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Use those options to try to hold back/rein in the more powerful players by donating those threats to the weaker players\n>Where possible, try to ensure that creatures donated by the Bullies are killed (before they are exiled by the ability) so that they can be reused\n>Try to establish a means of using Bullies multiple times per turn cycle (Sting, Quest for Renewal, seeker of skybreak, Marvin)\n>Using the tools above, work to ensure the elimination of the two 'strongest' players\n>Having survived to heads-up play with your weakest opponent, overwhelm them by hard-casting your superior threats and/or surprising them with a finisher such as Sneak Attack, Doctor Doom, Feldon, etc.\n"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"The Long Version:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"(Overview): This is a highly political ("},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"not"},{"insert":" group-hug or group-slug) brew. A nontrivial part of the game plan is leaning on the reality that your opponents should all be angling to eliminate the other two players first, as you present the smallest threat profile in a head-to-head scenario (you actually "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"are"},{"insert":" the fabled \"smol bean\"). Despite this, you'll want to establish sufficient defense such that opportunistic players don't farm you to death for value because you're exposed when nobody else is. Most importantly, you'll want to demonstrate the significant consequences of aggression leveled against you by supercharging the mutual enemies of whomever has transgressed your designs. \n\nEstablish and enforce your boundaries by shaping incentives, disincentives, and motivations. Openly discuss options and opportunities to control the board with all other players at all times. If someone is getting too far ahead of the pack, work with the other two players to bring them back to earth, because your only hope to win is through a lengthy war of attrition. Accomplish this by milling options into your graveyard, then using the"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":" threat"},{"insert":" of the bullies as much as/more than you actually activate them; remember - tapped down bullies cannot engage in enforcement. Try to sit on them like you'd hold a lone counterspell for the right moment... until you've established a means of utilizing them repeatedly and aggressively.\n\n(Play guide): You are going to need to mill yourself heavily - not least of all because normally, Beamtown Bullies only gets to call in each threat once since they don't return to the graveyard without help. Establishing a meaty graveyard full of potent options is a top priority for this brew; ergo, you want mill and infrastructure in your opening hand. Big beaters in hand are actively bad (you want them in the graveyard), and a grip full of them is an easy mulligan at the outset - unless you're also holding Sneak Attack.\n\nOnce you have some fatties in the bin and Bullies on the field, you have some real leverage. It's not exactly a 'gun' to everyone's head - but nobody wants to be the one getting hit by a donated Balefire Dragon. I, personally, find it is ideal to keep these most decisive threats available while spending 'lesser' behemoths to begin chipping away at the resources and advantage of the player(s) currently at the top of the threat assessment hierarchy - options such as Living Inferno, Bahamut, Treeshaker Chimera, and Meteor Golem are particularly suited to doing this sort of work.\n\nAs you work to level the playing field, you'll want to enhance your efficacy by establishing a means of reusing creatures 'recruited' by the bullies - which Royal Assassin, Tempting Licid, Avatar of Woe, and Staff of Compleation excel at. Furthermore, being able to use BB more than once per turn cycle is also a significant upgrade, and why the deck runs Sting, Seeker of Skybreak, Marvin, and Quest for Renewal.\n\nIf you can restore balance to - and maintain that balance upon - the battlefield, you will find that you can encourage/force your opponents to grind each other's HP away until only one haggard and ruined foe remains.\n\nYour options are much more limited in heads-up play, and you will find that you often need either a surprise finisher such as Sneak Attack, Feldon, Tempting Licid, or Shifting Woodland - or that you actually have to switch gears to hard-casting your monstrosities and overwhelming them the 'old fashioned' way.\n\nWinning with this deck is VERY difficult, but I find that it is a fun brew to play even while losing - and in 10+ years of playing EDH, I have never experienced a higher high than earning the W with this deck.\n\nPS: The deck will keep the game alive and mill itself hard enough to empty its whole library into the graveyard more often than you might guess. This is the only reason for the inclusion of Worldspine Wurm, Shenanigans, and Doctor Doom - which otherwise do very little for the deck. With any means of either discarding Wurm, casting and killing it, or halting your draw by dredging it into the graveyard with Shenanigans, you can use WW to keep one card on top of your library to avoid drawing to death. Doom can simply convert an empty library into a win - but the deck will usually mill him into the graveyard with few options for recovery.\n\nPPS: The commander, The Beamtown Bullies, is rather notorious among players who have squared off against them before. This is because they are normally used to engage in unusually-tedious, player-eliminating degeneracy with cards like Leveler and Eater of Days - which are included in more than 85% of Beamtown lists, per EDHRec. You may experience serious, undeserved aggression from these players as they try to kill you before you deploy nuclear plays that this version of Bullies doesn't actually include - unless you can impress upon them that this is "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"genuinely"},{"insert":" not "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"that"},{"insert":" kind of Beamtown Bullies deck. (I like to explain that, with the possible exception of Enslaved Horror, this Bullies list - unlike those ones - includes only creatures I would prefer to cast and resolve on my own battlefield, had I but the resources to do so.)\n"}]}
Commander
The Beamtown Bullies
Vigilance, haste
: Target opponent whose turn it is puts target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard onto the battlefield under their control. It gains haste. Goad it. At the beginning of the next end step, exile it. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
: Target opponent whose turn it is puts target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard onto the battlefield under their control. It gains haste. Goad it. At the beginning of the next end step, exile it. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Legendary Creature - Warrior Ogre Devil
Commander
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Artifact
Artifact
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Creature
Flayer of the Hatebound
Undying (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.)
