Kess • (Grixis Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

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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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Commander

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Blink

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Deadeye Navigator

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 Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "

: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

Creature - Spirit

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Displacer Kitten

Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature - Beast Cat

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$42.99 $27.22

Blink

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Burn

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Aria of Flame

When this enchantment enters, each opponent gains 10 life.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a verse counter on this enchantment, then it deals damage equal to the number of verse counters on it to target player or planeswalker.

Enchantment

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Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment

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Burn

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Copy

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Thousand-Year Storm

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Enchantment

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$1.79 $1.20

Copy

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Counters

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Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Instant

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$74.99 $70.13

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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$23.99 $16.12

Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays

Instant

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$0.35 $0.31

Counters

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Discard

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Breathstealer's Crypt

If a player would draw a card, instead they draw a card and reveal it. If it's a creature card, that player discards it unless they pay 3 life.

Enchantment

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$8.49 $11.45

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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Drain

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Wound Reflection

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Enchantment

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Drain

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Draw

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Archon of Cruelty

Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature - Archon

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$7.49 $10.13

Baleful Strix

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

Creature Artifact - Bird

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Brainstorm

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

Instant

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$2.79 $1.45

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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$0.39 $0.30

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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$0.79 $0.32

Ledger Shredder

Flying
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature - Bird Advisor

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$10.99 $7.47

Mind's Desire

Shuffle your library. Then exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Sorcery

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$1.79 $1.00

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

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$5.49 $3.99

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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$4.49 $1.74

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

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$57.99 $37.09

Wheel of Fortune

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery

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$549.99 $366.07

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery

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$6.99 $4.76

Draw

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Finisher

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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

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Finisher

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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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$8.99 $5.60

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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$13.99 $13.17

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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$23.99 $18.56

Clearwater Pathway

: Add

Land

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

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$5.99 $5.46

Command Tower

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

Land

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$0.59 $0.29

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

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$0.59 $0.32

Haunted Ridge

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

: Add

Land

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$12.99 $7.78

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

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$0.49 $0.13

Luxury Suite

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

: Add

Land

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$37.99 $28.65

Morphic Pool

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

: Add

Land

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$39.99 $31.20

Mountain

(

: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

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$0.49 $0.21

Otawara, Soaring City

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

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$42.99 $32.53

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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$27.99 $19.71

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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$49.99 $37.86

Reflecting Pool

: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land

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Riverglide Pathway

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Land

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

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$7.49 $5.59

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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$47.99 $37.34

Shipwreck Marsh

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

: Add

Land

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$11.99 $7.67

Shivan Reef

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

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$0.79 $0.30

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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$17.99 $13.38

Stormcarved Coast

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

: Add

Land

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$3.99 $4.20

Sulfurous Springs

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

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$2.79 $1.57

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

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$0.49 $0.20

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

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$16.99 $10.90

Training Center

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

: Add

Land

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$23.99 $16.37

Undercity Sewers

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.)
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

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$22.99 $17.84

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

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$3.49 $1.45

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $120.68

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

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$119.99 $95.03

Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery

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$0.69 $0.31

Lifegain

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Protection

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Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

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$4.99 $3.39

Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

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$0.99 $0.39

Protection

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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 $0.43

Cabal Ritual

Add

.
Threshold — Add

instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Instant

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$19.99 $14.60

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

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$10.99 $6.84

Mana Geyser

Add

for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery

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$2.79 $1.76

Relic of Sauron

: Add two mana in any combination of

, and/or

: Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Artifact

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$9.99 $7.58

Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

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$39.99 $34.10

Talisman of Creativity

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

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$4.49 $3.01

Talisman of Dominance

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

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$3.49 $1.59

Talisman of Indulgence

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

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$4.99 $2.98

Ramp

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Recursion

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment - Aura

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$8.49 $9.33

Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Human Wizard

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$1.49 $0.43

Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery.
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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$7.49 $7.62

Past in Flames

Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

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$4.49 $2.29

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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$11.99 $8.55

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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$23.99 $17.47

Underworld Breach

Each nonland card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.)
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment

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$11.99 $9.28

Yawgmoth's Will

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard.
If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Sorcery

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$279.99 $239.53

Recursion

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Removal

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

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

Instant

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$3.99 $2.10

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant

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$0.79 $0.41

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

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$3.49 $3.23

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

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$23.99 $20.36

Drown in the Loch

Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
• Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant

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$1.99 $1.37

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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$0.59 $0.31

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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$8.49 $6.01

Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "

: Add

" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment - Aura

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$0.69 $0.28

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of

equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

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$69.99 $55.51

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays

.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Instant

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$0.99 $0.89

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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$5.49 $2.57

Pyroclasm

Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.

Sorcery

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$0.35 $0.34

Rakdos Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant

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$1.49 $0.60

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 $9.82

Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+

— Counter target spell.
+

— Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control.
+

— Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant

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$12.99 $7.49

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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$8.99 $5.76

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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$3.99 $2.37

Removal

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Stax

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Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.

, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature - Rogue Dauthi

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$8.99 $5.41

Tainted Aether

Whenever a creature enters, its controller sacrifices a creature or land of their choice.

Enchantment

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$6.49 $7.87

Vile Consumption

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay 1 life."

Enchantment

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$7.49 $9.59

Stax

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Theft

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Insurrection

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery

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$15.99 $11.49

Theft

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Tokens

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Shark Typhoon

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

Enchantment

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$2.79 $1.15

Tokens

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Tutor

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Dark Petition

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, add

Sorcery

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$7.99 $4.25

Entomb

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

Instant

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$20.99 $17.79

Intuition

Search your library for three cards and reveal them. Target opponent chooses one. Put that card into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Instant

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$449.99 $327.91

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 $3.85

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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$21.99 $17.26

Tutor

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Maybeboard

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Overburden

Whenever a player puts a nontoken creature onto the battlefield, that player returns a land they control to its owner's hand.

Enchantment

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$12.99 $13.06

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 106Est cost: $2596.57

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.08Total Mana Value: 225.00

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Commander

Copy

Counters

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Draw

Finisher

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Protection

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Stax

Theft

Tokens

Tutor

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Avg Mana Value: 3.08Total Mana Value: 225.00

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