PhD Deck • (Mono-Blue Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $1.49

Fblthp, the Lost

When Fblthp enters, draw a card. If it entered from your library or was cast from your library, draw two cards instead.
When Fblthp becomes the target of a spell, shuffle Fblthp into its owner's library.

Legendary Creature - Homunculus

$1.49 $1.43 $0.69

Commander

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Bounce

Qty: 2 Price: $4.34

Equilibrium

Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay

. If you do, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Enchantment

$3.99 $5.25 $4.45

Regress

Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Bounce

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Burn

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Thought Prison

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may have target player reveal their hand. If you do, choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.
Whenever a player casts a spell that shares a color or mana value with the exiled card, this artifact deals 2 damage to that player.

Artifact

$0.79 $1.01 $0.27

Burn

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Counters

Qty: 3 Price: $5.17

Remove Soul

Counter target creature spell.

Instant

$0.69 $0.53 $0.26

Rethink

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

, where X is its mana value.

Instant

$0.99 $2.55 $0.60

Scent of Brine

Reveal any number of blue cards in your hand. Counter target spell unless its controller pays

for each card revealed this way.

Instant

$3.49 $2.60 $1.11

Counters

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Creature

Qty: 4 Price: $10.48

Academy Researchers

When this creature enters, you may put an Aura card from your hand onto the battlefield attached to this creature.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Dark Maze

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: This creature can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature - Wall

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Walking Sponge

: Target creature loses your choice of flying, first strike, or trample until end of turn.

Creature - Sponge

$8.99 $6.01 $2.43

Warped Researcher

Whenever a player cycles a card, this creature gains flying and shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature - Human Wizard Mutant

$0.79 $0.43 $0.27

Creature

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Cycling

Qty: 1 Price: $84.99

Miscalculation

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$84.99 $54.95 $32.62

Cycling

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Discard

Qty: 2 Price: $10.78

Thought Devourer

Flying
Your maximum hand size is reduced by four.

Creature - Beast

$9.99 $8.97 $7.60

Thought Nibbler

Flying
Your maximum hand size is reduced by two.

Creature - Beast

$0.79 $0.74 $0.54

Discard

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Draw

Qty: 30 Price: $1081.34

Betrayal

Enchant creature an opponent controls
Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, you draw a card.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Brainstorm

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

Instant

$3.49 $2.53 $1.42

Breakthrough

Draw four cards, then choose X cards in your hand and discard the rest.

Sorcery

$22.99 $24.91 $20.82

Brilliant Plan

Draw three cards.

Sorcery

$3.49 $5.47 $1.04

Careful Study

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Sorcery

$119.99 $81.69 $47.54

Catalog

Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Concentrate

Draw three cards.

Sorcery

$6.99 $5.15 $2.07

Curiosity

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment - Aura

$1.99 $2.15 $0.72

Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—

, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$44.99 $42.15 $18.75

Diminishing Returns

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library. You exile the top ten cards of your library. Then each player draws up to seven cards.

Sorcery

$11.99 $9.22 $5.08

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant

$249.99 $239.99 $182.05

Flash of Insight

Look at the top X cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Flashback—

, Exile X blue cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost, then exile it. You can't exile Flash of Insight to pay for its own flashback cost.)

Instant

$74.99 $75.27 $62.50

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant

$159.99 $140.89 $70.99

Hapless Researcher

Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$9.99 $5.69 $5.73

Information Dealer

: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of Wizards on the battlefield, then put them back in any order.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.49 $2.48 $1.23

Inspiration

Target player draws two cards.

Instant

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Mental Discipline

, Discard a card: Draw a card.

Enchantment

$0.79 $3.02 $1.08

Mental Note

Mill two cards.
Draw a card.

Instant

$94.99 $84.75 $50.43

Mind's Desire

Shuffle your library. Then exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Sorcery

$159.99 $80.00 $130.30

Opportunity

Target player draws four cards.

Instant

$4.99 $8.94 $3.90

Pedantic Learning

Whenever a land card is put into your graveyard from your library, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card.

Enchantment

$5.99 $7.38 $4.63

Plagiarize

Until end of turn, if target player would draw a card, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Instant

$7.99 $4.83 $5.10

Rush of Knowledge

Draw cards equal to the greatest mana value among permanents you control.

Sorcery

$8.99 $8.34 $3.27

Stroke of Genius

Target player draws X cards.

Instant

$44.99 $59.19 $40.71

Theft of Dreams

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.96 $0.47

Thought Courier

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.49 $1.99 $1.07

Touch of Brilliance

Draw two cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Unifying Theory

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player may pay

. If the player does, they draw a card.

Enchantment

$7.99 $7.99 $3.11

Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay

, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Artifact

$13.99 $16.64 $6.31

Words of Wisdom

You draw two cards, then each other player draws a card.

