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1/30/2025
Books are Life
Deck Size: 34
Commander
Est deck cost: $76.85
Salt sum: 3.34
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Commander

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Rashmi and Ragavan

Whenever you cast your first spell during each of your turns, exile the top card of target opponent's library and create a Treasure token. Then you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if it's a spell with mana value less than the number of artifacts you control. If you don't cast it this way, you may cast it this turn.

Creature
Rashmi and Ragavan (moc) 8

Commander

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Draw

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Book Devourer

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may discard all the cards in your hand. If you do, draw that many cards.

Creature
Book Devourer (grn) 93
Bookwurm

Trample When this creature enters, you gain 3 life and draw a card. {2}{G}: Put this card from your graveyard into your library third from the top.

Creature
Bookwurm (stx) 123
Emmessi Tome

{5}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Artifact
Emmessi Tome (ema) 221
Glitch Interpreter

When this creature enters, if you control no face-down permanents, return this creature to its owner's hand and manifest dread. Whenever one or more colorless creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Glitch Interpreter (dsc) 13
Oblivious Bookworm

At the beginning of your end step, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card unless a permanent entered the battlefield face down under your control this turn or you turned a permanent face up this turn.

Creature
Oblivious Bookworm (dsk) 225
Spellbook

You have no maximum hand size.

Artifact
Spellbook (m10) 220
Tamiyo's Logbook

{5}{U}, {T}: Draw a card. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each other artifact you control.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Logbook (one) 70
They Came from the Pipes

When this enchantment enters, manifest dread twice. (To manifest dread, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Whenever a face-down creature you control enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
They Came from the Pipes (dsc) 14

Draw

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Mill

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Abhorrent Oculus

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile six cards from your graveyard. Flying At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Creature
Abhorrent Oculus (dsk) 42
Book Burning

Any player may have Book Burning deal 6 damage to them. If no one does, target player mills six cards.

Sorcery
Book Burning (jud) 80
Curse of the Bloody Tome

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player mills two cards.

Enchantment
Curse of the Bloody Tome (isd) 50

Mill

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Sorcery

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Manifest Dread

Manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Sorcery
Manifest Dread (dsk) 189
Valgavoth's Onslaught

Manifest dread X times, then put X +1/+1 counters on each of those creatures. (To manifest dread, look at the top two cards of your library, then put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Sorcery
Valgavoth's Onslaught (dsk) 204

Sorcery

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Counters

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Curator Beastie

Reach Colorless creatures you control enter with two additional +1/+1 counters on them. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Creature
Curator Beastie (dsc) 30
Experimental Lab

Enchantment
Experimental Lab // Staff Room (dsc) 33
Growing Dread

Flash When this enchantment enters, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Whenever you turn a permanent face up, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Enchantment
Growing Dread (dsk) 216

Counters

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Enchantment

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Ticket Booth

Enchantment
Ticket Booth // Tunnel of Hate (dsk) 158
Underwater Tunnel

Enchantment
Underwater Tunnel // Slimy Aquarium (dsk) 79

Enchantment

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Ramp

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Moldering Gym

Enchantment
Moldering Gym // Weight Room (dsk) 190

Ramp

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Tutor

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Mangara's Tome

When this artifact enters, search your library for five cards, exile them in a face-down pile, and shuffle that pile. Then shuffle your library. {2}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead put the top card of the exiled pile into its owner's hand.

Artifact
Mangara's Tome (mir) 309

Tutor

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Creature

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Automatic Librarian

When this creature enters, 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.)

Creature Artifact
Automatic Librarian (dmu) 229
Cogwork Librarian

Draft this card face up. As you draft a card, you may draft an additional card from that booster pack. If you do, put this card into that booster pack.

Creature Artifact
Cogwork Librarian (cns) 58
Defiant Survivor

Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if this creature is tapped, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Creature
Defiant Survivor (dsk) 175
Mild-Mannered Librarian

{3}{G}: This creature becomes a Werewolf. Put two +1/+1 counters on it and you draw a card. Activate only once.

Creature
Mild-Mannered Librarian (fdn) 228
Orcish Librarian

{R}, {T}: Look at the top eight cards of your library. Exile four of them at random, then put the rest on top of your library in any order.

Creature
Orcish Librarian (tsb) 66
Rashmi, Eternities Crafter

Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, reveal the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's a spell with lesser mana value. If you don't cast it, put it into your hand.

Creature
Rashmi, Eternities Crafter (dsc) 231

Creature

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Evasion

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Suspicious Bookcase

Defender {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Suspicious Bookcase (dsc) 95

Evasion

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Recursion

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Wizard's Spellbook

{T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Roll a d20. Activate only as a sorcery. 1—9 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy. 10—19 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy by paying {1} rather than paying its mana cost. 20 | Copy each card exiled with this artifact. You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.

Artifact
Wizard's Spellbook (afr) 82

Recursion

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Discard

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The Underworld Cookbook

{T}, Discard a card: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") {4}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Artifact
The Underworld Cookbook (mh2) 240

Discard

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Landfall

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Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, manifest dread if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. Otherwise, you may turn a permanent you control face up. (To manifest dread, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Creature
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler (dsc) 8

Landfall

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Removal

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Bury in Books

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets an attacking creature. Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top.

Instant
Bury in Books (stx) 39
Twist Reality

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Instant
Twist Reality (dsk) 77
Unnerving Grasp

Return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Sorcery
Unnerving Grasp (dsk) 80

Removal

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Attraction

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Storybook Ride

Visit — Exile the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of Attractions you've visited this turn (including this one). You may play those cards this turn. At the beginning of the next end step, if any of those cards remain exiled, put them on the bottom of your library in any order.

Artifact
Storybook Ride (unf) 229a

Attraction

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