Melek Control Budget • (Izzet Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

Melek, Reforged Researcher

Melek's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs

less to cast.

Legendary Creature - Weird Detective

$1.29 $0.54 $0.20

Commander

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Artifact

Qty: 2 Price: $4.28

Resonating Lute

Lands you control have "

: Add two mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast instant and sorcery spells."

: Draw a card. Activate only if you have seven or more cards in your hand.

Artifact

$1.29 $1.18 $0.55

Tablet of Discovery

When this artifact enters, mill a card. You may play that card this turn. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

: Add

. Spend this mana only to cast instant and sorcery spells.

Artifact

$2.99 $1.61 $0.97

Artifact

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Counters & Protection

Qty: 10 Price: $29.98

Desertion

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$3.99 $2.49 $1.29

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays

.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Instant

$0.79 $0.83 $0.59

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Out of Bounds

Assist (Another player can pay up to

of this spell's cost.)
Counter target spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Instant

$0.79 $0.46 $0.20

Ricochet Trap

If an opponent cast a blue spell this turn, you may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Change the target of target spell with a single target.

Instant - Trap

$1.29 $1.42 $0.35

Shore Up

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap it. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Spell Swindle

Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant

$2.79 $1.94 $1.44

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

$16.99 $10.65 $10.22

Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Instant

$2.29 $1.66 $0.79

Counters & Protection

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Creature

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Exhibition Tidecaller

Opus — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, target player mills three cards. If five or more mana was spent to cast that spell, that player mills ten cards instead.

Creature - Wizard Djinn

$0.79 $0.53 $0.15

Creature

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Draw

Qty: 21 Price: $33.65

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 "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant

$1.49 $1.09 $0.36

Chemister's Insight

Draw two cards.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.

Instant

$1.29 $0.31 $0.21

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

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Demand Answers

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

Instant

$1.79 $0.57 $0.26

Enter the Enigma

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.42 $0.31

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant

$1.49 $1.36 $1.10

Gitaxian Probe

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$5.49 $2.96 $2.86

Inspired Tinkering

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
Create three Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery

$2.99 $1.33 $0.67

Lórien Revealed

Draw three cards.
Islandcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Sorcery

$6.49 $4.01 $3.05

Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback

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

Instant

$0.79 $0.30 $0.15

Practical Research

Draw four cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an instant or sorcery card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

School Daze

Choose one —
• Do Homework — Draw three cards.
• Fight Crime — Counter target spell. Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Silundi Vision

Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant

$0.79 $0.43 $0.31

Soul Read

Choose one —
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays

.
• Draw two cards.

Instant

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Thrill of Possibility

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

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 "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant

$5.49 $2.88 $2.60

Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment - Fish Horse

$1.29 $0.57 $0.51

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 3 Price: $1.69

Artful Dodge

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.50 $0.37

Defy Gravity

Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Flashback

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Slip Through Space

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.37 $0.15

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Gravitic Punch

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target player.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.29 $0.16

Finisher

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Instant

Qty: 1 Price: $4.99

Flashback

Target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$4.99 $3.12 $2.87

Instant

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Land

Qty: 34 (37 w/ MDFC)Price: $21.52

Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.

: Add

: Scry 2.

Land

$0.69 $0.31 $0.28

Cephalid Coliseum

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold —

, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Land

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.43 $0.20

Frostboil Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.32 $0.26

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.52 $0.32

Izzet Boilerworks

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.35 $0.23

Mountain

(

: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Mystic Sanctuary

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Island

$3.49 $2.91 $1.85

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$1.29 $0.47 $0.35

Shivan Reef

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.99 $0.33 $0.15

Spectacle Summit

This land enters tapped.

: Add

: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.61 $0.19

Temple of Epiphany

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Wandering Fumarole

This land enters tapped.

: Add

: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 1/4 blue and red Elemental creature with "

: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn." It's still a land.

