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Esper Zombies
Deck Size: 91
Commander
Est deck cost: $595.13
Salt sum: 31.49
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Commander

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Varina, Lich Queen

Whenever you attack with one or more Zombies, draw that many cards, then discard that many cards. You gain that much life. {2}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Varina, Lich Queen (2x2) 291

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Draw

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Archghoul of Thraben

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, look at the top card of your library. If it's a Zombie card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.

Creature
Archghoul of Thraben (inr) 95
Baleful Strix

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

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
Drogskol Reaver

Flying Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Creature
Drogskol Reaver (2x2) 205
Enduring Curiosity

Flash Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. When Enduring Curiosity 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 Curiosity (dsk) 51
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
Frantic Search

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

Instant
Frantic Search (woc) 93
Lunar Insight

Draw a card for each different mana value among nonland permanents you control.

Sorcery
Lunar Insight (fdn) 46
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (inr) 124
The Immortal Sun

Players can't activate planeswalkers' loyalty abilities. At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card. Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Artifact
The Immortal Sun (cmm) 393
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

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Lifegain

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Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107

Lifegain

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Recursion

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Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 96
Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (plst) NPH-73
The Scarab God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control. {2}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Scarab God (drc) 120
Valgavoth's Faithful

{3}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Valgavoth's Faithful (dsk) 121
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (mh3) 278

Recursion

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Tutor

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Waterlogged Teachings

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

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Anthem

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Adaptive Automaton

As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact
Adaptive Automaton (2xm) 231
Bladestitched Skaab

Other Zombies you control get +1/+0.

Creature
Bladestitched Skaab (inr) 231
Intangible Virtue

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

Enchantment
Intangible Virtue (inr) 29

Anthem

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Evasion

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Wonder

Flying As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature
Wonder (mh2) 271

Evasion

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Mill

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Dread Summons

Each player mills X cards. For each creature card put into a graveyard this way, you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Sorcery
Dread Summons (drc) 90
Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107
Riverchurn Monument

{1}, {T}: Any number of target players each mill two cards. (Each of them puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.) Exhaust — {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Any number of target players each mill cards equal to the number of cards in their graveyard. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)

Artifact
Riverchurn Monument (dft) 57
Taigam, Sidisi's Hand

Skip your draw step. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. {B}, {T}, Exile X cards from your graveyard: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Creature
Taigam, Sidisi's Hand (cmm) 357
The Tale of Tamiyo

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I, II, III — Mill two cards. If two cards that share a card type were milled this way, draw a card and repeat this process. IV — Exile any number of target instant, sorcery, and/or Tamiyo planeswalker cards from your graveyard. Copy them. You may cast any number of the copies.

Enchantment
The Tale of Tamiyo (dsk) 75

Mill

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Removal

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Exorcise

Exile target artifact, enchantment, or creature with power 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Exorcise (dsk) 8
Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Fumigate (mkc) 66
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
Mortify

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Instant
Mortify (acr) 96
Overwhelming Forces

Destroy all creatures target opponent controls. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Overwhelming Forces (ptk) 79
Season of Loss

Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. {P} — Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. {P}{P} — Draw a card for each creature that died under your control this turn. {P}{P}{P} — Each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Season of Loss (blb) 112
Split Up

Choose one — • Destroy all tapped creatures. • Destroy all untapped creatures.

Sorcery
Split Up (dsk) 32
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (drc) 37
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (inr) 122
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

Removal

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Counters

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Metallic Mimic

As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Metallic Mimic (inr) 268

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Finisher

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Emrakul, the Promised End

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard. When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn. Flying, trample, protection from instants

Creature
Emrakul, the Promised End (inr) 5

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Protection

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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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Theft

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Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Flying, lifelink Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents. If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead. During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

Creature
Valgavoth, Terror Eater (dsk) 120

Theft

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Drain

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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
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Grievous Wound

Enchant player Enchanted player can't gain life. Whenever enchanted player is dealt damage, they lose half their life, rounded up.

Enchantment
Grievous Wound (dsk) 102

Drain

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Land

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Accursed Duneyard

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Regenerate target Shade, Skeleton, Specter, Spirit, Vampire, Wraith, or Zombie. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Land
Accursed Duneyard (drc) 20
Bleachbone Verge

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control a Plains or a Swamp.

Land
Bleachbone Verge (dft) 250
Cavernous Maw

{T}: Add {C}. {2}: This land becomes a 3/3 Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a Cave land. Activate only if the number of other Caves you control plus the number of Cave cards in your graveyard is three or greater.