Whenever this creature or another creature enters from your graveyard, that creature deals damage equal to its power to any target.
Whenever this creature or another creature enters from your graveyard, that creature deals damage equal to its power to any target.
Creature - Devil
Golgari Grave-Troll
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.
Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, you may mill six cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.
Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, you may mill six cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Creature - Skeleton Troll
Rydia, Summoner of Mist
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
Summon — , : Return target Saga card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Summon — , : Return target Saga card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Human Shaman
Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
, , Return Shigeki to its owner's hand: Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Channel — , Discard this card: Return X target nonlegendary cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Channel — , Discard this card: Return X target nonlegendary cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - Druid Snake
Summon: Bahamut
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I, II — Destroy up to one target nonland permanent.
III — Draw two cards.
IV — Mega Flare — This creature deals damage equal to the total mana value of other permanents you control to each opponent.
Flying
I, II — Destroy up to one target nonland permanent.
III — Draw two cards.
IV — Mega Flare — This creature deals damage equal to the total mana value of other permanents you control to each opponent.
Flying
Creature Enchantment - Saga Dragon
Summon: Primal Odin
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Gungnir — Destroy target creature an opponent controls.
II — Zantetsuken — This creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
III — Hall of Sorrow — Draw two cards. Each player loses 2 life.
I — Gungnir — Destroy target creature an opponent controls.
II — Zantetsuken — This creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
III — Hall of Sorrow — Draw two cards. Each player loses 2 life.
Creature Enchantment - Knight Saga
Creature
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Enchantment
Dragon Shadow
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When a creature with mana value 6 or greater enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When a creature with mana value 6 or greater enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to that creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Enchantment
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Instant
Tibalt's Trickery
Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.
Instant
Instant
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Land
Boseiju, Who Endures
: Add .
Channel — , Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Channel — , Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Land
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Sorcery
Wheel of Misfortune
Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.
Sorcery
Sorcery
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Maybeboard
Audacious Swap
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.)
The owner of target nonenchantment permanent shuffles it into their library, then exiles the top card of their library. If it's a land card, they put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, they may cast it without paying its mana cost.
The owner of target nonenchantment permanent shuffles it into their library, then exiles the top card of their library. If it's a land card, they put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, they may cast it without paying its mana cost.
Instant
Blast-Furnace Hellkite
Artifact offering (You may cast this spell as though it had flash by sacrificing an artifact and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed artifact. Mana cost includes color.)
Flying, double strike
Creatures attacking your opponents have double strike.
Flying, double strike
Creatures attacking your opponents have double strike.
Creature - Dragon
Bloodroot Apothecary
Toxic 2 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get two poison counters. A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
When this creature enters, you and target opponent each create a Treasure token.
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a noncreature token, that player gets two poison counters.
When this creature enters, you and target opponent each create a Treasure token.
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a noncreature token, that player gets two poison counters.
Creature - Druid Squirrel
Brass's Tunnel-Grinder
When Brass's Tunnel-Grinder enters, discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards plus one.
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a bore counter on Brass's Tunnel-Grinder. Then if there are three or more bore counters on it, remove those counters and transform it. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a bore counter on Brass's Tunnel-Grinder. Then if there are three or more bore counters on it, remove those counters and transform it. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
Legendary Artifact
Charnel Serenade
Surveil 3, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Exile Charnel Serenade with three time counters on it.
