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Commander

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Amber Gristle O'Maul

Haste Whenever Amber Gristle O'Maul attacks, you may discard your hand. If you do, draw a card for each player being attacked. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Amber Gristle O'Maul (clb) 159
Shameless Charlatan

Commander creatures you own have "{2}{U}: This creature becomes a copy of another target creature."

Enchantment
Shameless Charlatan (clb) 96

Commander

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Interaction

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Cityscape Leveler

Trample When you cast this spell and whenever this creature attacks, destroy up to one target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a tapped Powerstone token. Unearth {8}

Creature Artifact
Cityscape Leveler (bro) 233
Desynchronization

Return each nonland permanent that's not historic to its owner's hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Instant
Desynchronization (acr) 16
Pongify

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

Instant
Pongify (otc) 106
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (blc) 111
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 (dsc) 125
Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (mb2) 238

Interaction

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Tutor Targets

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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 (plst) THB-236

Tutor Targets

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Affinity

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Broodstar

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying Broodstar's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Creature
Broodstar (plst) MRD-31
Frogmite

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Creature Artifact
Frogmite (plst) MM2-215
Frogmyr Enforcer

Prototype {3}{R} — 2/2 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Creature Artifact
Frogmyr Enforcer (mh3) 120
Furnace Hellkite

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying {R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Furnace Hellkite (mh3) 121
Kappa Cannoneer

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Ward {4} Whenever this creature or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and it can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Kappa Cannoneer (mh3) 270
Mycosynth Golem

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Artifact creature spells you cast have affinity for artifacts. (They cost {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Creature Artifact
Mycosynth Golem (plst) 5DN-137
Myr Enforcer

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Creature Artifact
Myr Enforcer (j25) 756
Sojourner's Companion

Affinity for artifacts Artifact landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an artifact land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature Artifact
Sojourner's Companion (mh2) 235

Affinity

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Land

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Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Access Tunnel (otc) 270
Archway of Innovation

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Land
Archway of Innovation (mh3) 214
Bloodstained Mire

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

Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 216
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (pip) 254
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Darksteel Citadel

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact Land
Darksteel Citadel (mb2) 107
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (dsc) 275
Fiery Islet

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U} or {R}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Fiery Islet (who) 278
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
Fomori Vault

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Discard a card: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of artifacts you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Land
Fomori Vault (big) 94
Great Furnace

{T}: Add {R}.

Artifact Land
Great Furnace (brc) 187
Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Land
Inventors' Fair (plst) KLD-247
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 280
Misty Rainforest

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

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dft) 287
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
Pinnacle Monk

Creature
Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246
Polluted Delta

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

Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Scalding Tarn

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

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (otc) 316
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (j25) 773
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (blc) 331
Silverbluff Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Silverbluff Bridge (pip) 290
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Spirebluff Canal

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

Land
Spirebluff Canal (otj) 270
Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Steam Vents (rvr) 288
Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Land
Thespian's Stage (mb2) 113
Thundering Falls

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Thundering Falls (mkm) 269
Training Center

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

Land
Training Center (cmm) 434
Treasure Vault

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create X Treasure tokens.

Artifact Land
Treasure Vault (pip) 314
Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Urza's Cave (mh3) 234
Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}." II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'" III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land Enchantment
Urza's Saga (mb2) 114
Volcanic Island

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)

Land
Volcanic Island (3ed) 291
Wooded Foothills

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

Land
Wooded Foothills (mh3) 236

Land

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Bunch of Little Guys

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Chrome Host Seedshark

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Creature
Chrome Host Seedshark (mom) 51
Genesis Chamber

Whenever a nontoken creature enters, if this artifact is untapped, that creature's controller creates a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

Artifact
Genesis Chamber (bbd) 235
Memnite

Creature Artifact
Memnite (plst) SOM-174
Ornithopter

Flying

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter (dmr) 233
Phyrexian Walker

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Walker (vis) 152
Saheeli, Sublime Artificer

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. −2: Target artifact you control becomes a copy of another target artifact or creature you control until end of turn, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Planeswalker
Saheeli, Sublime Artificer (cmm) 935
Sai, Master Thopterist

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. {1}{U}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Draw a card.

Creature
Sai, Master Thopterist (j25) 63
Shield Sphere

Defender Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Shield Sphere (all) 129
Simulacrum Synthesizer

When this artifact enters, scry 2. Whenever another artifact you control with mana value 3 or greater enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."

