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{"ops":[{"insert":"I play at a pod sometimes that has a hazy line between brackets 3 & 4, so this deck ends up breaking some bracket 3 rules, making it something in between. It's still a work in progress but having fun tinkering with it. Because of the theft aspect the deck can hang out with some slightly stronger decks than the average, as long as there are some strong creatures or artifacts in a library at the table. Kill that player last otherwise the \"borrowed\" cards disappear when they do.\n\nMany Captain N'ghathrod decks win with combat damage and the theft/mill is gravy. This deck intentionally tries to win by milling opponents out, even though that's tricky. I haven't gone hunting for infinite combos however simply having "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bruvac the Grandiloquent"}},{"insert":" in the deck means that various \"mill half\" cards result in an instant kill such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Singularity Rupture"}},{"insert":". I specifically warn a table in advance in rule 0 conversation that Bruvac can do that and strong bracket 3/low 4 tables seem fine with that. You could remove those effects to take it down to a 3.\n\nPiloting:\nAn ideal first few turns is to ramp out. Then get an unblockable horror out or a mill engine, before playing the good Captain to get a card from a graveyard on the end step that he comes down. Then as the game progresses collect more cards from opponents while using what creates he gets as blockers to stay alive. If he's not removed then use non-legendary copy effects to duplicate him and extract progressively more value from opponent's libraries. Alternatively if someone mills something crazy like an Etali, copy that and watch the table utterly freak out.\n\nNotable synergies/combos\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Water Crystal"}},{"insert":" & "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sphinx's Tutelage"}},{"insert":" mean an opponent mills 6 and repeats if they share a type, often milling almost all if not all a deck.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Water Crystal"}},{"insert":" & "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mesmeric Orb"}},{"insert":" mean milling 5 for each untap of a permanent. Remember you still mill 1 per untap for the orb but are unaffected by the crystal.\n"}]}
Captain N'ghathrod
Horrors you control have menace.
Whenever a Horror you control deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target artifact or creature card in an opponent's graveyard that was put there from their library this turn. Put it onto the battlefield under your control.
Whenever a Horror you control deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target artifact or creature card in an opponent's graveyard that was put there from their library this turn. Put it onto the battlefield under your control.
Legendary Creature - Horror Pirate
Commander
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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.)
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 - Cat Glimmer
Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
When one or more of your opponents are dealt combat damage during your turn, draw two cards. If your library has no cards in it, you win the game. Fblthp's owner shuffles him into their library. (If you draw from an empty library this way, you still win the game.)
Legendary Creature - Homunculus
Mystic Remora
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.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays .
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays .
Enchantment
Silent Hallcreeper
This creature can't be blocked.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
• Draw a card.
• This creature becomes a copy of another target creature you control.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
• Draw a card.
• This creature becomes a copy of another target creature you control.
Creature Enchantment - Horror
Struggle for Project Purity
As this enchantment enters, choose Brotherhood or Enclave.
• Brotherhood — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card. You draw a card for each card drawn this way.
• Enclave — Whenever a player attacks you with one or more creatures, that player gets twice that many rad counters.
• Brotherhood — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card. You draw a card for each card drawn this way.
• Enclave — Whenever a player attacks you with one or more creatures, that player gets twice that many rad counters.
Enchantment
The Theorist, Jace Beleren
At the beginning of each opponent's draw step, you draw a card.
+1: Create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token.
−2: For each opponent, return up to one target artifact or creature that player controls to its owner's hand.
−6: Draw three cards. Then put X +1/+1 counters on each creature you control, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
+1: Create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token.
−2: For each opponent, return up to one target artifact or creature that player controls to its owner's hand.
−6: Draw three cards. Then put X +1/+1 counters on each creature you control, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Legendary Planeswalker - Jace
Card Advantage
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Card Selection
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Auton Soldier
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it isn't legendary, is an artifact in addition to its other types, and has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Creature Artifact - Soldier Alien
Quantum Misalignment
Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it isn't legendary.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Spark Double
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.
Creature - Illusion
Clone
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Consuming Aberration
Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.
Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.
Creature - Horror
Nighthowler
Bestow (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
Creature Enchantment - Horror
Creature
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Grant or have evasion
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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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Leyline of Transformation
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Make Everything Horrors
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Mass Disruption
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Riverchurn Monument
, : Any number of target players each mill two cards. (Each of them puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Exhaust — , : Any number of target players each mill cards equal to the number of cards in their graveyard. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Exhaust — , : Any number of target players each mill cards equal to the number of cards in their graveyard. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Artifact
Mill
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Ramp
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Targeted Disruption
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Court of Cunning
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, any number of target players each mill two cards. If you're the monarch, each of those players mills ten cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, any number of target players each mill two cards. If you're the monarch, each of those players mills ten cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Enchantment
The Weaver King
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever The Weaver King deals combat damage to a player, they mill that many cards. Then for each opponent, put a creature card from that player's graveyard that was put there from their library this turn onto the battlefield under your control.
