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Nerd Diver
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Est deck cost: $310.22
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Commander

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Neerdiv, Devious Diver

Whenever Neerdiv becomes tapped, target player mills cards equal to its power. Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard or activate an ability of a card in your graveyard, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Neerdiv.

Creature
Neerdiv, Devious Diver (j25) 36

Commander

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Counters

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Flux Channeler

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Flux Channeler (war) 52
Proft's Eidetic Memory

When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters, draw a card. You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.

Enchantment
Proft's Eidetic Memory (mkm) 67
Ripples of Potential

Proliferate, then choose any number of permanents you control that had a counter put on them this way. Those permanents phase out. (To proliferate, choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Treat phased-out permanents and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Instant
Ripples of Potential (lcc) 77

Counters

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (c20) 237
Dreamscape Artist

{2}{U}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice a land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Dreamscape Artist (uma) 52
Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Heraldic Banner (fdn) 254
Mocking Sprite

Flying Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Mocking Sprite (fdn) 159
Moonsnare Prototype

{T}, Tap an untapped artifact or creature you control: Add {C}. Channel — {4}{U}, Discard this card: The owner of target nonland permanent puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Artifact
Moonsnare Prototype (neo) 69
Relic of Legends

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Relic of Legends (dmu) 236
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c20) 252
Springleaf Drum

{T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Springleaf Drum (slp) 22

Ramp

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Utility

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High Fae Trickster

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Creature
High Fae Trickster (fdn) 40
Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Artifact
Strionic Resonator (c19) 224
Temporal Manipulation

Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Temporal Manipulation (spg) 82

Utility

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Board

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Deeproot Pilgrimage

Whenever one or more nontoken Merfolk you control become tapped, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token with hexproof.

Enchantment
Deeproot Pilgrimage (lci) 52
Mirrorhall Mimic

Creature
Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry (vow) 68Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry (vow) 68
Quasiduplicate

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Sorcery
Quasiduplicate (rvr) 55
Self-Reflection

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Flashback {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Self-Reflection (lci) 74
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Whenever this creature attacks, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore (fdn) 314
Surge Engine

Defender {U}: This creature loses defender and gains "This creature can't be blocked." {2}{U}: This creature becomes blue and has base power and toughness 5/4. Activate only if this creature doesn't have defender. {4}{U}{U}: Draw three cards. Activate only if this creature is blue and only once.

Creature Artifact
Surge Engine (bro) 81
Vizier of Many Faces

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except if this creature was embalmed, the token has no mana cost, it's white, and it's a Zombie in addition to its other types. Embalm {3}{U}{U}

Creature
Vizier of Many Faces (mkc) 123

Board

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Land

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Blast Zone

This land enters with a charge counter on it. {T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on this land. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this land.

Land
Blast Zone (pbro) 258s
Conduit Pylons

When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Conduit Pylons (otj) 254
Crawling Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. {4}: Put two +1/+1 counters on this land. Then you may have it become a 0/0 Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Crawling Barrens (fdn) 685
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (fdn) 687
Drownyard Temple

{T}: Add {C}. {3}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Land
Drownyard Temple (mkc) 259
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (isd) 240
Guildless Commons

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

Land
Guildless Commons (cmm) 1003
Halimar Depths

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Add {U}.

Land
Halimar Depths (c20) 280
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (fdn) 275
Jwari Disruption

Instant
Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins (znr) 64Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins (znr) 64
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
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (woc) 164
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (40k) 287
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 425
Temple of the False God

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

Land
Temple of the False God (dsc) 313

Land

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Removal

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Agatha's Soul Cauldron

You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate abilities of creatures you control. Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with Agatha's Soul Cauldron. {T}: Exile target card from a graveyard. When a creature card is exiled this way, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Artifact
Agatha's Soul Cauldron (woe) 242
Amphin Mutineer

When this creature enters, exile up to one target non-Salamander creature. That creature's controller creates a 4/3 blue Salamander Warrior creature token. Encore {4}{U}{U} ({4}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Amphin Mutineer (mkc) 95
Consuming Tide

Each player chooses a nonland permanent they control. Return all nonland permanents not chosen this way to their owners' hands. Then you draw a card for each opponent who has more cards in their hand than you.

