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Tough Nut To Swallow
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $355.09
Salt sum: 32.46
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Commander

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Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

Menace Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper (plst) CM2-11
Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa

Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.) Creatures your opponents control without flying or reach can't block creatures with power 2 or less. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa (mkc) 219

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Land

Qty: 35 Price: $160.33
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 289
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rvr) 277
Indatha Triome

({T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Indatha Triome (iko) 248
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (rvr) 283
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 279
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 284
Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Temple Garden (rvr) 290
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235

Land

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Tutors

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Treefolk Harbinger

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Treefolk or Forest card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Creature
Treefolk Harbinger (lrw) 239

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Deck Meat

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Catapult Fodder

Creature
Catapult Fodder // Catapult Captain (vow) 99Catapult Fodder // Catapult Captain (vow) 99
Essence of Antiquity

Disguise {2}{W} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When this creature is turned face up, creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. Untap them.

Creature Artifact
Essence of Antiquity (mkm) 15
Grizzled Leotau

Creature
Grizzled Leotau (arb) 69
Indomitable Ancients

Creature
Indomitable Ancients (mor) 13
Kami of Old Stone

Creature
Kami of Old Stone (9ed) 24
Looming Altisaur

Creature
Looming Altisaur (plst) XLN-23
Silklash Spider

Reach {X}{G}{G}: This creature deals X damage to each creature with flying.

Creature
Silklash Spider (cma) 145
Unhallowed Phalanx

This creature enters tapped.

Creature
Unhallowed Phalanx (vow) 135

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Lifegain

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Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {2}{W}{B}{G}, {T}, Exile Bilbo: Search your library for any number of creature cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only if you have 111 or more life.

Creature
Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant (ltc) 48
Dina, Soul Steeper

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life. {1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Creature
Dina, Soul Steeper (stx) 178
Indulging Patrician

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature
Indulging Patrician (m21) 219
Rhox Faithmender

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Creature
Rhox Faithmender (j25) 245

Lifegain

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Utility/Protection

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Bower Passage

Creatures with flying can't block creatures you control.

Enchantment
Bower Passage (avr) 170
Brave the Sands

Creatures you control have vigilance. Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Enchantment
Brave the Sands (cm2) 19
MacCready, Lamplight Mayor

Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, it gains skulk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Whenever a creature with power 4 or greater attacks you, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
MacCready, Lamplight Mayor (pip) 108
Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact
Meekstone (mb2) 227
Stoneskin

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+10.

Enchantment
Stoneskin (clb) 45
Tower Defense

Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.

Instant
Tower Defense (rna) 147

Utility/Protection

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Draw

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Abzan Beastmaster

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control the creature with the greatest toughness or tied for the greatest toughness.

Creature
Abzan Beastmaster (plst) FRF-119
Assemble the Players

You may look at the top card of your library any time. Once each turn, you may cast a creature spell with power 2 or less from the top of your library.

Enchantment
Assemble the Players (mkm) 3
Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (clu) 158
Enduring Innocence

Lifelink Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. When Enduring Innocence dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Innocence (dsk) 6
Gluntch, the Bestower

Flying At the beginning of your end step, choose a player. They put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. Choose a second player to draw a card. Then choose a third player to create two Treasure tokens.

Creature
Gluntch, the Bestower (clb) 275
Heartwood Storyteller

Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, each of that player's opponents may draw a card.

Creature
Heartwood Storyteller (tsr) 209
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa

Flying, vigilance, toxic 2 Corrupted — At the beginning of your end step, each opponent who has three or more poison counters exiles the top card of their library face down. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Creature
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa (onc) 1
Last March of the Ents

This spell can't be countered. Draw cards equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control, then put any number of creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Last March of the Ents (ltr) 172
Mangara, the Diplomat

Lifelink Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Creature
Mangara, the Diplomat (blc) 145
Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Mentor of the Meek (inr) 34
Ohran Frostfang

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Ohran Frostfang (otc) 199
Ohran Viper

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Creature
Ohran Viper (c15) 194
Painful Truths

Converge — You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Sorcery
Painful Truths (otc) 146
Runic Armasaur

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.

Creature
Runic Armasaur (lcc) 256
The Gaffer

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, draw a card.

Creature
The Gaffer (ltc) 12
Welcoming Vampire

Flying Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Welcoming Vampire (mkc) 91
Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (ltc) 291

Draw

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One Side Boardwipes

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Dusk

Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (drc) 65
Expel the Interlopers

Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.

Sorcery
Expel the Interlopers (woe) 13
Fell the Mighty

Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.

Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (mkc) 65
Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sorcery
Wave of Reckoning (c16) 79

One Side Boardwipes

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Varying Synergy

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Angel of Destiny

Flying, double strike Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you and that player each gain that much life. At the beginning of your end step, if you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, each player this creature attacked this turn loses the game.

Creature
Angel of Destiny (plst) ZNR-2
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) {1}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. {1}{W}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Exile target nonland permanent. Activate only if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total.

Creature
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim (plst) OGW-151
Delney, Streetwise Lookout

Creatures you control with power 2 or less can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Delney, Streetwise Lookout (mkm) 12
Snarling Gorehound

Menace Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Snarling Gorehound (mkm) 105
Spawnwrithe

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Spawnwrithe (plst) CMD-171

Varying Synergy

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Gain = Drain

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Gollum, Obsessed Stalker

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) At the beginning of your end step, each opponent dealt combat damage this game by a creature named Gollum, Obsessed Stalker loses life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Gollum, Obsessed Stalker (ltc) 26
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. {3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (j25) 71

Gain = Drain

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Power = Toughness

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Ancient Lumberknot

Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Creature
Ancient Lumberknot (vow) 230
Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. {G}: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. {2}{G}: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Assault Formation (plst) IMA-155
Bedrock Tortoise

During your turn, creatures you control have hexproof. Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Creature
Bedrock Tortoise (lci) 176
Doran, the Siege Tower

Each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Creature
Doran, the Siege Tower (2x2) 201

Power = Toughness

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HP Halvers

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Raving Dead

Deathtouch At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose an opponent at random. This creature attacks that player this combat if able. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded down.

Creature
Raving Dead (c14) 29
Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up. When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

Creature
Unstoppable Slasher (dsk) 119

HP Halvers

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Ramp

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Accomplished Alchemist

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Accomplished Alchemist (stx) 119
Ezzaroot Channeler

Reach Creature spells you cast cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. {T}: You gain 2 life.

Creature
Ezzaroot Channeler (c21) 60
Leyline Prowler

Deathtouch, lifelink {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Leyline Prowler (c21) 222
Prize Pig

Whenever you gain life, put that many ribbon counters on this creature. Then if there are three or more ribbon counters on this creature, remove those counters and untap it. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Prize Pig (ltc) 43
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (j25) 704
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (drc) 142
Talisman of Resilience

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

Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (dsc) 255
Talisman of Unity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Unity (mkc) 244
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (blc) 290

Ramp

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Deck Info

Deck stats

36 pips - 28 cards
19 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
18 pips - 18 cards
19 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
35 pips - 28 cards
19 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 5 cards
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