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Hastur, the King in Yellow
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Est deck cost: $270.57
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Commander

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The Ever-Changing 'Dane

{1}, Sacrifice another creature: The Ever-Changing 'Dane becomes a copy of the sacrificed creature, except it has this ability.

Creature
The Ever-Changing 'Dane (dmc) 30

Commander

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Instant

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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
Arcane Denial (all) 22a
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (mmq) 69
Deny the Witch

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller loses life equal to the number of creatures you control.

Instant
Deny the Witch (40k) 116
Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (p30a) 27
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 (inv) 57
Faithful Mending

You gain 2 life, draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {1}{W}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Faithful Mending (mid) 221
Frantic Search

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

Instant
Frantic Search (ulg) 32
Mortify

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Instant
Mortify (fdn) 662
Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Return to Dust (dsc) 102
Utter End

Exile target nonland permanent.

Instant
Utter End (dsc) 91
Void Rend

This spell can't be countered. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Void Rend (snc) 230

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (tdc) 105
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (tdc) 318
Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, draw a card, then create a 0/3 white Wall creature token with defender. At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with defender gain exalted until end of turn. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

Artifact
Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield (ltc) 505
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (40k) 252
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (drc) 141
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 Progress

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

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (pip) 249
The Golden Throne

Arcane Life-support — If you would lose the game, instead exile The Golden Throne and your life total becomes 1. A Thousand Souls Die Every Day — {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add three mana in any combination of colors.

Artifact
The Golden Throne (40k) 157
Vat of Rebirth

Whenever another artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this artifact. {2}{B}, {T}, Remove four oil counters from this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Vat of Rebirth (one) 113
Weatherlight Compleated

Flying As long as Weatherlight Compleated has four or more phyresis counters on it, it's a Phyrexian creature in addition to its other types. Whenever a creature you control dies, put a phyresis counter on Weatherlight Compleated. Then draw a card if it has seven or more phyresis counters on it. If it doesn't, scry 1.

Artifact
Weatherlight Compleated (dmu) 242

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Land

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Arcane Sanctum

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

Land
Arcane Sanctum (dsc) 259
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (tdc) 348
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (dsc) 275
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (ltc) 314
Glacial Floodplain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Glacial Floodplain (khm) 257
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
Hallowed Fountain

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

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 280
Ice Tunnel

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

Land
Ice Tunnel (khm) 262
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 282
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 278
Snowfield Sinkhole

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Snowfield Sinkhole (clb) 915
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 283
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 (drc) 176
Temple of Enlightenment

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} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (tdc) 401
Temple of Silence

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} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Silence (tdc) 406
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (drc) 181
Watery Grave

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

Land
Watery Grave (rvr) 291

Land

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Creature

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Adarkar Valkyrie

Flying, vigilance {T}: When target creature other than this creature dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Adarkar Valkyrie (plst) CSP-1
Breena, the Demagogue

Flying Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, if that opponent has more life than another of your opponents, that attacking player draws a card and you put two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control.

Creature
Breena, the Demagogue (otc) 217
Cathodion

When this creature dies, add {C}{C}{C}.

Creature Artifact
Cathodion (usg) 287
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
Death-Priest of Myrkul

Skeletons, Vampires, and Zombies you control get +1/+1. At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 black Skeleton creature token.

Creature
Death-Priest of Myrkul (afr) 95
Dogged Detective

When this creature enters, 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.) Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Dogged Detective (mkc) 127
Faerie Artisans

Flying Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. Then exile all other tokens created with this creature.

Creature
Faerie Artisans (cmm) 92
Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Gixian Puppeteer (bro) 99
Horrid Shadowspinner

Lifelink Whenever this creature attacks, you may draw cards equal to its power. If you do, discard that many cards.

Creature
Horrid Shadowspinner (mh3) 188
Infernal Vessel

When this creature dies, if it wasn't a Demon, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with two +1/+1 counters on it. It's a Demon in addition to its other types.

Creature
Infernal Vessel (fdn) 63
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
Merfolk Looter

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Merfolk Looter (exo) 39
Morphling

{U}: Untap this creature. {U}: This creature gains flying until end of turn. {U}: This creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {1}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. {1}: This creature gets -1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Morphling (usg) 85
Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature
Ophiomancer (mh3) 276
Overlord of the Balemurk

Impending 5—{1}{B} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with five time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, mill four cards, then you may return a non-Avatar creature card or a planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Enchantment
Overlord of the Balemurk (dsk) 113
Overlord of the Floodpits

Impending 4—{1}{U}{U} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Flying Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, draw two cards, then discard a card.