Instant

$14.99 $12.85 $8.22

Draw

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Enchantment

Qty: 1 Price: $0.49

Dehydration

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.49 $0.77 $0.37

Enchantment

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Finisher

Qty: 4 Price: $110.96

Battle of Wits

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 200 or more cards in your library, you win the game.

Enchantment

$79.99 $36.12 $48.40

Eater of Days

Flying, trample
When this creature enters, you skip your next two turns.

Creature Artifact - Leviathan

$13.99 $15.58 $18.74

Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature - Human Wizard

$7.99 $4.88 $5.05

Paradigm Shift

Exile all cards from your library. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Sorcery

$8.99 $6.07 $4.94

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 35 Price: $87.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$2.49 $2.53 $2.02

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $16.99

Delusions of Mediocrity

When this enchantment enters, you gain 10 life.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose 10 life.

Enchantment

$---- $39.99 $20.00

Illusions of Grandeur

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.)
When this enchantment enters, you gain 20 life.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose 20 life.

Enchantment

$16.99 $16.03 $7.39

Lifegain

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Mill

Qty: 5 Price: $77.25

Bamboozle

Target player reveals the top four cards of their library. You choose two of those cards and put them into that player's graveyard. Put the rest on top of their library in any order.

Sorcery

$3.99 $1.37 $1.29

False Memories

Mill seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, exile seven cards from your graveyard.

Instant

$9.99 $14.43 $3.38

Think Tank

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Enchantment

$2.49 $4.45 $0.58

Thought Dissector

: Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until an artifact card or X cards are revealed, whichever comes first. If an artifact card is revealed this way, put it onto the battlefield under your control and sacrifice this artifact. Put the rest of the revealed cards into that player's graveyard.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.89 $0.61

Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery

$59.99 $34.17 $26.66

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 4 Price: $59.96

False Demise

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment - Aura

$3.49 $4.82 $2.80

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$8.49 $5.78 $3.52

Psychic Battle

Whenever a player chooses one or more targets, each player reveals the top card of their library. The player who reveals the card with the greatest mana value may change the target or targets. If two or more cards are tied for greatest, the target or targets remain unchanged. Changing targets this way doesn't trigger abilities of permanents named Psychic Battle.

Enchantment

$27.99 $24.01 $31.31

War Tax

: This turn, creatures can't attack unless their controller pays

for each attacking creature they control.

Enchantment

$19.99 $27.99 $5.93

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 2 Price: $75.34

Mind Games

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Instant

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Show and Tell

Each player may put an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery

$74.99 $55.43 $36.74

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $7.99

Weaver of Lies

Morph

(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for

. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, turn any number of target creatures with morph abilities other than this creature face down.

Creature - Beast

$7.99 $7.94 $5.40

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 28 Price: $1938.78

Brine Seer

: Reveal any number of blue cards in your hand. Counter target spell unless its controller pays

for each card revealed this way.

Creature - Human Wizard

$4.49 $2.36 $1.31

Contempt

Enchant creature
When enchanted creature attacks, return it and this Aura to their owners' hands at end of combat.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Cowardice

Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, return that creature to its owner's hand. (It won't be affected by the spell or ability.)

Enchantment

$24.99 $15.95 $10.59

Cultural Exchange

Choose any number of creatures target player controls. Choose the same number of creatures another target player controls. Those players exchange control of those creatures. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Sorcery

$34.99 $25.00 $20.63

Deem Inferior

This spell costs

less to cast for each card you've drawn this turn.
The owner of target nonland permanent puts it into their library second from the top or on the bottom.

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.16 $0.15

Desertion

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$3.99 $2.48 $1.26

Disruptive Student

: Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Encrust

Enchant artifact or creature
Enchanted permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.07 $0.15

Exhaustion

Creatures and lands target opponent controls don't untap during their next untap step.

Sorcery

$1.49 $2.43 $0.55

Fading Hope

Return target creature to its owner's hand. If its mana value was 3 or less, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Instant

$0.39 $0.29 $0.15

Flood of Tears

Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. If you return four or more nontoken permanents you control this way, you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery

$1.49 $1.19 $0.54

Frozen Solid

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.79 $0.49 $0.27

Frozen Solid

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
When enchanted creature is dealt damage, destroy it.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Gone Missing

Put target permanent on top of its owner's library.
Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Hesitation

When a player casts a spell, sacrifice this enchantment and counter that spell.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Hubris

Return target creature and all Auras attached to it to their owners' hands.

