dawn dies, return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Cavalier of Dawn (m20) 10
Cavalier of Gales

Flying When Cavalier of Gales enters, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. When Cavalier of Gales dies, shuffle it into its owner's library, then 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.)

Creature
Cavalier of Gales (m20) 52
Dauntless Bodyguard

As Dauntless Bodyguard enters, choose another creature you control. Sacrifice Dauntless Bodyguard: The chosen creature gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Dauntless Bodyguard (dom) 14
Faramir, Prince of Ithilien

At the beginning of your end step, choose an opponent. At the beginning of that player's next end step, you draw a card if they didn't attack you that turn. Otherwise, create three 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens.

Creature
Faramir, Prince of Ithilien (ltr) 202
Guardian of Faith

Flash Vigilance When Guardian of Faith enters, any number of other target creatures you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Creature
Guardian of Faith (afr) 18
Heliod, the Radiant Dawn

Creature Enchantment
Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse (mom) 17Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse (mom) 17
Herald of Hoofbeats

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.) Other Knights you control have horsemanship.

Creature
Herald of Hoofbeats (moc) 22
Hero of Bladehold

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.) Whenever Hero of Bladehold attacks, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens that are tapped and attacking.

Creature
Hero of Bladehold (moc) 188
Kinsbaile Cavalier

Knight creatures you control have double strike.

Creature
Kinsbaile Cavalier (ddg) 17
Knight Exemplar

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Other Knight creatures you control get +1/+1 and have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Creature
Knight Exemplar (moc) 192
Knight of the White Orchid

First strike When Knight of the White Orchid enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Knight of the White Orchid (moc) 193
Knight-Errant of Eos

Convoke When Knight-Errant of Eos enters, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal up to two creature cards with mana value X or less from among them, where X is the number of creatures that convoked Knight-Errant of Eos. Put the revealed cards into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Knight-Errant of Eos (mom) 26
Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance When Loran of the Third Path enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Loran of the Third Path (bro) 12
Lyev Skyknight

Flying When Lyev Skyknight enters, detain target nonland permanent an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that permanent can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Creature
Lyev Skyknight (2x2) 246
Mirror Entity

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {X}: Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X and gain all creature types.

Creature
Mirror Entity (clb) 701
Pippin, Guard of the Citadel

Vigilance, ward {1} {T}: Another target creature you control gains protection from the card type of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that type.)

Creature
Pippin, Guard of the Citadel (ltr) 438
Prince Imrahil the Fair

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

Creature
Prince Imrahil the Fair (ltr) 431
Skyhunter Strike Force

Flying Melee (Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each opponent you attacked this combat.) Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, other creatures you control have melee.

Creature
Skyhunter Strike Force (onc) 21
Thistledown Liege

Flash Other white creatures you control get +1/+1. Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Thistledown Liege (2x2) 285
Unsettled Mariner

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Whenever you or a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {1}.

Creature
Unsettled Mariner (mh1) 216
Valiant Knight

Other Knights you control get +1/+1. {3}{W}{W}: Knights you control gain double strike until end of turn.

Creature
Valiant Knight (moc) 214
Worthy Knight

Whenever you cast a Knight spell, create a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Creature
Worthy Knight (moc) 217
Xerex Strobe-Knight

Flying, vigilance {T}: Create a 2/2 white and blue Knight creature token with vigilance. Activate only if you've cast two or more spells this turn.

Creature
Xerex Strobe-Knight (mom) 85

Creatures

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Enchantments

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Dictate of Kruphix

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Enchantment
Dictate of Kruphix (c18) 86
Inspiring Leader

Commander creatures you own have "Creature tokens you control get +2/+2."

Enchantment
Inspiring Leader (clb) 28
Intangible Virtue

Creature tokens you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.

Enchantment
Intangible Virtue (cmm) 31
Kindred Discovery

As Kindred Discovery enters, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

Enchantment
Kindred Discovery (clb) 81
Monologue Tax

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.

Enchantment
Monologue Tax (c21) 19
Reconnaissance

{0}: Remove target attacking creature you control from combat and untap it. (If you activate during end of combat, the creature will untap after it deals combat damage.)

Enchantment
Reconnaissance (exo) 17
Reflections of Littjara

As Reflections of Littjara enters, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Reflections of Littjara (clb) 733
Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You have no maximum hand size. {2}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards. {4}{U}: Level 3 Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Wizard Class (afr) 81

Enchantments

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Deck Info

Deck stats

52 pips - 39 cards
27 mana - 27 cards
31 pips - 24 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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