Brain Drain • (Grixis Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $3.49

Nekusar, the Mindrazer

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar deals 1 damage to that player.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Zombie

$3.49 $3.86 $2.04

Commander

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Burn

Qty: 4 Price: $17.06

Price of Knowledge

Players have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, this enchantment deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in that player's hand.

Enchantment

$4.99 $2.13 $1.04

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian

$1.79 $2.13 $1.02

Razorkin Needlehead

This creature has first strike during your turn.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to them.

Creature - Human Assassin

$7.99 $5.44 $4.03

Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment

$2.29 $1.83 $1.59

Burn

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Copy

Qty: 1 Price: $6.49

Harmonic Prodigy

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
If a triggered ability of a Shaman or another Wizard you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature - Human Wizard

$6.49 $5.51 $3.75

Copy

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Discard

Qty: 4 Price: $19.76

Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery

$5.49 $3.74 $2.08

Megrim

Whenever an opponent discards a card, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment

$1.49 $2.36 $0.93

Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment

$2.79 $1.94 $0.98

Waste Not

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add

.
Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Enchantment

$9.99 $8.60 $4.85

Discard

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Drain

Qty: 1 Price: $3.49

Fate Unraveler

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.

Creature Enchantment - Hag

$3.49 $3.36 $2.34

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 20 Price: $107.71

Baleful Strix

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

Creature Artifact - Bird

$8.99 $6.66 $6.19

Burning Inquiry

Each player draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.

Sorcery

$---- $3.55 $2.59

Cerebral Vortex

Target player draws two cards, then Cerebral Vortex deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards they've drawn this turn.

Instant

$1.49 $1.09 $0.66

Dictate of Kruphix

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.91 $0.44

Faerie Mastermind

Flash
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card.

: Each player draws a card.

Creature - Rogue Faerie

$14.99 $11.84 $10.42

Fevered Visions

At the beginning of each player's end step, that player draws a card. If the player is your opponent and has four or more cards in hand, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment

$2.29 $1.16 $0.59

Font of Mythos

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws two additional cards.

Artifact

$18.99 $16.88 $14.58

Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Artifact

$8.49 $9.49 $7.98

Kami of the Crescent Moon

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Legendary Creature - Spirit

$12.99 $7.69 $6.84

Minds Aglow

Join forces — Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player draws X cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Sorcery

$2.79 $1.25 $0.75

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.

: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Dragon

$1.29 $1.13 $0.73

Phyrexian Tyranny

Whenever a player draws a card, that player loses 2 life unless they pay

Enchantment

$1.79 $1.70 $1.34

Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact - Construct Phyrexian

$9.99 $6.54 $3.53

Seizan, Perverter of Truth

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit

$2.99 $1.92 $1.61

Spiteful Visions

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever a player draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment

$1.79 $0.98 $0.36

Stormfist Crusader

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

Creature - Human Knight

$0.79 $1.00 $0.41

Temple Bell

: Each player draws a card.

Artifact

$12.99 $6.76 $6.05

Triskaidekaphile

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game.

: Draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.79 $1.04 $0.45

Vision Skeins

Each player draws two cards.

Instant

$0.49 $0.75 $0.46

Well of Ideas

When this enchantment enters, draw two cards.
At the beginning of each other player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
At the beginning of your draw step, draw two additional cards.

Enchantment

$2.29 $2.33 $1.19

Draw

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $2.49

Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature - Human Wizard

$2.49 $2.08 $0.83

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $212.74

Blood Crypt

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Swamp Mountain

$16.99 $10.10 $9.81

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.

: Add

Land

$3.49 $1.52 $1.51

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.69 $0.29 $0.22

Crumbling Necropolis

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.79 $0.34 $0.27

Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

: Add

Land

$1.29 $0.80 $0.52

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$1.99 $1.40 $0.44

Geier Reach Sanitarium

: Add

: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Legendary Land

$2.79 $2.92 $1.51

Haunted Ridge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$9.99 $9.32 $7.23

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.14 $0.15

Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$14.99 $11.60 $9.40

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

: Add

: Each player draws a card.

