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21[D/B2/P7.2] Ruthless Shadow
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Est deck cost: $2636.44
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Commander

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Cazur, Ruthless Stalker

Partner with Ukkima, Stalking Shadow (When this creature enters, target player may put Ukkima into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

Creature
Cazur, Ruthless Stalker (otc) 188
Ukkima, Stalking Shadow

Partner with Cazur, Ruthless Stalker (When this creature enters, target player may put Cazur into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Ukkima can't be blocked. When Ukkima leaves the battlefield, it deals X damage to target player and you gain X life, where X is its power.

Creature
Ukkima, Stalking Shadow (otc) 247

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Draw

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Barbed Servitor

Indestructible When this creature enters, suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Whenever this creature is dealt damage, target opponent loses that much life.

Creature Artifact
Barbed Servitor (mkm) 77
Caress of Phyrexia

Target player draws three cards, loses 3 life, and gets three poison counters.

Sorcery
Caress of Phyrexia (onc) 92
Chevill, Bane of Monsters

Deathtouch At the beginning of your upkeep, if your opponents control no permanents with bounty counters on them, put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls. Whenever a permanent an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it dies, you gain 3 life and draw a card.

Creature
Chevill, Bane of Monsters (iko) 181
Cold-Eyed Selkie

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.

Creature
Cold-Eyed Selkie (otc) 218
Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may draw a card.

Creature
Edric, Spymaster of Trest (otc) 221
Faerie Mastermind

Flash Flying Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card. {3}{U}: Each player draws a card.

Creature
Faerie Mastermind (mom) 58
Infectious Inquiry

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Each opponent gets a poison counter.

Sorcery
Infectious Inquiry (one) 97
Loyal Drake

Flying Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, draw a card.

Creature
Loyal Drake (cmm) 104
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (inr) 124
Nikara, Lair Scavenger

Partner with Yannik, Scavenging Sentinel (When this creature enters, target player may put Yannik into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Menace Whenever another creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had one or more counters on it, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Nikara, Lair Scavenger (c20) 3
Preacher of the Schism

Deathtouch Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink. Whenever this creature attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Preacher of the Schism (lci) 113
Prologue to Phyresis

Each opponent gets a poison counter. Draw a card.

Instant
Prologue to Phyresis (one) 65
Runic Armasaur

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.

Creature
Runic Armasaur (lcc) 256
Shakedown Heavy

Menace Whenever this creature attacks, defending player may have you draw a card. If they do, untap this creature and remove it from combat.

Creature
Shakedown Heavy (snc) 95
Shoreline Looter

This creature can't be blocked. Threshold — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. Then discard a card unless seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Creature
Shoreline Looter (blb) 70
Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Vilis, Broker of Blood (j25) 70

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Proliferate

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Contaminant Grafter

Trample, toxic 1 Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to one or more players, proliferate. Corrupted — At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent has three or more poison counters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Contaminant Grafter (onc) 17

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Burn

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Loyal Subordinate

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature
Loyal Subordinate (cmm) 172
Temporal Extortion

When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion. Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Temporal Extortion (plc) 81

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Infect

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Corrupted Conscience

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature. Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Enchantment
Corrupted Conscience (plst) MBS-22
Grafted Exoskeleton

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Whenever Grafted Exoskeleton becomes unattached from a permanent, sacrifice that permanent. Equip {2}

Artifact
Grafted Exoskeleton (onc) 132

Infect

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Pump

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Branching Evolution

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Enchantment
Branching Evolution (mh3) 285
Communal Brewing

When this enchantment enters, any number of target opponents each draw a card. Put an ingredient counter on this enchantment, then put an ingredient counter on it for each card drawn this way. Whenever you cast a creature spell, that creature enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of ingredient counters on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Communal Brewing (blc) 29
Doubling Season

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead. If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

Enchantment
Doubling Season (fdn) 216
Durable Handicraft

Whenever a creature you control enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. {5}{G}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Enchantment
Durable Handicraft (kld) 153
Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Enchantment
Hardened Scales (pip) 200
Innkeeper's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. {G}: Level 2 Permanents you control with counters on them have ward {1}. {3}{G}: Level 3 If you would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead.

Enchantment
Innkeeper's Talent (blb) 180
Loyal Guardian

Trample Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Loyal Guardian (cmm) 304
Master Chef

Commander creatures you own have "This creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it" and "Other creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them."