Land

$0.59 $0.28 $0.15

Land

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Mass Disruption

Qty: 1 Price: $1.99

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs

less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery

$1.99 $1.07 $0.72

Mass Disruption

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Mill

Qty: 1 Price: $5.99

Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery

$5.99 $4.05 $2.76

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 1 Price: $19.99

Redirect Lightning

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 5 life or pay

.
Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant - Lesson

$19.99 $11.03 $11.12

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 3 Price: $1.33

Bulk Up

Double target creature's power until end of turn.
Flashback

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Monstrous Rage

Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Create a Monster Role token attached to it. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has trample.)

Instant

$0.39 $0.36 $0.15

Temur Battle Rage

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.
Ferocious — That creature also gains trample until end of turn if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Instant

$0.59 $0.24 $0.15

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 8 Price: $22.62

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.60 $0.39

Bender's Waterskin

Untap this artifact during each other player's untap step.

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$1.79 $0.92 $0.54

Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact

$2.79 $2.96 $1.45

Mana Geyser

Add

for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery

$2.29 $1.24 $0.94

Sonic Screwdriver

: Add one mana of any color.

: Untap another target artifact.

: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact

$2.29 $2.70 $2.52

Storm-Kiln Artist

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature - Shaman Dwarf

$3.49 $2.49 $1.30

Talisman of Creativity

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$3.99 $2.62 $1.43

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$4.99 $2.34 $2.11

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $3.84

Mystic Retrieval

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Pinnacle Monk

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Djinn Monk

$3.49 $2.09 $1.58

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 8 Price: $42.92

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant

$0.99 $0.63 $0.36

Aetherspouts

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Instant

$1.99 $0.77 $0.61

Chandra's Ignition

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.

Sorcery

$10.99 $9.17 $7.24

Raise the Palisade

Choose a creature type. Return all creatures that aren't of the chosen type to their owners' hands.

Sorcery

$12.99 $11.93 $8.79

Self-Destruct

Target creature you control deals X damage to any other target and X damage to itself, where X is its power.

Instant

$0.69 $0.32 $0.15

Sink into Stupor

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Instant

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241

$13.99 $9.52 $7.29

Soul's Fire

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Instant

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Sublime Epiphany

Choose one or more —
• Counter target spell.
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
• Target player draws a card.

Instant

$0.79 $0.35 $0.15

Removal

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Sorcery

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Rapturous Moment

Draw three cards, then discard two cards. Add

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Sorcery

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$0.79 $1.84 $0.46

Tokens

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Maybeboard

Qty: 13 Price: $32.01

Dismiss

Counter target spell.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Furygale Flocking

This spell costs

less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
For each opponent, create two 3/3 blue and red Elemental creature tokens with flying that attack that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Immolating Gyre

Immolating Gyre deals X damage to each creature and planeswalker you don't control, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery

$6.49 $3.32 $3.50

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 "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery

$1.79 $1.56 $0.62

Plunder the Trollshaws

Draw a card. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, draw two cards instead.
Flashback

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Riddles in the Dark

Look at the top four cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of the piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Run for Your Life

One or two target creatures each gain haste until end of turn. They can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste.
Escape—

, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Instant

$0.79 $1.01 $0.89

Sorceress's Schemes

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard or exiled card with flashback you own to your hand. Add

.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Soul Immolation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, blight X. X can't be greater than the greatest toughness among creatures you control. (Put X -1/-1 counters on a creature you control.)
Soul Immolation deals X damage to each opponent and each creature they control.

Sorcery

$4.49 $2.66 $2.21

The Dawning Archaic

This spell costs

less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Reach
Whenever The Dawning Archaic attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Legendary Creature - Avatar

$1.29 $0.85 $0.44

Twinned Vision

Draw a card. If this spell wasn't cast from your hand, draw two cards instead.
Flashback—

, Discard a card. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Untimely Malfunction

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
• One or two target creatures can't block this turn.

Instant

$13.99 $9.03 $7.75

Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.39 $0.31

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $198.36

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.24Total Mana Value: 214.00

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Mass Disruption

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Avg Mana Value: 3.24Total Mana Value: 214.00

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