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The Ancient One
Deck Size: 99
Commander / EDH
Est deck cost: $110.39
Salt sum: 37.69
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The Ancient One

Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard. {2}{U}{B}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.

Creature
The Ancient One (lci) 222

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Planeswalker

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Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control. −6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Planeswalker
Liliana of the Dark Realms (m14) 102

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Removal

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (fdn) 151
Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Eaten Alive (fdn) 172
Eaten by Piranhas

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a black Skeleton creature with base power and toughness 1/1. (It loses all other colors, card types, and creature types.)

Enchantment
Eaten by Piranhas (fdn) 507
Essence Scatter

Counter target creature spell.

Instant
Essence Scatter (fdn) 153
Fell

Destroy target creature.

Sorcery
Fell (blb) 95
Harbinger of the Tides

You may cast this card as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Creature
Harbinger of the Tides (fdn) 593
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 (fdn) 509
Mists of Lórien

Replicate {U} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Return target nonland permanent and each other nonland permanent with the same mana value as that permanent to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Mists of Lórien (ltc) 501
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (m20) 69
Refute

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

Instant
Refute (fdn) 313
River's Rebuke

Return all nonland permanents target player controls to their owner's hand.

Sorcery
River's Rebuke (fdn) 595
Seeker's Folly

Choose one — • Target opponent discards two cards. • Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Seeker's Folly (fdn) 69
Unsummon

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Unsummon (fdn) 599
Urza's Rebuff

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Tap up to two target creatures.

Instant
Urza's Rebuff (bro) 71
Witness Protection

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Enchantment
Witness Protection (fdn) 168

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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 (fdn) 238
Desecration Demon

Flying At the beginning of each combat, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature and put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Desecration Demon (fdn) 603
Dreadwing Scavenger

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, draw a card, then discard a card. Threshold — This creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Dreadwing Scavenger (fdn) 118
Fleet Swallower

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

Creature
Fleet Swallower (xln) 57
Gate Colossus

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Gate you control. This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. Whenever a Gate you control enters, you may put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Creature Artifact
Gate Colossus (fdn) 675
Kalastria Highborn

Whenever this creature or another Vampire you control dies, you may pay {B}. If you do, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Kalastria Highborn (fdn) 607
Knight of Malice

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Hexproof from white (This creature can't be the target of white spells or abilities your opponents control.) This creature gets +1/+0 as long as any player controls a white permanent.

Creature
Knight of Malice (dom) 97
Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Massacre Wurm (dsc) 147
Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Creature
Midnight Reaper (rvr) 86
Mocking Sprite

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

Creature
Mocking Sprite (fdn) 159
Myojin of Night's Reach

Myojin of Night's Reach enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand. Myojin of Night's Reach has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it. Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Night's Reach: Each opponent discards their hand.

Creature
Myojin of Night's Reach (fdn) 610
Sphinx of the Final Word

This spell can't be countered. Flying Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Instant and sorcery spells you control can't be countered.

Creature
Sphinx of the Final Word (fdn) 597
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar

Whenever an opponent discards a card, exile it from their graveyard with a stash counter on it. During your turn, you may play cards you don't own with stash counters on them from exile, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells. {3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar (fdn) 72
Tolarian Terror

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)

Creature
Tolarian Terror (fdn) 167
Voracious Greatshark

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, counter target artifact or creature spell.

Creature
Voracious Greatshark (fdn) 600

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Protection

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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
Offer Immortality

Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Offer Immortality (fdn) 525
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 (fdn) 355
Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Undying Malice (fdn) 528

Protection

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Sorcery Win

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Confiscate

Enchant permanent You control enchanted permanent.

Enchantment
Confiscate (fdn) 709
Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fdn) 173
Extravagant Replication

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of another target nonland permanent you control.

Enchantment
Extravagant Replication (fdn) 154
Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.) Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Sorcery
Rite of Replication (c21) 128

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Draw

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Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards. {2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.

Creature
Arcanis the Omnipotent (fdn) 585
Finale of Revelation

Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game. Exile Finale of Revelation.

Sorcery
Finale of Revelation (fdn) 589
Index

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Sorcery
Index (m13) 55
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (fdn) 512
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
The Bath Song

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Draw two cards, then discard a card. III — Shuffle any number of target cards from your graveyard into your library. Add {U}{U}.

Enchantment
The Bath Song (ltr) 40
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) 165
Thundertrap Trainer

Offspring {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) When this creature enters, 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.

Creature
Thundertrap Trainer (blb) 78

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Pump

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Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Basilisk Collar (fdn) 669
Jump

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Instant
Jump (plst) M10-59
Leyline Axe

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample. Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Leyline Axe (fdn) 129
Nighthowler

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (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 to a creature.) Nighthowler and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Creature Enchantment
Nighthowler (clb) 764

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Tutor

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Mystical Teachings

Search your library for an instant card or a card with flash, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Flashback {5}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Mystical Teachings (fdn) 594
Wishclaw Talisman

This artifact enters with three wish counters on it. {1}, {T}, Remove a wish counter from this artifact: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. An opponent gains control of this artifact. Activate only during your turn.

Artifact
Wishclaw Talisman (fdn) 617

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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 (m3c) 331
Dimir Guildgate

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

Land
Dimir Guildgate (fdn) 688
Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (fdn) 261
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 (fdn) 262
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (fdn) 274
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (fdn) 275
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (fdn) 284
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (fdn) 285
Maze's End

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Land
Maze's End (fdn) 727
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (fdn) 264
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 276
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 277
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 286
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 287
Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (fdn) 697
Uncharted Haven

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Uncharted Haven (fdn) 564

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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 (m3c) 283
Gilded Lotus

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

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (blc) 271
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (m3c) 305

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Mill

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Dread Summons

Each player mills X cards. For each creature card put into a graveyard this way, you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Sorcery
Dread Summons (fdn) 604

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Recursion

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It Doesn't Add Up

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)

Instant
It Doesn't Add Up (mkm) 89
Nullpriest of Oblivion

Kicker {3}{B} (You may pay an additional {3}{B} as you cast this spell.) Lifelink Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Nullpriest of Oblivion (fdn) 611
Shipwreck Dowser

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Shipwreck Dowser (j25) 354
Zombify

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Zombify (fdn) 187

Recursion

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