Whenever The Weaver King deals combat damage to a player, they mill that many cards. Then for each opponent, put a creature card from that player's graveyard that was put there from their library this turn onto the battlefield under your control.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Horror
Sideboard
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Call of the Nightwing
Create a 1/1 blue and black Horror creature token with flying.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Clutch of the Undercity
Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 3 life.
Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Transmute (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Instant
Forger's Foundry
: Add . When you spend this mana to cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 3 or less, you may exile that spell instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard as it resolves.
, : You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled with this artifact without paying their mana costs. Activate only as a sorcery.
, : You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled with this artifact without paying their mana costs. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Imperious Mindbreaker
Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.)
As long as Imperious Mindbreaker is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent mills cards equal to its toughness."
As long as Imperious Mindbreaker is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent mills cards equal to its toughness."
Creature - Human Wizard
Night Dealings
Whenever a source you control deals damage to another player, put that many theft counters on this enchantment.
, Remove X theft counters from this enchantment: Search your library for a nonland card with mana value X, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
, Remove X theft counters from this enchantment: Search your library for a nonland card with mana value X, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Enchantment
One Ring to Rule Them All
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — The Ring tempts you, then each player mills cards equal to your Ring-bearer's power.
II — Destroy all nonlegendary creatures.
III — Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature card in that player's graveyard.
I — The Ring tempts you, then each player mills cards equal to your Ring-bearer's power.
II — Destroy all nonlegendary creatures.
III — Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature card in that player's graveyard.
Enchantment - Saga
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities.
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Sakashima the Impostor
You may have Sakashima the Impostor enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except its name is Sakashima the Impostor, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has ": Return Sakashima the Impostor to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step."
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Sakashima's Will
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Target opponent chooses a creature they control. You gain control of it.
• Choose a creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn.
• Target opponent chooses a creature they control. You gain control of it.
• Choose a creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn.
Sorcery
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
Thada Adel, Acquisitor
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Thada Adel deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.
Whenever Thada Adel deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.
Legendary Creature - Merfolk Rogue
The Key to the Vault
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that many cards from the top of your library. You may exile a nonland card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Equip
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Vision Charm
Choose one —
• Target player mills four cards.
• Choose a land type and a basic land type. Each land of the first chosen type becomes the second chosen type until end of turn.
• Target artifact phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
• Target player mills four cards.
• Choose a land type and a basic land type. Each land of the first chosen type becomes the second chosen type until end of turn.
• Target artifact phases out. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)
Instant
Maybeboard
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Black Market Connections
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Not enough money. Buy later
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Zak recommendations
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{"ops":[{"insert":"I play at a pod sometimes that has a hazy line between brackets 3 & 4, so this deck ends up breaking some bracket 3 rules, making it something in between. It's still a work in progress but having fun tinkering with it. Because of the theft aspect the deck can hang out with some slightly stronger decks than the average, as long as there are some strong creatures or artifacts in a library at the table. Kill that player last otherwise the \"borrowed\" cards disappear when they do.\n\nMany Captain N'ghathrod decks win with combat damage and the theft/mill is gravy. This deck intentionally tries to win by milling opponents out, even though that's tricky. I haven't gone hunting for infinite combos however simply having "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bruvac the Grandiloquent"}},{"insert":" in the deck means that various \"mill half\" cards result in an instant kill such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Singularity Rupture"}},{"insert":". I specifically warn a table in advance in rule 0 conversation that Bruvac can do that and strong bracket 3/low 4 tables seem fine with that. You could remove those effects to take it down to a 3.\n\nPiloting:\nAn ideal first few turns is to ramp out. Then get an unblockable horror out or a mill engine, before playing the good Captain to get a card from a graveyard on the end step that he comes down. Then as the game progresses collect more cards from opponents while using what creates he gets as blockers to stay alive. If he's not removed then use non-legendary copy effects to duplicate him and extract progressively more value from opponent's libraries. Alternatively if someone mills something crazy like an Etali, copy that and watch the table utterly freak out.\n\nNotable synergies/combos\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Water Crystal"}},{"insert":" & "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sphinx's Tutelage"}},{"insert":" mean an opponent mills 6 and repeats if they share a type, often milling almost all if not all a deck.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Water Crystal"}},{"insert":" & "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mesmeric Orb"}},{"insert":" mean milling 5 for each untap of a permanent. Remember you still mill 1 per untap for the orb but are unaffected by the crystal.\n"}]}