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Allies Defend the Gates
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $362.29
Salt Sum: 27.14
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Commander

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General Tazri

When General Tazri enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Ally creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Ally creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of colors among those creatures.

Creature
General Tazri (ogw) 19
1

Artifact

Quantity: 15Price: $82.33
Amulet of Vigor

Whenever a permanent enters the battlefield tapped and under your control, untap it.

Artifact
Amulet of Vigor (wwk) 121
1
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (plst) GRN-233
1
Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

Artifact
Coat of Arms (dds) 58
1
Cryptolith Fragment

Artifact
Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul (emn) 193Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul (emn) 193
1
Cultivator's Caravan

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact
Cultivator's Caravan (kld) 203
1
Darksteel Ingot

Indestructible {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Darksteel Ingot (cmd) 245
1
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 444
1
Door of Destinies

As Door of Destinies enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, put a charge counter on Door of Destinies. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each charge counter on Door of Destinies.

Artifact
Door of Destinies (mor) 143
1
Door to Nothingness

Door to Nothingness enters the battlefield tapped. {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Door to Nothingness: Target player loses the game.

Artifact
Door to Nothingness (m13) 203
1
Engineered Explosives

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.

Artifact
Engineered Explosives (2xm) 252
1
Glaive of the Guildpact

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each Gate you control and has vigilance and menace. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Glaive of the Guildpact (grn) 236
1
Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if Howling Mine is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Artifact
Howling Mine (brr) 83
1
Naked Singularity

Cumulative upkeep {3} (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.) If tapped for mana, Plains produce {R}, Islands produce {G}, Swamps produce {W}, Mountains produce {U}, and Forests produce {B} instead of any other type.

Artifact
Naked Singularity (ice) 330
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c19) 221
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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Akoum Flameseeker

Cohort — {T}, Tap an untapped Ally you control: Discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Akoum Flameseeker (ogw) 101
1
Ancient Greenwarden

Reach You may play lands from your graveyard. If a land entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Ancient Greenwarden (znr) 178
1
Awakened Amalgam

Awakened Amalgam's power and toughness are each equal to the number of differently named lands you control.

Creature Artifact
Awakened Amalgam (prix) 175s
1
Bala Ged Thief

Whenever Bala Ged Thief or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, target player reveals a number of cards from their hand equal to the number of Allies you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.

Creature
Bala Ged Thief (zen) 79
1
Beastcaller Savant

Haste {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Creature
Beastcaller Savant (bfz) 170
1
Brago, King Eternal

Flying Whenever Brago, King Eternal deals combat damage to a player, exile any number of target nonland permanents you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.

Creature
Brago, King Eternal (cns) 41
1
Chasm Guide

Rally — Whenever Chasm Guide or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature
Chasm Guide (bfz) 143
1
Child of Alara

Trample When Child of Alara dies, destroy all nonland permanents. They can't be regenerated.

Creature
Child of Alara (con) 101
1
Deadeye Navigator

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. 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 "{1}{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

Creature
Deadeye Navigator (avr) 47
1
Firemantle Mage

Rally — Whenever Firemantle Mage or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control gain menace until end of turn. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Firemantle Mage (bfz) 145
1
Hagra Diabolist

Whenever Hagra Diabolist or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may have target player lose life equal to the number of Allies you control.

Creature
Hagra Diabolist (zen) 95
1
Harabaz Druid

{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of Allies you control.

Creature
Harabaz Druid (wwk) 105
1
Hero of Goma Fada

Rally — Whenever Hero of Goma Fada or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Hero of Goma Fada (bfz) 31
1
Jwari Shapeshifter

You may have Jwari Shapeshifter enter the battlefield as a copy of any Ally creature on the battlefield.

Creature
Jwari Shapeshifter (plst) WWK-32
1
Kabira Evangel

Whenever Kabira Evangel or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may choose a color. If you do, Allies you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

Creature
Kabira Evangel (zen) 15
1
Kalastria Healer

Rally — Whenever Kalastria Healer or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kalastria Healer (bfz) 114
1
Kami of the Crescent Moon

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Creature
Kami of the Crescent Moon (cn2) 113
1
Kenrith, the Returned King

{R}: All creatures gain trample and haste until end of turn. {1}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. {2}{W}: Target player gains 5 life. {3}{U}: Target player draws a card. {4}{B}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature
Kenrith, the Returned King (eld) 303
1
Kor Bladewhirl

Rally — Whenever Kor Bladewhirl or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn.