Sorcery
Consuming Tide (vow) 53
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (plst) PLC-44
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (frf) 46
Selective Obliteration

Each player chooses a color. Then exile each permanent unless it's colorless or it's only the color its controller chose.

Sorcery
Selective Obliteration (m3c) 35
Spectral Deluge

Return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control. Foretell {1}{U}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Spectral Deluge (khc) 7

Removal

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Buff

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Commander's Plate

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity. Equip commander {3} Equip {5}

Artifact
Commander's Plate (cmr) 305
Gutter Skulker

Creature
Gutter Skulker // Gutter Shortcut (vow) 62Gutter Skulker // Gutter Shortcut (vow) 62
Mist Dancer

Flying Other Merfolk you control get +1/+0 and have flying. Encore {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Mist Dancer (lcc) 76
Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Shadowspear (thb) 236

Buff

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Mill

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Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) When Emry enters, mill four cards. {T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Creature
Emry, Lurker of the Loch (brc) 81
Mesmeric Orb

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

Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (brr) 94
The Mindskinner

The Mindskinner can't be blocked. If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent, prevent that damage and each opponent mills that many cards.

Creature Enchantment
The Mindskinner (dsk) 66

Mill

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Surveil

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Case of the Shifting Visage

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. To solve — There are fifteen or more cards in your graveyard. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell, copy that spell. (The copy becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Case of the Shifting Visage (mkc) 19
Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Draw a card.

Instant
Consider (woc) 87
Curate

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.) Draw a card.

Instant
Curate (mkc) 99
Mindwhisker

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.

Creature
Mindwhisker (blb) 60
Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To 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.)

Instant
Mission Briefing (mkc) 110
Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Otherworldly Gaze (mkc) 115
Search for Azcanta

Enchantment
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (plst) XLN-74Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (plst) XLN-74

Surveil

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Cards

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Champion of Wits

When this creature enters, you may draw cards equal to its power. If you do, discard two cards. Eternalize {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Wizard with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Champion of Wits (c21) 116
Chemister's Insight

Draw two cards. Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Instant
Chemister's Insight (c20) 108
Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Deep Analysis (j25) 304
Inspiration from Beyond

Mill three cards, then return an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Inspiration from Beyond (fdn) 43
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead. +1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card. −8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Planeswalker
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (war) 54
Kiora, the Rising Tide

When Kiora enters, draw two cards, then discard two cards. Threshold — Whenever Kiora attacks, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may create Scion of the Deep, a legendary 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.

Creature
Kiora, the Rising Tide (fdn) 45
Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel

Flash Flying Whenever Malcolm deals combat damage to a player, put a chorus counter on it. Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are four or more chorus counters on Malcolm, you may cast the discarded card without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel (lci) 63
See the Truth

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. If this spell was cast from anywhere other than your hand, put each of those cards into your hand instead.

Sorcery
See the Truth (m21) 69
Think Twice

Draw a card. Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Think Twice (fdn) 315

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Protection

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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 (woc) 84
Confounding Riddle

Choose one — • Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.

Instant
Confounding Riddle (lci) 50
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (ss1) 4
Countervailing Winds

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Countervailing Winds (hou) 32
Dive Down

Target creature you control gets +0/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Dive Down (fdn) 588
Mirrorshell Crab

Ward {3} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.) Channel — {2}{U}, Discard this card: Counter target spell or ability unless its controller pays {3}.

Creature Artifact
Mirrorshell Crab (neo) 63
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (c13) 53
Refute

Counter target spell. Draw a card, then discard a card.

Instant
Refute (fdn) 313
Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Spell Pierce (neo) 80
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 (brc) 166

Protection

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Tapper

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Archmage's Newt

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. That card gains flashback {0} until end of turn instead if this creature is saddled. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) Saddle 3

Creature
Archmage's Newt (otj) 39
Freed from the Real

Enchant creature {U}: Tap enchanted creature. {U}: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (plst) SOK-38
Kelpie Guide

{T}: Untap another target permanent you control. {T}: Tap target permanent. Activate only if you control eight or more lands.

Creature
Kelpie Guide (stx) 45

Tapper

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Maybeboard

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Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You have no maximum hand size. {2}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards. {4}{U}: Level 3 Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Wizard Class (afr) 81

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