Instant

$0.35 $0.05 $0.15

Ice Cage

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy this Aura.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Icy Manipulator

: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Artifact

$1799.99 $745.47 $----

Icy Prison

When this enchantment enters, exile target creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless any player pays

.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.46 $0.25

Lost in Thought

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated. Its controller may exile three cards from their graveyard for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.99 $0.57 $0.26

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Instant

$42.99 $39.85 $24.37

Peer Pressure

Choose a creature type. If you control more creatures of that type than each other player, you gain control of all creatures of that type. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Sorcery

$15.99 $19.13 $9.70

Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant

$0.49 $0.56 $0.15

Shattered Ego

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -3/-0.

: Put enchanted creature into its owner's library third from the top.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.04 $0.15

Super-Duper Lost

Put target creature into its owner's library just beneath the top X cards of that library, where X is the number of doors you can see from your seat.

Instant

$0.49 $0.38 $0.30

Undo

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Utter Insignificance

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1.

: Exile enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Wall of Tears

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.63 $0.23

Removal

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Sorcery

Qty: 3 Price: $5.67

Cruel Fate

Look at the top five cards of target opponent's library. Put one of those cards into that player's graveyard and the rest on top of their library in any order.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.75 $0.44

Fatigue

Target player skips their next draw step.

Sorcery

$2.49 $2.62 $0.65

Taunt

During target player's next turn, creatures that player controls attack you if able.

Sorcery

$2.49 $2.11 $0.62

Sorcery

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Stax

Qty: 2 Price: $49.99

Arcane Laboratory

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Enchantment

$---- $68.81 $52.10

Ice Cave

Whenever a player casts a spell, any other player may pay that spell's mana cost. If a player does, counter the spell. (Mana cost includes color.)

Enchantment

$49.99 $40.54 $30.73

Stax

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Theft

Qty: 1 Price: $12.99

Chamber of Manipulation

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "

, Discard a card: Gain control of target creature until end of turn."

Enchantment - Aura

$12.99 $12.96 $2.21

Theft

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Tutor

Qty: 2 Price: $68.98

Parallel Thoughts

When this enchantment enters, search your library for seven cards, exile them in a face-down pile, and shuffle that pile. Then shuffle your library.
If you would draw a card, you may instead put the top card of the pile you exiled into your hand.

Enchantment

$13.99 $16.12 $12.24

Quiet Speculation

Search target player's library for up to three cards with flashback and put them into that player's graveyard. Then the player shuffles.

Sorcery

$54.99 $69.74 $39.58

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 2 Price: $65.34

Mind Over Matter

Discard a card: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Enchantment

$64.99 $48.97 $38.40

Sinking Feeling

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
Enchanted creature has "

, Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature: Untap this creature."

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Untap

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Maybeboard

Qty: 20 Price: $572.32

Charisma

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to a creature, gain control of the other creature for as long as this Aura remains on the battlefield.

Enchantment - Aura

$64.99 $74.43 $31.19

Compulsive Research

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

Sorcery

$0.49 $1.86 $0.38

Council of Advisors

When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Human Advisor

$7.49 $7.32 $4.94

Escape Artist

This creature can't be blocked.

, Discard a card: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.99 $1.02 $0.52

Extract

Search target player's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery

$74.99 $41.15 $51.73

Fervent Denial

Counter target spell.
Flashback

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

Instant

$0.49 $1.51 $1.41

Foreshadow

Choose a card name, then target opponent mills a card. If a card with the chosen name was milled this way, you draw a card.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Forget

Target player discards two cards, then draws as many cards as they discarded this way.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.39 $0.15

Mask of Intolerance

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if there are four or more basic land types among lands that player controls, this artifact deals 3 damage to that player.

Artifact

$4.49 $6.33 $3.74

Mind Harness

Enchant red or green creature
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.)
You control enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.79 $0.32 $0.15

Nuisance Engine

: Create a 0/1 colorless Pest artifact creature token.

Artifact

$0.79 $1.80 $0.62

Overburden

Whenever a player puts a nontoken creature onto the battlefield, that player returns a land they control to its owner's hand.

Enchantment

$149.99 $160.00 $38.03

Private Research

Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on this Aura.
When enchanted creature dies, draw a card for each page counter on this Aura.

Enchantment - Aura

$4.49 $1.94 $0.82

Prosperity

Each player draws X cards.

Sorcery

$3.49 $1.59 $0.91

Relearn

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Slow Motion

Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player sacrifices that creature unless they pay

.
When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment - Aura

$4.99 $4.36 $2.07

Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Instant

$229.99 $220.84 $122.10

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

$16.99 $20.99 $18.32

Thought Eater

Flying
Your maximum hand size is reduced by three.

Creature - Beast

$3.99 $2.98 $1.89

Whispers of the Muse

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.69 $0.39 $0.23

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 136Est cost: $3,777.26

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.19Total Mana Value: 322.00

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Mill

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Ramp

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Removal

Sorcery

Stax

Theft

Tutor

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Avg Mana Value: 3.19Total Mana Value: 322.00

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