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$15 Elminster - big sc(a)ry spells
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Commander

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Elminster

Whenever you scry, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs {X} less to cast, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way. +2: Draw a card, then scry 2. −3: Exile the top card of your library. Create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to that card's mana value. Elminster can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Elminster (clb) 274

Commander

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Land

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Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (j25) 86
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (bfz) 251a

Land

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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 (scd) 257
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (mkc) 224
Mana Geode

When this artifact enters, scry 1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Mana Geode (jmp) 472
Marble Diamond

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

Artifact
Marble Diamond (clb) 446
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (mkc) 232
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (blc) 281
Seer's Lantern

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Artifact
Seer's Lantern (ogw) 165
Sky Diamond

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

Artifact
Sky Diamond (clb) 449

Ramp

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Anthem

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Favorable Winds

Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.

Enchantment
Favorable Winds (avr) 51
Intangible Virtue

Creature tokens you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.

Enchantment
Intangible Virtue (mm3) 9

Anthem

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Landfall

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Retreat to Coralhelm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • You may tap or untap target creature. • Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Enchantment
Retreat to Coralhelm (dsc) 126

Landfall

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Removal

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (lcc) 142
Condescend

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. 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.)

Instant
Condescend (dd2) 28
Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (lcc) 150
Dissolve

Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Instant
Dissolve (ima) 51
Freeze in Place

Tap target creature an opponent controls and put three stun counters on it. Scry 2. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Sorcery
Freeze in Place (woe) 50
Guiding Bolt

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. 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.)

Instant
Guiding Bolt (clb) 24
Hour of Reckoning

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy all nontoken creatures.

Sorcery
Hour of Reckoning (pip) 161
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (ori) 65
Perplexing Test

Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Perplexing Test (blc) 171
Psychic 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 scry 2.

Enchantment
Psychic Impetus (clb) 89
Runic Shot

Kicker {U} (You may pay an additional {U} as you cast this spell.) Destroy target tapped creature. If this spell was kicked, scry 2.

Sorcery
Runic Shot (dmu) 30
Terminus

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Terminus (dsc) 70
Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Time Wipe (scd) 252

Removal

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Proliferate

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Teferi's Talent

Enchant planeswalker Enchanted planeswalker has "[−12]: You get an emblem with 'You may activate loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant.'" Whenever you draw a card, put a loyalty counter on enchanted planeswalker.

Enchantment
Teferi's Talent (moc) 74

Proliferate

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Tokens

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Entreat the Angels

Create X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying. Miracle {X}{W}{W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Entreat the Angels (dsc) 99
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
Shadow Puppeteers

Flying, ward {2} When this creature enters, create two 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature tokens with flying. Whenever a creature you control with flying attacks, you may have it become a red Dragon with base power and toughness 4/4 in addition to its other colors and types until end of turn.

Creature
Shadow Puppeteers (woc) 48
Storm Herd

Create X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying, where X is your life total.

Sorcery
Storm Herd (scd) 36
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 (cmm) 124

Tokens

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Draw

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Aminatou's Augury

Exile the top eight cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield. Until end of turn, for each nonland card type, you may cast a spell of that type from among the exiled cards without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Aminatou's Augury (dsc) 71
Augury Owl

Flying When this creature enters, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Creature
Augury Owl (m11) 45
Behold the Multiverse

Scry 2, then draw two cards. Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Behold the Multiverse (khm) 46
Crystal Ball

{1}, {T}: 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.)

Artifact
Crystal Ball (c18) 201
Deliberate

Scry 2, then draw a card.

Instant
Deliberate (znr) 56
Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Dig Through Time (ktk) 36
Elrond, Lord of Rivendell

Whenever Elrond or another creature you control enters, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, the Ring tempts you.

Creature
Elrond, Lord of Rivendell (ltr) 307
Foresee

Scry 4, then draw two cards.

