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Commander
Commander
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Scrandfall
Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
Vigilance
When Gandalf enters, exile up to three target lands you control, then return them to the battlefield tapped under their owner's control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Gandalf.
When Gandalf enters, exile up to three target lands you control, then return them to the battlefield tapped under their owner's control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Gandalf.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Avatar
Traveling Chocobo
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast Bird spells from the top of your library.
If a land or Bird you control entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
You may play lands and cast Bird spells from the top of your library.
If a land or Bird you control entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Creature - Bird
Scrandfall
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Scrells
Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Teamwork 5 (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may tap any number of creatures you control with total power 5 or more.)
Reveal the top eight cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. If this spell was cast using teamwork, put any number of creature cards from among them onto the battlefield instead. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Reveal the top eight cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. If this spell was cast using teamwork, put any number of creature cards from among them onto the battlefield instead. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Sorcery
Spirit Water Revival
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may waterbend . (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for .)
Draw two cards. If this spell's additional cost was paid, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw seven cards, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Exile Spirit Water Revival.
Draw two cards. If this spell's additional cost was paid, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw seven cards, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Exile Spirit Water Revival.
Sorcery
The Ring Goes South
The Ring tempts you. Then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X land cards, where X is the number of legendary creatures you control. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Sorcery
Scrells
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Screlves
Eladamri, Korvecdal
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
, , Tap two untapped creatures you control: Reveal a card from your hand or the top card of your library. If you reveal a creature card this way, put it onto the battlefield. Activate only during your turn.
You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
, , Tap two untapped creatures you control: Reveal a card from your hand or the top card of your library. If you reveal a creature card this way, put it onto the battlefield. Activate only during your turn.
Legendary Creature - Warrior Elf
Elrond, Master of Healing
Whenever you scry, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, you may draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Elf Noble
Galadriel of Lothlórien
Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Galadriel as your Ring-bearer, scry 3.
Whenever you scry, you may reveal the top card of your library. If a land card is revealed this way, put it onto the battlefield tapped.
Whenever you scry, you may reveal the top card of your library. If a land card is revealed this way, put it onto the battlefield tapped.
Legendary Creature - Elf Noble
Screlves
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Scrin Conditions
Elminster
Whenever you scry, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs less to cast, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way.
+2: Draw a card, then scry 2.
−3: Exile the top card of your library. Create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to that card's mana value.
Elminster can be your commander.
+2: Draw a card, then scry 2.
−3: Exile the top card of your library. Create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to that card's mana value.
Elminster can be your commander.
Legendary Planeswalker - Elminster
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa
If you would scry a number of cards, scry that many cards plus one instead.
: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, you may put it on the bottom of your library.
: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, you may put it on the bottom of your library.
Legendary Creature - Cleric Merfolk
Nissa, Steward of Elements
+2: Scry 2.
0: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card or a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of loyalty counters on Nissa, you may put that card onto the battlefield.
−6: Untap up to two target lands you control. They become 5/5 Elemental creatures with flying and haste until end of turn. They're still lands.
0: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card or a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of loyalty counters on Nissa, you may put that card onto the battlefield.
−6: Untap up to two target lands you control. They become 5/5 Elemental creatures with flying and haste until end of turn. They're still lands.
Legendary Planeswalker - Nissa
Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing
Flying
When Wan Shi Tong enters, target nonland permanent's owner puts it into their library second from the top or on the bottom.
Whenever one or more cards are put into a library from anywhere, create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens with "This token can't block or be blocked by non-Spirit creatures."
When Wan Shi Tong enters, target nonland permanent's owner puts it into their library second from the top or on the bottom.
Whenever one or more cards are put into a library from anywhere, create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens with "This token can't block or be blocked by non-Spirit creatures."
Legendary Creature - Bird Spirit
Scrin Conditions
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Scryrtifacts
The Eternity Elevator
: Add .
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery.)
20+ | : Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of charge counters on The Eternity Elevator.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery.)
