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Chris Martin's Velomachus Approach
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $646.98
Salt Sum: 42.47
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Commander

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Velomachus Lorehold

Flying, vigilance, haste Whenever Velomachus Lorehold attacks, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to Velomachus Lorehold's power from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Velomachus Lorehold (stx) 245
1

Artifact

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (c21) 234
1
Boros Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{W}.

Artifact
Boros Signet (cmr) 459
1
Dragon's Hoard

Whenever a Dragon enters the battlefield under your control, put a gold counter on Dragon's Hoard. {T}, Remove a gold counter from Dragon's Hoard: Draw a card. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Dragon's Hoard (afc) 204
1
Glittering Stockpile

{T}: Add {R}. Put a stash counter on Glittering Stockpile. {T}, Sacrifice Glittering Stockpile: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of stash counters on Glittering Stockpile.

Artifact
Glittering Stockpile (snc) 107
1
Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice Jeweled Lotus: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Artifact
Jeweled Lotus (cmr) 319
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (c21) 263
1
Talisman of Conviction

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. Talisman of Conviction deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Conviction (mh1) 230
1
Thrumming Stone

Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Artifact
Thrumming Stone (csp) 142
1
Vessel of Endless Rest

When Vessel of Endless Rest enters the battlefield, put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Vessel of Endless Rest (uma) 235
1

Creature

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Birgi, God of Storytelling

Creature
Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty (khm) 311Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty (khm) 311
1
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is Esper Sentinel's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
1
Hellkite Courser

Flying When Hellkite Courser enters the battlefield, you may put a commander you own from the command zone onto the battlefield. It gains haste. Return it to the command zone at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Hellkite Courser (cmr) 666
1
Knollspine Dragon

Flying When Knollspine Dragon enters the battlefield, you may discard your hand and draw cards equal to the damage dealt to target opponent this turn.

Creature
Knollspine Dragon (plst) SHM-98
1
Manaform Hellkite

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X red Dragon Illusion creature token with flying and haste, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast that spell. Exile that token at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Manaform Hellkite (dbl) 437
1
Monastery Mentor

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess.

Creature
Monastery Mentor (frf) 20
1
Scourge of the Throne

Flying Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Whenever Scourge of the Throne attacks for the first time each turn, if it's attacking the player with the most life or tied for most life, untap all attacking creatures. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Creature
Scourge of the Throne (plst) CNS-35
1
Storm-Kiln Artist

Storm-Kiln Artist gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Storm-Kiln Artist (stx) 115
1

Enchantment

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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 Underworld Breach.

Enchantment
Underworld Breach (thb) 161
1
Valakut Exploration

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, 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 Valakut Exploration, put them into their owner's graveyard, then Valakut Exploration deals that much damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Valakut Exploration (znr) 175
1

Instant

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Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from all colors until end of turn.

Instant
Akroma's Will (cmr) 3
1
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 "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Big Score (snc) 102
1
Bolt Bend

This spell costs {3} less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant
Bolt Bend (war) 115
1
Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (plst) MIR-14
1
Ephemerate

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. 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.)

Instant
Ephemerate (plst) MH1-7
1
Psychotic Fury

Target multicolored creature gains double strike until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Psychotic Fury (dis) 68
1
Savage Beating

Cast this spell only during your turn and only during combat. Choose one — • Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. • Untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Entwine {1}{R} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Savage Beating (dst) 67
1
Seething Song

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

Instant
Seething Song (plst) DDG-70
1
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (plst) ELD-146
1
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 "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Unexpected Windfall (afr) 164
1
Valakut Awakening

Instant
Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (znr) 174Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (znr) 174
1

Land

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Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (tmp) 315
1
Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Battlefield Forge (c21) 278
1
Clifftop Retreat

Clifftop Retreat enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Clifftop Retreat (dom) 239
1
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (afc) 230
1
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land
Field of Ruin (tsr) 407
1
Furycalm Snarl

As Furycalm Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Mountain or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, Furycalm Snarl enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Furycalm Snarl (stx) 361
1
Mistveil Plains

({T}: Add {W}.) Mistveil Plains enters the battlefield tapped. {W}, {T}: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.

Land
Mistveil Plains (uma) 247
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (stx) 373
17
Needleverge Pathway

Land
Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway (znr) 263Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway (znr) 263
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (stx) 367
4
Rugged Prairie

{T}: Add {C}. {R/W}, {T}: Add {R}{R}, {R}{W}, or {W}{W}.

Land
Rugged Prairie (2xm) 325
1
Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

{T}: Add {R}. Channel — {3}{R}, Discard Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance: Create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance (neo) 276
1
Spectator Seating

Spectator Seating enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Spectator Seating (cmr) 356
1
Spinerock Knoll

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) Spinerock Knoll enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Land
Spinerock Knoll (afc) 263
1
Sundown Pass

Sundown Pass enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Sundown Pass (vow) 266
1
Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{R}{W}, {T}: Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Land
Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion (c21) 319
1

Planeswalker

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Jaya Ballard

+1: Add {R}{R}{R}. Spend this mana only to cast instant or sorcery spells. +1: Discard up to three cards, then draw that many cards. −8: You get an emblem with "You may cast instant and sorcery spells from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead."

