DonTroopa
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Commander
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Card Advantage (~12)
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
Card Advantage (~12)
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Game Plan - Big Finisher
Game Plan - Big Finisher
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Game Plan (~30)
Animate Dead
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Enchantment - Aura
Dance of the Dead
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay . If the player does, untap that creature.
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay . If the player does, untap that creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
Hexproof
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may have Lazav become a copy of that card, except its name is Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has hexproof and this ability.
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may have Lazav become a copy of that card, except its name is Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has hexproof and this ability.
Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter
Octomancer
Gift an Octopus (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, when it enters, they create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token.)
At the beginning of each end step, create a token that's a copy of target creature token that entered the battlefield this turn.
At the beginning of each end step, create a token that's a copy of target creature token that entered the battlefield this turn.
Creature - Druid Frog
Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
: Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded an instant or sorcery card this way, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice Vohar: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only as a sorcery.
, Sacrifice Vohar: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk Phyrexian
Game Plan (~30)
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Land
Susur Secundi, Void Altar
This land enters tapped.
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Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ | , , Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Activate only as a sorcery.
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Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ | , , Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Planet
Land
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Mass Disruption (~6)
Mass Disruption (~6)
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Ramp (~10)
Ramp (~10)
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Targeted Disruption (~12)
Targeted Disruption (~12)
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Maybeboard
Patron of the Moon
Moonfolk offering (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant by sacrificing a Moonfolk and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed Moonfolk. Mana cost includes color.)
Flying
: Put up to two land cards from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Flying
: Put up to two land cards from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Legendary Creature - Spirit
Maybeboard
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The pilot, embodying the spirit of a benevolent tortoise, places Archelos upon the battlefield and deliberately leaves him dormant. \"I will not tap the well,\" the pilot whispers to the table, \"so that your spells may flow freely.\" This act of restraint transforms Archelos from a gatekeeper into a shared sanctuary. Opponents, relieved of the fear of being locked out, lower their defenses and engage in a cooperative dance of development."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"#16141c","color":"#ffffff"},"insert":"As the game progresses, the pilot engages in \"Board Flow Control\"—not by banning actions, but by gently nudging the tempo. A counterspell here to prevent a chaotic board wipe; a tax effect there to slow a runaway leader; a timely removal of a threat that endangers the group's collective enjoyment. 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