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Dimir spells (budget pool)
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Commander

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Dralnu, Lich Lord

If damage would be dealt to Dralnu, sacrifice that many permanents instead. {T}: Target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature
Dralnu, Lich Lord (tsr) 251

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Draw

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Baleful Strix

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

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (pca) 82
Cremate

Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Instant
Cremate (rtr) 59
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (woc) 90
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (dmr) 285
Impulse

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Impulse (dmr) 287
Mind Spring

Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Mind Spring (blb) 389
Mind's Desire

Shuffle your library. Then exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Sorcery
Mind's Desire (c21) 123
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (fdn) 512
Portent

Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Sorcery
Portent (dsc) 74
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (cmr) 84
Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (drc) 81
See the Truth

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. If this spell was cast from anywhere other than your hand, put each of those cards into your hand instead.

Sorcery
See the Truth (m21) 69
Sleight of Hand

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

Sorcery
Sleight of Hand (woe) 67
Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.

Instant
Thought Scour (plst) IMA-76

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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
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (lcc) 301
Curious Homunculus

Creature
Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader (emn) 54Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader (emn) 54
Dimir Locket

{T}: Add {U} or {B}. {U/B}{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Dimir Locket (grn) 234
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (drc) 129
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 286
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (mkc) 232
Prismatic Lens

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Prismatic Lens (cmm) 403
Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (cmr) 341
Star Compass

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

Artifact
Star Compass (plst) PLS-134
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (drc) 141

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Tutor

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Mystical Teachings

Search your library for an instant card or a card with flash, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Flashback {5}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Mystical Teachings (fdn) 594
Waterlogged Teachings

Instant
Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261

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Basics

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Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (lci) 395

Basics

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Engines

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Case of the Ransacked Lab

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. To solve — You've cast four or more instant and sorcery spells this turn. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Enchantment
Case of the Ransacked Lab (mkm) 45
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (ltc) 270
River Kelpie

Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card. Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card. 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
River Kelpie (c19) 93
Secrets of the Dead

Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment
Secrets of the Dead (dka) 48

Engines

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Recursion

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Grim Harvest

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Recover {2}{B} (When a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Instant
Grim Harvest (plst) CSP-58
Grim Return

Choose target creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

Instant
Grim Return (m14) 100
Lord of the Forsaken

Flying, trample {B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target player mills three cards. Pay 1 life: Add {C}. Spend this mana only to cast a spell from your graveyard.

Creature
Lord of the Forsaken (mid) 110
Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Mission Briefing (mkc) 110

Recursion

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Untap

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Kelpie Guide

{T}: Untap another target permanent you control. {T}: Tap target permanent. Activate only if you control eight or more lands.

Creature
Kelpie Guide (stx) 45
Vizier of Tumbling Sands

{T}: Untap another target permanent. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, untap target permanent.

Creature
Vizier of Tumbling Sands (cmm) 131

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Cost reducers

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Arcane Melee

Instant and sorcery spells cost {2} less to cast.

Enchantment
Arcane Melee (avr) 44
Gravebreaker Lamia

Lifelink When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. Spells you cast from your graveyard cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Enchantment
Gravebreaker Lamia (thb) 98
Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

Enchantment
Jace's Sanctum (ori) 61

Cost reducers

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Land

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Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (ltc) 299
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (who) 266
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (pip) 260
Dimir Guildgate

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

Land
Dimir Guildgate (grn) 245
Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (dft) 254
Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Fetid Pools (drc) 156
Halimar Depths

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Add {U}.

Land
Halimar Depths (plst) DDM-36
Ipnu Rivulet

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U}. {1}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target player mills four cards. (They put the top four cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Land
Ipnu Rivulet (j25) 767
Jwar Isle Refuge

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Jwar Isle Refuge (scd) 306
Murky Sewer

This land enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Murky Sewer (dsk) 263
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (drc) 166
Sea Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than blue. {T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Sea Gate (clb) 359
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (lcc) 355
Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (who) 314
Thriving Isle

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

Land
Thriving Isle (jmp) 36
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 (jmp) 37

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Removal

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (blc) 161
Cast Down

Destroy target nonlegendary creature.

Instant
Cast Down (2xm) 79
Countersquall

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Instant
Countersquall (plst) DDH-59
Depths of Desire

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Depths of Desire (xln) 52
Doom Blade

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant
Doom Blade (gn3) 47
Insidious Will

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • You may choose new targets for target spell. • Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Insidious Will (kld) 52
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (m12) 69
Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Instant
Rewind (m21) 63
Supreme Will

Choose one — • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Supreme Will (j25) 370
Terror

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terror (dmr) 103
Ultimate Price

Destroy target monocolored creature.

Instant
Ultimate Price (rvr) 95
Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Unwind (dom) 72
Vendetta

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Instant
Vendetta (plst) MMQ-170

Removal

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Drain

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Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437
Gruesome Fate

Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature you control.

Sorcery
Gruesome Fate (rix) 75
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
Psychosis Crawler (mkc) 234
Rona, Sheoldred's Faithful

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 1 life. You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding two cards in addition to paying its other costs.

Creature
Rona, Sheoldred's Faithful (dmu) 356
Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Tendrils of Agony (sta) 34

Drain

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Pump

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Octavia, Living Thesis

This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard. Ward {8} Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.

Creature
Octavia, Living Thesis (otc) 103

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Token gen

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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
Chasm Skulker (blc) 164
Docent of Perfection

Creature
Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration (inr) 62Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration (inr) 62
Stolen by the Fae

Return target creature with mana value X to its owner's hand. You create X 1/1 blue Faerie creature tokens with flying.

Sorcery
Stolen by the Fae (blc) 176
Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Creature
Talrand, Sky Summoner (jmp) 181
Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155

Token gen

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Maybeboard

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Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Baral, Chief of Compliance (mul) 8
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (blc) 182
Fated Return

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains indestructible. If it's your turn, scry 2.

Instant
Fated Return (znc) 42
Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (otc) 134
Freed from the Real

Enchant creature {U}: Tap enchanted creature. {U}: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (a25) 58
Geth's Verdict

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice and loses 1 life.

Instant
Geth's Verdict (nph) 61
Gravepurge

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Instant
Gravepurge (dtk) 104
Gray Merchant of Alphabet

When this creature enters, choose a letter. For each creature you control that has the chosen letter in its name, you gain 1 life and each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Gray Merchant of Alphabet (unf) 75
Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (mb2) 96
Mindsplice Apparatus

Flash At the beginning of your upkeep, put an oil counter on this artifact. Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each oil counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Mindsplice Apparatus (one) 63
Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Creature
Murmuring Mystic (c20) 118
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Rise from the Tides

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Rise from the Tides (inr) 82
Sentinel Tower

Whenever an instant or sorcery spell is cast during your turn, this artifact deals damage to any target equal to 1 plus the number of instant and sorcery spells cast before that spell this turn.

Artifact
Sentinel Tower (bbd) 79
Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Instant
Snap (dmr) 66
Swarm Intelligence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Enchantment
Swarm Intelligence (hou) 50
Torrential Gearhulk

Flash When this creature enters, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature Artifact
Torrential Gearhulk (cmm) 128
Vizier of Many Faces

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except if this creature was embalmed, the token has no mana cost, it's white, and it's a Zombie in addition to its other types. Embalm {3}{U}{U}

Creature
Vizier of Many Faces (drc) 84
Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded an instant or sorcery card this way, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {2}, Sacrifice Vohar: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator (dmu) 325

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