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Life . . . is not . . . a race.
Deck Size: 100
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Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

As long as Archelos is tapped, other permanents enter tapped. As long as Archelos is untapped, other permanents enter untapped.

Creature
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic (dmc) 140

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Draw

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Deathreap Ritual

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Deathreap Ritual (m3c) 259
Eureka Moment

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

Instant
Eureka Moment (stx) 184
Extraordinary Journey

When this enchantment enters, exile up to X target creatures. For each of those cards, its owner may play it for as long as it remains exiled. Whenever one or more nontoken creatures enter, if one or more of them entered from exile or was cast from exile, you draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Extraordinary Journey (woe) 48
Mosswood Dreadknight

Creature
Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers (woe) 292
Prime Speaker Zegana

Prime Speaker Zegana enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control. When Prime Speaker Zegana enters, draw cards equal to its power.

Creature
Prime Speaker Zegana (rvr) 377
Rona, Herald of Invasion

Creature
Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator (mom) 75Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator (mom) 75
Silver Scrutiny

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if X is 3 or less. Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Silver Scrutiny (dmu) 65

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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 (mkc) 223
Azusa's Many Journeys

Enchantment
Azusa's Many Journeys // Likeness of the Seeker (neo) 172Azusa's Many Journeys // Likeness of the Seeker (neo) 172
Cartographer's Survey

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put up to two land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Cartographer's Survey (vow) 190
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (rvr) 256
Emerald Medallion

Green spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Emerald Medallion (mh3) 291
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (plst) DDO-45
Fanatic of Rhonas

{T}: Add {G}. Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Fanatic of Rhonas (mh3) 152
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (m13) 170
Golgari Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Artifact
Golgari Signet (rvr) 258
Hedge Shredder

Whenever this Vehicle attacks, you may mill two cards. Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from your library, put them onto the battlefield tapped. Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact
Hedge Shredder (dsk) 183
Inga and Esika

Creatures you control have vigilance and "{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell." Whenever you cast a creature spell, if three or more mana from creatures was spent to cast it, draw a card.

Creature
Inga and Esika (mom) 310
Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios

Creature
Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle (stx) 151Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle (stx) 151
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (plst) TMP-292
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dmr) 232
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (clb) 244
Nature's Will

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, tap all lands that player controls and untap all lands you control.

Enchantment
Nature's Will (wot) 57
Nylea's Presence

Enchant land When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted land is every basic land type in addition to its other types.

Enchantment
Nylea's Presence (ths) 169
Ordeal of Nylea

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice this Aura. When you sacrifice this Aura, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Ordeal of Nylea (ths) 170
Poison Dart Frog

Reach {T}: Add one mana of any color. {2}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Poison Dart Frog (lci) 207
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (pw23) 9
Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (mh3) 296
Simic Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Artifact
Simic Signet (clu) 228
Sisay's Ring

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

Artifact
Sisay's Ring (cmr) 340
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (fdn) 729
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (c15) 55
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (cmr) 261
Twitching Doll

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Put a nest counter on this creature. {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Create a 2/2 green Spider creature token with reach for each counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature Artifact
Twitching Doll (dsk) 384
Verdant Mastery

You may pay {3}{G} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Search your library for up to four basic land cards and reveal them. Put one of them onto the battlefield tapped under an opponent's control if the {3}{G} cost was paid. Put two of them onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.

Sorcery
Verdant Mastery (stx) 146
Wickerfolk Thresher

Delirium — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand.

Creature Artifact
Wickerfolk Thresher (dsk) 207

Ramp

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End-Raze Forerunners

Vigilance, trample, haste When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

Creature
End-Raze Forerunners (rna) 124
Exponential Growth

Until end of turn, double target creature's power X times.

