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Turning Data into Decks - Throwing It All in the Air! - The Blue Pill
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $132.37
Salt Sum: 52.5
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $0.49
Nebuchadnezzar

{X}, {T}: Choose a card name. Target opponent reveals X cards at random from their hand. Then that player discards all cards with that name revealed this way. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Nebuchadnezzar (chr) 80
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 7Price: $9.15
Cursed Rack

As Cursed Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent. The chosen player's maximum hand size is four.

Artifact
Cursed Rack (4ed) 312
1
Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Artifact
Geth's Grimoire (plst) DST-123
1
Glasses of Urza

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Artifact
Glasses of Urza (6ed) 287
1
Skullcage

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Skullcage deals 2 damage to that player unless they have exactly three or exactly four cards in hand.

Artifact
Skullcage (arc) 115
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
1
The Rack

As The Rack enters the battlefield, choose an opponent. At the beginning of the chosen player's upkeep, The Rack deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

Artifact
The Rack (4ed) 352
1
Wheel of Torture

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Wheel of Torture deals X damage to that player, where X is 3 minus the number of cards in their hand.

Artifact
Wheel of Torture (ulg) 138
1

Creatures

Quantity: 24Price: $26.22
Abyssal Specter

Flying Whenever Abyssal Specter deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature
Abyssal Specter (mm3) 59
1
Banshee of the Dread Choir

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token that's a copy of this creature that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Whenever Banshee of the Dread Choir deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature
Banshee of the Dread Choir (cma) 47
1
Blizzard Specter

Flying Whenever Blizzard Specter deals combat damage to a player, choose one — • That player returns a permanent they control to its owner's hand. • That player discards a card.

Creature
Blizzard Specter (ima) 194
1
Consuming Aberration

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards. Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Consuming Aberration (clb) 840
1
Dimir Cutpurse

Whenever Dimir Cutpurse deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you draw a card.

Creature
Dimir Cutpurse (ddh) 49
1
Dinrova Horror

When Dinrova Horror enters the battlefield, return target permanent to its owner's hand, then that player discards a card.

Creature
Dinrova Horror (jmp) 450
1
Doomsday Specter

Flying When Doomsday Specter enters the battlefield, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand. Whenever Doomsday Specter deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand and choose a card from it. The player discards that card.

Creature
Doomsday Specter (pls) 103
1
Fell Specter

Flying When Fell Specter enters the battlefield, target opponent discards a card. Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Fell Specter (jmp) 233
1
Fleet Swallower

Whenever Fleet Swallower attacks, target player mills half their library, rounded up.

Creature
Fleet Swallower (xln) 57
1
Ghastlord of Fugue

Ghastlord of Fugue can't be blocked. Whenever Ghastlord of Fugue deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player exiles that card.

Creature
Ghastlord of Fugue (shm) 162
1
Guiltfeeder

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever Guiltfeeder attacks and isn't blocked, defending player loses 1 life for each card in their graveyard.

Creature
Guiltfeeder (clb) 756
1
Guul Draz Specter

Flying Guul Draz Specter gets +3/+3 as long as an opponent has no cards in hand. Whenever Guul Draz Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature
Guul Draz Specter (cn2) 137
1
Hollow Specter

Flying Whenever Hollow Specter deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {X}. If you do, that player reveals X cards from their hand and you choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Creature
Hollow Specter (lgn) 75
1
Hypnotic Specter

Flying Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Creature
Hypnotic Specter (plst) M10-100
1
Jace's Archivist

{U}, {T}: Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Creature
Jace's Archivist (c15) 95
1
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind

Hexproof Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may have Lazav, Dimir Mastermind become a copy of that card, except its name is Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has hexproof and this ability.

Creature
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind (znc) 92
1
Liliana's Reaver

Deathtouch Whenever Liliana's Reaver deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Liliana's Reaver (jmp) 251
1
Liliana's Specter

Flying When Liliana's Specter enters the battlefield, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Liliana's Specter (pca) 34
1
Mindleech Mass

Trample Whenever Mindleech Mass deals combat damage to a player, you may look at that player's hand. If you do, you may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Mindleech Mass (rav) 215
1
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (znc) 96
1
Scythe Specter

Flying Whenever Scythe Specter deals combat damage to a player, each opponent discards a card. Each player who discarded a card with the highest mana value among cards discarded this way loses life equal to that mana value.

