empress • (Mono-Blue Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Empress Galina

: Gain control of target legendary permanent. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Legendary Creature - Merfolk Noble

$14.99 $14.72 $8.29

Commander

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Clever Impersonator

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

Creature - Shapeshifter

$5.99 $4.23 $2.33

Phyrexian Metamorph

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter Phyrexian

$3.99 $2.53 $2.33

Clones

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Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.

: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact

$11.99 $14.33 $9.36

Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities.
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

$34.99 $28.56 $24.67

Copy

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Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$57.99 $47.01 $46.03

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$79.99 $55.22 $49.90

Counters

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Brainstorm

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

Instant

$2.49 $1.64 $1.43

Consecrated Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature - Sphinx

$44.99 $33.13 $30.28

Mystic Remora

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.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$15.99 $12.50 $11.36

Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
−2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Legendary Planeswalker - Narset

$1.99 $1.25 $0.90

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$5.49 $3.53 $2.09

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$74.99 $67.49 $67.73

The One Ring

Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.

: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Legendary Artifact

$139.99 $106.56 $102.30

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery

$7.49 $5.44 $4.42

Draw

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Expropriate

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.

Sorcery

$19.99 $15.27 $13.54

Finisher

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Corrupted Conscience

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.99 $0.45 $0.15

Infect

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Ancient Tomb

: Add

. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land

$149.99 $125.70 $126.02

Arcane Lighthouse

: Add

: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Land

$2.99 $1.89 $1.29

Flooded Strand

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$21.99 $15.77 $13.82

Island

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: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.59 $0.21 $0.15

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

: Add

: Untap target legendary permanent.

Legendary Land

Minamo, School at Water's Edge (chk) 279

$79.99 $57.62 $47.24

Misty Rainforest

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$42.99 $36.41 $33.86

Mystic Sanctuary

(

: Add

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

Land - Island

$2.99 $1.34 $1.37

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 $46.97 $41.50

Otawara, Soaring City

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$44.99 $28.46 $26.67

Polluted Delta

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$32.99 $21.88 $19.27

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.88 $4.06

Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "

: Add

."
II — This Saga gains "

: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost

, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land Enchantment - Saga Urza's

$47.99 $38.82 $36.50

Land

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Roil Elemental

Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may gain control of target creature for as long as you control this creature.

Creature - Elemental

$16.99 $14.55 $7.54

Landfall

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Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

Flying
Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."

Legendary Creature - Spirit

$5.99 $6.64 $4.57

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$6.49 $4.35 $3.90

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.99 $3.26 $2.80

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

$3.49 $2.57 $1.82

Protection

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$1.29 $0.59 $0.35

Chrome Mox

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.

: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Artifact

$199.99 $162.93 $165.66

Fellwar Stone

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact

$1.49 $0.96 $0.77

Grim Monolith

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Add

: Untap this artifact.

Artifact

$599.99 $475.65 $374.48

High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional

Instant

$1.29 $1.88 $0.52

Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay

. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.

: Add

Artifact

$149.99 $111.47 $98.99

Mox Diamond

If this artifact would enter, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put this artifact onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$1799.99 $1119.70 $928.48

Mox Opal

Metalcraft —

: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Legendary Artifact

$249.99 $222.62 $222.36

Patriar's Seal

: Add one mana of any color.

: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Artifact

$7.49 $3.75 $3.34

Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$14.99 $9.41 $8.73

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.94 $1.30

Ramp

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Agent of Treachery

When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more permanents you don't own, draw three cards.

Creature - Human Rogue

$9.49 $7.28 $4.78

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

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

Instant

$4.99 $2.85 $3.04

Blue Sun's Twilight

Gain control of target creature with mana value X or less. If X is 5 or more, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.54 $0.15

Control Magic

Enchant creature
You control enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$2.29 $0.74 $0.52

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $4.14 $2.30

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

$42.99 $38.41 $34.32

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

$2.79 $0.97 $0.46

Fierce Guardianship

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

Instant

$79.99 $63.76 $62.90

Gilded Drake

Flying
When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't or can't make an exchange, sacrifice this creature. This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal.

Creature - Drake

$329.99 $215.18 $169.50

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of

equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$69.99 $54.10 $50.73

Memnarch

: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

: Gain control of target artifact. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Legendary Creature Artifact - Wizard

$7.99 $5.18 $3.27

Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant

$3.99 $3.13 $2.76

Sink into Stupor

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Instant

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241

$14.99 $9.23 $8.56

Sower of Temptation

Flying
When this creature enters, gain control of target creature for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.

Creature - Wizard Faerie

$2.99 $2.59 $1.40

Steal Enchantment

Enchant enchantment
You control enchanted enchantment.

Enchantment - Aura

$7.49 $8.77 $4.39

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

$16.99 $12.00 $11.45

Thieving Skydiver

Kicker

. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell.)
Flying
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to this creature.

Creature - Merfolk Rogue

$0.49 $0.34 $0.26

Treachery

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, untap up to five lands.
You control enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$44.99 $44.18 $28.25

Vedalken Shackles

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step.

: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of Islands you control for as long as this artifact remains tapped.

Artifact

$8.49 $8.96 $5.94

Removal

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Back to Basics

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Enchantment

$5.99 $5.94 $3.56

Harbinger of the Seas

Nonbasic lands are Islands.

Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$1.99 $1.30 $0.45

Leyline of Singularity

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
All nonland permanents are legendary.

Enchantment

$3.99 $5.41 $2.95

Stax

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Acquire

Search target opponent's library for an artifact card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery

$2.79 $3.08 $1.15

Aura Thief

Flying
When this creature dies, you gain control of all enchantments. (You don't get to move Auras.)

Creature - Illusion

$9.49 $11.68 $7.22

Blatant Thievery

For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls.

Sorcery

$6.49 $5.98 $2.21

Bribery

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery

$7.99 $5.84 $5.06

Thada Adel, Acquisitor

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever Thada Adel deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

Legendary Creature - Merfolk Rogue

$16.99 $10.04 $8.58

Theft

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Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$21.99 $17.69 $16.09

Tutor

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Aphetto Alchemist

: Untap target artifact or creature.
Morph

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

. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature - Human Wizard

$5.99 $6.54 $2.60

Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant

$1.29 $4.32 $2.49

Ioreth of the Healing House

: Untap another target permanent.

: Untap two other target legendary creatures.

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

$0.39 $0.32 $0.15

Pemmin's Aura

Enchant creature

: Untap enchanted creature.

: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn.

: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment - Aura

$9.49 $8.21 $5.24

Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste.

: Untap target creature.

Artifact

$24.99 $17.68 $16.78

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $4,889.00

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.02Total Mana Value: 199.00

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15 mana - 9 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.02Total Mana Value: 199.00

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