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The Toolbox - Tombstone Stairwell & Dreadhorde Butcher - Not So Modern Dredge
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Commander

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Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) {2}{G/U}{G/U}: Mill two cards, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Tasigur, the Golden Fang (uma) 117

Commander

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Artifacts

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Crucible of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (2x2) 303
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (scd) 263
Golgari Signet

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

Artifact
Golgari Signet (onc) 131
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (scd) 269
Mesmeric Orb

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (2xm) 272
Simic Signet

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

Artifact
Simic Signet (moc) 378
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
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

Artifacts

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Creatures

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Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When Acidic Slime enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Creature
Acidic Slime (nec) 112
Brawn

Trample As long as Brawn is in your graveyard and you control a Forest, creatures you control have trample.

Creature
Brawn (moc) 292
Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample Pay 2 life: 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.)

Creature
Doom Whisperer (grn) 69
Eternal Witness

When Eternal Witness enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (scd) 181
Fauna Shaman

{G}, {T}, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Fauna Shaman (bro) 179
Glowspore Shaman

When Glowspore Shaman enters, mill three cards. You may put a land card from your graveyard on top of your library. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Glowspore Shaman (2x2) 220
Golgari Grave-Troll

Golgari Grave-Troll enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Golgari Grave-Troll: Regenerate Golgari Grave-Troll. Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, you may mill six cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
Golgari Grave-Troll (uma) 167
Golgari Thug

When Golgari Thug dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
Golgari Thug (plst) RAV-87
Greenwarden of Murasa

When Greenwarden of Murasa enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand. When Greenwarden of Murasa dies, you may exile it. If you do, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Greenwarden of Murasa (ncc) 294
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed

Undergrowth — When Izoni, Thousand-Eyed enters, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. {B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed (grn) 180
Kessig Cagebreakers

Whenever Kessig Cagebreakers attacks, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token that's tapped and attacking for each creature card in your graveyard.

Creature
Kessig Cagebreakers (j22) 681
Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (plst) ISD-61
Lord of Extinction

Lord of Extinction's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in all graveyards.

Creature
Lord of Extinction (2x2) 244
Muldrotha, the Gravetide

During each of your turns, you may play a land and cast a permanent spell of each permanent type from your graveyard. (If a card has multiple permanent types, choose one as you play it.)

Creature
Muldrotha, the Gravetide (2x2) 258
Plaguecrafter

When Plaguecrafter enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature
Plaguecrafter (j22) 72
Ramunap Excavator

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Creature
Ramunap Excavator (cmr) 433
Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (scd) 205
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
Satyr Wayfinder

When Satyr Wayfinder enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

Creature
Satyr Wayfinder (znc) 81
Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (plst) NPH-73
Splinterfright

Trample Splinterfright's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard. At the beginning of your upkeep, mill two cards.

Creature
Splinterfright (2x2) 159
Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) {2}{G/U}{G/U}: Mill two cards, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Tasigur, the Golden Fang (uma) 117
The Gitrog Monster

Deathtouch At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice The Gitrog Monster unless you sacrifice a land. You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, draw a card.

Creature
The Gitrog Monster (plst) SOI-245
Titania, Protector of Argoth

When Titania, Protector of Argoth enters, return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Whenever a land you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 5/3 green Elemental creature token.

Creature
Titania, Protector of Argoth (mh2) 287
Underrealm Lich

If you would draw a card, instead look at the top three cards of your library, then put one into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Pay 4 life: Underrealm Lich gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Creature
Underrealm Lich (grn) 211
Wonder

Flying As long as Wonder is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature
Wonder (mh2) 271
World Shaper

Whenever World Shaper attacks, you may mill three cards. When World Shaper dies, return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
World Shaper (ncc) 323

Creatures

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Enchantments

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Animate Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Enchantment
Exploration (dmr) 159
Sylvan Library

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Enchantment
Sylvan Library (dmr) 179
The Mending of Dominaria

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. III — Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Enchantment
The Mending of Dominaria (plst) DOM-173
Tombstone Stairwell

Cumulative upkeep {1}{B} (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.) At the beginning of each upkeep, if Tombstone Stairwell is on the battlefield, each player creates a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with haste named Tombspawn for each creature card in their graveyard. At the beginning of each end step and when Tombstone Stairwell leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens created with Tombstone Stairwell. They can't be regenerated.

Enchantment
Tombstone Stairwell (mir) 149

Enchantments

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Instants

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Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (2x2) 175
Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (onc) 104
Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Crop Rotation (dmr) 154
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
Entomb

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

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 82
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
Gnaw to the Bone

You gain 2 life for each creature card in your graveyard. Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Gnaw to the Bone (isd) 183
Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Harrow (znc) 69
Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Putrefy (onc) 123
Sultai Charm

Choose one — • Destroy target monocolored creature. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Sultai Charm (dmc) 168
Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 314

Instants

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Lands

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Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
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
Dakmor Salvage

Dakmor Salvage enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Land
Dakmor Salvage (uma) 240
Drowned Catacomb

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

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Fetid Pools enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Fetid Pools (akh) 243
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
Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (dmr) 248
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (bro) 264
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
Opulent Palace

Opulent Palace enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.

Land
Opulent Palace (dmc) 223
Overgrown Tomb

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

Land
Overgrown Tomb (grn) 253
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (moc) 428
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
Temple of Mystery

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 {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (moc) 434
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (moc) 439
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Verdant Catacombs

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

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Watery Grave

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

Land
Watery Grave (grn) 259
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
Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dmr) 261
Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Yavimaya Coast (dmu) 261

Lands

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Planeswalkers

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Vraska, Golgari Queen

+2: You may sacrifice another permanent. If you do, you gain 1 life and draw a card. −3: Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less. −9: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."

Planeswalker
Vraska, Golgari Queen (grn) 213

Planeswalkers

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Sorceries

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Buried Alive

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

Sorcery
Buried Alive (uma) 88
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (moc) 295
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (plst) UMA-93
Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Dread Return (dmr) 80
Jarad's Orders

Search your library for up to two creature cards and reveal them. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Sorcery
Jarad's Orders (rtr) 175
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (moc) 306
Life from the Loam

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sorcery
Life from the Loam (uma) 172
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (plst) A25-96
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (jmp) 270
Splendid Reclamation

Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Splendid Reclamation (vow) 221
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (moc) 270
Worm Harvest

Create a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token for each land card in your graveyard. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Sorcery
Worm Harvest (c18) 194

Sorceries

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Deck Info

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5 mana - 4 cards
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