cao ren • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $109.99

Cao Ren, Wei Commander

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
When Cao Ren enters, you lose 3 life.

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior Soldier

$109.99 $113.30 $112.01

Commander

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Creature

Qty: 2 Price: $101.28

Wei Elite Companions

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.29 $3.09 $1.67

Zhang He, Wei General

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
Whenever Zhang He attacks, each other creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

$99.99 $98.43 $68.55

Creature

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Discard

Qty: 1 Price: $32.99

Wei Night Raiders

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card.

Creature - Human Soldier

$32.99 $35.27 $39.99

Discard

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Drain

Qty: 3 Price: $9.27

Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Vampire

$4.49 $3.82 $2.57

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each

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

Creature - Zombie

$2.29 $3.96 $1.01

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Rogue Ally

$2.49 $1.33 $1.00

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 12 Price: $112.48

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Elf Noble

$8.99 $8.52 $6.44

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 $15.99 $12.47

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Nightmare

$6.49 $4.13 $3.53

Buster Sword

Equipped creature gets +3/+2.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then you may cast a spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to that damage without paying its mana cost.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$57.99 $52.95 $46.62

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

$0.99 $0.44 $0.26

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature - Nightmare

$6.99 $4.46 $4.16

Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.79 $0.33 $0.19

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.49 $0.38 $0.16

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.39 $0.21

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Enchantment

$5.49 $4.16 $3.21

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.49 $2.97 $0.43

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$7.99 $5.08 $4.53

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 2 Price: $4.58

Wei Scout

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)

Creature - Human Soldier Scout

$2.79 $3.64 $3.49

Wei Strike Force

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.79 $3.33 $1.76

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 2 Price: $43.48

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery

$39.99 $41.48 $35.94

Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.

: Until end of turn, this Equipment gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$3.49 $2.67 $1.54

Finisher

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Infect

Qty: 2 Price: $15.48

Grafted Exoskeleton

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Whenever this Equipment becomes unattached from a permanent, sacrifice that permanent.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$10.99 $8.17 $7.09

Tainted Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Instant

$4.49 $3.23 $2.33

Infect

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $585.41

Ancient Tomb

: Add

. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land

$159.99 $119.25 $119.83

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.

: Add

Land

$---- $---- $----

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$34.99 $28.57 $25.98

Cabal Stronghold

: Add

for each basic Swamp you control.

Land

$22.99 $12.37 $11.88

Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.

: Add

: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land

$4.99 $3.70 $3.23

Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type.

: Add

: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land

$64.99 $51.06 $50.26

Command Beacon

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land

$13.99 $9.46 $8.25

Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped.

: Add

for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land

$6.49 $4.19 $3.11

Geier Reach Sanitarium

: Add

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

Legendary Land

$4.99 $2.59 $1.94

Midgar, City of Mako

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Town

Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid (fin) 286

$3.99 $1.77 $0.65

Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.44 $0.42

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.69 $0.37 $0.21

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

: Add

: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Legendary Land

$74.99 $46.40 $42.35

Phyrexian Tower

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: Add

Legendary Land

$42.99 $30.56 $30.18

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.99 $5.37 $4.58

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$0.99 $0.39 $0.29

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

: Add

: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Legendary Land

$42.99 $44.78 $29.70

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$17.99 $10.49 $10.42

Temple of the False God

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. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Legendary Land

$59.99 $55.48 $50.30

War Room

: Add

, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land

$6.49 $5.40 $4.62

Westvale Abbey

: Add

, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.

, Sacrifice five creatures: Transform this land, then untap it.

Land

Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (inr) 287

$4.99 $3.40 $2.04

Witch's Cottage

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: Add

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

Land - Swamp

$1.49 $0.82 $0.36

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $47.48

Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$2.49 $3.34 $1.39

Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.

: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$44.99 $36.06 $33.71

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 6 Price: $89.44

Commander's Plate

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity.
Equip commander

Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$49.99 $38.90 $36.75

Darksteel Plate

Indestructible
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$5.49 $3.19 $2.56

Hammer of Nazahn

Whenever Hammer of Nazahn or another Equipment you control enters, you may attach that Equipment to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has indestructible.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$11.99 $14.24 $10.83

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$10.99 $9.18 $8.57

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $4.31 $4.04

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$4.99 $2.41 $2.02

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 4 Price: $6.12

Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control.
Equip legendary creature

Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $3.26 $3.06

Fireshrieker

Equipped creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.32 $0.19

Lashwrithe

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Artifact - Equipment

$1.29 $0.67 $0.60

Nighthowler

Bestow

(If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached.)
This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Creature Enchantment - Horror

$0.49 $0.33 $0.18

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 15 Price: $233.05

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$79.99 $65.11 $64.98

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legendary Artifact

$5.49 $3.73 $2.70

Brass Squire

: Attach target Equipment you control to target creature you control.

Creature Artifact - Myr

$1.79 $1.20 $1.04

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.79 $0.35 $0.31

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional

Creature - Spirit

$21.99 $17.83 $13.74

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$18.99 $14.42 $11.92

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each

in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian

$1.99 $1.06 $0.77

Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '

: Add

.'"

Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana

$13.99 $9.67 $7.97

Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Creature - Human Pirate

$5.49 $3.23 $2.85

Sol Ring

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Artifact

$2.99 $2.00 $1.33

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.59 $0.31 $0.18

Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$47.99 $36.81 $36.17

Sword of Hearth and Home

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$20.99 $17.87 $16.69

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$4.99 $3.79 $3.00

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: $201.78

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery

$1.79 $1.25 $0.66

Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
Sacrifice Xiahou Dun: Return target black card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

$199.99 $184.50 $185.25

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 9 Price: $78.51

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$23.99 $21.01 $19.90

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Instant

$37.99 $28.68 $27.65

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant

$2.79 $2.11 $1.44

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant

$1.29 $0.48 $0.34

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$0.69 $0.32 $0.15

Mandate of Abaddon

Choose target creature you control. Destroy all creatures with power less than that creature's power.

Sorcery

$4.99 $3.97 $3.63

Quietus Spike

Equipped creature has deathtouch.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$2.79 $2.19 $1.33

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$3.49 $3.32 $1.83

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $6.99

Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.

, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature - Rogue Dauthi

$6.99 $5.77 $3.98

Stax

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,678.33

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.88Total Mana Value: 184.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.88Total Mana Value: 184.00

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