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Commander
Kenrith, the Returned King
: All creatures gain trample and haste until end of turn.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
: Target player gains 5 life.
: Target player draws a card.
: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under its owner's control.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
: Target player gains 5 life.
: Target player draws a card.
: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under its owner's control.
Legendary Creature - Human Noble
Commander
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Card Advantage
Abstract Performance
Exile the top four cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top four cards of your library in a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your graveyard. Look at the cards in the other pile. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest into your hand.
Sorcery
Burning-Rune Demon
Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for exactly two cards not named Burning-Rune Demon that have different names. If you do, reveal those cards. An opponent chooses one of them. Put the chosen card into your hand and the other into your graveyard, then shuffle.
When this creature enters, you may search your library for exactly two cards not named Burning-Rune Demon that have different names. If you do, reveal those cards. An opponent chooses one of them. Put the chosen card into your hand and the other into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Creature - Demon Berserker
Florian, Voldaren Scion
First strike
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the total amount of life your opponents lost this turn. Exile one of those cards and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may play the exiled card this turn.
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the total amount of life your opponents lost this turn. Exile one of those cards and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may play the exiled card this turn.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Noble
Plargg and Nassari
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. An opponent chooses a nonland card exiled this way. You may cast up to two spells from among the other cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
Legendary Creature - Orc Efreet
Selvala's Stampede
Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for wild or free. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card for each wild vote. Put those creature cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle the rest into your library. You may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield for each free vote.
Sorcery
Tivit, Seller of Secrets
Flying, ward
Council's dilemma — Whenever Tivit enters or deals combat damage to a player, starting with you, each player votes for evidence or bribery. For each evidence vote, investigate. For each bribery vote, create a Treasure token.
While voting, you may vote an additional time. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)
Council's dilemma — Whenever Tivit enters or deals combat damage to a player, starting with you, each player votes for evidence or bribery. For each evidence vote, investigate. For each bribery vote, create a Treasure token.
While voting, you may vote an additional time. (The votes can be for different choices or for the same choice.)
Legendary Creature - Rogue Sphinx
Card Advantage
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Interaction
Garland, Royal Kidnapper
When Garland enters, target opponent becomes the monarch.
Whenever an opponent becomes the monarch, gain control of target creature that player controls for as long as they're the monarch.
Creatures you control but don't own get +2/+2 and can't be sacrificed.
Whenever an opponent becomes the monarch, gain control of target creature that player controls for as long as they're the monarch.
Creatures you control but don't own get +2/+2 and can't be sacrificed.
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Mages' Contest
You and target spell's controller bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of 1. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid. If you win the bidding, counter that spell.
Instant
Interaction
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Land
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Land
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Ramp/Fixing
Disorienting Choice
For each opponent, choose up to one target artifact or enchantment that player controls. For each permanent chosen this way, its controller may exile it. Then if one or more of the chosen permanents are still on the battlefield, you search your library for up to that many land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Tempt with Discovery
Tempting offer — Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Each opponent may search their library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. For each opponent who searches a library this way, search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched a library this way shuffles.
Sorcery
Ramp/Fixing
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Recursion
Deliver Unto Evil
Choose up to four target cards in your graveyard. If you control a Bolas planeswalker, return those cards to your hand. Otherwise, an opponent chooses two of them. Leave the chosen cards in your graveyard and put the rest into your hand.
Exile Deliver Unto Evil.
Exile Deliver Unto Evil.
Sorcery
Recursion
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Removal
Magister of Worth
Flying
Will of the council — When this creature enters, starting with you, each player votes for grace or condemnation. If grace gets more votes, each player returns each creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield. If condemnation gets more votes or the vote is tied, destroy all creatures other than this creature.
Will of the council — When this creature enters, starting with you, each player votes for grace or condemnation. If grace gets more votes, each player returns each creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield. If condemnation gets more votes or the vote is tied, destroy all creatures other than this creature.
Creature - Angel
Volcanic Offering
Destroy target nonbasic land you don't control and target nonbasic land of an opponent's choice you don't control.
Volcanic Offering deals 7 damage to target creature you don't control and 7 damage to target creature of an opponent's choice you don't control.
Volcanic Offering deals 7 damage to target creature you don't control and 7 damage to target creature of an opponent's choice you don't control.
Instant
Removal
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Support Cards
Archfiend of Spite
Flying
Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to this creature, that source's controller loses that much life unless they sacrifice that many permanents of their choice.
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to this creature, that source's controller loses that much life unless they sacrifice that many permanents of their choice.
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Demon
Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer
Creatures your opponents control with power less than Baeloth Barrityl's power are goaded. (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)
Whenever a goaded attacking or blocking creature dies, you create a Treasure token.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Whenever a goaded attacking or blocking creature dies, you create a Treasure token.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Legendary Creature - Elf Shaman
Illicit Auction
Each player may bid life for control of target creature. You start the bidding with a bid of 0. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and gains control of the creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Sorcery
Mocking Doppelganger
Flash
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it has "Other creatures with the same name as this creature are goaded." (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it has "Other creatures with the same name as this creature are goaded." (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)
Creature - Shapeshifter
Support Cards
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Wincons
Mogis, God of Slaughter
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.
As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Rottenmouth Viper
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of nonland permanents. This spell costs less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this way.
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a blight counter on it. Then for each blight counter on it, each opponent loses 4 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a blight counter on it. Then for each blight counter on it, each opponent loses 4 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.
Creature - Elemental Snake
Wincons
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Because both Skullwinder and Ill-Gotten Gains can recur your target card from the graveyard, your opponents cannot prevent that card from ending up in your hand—no matter which two cards they bin."},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Guaranteed Land Retrieval ("},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Realms Uncharted"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"):"},{"insert":" Present "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Echoing Deeps"},{"insert":" + "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Petrified Field"},{"insert":" + "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"[Target Land You Want]"},{"insert":" + "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"[Flex/Value Land]"},{"insert":". Because Petrified Field returns any land from your graveyard to your hand, and Echoing Deeps can copy any land card in a graveyard, your opponents are forced to give you access to your target land (or its copy) regardless of how they split the pile."},{"attributes":{"indent":1,"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Kenrith's Versatility:"},{"insert":" Kenrith acts as the ultimate Swiss Army knife. Need to draw? Provide trampling power? Gain life back? Or reanimate something that was forced into a graveyard? Kenrith handles it all while keeping your mana flexible. Don't Forget all of his abilities are instant speed and can target yourself. You can either hold up 5 mana or use his abilities to ensure you are leaving unspent mana before your next turn. "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Land Engine Synergies:"},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Realms Uncharted"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Tempt with Discovery"},{"insert":" clean up a complex mana base, grabbing cycling dual lands ("},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Fetid Pools"},{"insert":", "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Canyon Slough"},{"insert":", "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Irrigated Farmland"},{"insert":"), recursive utility lands ("},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Petrified Field"},{"insert":", "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Echoing Deeps"},{"insert":"), or fixing powerhouses like "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Riftstone Portal"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"The World Tree"},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n🧠 The Philosophy: True Choice vs. Rigid Taxation"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Standard control lists often lean on rigid tax cards that simply ask, "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"\"Do you have the mana to pay?\""},{"insert":" If an opponent doesn't have the mana, there is no real decision to make—the game state freezes.\nInstead, this deck focuses on "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"agency-based dilemmas"},{"insert":"—cards like "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs"},{"insert":", "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Perplex"},{"insert":", or "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Gifts Ungiven"},{"insert":". These cards give opponents valid, agonizing options even when they are completely tapped out. By steadily eroding their life totals through group-slug pressure and redirected combat, late-game finisher spells like "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Choice of Damnations"},{"insert":", "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Captive Audience"},{"insert":", and "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Torment of Hailfire"},{"insert":" cease to be choices at all—they become inevitable win conditions.\n"}]}