Kess • (Grixis Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Kess, Dissident Mage

Flying
Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

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Counters

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Mystical Dispute

This spell costs

less to cast if it targets a blue spell.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Instant

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$1.49 $0.39

Pact of Negation

Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay

. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant

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Discard

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Inquisition of Kozilek

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

Sorcery

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Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery

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Discard

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Draw

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Baleful Strix

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

Creature Artifact - Bird

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Big Score

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

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

Instant

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$1.99 $0.94

Brainstorm

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

Instant

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$2.49 $1.40

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for

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

Instant

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Expressive Iteration

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Sorcery

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Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

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$0.69 $0.35

Frantic Search

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

Instant

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$1.79 $0.54

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
+1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.
−8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Legendary Planeswalker - Jace

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (plst) WAR-54

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Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

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Niv-Mizzet, Parun

This spell can't be countered.
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Dragon

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Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment

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Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

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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

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Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (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

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Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Legendary Enchantment

Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (plst) XLN-74

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Seize the Spoils

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Sorcery

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Think Twice

Draw a card.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

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$0.35 $0.26

Unexpected Windfall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

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

Instant

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Draw

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Land

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Blightstep Pathway

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Land

Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252

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Blood Crypt

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Swamp Mountain

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Bloodstained Mire

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

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Clearwater Pathway

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Land

Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260

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Command Tower

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

Land

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Creeping Tar Pit

This land enters tapped.

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: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature. It's still a land. It can't be blocked this turn.

Land

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Den of the Bugbear

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped.

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: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/2 red Goblin creature with "Whenever this creature attacks, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token that's tapped and attacking." It's still a land.

Land

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Evolving Wilds

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

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$0.35 $0.28

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

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$0.49 $0.33

Fabled Passage

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land

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$2.99 $2.35

Fiery Islet

, Pay 1 life: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land

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$5.99 $4.04

Island

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Basic Land - Island

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$0.49 $0.17

Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

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Land

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$37.99 $27.28

Mountain

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Basic Land - Mountain

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$0.49 $0.19

Mystic Sanctuary

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This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Island

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$2.99 $3.17

Polluted Delta

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

Land

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$24.99 $19.17

Prismatic Vista

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

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$54.99 $38.52

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

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Land

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$4.99 $4.15

Riverglide Pathway

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Land

Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (plst) ZNR-264

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$6.99 $5.35

Scalding Tarn

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

Land

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Shivan Reef

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

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Smoldering Marsh

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This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Swamp Mountain

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$0.49 $0.31

Steam Vents

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Mountain

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$16.99 $13.44

Sulfurous Springs

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. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

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$2.99 $1.55

Sunken Hollow

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This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Island Swamp

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Swamp

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Basic Land - Swamp

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Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

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$0.59 $0.34

Temple of Epiphany

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

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$0.49 $0.26

Temple of Malice

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

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Training Center

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

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$24.99 $15.70

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

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$3.49 $1.71

Watery Grave

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Swamp

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$16.99 $13.03

Land

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

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$0.99 $0.51

Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

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Dimir Signet

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Artifact

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$1.99 $2.07

Izzet Signet

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Artifact

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$1.29 $0.41

Rakdos Signet

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Artifact

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$2.49 $2.15

Storm-Kiln Artist

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Creature - Shaman Dwarf

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$3.49 $2.83

Talisman of Dominance

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. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

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$2.99 $1.67

Talisman of Indulgence

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. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

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$4.49 $2.87

Ramp

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Recursion

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Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Spells can't be countered.
Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

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$2.29 $1.01

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Sorcery

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$12.99 $8.67

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.

Creature - Avatar

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Snapcaster Mage

Flash
When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature - Human Wizard

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The Scarab God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Legendary Creature - God

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$5.49 $4.71

Torrential Gearhulk

Flash
When this creature enters, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature Artifact - Construct

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$1.29 $0.85

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery

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$1.29 $0.49

Recursion

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Removal

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Abrade

Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.

Instant

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$0.35 $0.37

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

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$3.49 $1.96

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

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$2.99 $3.41

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

Instant

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$6.49 $2.96

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

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$22.99 $21.15

Fatal Push

Destroy target creature if it has mana value 2 or less.
Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has mana value 4 or less instead if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn.

Instant

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$0.69 $0.40

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery

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$0.69 $0.33

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature - Horror Kraken

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$7.99 $6.16

Kolaghan's Command

Choose two —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Target player discards a card.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to any target.

Instant

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$0.79 $0.42

Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant

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$4.99 $2.60

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

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$0.35 $0.37

Pyroblast

Choose one —
• Counter target spell if it's blue.
• Destroy target permanent if it's blue.

Instant

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$13.99 $7.52

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

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Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Instant

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Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

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$12.99 $8.77

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

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Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery

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$9.49 $5.71

Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery

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$3.49 $2.21

Removal

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Tokens

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Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Enchantment Kindred - Faerie

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$34.99 $35.06

Sedgemoor Witch

Menace
Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Creature - Human Warlock

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$12.99 $12.27

Tokens

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Tutor

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Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery

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$1.99 $0.78

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

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$84.99 $70.08

Gamble

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

Sorcery

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$19.99 $16.68

Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

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$6.49 $3.94

Spellseeker

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Human Wizard

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$20.99 $17.30

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $757.55

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.63Total Mana Value: 166.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.63Total Mana Value: 166.00

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