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Recross the Paths - The Scarab God - The Scarab God Dragons
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $339.64
Salt Sum: 30.98
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $16.99
The Scarab God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control. {2}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Scarab God (2xm) 216
1

Dragons

Quantity: 24Price: $150.08
Acid-Spewer Dragon

Flying, deathtouch Megamorph {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When Acid-Spewer Dragon is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on each other Dragon creature you control.

Creature
Acid-Spewer Dragon (dtk) 86
1
Ancient Brass Dragon

Flying Whenever Ancient Brass Dragon deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. When you do, put any number of target creature cards with total mana value X or less from graveyards onto the battlefield under your control, where X is the result.

Creature
Ancient Brass Dragon (clb) 111
1
Ancient Silver Dragon

Flying Whenever Ancient Silver Dragon deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. Draw cards equal to the result. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Creature
Ancient Silver Dragon (clb) 56
1
Astral Dragon

Flying Project Image — When Astral Dragon enters the battlefield, create two tokens that are copies of target noncreature permanent, except they're 3/3 Dragon creatures in addition to their other types, and they have flying.

Creature
Astral Dragon (clb) 664
1
Belltoll Dragon

Flying, hexproof Megamorph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When Belltoll Dragon is turned face up, put a +1/+1 counter on each other Dragon creature you control.

Creature
Belltoll Dragon (dtk) 46
1
Black Dragon

Flying Acid Breath — When Black Dragon enters the battlefield, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Creature
Black Dragon (afr) 90
1
Blue Dragon

Flying Lightning Breath — When Blue Dragon enters the battlefield, until your next turn, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-0, up to one other target creature gets -2/-0, and up to one other target creature gets -1/-0.

Creature
Blue Dragon (afr) 49
1
Bone Dragon

Flying {3}{B}{B}, Exile seven other cards from your graveyard: Return Bone Dragon from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Bone Dragon (m19) 88
1
Boneyard Scourge

Flying Whenever a Dragon you control dies while Boneyard Scourge is in your graveyard, you may pay {1}{B}. If you do, return Boneyard Scourge from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Boneyard Scourge (c17) 15
1
Brainstealer Dragon

Flying At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of each opponent's library. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it. Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent owns enters the battlefield under your control, they lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Brainstealer Dragon (clb) 670
1
Deathbringer Regent

Flying When Deathbringer Regent enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand and there are five or more other creatures on the battlefield, destroy all other creatures.

Creature
Deathbringer Regent (j22) 396
1
Dragonlord Silumgar

Flying, deathtouch When Dragonlord Silumgar enters the battlefield, gain control of target creature or planeswalker for as long as you control Dragonlord Silumgar.

Creature
Dragonlord Silumgar (2x2) 203
1
Icefall Regent

Flying When Icefall Regent enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control Icefall Regent. Spells your opponents cast that target Icefall Regent cost {2} more to cast.

Creature
Icefall Regent (e01) 24
1
Iymrith, Desert Doom

Flying Iymrith, Desert Doom has ward {4} as long as it's untapped. Whenever Iymrith deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. Then if you have fewer than three cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference.

Creature
Iymrith, Desert Doom (afr) 62
1
Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace When Junji, the Midnight Sky dies, choose one — • Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life. • Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

Creature
Junji, the Midnight Sky (neo) 102
1
Juvenile Mist Dragon

Flying Confounding Clouds — When Juvenile Mist Dragon enters the battlefield, for each opponent, tap up to one target creature that player controls. Each of those creatures doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Juvenile Mist Dragon (clb) 79
1
Keiga, the Tide Star

Flying When Keiga, the Tide Star dies, gain control of target creature.

Creature
Keiga, the Tide Star (clb) 725
1
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
1
Necromaster Dragon

Flying Whenever Necromaster Dragon deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token and each opponent mills two cards.

Creature
Necromaster Dragon (dtk) 226
1
Renari, Merchant of Marvels

You may cast Dragon spells and artifact spells as though they had flash. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Renari, Merchant of Marvels (clb) 90
1
Scion of Draco

Domain — This spell costs {2} less to cast for each basic land type among lands you control. Flying Each creature you control has vigilance if it's white, hexproof if it's blue, lifelink if it's black, first strike if it's red, and trample if it's green.

Creature Artifact
Scion of Draco (mh2) 234
1
Scourge of Nel Toth

Flying You may cast Scourge of Nel Toth from your graveyard by paying {B}{B} and sacrificing two creatures rather than paying its mana cost.