20+ | : Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of charge counters on The Eternity Elevator.
Legendary Artifact - Spacecraft
The Temporal Anchor
At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 2.
Whenever you choose to put one or more cards on the bottom of your library while scrying, exile that many cards from the bottom of your library.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with The Temporal Anchor.
Whenever you choose to put one or more cards on the bottom of your library while scrying, exile that many cards from the bottom of your library.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with The Temporal Anchor.
Legendary Artifact
Scryrtifacts
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Scrytection
Galadriel's Dismissal
Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Target creature phases out. If this spell was kicked, each creature target player controls phases out instead. (Treat phased-out creatures and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)
Target creature phases out. If this spell was kicked, each creature target player controls phases out instead. (Treat phased-out creatures and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)
Instant
The Seriema
When The Seriema enters, search your library for a legendary creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 7+.)
7+ | Flying
Other tapped legendary creatures you control have indestructible.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 7+.)
7+ | Flying
Other tapped legendary creatures you control have indestructible.
Legendary Artifact - Spacecraft
Scrytection
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Tap You Bad
Champions of the Shoal
As an additional cost to cast this spell, behold a Merfolk and exile it. (Exile a Merfolk you control or a Merfolk card from your hand.)
Whenever this creature enters or becomes tapped, tap up to one target creature and put a stun counter on it.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.
Whenever this creature enters or becomes tapped, tap up to one target creature and put a stun counter on it.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.
Creature - Soldier Merfolk
Crashing Wave
As an additional cost to cast this spell, waterbend . (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for .)
Tap up to X target creatures, then distribute three stun counters among any number of tapped creatures your opponents control. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Tap up to X target creatures, then distribute three stun counters among any number of tapped creatures your opponents control. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Sorcery
Hylda of the Icy Crown
Whenever you tap an untapped creature an opponent controls, you may pay . When you do, choose one —
• Create a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature token.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
• Scry 2, then draw a card.
• Create a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature token.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
• Scry 2, then draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Lost in the Maze
Flash
When this enchantment enters, tap X target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of those creatures you don't control. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Tapped creatures you control have hexproof.
When this enchantment enters, tap X target creatures. Put a stun counter on each of those creatures you don't control. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Tapped creatures you control have hexproof.
Enchantment
Mjölnir, Storm Hammer
When Mjölnir enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, tap target creature defending player controls and put a stun counter on it. Then Mjölnir deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of tapped creatures that opponent controls.
Equip
Whenever equipped creature attacks, tap target creature defending player controls and put a stun counter on it. Then Mjölnir deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of tapped creatures that opponent controls.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Tap You Bad
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Untap Me Good
Arbiter of the Ideal
Flying
Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.
Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.
Creature - Sphinx
Dazzling Theater
Creature spells you cast have convoke. (Your creatures can help cast those spells. Each creature you tap while casting a creature spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
Enchantment - Room
Legolas's Quick Reflexes
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Untap target creature. Until end of turn, it gains reach, hexproof, and "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature."
Untap target creature. Until end of turn, it gains reach, hexproof, and "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature."
Instant
Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset
+1: Choose up to one target artifact, up to one target creature, and up to one target land. Untap the chosen permanents you control. Tap the chosen permanents you don't control. You gain 2 life.
−2: Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
−7: You get an emblem with "Untap all permanents you control during each opponent's untap step" and "You draw a card during each opponent's draw step."
−2: Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
−7: You get an emblem with "Untap all permanents you control during each opponent's untap step" and "You draw a card during each opponent's draw step."
Legendary Planeswalker - Teferi
Untap Me Good
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xLand
Adagia, Windswept Bastion
This land enters tapped.
: Add .
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ | , : Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or enchantment you control, except it's legendary. Activate only as a sorcery.
: Add .
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ | , : Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or enchantment you control, except it's legendary. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Planet
Growing Rites of Itlimoc
When Growing Rites of Itlimoc enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control four or more creatures, transform Growing Rites of Itlimoc.
