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The Toolbox - Vedalken Plotter - Basically Birthing Pod
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
Legal
Est deck cost: $374.66
Salt Sum: 44.01
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $2.49
Prime Speaker Vannifar

{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Prime Speaker Vannifar (rna) 195
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 7Price: $40.19
Birthing Pod

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) {1}{G/P}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Birthing Pod (nph) 104
1
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
1
Simic Signet

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

Artifact
Simic Signet (moc) 378
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
1
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (scd) 279
1
Talisman of Curiosity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (mh1) 232
1
Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. {1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (c21) 271
1

Creatures

Quantity: 39Price: $74.81
Acidic Slime

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

Creature
Acidic Slime (nec) 112
1
Arbor Elf

{T}: Untap target Forest.

Creature
Arbor Elf (plst) A25-160
1
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (dmr) 151
1
Body Double

You may have Body Double enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard.

Creature
Body Double (2x2) 40
1
Bounding Krasis

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Bounding Krasis enters the battlefield, you may tap or untap target creature.

Creature
Bounding Krasis (plst) ORI-212
1
Breaching Hippocamp

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Breaching Hippocamp enters the battlefield, untap another target creature you control.

Creature
Breaching Hippocamp (ths) 43
1
Chakram Retriever

Partner with Chakram Slinger (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Chakram Slinger into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever you cast a spell during your turn, untap target creature.

Creature
Chakram Retriever (bbd) 15
1
Coiling Oracle

When Coiling Oracle enters the battlefield, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Creature
Coiling Oracle (dmc) 147
1
Corridor Monitor

When Corridor Monitor enters the battlefield, untap target artifact or creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Corridor Monitor (2xm) 46
1
Deadeye Navigator

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{1}{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

Creature
Deadeye Navigator (mm3) 36
1
Deceiver Exarch

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Deceiver Exarch enters the battlefield, choose one — • Untap target permanent you control. • Tap target permanent an opponent controls.

Creature
Deceiver Exarch (cma) 36
1
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (khc) 58
1
Eternal Witness

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

Creature
Eternal Witness (scd) 181
1
Fatestitcher

{T}: You may tap or untap another target permanent. Unearth {U} ({U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Fatestitcher (ala) 43
1
Fblthp, the Lost

When Fblthp, the Lost enters the battlefield, draw a card. If it entered from your library or was cast from your library, draw two cards instead. When Fblthp becomes the target of a spell, shuffle Fblthp into its owner's library.

Creature
Fblthp, the Lost (plst) WAR-50
1
Fyndhorn Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Fyndhorn Elves (cmr) 228
1
Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying {U}, Sacrifice Glen Elendra Archmage: Counter target noncreature spell. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Glen Elendra Archmage (uma) 58
1
Great Oak Guardian

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Reach When Great Oak Guardian enters the battlefield, creatures target player controls get +2/+2 until end of turn. Untap them.

Creature
Great Oak Guardian (scd) 186
1
Greenwarden of Murasa

When Greenwarden of Murasa enters the battlefield, 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
1
Hyrax Tower Scout

When Hyrax Tower Scout enters the battlefield, untap target creature.

Creature
Hyrax Tower Scout (thb) 173
1
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (plst) DDO-52
1
Kodama of the East Tree

Reach Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, if it wasn't put onto the battlefield with this ability, you may put a permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your hand onto the battlefield. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Kodama of the East Tree (cmr) 239
1
Kogla, the Titan Ape

When Kogla, the Titan Ape enters the battlefield, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls. {1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Kogla, the Titan Ape (iko) 162
1
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (plst) M19-314
1
Mulldrifter

Flying When Mulldrifter enters the battlefield, draw two cards. Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Creature
Mulldrifter (2x2) 60
1
Peregrine Drake

Flying When Peregrine Drake enters the battlefield, untap up to five lands.

Creature
Peregrine Drake (dmr) 65
1
Pestermite

Flash Flying When Pestermite enters the battlefield, you may tap or untap target permanent.

Creature
Pestermite (j22) 335
1
Protean Hulk

When Protean Hulk dies, search your library for any number of creature cards with total mana value 6 or less, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Protean Hulk (a25) 185
1
Quirion Ranger

Return a Forest you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Quirion Ranger (mh2) 285
1
Reclamation Sage

When Reclamation Sage enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (scd) 205
1
Scryb Ranger

Flash Flying, protection from blue Return a Forest you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Scryb Ranger (tsr) 227
1
Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (onc) 141
1
Spellseeker

When Spellseeker enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Spellseeker (bbd) 41
1
Trophy Mage

When Trophy Mage enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Trophy Mage (ddu) 42
1
Vedalken Plotter

When Vedalken Plotter enters the battlefield, exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls.

Creature
Vedalken Plotter (cmd) 66
1
Vizier of Tumbling Sands

{T}: Untap another target permanent. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Vizier of Tumbling Sands, untap target permanent.

Creature
Vizier of Tumbling Sands (c20) 126
1
Wood Elves

When Wood Elves enters the battlefield, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Wood Elves (moc) 316
1
Woodfall Primus

Trample When Woodfall Primus enters the battlefield, destroy target noncreature permanent. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Woodfall Primus (ncc) 322
1
Woodland Bellower

When Woodland Bellower enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a nonlegendary green creature card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Woodland Bellower (ori) 207
1

Enchantments

Quantity: 4Price: $57.47
Concordant Crossroads

All creatures have haste.

Enchantment
Concordant Crossroads (2x2) 141
1
Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment
Guardian Project (rna) 130
1
Intruder Alarm

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, untap all creatures.

Enchantment
Intruder Alarm (plst) 8ED-86
1
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
1

Instants

Quantity: 10Price: $124.76
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
1
Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (onc) 104
1
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (afc) 79
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
1
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
1
Dispel

Counter target instant spell.

Instant
Dispel (plst) BFZ-76
1
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (c20) 35
1
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
1
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
1
Vitalize

Untap all creatures you control.

Instant
Vitalize (6ed) 265
1

Lands

Quantity: 33Price: $51.40
Botanical Sanctum

Botanical Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Botanical Sanctum (kld) 244
1
Breeding Pool

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

Land
Breeding Pool (rna) 246
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
1
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (moc) 397
1
Flooded Grove

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

Land
Flooded Grove (ncc) 402
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mom) 281
12
Hinterland Harbor

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

Land
Hinterland Harbor (dmr) 248
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
8
Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (plst) CHK-279
1
Rejuvenating Springs

Rejuvenating Springs enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmr) 354
1
Simic Growth Chamber

Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield tapped. When Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (moc) 424
1
Temple of Mystery

Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (moc) 434
1
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
1
Wirewood Lodge

{T}: Add {C}. {G}, {T}: Untap target Elf.

Land
Wirewood Lodge (plst) DD1-26
1
Yavimaya Coast

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

Land
Yavimaya Coast (dmu) 261
1

Planeswalkers

Quantity: 1Price: $1.79
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

Whenever a creature with power 4 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card. −1: Untap target permanent.

Planeswalker
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner (war) 232
1

Sorceries

Quantity: 5Price: $21.75
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
1
Eldritch Evolution

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, where X is 2 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Exile Eldritch Evolution.

Sorcery
Eldritch Evolution (plst) EMN-155
1
Green Sun's Zenith

Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Green Sun's Zenith (2x2) 150
1
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
1
Neoform

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Neoform (war) 206
1

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Description

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