Creature Enchantment
Overlord of the Floodpits (dsk) 68
Prince Imrahil the Fair

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

Creature
Prince Imrahil the Fair (ltr) 219
Shard of the Void Dragon

Flying Spear of the Void Dragon — Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice. Matter Absorption — Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield or is put into exile from the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Shard of the Void Dragon (40k) 56
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
Solemn Simulacrum (tsr) 400
Starving Revenant

When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life. Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Starving Revenant (lci) 123
Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sun Titan (otc) 87
Vashta Nerada

Indestructible Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Vashta Nerada (who) 73
Wall of Omens

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (mkc) 90
Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Islandwalk, swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island or a Swamp.) Whenever Wrexial deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Wrexial, the Risen Deep (ncc) 359

Creature

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Sorcery

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Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (clu) 211
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277
Vindicate

Destroy target permanent.

Sorcery
Vindicate (brc) 131

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Enchantment Kindred
Bitterblossom (2x2) 69

Enchantment

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Baleful Strix

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

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
Bishop of Rebirth

Vigilance Whenever this creature attacks, you may return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Bishop of Rebirth (xln) 5
Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (inr) 97
Body Launderer

Deathtouch Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, this creature connives. When this creature dies, return another target non-Rogue creature card with equal or lesser power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Body Launderer (snc) 68
Bygone Bishop

Flying Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 3 or less, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature
Bygone Bishop (clb) 689
Chamber of Manipulation

Enchant land Enchanted land has "{T}, Discard a card: Gain control of target creature until end of turn."

Enchantment
Chamber of Manipulation (ody) 76
Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Sorcery
Chart a Course (blc) 110
Chthonian Nightmare

When this enchantment enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Chthonian Nightmare (mh3) 83
Cruel Celebrant

Whenever this creature or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Cruel Celebrant (lcc) 267
Cryptoplasm

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have this creature become a copy of another target creature, except it has this ability.

Creature
Cryptoplasm (mbs) 23
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Deathtouch Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim (dmu) 198
Emet-Selch, Unsundered

Creature
Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld (fin) 218Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld (fin) 218
Fractured Identity

Exile target nonland permanent. Each player other than its controller creates a token that's a copy of it.

Sorcery
Fractured Identity (who) 236
Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Creature
Grim Haruspex (clb) 754
Homunculus Horde

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Homunculus Horde (fdn) 41
Immortal Servitude

Return each creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Immortal Servitude (gtc) 220
Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Kambal, Consul of Allocation (2x2) 237
Karmic Guide

Flying, protection from black Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Karmic Guide (voc) 90
Likeness Looter

Flying {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {X}: This creature becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except it has flying and this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Likeness Looter (woe) 208
Master of Death

When this creature enters, 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.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard, you may pay 1 life. If you do, return it to your hand.

Creature
Master of Death (mkc) 216
Matzalantli, the Great Door

Artifact
Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256
Mindless Conscription

When this enchantment enters and whenever you draw your third card each turn, amass Zombies 3. (Put three +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Enchantment
Mindless Conscription (mh3) 101
Mirror Mockery

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you may create a token that's a copy of that creature. Exile that token at end of combat.

Enchantment
Mirror Mockery (dtk) 62
Monastery Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card, then discard a card. • Dragons — Spells your opponents cast that target you or a permanent you control cost {2} more to cast.

Enchantment
Monastery Siege (c17) 88
Mortus Strider

When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Creature
Mortus Strider (rvr) 203
Obsessive Search

Draw a card. Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Obsessive Search (dmr) 61
Obsessive Stitcher

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {2}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Obsessive Stitcher (afc) 189
Priest of Fell Rites

{T}, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery. Unearth {3}{W}{B} ({3}{W}{B}: 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
Priest of Fell Rites (mh2) 208
Queza, Augur of Agonies

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Queza, Augur of Agonies (snc) 212
Reef Worm

When this creature dies, create a 3/3 blue Fish creature token with "When this token dies, create a 6/6 blue Whale creature token with 'When this token dies, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.'"

Creature
Reef Worm (mh3) 271
Rona, Herald of Invasion

Creature
Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator (mom) 75Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator (mom) 75
Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy. Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (mh3) 267
Sister Hospitaller

Medicus Ministorum — When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Sister Hospitaller (40k) 141
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
Suture Priest

Whenever another creature you control enters, you may gain 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Creature
Suture Priest (moc) 210
Toluz, Clever Conductor

When Toluz enters, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile them from your graveyard. When Toluz dies, put the cards exiled with it into their owner's hand.

Creature
Toluz, Clever Conductor (snc) 228
Wayward Angel

Flying, vigilance Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature gets +3/+3, is black, has trample, and has "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature."

Creature
Wayward Angel (ody) 57
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (clb) 775

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Deck Info

Deck stats

20 pips - 16 cards
23 mana - 21 cards
23 pips - 19 cards
24 mana - 22 cards
26 pips - 21 cards
25 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
11 mana - 8 cards
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