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Budget Monarch Obeka
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $88.51
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Commander

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Obeka, Splitter of Seconds

Menace Whenever Obeka deals combat damage to a player, you get that many additional upkeep steps after this phase.

Creature
Obeka, Splitter of Seconds (otj) 222

Commander

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Draw

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Archivist of Gondor

When your commander deals combat damage to a player, if there is no monarch, you become the monarch. At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card.

Creature
Archivist of Gondor (ltc) 18
Bloodgift Demon

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Creature
Bloodgift Demon (j25) 408
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (dsc) 113
Duskmantle Seer

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of their library, loses life equal to that card's mana value, then puts it into their hand.

Creature
Duskmantle Seer (clu) 188
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (inr) 151
Inspiring Refrain

Draw two cards. Exile Inspiring Refrain with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{2}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{U} 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.)

Sorcery
Inspiring Refrain (who) 216
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Sin Prodder

Menace At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. Any opponent may have you put that card into your graveyard. If a player does, this creature deals damage to that player equal to that card's mana value. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Creature
Sin Prodder (jmp) 363
Stormfist Crusader

Menace At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Creature
Stormfist Crusader (dsc) 234
Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Journal (inr) 272
Thopter Spy Network

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control an artifact, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Enchantment
Thopter Spy Network (moc) 241
Twilight Prophet

Flying Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Creature
Twilight Prophet (mkc) 143

Draw

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Monarch

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Court of Ire

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target. If you're the monarch, it deals 7 damage instead.

Enchantment
Court of Ire (ltc) 213
Crimson Fleet Commodore

Trample When this creature enters, you become the monarch.

Creature
Crimson Fleet Commodore (cmm) 211
Crown of Gondor

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control. When a legendary creature you control enters, if there is no monarch, you become the monarch. Equip {4}. This ability costs {3} less to activate if you're the monarch.

Artifact
Crown of Gondor (ltc) 75
Fall from Favor

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature and you become the monarch. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step unless that player is the monarch.

Enchantment
Fall from Favor (cmm) 93
Feast of Succession

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn. You become the monarch.

Sorcery
Feast of Succession (cmm) 158
Marchesa's Decree

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Marchesa's Decree (pz2) 20
Thorn of the Black Rose

Deathtouch When this creature enters, you become the monarch.

Creature
Thorn of the Black Rose (cmm) 190

Monarch

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Removal

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Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (inr) 139
Arc Blade

Arc Blade deals 2 damage to any target. Exile Arc Blade with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{2}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{R} 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.)

Sorcery
Arc Blade (tsr) 152
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (drc) 48
Reverse the Polarity

Choose one — • Counter all other spells. • Switch each creature's power and toughness until end of turn. • Creatures can't be blocked this turn.

Instant
Reverse the Polarity (who) 54
Shrine of Burning Rage

At the beginning of your upkeep and whenever you cast a red spell, put a charge counter on this artifact. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to any target.

Artifact
Shrine of Burning Rage (nph) 153

Removal

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Burn

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Magmatic Force

At the beginning of each upkeep, this creature deals 3 damage to any target.

Creature
Magmatic Force (scd) 150
Quakebringer

Your opponents can't gain life. At the beginning of your upkeep, Quakebringer deals 2 damage to each opponent. This ability triggers only if Quakebringer is on the battlefield or if Quakebringer is in your graveyard and you control a Giant. Foretell {2}{R}{R}

Creature
Quakebringer (khm) 145

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Evasion

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Aqueous Form

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked. Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Enchantment
Aqueous Form (cmr) 56
Enter the Enigma

Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Enter the Enigma (dsk) 52
Trailblazer's Boots

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Trailblazer's Boots (otc) 269

Evasion

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Protection

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Lavaspur Boots

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste and ward {1}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Lavaspur Boots (otj) 243
Ring of Evos Isle

{2}: Equipped creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's blue. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Ring of Evos Isle (m13) 211
Ring of Xathrid

{2}: 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 {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Ring of Xathrid (m13) 215
Star Whale

Flying, vigilance Other creatures you control have ward {2}. Suspend 6—{1}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{U} and exile it with six 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. It has haste.)

Creature
Star Whale (who) 55
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 {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 258

Protection

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Tokens

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Deathspore Thallid

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Sacrifice a Saproling: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Deathspore Thallid (tsr) 109
Skyline Despot

Flying When this creature enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you're the monarch, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Creature
Skyline Despot (cmm) 254

Tokens

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Copy

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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

Copy

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Extra Upkeeps

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Sphinx of the Second Sun

Flying At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The beginning phase includes the untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)

Creature
Sphinx of the Second Sun (mkc) 118
The Ninth Doctor

Haste Into the TARDIS — Whenever The Ninth Doctor becomes untapped during your untap step, you get an additional upkeep step after this step.

Creature
The Ninth Doctor (who) 148

Extra Upkeeps

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Pump

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Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

Artifact
Blackblade Reforged (dmc) 178
Fireshrieker

Equipped creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Fireshrieker (j25) 750

Pump

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Counters

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Bloodhall Ooze

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a black permanent, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a green permanent, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Bloodhall Ooze (con) 59
Feast on the Fallen

At the beginning of each upkeep, if an opponent lost life last turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Feast on the Fallen (j22) 68
Ring of Valkas

Equipped creature has haste. (It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's red. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Ring of Valkas (cmr) 469

Counters

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Finisher

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Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos

Trample Alexios attacks each combat if able, can't be sacrificed, and can't attack its owner. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains control of Alexios, untaps it, and puts a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos (acr) 33
Great Train Heist

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2}{R} — Untap all creatures you control. If it's your combat phase, there is an additional combat phase after this phase. + {2} — Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn. + {R} — Choose target opponent. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to that player this turn, create a tapped Treasure token.

Instant
Great Train Heist (otj) 125

Finisher

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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
As Foretold

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on this enchantment. Once each turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for a spell you cast with mana value X or less, where X is the number of time counters on this enchantment.

Enchantment
As Foretold (2x2) 38
Braids, Conjurer Adept

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may put an artifact, creature, or land card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Braids, Conjurer Adept (cmm) 76
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (mkc) 226
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (blc) 278
Jhoira of the Ghitu

{2}, Exile a nonland card from your hand: Put four time counters on the exiled card. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Creature
Jhoira of the Ghitu (tsr) 256
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dsc) 250
Replicating Ring

{T}: Add one mana of any color. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a night counter on this artifact. Then if it has eight or more night counters on it, remove all of them and create eight colorless snow artifact tokens named Replicated Ring with "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Artifact
Replicating Ring (moc) 372
Rousing Refrain

Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end. Exile Rousing Refrain with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{1}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{R} 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.)

Sorcery
Rousing Refrain (otc) 178
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
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 (dsc) 253
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Wayfarer's Bauble

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

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (pip) 252

Ramp

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Drain

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Garrulous Sycophant

At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Garrulous Sycophant (cn2) 43

Drain

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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 (drc) 60
Crumbling Necropolis

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

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (lcc) 326
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (inr) 278
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (inr) 290
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dft) 287
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Seething Landscape

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

Land
Seething Landscape (mh3) 225
Shivan Reef

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

Land
Shivan Reef (drc) 170
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (dsc) 299
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dsc) 301
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (drc) 174
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dsk) 282
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

Land

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Recursion

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Charnel Serenade

Surveil 3, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Exile Charnel Serenade with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{2}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{B} 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.)

Sorcery
Charnel Serenade (mkc) 26
Wildfire Devils

When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, choose a player at random. That player exiles an instant or sorcery card from their graveyard. Copy that card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Wildfire Devils (scd) 170

Recursion

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