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Commander
Size: 100Est cost: $427.28Salt sum: 41.57
Erynia
314 views15 months ago
Commander
Size: 100Est cost: $427.28Salt sum: 41.57
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Burn
Volcano Hellion
This creature has echo , where X is your life total. (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, it deals an amount of damage of your choice to you and target creature. The damage can't be prevented.
When this creature enters, it deals an amount of damage of your choice to you and target creature. The damage can't be prevented.
Creature - Hellion
Burn
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Draw
Draw
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Land
Land
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Life cost stax
Life cost stax
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Life matters
Illicit Auction
Each player may bid life for control of target creature. You start the bidding with a bid of 0. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and gains control of the creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Sorcery
Mages' Contest
You and target spell's controller bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of 1. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid. If you win the bidding, counter that spell.
Instant
Life matters
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Lifegain
Lifegain
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Lifelink
Atraxa's Skitterfang
This creature enters with three oil counters on it.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may remove an oil counter from this creature. When you do, target creature you control gains your choice of flying, vigilance, deathtouch, or lifelink until end of turn.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may remove an oil counter from this creature. When you do, target creature you control gains your choice of flying, vigilance, deathtouch, or lifelink until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Insect Phyrexian
Basilisk Collar
Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Scavenged Brawler
Flying, vigilance, trample, lifelink
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Choose target creature. Put four +1/+1 counters, a flying counter, a vigilance counter, a trample counter, and a lifelink counter on that creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Choose target creature. Put four +1/+1 counters, a flying counter, a vigilance counter, a trample counter, and a lifelink counter on that creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Lifelink
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Protection
Protection
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Ramp
Ramp
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Recursion
Recursion
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Removal
Molten Disaster
Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
If this spell was kicked, it has split second. (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Molten Disaster deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.
If this spell was kicked, it has split second. (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Molten Disaster deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.
Sorcery
Removal
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Tutor
Tutor
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Untap
Untap
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Maybeboard
Crystalline Giant
At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose a kind of counter at random that this creature doesn't have on it from among flying, first strike, deathtouch, hexproof, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, vigilance, and +1/+1. Put a counter of that kind on this creature.
Creature Artifact - Giant
Game of Chaos
Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 1 life and target opponent loses 1 life, and you decide whether to flip again. If you lose the flip, you lose 1 life and that opponent gains 1 life, and that player decides whether to flip again. Double the life stakes with each flip.
Sorcery
Glacial Chasm
Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
When this land enters, sacrifice a land.
Creatures you control can't attack.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.
When this land enters, sacrifice a land.
Creatures you control can't attack.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.
Land
Godo, Bandit Warlord
When Godo enters, you may search your library for an Equipment card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Whenever Godo attacks for the first time each turn, untap it and all Samurai you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.
Whenever Godo attacks for the first time each turn, untap it and all Samurai you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.
Legendary Creature - Human Barbarian
Maybeboard
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