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Control Pillow Fort Boardwipes Counterspells

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Control Pillow Fort Boardwipes Counterspells

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Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life.
Whenever you gain life, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Soldier Giant

$19.99 $24.04 $18.21

Commander

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Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact

$29.99 $21.52 $19.26

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.79 $0.70 $0.50

Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Legendary Artifact

$13.99 $16.08 $10.94

Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact

$14.99 $11.43 $7.54

Pristine Talisman

: Add

. You gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Sensei's Divining Top

: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact

$59.99 $49.97 $45.81

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.85 $1.31

Talisman of Progress

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.41 $0.25

The One Ring

Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.

: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Legendary Artifact

$149.99 $101.49 $105.74

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$3.99 $2.94 $2.63

Artifact

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Drogskol Reaver

Flying
Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Creature - Spirit

$4.49 $9.41 $3.11

Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control.

: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Legendary Creature Enchantment - God

$37.99 $21.94 $20.84

Notion Thief

Flash
If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature - Human Rogue

$3.49 $3.16 $1.97

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$109.99 $100.15 $96.90

Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact - Construct

$79.99 $78.49 $77.10

Creature

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Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$8.99 $5.24 $4.33

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Enchantment

$23.99 $15.83 $15.08

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$7.99 $7.37 $6.26

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep

(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.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$15.99 $12.10 $10.19

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.99 $5.62 $3.31

Rest in Peace

When this enchantment enters, exile all graveyards.
If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Enchantment

$1.99 $0.86 $0.43

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$74.99 $67.93 $68.92

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay

. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Enchantment

$74.99 $55.98 $57.27

Test of Endurance

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 50 or more life, you win the game.

Enchantment

$9.49 $7.55 $5.46

Trouble in Pairs

If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.
Whenever an opponent attacks you with two or more creatures, draws their second card each turn, or casts their second spell each turn, you draw a card.

Enchantment

$47.99 $31.12 $29.69

Enchantment

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

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

Instant

$4.99 $3.89 $2.99

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant

$4.49 $2.58 $1.75

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

$3.99 $2.37 $1.85

Baleful Mastery

You may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the

cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$3.49 $1.61 $1.25

Brainstorm

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

Instant

$3.49 $2.60 $1.23

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $3.92 $3.06

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

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

Instant

$39.99 $31.29 $29.10

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for

.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant

$0.69 $0.37 $0.17

Dispel

Counter target instant spell.

Instant

$0.79 $1.17 $0.41

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$5.99 $4.11 $2.86

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$44.99 $37.46 $33.99

Excise the Imperfect

Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller incubates X, where X is its mana value. (They create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "

: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Instant

$0.79 $0.91 $0.20

Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$74.99 $70.09 $70.73

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$74.99 $55.64 $54.65

Inkshield

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.

Instant

$6.49 $5.12 $4.55

Lim-Dûl's Vault

Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.

Instant

$9.49 $4.96 $4.06

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of

equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$69.99 $52.67 $50.01

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$20.99 $17.15 $16.09

Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant

$3.99 $3.03 $1.76

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

$9.49 $9.22 $8.09

Reprieve

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

Instant

$1.99 $1.41 $0.46

Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Instant

$15.99 $10.13 $9.25

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.99 $2.15 $1.58

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant

$64.99 $62.81 $53.14

Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant

$74.99 $53.76 $50.62

Void Rend

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant

$1.79 $0.80 $0.26

Instant

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Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.

: Add

: Scry 2.

Land

$0.99 $0.34 $0.21

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.59 $0.34 $0.26

Deserted Beach

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

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.16 $3.40

Fetid Heath

: Add

, or

Land

$2.49 $1.71 $1.39

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

$23.99 $15.73 $14.70

Godless Shrine

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: Add

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

Land - Plains Swamp

$13.99 $9.91 $8.23

Hallowed Fountain

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

$12.99 $7.92 $7.29

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.69 $0.37 $0.15

Kor Haven

: Add

: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn.

Legendary Land

$29.99 $17.95 $11.54

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

$39.99 $33.20 $31.88

Maze of Ith

: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land

$14.99 $9.63 $8.22

Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$27.99 $25.69 $20.31

Mystic Gate

: Add

, or

Land

$2.99 $5.17 $3.45

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.69 $0.33 $0.15

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

$34.99 $21.85 $20.15

Raffine's Tower

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: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Swamp

$22.99 $14.47 $13.90

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$9.49 $5.71 $5.17

Scalding Tarn

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

Land

$44.99 $36.39 $33.03

Sea of Clouds

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$29.99 $19.68 $17.07

Shattered Sanctum

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

: Add

Land

$5.49 $2.93 $2.31

Sunken Ruins

: Add

, or

Land

$5.49 $6.10 $4.43

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$1.79 $1.54 $0.60

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Legendary Land

$74.99 $55.73 $52.10

Vault of Champions

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$24.99 $14.88 $14.64

Watery Grave

(

: Add

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

Land - Island Swamp

$17.99 $11.19 $9.40

Land

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Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
−2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Legendary Planeswalker - Narset

$2.29 $1.24 $0.87

Teferi, Time Raveler

Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
+1: Until your next turn, you may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
−3: Return up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Legendary Planeswalker - Teferi

$9.99 $7.60 $6.38

Planeswalker

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Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery