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Staple Remover - Rhystic Study - Tactical Maneuvers
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Derevi, Empyrial Tactician

Flying When Derevi, Empyrial Tactician enters and whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may tap or untap target permanent. {1}{G}{W}{U}: Put Derevi onto the battlefield from the command zone.

Creature
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician (cma) 176

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Clearing the Battlefield

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Fell the Mighty

Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.

Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (moc) 185
Slaughter the Strong

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

Sorcery
Slaughter the Strong (clb) 43

Clearing the Battlefield

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Chord of Calling

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.) Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Chord of Calling (2xm) 158
Eladamri's Call

Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant
Eladamri's Call (mh1) 197
Regrowth

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Regrowth (plst) A25-187
Shared Summons

Search your library for up to two creature cards with different names, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant
Shared Summons (m20) 193

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Evasive Maneuvers

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Aether Figment

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.) Aether Figment can't be blocked. If Aether Figment was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Aether Figment (ddm) 5
Blighted Agent

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Blighted Agent can't be blocked.

Creature
Blighted Agent (plst) NPH-29
Departed Deckhand

When Departed Deckhand becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice it. Departed Deckhand can't be blocked except by Spirits. {3}{U}: Another target creature you control can't be blocked this turn except by Spirits.

Creature
Departed Deckhand (jmp) 149
Escape Artist

Escape Artist can't be blocked. {U}, Discard a card: Return Escape Artist to its owner's hand.

Creature
Escape Artist (ody) 84
Faerie Vandal

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Faerie Vandal.

Creature
Faerie Vandal (j22) 296
Flitterstep Eidolon

Bestow {5}{U} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) Flitterstep Eidolon can't be blocked. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and can't be blocked.

Creature Enchantment
Flitterstep Eidolon (bng) 40
Ghostly Pilferer

Whenever Ghostly Pilferer becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card. Discard a card: Ghostly Pilferer can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Ghostly Pilferer (ncc) 223
Gingerbrute

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) {1}: Gingerbrute can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Gingerbrute: You gain 3 life.

Creature Artifact
Gingerbrute (jmp) 466
Gudul Lurker

Gudul Lurker can't be blocked. Megamorph {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.)

Creature
Gudul Lurker (dtk) 56
Hope of Ghirapur

Flying Sacrifice Hope of Ghirapur: Until your next turn, target player who was dealt combat damage by Hope of Ghirapur this turn can't cast noncreature spells.

Creature Artifact
Hope of Ghirapur (plst) AER-154
Hypnotic Siren

Bestow {5}{U}{U} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) Flying You control enchanted creature. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Creature Enchantment
Hypnotic Siren (jou) 42
Invisible Stalker

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Invisible Stalker can't be blocked.

Creature
Invisible Stalker (plst) ISD-60
Jhessian Infiltrator

Jhessian Infiltrator can't be blocked.

Creature
Jhessian Infiltrator (ala) 174
Maraleaf Pixie

Flying {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Creature
Maraleaf Pixie (eld) 196
Scryb Sprites

Flying

Creature
Scryb Sprites (5ed) 324
Silhana Ledgewalker

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Silhana Ledgewalker can't be blocked except by creatures with flying.

Creature
Silhana Ledgewalker (plst) PCA-77
Siren Stormtamer

Flying {U}, Sacrifice Siren Stormtamer: Counter target spell or ability that targets you or a creature you control.

Creature
Siren Stormtamer (cmr) 96
Slither Blade

Slither Blade can't be blocked.

Creature
Slither Blade (znc) 36
Spectral Sailor

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying {3}{U}: Draw a card.

Creature
Spectral Sailor (j22) 64
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (moc) 240
Trygon Predator

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.

Creature
Trygon Predator (c21) 231

Evasive Maneuvers

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Fortifications

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Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (afc) 161
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 32
Teferi's Veil

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it phases out at end of combat. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)

Enchantment
Teferi's Veil (plst) WTH-53

Fortifications

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Inspired Charge

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Angel of Destiny

Flying, double strike Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you and that player each gain that much life. At the beginning of your end step, if you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, each player Angel of Destiny attacked this turn loses the game.

