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Lonis, Cryptozoologist Budget
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $107.02
Salt Sum: 26.88
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Commander

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Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, investigate. {T}, Sacrifice X Clues: Target opponent reveals the top X cards of their library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield under your control. That player puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Creature
Lonis, Cryptozoologist (mh2) 370
1

Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (afc) 197
1
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (cmr) 306
1
Magnifying Glass

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Artifact
Magnifying Glass (2xm) 269
1
Simic Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Artifact
Simic Signet (c21) 262
1
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (afc) 217
1
Talisman of Curiosity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. Talisman of Curiosity deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (mh1) 232
1
Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") {T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Journal (plst) SOI-265
1

Copy

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Mechanized Production

Enchant artifact you control At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted artifact. Then if you control eight or more artifacts with the same name as one another, you win the game.

Enchantment
Mechanized Production (aer) 38
1

Creature

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Academy Manufactor

If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.

Creature Artifact
Academy Manufactor (mh2) 219
1
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.

Creature
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters (c21) 9
1
Briarbridge Patrol

Whenever Briarbridge Patrol deals damage to one or more creatures, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") At the beginning of each end step, if you sacrificed three or more Clues this turn, you may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Briarbridge Patrol (soi) 195
1
Briarbridge Tracker

Vigilance When Briarbridge Tracker enters the battlefield, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") As long as you control a token, Briarbridge Tracker gets +2/+0.

Creature
Briarbridge Tracker (mid) 172
1
Byway Courier

When Byway Courier dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Creature
Byway Courier (plst) SOI-196
1
Coiling Oracle

When Coiling Oracle enters the battlefield, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Creature
Coiling Oracle (c21) 212
1
Daring Sleuth

Creature
Daring Sleuth // Bearer of Overwhelming Truths (soi) 54Daring Sleuth // Bearer of Overwhelming Truths (soi) 54
1
Drownyard Explorers

When Drownyard Explorers enters the battlefield, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Creature
Drownyard Explorers (soi) 56
1
Elvish Visionary

When Elvish Visionary enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature
Elvish Visionary (cmr) 223
1
Erdwal Illuminator

Flying Whenever you investigate for the first time each turn, investigate an additional time.

Creature
Erdwal Illuminator (soi) 60
1
Farhaven Elf

When Farhaven Elf enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Farhaven Elf (khc) 62
1
Floodhound

{3}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Creature
Floodhound (mh2) 335
1
Junk Winder

Affinity for tokens (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each token you control.) Whenever a token enters the battlefield under your control, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Junk Winder (mh2) 48
1
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (plst) DDO-52
1
Llanowar Visionary

When Llanowar Visionary enters the battlefield, draw a card. {T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Visionary (m21) 397
1
Prosperous Innkeeper

When Prosperous Innkeeper enters the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Prosperous Innkeeper (afr) 200
1
Shrieking Drake

Flying When Shrieking Drake enters the battlefield, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Shrieking Drake (vis) 43
1
Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (afc) 216
1
Thought Monitor

Affinity for artifacts Flying When Thought Monitor enters the battlefield, draw two cards.

Creature Artifact
Thought Monitor (mh2) 341
1
Tireless Provisioner

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Tireless Provisioner (mh2) 180
1
Trusted Advisor

Your maximum hand size is increased by two. At the beginning of your upkeep, return a blue creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Trusted Advisor (sok) 59
1
Wavesifter

Flying When Wavesifter enters the battlefield, investigate twice. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Evoke {G}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Creature
Wavesifter (mh2) 217
1

Draw

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Merchant's Dockhand

{3}{U}, {T}, Tap X untapped artifacts you control: Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Creature Artifact
Merchant's Dockhand (aer) 163
1
The Antiquities War

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. III — Artifacts you control become artifact creatures with base power and toughness 5/5 until end of turn.

Enchantment
The Antiquities War (dom) 42
1

Enchantment

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Fae Offering

At the beginning of each end step, if you've cast both a creature spell and a noncreature spell this turn, create a Clue token, a Food token, and a Treasure token.

