The Ancient Self Mill • (Dimir Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Dredge Flashback Graveyard Reanimator Self-Mill Spellslinger

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Dredge Flashback Graveyard Reanimator Self-Mill Spellslinger

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The Ancient One

Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard.

: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.

Legendary Creature - Spirit God

$2.29 $2.15 $0.78

Commander

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Teferi's Time Twist

Exile target permanent you control. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. If it enters as a creature, it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Instant

$0.49 $0.30 $0.18

Blink

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Clone

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Creature - Shapeshifter

$0.69 $0.67 $0.15

Clones

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Tombstalker

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

Creature - Demon

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Creature

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Altar's Reap

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Instant

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Bitter Revelation

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Instant

$0.79 $0.44 $0.30

Divination

Draw two cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Dreadwing Scavenger

Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, draw a card, then discard a card.
Threshold — This creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Creature - Bird Nightmare

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Eyes Everywhere

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.

: Exchange control of this enchantment and target nonland permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment

$0.39 $0.32 $0.15

Interpret the Signs

Scry 3, then reveal the top card of your library. Draw cards equal to that card's mana value. (To scry 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
+1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.
−8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Legendary Planeswalker - Jace

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (plst) WAR-54

$18.99 $12.65 $12.50

Omenspeaker

When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

$1.49 $0.98 $0.75

Psychic Frog

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, draw a card.
Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Exile three cards from your graveyard: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature - Frog

$6.99 $4.23 $3.14

Reckoner's Bargain

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.

Instant

$1.99 $0.99 $0.56

Risky Research

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Scroll Thief

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature - Merfolk Rogue

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery

$1.79 $1.74 $0.62

Shadowmage Infiltrator

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.49 $0.69 $0.22

Sleight of Hand

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Soothsayer Adept

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Stealer of Secrets

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Strategic Planning

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Thassa's Oracle

When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each

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

Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$23.99 $22.49 $19.02

Visions of Beyond

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

Instant

$5.99 $4.17 $3.18

Draw

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Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.30 $0.31

Finisher

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Ash Barrens

: Add

.
Basic landcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.

: Add

: Scry 2.

Land

$1.29 $0.34 $0.25

Darkslick Shores

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

: Add

Land

$4.49 $2.97 $2.40

Darkwater Catacombs

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.33 $0.18

Evolving Wilds

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

Land

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Geier Reach Sanitarium

: Add

: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Legendary Land

$2.29 $2.61 $1.51

Island

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: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.17 $0.15

Memorial to Folly

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Port of Karfell

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Land

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Restless Reef

This land enters tapped.

: Add

: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 4/4 blue and black Shark creature with deathtouch. It's still a land.
Whenever this land attacks, target player mills four cards.

Land

$3.99 $2.00 $1.02

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Temple of Deceit

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 $0.37 $0.18

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Land

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Corpse Churn

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Drowned Secrets

Whenever you cast a blue spell, target player mills two cards.

Enchantment

$1.29 $0.59 $0.15

Increasing Confusion

Target player mills X cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, that player mills twice that many cards instead.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

$1.79 $0.94 $0.69

Jace's Erasure

Whenever you draw a card, you may have target player mill a card.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Mindwrack Demon

Flying, trample
When this creature enters, mill four cards.
Delirium — At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 4 life unless there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Creature - Demon

$0.99 $0.42 $0.15

Mystic Redaction

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1.
Whenever you discard a card, each opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Shriekgeist

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player mills two cards.

Creature - Spirit

$0.35 $0.05 $0.15

Snooping Newsie

When this creature enters, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
As long as there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

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

$0.99 $0.31 $0.18

Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery

$5.49 $3.61 $2.50

Mill

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Dive Down

Target creature you control gets +0/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Protection

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Training Grounds

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost

less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Enchantment

$11.99 $9.43 $8.51

Ramp

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Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.59 $0.38 $0.33

Beacon of Unrest

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.95 $0.29

Bone Harvest

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Defossilize

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature explores, then it explores again. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard. Then repeat this process.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Extract from Darkness

Each player mills two cards. Then you put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.41 $0.15

Forever Young

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Gravedigger

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

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Macabre Waltz

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Sorcery

$2.29 $1.66 $0.78

Raise Dead

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Rise from the Grave

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Recursion

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Cresting Mosasaurus

Emerge

(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When this creature enters, if you cast it, return each non-Dinosaur creature to its owner's hand.

Creature - Dinosaur

$3.99 $5.23 $3.38

Day of Black Sun

Each creature with mana value X or less loses all abilities until end of turn. Destroy those creatures.

Sorcery

$2.99 $1.11 $0.26

Dead Drop

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

.)
Target player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Desperate Plea

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Choose one or both —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield if its power is less than or equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
• Destroy target creature.

Sorcery - Lesson

$0.79 $0.26 $0.15

Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay

.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.23 $0.15

Hero's Downfall

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Hour of Glory

Exile target creature. If that creature was a God, its controller reveals their hand and exiles all cards from it with the same name as that creature.

Instant

$0.49 $0.14 $0.15

Necropolis Fiend

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

.)
Flying

, Exile X cards from your graveyard: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Creature - Demon

$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Pharika's Chosen

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature - Snake

$0.35 $0.39 $0.15

Scourge of Fleets

When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Creature - Kraken

$1.29 $1.90 $0.46

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.99 $2.21 $1.22

Removal

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Torgaar, Famine Incarnate

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs

less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way.
When Torgaar enters, up to one target player's life total becomes half their starting life total, rounded down.

Legendary Creature - Avatar

$0.49 $0.36 $0.15

Sac Outlet

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Demonic Bargain

Exile the top thirteen cards of your library, then search your library for a card. Put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.33 $0.15

Demonic Consultation

Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

Instant

$8.99 $5.53 $5.22

Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Demon

$1.99 $1.32 $0.18

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $156.34

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Avg Mana Value: 3.15Total Mana Value: 208.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.15Total Mana Value: 208.00

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