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Commander
Size: 100Est cost: $346.90Salt sum: 32.34
Brian_Stokes0
689 views4 days ago
Commander
Size: 100Est cost: $346.90Salt sum: 32.34
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Artifact
Cursed Recording
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a time counter on this artifact. Then if there are seven or more time counters on it, remove those counters and it deals 20 damage to you.
: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Artifact
Palantír of Orthanc
At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.
Legendary Artifact
Artifact
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Dragon's Rage Channeler
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Delirium — As long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and attacks each combat if able.
Delirium — As long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and attacks each combat if able.
Creature - Human Shaman
Fevered Suspicion
Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among those nonland cards without paying their mana costs.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Rowan's Grim Search
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard.
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard.
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
Instant
Sin Prodder
Menace
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. Any opponent may have you put that card into your graveyard. If a player does, this creature deals damage to that player equal to that card's mana value. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library. Any opponent may have you put that card into your graveyard. If a player does, this creature deals damage to that player equal to that card's mana value. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.
Creature - Devil
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Creature
Alania, Divergent Storm
Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the first instant spell, the first sorcery spell, or the first Otter spell other than Alania you've cast this turn, you may have target opponent draw a card. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Otter
Vial Smasher the Fierce
Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, choose an opponent at random. Vial Smasher deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to that player or a planeswalker that player controls.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Goblin Berserker
Creature
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Instant
Instant
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Land
Land
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Sorcery
Bloodsoaked Insight
This spell costs less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.
Target opponent exiles the top three cards of their library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. If you cast a spell this way, mana of any type can be spent to cast it.
Target opponent exiles the top three cards of their library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. If you cast a spell this way, mana of any type can be spent to cast it.
Sorcery
Mizzix's Mastery
Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery.
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Soulfire Eruption
Choose any number of target creatures, planeswalkers, and/or players. For each of them, exile the top card of your library, then Soulfire Eruption deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player. You may play the exiled cards until the end of your next turn.
Sorcery
Sorcery
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Abstract Performance
Exile the top four cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top four cards of your library in a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your graveyard. Look at the cards in the other pile. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest into your hand.
Sorcery
Echocasting Symposium
Target player creates a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Sorcery - Lesson
Fateful Tempest
Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for past or present. You mill a card for each past vote, then Fateful Tempest deals damage to each opponent equal to the total mana value of cards milled this way. Exile the top card of your library for each present vote. Until the end of your next turn, you may play the exiled cards.
Sorcery
Improvisation Capstone
Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile cards with total mana value 4 or greater. You may cast any number of spells from among them without paying their mana costs.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Sorcery - Lesson
Saruman, the White Hand
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, amass Orcs X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
Goblins and Orcs you control have ward .
Goblins and Orcs you control have ward .
Legendary Creature - Wizard Avatar
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Wipes"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Toxic Deluge"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Hostile Takeover"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"In Garruk's Wake"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Blood Money"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Piloting Tips"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Early Game"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Prioritize:\nmana fixing,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"talismans/signets,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"looting,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"graveyard setup."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You are not the fastest deck at the table.\nAvoid becoming the threat too early.\nMidgame"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This is where Cormela shines.\nTry to:\nhold mana open,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"interact politically,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"and engineer profitable Cormela deaths."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The deck becomes much stronger once:\nyou have 7+ mana,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"and at least one premium spell in the graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Late Game"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You become the inevitability deck.\nYour ideal late game is:\nrecur/copy haymakers,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"chain spells in a single turn,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"force opponents into unwinnable resource exchanges."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Don’t fire your biggest spell too early unless it decisively shifts the game.\nHidden MVPs"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Wishclaw Talisman"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Political tutor that often wins the turn you activate it.\nStormcatch Mentor"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Quietly improves spell velocity and efficiency.\nCerebral Vortex"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Can become a surprise finisher against greedy draw decks.\nVial Smasher the Fierce"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Turns every giant spell into additional random damage.\nWeaknesses"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The deck can struggle against:\nfast combo,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"heavy graveyard hate,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"hyper-efficient aggro,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"repeated counterspell wars."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cards like:\ngraveyard exile,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"stax effects,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"and mana denial"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":" can slow you considerably."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Because many spells are expensive, sequencing matters enormously.\nFinal Thoughts"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This Cormela list embraces the theatrical side of Commander:\ngiant haymakers,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"reckless value,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"political manipulation,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"and explosive spell turns."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You aren’t trying to play fair Magic.\nYou’re trying to create turns where:\nthree spells get copied,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"someone loses 25 life unexpectedly,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"another player’s board becomes yours,"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"and the graveyard turns into an extension of your hand."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"If piloted patiently, the deck rewards timing, table awareness, and understanding exactly when to unleash chaos.\n"}]}