Enchantment
Master Chef (clb) 241
Primal Vigor

If one or more tokens would be created, twice that many of those tokens are created instead. If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Enchantment
Primal Vigor (plst) C13-162

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Copy

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Pirated Copy

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Pirate in addition to its other types and it has "Whenever this creature or another creature with the same name deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card."

Creature
Pirated Copy (j22) 16

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Land

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Alchemist's Refuge

{T}: Add {C}. {G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Alchemist's Refuge (lcc) 318
Bayou

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)

Land
Bayou (3ed) 283
Breeding Pool

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

Land
Breeding Pool (rvr) 275
Brokers Hideout

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Brokers Hideout (snc) 248
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (otc) 283
Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Emergence Zone (war) 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 (ltc) 308
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 (dft) 289
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
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (lcc) 339
Maestros Theater

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Maestros Theater (snc) 251
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
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
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 (dsc) 289
Obscura Storefront

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Obscura Storefront (dsc) 291
Overgrown Tomb

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

Land
Overgrown Tomb (rvr) 283
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
Rejuvenating Springs

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

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Riveteers Overlook

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Riveteers Overlook (snc) 255
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 274
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (drc) 179
Tropical Island

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

Land
Tropical Island (3ed) 288
Underground Sea

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

Land
Underground Sea (3ed) 290
Undergrowth Stadium

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

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 435
Verdant Catacombs

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

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
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 (rvr) 291
Zagoth Triome

({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Zagoth Triome (iko) 259

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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 (drc) 52
Bounty Board

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Put a bounty counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery. Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, each of its controller's opponents draws a card and gains 2 life.

Artifact
Bounty Board (otc) 37
Mox Amber

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

Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Mox Tantalite

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}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Mox Tantalite (mh1) 226
Pristine Talisman

{T}: Add {C}. You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (ltc) 283
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 57
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
Talisman of Curiosity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (drc) 140
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (drc) 141
Talisman of Resilience

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

Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (dsc) 255
Zagoth Crystal

{T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Artifact
Zagoth Crystal (iko) 242

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Counters

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Autumn's Veil

Spells you control can't be countered by blue or black spells this turn, and creatures you control can't be the targets of blue or black spells this turn.

Instant
Autumn's Veil (m12) 164
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Dispel

Counter target instant spell.

Instant
Dispel (plst) BFZ-76
Tale's End

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Instant
Tale's End (m20) 77
Trickbind

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Counter target activated or triggered ability. If a permanent's ability is countered this way, activated abilities of that permanent can't be activated this turn. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant
Trickbind (tsp) 88
Veil of Summer

Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Veil of Summer (mb2) 75

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Mill

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Unshakable Tail

When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {2}, Sacrifice a Clue: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Unshakable Tail (mkc) 29

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Removal

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Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (dsc) 80
Bounty Hunter

{T}: Put a bounty counter on target nonblack creature. {T}: Destroy target creature with a bounty counter on it.

Creature
Bounty Hunter (tmp) 110
Break Down the Door

Choose one — • Exile target artifact. • Exile target enchantment. • 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
Break Down the Door (dsk) 170
Infectious Bite

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. Each opponent gets a poison counter.

Instant
Infectious Bite (one) 172
Phyresis Outbreak

Each opponent gets a poison counter. Then each creature your opponents control gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each poison counter its controller has.

Sorcery
Phyresis Outbreak (onc) 12
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
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (moc) 309
Saw in Half

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

Instant
Saw in Half (blc) 113
Tear Asunder

Kicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} as you cast this spell.) Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.

Instant
Tear Asunder (blc) 241
Termination Facilitator

{T}: Put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker. Activate only as a sorcery. Whenever a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it is dealt damage, destroy it.

Creature
Termination Facilitator (j22) 28
Vraska's Fall

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice and gets a poison counter.

Instant
Vraska's Fall (one) 116

Removal

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Maybeboard

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Murder of Crows

Flying Whenever another creature dies, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Murder of Crows (cmm) 106
Oakhame Adversary

This spell costs {2} less to cast if an opponent controls a green permanent. Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Oakhame Adversary (plst) ELD-167
Phenomenon Investigators

As this creature enters, choose Believe or Doubt. • Believe — Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Horror enchantment creature token. • Doubt — At the beginning of your end step, you may return a nonland permanent you own to your hand. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Phenomenon Investigators (dsc) 38
The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control. Defender {2}{U}{U}: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature
The Pride of Hull Clade (mkm) 172
Tributary Instructor

Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, draw a card.

Creature
Tributary Instructor (lcc) 96

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19 mana - 19 cards
25 pips - 18 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
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