Creature
Scourge of Nel Toth (scd) 104
1
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) {B}: Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon gains haste until end of turn. {B}{B}: Regenerate Skithiryx.

Creature
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon (plst) SOM-79
1
Topaz Dragon

Creature
Topaz Dragon // Entropic Cloud (clb) 153
1

Graveyard Filling

Quantity: 15Price: $29.71
Ancient Excavation

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand, then discard a card for each card drawn this way. Basic landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Instant
Ancient Excavation (cm2) 150
1
Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (uma) 88
1
Careful Study

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Sorcery
Careful Study (ody) 70
1
Cemetery Tampering

Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters the battlefield, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill three cards. Then if there are twenty or more cards in your graveyard, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Cemetery Tampering (snc) 69
1
Compulsive Research

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

Sorcery
Compulsive Research (clb) 715
1
Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 82
1
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (dmr) 48
1
Final Parting

Search your library for two cards. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Sorcery
Final Parting (dom) 93
1
Flux

Each player discards any number of cards, then draws that many cards. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Flux (wth) 39
1
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (dmr) 51
1
Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Otherworldly Gaze (mid) 67
1
Thirst for Discovery

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard a basic land card.

Instant
Thirst for Discovery (vow) 85
1
Thirst for Knowledge

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Instant
Thirst for Knowledge (brc) 96
1
Thirst for Meaning

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an enchantment card.

Instant
Thirst for Meaning (thb) 74
1
Unmarked Grave

Search your library for a nonlegendary card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Unmarked Grave (mh2) 106
1

Interactions

Quantity: 5Price: $17.75
Crux of Fate

Choose one — • Destroy all Dragon creatures. • Destroy all non-Dragon creatures.

Sorcery
Crux of Fate (c17) 107
1
Drown in the Loch

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant
Drown in the Loch (clb) 842
1
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
1
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (moc) 231
1
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (2xm) 110
1

Lands

Quantity: 38Price: $102.80
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
1
Crucible of the Spirit Dragon

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on Crucible of the Spirit Dragon. {T}, Remove X storage counters from Crucible of the Spirit Dragon: Add X mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Dragon spells or activate abilities of Dragons.

Land
Crucible of the Spirit Dragon (afc) 231
1
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (brc) 181
1
Dimir Aqueduct

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

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (brc) 182
1
Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (moc) 398
1
Haven of the Spirit Dragon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Dragon creature spell. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Haven of the Spirit Dragon: Return target Dragon creature card or Ugin planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Haven of the Spirit Dragon (scd) 304
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
8
Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
1
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield 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
1
Shipwreck Marsh

Shipwreck Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
1
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Sunken Hollow enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (moc) 428
1
Sunken Ruins

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

Land
Sunken Ruins (2xm) 326
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
15
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (bro) 267
1
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (grn) 259
1

Mana Rocks

Quantity: 8Price: $7.38
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (moc) 348
1
Charcoal Diamond

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

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
1
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 (moc) 352
1
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (moc) 356
1
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (moc) 364
1
Sky Diamond

Sky Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (scd) 273
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
1
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (scd) 280
1

Synergies and Payoffs

Quantity: 9Price: $14.93
Donal, Herald of Wings

Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell with flying, you may copy it, except the copy is a 1/1 Spirit in addition to its other types. Do this only once each turn. (The copy becomes a token.)

Creature
Donal, Herald of Wings (voc) 3
1
Dragon's Hoard

Whenever a Dragon enters the battlefield under your control, put a gold counter on Dragon's Hoard. {T}, Remove a gold counter from Dragon's Hoard: Draw a card. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Dragon's Hoard (scd) 264
1
Fearsome Awakening

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If it's a Dragon, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Sorcery
Fearsome Awakening (frf) 69
1
Gravitational Shift

Creatures with flying get +2/+0. Creatures without flying get -2/-0.

Enchantment
Gravitational Shift (scd) 54
1
Lapis Orb of Dragonkind

{T}: Add {U}. When you spend this mana to cast a Dragon creature spell, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Artifact
Lapis Orb of Dragonkind (clb) 82
1
Sivitri, Dragon Master

+1: Until your next turn, creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays 2 life for each of those creatures. −3: Search your library for a Dragon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −7: Destroy all non-Dragon creatures. Sivitri, Dragon Master can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Sivitri, Dragon Master (dmc) 43
1
Warden of Evos Isle

Flying Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Warden of Evos Isle (scd) 63
1
Windreader Sphinx

Flying Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.

Creature
Windreader Sphinx (scd) 64
1
Winged Words

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a creature with flying. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Winged Words (scd) 65
1

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