Sorcery
Foresee (fut) 36
Geist of the Archives

Defender At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Geist of the Archives (emn) 62
Interpret the Signs

Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Draw cards equal to that card's mana value. (To scry 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Interpret the Signs (cmr) 75
Jace, Mirror Mage

Kicker {2} When Jace enters, if Jace was kicked, create a token that's a copy of Jace, except it's not legendary and its starting loyalty is 1. +1: Scry 2. 0: Draw a card and reveal it. Remove a number of loyalty counters equal to that card's mana value from Jace.

Planeswalker
Jace, Mirror Mage (cmm) 852
Lost Isle Calling

Whenever you scry, put a verse counter on this enchantment. {4}{U}{U}, Exile this enchantment: Draw a card for each verse counter on this enchantment. If it had seven or more verse counters on it, take an extra turn after this one. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Lost Isle Calling (ltr) 61
Netherese Puzzle-Ward

Focus Beam — At the beginning of your upkeep, roll a d4. Scry X, where X is the result. Perfect Illumination — Whenever you roll a die's highest natural result, draw a card.

Enchantment
Netherese Puzzle-Ward (afc) 17
Opt

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

Instant
Opt (eld) 59
Precognitive Perception

Draw three cards. Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, instead scry 3, then draw three cards.

Instant
Precognitive Perception (gn3) 34
Scour All Possibilities

Scry 2, then draw a card. Flashback {4}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Scour All Possibilities (mh1) 67
Siani, Eye of the Storm

Flying Whenever Siani attacks, scry X, where X is the number of attacking creatures with flying. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Siani, Eye of the Storm (cmr) 95
Sigiled Starfish

{T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Sigiled Starfish (ori) 73
Sphinx of Foresight

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, scry 3 at the beginning of your first upkeep. Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

Creature
Sphinx of Foresight (rna) 55
Tamiyo's Epiphany

Scry 4, then draw two cards.

Sorcery
Tamiyo's Epiphany (war) 71
The Temporal Anchor

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 2. Whenever you choose to put one or more cards on the bottom of your library while scrying, exile that many cards from the bottom of your library. During your turn, you may play cards exiled with The Temporal Anchor.

Artifact
The Temporal Anchor (bro) 82
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (m3c) 195
Ugin's Insight

Scry X, where X is the highest mana value among permanents you control, then draw three cards.

Sorcery
Ugin's Insight (m3c) 196

Draw

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Protection

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Deification

As this enchantment enters, choose a planeswalker type. Planeswalkers you control of the chosen type have hexproof. As long as you control a creature, if damage dealt to a planeswalker you control of the chosen type would result in all loyalty counters on it being removed, instead all but one of those counters are removed.

Enchantment
Deification (mat) 2
Deluge

Tap all creatures without flying.

Instant
Deluge (ody) 80
Reins of Power

Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Instant
Reins of Power (cmd) 57
Windborn Muse

Flying Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Creature
Windborn Muse (mkc) 92

Protection

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Untap

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Rally of Wings

Untap all creatures you control. Creatures you control with flying get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Instant
Rally of Wings (war) 27

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Finisher

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Candlekeep Inspiration

Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards you own in exile and in your graveyard that are instant cards, are sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.

Sorcery
Candlekeep Inspiration (clb) 59

Finisher

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Pump

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Gandalf, White Rider

Vigilance Whenever you cast a spell, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. Scry 1. When Gandalf dies, you may put it into its owner's library fifth from the top.

Creature
Gandalf, White Rider (pltc) 2

Pump

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utility lands/ multi

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Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (mkc) 249
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
Crystal Grotto

When this land enters, scry 1. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Crystal Grotto (dmu) 246
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 (ori) 246
New Benalia

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 {W}.

Land
New Benalia (plst) C18-270
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (m3c) 365
Skycloud Expanse

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

Land
Skycloud Expanse (blc) 332
Zhalfirin Void

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

Land
Zhalfirin Void (dom) 249

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23 mana - 23 cards
57 pips - 43 cards
27 mana - 27 cards
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