Suspend 3— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay 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.)
Suspend 3— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay 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.)
Sorcery
Confession Dial
When this artifact enters, surveil 3.
: Target legendary creature card in your graveyard gains escape until end of turn. The escape cost is equal to its mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast it from your graveyard for its escape cost this turn.)
: Target legendary creature card in your graveyard gains escape until end of turn. The escape cost is equal to its mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast it from your graveyard for its escape cost this turn.)
Artifact
Deeproot Wayfinder
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, surveil 1, then you may return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To surveil 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Creature - Scout Merfolk
Demolition Field
: Add .
, , Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
, , Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Doom's Time Platform
Whenever you attack, exile target nonland card from your graveyard with two time counters on it. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)
Artifact
Eldrazi Confluence
Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Target creature gets +3/-3 until end of turn.
• Exile target nonland permanent, then return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.
• Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add ."
• Target creature gets +3/-3 until end of turn.
• Exile target nonland permanent, then return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.
• Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add ."
Instant
Elephant Grass
Cumulative upkeep (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.)
Black creatures can't attack you.
Nonblack creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Black creatures can't attack you.
Nonblack creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Fateful Tempest
Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for past or present. You mill a card for each past vote, then Fateful Tempest deals damage to each opponent equal to the total mana value of cards milled this way. Exile the top card of your library for each present vote. Until the end of your next turn, you may play the exiled cards.
Sorcery
Flayer of Loyalties
When you cast this spell, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. Until end of turn, it has base power and toughness 10/10 and gains trample, annihilator 2, and haste.
Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)
Trample
Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)
Trample
Creature - Eldrazi
Gemstone Caverns
If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.
: Add . If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.
: Add . If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.
Legendary Land
Goblin Welder
: Choose target artifact a player controls and target artifact card in that player's graveyard. If both targets are still legal as this ability resolves, that player simultaneously sacrifices the artifact and returns the artifact card to the battlefield.
Creature - Goblin Artificer
Grave Venerations
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Grim Flayer
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Delirium — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Delirium — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Creature - Human Warrior
Guff Rewrites History
For each player, choose target nonenchantment, nonland permanent that player controls. Those permanents' owners shuffle them into their libraries. Each player who controlled one of those permanents exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. Each player may cast the nonland card they exiled without paying its mana cost.
Instant
Hostile Negotiations
Exile the top three cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top three cards of your library in another face-down pile. Look at the cards in each pile, then turn a pile of your choice face up. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Laser Screwdriver
: Add one mana of any color.
, : Tap target artifact.
, : Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
, : Goad target creature. (Until your next turn, it attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
, : Tap target artifact.
, : Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
, : Goad target creature. (Until your next turn, it attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Artifact
Legolas's Quick Reflexes
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Untap target creature. Until end of turn, it gains reach, hexproof, and "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature."
Untap target creature. Until end of turn, it gains reach, hexproof, and "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature."
Instant
Myr Battlesphere
When this creature enters, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.
Creature Artifact - Construct Myr
Nath's Elite
All creatures able to block this creature do so.
When this creature enters, clash with an opponent. If you win, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on their choice of the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a greater mana value.)
When this creature enters, clash with an opponent. If you win, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on their choice of the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a greater mana value.)
Creature - Warrior Elf
Necrogoyf
Necrogoyf's power is equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card.
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.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card.
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 - Lhurgoyf
Old Rutstein
When Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If a noncreature, nonland card is milled this way, create a Blood token.
Legendary Creature - Human Peasant
Out of the Tombs
At the beginning of your upkeep, put two eon counters on this enchantment, then mill cards equal to the number of eon counters on it.
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can't, you lose the game.
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can't, you lose the game.
Enchantment
Palantír of Orthanc
At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.
Legendary Artifact
Persistent Constrictor
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, they lose 1 life and you put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature they control.
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.)
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 - Zombie Snake
Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
+1: Surveil 2.
−1: Any number of target players each discard a card.
−2: Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−7: Flip five coins. Target opponent skips their next X turns, where X is the number of coins that came up heads.
−1: Any number of target players each discard a card.
−2: Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−7: Flip five coins. Target opponent skips their next X turns, where X is the number of coins that came up heads.
Legendary Planeswalker - Ral
Ravenous Gigantotherium
Devour 3 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with three times that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
When this creature enters, it deals X damage divided as you choose among up to X target creatures, where X is its power. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to this creature.