Enchantment
Fae Offering (mh2) 158
1
Fleeting Memories

When Fleeting Memories enters the battlefield, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, target player mills three cards.

Enchantment
Fleeting Memories (soi) 62
1
Ongoing Investigation

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") {1}{G}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Investigate. You gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Ongoing Investigation (soi) 77
1
Trail of Evidence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Enchantment
Trail of Evidence (plst) SOI-93
1
Ulvenwald Mysteries

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

Enchantment
Ulvenwald Mysteries (plst) SOI-236
1
Weirding Wood

Enchant land When Weirding Wood enters the battlefield, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."

Enchantment
Weirding Wood (soi) 240
1

Instant

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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
Arcane Denial (cmr) 393
1
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (afc) 152
1
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (sta) 13
1
Confirm Suspicions

Counter target spell. Investigate three times. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Instant
Confirm Suspicions (soi) 53
1
Confront the Unknown

Investigate, then target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Clue you control. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Instant
Confront the Unknown (soi) 198
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (mh2) 267
1
Expel from Orazca

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If you have the city's blessing, you may put that permanent on top of its owner's library instead.

Instant
Expel from Orazca (rix) 37
1
Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Instant
Ghostly Flicker (khc) 39
1
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (cmr) 446
1
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (sta) 18
1
Rampage of the Clans

Destroy all artifacts and enchantments. For each permanent destroyed this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Centaur creature token.

Instant
Rampage of the Clans (rna) 134
1

Land

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Blighted Woodland

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Blighted Woodland: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Blighted Woodland (c21) 280
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (afc) 230
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (afr) 256
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (afc) 236
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mid) 384
8
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (afr) 268
12
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (c21) 304
1
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
1
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (c21) 311
1
Rimewood Falls

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) Rimewood Falls enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Rimewood Falls (khm) 266
1
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (c18) 278
1
Simic Growth Chamber

Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield tapped. When Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (afc) 260
1
Tanglepool Bridge

Tanglepool Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Artifact Land
Tanglepool Bridge (mh2) 257
1
Temple of Mystery

Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Mystery enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (c21) 324
1
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (afc) 267
1
Thornwood Falls

Thornwood Falls enters the battlefield tapped. When Thornwood Falls enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Thornwood Falls (cmr) 498
1
Tree of Tales

{T}: Add {G}.

Artifact Land
Tree of Tales (plst) MRD-285
1
Vineglimmer Snarl

As Vineglimmer Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, Vineglimmer Snarl enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (stx) 274
1
Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Yavimaya Coast (c21) 409
1

Lifegain

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Graf Mole

Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, you gain 3 life.

Creature
Graf Mole (soi) 207
1

Protection

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Simic Charm

Choose one — • Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. • Permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. • Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Simic Charm (cmr) 451
1

Ramp

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Simic Keyrune

{T}: Add {G} or {U}. {G}{U}: Simic Keyrune becomes a 2/3 green and blue Crab artifact creature with hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Artifact
Simic Keyrune (c15) 265
1

Removal

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Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When Acidic Slime enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Creature
Acidic Slime (afc) 151
1

Sorcery

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Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (afc) 155
1
Gone Missing

Put target permanent on top of its owner's library. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Gone Missing (plst) SOI-67
1
Hard Evidence

Create a 0/3 blue Crab creature token. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Hard Evidence (mh2) 46
1
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (c21) 197
1
Press for Answers

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Press for Answers (soi) 80
1
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (afc) 166
1
Rise and Shine

Target noncreature artifact you control becomes a 0/0 artifact creature. Put four +1/+1 counters on each artifact that became a creature this way. Overload {4}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Rise and Shine (mh2) 340
1
Root Out

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Root Out (plst) SOI-224
1
Thoughtcast

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Thoughtcast (plst) MM2-64
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Making all the clues, make them big and swing!\n"}]}
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