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Bhaal And His Big Bouncy Lightning Balls
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Commander

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Bhaal, Lord of Murder

As long as your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, Bhaal has indestructible. Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and goad it.

Creature
Bhaal, Lord of Murder (clb) 268

Commander

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Land

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Cinder Glade

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

Land
Cinder Glade (m3c) 329
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (m3c) 331
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 (fdn) 262
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (m3c) 341
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (fdn) 290
Karplusan Forest

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

Land
Karplusan Forest (dmu) 250
Kessig Wolf Run

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Land
Kessig Wolf Run (m3c) 352
Mossfire Valley

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

Land
Mossfire Valley (m3c) 357
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (fdn) 278
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 (m3c) 358
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 (m3c) 369
Savage Lands

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

Land
Savage Lands (m3c) 371
Shadowblood Ridge

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

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (m3c) 373
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (m3c) 379
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 276
Tainted Peak

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Peak (m3c) 382
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 (blc) 345
The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Land
The Black Gate (ltc) 80
Thriving Bluff

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than red. {T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Bluff (blc) 346
Thriving Moor

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Moor (dsc) 317
Twisted Landscape

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

Land
Twisted Landscape (mh3) 232
Viridescent Bog

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

Land
Viridescent Bog (m3c) 406
Wastewood Verge

{T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Forest.

Land
Wastewood Verge (dft) 268

Land

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Recursion

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Creature
Chainer, Nightmare Adept (mh2) 289
Deadbridge Chant

When this enchantment enters, mill ten cards. At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Enchantment
Deadbridge Chant (m3c) 258
Liliana, the Necromancer

+1: Target player loses 2 life. −1: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. −7: Destroy up to two target creatures. Put up to two creature cards from graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Planeswalker
Liliana, the Necromancer (m19) 291
Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 96
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (ltc) 206
Sinister Waltz

Choose three target creature cards in your graveyard. Return two of them at random to the battlefield and put the other on the bottom of your library.

Sorcery
Sinister Waltz (voc) 30
Undertaker

{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Undertaker (mmq) 167

Recursion

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Burn

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Death Kiss

Whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks one of your opponents, double its power until end of turn. {X}{X}{R}: Monstrosity X. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) When this creature becomes monstrous, goad up to X target creatures your opponents control.

Creature
Death Kiss (clb) 675
Fiendish Duo

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) If a source would deal damage to an opponent, it deals double that damage to that player instead.

Creature
Fiendish Duo (mkc) 153
Gratuitous Violence

If a creature you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage instead.

Enchantment
Gratuitous Violence (fdn) 715
Sawhorn Nemesis

As this creature enters, choose a player. If a source would deal damage to the chosen player or a permanent they control, it deals double that damage instead.

Creature
Sawhorn Nemesis (m3c) 112
Uncivil Unrest

Nontoken creatures you control have riot. (They enter with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.) If a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage instead.

Enchantment
Uncivil Unrest (moc) 35

Burn

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Lightning Balls

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Ball Lightning

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Creature
Ball Lightning (fdn) 618
Blistering Firecat

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature. Morph {R}{R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Blistering Firecat (ons) 189
Groundbreaker

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Creature
Groundbreaker (plst) PLC-148
Hell's Thunder

Flying, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature. Unearth {4}{R} ({4}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Hell's Thunder (ddn) 10
Hellspark Elemental

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature. Unearth {1}{R} ({1}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Hellspark Elemental (pd2) 6
Impetuous Devils

Trample, haste When this creature attacks, up to one target creature defending player controls blocks it this combat if able. At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Creature
Impetuous Devils (emn) 132
Lightning Serpent

Trample, haste This creature enters with X +1/+0 counters on it. At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Creature
Lightning Serpent (csp) 88
Lightning Skelemental

Trample, haste Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards. At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Creature
Lightning Skelemental (plst) MH1-208
Skizzik

Kicker {R} (You may pay an additional {R} as you cast this spell.) Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, if this creature wasn't kicked, sacrifice it.

Creature
Skizzik (dom) 145
Spark Elemental

Trample, haste (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking. This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Creature
Spark Elemental (pd2) 4

Lightning Balls

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Removal

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Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (brc) 121
Boggart Trawler

Creature
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Find

Sorcery
Find // Finality (c20) 212
Haywire Mite

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life. {G}, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Creature Artifact
Haywire Mite (blc) 274
Kolaghan's Command

Choose two — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Target player discards a card. • Destroy target artifact. • Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to any target.

