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Take the Initiative - Stepdad's Deck
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Est deck cost: $324.78
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Commander

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Rilsa Rael, Kingpin

Deathtouch When Rilsa Rael enters, you take the initiative. Whenever you attack, target attacking creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. If you've completed a dungeon, that creature also gets +5/+0 and gains first strike and menace until end of turn.

Creature
Rilsa Rael, Kingpin (clb) 439

Commander

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (clb) 298
Coldsteel Heart

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

Artifact
Coldsteel Heart (cm2) 181
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (dsc) 244
Conjurer's Closet

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Artifact
Conjurer's Closet (2xm) 243
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Dimir Keyrune

{T}: Add {U} or {B}. {U}{B}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 blue and black Horror artifact creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Dimir Keyrune (clb) 856
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (znc) 112
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact
Panharmonicon (j22) 788
Sarevok's Tome

When this artifact enters, you take the initiative. {T}: Add {C}. If you have the initiative, add {C}{C} instead. {3}, {T}: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.

Artifact
Sarevok's Tome (clb) 685
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (clb) 871
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (clb) 877
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (clb) 879

Artifact

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Creature

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Aarakocra Sneak

Flying When this creature enters, you take the initiative.

Creature
Aarakocra Sneak (clb) 54
Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Archaeomancer (j25) 285
Astral Dragon

Flying Project Image — When this creature enters, create two tokens that are copies of target noncreature permanent, except they're 3/3 Dragon creatures in addition to their other types, and they have flying.

Creature
Astral Dragon (clb) 664
Auton Soldier

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it isn't legendary, is an artifact in addition to its other types, and has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

Creature Artifact
Auton Soldier (who) 36
Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
Clever Impersonator

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.

Creature
Clever Impersonator (plst) KTK-34
Dalek Drone

Flying, menace Exterminate! — When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls. That player loses 3 life.

Creature Artifact
Dalek Drone (who) 64
Diluvian Primordial

Flying When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Diluvian Primordial (otc) 96
Feywild Caretaker

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, create a 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature token with flying.

Creature
Feywild Caretaker (clb) 69
Frost Titan

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {2}. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Frost Titan (plst) M11-55
Grave Titan

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Creature
Grave Titan (mkc) 129
Halo Forager

Flying When this creature enters, you may pay {X}. When you do, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value X from a graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Halo Forager (woc) 139
Imoen, Mystic Trickster

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, draw a card. Draw another card if you've completed a dungeon. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Imoen, Mystic Trickster (clb) 77
Invisible Stalker

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) This creature can't be blocked.

Creature
Invisible Stalker (plst) ISD-60
Lord of Change

Flying, ward {3} Architect of Deception — When this creature enters, draw three cards.

Creature
Lord of Change (40k) 24
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
Mulldrifter

Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards. Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Mulldrifter (mkc) 111
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (kld) 96
Ornithopter of Paradise

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

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (j25) 153
Overseer of the Damned

Flying When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature. Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Overseer of the Damned (c19) 125
Passageway Seer

Lifelink When this creature enters, you take the initiative. At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Passageway Seer (clb) 141
Ravenloft Adventurer

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it. Whenever this creature attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.

Creature
Ravenloft Adventurer (clb) 142
Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (mkc) 136
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat

Menace At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, create a Treasure token. Create three of those tokens instead if you've completed a dungeon. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat (clb) 143
Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Sepulchral Primordial (scd) 106
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) 257
Spark Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Creature
Spark Double (rvr) 62
Sphinx of Uthuun

Flying When this creature enters, reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Creature
Sphinx of Uthuun (cmr) 406
Tomb of Horrors Adventurer

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it. If you've completed a dungeon, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Creature
Tomb of Horrors Adventurer (clb) 100
Underdark Explorer

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, you take the initiative.

Creature
Underdark Explorer (clb) 154
Vicious Battlerager

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. Spiked Retribution — Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller loses 5 life.

Creature
Vicious Battlerager (clb) 155

Creature

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Enchantment

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Dungeon Delver

Commander creatures you own have "Room abilities of dungeons you own trigger an additional time."

Enchantment
Dungeon Delver (clb) 67
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (clb) 730
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
Virtue of Knowledge

Enchantment
Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions (woe) 76

Enchantment

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Instant

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Blur

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. Draw a card.

Instant
Blur (clb) 58
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (c14) 104
Displace

Exile up to two target creatures you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Instant
Displace (plst) EMN-55
Essence Flux

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If it's a Spirit, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Instant
Essence Flux (jmp) 151
Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Instant
Ghostly Flicker (avr) 57
Illusionist's Stratagem

Exile up to two target creatures you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control. Draw a card.

Instant
Illusionist's Stratagem (aer) 36
Planar Incision

Exile target artifact or creature, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Instant
Planar Incision (neo) 72
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 (nec) 95
Siren's Ruse

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If a Pirate was exiled this way, draw a card.

Instant
Siren's Ruse (xln) 80
Teferi's Time Twist

Exile target permanent you control. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. If it enters as a creature, it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Instant
Teferi's Time Twist (war) 72

Instant

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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 (stx) 262
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (afc) 226
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (otc) 279
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (voc) 172
Creeping Tar Pit

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {1}{U}{B}: This land becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. It's still a land.

Land
Creeping Tar Pit (clb) 888
Cryptic Caves

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Cryptic Caves (fdn) 686
Dimir Aqueduct

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

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (clb) 891
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Fetid Pools (akh) 243
Guildless Commons

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

Land
Guildless Commons (cmr) 351
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (one) 273
Memorial to Genius

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw two cards.

Land
Memorial to Genius (j25) 771
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
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 (blc) 322
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 (mkc) 280
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Roadside Reliquary

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card if you control an artifact. Draw a card if you control an enchantment.

Land
Roadside Reliquary (neo) 272
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (clb) 913
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (clb) 918
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (one) 274
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 (clb) 922
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (bro) 267
Watery Grave

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

Land
Watery Grave (grn) 259

Land

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Sorcery

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Deadly Tempest

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Deadly Tempest (c20) 131
Finale of Eternity

Destroy up to three target creatures with toughness X or less. If X is 10 or more, return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Finale of Eternity (war) 91
From the Catacombs

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control with a corpse counter on it. You take the initiative. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Sorcery
From the Catacombs (clb) 671
Necromantic Selection

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

Sorcery
Necromantic Selection (znc) 48
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (j25) 471
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (scd) 111

Sorcery

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