Legendary Land

$9.49 $4.62 $4.84

Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$39.99 $30.08 $27.08

Mountain

(

: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$5.99 $4.94 $4.16

Riptide Laboratory

: Add

: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.

Land

$1.49 $0.65 $0.46

Seething Landscape

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.39 $0.19 $0.15

Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$8.99 $7.06 $4.34

Shivan Reef

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

Smoldering Marsh

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Swamp Mountain

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Steam Vents

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Mountain

$17.99 $13.32 $13.54

Stormcarved Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$4.49 $3.01 $2.21

Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Sulfurous Springs

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$2.99 $4.14 $1.56

Sunken Hollow

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Island Swamp

$0.99 $0.36 $0.28

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.14 $0.15

Training Center

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$21.99 $18.13 $17.52

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$2.49 $1.70 $0.84

Watery Grave

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Swamp

$15.99 $11.56 $10.39

Xander's Lounge

(

: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Island Swamp Mountain

$19.99 $14.25 $12.99

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $132.98

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$119.99 $99.96 $102.05

Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Artifact - Book

$12.99 $9.05 $6.92

Lifegain

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Pingers

Qty: 2 Price: $14.34

Kederekt Parasite

Whenever an opponent draws a card, if you control a red permanent, you may have this creature deal 1 damage to that player.

Creature - Horror

$13.99 $9.06 $7.50

Triskaidekaphobia

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one —
• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player gains 1 life.
• Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player loses 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Pingers

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Protection

Qty: 2 Price: $16.98

Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact

$10.99 $9.30 $8.05

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $3.77 $3.46

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 8 Price: $18.92

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.45 $0.40

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$4.99 $4.30 $2.51

Dimir Signet

: Add

Artifact

$1.79 $1.28 $0.39

Izzet Signet

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $0.52 $0.29

Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost

less to cast.

: Regenerate this creature.

Creature - Zombie

$0.59 $0.42 $0.28

Rakdos Signet

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $3.94 $1.37

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 - Golem

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $2.94 $2.66

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $17.28

Elixir of Immortality

: You gain 5 life. Shuffle this artifact and your graveyard into their owner's library.

Artifact

$1.29 $1.06 $0.41

Reanimate

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

Sorcery

$15.99 $10.31 $9.51

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 13 Price: $35.49

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant

$5.49 $2.75 $2.54

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$3.99 $1.86 $1.82

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.)

Artifact - Equipment

$5.49 $5.29 $3.82

Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant

$0.69 $0.78 $0.26

Blasphemous Edict

You may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield.
Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery

$7.99 $4.16 $3.64

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

$0.79 $0.37 $0.26

Dream Fracture

Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.28 $0.15

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Ob Nixilis deals 1 damage to that player.
−2: Destroy target creature. Its controller draws two cards.

Legendary Planeswalker - Nixilis

$0.99 $0.59 $0.45

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$0.79 $0.40 $0.19

Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery

$4.99 $3.16 $2.73

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.99 $3.42 $1.53

Removal

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Tokens

Qty: 2 Price: $9.28

Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature - Horror Squid

$0.79 $1.02 $0.31

The Locust God

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste.

: Draw a card, then discard a card.
When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Legendary Creature - God

$8.49 $7.39 $6.24

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

Perplex

Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand.
Transmute

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant

$0.99 $1.63 $0.83

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $619.49

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.94Total Mana Value: 188.00

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Burn

Commander

Copy

Discard

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Finisher

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Lifegain

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Protection

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Tokens

Tutor

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25 pips - 21 cards

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23 mana - 23 cards

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34 pips - 25 cards

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26 mana - 25 cards

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9 mana - 9 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.94Total Mana Value: 188.00

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