Legendary Enchantment
Inventors' Fair
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.
: Add .
, , Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
: Add .
, , Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.
Legendary Land
Mosswort Bridge
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
: Add .
, : You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
This land enters tapped.
: Add .
, : You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
Land
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.)
: 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
Turntimber Symbiosis
Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. If that card has mana value 3 or less, it enters with three additional +1/+1 counters on it. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Sorcery
xLand
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Ever since the LOTR set came out I've wanted to do scry elves, (henceforth known as Screlves) but I wanted to do something INTERESTING with them, and not just play an elves tribal deck that had a scry subtheme. I wanted a SCRY deck with an elf subtheme. Which meant I needed more win conditions that centered around scry. Fortunately, ATLA came in clutch when it saw another UB deck in need, and it brought two things that tied everything together. I'll talk about them separately, since I want to go in depth with both and how they found their place in the deck. \n\n1: Wan Shi Tong, and surprisingly not"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wan Shi Tong, Librarian"}},{"insert":"that everyone loves, I'm talking about"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing"}},{"insert":"and"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong"}},{"insert":". At first, all I cared about was Planetarium because it felt like the missing scry win condition I had been looking for. And it was, but shockingly, despite the word scry not appearing on"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing"}},{"insert":", the thing about scry is that it removes cards and then instantly re-adds them to the library, which means every time you scry, you make tokens. And the deck scries a lot. (I'm sad that this is how the plural of scry is spelled, feels wrong) It also increased the value of any card that specified something going back to the library, although I still ended up cutting most of them, since he isn't the commander and if they aren't good enough when he isn't in play, they shouldn't be in the deck unless I wanted to make him the secret commander. Which I considered, but since he's already doing numbers with just scry, that's good enough. Keep in mind that at this point in the deckbuilding process, the deck was still blue/green with either"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arwen Undómiel"}},{"insert":"or"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elrond, Master of Healing"}},{"insert":"as the commander. It wasn't until I discovered the 2nd key that things changed.\n\n2: Waterbending. That might sound confusing at first, but I'll explain. Several scry cards care about being tapped or untapped, and that theme was also a big part of the UW colour wheel in ATLA because of waterbending. This resulted in me adding white to the deck to fully explore the tap/untap theme, which I split up into two sections, Tap You Bad, and Untap Me Good. I am very eloquent. Tap You Bad is helmed by "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hylda of the Icy Crown"}},{"insert":"which does exactly what Screlves wanted to do in the first place, scry and/or add counters. She also does a 3rd thing that I guess is fine too if you have no board. She was good enough that I almost made her the commander and dropped green entirely, a thought that I had again when I saw"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elminster"}},{"insert":", the other piece that confirmed I was right to include white in the deck. But in the end I chose not to cut the elves from Screlves, because that would be throwing away the reason I wanted to build the deck in the first place. No thank you! Although I would have still been able to keep the best elf for this subtheme, the one that ties the themes together:"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elvish Mariner"}},{"insert":". Either way, I kept green in the deck, and Hylda can be considered the commander of the Tap You Bad subtheme.\nAs for the Untap Me Good subtheme, the piece that ties everything together is"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dionus, Elvish Archdruid"}},{"insert":", alongside 2 non elves that came out after deck was built, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Captain America, Living Legend"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Brad Boimler, Eager Ensign"}},{"insert":". Both very off theme, so ended up doing Galadriel alters for them. And as for how to tap? Waterbending!"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Crashing Wave"}},{"insert":","},{"insert":{"card-link":"Spirit Water Revival"}},{"insert":"and"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Yue, the Moon Spirit"}},{"insert":". Also "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tui and La, Moon and Ocean"}},{"insert":", is the perfect tap/untap mascot. And stationing"},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Eternity Elevator"}},{"insert":"so I can make hundreds of mana per turn is also pretty neat.