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Phenax eats your cards
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $270.82
Salt sum: 36.17
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Commander

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Phenax, God of Deception

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue and black is less than seven, Phenax isn't a creature. Creatures you control have "{T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is this creature's toughness."

Creature Enchantment
Phenax, God of Deception (plst) BNG-152

Commander

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Land

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Bloodstained Mire

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

Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 216
Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 59
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (drc) 155
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
Flooded Strand

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

Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Gloomlake Verge

{T}: Add {U}. {T}: Add {B}. Activate only if you control an Island or a Swamp.

Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 260
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 282
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 (dsc) 289
Plaza of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell. {T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary permanents you control. {3}, {T}, Exile this land: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Land
Plaza of Heroes (dmu) 252
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 283
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 (j25) 779

Land

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Recursion

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Abyssal Harvester

{T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard that was put there this turn. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types. Then exile all other Nightmare tokens you control.

Creature
Abyssal Harvester (fdn) 54
Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (mkc) 125
Reenact the Crime

Exile target nonland card in a graveyard that was put there from anywhere this turn. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Reenact the Crime (mkm) 70
Rise from the Grave

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Sorcery
Rise from the Grave (znc) 53

Recursion

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Clones

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Body Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard.

Creature
Body Double (cmm) 75

Clones

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Mill

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Ashiok, Nightmare Muse

+1: Create a 2/3 blue and black Nightmare creature token with "Whenever this token attacks or blocks, each opponent exiles the top two cards of their library." −3: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand, then that player exiles a card from their hand. −7: You may cast up to three spells from among face-up cards your opponents own from exile without paying their mana costs.

Planeswalker
Ashiok, Nightmare Muse (thb) 208
Cruel Somnophage

Creature
Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up (woe) 222
Cut Your Losses

Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell and you may choose a new target for the copy.) Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Cut Your Losses (snc) 38
Fleet Swallower

Whenever this creature attacks, target player mills half their library, rounded up.

Creature
Fleet Swallower (xln) 57
Imperious Mindbreaker

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Imperious Mindbreaker is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent mills cards equal to its toughness."

Creature
Imperious Mindbreaker (voc) 33
Jace's Phantasm

Flying This creature gets +4/+4 as long as an opponent has ten or more cards in their graveyard.

Creature
Jace's Phantasm (plst) IMA-60
Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (plst) M19-68
Terisian Mindbreaker

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills half their library, rounded up. Unearth {1}{U}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}{U}: 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 Artifact
Terisian Mindbreaker (bro) 83
Umbris, Fear Manifest

Umbris gets +1/+1 for each card your opponents own in exile. Whenever Umbris or another Nightmare or Horror you control enters, target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a land card.

Creature
Umbris, Fear Manifest (voc) 38
Vantress Gargoyle

Flying This creature can't attack unless defending player has seven or more cards in their graveyard. This creature can't block unless you have four or more cards in hand. {T}: Each player mills a card.

Creature Artifact
Vantress Gargoyle (eld) 71
Wight of Precinct Six

This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your opponents' graveyards.

Creature
Wight of Precinct Six (plst) C16-118

Mill

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Removal

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (fdn) 151
Blasphemous Edict

You may pay {B} 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
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Blink

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I, III — Choose target creature. Its owner shuffles it into their library, then investigates. (They create a Clue token.) II, IV — Create a 2/2 black Alien Angel artifact creature token with first strike, vigilance, and "Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, this token isn't a creature until end of turn."

Enchantment
Blink (who) 116
Consuming Tide

Each player chooses a nonland permanent they control. Return all nonland permanents not chosen this way to their owners' hands. Then you draw a card for each opponent who has more cards in their hand than you.

Sorcery
Consuming Tide (vow) 53
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Deadly Cover-Up

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. Destroy all creatures. If evidence was collected, exile a card from an opponent's graveyard. Then search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

Sorcery
Deadly Cover-Up (mkm) 83
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 (dsc) 78
Ghost Vacuum

{T}: Exile target card from a graveyard. {6}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put each creature card exiled with this artifact onto the battlefield under your control with a flying counter on it. Each of them is a 1/1 Spirit in addition to its other types. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Ghost Vacuum (dsk) 248
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (inr) 119
Mystic Reflection

Choose target nonlegendary creature. The next time one or more creatures or planeswalkers enter this turn, they enter as copies of the chosen creature. Foretell {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
Mystic Reflection (khm) 69
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Strix Serenade

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Strix Serenade (mh3) 71
Tale's End

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Instant
Tale's End (m20) 77
Tymaret, Chosen from Death

Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) {1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.

Creature Enchantment
Tymaret, Chosen from Death (thb) 119
Urza's Rebuff

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Tap up to two target creatures.

