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The Element(al) of Surprise
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Est deck cost: $271.81
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Commander

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Horde of Notions

Vigilance, trample, haste {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: You may play target Elemental card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Horde of Notions (lrw) 249

Commander

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Burn

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Rumbling Slum

At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to each player.

Creature
Rumbling Slum (hop) 93

Burn

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Draw

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Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (blc) 219
Kindred Discovery

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

Enchantment
Kindred Discovery (lcc) 159
Maelstrom Wanderer

Creatures you control have haste. Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)

Creature
Maelstrom Wanderer (cmm) 344
Mulldrifter

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

Creature
Mulldrifter (mkc) 111
Nulldrifter

When you cast this spell, draw two cards. Flying Annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.) Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Nulldrifter (mh3) 13
Omnath, Locus of All

If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes black instead. At the beginning of your first main phase, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card if it has three or more colored mana symbols in its mana cost. If you do, add three mana in any combination of its colors and put it into your hand. If you don't reveal it, put it into your hand.

Creature
Omnath, Locus of All (mom) 249
Temur Ascendancy

Creatures you control have haste. Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Temur Ascendancy (ktk) 207
Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Artifact
Vanquisher's Banner (lcc) 316

Draw

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Mill

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Blanchwood Prowler

When this creature enters, mill three cards. You may put a land card from among the cards milled this way into your hand. If you don't, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Blanchwood Prowler (bro) 172
Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107

Mill

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Removal

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Foundation Breaker

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment. Evoke {1}{G} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Foundation Breaker (mh2) 160
Ingot Chewer

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact. Evoke {R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Ingot Chewer (plst) CM2-110
Shriekmaw

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Shriekmaw (mkc) 139
Wispmare

Flying When this creature enters, destroy target enchantment. Evoke {W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Wispmare (lrw) 48

Removal

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Anthem

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Creeping Trailblazer

Other Elementals you control get +1/+0. {2}{R}{G}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Elemental you control.

Creature
Creeping Trailblazer (m20) 207
Door of Destinies

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on this artifact. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Door of Destinies (ltc) 277
Incandescent Soulstoke

Other Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1. {1}{R}, {T}: You may put an Elemental creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Incandescent Soulstoke (mm2) 119

Anthem

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Counters

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Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Creature
Forgotten Ancient (j25) 147

Counters

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Evasion

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Thicket Crasher

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Other Elementals you control have trample.

Creature
Thicket Crasher (m20) 196

Evasion

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Pump

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Bolt Hound

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) Whenever this creature attacks, other creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Bolt Hound (j22) 504

Pump

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Tokens

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Life of the Party

First strike, trample, haste Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control. When this creature enters, if it's not a token, each opponent creates a token that's a copy of it. The tokens are goaded for the rest of the game. (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Life of the Party (ncc) 48
Titania, Protector of Argoth

When Titania enters, return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Whenever a land you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 5/3 green Elemental creature token.

Creature
Titania, Protector of Argoth (otc) 210
Voice of Resurgence

Whenever an opponent casts a spell during your turn and when this creature dies, create a green and white Elemental creature token with "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control."

Creature
Voice of Resurgence (2xm) 227

Tokens

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Creature

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Mossborn Hydra

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Mossborn Hydra (fdn) 107
Shroudstomper

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or attacks, each opponent loses 2 life. You gain 2 life and draw a card.

Creature
Shroudstomper (dsk) 233

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Crumbling Necropolis

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (lcc) 326
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (inr) 278
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (dsc) 275
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (fdn) 280
Frontier Bivouac

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.

Land
Frontier Bivouac (who) 281
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (fdn) 275
Jungle Shrine

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.

Land
Jungle Shrine (otc) 303
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (fdn) 279
Mystic Monastery

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}, {R}, or {W}.

Land
Mystic Monastery (blc) 318
Nomad Outpost

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.

Land
Nomad Outpost (otc) 306
Opulent Palace

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.

Land
Opulent Palace (otc) 307
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 (blc) 322
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (fdn) 272
Primal Beyond

As this land enters, you may reveal an Elemental card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast an Elemental spell or activate an ability of an Elemental.

Land
Primal Beyond (mor) 149
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Sandsteppe Citadel

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.

Land
Sandsteppe Citadel (cmm) 1024
Savage Lands

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Land
Savage Lands (cmm) 1025
Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Land
Seaside Citadel (blc) 329
Secluded Courtyard

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Land
Secluded Courtyard (fdn) 267
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 277
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (j25) 156
The World Tree

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
The World Tree (khm) 275
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 260
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (mh2) 261

Land

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Ramp

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Animar, Soul of Elements

Protection from white and from black Whenever you cast a creature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Animar. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on Animar.

Creature
Animar, Soul of Elements (2x2) 171
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dsc) 92
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild

Ashaya's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. Nontoken creatures you control are Forest lands in addition to their other types. (They're still affected by summoning sickness.)

