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3/18/2025
John Irenicus - No bad gifts, No weak gifts
Deck Size: 83
Commander
Est deck cost: $97.71
Salt sum: 36.14
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Commander

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Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

At the beginning of your end step, target opponent gains control of up to one target creature you control. Put two +1/+1 counters on it and tap it. It's goaded for the rest of the game and it gains "This creature can't be sacrificed." (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever a creature you own but don't control attacks, you draw a card.

Creature
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One (clb) 278

Commander

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Land

Qty: 38 (39 w/ MDFC)Price: $36.04
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (c16) 301
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 282
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 285
Tolaria West

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with mana value 0, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Land
Tolaria West (tsr) 286
Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Urza's Cave (mh3) 234

Land

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Artifact

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Crystal Shard

{3}, {T} or {U}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Artifact
Crystal Shard (plst) MRD-159
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 258

Artifact

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Sorcery

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Devastation Tide

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. Miracle {1}{U} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Devastation Tide (ltc) 189
Diabolic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (plst) ODY-129
Inevitable Betrayal

Suspend 3—{1}{U}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{U}{U} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery
Inevitable Betrayal (mh2) 47

Sorcery

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Creature

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Abyssal Persecutor

Flying, trample You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

Creature
Abyssal Persecutor (ima) 78
Baleful Strix

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

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
Brackwater Elemental

When this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Unearth {2}{U} ({2}{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
Brackwater Elemental (ddh) 46
Callous Bloodmage

When this creature enters, choose one — • Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • Exile target player's graveyard.

Creature
Callous Bloodmage (stx) 66
Circling Vultures

Flying You may discard this card any time you could cast an instant. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you exile the top creature card of your graveyard.

Creature
Circling Vultures (wth) 64
Coveted Falcon

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, gain control of target permanent you own but don't control. Disguise {1}{U} When this creature is turned face up, target opponent gains control of any number of target permanents you control. Draw a card for each one they gained control of this way.

Creature Artifact
Coveted Falcon (mkm) 48
Crumbling Colossus

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) When this creature attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.

Creature Artifact
Crumbling Colossus (plst) M12-204
Custodi Lich

When this creature enters, you become the monarch. Whenever you become the monarch, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Custodi Lich (ncc) 244
Fog Elemental

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice it at end of combat.

Creature
Fog Elemental (10e) 85
Fog Elemental

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice it at end of combat.

Creature
Fog Elemental (10e) 85
Frost Walker

When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Creature
Frost Walker (frf) 35
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector (mid) 103
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

Spells you cast but don't own cost {1} less to cast. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, look at the top card of that player's library, then exile it face down. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor (otc) 1
Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Deathtouch When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Gonti, Lord of Luxury (otc) 135
Grim Servant

Menace When this creature enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Grim Servant (mh3) 97
Howling Golem

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, each player draws a card.

Creature Artifact
Howling Golem (cmr) 316
Hydroelectric Specimen

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

Defender, flying, first strike Cumulative upkeep {U} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Creature
Illusionary Wall (ice) 78
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 108
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
Merciless Executioner

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Merciless Executioner (frf) 76
Oathsworn Knight

This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. This creature attacks each combat if able. If damage would be dealt to this creature while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Creature
Oathsworn Knight (eld) 98
Ogre Marauder

Whenever this creature attacks, it gains "this creature can't be blocked" until end of turn unless defending player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Ogre Marauder (bok) 75
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
Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature
Plaguecrafter (blc) 187
Putrid Goblin

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
Putrid Goblin (plst) MH1-101
Skyclave Shade

Kicker {2}{B} This creature can't block. If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, if this card is in your graveyard and it's your turn, you may cast it from your graveyard this turn.

Creature
Skyclave Shade (ncc) 260
Sygg, River Cutthroat

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Sygg, River Cutthroat (plst) ZNC-103
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
Vicious Battlerager

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. Spiked Retribution — Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller loses 5 life.

Creature
Vicious Battlerager (clb) 155
Warkite Marauder

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, target creature defending player controls loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 0/1 until end of turn.

Creature
Warkite Marauder (lcc) 179
Westgate Regent

Flying Ward—Discard a card. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player discards a card.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Westgate Regent (afr) 126

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Enchantment

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Curse of the Restless Dead

Enchant player Whenever a land enchanted player controls enters, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Enchantment
Curse of the Restless Dead (mic) 18
Ghoulish Procession

Whenever one or more nontoken creatures die, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Enchantment
Ghoulish Procession (inr) 110
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85
Web of Inertia

At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, that player may exile a card from their graveyard. If the player doesn't, creatures they control can't attack you this turn.

Enchantment
Web of Inertia (plst) JUD-53

Enchantment

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Instant

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Get Out

Choose one — • Counter target creature or enchantment spell. • Return one or two target creatures and/or enchantments you own to your hand.

Instant
Get Out (dsk) 60
Wrong Turn

Target opponent gains control of target creature. (If an attacking or blocking creature changes controllers, it's removed from combat.)

Instant
Wrong Turn (cmr) 107

Instant

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