Creature
Angel of Destiny (znr) 2
Beastmaster Ascension

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on Beastmaster Ascension. As long as Beastmaster Ascension has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Enchantment
Beastmaster Ascension (ncc) 283
Biomass Mutation

Creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X until end of turn.

Instant
Biomass Mutation (c21) 209
Colossification

Enchant creature When Colossification enters, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature gets +20/+20.

Enchantment
Colossification (iko) 148
Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 green Cat creature token. {4}{G}{G}: Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Creature
Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse (dmr) 165
Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on Ominous Seas. Remove eight foreshadow counters from Ominous Seas: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Ominous Seas (plst) IKO-61
Scale Up

Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a green Wurm with base power and toughness 6/4. Overload {4}{G}{G} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Scale Up (mh1) 179
Willbreaker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes the target of a spell or ability you control, gain control of that creature for as long as you control Willbreaker.

Creature
Willbreaker (ori) 84

Inspired Charge

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Lands

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Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As Breeding Pool enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Breeding Pool (rna) 246
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Faerie Conclave

Faerie Conclave enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}: Faerie Conclave becomes a 2/1 blue Faerie creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Faerie Conclave (plst) CMA-248
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (ktk) 233
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mom) 281
Gavony Township

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{G}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Land
Gavony Township (moc) 406
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As Hallowed Fountain enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
Horizon Canopy

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {W}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Horizon Canopy: Draw a card.

Land
Horizon Canopy (ima) 240
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Misty Rainforest: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mom) 277
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) As Temple Garden enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Temple Garden (grn) 258
Waterlogged Grove

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {U}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Waterlogged Grove: Draw a card.

Land
Waterlogged Grove (mh1) 249
Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Windswept Heath: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Windswept Heath (ktk) 248

Lands

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Ramp

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Avacyn's Pilgrim

{T}: Add {W}.

Creature
Avacyn's Pilgrim (scd) 171
Boreal Druid

{T}: Add {C}.

Creature
Boreal Druid (plst) CSP-105
Druids' Repository

Whenever a creature you control attacks, put a charge counter on Druids' Repository. Remove a charge counter from Druids' Repository: Add one mana of any color.

Enchantment
Druids' Repository (avr) 176
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (khc) 58
Fertile Ground

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Enchantment
Fertile Ground (afc) 158
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (plst) M19-314
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (scd) 208
Sakura-Tribe Scout

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Scout (plst) SOK-144
Search for Tomorrow

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Search for Tomorrow (dmc) 137
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (dmr) 184

Ramp

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Reconnaissance Tactics

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Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. {1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (scd) 44
Coastal Piracy

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Coastal Piracy (jmp) 144
Dovin, Grand Arbiter

+1: Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put a loyalty counter on Dovin, Grand Arbiter. −1: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. You gain 1 life. −7: Look at the top ten cards of your library. Put three of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Planeswalker
Dovin, Grand Arbiter (voc) 153
Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may draw a card.

Creature
Edric, Spymaster of Trest (c16) 195
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
Reconnaissance Mission

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Reconnaissance Mission (voc) 111
Sphinx's Revelation

You gain X life and draw X cards.

Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (scd) 244
Verity Circle

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, if it isn't being declared as an attacker, you may draw a card. {4}{U}: Tap target creature without flying.

Enchantment
Verity Circle (voc) 116

Reconnaissance Tactics

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Targeted Assassinations

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Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (onc) 104
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Instant
Delay (tsr) 61
Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant
Generous Gift (moc) 187
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (tsr) 79
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (moc) 211
Unified Will

Counter target spell if you control more creatures than that spell's controller.

Instant
Unified Will (roe) 92

Targeted Assassinations

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Deck Info

Deck stats

12 pips - 10 cards
12 mana - 12 cards
41 pips - 34 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 2 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 2 cards
34 pips - 28 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
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