\n\nAfter making the change to Bant, and not being able to run either of the two elves that make Screlves a functional archetype ("},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arwen Undómiel"}},{"insert":"/"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elrond, Master of Healing"}},{"insert":") I had to decide on a new commander. For a while I actually went with"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Amareth, the Lustrous"}},{"insert":"before finally deciding that"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Path of Ancestry"}},{"insert":"is pretty good, and"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Galadriel, Light of Valinor"}},{"insert":"still does everything that Screlves wants, even if it's not as cool and thematic...whatever. This turned out to be the right choice, as I love her now and she's a huge part of how the deck runs. I've even made several alters turning cards that were...less thematically inclined into Galadriels. I mentioned Brad and Cap, but there's also"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Political Triumph"}},{"insert":". I also turned"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Wylie Duke, Atiin Hero"}},{"insert":"into Aragorn and"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Matoya, Archon Elder"}},{"insert":"into Celebrian, who I only discovered by googling Elvish names, having never read the Silmarillion and thusly having no idea that Arwen is Galadriel's granddaughter. I didn't know they were related at all! There was no reason that they had to be, but Celebrian, Galadriel's daughter, married Elrond, and gave birth to Arwen, and NONE OF THIS IS MENTIONED IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS! Poor Celebrian. As a Brian myself, this is a tragedy.\n\nI want to make one thing clear, this is first and foremost a scry deck. Not a counters deck. Scry makes counters? Great. Tap makes counters? Sure, let's do it. But just counters? Get outta here. Well, it's still an elf deck so I kept"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Marwyn, the Nurturer"}},{"insert":"and"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Joraga Warcaller"}},{"insert":", but that's it. Feels inappropriate to say that they got by based purely on the merit of their race despite not having the qualifications otherwise, but that is, unfortunately, the truth. Hurray for Affirmative Action? In a way though, it's the same as all the non elves that care about scrying. Kinda. I said the scry is more important than the elf part, but they're close enough. Even though I utterly refused to run any other elf tribal staples. If they don't scry, and they don't even care about counters? They ain't in the deck! Get outta here"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Imperious Perfect"}},{"insert":","},{"insert":{"card-link":"Leaf-Crowned Visionary"}},{"insert":"and"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Galadhrim Brigade"}},{"insert":"! This isn't an Elves deck, it's a Screlves deck! \n\nAfter rereading this and realizing I didn't mention"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Maskwood Nexus"}},{"insert":"once, I have to add that due to the large amount of cards who care about scrying or tap/untap that aren't elves, I decided I would rather they were elves. But while there are other cards that could do that, they couldn't also make all the elves into otters. And"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Valley Floodcaller"}},{"insert":"really wanted them to be, so my hands were tied. \n\nI was already running"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Retreat to Coralhelm"}},{"insert":"and"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Galadriel of Lothlórien"}},{"insert":", so when The Hobbit set came out it felt incredibly appropriate to add"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Gandalf, Shadow's Foe"}},{"insert":"and"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elven Raft-Steerer"}},{"insert":"to the deck. Retriggering scry on"},{"insert":{"card-link":"The Grey Havens"}},{"insert":"or the various temples just seemed like a great bonus as well. I wanted to see if there was any tap based ramp I could do, and"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Llanowar Scout"}},{"insert":"was exactly what I was looking for. And ramp based tap? Ya, that exists too, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Stone-Seeder Hierophant"}},{"insert":" and"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tideforce Elemental"}},{"insert":". Nice.\n\nAlso, I already thought this deck was really good before"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Brad Boimler, Eager Ensign"}},{"insert":"showed up and became one of the deck's main wincons. I've said before that this deck isn't a counters deck, but "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Galadriel, Light of Valinor"}},{"insert":"and"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hylda of the Icy Crown"}},{"insert":"being the commander and secret commander does mean that the deck gets a lot of counters anyway.\n\nFinally, sorry,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Skrelv, Defector Mite"}},{"insert":"didn't make the cut, even though I found the idea very funny and since it has a tap ability it wouldn't be entirely off theme. Just wasn't good enough to justify the meme.\n"}]}