Creature
Kor Bladewhirl (plst) BFZ-34
1
Lantern Scout

Rally — Whenever Lantern Scout or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Lantern Scout (bfz) 37
1
Makindi Patrol

Rally — Whenever Makindi Patrol or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.

Creature
Makindi Patrol (bfz) 39
1
Malakir Soothsayer

Cohort — {T}, Tap an untapped Ally you control: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Malakir Soothsayer (ogw) 87
1
Minthara, Merciless Soul

Ward {X}, where X is the number of experience counters you have. At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn, you get an experience counter. Creatures you control get +1/+0 for each experience counter you have.

Creature
Minthara, Merciless Soul (clb) 432
1
Munda's Vanguard

Cohort — {T}, Tap an untapped Ally you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Munda's Vanguard (ogw) 29
1
Munda, Ambush Leader

Haste Rally — Whenever Munda, Ambush Leader or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may look at the top four cards of your library. If you do, reveal any number of Ally cards from among them, then put those cards on top of your library in any order and the rest on the bottom in any order.

Creature
Munda, Ambush Leader (bfz) 215
1
Murasa Pyromancer

Whenever Murasa Pyromancer or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Murasa Pyromancer deal damage to target creature equal to the number of Allies you control.

Creature
Murasa Pyromancer (zen) 139
1
Nekusar, the Mindrazer

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar, the Mindrazer deals 1 damage to that player.

Creature
Nekusar, the Mindrazer (sld) 1301
1
Progenitor Mimic

You may have Progenitor Mimic enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature isn't a token, create a token that's a copy of this creature."

Creature
Progenitor Mimic (c16) 216
1
Ramos, Dragon Engine

Flying Whenever you cast a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Ramos, Dragon Engine for each of that spell's colors. Remove five +1/+1 counters from Ramos: Add {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}. Activate only once each turn.

Creature Artifact
Ramos, Dragon Engine (brr) 47
1
Resolute Blademaster

Rally — Whenever Resolute Blademaster or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn.

Creature
Resolute Blademaster (bfz) 218
1
Sea Gate Loremaster

{T}: Draw a card for each Ally you control.

Creature
Sea Gate Loremaster (zen) 63
1
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar (clb) 499
1
Spawnbinder Mage

Cohort — {T}, Tap an untapped Ally you control: Tap target creature.

Creature
Spawnbinder Mage (ogw) 35
1
Surrak Dragonclaw

Flash This spell can't be countered. Creature spells you control can't be countered. Other creatures you control have trample.

Creature
Surrak Dragonclaw (ktk) 206
1
Tazri, Beacon of Unity

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature in your party. {2/U}{2/B}{2/R}{2/G}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal up to two Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, Wizard, and/or Ally cards from among them and put them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Tazri, Beacon of Unity (znr) 324
1
Tuktuk Scrapper

Whenever Tuktuk Scrapper or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may destroy target artifact. If that artifact is put into a graveyard this way, Tuktuk Scrapper deals damage to that artifact's controller equal to the number of Allies you control.

Creature
Tuktuk Scrapper (wwk) 94
1
Turntimber Ranger

Whenever Turntimber Ranger or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on Turntimber Ranger.

Creature
Turntimber Ranger (zen) 191
1
Veteran Warleader

Veteran Warleader's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control. Tap another untapped Ally you control: Veteran Warleader gains your choice of first strike, vigilance, or trample until end of turn.

Creature
Veteran Warleader (bfz) 221
1

Enchantment

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Legion Loyalty

Creatures you control have myriad. (Whenever a creature with myriad attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token that's a copy of that creature that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)

Enchantment
Legion Loyalty (clb) 31
1
Lurking Predators

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, you may put that card on the bottom of your library.

Enchantment
Lurking Predators (c16) 156
1
Rites of Flourishing

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns.

Enchantment
Rites of Flourishing (c16) 163
1

Instant

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Benefactor's Draught

Untap all creatures. Until end of turn, whenever a creature an opponent controls blocks, draw a card. Draw a card.

Instant
Benefactor's Draught (c16) 21
1
Once Upon a Time

If this spell is the first spell you've cast this game, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant
Once Upon a Time (eld) 169
1
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (mic) 94
1
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108
1

Land

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Ally Encampment

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast an Ally spell. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Ally Encampment: Return target Ally you control to its owner's hand.