Artifact
Simulacrum Synthesizer (big) 6
Third Path Iconoclast

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.

Creature
Third Path Iconoclast (otc) 244

Bunch of Little Guys

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Protection

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K-9, Mark I

Negative — As long as K-9 is untapped, other legendary creatures you control have ward {1}. Affirmative — {1}{U}, {T}: Target legendary creature can't be blocked this turn. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Creature Artifact
K-9, Mark I (who) 47
Lavaspur Boots

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste and ward {1}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Lavaspur Boots (otj) 243
Nullstone Gargoyle

Flying Whenever the first noncreature spell of a turn is cast, counter that spell.

Creature Artifact
Nullstone Gargoyle (rav) 266
Void Winnower

Your opponents can't cast spells with even mana values. (Zero is even.) Your opponents can't block with creatures with even mana values.

Creature
Void Winnower (bfz) 17
Welding Jar

Sacrifice this artifact: Regenerate target artifact.

Artifact
Welding Jar (2xm) 307

Protection

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Draw

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Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying, haste Whenever Chiss-Goria attacks, exile the top five cards of your library. You may cast an artifact spell from among them this turn. If you do, it has affinity for artifacts.

Creature
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant (onc) 25
Chromescale Drake

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying When this creature enters, reveal the top three cards of your library. Put all artifact cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Creature
Chromescale Drake (dst) 20
Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam

{1}{U}: Return target artifact you control to its owner's hand. {3}, {T}: Copy target artifact spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

Creature
Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam (bro) 47
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
Forensic Gadgeteer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Creature
Forensic Gadgeteer (mkm) 57
Herigast, Erupting Nullkite

Emerge {6}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.) When you cast this spell, you may exile your hand. If you do, draw three cards. Flying Each creature spell you cast has emerge. The emerge cost is equal to its mana cost.

Creature
Herigast, Erupting Nullkite (mh3) 8
Mishra's Bauble

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Look at the top card of target player's library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Artifact
Mishra's Bauble (mb2) 97
Thought Monitor

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards.

Creature Artifact
Thought Monitor (j25) 373
Thoughtcast

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Thoughtcast (j25) 374
Urza's Bauble

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Look at a card at random in target player's hand. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Artifact
Urza's Bauble (mb2) 237
Wretched Gryff

Emerge {5}{U} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.) When you cast this spell, draw a card. Flying

Creature
Wretched Gryff (inr) 7

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Ramp

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Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (pip) 230
Inspiring Statuary

Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Artifact
Inspiring Statuary (mkc) 230
Jeweled Amulet

{1}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. Note the type of mana spent to pay this activation cost. Activate only if there are no charge counters on this artifact. {T}, Remove a charge counter from this artifact: Add one mana of this artifact's last noted type.

Artifact
Jeweled Amulet (ice) 326
Lotus Bloom

Suspend 3—{0} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {0} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Lotus Bloom (tsr) 270
Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 308
Mox Amber

{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Mox Opal

Metalcraft — {T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Artifact
Mox Opal (2xm) 275
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Sol Talisman

Suspend 3—{1} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Talisman (mh2) 236
Springleaf Drum

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

Artifact
Springleaf Drum (2xm) 291

Ramp

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Finishers

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Artisan of Kozilek

When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)

Creature
Artisan of Kozilek (cmm) 801
Blast-Furnace Hellkite

Artifact offering (You may cast this spell as though it had flash by sacrificing an artifact and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed artifact. Mana cost includes color.) Flying, double strike Creatures attacking your opponents have double strike.

Creature
Blast-Furnace Hellkite (brc) 12
Blightsteel Colossus

Trample, infect, indestructible If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Creature Artifact
Blightsteel Colossus (plst) 2XM-235
Dark Depths

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it. {3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths. When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Land
Dark Depths (dmr) 244
Emrakul, the World Anew

When you cast this spell, gain control of all creatures target player controls. Flying, protection from spells and from permanents that were cast this turn When Emrakul leaves the battlefield, sacrifice all creatures you control. Madness—Pay six {C}.

Creature
Emrakul, the World Anew (mh3) 6

Finishers

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Tutor

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Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Fabricate (plst) M10-52
Grozoth

Defender (This creature can't attack.) When this creature enters, you may search your library for any number of cards that have mana value 9, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. {4}: This creature loses defender until end of turn. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Grozoth (rav) 53
Reshape

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Reshape (plst) 2XM-64
Whir of Invention

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Whir of Invention (plst) AER-49

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