Turtle Gates • (Sultai Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Gates Landfall Sea Creatures Turtles Combo Lands Matter Control Alternate Wincon

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Gates Landfall Sea Creatures Turtles Combo Lands Matter Control Alternate Wincon

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Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

As long as Archelos is tapped, other permanents enter tapped.
As long as Archelos is untapped, other permanents enter untapped.

Legendary Creature - Shaman Turtle

$0.79 $0.72 $0.64

Commander

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Ancient Adamantoise

Vigilance, ward

Damage isn't removed from this creature during cleanup steps.
All damage that would be dealt to you and other permanents you control is dealt to this creature instead.
When this creature dies, exile it and create ten tapped Treasure tokens.

Creature - Turtle

$5.99 $3.88 $2.50

Daring Thunder-Thief

Flash
This creature enters tapped.

Creature - Rogue Turtle

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Definitely Not a Turtle

When this creature dies, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a land or legendary Turtle card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature - Mutant Ninja Turtle

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Mothdust Changeling

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Tap an untapped creature you control: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature - Shapeshifter

$0.59 $0.37 $0.26

Witherbloom, the Balancer

Affinity for creatures (This spell costs

less to cast for each creature you control.)
Flying, deathtouch
Instant and sorcery spells you cast have affinity for creatures.

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

$8.49 $8.90 $7.80

Creature

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Ambling Stormshell

Ward

Whenever this creature attacks, put three stun counters on it and draw three cards. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Whenever you cast a Turtle spell, untap this creature.

Creature - Turtle

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant

$2.49 $1.63 $1.43

Case the Joint

Draw two cards, then look at the top card of each player's library.

Instant

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Fecund Greenshell

Reach
As long as you control ten or more lands, creatures you control get +2/+2.
Whenever this creature or another creature you control with toughness greater than its power enters, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Creature - Elemental Turtle

$1.49 $0.81 $0.20

Finale of Revelation

Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Exile Finale of Revelation.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.50 $0.26

Genesis Wave

Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.

Sorcery

$44.99 $42.24 $38.55

Glarb, Calamity's Augur

Deathtouch
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells with mana value 4 or greater from the top of your library.

: Surveil 2.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Frog Noble

$8.49 $7.05 $5.43

Guild Summit

When this enchantment enters, you may tap any number of untapped Gates you control. Draw a card for each Gate tapped this way.
Whenever a Gate you control enters, draw a card.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Mind into Matter

Draw X cards. Then you may put a permanent card with mana value X or less from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Phantasmal Shieldback

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

Creature - Illusion Turtle

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Pillage the Bog

Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is twice the number of lands you control. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Plot

(You may pay

and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Sorcery

$1.49 $1.00 $0.72

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

$1.79 $0.88 $0.75

Sea Gate Restoration

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand plus one. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Sorcery

Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76

$49.99 $36.00 $35.42

Stargaze

Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Stock Up

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Sorcery

$2.29 $1.23 $0.36

The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs

less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.
Defender

: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Legendary Creature - Turtle Crocodile Elk

$4.99 $5.47 $5.69

Thunderous Snapper

Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.

Creature - Hydra Turtle

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Uncover the Moon-Letters

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may draw X cards, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast that spell. If you do, discard two cards.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Verity Circle

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, if it isn't being declared as an attacker, you may draw a card.

: Tap target creature without flying.

Enchantment

$1.79 $1.21 $0.78

Villainous Wealth

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. You may cast any number of spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Draw

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Aeon Engine

This artifact enters tapped.

, Exile this artifact: Reverse the game's turn order. (For example, if play had proceeded clockwise around the table, it now goes counterclockwise.)

Artifact

$0.49 $0.70 $0.15

Kappa Cannoneer

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for

.)
Ward

Whenever this creature or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact - Warrior Turtle

$0.99 $0.67 $0.23

Temporal Mastery

Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Mastery.
Miracle

(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery

$10.99 $8.04 $5.67

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery

$37.99 $32.53 $28.13

Finisher

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Baldur's Gate

: Add

: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Legendary Land - Gate

$4.49 $3.86 $2.14

Basilisk Gate

: Add

: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land - Gate

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Black Dragon Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than black.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land - Gate

$0.99 $0.51 $0.38

Coral Atoll

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.58 $0.54

Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.36 $0.26

Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Everglades

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Swamp you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$1.79 $1.24 $0.85

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Gateway Plaza

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay

: Add one mana of any color.

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Golgari Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.38 $0.20

Gond Gate

Gates you control enter untapped.

: Add

: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.

Land - Gate

$2.49 $1.66 $1.43

Heap Gate

: Add

: Add one mana of any color.

, Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Land - Gate

$0.79 $0.53 $0.31

Hedge Maze

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land - Island Forest

$16.99 $13.23 $11.60

Holdout Settlement

: Add

. (

represents colorless mana.)

, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Jungle Basin

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Forest you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$1.29 $0.55 $0.15

Kishla Village

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.

: Add

: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Land

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Manor Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than green.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land - Gate

$1.79 $1.04 $0.87

Maze's End

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Land

$1.79 $1.13 $0.60

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.)

Land

$1.99 $0.94 $0.56

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $5.62 $4.34

Sea Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than blue.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land - Gate

$1.79 $0.94 $0.72

Simic Growth Chamber

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.32 $0.23

Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out.

: Add

: Add one mana of any color.

: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Land - Gate

$57.99 $42.64 $41.66

The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

: Add

: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Legendary Land - Gate

$11.99 $9.87 $9.33

Thran Portal

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
As this land enters, choose a basic land type.
This land is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Mana abilities of this land cost an additional 1 life to activate.

Land - Gate

$0.99 $0.74 $0.45

Undercity Sewers

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land - Island Swamp

$21.99 $15.63 $14.17

Underground Mortuary

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land - Swamp Forest

$21.99 $16.50 $14.75

Land

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Grappling Kraken

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, tap target creature an opponent controls and put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Creature - Kraken

$0.59 $0.32 $0.15

Jaddi Offshoot

Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature - Plant

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Retreat to Hagra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
• Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$2.79 $1.94 $0.60

Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Druid Merfolk

$1.99 $1.35 $0.67

Landfall

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Aegis Turtle

Creature - Turtle

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Bedrock Tortoise

During your turn, creatures you control have hexproof.
Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Creature - Turtle

$2.29 $1.23 $0.92

Lost in the Maze

Flash
When this enchantment enters, tap X target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of those creatures you don't control. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Tapped creatures you control have hexproof.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Saryth, the Viper's Fang

Other tapped creatures you control have deathtouch.
Other untapped creatures you control have hexproof.

: Untap another target creature or land you control.

Legendary Creature - Human Warlock

$3.49 $3.53 $2.58

Stormtide Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Creature - Leviathan

$1.49 $1.72 $0.46

Treefolk Umbra

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Protection

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Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$4.49 $3.76 $2.56

Azusa, Lost but Seeking

You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.

Legendary Creature - Human Monk

$19.99 $15.48 $14.31

Blossoming Tortoise

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, mill three cards, then return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Activated abilities of lands you control cost

less to activate.
Land creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature - Turtle

$5.99 $4.12 $3.78

Circuitous Route

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Cultivator Colossus

Trample
Cultivator Colossus's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.
When this creature enters, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, draw a card and repeat this process.

Creature - Beast Plant

$15.99 $8.37 $7.82

Expedition Map

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

Artifact

$3.99 $1.86 $1.40

Open the Gates

Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Open the Way

X can't be greater than the number of players in the game.
Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X land cards. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery

$1.49 $1.74 $0.75

Part in Friendship

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. If its mana value is less than or equal to the number of lands you control, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Reshape the Earth

Search your library for up to ten land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$12.99 $10.85 $9.37

Snapping Voidcraw

Devoid (This card has no color.)

: Add

: Draw a card.

Creature - Turtle Eldrazi

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Through the Forest Gate

Look at the top twenty cards of your library, put any number of land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. You gain 8 life.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.76 $0.19

Ramp

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Colossal Skyturtle

Flying, ward

Channel —

, Discard this card: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature Enchantment - Turtle

$0.99 $0.41 $0.15

Gaea's Blessing

Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.
Draw a card.
When this card is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.42 $0.26

Victimize

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

Sorcery

$1.79 $1.44 $0.66

Recursion

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Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$4.49 $2.09 $1.93

Consign to Memory

Replicate

(When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Counter target triggered ability or colorless spell.

Instant

$6.49 $3.23 $1.61

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $4.10 $2.30

Dragon Turtle

Flash
Drag Below — When this creature enters, tap it and up to one target creature an opponent controls. They don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

Creature - Dragon Turtle

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Flusterstorm

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays

.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Instant

$8.49 $5.07 $5.24

Haywire Mite

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.

, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Creature Artifact - Insect

$1.49 $1.07 $0.51

Karn's Sylex

Karn's Sylex enters tapped.
Players can't pay life to cast spells or to activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.

, Exile Karn's Sylex: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Artifact

$1.79 $0.77 $0.37

Opposition

Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Enchantment

$7.49 $4.88 $1.29

Press the Enemy

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Instant

$0.69 $0.45 $0.15

Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant

$0.99 $0.37 $0.15

Sink into Stupor

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Instant

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241

$14.99 $9.56 $8.59

Removal

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March of Burgeoning Life

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of green cards from your hand. This spell costs

less to cast for each card exiled this way.
Choose target creature with mana value less than X. Search your library for a creature card with the same name as that creature, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $494.42

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.61Total Mana Value: 242.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.61Total Mana Value: 242.00

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