Land
Ally Encampment (bfz) 228
1
Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Azorius Guildgate (mm3) 230
1
Baldur's Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Land
Baldur's Gate (clb) 345
1
Basilisk Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Basilisk Gate (clb) 346
1
Black Dragon Gate

Black Dragon Gate enters the battlefield tapped. As Black Dragon Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Black Dragon Gate (clb) 347
1
Boros Guildgate

Boros Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Boros Guildgate (cmr) 478
1
Citadel Gate

Citadel Gate enters the battlefield tapped. As Citadel Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than white. {T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Citadel Gate (clb) 349
1
City of Brass

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (chr) 112
1
Cliffgate

Cliffgate enters the battlefield tapped. As Cliffgate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than red. {T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Cliffgate (clb) 350
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c19) 237
1
Dimir Guildgate

Dimir Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dimir Guildgate (gtc) 241
1
Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Emergence Zone: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (pc2) 117
1
Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you tap Forbidden Orchard for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Land
Forbidden Orchard (c16) 296
1
Gateway Plaza

Gateway Plaza enters the battlefield tapped. When Gateway Plaza enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Gateway Plaza (grn) 247
1
Golgari Guildgate

Golgari Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Golgari Guildgate (c13) 290
1
Gond Gate

Gates you control enter the battlefield untapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Gond Gate (clb) 353
1
Gruul Guildgate

Gruul Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Gruul Guildgate (znc) 130
1
Heap Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}, Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Land
Heap Gate (clb) 354
1
Holdout Settlement

{T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.) {T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Holdout Settlement (ogw) 172
1
Izzet Guildgate

Izzet Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Izzet Guildgate (grn) 251
1
Manor Gate

Manor Gate enters the battlefield tapped. As Manor Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than green. {T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Manor Gate (clb) 356
1
Maze's End

Maze's End enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Return Maze's End 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
Maze's End (pdgm) 152★
1
Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters the battlefield with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Land
Opal Palace (khc) 116
1
Orzhov Guildgate

Orzhov Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Orzhov Guildgate (c15) 299
1
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: 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
Path of Ancestry (cmr) 353
1
Plaza of Harmony

When Plaza of Harmony enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 3 life. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any type that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Plaza of Harmony (prna) 254p
1
Rakdos Guildgate

Rakdos Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Rakdos Guildgate (rna) 255
1
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (c14) 308
1
Sanctum of Eternity

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Return target commander you own from the battlefield to your hand. Activate only during your turn.

Land
Sanctum of Eternity (c19) 59
1
Sea Gate

Sea Gate enters the battlefield tapped. As Sea Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than blue. {T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Sea Gate (clb) 359
1
Selesnya Guildgate

Selesnya Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Selesnya Guildgate (c13) 321
1
Simic Guildgate

Simic Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Simic Guildgate (gtc) 246
1

Sorcery

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (c21) 159
1
Echo of Eons

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Echo of Eons (mh1) 46
1
Open the Gates

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

Sorcery
Open the Gates (rna) 133
1
Reshape the Earth

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

Sorcery
Reshape the Earth (cmr) 249
1
Storm of Souls

Return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Each of them is a 1/1 Spirit with flying in addition to its other types. Exile Storm of Souls.

Sorcery
Storm of Souls (voc) 47
1
Tempt with Discovery

Tempting offer — Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Each opponent may search their library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. For each opponent who searches a library this way, search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched a library this way shuffles.

Sorcery
Tempt with Discovery (c16) 170
1

Sideboard

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Contingency Plan

Surveil 5. (Look at the top five cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sorcery
Contingency Plan (plst) EMN-52
1
Seeds of Renewal

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Return up to two target cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Seeds of Renewal.

Sorcery
Seeds of Renewal (c16) 24
1
Urza, Academy Headmaster

+1: Head to AskUrza.com and click +1. −1: Head to AskUrza.com and click -1. −6: Head to AskUrza.com and click -6.

Planeswalker
Urza, Academy Headmaster (ust) 136
1

Tokens & Extras

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Copy

(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)

Token
Copy (tbrc) 1
1
Gold

Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Gold (tclb) 48
1
Spirit

Creature Token
Spirit (t2x2) 2
1
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (t30a) 14
1
Wolf

Creature Token
Wolf (t30a) 9
1

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