Planeswalker
Jaya Ballard (c21) 175
1

Sorcery

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Cathartic Reunion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards. Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Cathartic Reunion (2xm) 121
1
Dragon's Approach

Dragon's Approach deals 3 damage to each opponent. You may exile Dragon's Approach and four cards named Dragon's Approach from your graveyard. If you do, search your library for a Dragon creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. A deck can have any number of cards named Dragon's Approach.

Sorcery
Dragon's Approach (stx) 97
20
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (c21) 168
1
Imposing Grandeur

Each player may discard their hand and draw cards equal to the greatest mana value of a commander they own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Sorcery
Imposing Grandeur (voc) 24
1
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (cmr) 187
1
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (c21) 176
1
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 {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mizzix's Mastery (sta) 43
1
Pirate's Pillage

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Pirate's Pillage (rix) 109
1
Reforge the Soul

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards. Miracle {1}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Reforge the Soul (avr) 151
1
Seize the Day

Untap target creature. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Seize the Day (uma) 147
1
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 "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Seize the Spoils (khm) 149
1
Thrilling Discovery

You gain 2 life. Then you may discard two cards. If you do, draw three cards.

Sorcery
Thrilling Discovery (stx) 243
1
Tormenting Voice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Tormenting Voice (znr) 172
1
World at War

After the first postcombat main phase this turn, there's an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all creatures that attacked this turn. 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
World at War (roe) 172
1

Maybeboard

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Anger

Haste As long as Anger is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Anger (plst) UMA-122
1
Backdraft Hellkite

Flying Whenever Backdraft Hellkite attacks, each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.

Creature
Backdraft Hellkite (c19) 23
1
Boros Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{W}.

Artifact
Boros Signet (cmr) 459
1
Burst of Speed

Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn. (They can attack and {T} even if they just came under your control.)

Sorcery
Burst of Speed (m10) 129
1
Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters the battlefield, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (plst) CM2-178
1
Combat Celebrant

If Combat Celebrant hasn't been exerted this turn, you may exert it as it attacks. When you do, untap all other creatures you control and after this phase, there is an additional combat phase. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)

Creature
Combat Celebrant (akh) 125
1
Cosmic Intervention

If a permanent you control would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn, exile it instead. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Foretell {1}{W} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Cosmic Intervention (khc) 3
1
Cursed Mirror

{T}: Add {R}. As Cursed Mirror enters the battlefield, you may have it become a copy of any creature on the battlefield until end of turn, except it has haste.

Artifact
Cursed Mirror (c21) 377
1
Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant
Deflecting Swat (c20) 50
1
Desperate Ritual

Add {R}{R}{R}. Splice onto Arcane {1}{R} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Instant
Desperate Ritual (chk) 163
1
Divine Reckoning

Each player chooses a creature they control. Destroy the rest. Flashback {5}{W}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Divine Reckoning (c19) 62
1
Electrostatic Field

Defender Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Electrostatic Field deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Electrostatic Field (grn) 97
1
Expedite

Target creature gains haste until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Expedite (cmr) 413
1
Faithless Salvaging

Discard a card, then draw a card. 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.)

Instant
Faithless Salvaging (mh2) 122
1
Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Guttersnipe deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Guttersnipe (plst) E01-51
1
Harness the Storm

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast target card with the same name as that spell from your graveyard. (You still pay its costs.)

Enchantment
Harness the Storm (soi) 163
1
Irencrag Feat

Add seven {R}. You can cast only one more spell this turn.

Sorcery
Irencrag Feat (eld) 127
1
Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar

Whenever a commander you control deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other opponent. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar (cmr) 188
1
Leyline Tyrant

Flying You don't lose unspent red mana as steps and phases end. When Leyline Tyrant dies, you may pay any amount of {R}. When you do, it deals that much damage to any target.

Creature
Leyline Tyrant (znr) 348
1
Mana Flare

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Enchantment
Mana Flare (5ed) 249
1
Onward

Instant
Onward // Victory (akh) 218
1
Primal Amulet

Artifact
Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243
1
Pyretic Ritual

Add {R}{R}{R}.

Instant
Pyretic Ritual (m11) 153
1
Pyromancer's Goggles

{T}: Add {R}. When that mana is spent to cast a red instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.

Artifact
Pyromancer's Goggles (ori) 236
1
Single Combat

Each player chooses a creature or planeswalker they control, then sacrifices the rest. Players can't cast creature or planeswalker spells until the end of your next turn.

Sorcery
Single Combat (war) 30
1
Terror of Mount Velus

Flying, double strike When Terror of Mount Velus enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn.

Creature
Terror of Mount Velus (thb) 295
1
Thermo-Alchemist

Defender {T}: Thermo-Alchemist deals 1 damage to each opponent. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap Thermo-Alchemist.

Creature
Thermo-Alchemist (jmp) 365
1
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
Tibalt's Trickery (khm) 153
1
Tragic Arrogance

For each player, you choose from among the permanents that player controls an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker. Then each player sacrifices all other nonland permanents they control.

Sorcery
Tragic Arrogance (c21) 109
1
Twinning Glass

{1}, {T}: You may cast a spell from your hand without paying its mana cost if it has the same name as a spell that was cast this turn.

Artifact
Twinning Glass (lrw) 264
1
Waves of Aggression

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Sorcery
Waves of Aggression (eve) 148
1
Wild Guess

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Wild Guess (m14) 161
1
Young Pyromancer

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

Creature
Young Pyromancer (tsr) 353
1

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