Varina, Lich Queen • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Zombies

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Zombies

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $20.99

Varina, Lich Queen

Whenever you attack with one or more Zombies, draw that many cards, then discard that many cards. You gain that much life.

, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Zombie

$20.99 $16.87 $17.50

Commander

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Draw/Recur

Qty: 10 Price: $310.40

Aphetto Dredging

Return up to three target creature cards of the creature type of your choice from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery

$0.99 $1.67 $0.68

Coastal Piracy

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment

$24.99 $17.99 $17.92

Concentrate

Draw three cards.

Sorcery

$6.99 $5.15 $2.07

Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—

, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$44.99 $42.15 $18.75

Future Sight

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.

Enchantment

$39.99 $36.66 $25.59

Infernal Caretaker

Morph

(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for

. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, return all Zombie cards from all graveyards to their owners' hands.

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.49 $0.53 $0.32

Keep Watch

Draw a card for each attacking creature.

Instant

$19.99 $23.00 $12.43

Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment

$159.99 $182.29 $80.91

Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay

, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Artifact

$3.99 $2.68 $2.08

Windfall

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

Sorcery

$7.99 $10.28 $6.87

Draw/Recur

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Extra Mana

Qty: 6 Price: $122.44

Cloud Key

As this artifact enters, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$11.99 $8.26 $7.52

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$34.99 $27.32 $17.71

Mistform Warchief

Creature spells you cast that share a creature type with this creature cost

less to cast.

: This creature becomes the creature type of your choice until end of turn.

Creature - Illusion

$4.49 $3.15 $1.56

Sol Ring

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Artifact

$7.99 $6.40 $4.90

Stormscape Familiar

Flying
White spells and black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Creature - Bird

$29.99 $16.69 $16.10

Urza's Incubator

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells of the chosen type cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$32.99 $24.40 $19.77

Extra Mana

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Game Winners

Qty: 4 Price: $206.96

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

$21.99 $23.48 $14.44

Glory

Flying

: Choose a color. Creatures you control gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn. Activate only if this card is in your graveyard.

Creature - Incarnation

$49.99 $22.52 $30.10

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.

: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

$4.99 $4.58 $4.30

Wonder

Flying
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature - Incarnation

$129.99 $62.50 $50.63

Game Winners

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Interaction

Qty: 8 Price: $377.92

Crippling Fatigue

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
Flashback—

, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$1.49 $5.70 $1.52

Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Overload

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

Sorcery

$3.99 $3.40 $2.87

Ghastly Demise

Destroy target nonblack creature if its toughness is less than or equal to the number of cards in your graveyard.

Instant

$3.49 $4.04 $2.07

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant

$94.99 $46.24 $82.09

Reckless Spite

Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.

Instant

$3.99 $2.23 $4.61

Submerge

If an opponent controls a Forest and you control an Island, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Instant

$199.99 $108.41 $56.73

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$19.99 $11.73 $9.49

Vendetta

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Instant

$49.99 $23.66 $26.05

Interaction

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Land

Qty: 35 Price: $709.28

Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$9.99 $6.98 $4.10

Arid Mesa

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

Land

$47.99 $46.26 $34.45

Bad River

This land enters tapped.

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

Land

$2.99 $1.36 $0.52

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

$34.99 $24.68 $25.13

Command Tower

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

Land

$3.49 $2.48 $1.39

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

$3.99 $3.00 $3.02

Flood Plain

This land enters tapped.

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$1.29 $1.56 $0.30

Flooded Strand

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

Land

$42.99 $27.47 $25.68

Godless Shrine

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

Land - Plains Swamp

$22.99 $15.20 $15.11

Hallowed Fountain

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

Land - Plains Island

$20.99 $16.01 $15.25

Island

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Basic Land - Island

$21.99 $22.82 $13.52

Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$1.99 $1.16 $0.67

Marsh Flats

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

Land

$42.99 $45.19 $35.93

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

$1.29 $0.71 $0.69

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

$23.99 $31.35 $19.56

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

$37.99 $29.33 $26.08

Prairie Stream

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

Land - Plains Island

$0.69 $0.40 $0.28

Prismatic Vista

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

Land

$47.99 $70.46 $39.58

Reflecting Pool

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

Land

$49.99 $46.74 $24.48

Riptide Laboratory

: Add

: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.

Land

$5.99 $2.90 $2.41

Scrubland

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Land - Plains Swamp

$---- $---- $----

Sunken Hollow

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

Land - Island Swamp

$1.79 $0.55 $0.41

Swamp

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Basic Land - Swamp

$13.99 $17.17 $14.23

Tainted Field

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land

$2.99 $1.39 $0.51

Tainted Isle

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land

$4.49 $2.66 $2.49

Tundra

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Land - Plains Island

$---- $---- $----

Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type.

: Add

: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Land

$3.99 $2.75 $2.12

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$11.99 $6.78 $5.71

Underground Sea

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: Add

Land - Island Swamp

$---- $---- $----

Unholy Grotto

: Add

: Put target Zombie card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land

$7.49 $5.81 $2.42

Verdant Catacombs

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

Land

$42.99 $44.48 $37.77

Volrath's Stronghold

: Add

: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Legendary Land

$139.99 $140.06 $67.36

Watery Grave

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: Add

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

Land - Island Swamp

$24.99 $22.54 $21.20

Land

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Mass Reanimation

Qty: 3 Price: $387.97

Balthor the Defiled

Minion creatures get +1/+1.