Sorcery
Exponential Growth (stx) 130
Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fdn) 173

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Recursion

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Back for More

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. When you do, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Instant
Back for More (otp) 36
Deadbridge Chant

When this enchantment enters, mill ten cards. At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Enchantment
Deadbridge Chant (m3c) 258
Find

Sorcery
Find // Finality (grn) 225

Recursion

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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

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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
Contaminated Aquifer

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

Land
Contaminated Aquifer (dmu) 245
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land
Field of Ruin (moc) 400
Foreboding Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Forest, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {B}{G}{U} ({B}{G}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Foreboding Landscape (mh3) 221
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (thb) 254
Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (2x2) 324
Haunted Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Haunted Mire (dmu) 248
Holdout Settlement

{T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.) {T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Holdout Settlement (ogw) 172
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (thb) 251
Lounge

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. {4}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Land
Lounge (clu) 19
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (cmm) 660
Opulent Palace

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

Land
Opulent Palace (cmm) 1017
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 (cmr) 353
Port of Karfell

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {3}{U}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Land
Port of Karfell (lcc) 347
Quandrix Campus

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. {4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Land
Quandrix Campus (stx) 271
Secret Passage

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {4}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Land
Secret Passage (clu) 20
Simic Growth Chamber

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (2x2) 331
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (thb) 252
Tangled Islet

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Tangled Islet (dmu) 258
Temple of Mystery

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 {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (m20) 255
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (c20) 319
Waterfront District

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {2}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Waterfront District (snc) 357

Land

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Removal

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Binding the Old Gods

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls. II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Enchantment
Binding the Old Gods (khm) 206
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (sta) 15
Deathsprout

Destroy target creature. Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Deathsprout (war) 189
Drag to the Bottom

Domain — Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Sorcery
Drag to the Bottom (dmu) 91
Drag to the Roots

Delirium — This spell costs {2} less to cast as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Drag to the Roots (dsk) 414
Opposition

Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Enchantment
Opposition (dmr) 62
Rise of the Witch-king

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you sacrificed a creature this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Rise of the Witch-king (ltr) 221
Witherbloom Command

Choose two — • Target player mills three cards, then you return a land card from your graveyard to your hand. • Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. • Target creature gets -3/-1 until end of turn. • Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Sorcery
Witherbloom Command (stx) 248

Removal

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Cruel Somnophage

Creature
Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up (woe) 286
Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control. Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Ghalta, Primal Hunger (fdn) 222
Horned Loch-Whale

Creature
Horned Loch-Whale // Lagoon Breach (woe) 53
Mindleech Mass

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may look at that player's hand. If you do, you may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Mindleech Mass (rvr) 375
Oona, Queen of the Fae

Flying {X}{U/B}: Choose a color. Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. For each card of the chosen color exiled this way, create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Creature
Oona, Queen of the Fae (woc) 142
Quilled Greatwurm

Trample Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage during your turn, put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive to get the counters.) You may cast this card from your graveyard by removing six counters from among creatures you control in addition to paying its other costs.

Creature
Quilled Greatwurm (fdn) 111
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
Scion of Darkness

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Scion of Darkness (j25) 486
Stonehoof Chieftain

Trample, indestructible Whenever another creature you control attacks, it gains trample and indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Stonehoof Chieftain (cmm) 325

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Protection

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Fungal Fortitude

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0. When enchanted creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.

Enchantment
Fungal Fortitude (lci) 106
Haze of Pollen

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Haze of Pollen (akh) 171
Return to Action

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant
Return to Action (neo) 121

Protection

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Tutor

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Hoarding Broodlord

Convoke Flying When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it. Spells you cast from exile have convoke.

Creature
Hoarding Broodlord (mom) 110

Tutor

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Sideboard

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Gyruda, Doom of Depths

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with even mana values. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) When Gyruda enters, each player mills four cards. Put a creature card with an even mana value from among the milled cards onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Gyruda, Doom of Depths (mul) 42

Sideboard

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{"ops":[{"insert":"early/mid game: Ramp as much as possible using Archelos to have your stuff enter untapped, and at the same time slow your opponents by tapping him (enablers: Opposition, Holdout Settlement, Hedge Shredder)\nmid/late game: cast Gyruda and try to get it's ETB trigger as many times as possible (blinking with Deadeye Navigator, copying with Extravagant replication, recurring from graveyard, etc...). \nwincons: mill, combat damage (End-Raze Forerunners / Exponential Growth), or drain via Exsanguinate\n"}]}
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