When this creature enters, it deals X damage divided as you choose among up to X target creatures, where X is its power. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to this creature.
Creature - Beast
Sanguine Spy
Menace, lifelink
, Sacrifice another creature: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
At the beginning of your end step, if there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
, Sacrifice another creature: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
At the beginning of your end step, if there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
Creature - Vampire Rogue
Sepulchral Primordial
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Creature - Avatar
Shriekmaw
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Creature - Elemental
Skyfisher Spider
Reach
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target nonland permanent.
When this creature dies, you may gain 1 life for each creature card in your graveyard. If you do, exile this card from your graveyard.
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target nonland permanent.
When this creature dies, you may gain 1 life for each creature card in your graveyard. If you do, exile this card from your graveyard.
Creature - Spider
Sword of Forge and Frontier
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn. You may play an additional land this turn.
Equip
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn. You may play an additional land this turn.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Sword of Once and Future
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 2. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Equip
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 2. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Terminal Velocity
You may put an artifact or creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That permanent gains haste, "When this permanent leaves the battlefield, it deals damage equal to its mana value to each creature," and "At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice this permanent."
Sorcery
The Aesir Escape Valhalla
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Exile a permanent card from your graveyard. You gain life equal to its mana value.
II — Put a number of +1/+1 counters on target creature you control equal to the mana value of the exiled card.
III — Return this Saga and the exiled card to their owner's hand.
I — Exile a permanent card from your graveyard. You gain life equal to its mana value.
II — Put a number of +1/+1 counters on target creature you control equal to the mana value of the exiled card.
III — Return this Saga and the exiled card to their owner's hand.
Enchantment - Saga
The Grim Captain's Locker
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
: Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape—, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
: Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape—, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Legendary Artifact
Timeless Witness
When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Eternalize (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Eternalize (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Human Shaman
Tombstone Stairwell
Cumulative upkeep (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.)
At the beginning of each upkeep, if this enchantment is on the battlefield, each player creates a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with haste named Tombspawn for each creature card in their graveyard.
At the beginning of each end step and when this enchantment leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens created with this enchantment. They can't be regenerated.
At the beginning of each upkeep, if this enchantment is on the battlefield, each player creates a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with haste named Tombspawn for each creature card in their graveyard.
At the beginning of each end step and when this enchantment leaves the battlefield, destroy all tokens created with this enchantment. They can't be regenerated.
World Enchantment
Unshakable Tail
When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1.
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
, Sacrifice a Clue: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
, Sacrifice a Clue: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Zombie Detective
Unstoppable Slasher
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up.
When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up.
When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.
Creature - Zombie Assassin
Valakut Exploration
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.
At the beginning of your end step, if there are cards exiled with this enchantment, put them into their owner's graveyard, then this enchantment deals that much damage to each opponent.
At the beginning of your end step, if there are cards exiled with this enchantment, put them into their owner's graveyard, then this enchantment deals that much damage to each opponent.
Enchantment
Vanille, Cheerful l'Cie
When Vanille enters, mill two cards, then return a permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
At the beginning of your first main phase, if you both own and control Vanille and a creature named Fang, Fearless l'Cie, you may pay . If you do, exile them, then meld them into Ragnarok, Divine Deliverance.
At the beginning of your first main phase, if you both own and control Vanille and a creature named Fang, Fearless l'Cie, you may pay . If you do, exile them, then meld them into Ragnarok, Divine Deliverance.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Welcome the Dead
Draw two cards, then discard a card and you lose 2 life. Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature tokens, where X is the number of cards that were put into your graveyard from your hand or library this turn.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Whip of Erebos
Creatures you control have lifelink.
, : Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.
, : Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Zoyowa's Justice
The owner of target artifact or creature with mana value 1 or greater shuffles it into their library. Then that player discovers X, where X is its mana value. (They exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. They cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into their hand. They put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
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Use those options to try to hold back/rein in the more powerful players by donating those threats to the weaker players\n>Where possible, try to ensure that creatures donated by the Bullies are killed (before they are exiled by the ability) so that they can be reused\n>Try to establish a means of using Bullies multiple times per turn cycle (Sting, Quest for Renewal, seeker of skybreak, Marvin)\n>Using the tools above, work to ensure the elimination of the two 'strongest' players\n>Having survived to heads-up play with your weakest opponent, overwhelm them by hard-casting your superior threats and/or surprising them with a finisher such as Sneak Attack, Doctor Doom, Feldon, etc.\n"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"The Long Version:"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"(Overview): This is a highly political ("},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"not"},{"insert":" group-hug or group-slug) brew. A nontrivial part of the game plan is leaning on the reality that your opponents should all be angling to eliminate the other two players first, as you present the smallest threat profile in a head-to-head scenario (you actually "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"are"},{"insert":" the fabled \"smol bean\"). Despite this, you'll want to establish sufficient defense such that opportunistic players don't farm you to death for value because you're exposed when nobody else is. Most importantly, you'll want to demonstrate the significant consequences of aggression leveled against you by supercharging the mutual enemies of whomever has transgressed your designs. \n\nEstablish and enforce your boundaries by shaping incentives, disincentives, and motivations. Openly discuss options and opportunities to control the board with all other players at all times. If someone is getting too far ahead of the pack, work with the other two players to bring them back to earth, because your only hope to win is through a lengthy war of attrition. Accomplish this by milling options into your graveyard, then using the"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":" threat"},{"insert":" of the bullies as much as/more than you actually activate them; remember - tapped down bullies cannot engage in enforcement. Try to sit on them like you'd hold a lone counterspell for the right moment... until you've established a means of utilizing them repeatedly and aggressively.\n\n(Play guide): You are going to need to mill yourself heavily - not least of all because normally, Beamtown Bullies only gets to call in each threat once since they don't return to the graveyard without help. Establishing a meaty graveyard full of potent options is a top priority for this brew; ergo, you want mill and infrastructure in your opening hand. Big beaters in hand are actively bad (you want them in the graveyard), and a grip full of them is an easy mulligan at the outset - unless you're also holding Sneak Attack.\n\nOnce you have some fatties in the bin and Bullies on the field, you have some real leverage. It's not exactly a 'gun' to everyone's head - but nobody wants to be the one getting hit by a donated Balefire Dragon. I, personally, find it is ideal to keep these most decisive threats available while spending 'lesser' behemoths to begin chipping away at the resources and advantage of the player(s) currently at the top of the threat assessment hierarchy - options such as Living Inferno, Bahamut, Treeshaker Chimera, and Meteor Golem are particularly suited to doing this sort of work.\n\nAs you work to level the playing field, you'll want to enhance your efficacy by establishing a means of reusing creatures 'recruited' by the bullies - which Royal Assassin, Tempting Licid, Avatar of Woe, and Staff of Compleation excel at. Furthermore, being able to use BB more than once per turn cycle is also a significant upgrade, and why the deck runs Sting, Seeker of Skybreak, Marvin, and Quest for Renewal.\n\nIf you can restore balance to - and maintain that balance upon - the battlefield, you will find that you can encourage/force your opponents to grind each other's HP away until only one haggard and ruined foe remains.\n\nYour options are much more limited in heads-up play, and you will find that you often need either a surprise finisher such as Sneak Attack, Feldon, Tempting Licid, or Shifting Woodland - or that you actually have to switch gears to hard-casting your monstrosities and overwhelming them the 'old fashioned' way.\n\nWinning with this deck is VERY difficult, but I find that it is a fun brew to play even while losing - and in 10+ years of playing EDH, I have never experienced a higher high than earning the W with this deck.\n\nPS: The deck will keep the game alive and mill itself hard enough to empty its whole library into the graveyard more often than you might guess. This is the only reason for the inclusion of Worldspine Wurm, Shenanigans, and Doctor Doom - which otherwise do very little for the deck. With any means of either discarding Wurm, casting and killing it, or halting your draw by dredging it into the graveyard with Shenanigans, you can use WW to keep one card on top of your library to avoid drawing to death. Doom can simply convert an empty library into a win - but the deck will usually mill him into the graveyard with few options for recovery.\n\nPPS: The commander, The Beamtown Bullies, is rather notorious among players who have squared off against them before. This is because they are normally used to engage in unusually-tedious, player-eliminating degeneracy with cards like Leveler and Eater of Days - which are included in more than 85% of Beamtown lists, per EDHRec. You may experience serious, undeserved aggression from these players as they try to kill you before you deploy nuclear plays that this version of Bullies doesn't actually include - unless you can impress upon them that this is "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"genuinely"},{"insert":" not "},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"that"},{"insert":" kind of Beamtown Bullies deck. (I like to explain that, with the possible exception of Enslaved Horror, this Bullies list - unlike those ones - includes only creatures I would prefer to cast and resolve on my own battlefield, had I but the resources to do so.)\n"}]}