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Too-Specific Top 10 - Freer Than Free - Arcane Kicks
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Est deck cost: $386.59
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Artifacts

Quantity: 9Price: $53.51
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (scd) 259
Caged Sun

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (plst) CM2-178
Gilded Lotus

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

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (dom) 215
Helm of Awakening

Spells cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Helm of Awakening (dmr) 224
Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (plst) MRD-188
Primal Amulet

Artifact
Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243
Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (plst) TMP-306
Sentinel Tower

Whenever an instant or sorcery spell is cast during your turn, this artifact deals damage to any target equal to 1 plus the number of instant and sorcery spells cast before that spell this turn.

Artifact
Sentinel Tower (bbd) 79
Sphinx-Bone Wand

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on this artifact. If you do, this artifact deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to any target.

Artifact
Sphinx-Bone Wand (ddj) 29

Artifacts

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Sorceries

Quantity: 3Price: $1.29
Eerie Procession

Search your library for an Arcane card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Eerie Procession (chk) 58
Ideas Unbound

Draw three cards. Discard three cards at the beginning of the next end step.

Sorcery
Ideas Unbound (sok) 40
Terashi's Grasp

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Terashi's Grasp (plst) MM2-37

Sorceries

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Creatures

Quantity: 13Price: $37.24
Celestial Kirin

Flying Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, destroy all permanents with that spell's mana value.

Creature
Celestial Kirin (plst) SOK-3
Cloudhoof Kirin

Flying Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may have target player mill X cards, where X is that spell's mana value.

Creature
Cloudhoof Kirin (sok) 31
Leonin Lightscribe

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Leonin Lightscribe (stx) 20
Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Creature
Murmuring Mystic (c20) 118
Octavia, Living Thesis

This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard. Ward {8} Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.

Creature
Octavia, Living Thesis (c21) 29
Orvar, the All-Form

Changeling Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, if it targets one or more other permanents you control, create a token that's a copy of one of those permanents. When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, create a token that's a copy of target permanent.

Creature
Orvar, the All-Form (khm) 70
Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens

Flying Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, create a 3/3 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Creature
Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens (voc) 95
Poppet Stitcher

Creature
Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory (mid) 71Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory (mid) 71
Sire of the Storm

Flying Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may draw a card.

Creature
Sire of the Storm (voc) 113
Spellseeker

When this creature enters, 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
Sunscape Familiar

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Green spells and blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Sunscape Familiar (pls) 17
The Unspeakable

Flying, trample Whenever The Unspeakable deals combat damage to a player, you may return target Arcane card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
The Unspeakable (plst) DDS-13
Thing in the Ice

Creature
Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror (soi) 92Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror (soi) 92

Creatures

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Enchantments

Quantity: 2Price: $3.08
Metallurgic Summonings

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is that spell's mana value. {3}{U}{U}, Exile this enchantment: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.

Enchantment
Metallurgic Summonings (c21) 122
Swarm Intelligence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Enchantment
Swarm Intelligence (c21) 130

Enchantments

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Instants

Quantity: 40Price: $107.79
Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Instant
Akroma's Will (cmr) 3
Beyeen Veil

Instant
Beyeen Veil // Beyeen Coast (znr) 46Beyeen Veil // Beyeen Coast (znr) 46
Blessed Breath

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Splice onto Arcane {W} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Blessed Breath (chk) 1
Blink of an Eye

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Instant
Blink of an Eye (dom) 46
Brain Freeze

Target player mills three cards. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Instant
Brain Freeze (plst) SCG-29
Burst of Energy

Untap target permanent.

Instant
Burst of Energy (ulg) 3
Candles' Glow

Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way. Splice onto Arcane {1}{W} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Candles' Glow (chk) 5
Consuming Vortex

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Splice onto Arcane {3}{U} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Consuming Vortex (chk) 54
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
Dampen Thought

Target player mills four cards. Splice onto Arcane {1}{U} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Dampen Thought (mma) 39
Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant
Dramatic Reversal (kld) 44
Dream's Grip

Choose one — • Tap target permanent. • Untap target permanent. Entwine {1} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Dream's Grip (mrd) 34
Ethereal Haze

Prevent all damage that would be dealt by creatures this turn.

