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Socratic Symposium
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Est deck cost: $1149.91
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Commander

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Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Defender Sokrates has hexproof as long as it's untapped. Sokratic Dialogue — {T}: Until end of turn, target creature gains "If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. This creature's controller and that player each draw half that many cards, rounded down."

Creature
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher (acr) 121

Commander

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Instant

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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 (dsc) 110
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (sta) 13
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
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 (rvr) 419
Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (p30a) 27
Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 412
Everybody Lives!

All creatures gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Players gain hexproof until end of turn. Players can't lose life this turn and players can't lose the game or win the game this turn.

Instant
Everybody Lives! (who) 18
Fierce Guardianship

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

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Flow of Knowledge

Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard two cards.

Instant
Flow of Knowledge (bro) 49
Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 50
Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 418
Long River's Pull

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.

Instant
Long River's Pull (blb) 58
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (otp) 11
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 (mkc) 78
Shore Up

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap it. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Shore Up (blb) 69
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (c17) 76
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 343

Instant

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Artifact

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Folio of Fancies

Players have no maximum hand size. {X}{X}, {T}: Each player draws X cards. {2}{U}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Artifact
Folio of Fancies (eld) 46
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (drc) 55
Misleading Signpost

Flash When this artifact enters during the declare attackers step, you may reselect which player or permanent target attacking creature is attacking. (It can't attack its controller or their permanents.) {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Misleading Signpost (woc) 11
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (pfdn) 1
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 (lcc) 314
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (who) 846
Wedding Ring

When this artifact enters, if it was cast, target opponent creates a token that's a copy of it. Whenever an opponent who controls an artifact named Wedding Ring draws a card during their turn, you draw a card. Whenever an opponent who controls an artifact named Wedding Ring gains life during their turn, you gain that much life.

Artifact
Wedding Ring (who) 213

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Land

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Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
Deserted Beach

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

Land
Deserted Beach (who) 270
Flooded Strand

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

Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Floodfarm Verge

{T}: Add {W}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

Land
Floodfarm Verge (dsk) 330
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (who) 876
Hengegate Pathway

Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (fdn) 284
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (dmr) 250
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (fdn) 282
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (mkc) 281
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (plg20) 1
Sea of Clouds

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360

Land

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Creature

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Alandra, Sky Dreamer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying. Whenever you draw your fifth card each turn, Alandra and Drakes you control each get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Creature
Alandra, Sky Dreamer (mkc) 94
Aven Mindcensor

Flash Flying If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.

Creature
Aven Mindcensor (clb) 688
Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature
Body of Knowledge (dsc) 112
Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature
Chasm Skulker (blc) 164
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
Drumbellower

Flying Untap all creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Drumbellower (nec) 6
Faerie Mastermind

Flash Flying Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card. {3}{U}: Each player draws a card.

Creature
Faerie Mastermind (mom) 58
Ioreth of the Healing House

{T}: Untap another target permanent. {T}: Untap two other target legendary creatures.

Creature
Ioreth of the Healing House (ltr) 56
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler

{T}: Each player may draw a card, then each player who drew a card this way gains 1 life.

Creature
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler (blc) 254
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
Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Loran of the Third Path (mkc) 71
Mangara, the Diplomat

Lifelink Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Creature
Mangara, the Diplomat (blc) 145
Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Psychosis Crawler (blc) 282
Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Scrawling Crawler (fdn) 132
Shabraz, the Skyshark

Partner with Brallin, Skyshark Rider Flying Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Shabraz and you gain 1 life. {W/U}: Target Human gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Shabraz, the Skyshark (plst) C20-14
Silent Arbiter

No more than one creature can attack each combat. No more than one creature can block each combat.

Creature Artifact
Silent Arbiter (cmm) 972
Thassa's Oracle

When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Creature
Thassa's Oracle (thb) 73
The Council of Four

Whenever a player draws their second card during their turn, you draw a card. Whenever a player casts their second spell during their turn, you create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.

Creature
The Council of Four (clb) 271
The Second Doctor

Players have no maximum hand size. How Civil of You — At the beginning of your end step, each player may draw a card. Each opponent who does can't attack you or permanents you control during their next turn.

Creature
The Second Doctor (who) 156
Triskaidekaphile

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game. {3}{U}: Draw a card.

Creature
Triskaidekaphile (blc) 178
Twenty-Toed Toad

Your maximum hand size is twenty. Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Twenty-Toed Toad and draw a card. Whenever Twenty-Toed Toad attacks, you win the game if there are twenty or more counters on it or you have twenty or more cards in hand.

Creature
Twenty-Toed Toad (blc) 51
Windborn Muse

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

Creature
Windborn Muse (mkc) 92

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Planeswalker

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Gideon of the Trials

+1: Until your next turn, prevent all damage target permanent would deal. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon becomes a 4/4 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn. 0: You get an emblem with "As long as you control a Gideon planeswalker, you can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game."

Planeswalker
Gideon of the Trials (akh) 14
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 (plst) WAR-54

Planeswalker

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Enchantment

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Dazzling Theater

Enchantment
Dazzling Theater // Prop Room (dsk) 334
Freed from the Real

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

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (plst) SOK-38
Ghostly Prison

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

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (mkc) 67
Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment. Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Ominous Seas (plst) IKO-61
Omniscience

You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

Enchantment
Omniscience (wot) 70
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (wot) 71
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 57
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (mkc) 119
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

Enchantment

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Sorcery

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Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery
Approach of the Second Sun (plst) AKH-4
Concentrate

Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Concentrate (ody) 78
Day of Judgment

Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Day of Judgment (fdn) 140
Enter the Infinite

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your library, then put a card from your hand on top of your library. You have no maximum hand size until your next turn.

Sorcery
Enter the Infinite (rvr) 449
Farewell

Choose one or more — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery
Farewell (mkc) 64
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (dsc) 73
Sea Gate Restoration

Sorcery
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76
Season of Weaving

Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. {P} — Draw a card. {P}{P} — Choose an artifact or creature you control. Create a token that's a copy of it. {P}{P}{P} — Return each nonland, nontoken permanent to its owner's hand.

Sorcery
Season of Weaving (blb) 68
Windfall

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

Sorcery
Windfall (otc) 123

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Maybeboard

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (mkc) 223
Archivist

{T}: Draw a card.

Creature
Archivist (9ed) 60
Emrakul's Messenger

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Emrakul's Messenger (mh3) 61
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (blc) 106
Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature
Grand Abolisher (cmm) 27
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV (2x2) 221
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 (rvr) 280
Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Artifact
Howling Mine (plst) M10-212
Nevermore

As this enchantment enters, choose a nonland card name. Spells with the chosen name can't be cast.

Enchantment
Nevermore (isd) 25
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Pemmin's Aura

Enchant creature {U}: Untap enchanted creature. {U}: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn. {U}: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {1}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Pemmin's Aura (plst) SCG-45
Refocus

Untap target creature. Draw a card.

Instant
Refocus (plst) FRF-47
Remand

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard. Draw a card.

Instant
Remand (tsr) 316
Spellbook

You have no maximum hand size.

Artifact
Spellbook (plst) 10E-343
Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (2x2) 388
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 (inr) 92

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Tokens & Extras

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Copy

(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)

Token
Copy (tcmm) 55
Drake

Flying

Creature Token
Drake (tc19) 8
Kraken

Creature Token
Kraken (ddo) 67
Squid

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature Token
Squid (tblc) 17
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tltr) 12

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

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29 pips - 24 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
66 pips - 44 cards
25 mana - 25 cards
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0 mana - 2 cards
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0 mana - 2 cards
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5 mana - 4 cards
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