There's always that one Uncle - Uncle Istvan • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Uncle Istvan

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures.

Creature - Human

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Commander

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Artifact

Qty: 13 Price: $70.67

Bloodforged Battle-Axe

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this Equipment.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $3.58 $3.48

Caged Sun

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add an additional one mana of that color.

Artifact

$4.49 $4.05 $3.59

Hammer of Nazahn

Whenever Hammer of Nazahn or another Equipment you control enters, you may attach that Equipment to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has indestructible.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$10.99 $14.26 $9.90

Lashwrithe

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.99 $0.67 $0.46

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

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$7.99 $5.20 $4.16

Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$2.49 $3.10 $1.30

Nightmare Lash

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip—Pay 3 life. (Pay 3 life: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$5.49 $8.22 $1.87

Ring of Xathrid

: Regenerate equipped creature. (The next time that creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's black.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.69 $0.54 $0.15

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $2.16 $1.53

Strata Scythe

Imprint — When this Equipment enters, search your library for a land card, exile it, then shuffle.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land on the battlefield with the same name as the exiled card.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.79 $0.62 $0.43

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

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$4.49 $2.07 $2.13

The Aetherspark

As long as The Aetherspark is attached to a creature, The Aetherspark can't be attacked and has "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage during your turn, put that many loyalty counters on The Aetherspark."
+1: Attach The Aetherspark to up to one target creature you control. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.
−5: Draw two cards.
−10: Add ten mana of any one color.

Legendary Artifact Planeswalker - Equipment

$21.99 $19.72 $18.39

Thran Power Suit

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura and Equipment attached to it and has ward

. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays

.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$1.29 $0.95 $0.83

Artifact

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Counters

Qty: 1 Price: $5.49

Tarrian's Soulcleaver

Equipped creature has vigilance.
Whenever another artifact or creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$5.49 $4.17 $2.71

Counters

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Creature

Qty: 2 Price: $15.98

Abyssal Harvester

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard that was put there this turn. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types. Then exile all other Nightmare tokens you control.

Creature - Demon Warlock

$0.99 $0.33 $0.15

Silent Arbiter

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

Creature Artifact - Construct

$14.99 $10.55 $10.15

Creature

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Drain

Qty: 1 Price: $2.49

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature - Zombie

$2.49 $4.39 $1.02

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 10 Price: $29.30

Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature - Human Wizard

$5.99 $4.40 $3.90

Dark Tutelage

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature - Nightmare

$7.49 $4.53 $3.89

Infiltration Lens

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by a creature, you may draw two cards.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$2.99 $2.68 $1.86

Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$1.49 $0.87 $0.48

Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.79 $1.71 $0.26

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.39 $0.28

Protection Racket

At the beginning of your upkeep, repeat the following process for each opponent in turn order. Reveal the top card of your library. That player may pay life equal to that card's mana value. If they do, exile that card. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Enchantment

$6.99 $3.82 $2.75

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.30 $0.18

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.79 $4.41 $0.41

Draw

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Enchantment

Qty: 3 Price: $43.83

Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Enchantment Kindred - Faerie

$37.99 $32.22 $33.04

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Enchantment

$5.49 $4.61 $3.28

Skeletal Grimace

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "

: Regenerate this creature."

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Enchantment

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Evasion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

Haunted Cloak

Equipped creature has vigilance, trample, and haste.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.39 $0.36

Finisher

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Instant

Qty: 10 Price: $35.48

Cabal Ritual

Add

.
Threshold — Add

instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Instant

$20.99 $16.64 $11.72

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$4.99 $5.22 $3.60

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant

$2.49 $1.00 $0.90

Dismember

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Instant

$3.99 $4.08 $1.16

Doom Blade

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$0.79 $0.33 $0.18

Simulacrum

You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn.

Instant

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Tendrils of Corruption

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Terror

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Instant

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Land

Qty: 34 Price: $429.66

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$32.99 $28.63 $24.04

Cabal Stronghold

: Add

for each basic Swamp you control.

Land

$20.99 $13.54 $9.48

Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.

: Add

: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land

$4.49 $4.31 $3.45

Lake of the Dead

If this land would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

: Add

, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add

Land

$149.99 $122.84 $69.65

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

: Add

: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Legendary Land

$79.99 $57.34 $56.90

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

: Add

: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Legendary Land

$34.99 $35.64 $29.64

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Legendary Land

$69.99 $56.01 $51.31

Westvale Abbey

: Add

, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.

, Sacrifice five creatures: Transform this land, then untap it.

Land

Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (soi) 281

$5.99 $3.35 $1.88

Witch's Clinic

: Add

: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Land

$17.99 $15.05 $7.43

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Eternal Thirst

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.79 $0.21 $0.20

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 5 Price: $79.75

Agent of the Shadow Thieves

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn."

Legendary Enchantment - Background

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

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

Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$49.99 $36.25 $36.32

Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

$18.99 $14.90 $12.86

Mask of Avacyn

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$1.79 $1.34 $0.31

Pariah's Shield

All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to equipped creature instead.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$8.49 $10.06 $10.87

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 8 Price: $85.02

Cloud Key

As this artifact enters, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$3.49 $3.43 $2.34

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional

Creature - Spirit

$23.99 $17.25 $15.60

Expedition Map

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

Artifact

$4.49 $1.68 $1.39

Extraplanar Lens

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile target land you control.
Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Artifact

$18.99 $14.06 $12.50

Foundry Inspector

Artifact spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Creature Artifact - Construct

$0.59 $0.39 $0.15

Helm of Awakening

Spells cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$3.99 $1.60 $1.70

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$20.99 $14.73 $12.48

Magus of the Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Creature - Human Wizard

$8.49 $4.79 $4.37

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

Ghost Lantern

Whenever a creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.99 $0.19 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 4 Price: $19.06

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.28 $0.23

Kusari-Gama

Equipped creature has "

: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."
Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a blocking creature, this Equipment deals that much damage to each other creature defending player controls.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$10.99 $6.38 $4.81

Mandate of Abaddon

Choose target creature you control. Destroy all creatures with power less than that creature's power.

Sorcery

$4.49 $3.99 $3.02

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.99 $3.42 $1.56

Removal

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Sorcery

Qty: 2 Price: $8.28

Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional

Sorcery

$5.49 $4.39 $2.14

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery

$2.79 $2.19 $1.53

Sorcery

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Tokens

Qty: 2 Price: $22.98

Andúril, Flame of the West

Equipped creature gets +3/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, create two tapped 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying. If that creature is legendary, instead create two of those tokens that are tapped and attacking.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $2.86 $2.11

Wand of Orcus

Whenever equipped creature attacks or blocks, it and Zombies you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$18.99 $13.51 $12.96

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $851.50

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.64Total Mana Value: 174.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.64Total Mana Value: 174.00

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