Land
Cavernous Maw (lci) 270
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (dft) 254
Echoing Deeps

You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land card in a graveyard, except it's a Cave in addition to its other types. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Echoing Deeps (lci) 271
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (drc) 155
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
Forgotten Monument

{T}: Add {C}. Other Caves you control have "{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color."

Land
Forgotten Monument (lci) 272
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 281
Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Land
Minas Tirith (ltr) 256
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
Pit of Offerings

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile up to three target cards from graveyards. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled cards' colors.

Land
Pit of Offerings (lci) 278
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 277
Polluted Delta

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

Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Restless Anchorage

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. {1}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 white and blue Bird creature with flying. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, create a Map token.

Land
Restless Anchorage (lci) 280
Scoured Barrens

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Scoured Barrens (dft) 263
Soured Springs

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Soured Springs (otj) 264
Sunken Citadel

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color. {T}: Add two mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to activate abilities of land sources.

Land
Sunken Citadel (lci) 285
Sunken Palace

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}, {T}, Exile seven cards from your graveyard: Add {U}. When you spend this mana to cast a spell or activate an ability, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be copied.)

Land
Sunken Palace (m3c) 133
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 285
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 (dsc) 308
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 (drc) 178
Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Tranquil Cove (dft) 267
Volatile Fault

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You create a Treasure token.

Land
Volatile Fault (lci) 286

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Ramp

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Amulet of Vigor

Whenever a permanent you control enters tapped, untap it.

Artifact
Amulet of Vigor (plst) WWK-121
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 51
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (drc) 129
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dsc) 245
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 57

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Tokens

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Army of the Damned

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Army of the Damned (j25) 399
Champion of the Perished

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Champion of the Perished (scd) 71
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
Geralf, the Fleshwright

Whenever you cast a spell during your turn other than your first spell that turn, create a 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature token. Whenever a Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Creature
Geralf, the Fleshwright (otj) 50
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
Gisa, the Hellraiser

Ward—{2}, Pay 2 life. Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace. Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Gisa, the Hellraiser (otj) 89
Josu Vess, Lich Knight

Kicker {5}{B} (You may pay an additional {5}{B} as you cast this spell.) Menace When Josu Vess enters, if it was kicked, create eight 2/2 black Zombie Knight creature tokens with menace.

Creature
Josu Vess, Lich Knight (moc) 253
Mondrak, Glory Dominus

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead. {1}{W/P}{W/P}, Sacrifice two other artifacts and/or creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Mondrak. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Creature
Mondrak, Glory Dominus (one) 23
Skirsdag High Priest

Morbid — {T}, Tap two untapped creatures you control: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Creature
Skirsdag High Priest (inr) 132
Teysa Karlov

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Creature tokens you control have vigilance and lifelink.

Creature
Teysa Karlov (cmm) 359

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Maybeboard

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Aminatou, the Fateshifter

+1: Draw a card, then put a card from your hand on top of your library. −1: Exile another target permanent you own, then return it to the battlefield under your control. −6: Choose left or right. Each player gains control of all nonland permanents other than Aminatou controlled by the next player in the chosen direction. Aminatou, the Fateshifter can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Aminatou, the Fateshifter (2x2) 169
Archpriest of Shadows

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Archpriest of Shadows (mom) 89
Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437
Forbidden Alchemy

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Flashback {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Forbidden Alchemy (inr) 65
Graveblade Marauder

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses life equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Graveblade Marauder (j25) 451
Joust Through

Joust Through deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. You gain 1 life.

Instant
Joust Through (fdn) 19
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (ltc) 203
Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Creature
Midnight Reaper (drc) 44
Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (fdn) 179
Ruin-Lurker Bat

Flying, lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, scry 1. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

Creature
Ruin-Lurker Bat (lci) 33
Scavenger's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever one or more creatures you control die, create a Food token. This ability triggers only once each turn. {1}{B}: Level 2 Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, target player mills two cards. {2}{B}: Level 3 At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice three other nonland permanents. If you do, return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it.

Enchantment
Scavenger's Talent (blb) 111
The Wandering Rescuer

Flash 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.) Double strike Other tapped creatures you control have hexproof.

Creature
The Wandering Rescuer (dsk) 41
Wail of the Forgotten

Descend 8 — Choose one. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard as you cast this spell, choose one or more instead. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. • Target opponent discards a card. • Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Wail of the Forgotten (lci) 244

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19 mana - 17 cards
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22 mana - 19 cards
46 pips - 32 cards
20 mana - 18 cards
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