, Exile Balthor: Each player returns all black and all red creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Legendary Creature - Zombie Dwarf

$199.99 $107.49 $103.23

Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$149.99 $89.99 $88.57

Twilight's Call

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you pay

more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
Each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$37.99 $48.22 $14.58

Mass Reanimation

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Zombies

Qty: 33 Price: $1242.03

Archghoul of Thraben

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, look at the top card of your library. If it's a Zombie card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.

Creature - Cleric Zombie

$1.99 $1.71 $1.51

Champion of the Perished

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Zombie

$---- $---- $----

Cleaver Skaab

, Sacrifice another Zombie: Create two tokens that are copies of the sacrificed creature.

Creature - Horror Zombie

$---- $---- $----

Corpse Connoisseur

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Unearth

(

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$---- $---- $----

Cryptbreaker

, Discard a card: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Tap three untapped Zombies you control: You draw a card and lose 1 life.

Creature - Zombie

$---- $---- $----

Diregraf Captain

Deathtouch
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Soldier Zombie

$---- $---- $----

Diregraf Colossus

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Zombie card in your graveyard.
Whenever you cast a Zombie spell, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature - Zombie Giant

$6.49 $6.20 $5.55

Gempalm Polluter

Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, you may have target player lose life equal to the number of Zombies on the battlefield.

Creature - Zombie

$12.99 $11.71 $9.94

Geralf's Messenger

This creature enters tapped.
When this creature enters, target opponent loses 2 life.
Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature - Zombie

$17.99 $10.65 $9.06

Gisa's Bidding

Create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Madness

(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.43 $0.19

Graveborn Muse

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Creature - Spirit Zombie

$279.99 $216.18 $213.80

Gravecrawler

This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Creature - Zombie

$7.99 $5.49 $5.12

Gravedigger

When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Zombie

$1.49 $3.16 $1.06

Gravespawn Sovereign

Tap five untapped Zombies you control: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature - Zombie

$32.99 $26.90 $21.82

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature - Zombie

$159.99 $91.23 $157.82

Grim Servant

Menace
When this creature enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature - Zombie Warlock

$0.49 $0.39 $0.25

Headless Rider

Whenever this creature or another nontoken Zombie you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature - Zombie

$---- $---- $----

Lord of the Undead

Other Zombie creatures get +1/+1.

: Return target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Zombie

$229.99 $199.99 $----

Noxious Ghoul

Whenever this creature or another Zombie enters, all non-Zombie creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature - Zombie

$34.99 $24.05 $11.91

Phyrexian Delver

When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Creature - Zombie Phyrexian

$159.99 $84.83 $57.61

Pontiff of Blight

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)

Creature - Cleric Zombie

$12.99 $10.55 $8.47

Relentless Dead

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When this creature dies, you may pay

. If you do, return it to its owner's hand.
When this creature dies, you may pay

. If you do, return another target Zombie creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature - Zombie

$24.99 $17.87 $17.45

Rot Hulk

Menace
When this creature enters, return up to X target Zombie cards from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the number of opponents you have.

Creature - Zombie

$109.99 $104.16 $72.92

Shepherd of Rot

: Each player loses 1 life for each Zombie on the battlefield.

Creature - Cleric Zombie

$27.99 $16.96 $8.78

Tomb Tyrant

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.

, Sacrifice a creature: Return a Zombie creature card at random from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn and only if there are at least three Zombie creature cards in your graveyard.

Creature - Zombie Noble

$3.99 $2.76 $2.20

Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Legendary Creature - Wizard Zombie

$11.99 $9.19 $10.42

Undead Augur

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$2.79 $2.63 $1.69

Undead Warchief

Zombie spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

Creature - Zombie

$29.99 $34.24 $22.25

Vengeful Dead

Whenever this creature or another Zombie dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Zombie

$12.99 $11.79 $9.60

Vile Entomber

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature - Zombie Warlock

$4.49 $1.75 $0.78

Vindictive Lich

When this creature dies, choose one or more. Each mode must target a different player.
• Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
• Target opponent discards two cards.
• Target opponent loses 5 life.

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$13.99 $8.58 $9.28

Withered Wretch

: Exile target card from a graveyard.

Creature - Cleric Zombie

$27.99 $28.81 $18.41

Zombie Master

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Other Zombies have "

: Regenerate this permanent."

Creature - Zombie

$9.99 $8.54 $14.42

Zombies

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Maybeboard

Qty: 5 Price: $40.96

Condemn

Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner's library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.

Instant

$0.99 $0.36 $0.15

Disenchant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant

$23.99 $14.26 $15.61

Liliana's Standard Bearer

Flash
When this creature enters, draw X cards, where X is the number of creatures that died under your control this turn.

Creature - Knight Zombie

$---- $---- $----

Midnight Ritual

Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each creature card exiled this way, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Sorcery

$9.99 $6.18 $6.86

Mortify

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Instant

$5.99 $2.85 $2.82

Maybeboard

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Maybeboard (Don't Own)

Qty: 2 Price: $20.98

Haakon, Stromgald Scourge

You may cast this card from your graveyard, but not from anywhere else.
As long as Haakon is on the battlefield, you may cast Knight spells from your graveyard.
When Haakon dies, you lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Knight Zombie

$14.99 $9.83 $14.68

Stitcher's Supplier

When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature - Zombie

$5.99 $3.32 $3.58

Maybeboard (Don't Own)

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $3,377.99

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.51Total Mana Value: 228.00

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Commander

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Zombies

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5 pips - 4 cards

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13 mana - 13 cards

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17 pips - 13 cards

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14 mana - 14 cards

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71 pips - 45 cards

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16 mana - 16 cards

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0 mana - 4 cards

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0 mana - 4 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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10 mana - 9 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.51Total Mana Value: 228.00

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