Instant
Ethereal Haze (chk) 9
Evermind

(Nonexistent mana costs can't be paid.) Draw a card. Splice onto Arcane {1}{U} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Evermind (plst) SOK-37
Frantic Search

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

Instant
Frantic Search (dmr) 51
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 54
Hundred-Talon Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Splice onto Arcane—Tap an untapped white creature you control. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Hundred-Talon Strike (bok) 8
Into the Roil

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Instant
Into the Roil (cmr) 397
Kabira Takedown

Instant
Kabira Takedown // Kabira Plateau (znr) 19Kabira Takedown // Kabira Plateau (znr) 19
Murmurs from Beyond

Reveal the top three cards of your library. An opponent chooses one of them. Put that card into your graveyard and the rest into your hand.

Instant
Murmurs from Beyond (cmd) 53
Otherworldly Journey

Exile target creature. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Instant
Otherworldly Journey (mm2) 30
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
Peer Through Depths

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Peer Through Depths (dds) 5
Prismatic Strands

Prevent all damage that sources of the color of your choice would deal this turn. Flashback—Tap an untapped white creature you control. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Prismatic Strands (c19) 69
Psychic Puppetry

You may tap or untap target permanent. Splice onto Arcane {U} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Psychic Puppetry (chk) 80
Quiet Purity

Destroy target enchantment.

Instant
Quiet Purity (chk) 39
Reach Through Mists

Draw a card.

Instant
Reach Through Mists (dds) 7
Recruit the Worthy

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Instant
Recruit the Worthy (mh1) 22
Sejiri Shelter

Instant
Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37
Shining Shoal

You may exile a white card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. The next X damage that a source of your choice would deal to you and/or creatures you control this turn is dealt to any target instead.

Instant
Shining Shoal (bok) 21
Sift Through Sands

Draw two cards, then discard a card. If you've cast a spell named Peer Through Depths and a spell named Reach Through Mists this turn, you may search your library for a card named The Unspeakable, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Sift Through Sands (dds) 9
Silundi Vision

Instant
Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80
Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Instant
Snap (dmr) 66
Spiritual Visit

Create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token. Splice onto Arcane {W} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Spiritual Visit (sok) 29
Stream of Consciousness

Target player shuffles up to four target cards from their graveyard into their library.

Instant
Stream of Consciousness (uma) 74
Toils of Night and Day

You may tap or untap target permanent, then you may tap or untap another target permanent.

Instant
Toils of Night and Day (plst) BOK-57
Turnabout

Choose artifact, creature, or land. Tap all untapped permanents of the chosen type target player controls, or untap all tapped permanents of that type that player controls.

Instant
Turnabout (dmr) 70
Twiddle

You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Instant
Twiddle (8ed) 111★
Veil of Secrecy

Target creature gains shroud until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. (A creature with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Splice onto Arcane—Return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Veil of Secrecy (bok) 59
Whim of Volrath

Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another until end of turn. (For example, you may change "nonred creature" to "nongreen creature" or "plainswalk" to "swampwalk.")

Instant
Whim of Volrath (tmp) 102

Instants

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Lands

Quantity: 32Price: $183.68
Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (j22) 809
Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (brc) 175
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
Glacial Floodplain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Glacial Floodplain (khm) 257
Hallowed Fountain

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

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Irrigated Farmland (c20) 282
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
Lotus Field

Hexproof This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice two lands. {T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Land
Lotus Field (m20) 249
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mom) 277
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (moc) 420
Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
Skycloud Expanse

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

Land
Skycloud Expanse (moc) 425
Teferi's Isle

Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) Teferi's Isle enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}{U}.

Land
Teferi's Isle (mir) 330
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (moc) 437

Lands

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Deck Info

Deck stats

22 pips - 20 cards
19 mana - 15 cards
46 pips - 37 cards
36 mana - 31 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 3 cards
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