Creature
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild (dsc) 170
Bramble Familiar

Creature
Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest (woe) 164
Chandra's Embercat

{T}: Add {R}. Spend this mana only to cast an Elemental spell or a Chandra planeswalker spell.

Creature
Chandra's Embercat (m20) 129
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (j25) 151
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 (dsc) 174
Entish Restoration

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Entish Restoration (ltr) 163
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (blc) 119
Fertilid

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {1}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Target player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

Creature
Fertilid (moc) 296
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (dsc) 88
Invasion of Zendikar

Battle
Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave (mom) 194Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave (mom) 194
Jegantha, the Wellspring

Companion — No card in your starting deck has more than one of the same mana symbol in its mana cost. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) {T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}. This mana can't be spent to pay generic mana costs.

Creature
Jegantha, the Wellspring (iko) 222
Leyline of Mutation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may pay {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast.

Enchantment
Leyline of Mutation (dsk) 188
Leyline of the Guildpact

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. Each nonland permanent you control is all colors. Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Enchantment
Leyline of the Guildpact (mkm) 217
Morophon, the Boundless

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As Morophon enters, choose a creature type. Spells of the chosen type you cast cost {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} less to cast. This effect reduces only the amount of colored mana you pay. Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Creature
Morophon, the Boundless (cmm) 3
Patchwork Banner

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

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (j25) 704
Risen Reef

Whenever this creature or another Elemental you control enters, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand.

Creature
Risen Reef (plst) M20-217
Smokebraider

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Elemental spells or activate abilities of Elementals.

Creature
Smokebraider (mm2) 125
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Spelunking

When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put a Cave onto the battlefield this way, you gain 4 life. Lands you control enter untapped.

Enchantment
Spelunking (lci) 213
Tangled Florahedron

Creature
Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale (znr) 211Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale (znr) 211

Ramp

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Tutor

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Flamekin Harbinger

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Elemental card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Creature
Flamekin Harbinger (plst) LRW-167

Tutor

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Bounce

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Rescuer Chwinga

Flash Natural Shelter — When this creature enters, you may return another permanent you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Rescuer Chwinga (clb) 39

Bounce

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Drain

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Rottenmouth Viper

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of nonland permanents. This spell costs {1} less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this way. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a blight counter on it. Then for each blight counter on it, each opponent loses 4 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Creature
Rottenmouth Viper (blb) 107

Drain

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Landfall

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Avenger of Zendikar

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

Creature
Avenger of Zendikar (otc) 187
Geode Rager

First strike Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, goad each creature target player controls. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Geode Rager (scd) 144
Glyph Elemental

Bestow {1}{W} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.) Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this permanent. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on this Aura.

Creature Enchantment
Glyph Elemental (mh3) 27
Omnath, Locus of Creation

When Omnath enters, draw a card. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 4 life if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. If it's the second time, add {R}{G}{W}{U}. If it's the third time, Omnath deals 4 damage to each opponent and each planeswalker you don't control.

Creature
Omnath, Locus of Creation (znr) 232
Omnath, Locus of Rage

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 5/5 red and green Elemental creature token. Whenever Omnath or another Elemental you control dies, Omnath deals 3 damage to any target.

Creature
Omnath, Locus of Rage (otc) 236
Phylath, World Sculptor

When Phylath enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each basic land you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put four +1/+1 counters on target Plant you control.

Creature
Phylath, World Sculptor (znr) 234
Yarok, the Desecrated

Deathtouch, lifelink If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Yarok, the Desecrated (m20) 220

Landfall

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Recursion

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Ancient Greenwarden

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) You may play lands from your graveyard. If a land entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Ancient Greenwarden (j25) 627
Earthquake Dragon

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total mana value of Dragons you control. Flying, trample {2}{G}, Sacrifice a land: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Earthquake Dragon (clb) 228
Muldrotha, the Gravetide

During each of your turns, you may play a land and cast a permanent spell of each permanent type from your graveyard. (If a card has multiple permanent types, choose one as you play it.)

Creature
Muldrotha, the Gravetide (fdn) 243

Recursion

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Sideboard

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Kaheera, the Orphanguard

Companion — Each creature card in your starting deck is a Cat, Elemental, Nightmare, Dinosaur, or Beast card. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Vigilance Each other creature you control that's a Cat, Elemental, Nightmare, Dinosaur, or Beast gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.

Creature
Kaheera, the Orphanguard (iko) 224

Sideboard

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Deck Info

Deck stats

12 pips - 10 cards
27 mana - 23 cards
14 pips - 13 cards
27 mana - 23 cards
10 pips - 9 cards
27 mana - 23 cards
22 pips - 20 cards
29 mana - 25 cards
50 pips - 38 cards
32 mana - 26 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
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