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Superior Numbers - Breaking Brewing Block - Athreos, Shroud-Veiled: Down with the Sickness
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $1501.89
Salt Sum: 45.45
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $5.49
Athreos, Shroud-Veiled

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature. At the beginning of your end step, put a coin counter on another target creature. Whenever a creature with a coin counter on it dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Creature Enchantment
Athreos, Shroud-Veiled (thb) 269
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 9Price: $11.71
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (moc) 348
1
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (onc) 127
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
Orzhov Signet

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

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (moc) 369
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
1
Soul-Guide Lantern

When Soul-Guide Lantern enters the battlefield, exile target card from a graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern: Exile each opponent's graveyard. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Soul-Guide Lantern: Draw a card.

Artifact
Soul-Guide Lantern (onc) 142
1
Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (moc) 385
1
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (scd) 285
1

Creatures

Quantity: 5Price: $74.75
Academy Rector

When Academy Rector dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Academy Rector (uds) 1
1
Crypt Rats

{X}: Crypt Rats deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

Creature
Crypt Rats (j22) 392
1
Pestilence Demon

Flying {B}: Pestilence Demon deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Creature
Pestilence Demon (ddr) 56
1
Stuffy Doll

Indestructible As Stuffy Doll enters the battlefield, choose a player. Whenever Stuffy Doll is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to the chosen player. {T}: Stuffy Doll deals 1 damage to itself.

Creature Artifact
Stuffy Doll (clb) 875
1
Thrashing Wumpus

{B}: Thrashing Wumpus deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Creature
Thrashing Wumpus (mmq) 166
1

Enchantments

Quantity: 23Price: $137.48
Black Market

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

Enchantment
Black Market (clb) 739
1
Blessed Sanctuary

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to you and creatures you control. Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, create a 2/2 white Unicorn creature token.

Enchantment
Blessed Sanctuary (j22) 157
1
Blind Obedience

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.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (c17) 57
1
Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Enchantment
Darksteel Mutation (voc) 84
1
Death Pits of Rath

Whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it. It can't be regenerated.

Enchantment
Death Pits of Rath (9ed) 123★
1
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (plst) JMP-231
1
Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (onc) 71
1
Karma

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Karma deals damage to that player equal to the number of Swamps they control.

Enchantment
Karma (8ed) 28
1
Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Land Tax (plst) BBD-94
1
Lashknife Barrier

When Lashknife Barrier enters the battlefield, draw a card. If a source would deal damage to a creature you control, it deals that much damage minus 1 to that creature instead.

Enchantment
Lashknife Barrier (plst) PLS-9
1
Leyline of the Void

If Leyline of the Void is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Enchantment
Leyline of the Void (m20) 107
1
Mark of Asylum

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to creatures you control.

Enchantment
Mark of Asylum (con) 10
1
Pariah

Enchant creature All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to enchanted creature instead.

Enchantment
Pariah (cn2) 95
1
Personal Sanctuary

During your turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Enchantment
Personal Sanctuary (m12) 30
1
Pestilence

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pestilence. {B}: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Enchantment
Pestilence (plst) USG-147
1
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 104
1
Protective Sphere

{1}, Pay 1 life: Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn by a source of your choice that shares a color with the mana spent on this activation cost. (Colorless mana prevents no damage.)

Enchantment
Protective Sphere (inv) 26
1
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
1
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (2x2) 31
1
Sphere of Grace

If a black source would deal damage to you, prevent 2 of that damage.

Enchantment
Sphere of Grace (ody) 49
1
Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {X} for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Enchantment
Sphere of Safety (c16) 77
1
Withering Wisps

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Withering Wisps. {B}: Withering Wisps deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. Activate no more times each turn than the number of snow Swamps you control.

Enchantment
Withering Wisps (ice) 168
1
Wound Reflection

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Enchantment
Wound Reflection (2xm) 113
1

Instants

Quantity: 10Price: $105.26
Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (2x2) 170
1
Equal Treatment

If any source would deal 1 or more damage to a permanent or player this turn, it deals 2 damage to that permanent or player instead. Draw a card.

Instant
Equal Treatment (tor) 4
1
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (moc) 187
1
Kaya's Guile

Choose two — • Each opponent sacrifices a creature. • Exile all opponents' graveyards. • Create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying. • You gain 4 life. Entwine {3} (Choose all if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Kaya's Guile (mh1) 205
1
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 (moc) 198
1
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
1
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (moc) 211
1
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
1
Utter End

Exile target nonland permanent.

Instant
Utter End (moc) 341
1
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108
1

Lands

Quantity: 37Price: $1013.69
Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
1
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
1
Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
1
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
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
1
Fetid Heath

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

Land
Fetid Heath (moc) 399
1
Glacial Chasm

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When Glacial Chasm enters the battlefield, sacrifice a land. Creatures you control can't attack. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Land
Glacial Chasm (ice) 353
1
Godless Shrine

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

Land
Godless Shrine (rna) 248
1
Hall of Heliod's Generosity

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{W}, {T}: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Hall of Heliod's Generosity (mh1) 241
1
Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (dmr) 249
1
Marsh Flats

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

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
1
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
1
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
1
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (c21) 314
1
Scrubland

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)

Land
Scrubland (3ed) 286
1
Serra's Sanctum

{T}: Add {W} for each enchantment you control.

Land
Serra's Sanctum (usg) 325
1
Silent Clearing

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {W} or {B}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Silent Clearing: Draw a card.

Land
Silent Clearing (mh1) 246
1
Snow-Covered Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Plains (khm) 277
5
Snow-Covered Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Swamp (khm) 281
10
Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land.

Land
Strip Mine (4ed) 363
1
Tainted Field

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Field (moc) 429
1
Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Tectonic Edge: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Land
Tectonic Edge (plst) C14-313
1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
1
Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Vault of the Archangel (moc) 443
1

Planeswalkers

Quantity: 1Price: $0.59
The Wanderer

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to you and other permanents you control. −2: Exile target creature with power 4 or greater.

Planeswalker
The Wanderer (plst) WAR-37
1

Sorceries

Quantity: 14Price: $152.92
Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (moc) 246
1
Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ancient Craving (j22) 376
1
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
1
Cleansing Nova

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

Sorcery
Cleansing Nova (scd) 12
1
Council's Judgment

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

Sorcery
Council's Judgment (plst) CNS-16
1
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (plst) UMA-93
1
Merciless Eviction

Choose one — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all planeswalkers.

Sorcery
Merciless Eviction (onc) 120
1
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (moc) 259
1
Obzedat's Aid

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Obzedat's Aid (dgm) 89
1
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Read the Bones (moc) 267
1
Replenish

Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Replenish (uds) 15
1
Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy. Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (dmr) 27
1
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107
1
Vindicate

Destroy target permanent.

Sorcery
Vindicate (brc) 131
1

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