Creature
Scythe Specter (scd) 105
1
Siren of the Silent Song

Flying Inspired — Whenever Siren of the Silent Song becomes untapped, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent mills a card.

Creature
Siren of the Silent Song (bng) 155
1
Urgoros, the Empty One

Flying Whenever Urgoros, the Empty One deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card at random. If the player can't, you draw a card.

Creature
Urgoros, the Empty One (dom) 109
1
Wandering Eye

Flying Players play with their hands revealed.

Creature
Wandering Eye (nem) 50
1

Enchantments

Quantity: 9Price: $5.74
Bottomless Pit

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random.

Enchantment
Bottomless Pit (sth) 51
1
Larceny

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Enchantment
Larceny (8ed) 139
1
Megrim

Whenever an opponent discards a card, Megrim deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Megrim (m10) 104
1
Planeswalker's Mischief

{3}{U}: Target opponent reveals a card at random from their hand. If it's an instant or sorcery card, exile it. You may cast it without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled. At the beginning of the next end step, if you haven't cast it, return it to its owner's hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Planeswalker's Mischief (pls) 29
1
Raiders' Wake

Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life. Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, target opponent discards a card.

Enchantment
Raiders' Wake (xln) 116
1
Seer's Vision

Your opponents play with their hands revealed. Sacrifice Seer's Vision: Look at target player's hand and choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Seer's Vision (inv) 270
1
Shrieking Affliction

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 3 life.

Enchantment
Shrieking Affliction (rtr) 76
1
Telepathy

Your opponents play with their hands revealed.

Enchantment
Telepathy (m10) 74
1
Zur's Weirding

Players play with their hands revealed. If a player would draw a card, they reveal it instead. Then any other player may pay 2 life. If a player does, put that card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player draws a card.

Enchantment
Zur's Weirding (plst) 8ED-116
1

Instants

Quantity: 9Price: $15.17
Dream Salvage

Draw cards equal to the number of cards target opponent discarded this turn.

Instant
Dream Salvage (shm) 160
1
Lay Bare

Counter target spell. Look at its controller's hand.

Instant
Lay Bare (roe) 74
1
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (scd) 93
1
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
1
Peek

Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.

Instant
Peek (10e) 94
1
Psychic Strike

Counter target spell. Its controller mills two cards.

Instant
Psychic Strike (gtc) 189
1
Spy Network

Look at target player's hand, the top card of that player's library, and any face-down creatures they control. Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Instant
Spy Network (ons) 115
1
Treacherous Urge

Target opponent reveals their hand. You may put a creature card from it onto the battlefield under your control. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Treacherous Urge (plc) 82
1
Wheel and Deal

Any number of target opponents each discard their hands, then draw seven cards. Draw a card.

Instant
Wheel and Deal (ons) 121
1

Lands

Quantity: 34Price: $11.90
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mom) 278
17
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
17

Planeswalkers

Quantity: 1Price: $9.49
Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn. −2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Planeswalker
Narset, Parter of Veils (war) 61
1

Sorceries

Quantity: 15Price: $54.21
Consult the Necrosages

Choose one — • Target player draws two cards. • Target player discards two cards.

Sorcery
Consult the Necrosages (rav) 199
1
Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery
Dark Deal (frf) 66
1
Delirium Skeins

Each player discards three cards.

Sorcery
Delirium Skeins (mm3) 65
1
Divest

Target player reveals their hand. You choose an artifact or creature card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Divest (2xm) 87
1
Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Duress (one) 92
1
Echo of Eons

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Echo of Eons (mh1) 46
1
Harsh Scrutiny

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature card from it. That player discards that card. Scry 1.

Sorcery
Harsh Scrutiny (kld) 85
1
Hymn to Tourach

Target player discards two cards at random.

Sorcery
Hymn to Tourach (plst) EMA-92
1
Tasigur's Cruelty

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Each opponent discards two cards.

Sorcery
Tasigur's Cruelty (frf) 88
1
Thought Erasure

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Thought Erasure (plst) GRN-206
1
Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Thoughtseize (2xm) 109
1
Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Traumatize (m14) 77
1
Unnerve

Each opponent discards two cards.

Sorcery
Unnerve (cm2) 81
1
Whispering Madness

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Whispering Madness (c16) 229
1
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (khc) 46
1

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