Instant
Urza's Rebuff (bro) 71
Weeping Angel

Flash First strike, vigilance Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, this creature isn't a creature until end of turn. If this creature would deal combat damage to a creature, prevent that damage and that creature's owner shuffles it into their library.

Creature Artifact
Weeping Angel (who) 168
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

Removal

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Copy

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Cackling Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Cackling Counterpart (inr) 55
Court of Vantress

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, choose up to one other target enchantment or artifact. If you're the monarch, you may create a token that's a copy of it. If you're not the monarch, you may have this enchantment become a copy of it, except it has this ability.

Enchantment
Court of Vantress (woc) 22
See Double

This spell can't be copied. Choose one. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, you may choose both instead. • Copy target spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) • Create a token that's a copy of target creature.

Instant
See Double (mom) 77

Copy

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Protection

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Caelorna, Coral Tyrant

Creature
Caelorna, Coral Tyrant (dft) 40
Corrupted Shapeshifter

Devoid (This card has no color.) As this creature enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 creature with flying, a 2/5 creature with vigilance, or a 0/12 creature with defender.

Creature
Corrupted Shapeshifter (mh3) 56
Hydroelectric Specimen

Creature
Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240

Protection

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Tokens

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Death in Heaven

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Target player mills two cards, then exiles their graveyard. III — Put all creature cards exiled with this enchantment onto the battlefield face down under your control. They're 2/2 Cyberman artifact creatures.

Enchantment
Death in Heaven (who) 66
Genesis of the Daleks

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I, II, III — Create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace for each lore counter on Genesis of the Daleks. IV — Target opponent faces a villainous choice — Destroy all Dalek creatures and each of your opponents loses life equal to the total power of Daleks that died this turn, or destroy all non-Dalek creatures.

Enchantment
Genesis of the Daleks (who) 69
Lord Skitter, Sewer King

Whenever another Rat you control enters, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard. At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."

Creature
Lord Skitter, Sewer King (woe) 97
Shark Typhoon

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value. Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Shark Typhoon (dsc) 127
The Cyber-Controller

When The Cyber-Controller enters, each opponent mills X cards. Put all creature cards milled this way onto the battlefield face down under your control. They're 2/2 Cyberman artifact creatures. Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact
The Cyber-Controller (who) 119

Tokens

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Counters

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Mindbreak Trap

If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Exile any number of target spells.

Instant
Mindbreak Trap (mb2) 168

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Pump

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Valley Floodcaller

Flash You may cast noncreature spells as though they had flash. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Birds, Frogs, Otters, and Rats you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap them.

Creature
Valley Floodcaller (blb) 79

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Tutor

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Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Intent (bro) 89
Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, 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.)

Creature
Dimir House Guard (rvr) 73
Insatiable Avarice

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. + {B}{B} — Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Sorcery
Insatiable Avarice (otj) 91
Lively Dirge

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. + {2} — Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Lively Dirge (otj) 93
Waterlogged Teachings

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

Tutor

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Draw

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Curator of Destinies

This spell can't be countered. Flying When this creature enters, look at the top five cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Creature
Curator of Destinies (fdn) 34
Fleeting Distraction

Target creature gets -1/-0 until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Fleeting Distraction (j22) 299
Into the Story

This spell costs {3} less to cast if an opponent has seven or more cards in their graveyard. Draw four cards.

Instant
Into the Story (eld) 50
Portent of Calamity

Reveal the top X cards of your library. For each card type, you may exile a card of that type from among them. Put the rest into your graveyard. You may cast a spell from among the exiled cards without paying its mana cost if you exiled four or more cards this way. Then put the rest of the exiled cards into your hand.

Sorcery
Portent of Calamity (blb) 66
Traverse Eternity

Draw cards equal to the highest mana value among historic permanents you control. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Sorcery
Traverse Eternity (who) 60

Draw

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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) 51
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on this artifact. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact. When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (drc) 79
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (drc) 141
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256

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Untap

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Corridor Monitor

When this creature enters, untap target artifact or creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Corridor Monitor (2xm) 46
Depth Charge Colossus

Prototype {4}{U}{U} — 6/6 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. {3}: Untap this creature.

Creature Artifact
Depth Charge Colossus (bro) 78
Forensic Researcher

{T}: Untap another target permanent you control. {T}, Collect evidence 3: Tap target creature you don't control. (To collect evidence 3, exile cards with total mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard.)

Creature
Forensic Researcher (mkm) 58
Sleep-Cursed Faerie

Flying, ward {2} This creature enters tapped with three stun counters on it. (If it would become untapped, remove a stun counter from it instead.) {1}{U}: Untap this creature.

Creature
Sleep-Cursed Faerie (woe) 66

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