Instant
Kolaghan's Command (m3c) 268
Maelstrom Pulse

Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

Sorcery
Maelstrom Pulse (fdn) 661
Return to Nature

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

Instant
Return to Nature (eld) 173
Riveteers Charm

Choose one — • Target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker they control with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control. • Exile the top three cards of your library. Until your next end step, you may play those cards. • Exile target player's graveyard.

Instant
Riveteers Charm (m3c) 271
The Balrog of Moria

Trample, haste When The Balrog of Moria dies, you may exile it. When you do, for each opponent, exile up to one target creature that player controls. Cycling {3}{R} ({3}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, create two Treasure tokens.

Creature
The Balrog of Moria (ltc) 46
Warstorm Surge

Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Enchantment
Warstorm Surge (pca) 54

Removal

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Draw

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Deathreap Ritual

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Deathreap Ritual (m3c) 259
Domri Rade

+1: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. −2: Target creature you control fights another target creature. −7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control have double strike, trample, hexproof, and haste."

Planeswalker
Domri Rade (rvr) 179
Garna, Bloodfist of Keld

Whenever another creature you control dies, draw a card if it was attacking. Otherwise, Garna deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Garna, Bloodfist of Keld (fdn) 658
Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (fdn) 220
Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Creature
Grim Haruspex (clb) 754
Life's Legacy

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Sorcery
Life's Legacy (ncc) 300
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (c21) 225
Owlbear Shepherd

At the beginning of your end step, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, draw a card.

Creature
Owlbear Shepherd (clb) 247
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar (clb) 392
Toski, Bearer of Secrets

This spell can't be countered. Indestructible Toski attacks each combat if able. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Toski, Bearer of Secrets (blc) 244

Draw

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Multi Target Goad

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Coronation of Chaos

Up to three target creatures can't block this turn. Goad them. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Sorcery
Coronation of Chaos (clb) 168
Disrupt Decorum

Goad all creatures you don't control. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Sorcery
Disrupt Decorum (cmm) 1067
Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (khm) 324
Spectacular Showdown

Put a double strike counter on target creature, then goad each creature that had a double strike counter put on it this way. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.) Overload {4}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Spectacular Showdown (mkc) 162

Multi Target Goad

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Goad Engines

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Bloodthirsty Blade

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) {1}: Attach this Equipment to target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Bloodthirsty Blade (ncc) 362
Bothersome Quasit

Menace Goaded creatures your opponents control can't block. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, goad target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Bothersome Quasit (clb) 628
Komainu Battle Armor

Menace Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has menace. Whenever this creature or equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, goad each creature that player controls. Reconfigure {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Komainu Battle Armor (nec) 21
Shiny Impetus

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Shiny Impetus (ltc) 227
Vengeful Ancestor

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, goad target creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever a goaded creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to its controller.

Creature
Vengeful Ancestor (afc) 35

Goad Engines

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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 (m3c) 283
Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (dsc) 243
Circuitous Route

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Circuitous Route (fdn) 635
Ignoble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Creature
Ignoble Hierarch (m3c) 234
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (m3c) 240
Ruby, Daring Tracker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) Whenever Ruby attacks while you control a creature with power 4 or greater, Ruby gets +2/+2 until end of turn. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Creature
Ruby, Daring Tracker (fdn) 245
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (m3c) 243
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129
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 (blc) 284
Talisman of Impulse

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

Artifact
Talisman of Impulse (m3c) 311
Yavimaya Elder

When this creature dies, you may search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. {2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Yavimaya Elder (m3c) 254

Ramp

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Maybeboard

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Descent into Avernus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on this enchantment. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and this enchantment deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Descent into Avernus (clb) 169
Flesh

Sorcery
Flesh // Blood (plst) DGM-128
Laser Screwdriver

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Tap target artifact. {2}, {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) {3}, {T}: Goad target creature. (Until your next turn, it attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Artifact
Laser Screwdriver (who) 178
Liliana, Death's Majesty

+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards. −3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. −7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Death's Majesty (m3c) 200
Thunderblust

Haste This creature has trample as long as it has a -1/-1 counter on it. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Thunderblust (eve) 63
Ziatora, the Incinerator

Flying At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, Ziatora deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target and you create three Treasure tokens.

Creature
Ziatora, the Incinerator (m3c) 279

Maybeboard

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{"ops":[{"insert":"The idea of this deck came from the spell Ball lightning which I pulled in a foundations pack and thought was interesting but not that useful. I wanted to make a deck built around it and decided on Bhaal Lord of murder. Aggro isnt that good in commander so the goal of this deck is to force everybody to play an Aggro deck.\n"}]}

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