Varina but worse • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $3.99

Varina, Lich Queen

Whenever you attack with one or more Zombies, draw that many cards, then discard that many cards. You gain that much life.

, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Zombie

$3.99 $4.12 $2.69

Commander

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Anthem

Qty: 2 Price: $1.68

Diregraf Captain

Deathtouch
Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Soldier Zombie

$0.69 $0.38 $0.20

On Wings of Gold

Creatures you control that are Zombies and/or tokens get +1/+1 and have flying.
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 white Zombie creature token.

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.52 $0.26

Anthem

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Counters

Qty: 2 Price: $5.34

Commandeer

You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters under your control.)

Instant

$4.99 $3.76 $3.10

Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays

Instant

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Counters

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Creature

Qty: 2 Price: $0.70

Putrid Warrior

Whenever this creature deals damage, choose one —
• Each player loses 1 life.
• Each player gains 1 life.

Creature - Warrior Soldier Zombie

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Roofstalker Wight

: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Creature

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Discard

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Liliana's Steward

, Sacrifice this creature: Target opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Discard

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Draw

Qty: 9 Price: $5.59

Assemble the Players

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
Once each turn, you may cast a creature spell with power 2 or less from the top of your library.

Enchantment

$1.29 $0.35 $0.15

Blood Scrivener

If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, instead you draw two cards and you lose 1 life.

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Cobbled Lancer

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile a creature card from your graveyard.

, Exile this card from your graveyard: Draw a card.

Creature - Zombie Horse

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.99 $0.37 $0.26

Enter the Enigma

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Infernal Scarring

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has "When this creature dies, draw a card."

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Liliana's Standard Bearer

Flash
When this creature enters, draw X cards, where X is the number of creatures that died under your control this turn.

Creature - Knight Zombie

$0.69 $0.24 $0.15

Prophet of the Scarab

Vigilance
When this creature enters, draw cards equal to the number of Zombies you control or the number of Zombie cards in your graveyard, whichever is greater.

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$0.59 $0.25 $0.15

Tamiyo Meets the Story Circle

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Until your next turn, whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, it gets -2/-0 until end of turn.
II — Discard any number of cards, then investigate twice for each card discarded this way.
III — Shuffle up to three target cards from your graveyard into your library.

Enchantment - Saga

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 3 Price: $2.83

Geralf, Visionary Stitcher

Zombies you control have flying.

, Sacrifice another nontoken creature: Create an X/X blue Zombie creature token, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$1.99 $1.07 $0.67

Sword Coast Sailor

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, this creature can't be blocked this turn."

Legendary Enchantment - Background

$0.49 $0.16 $0.15

Thunder Lasso

When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 2 Price: $0.70

Interjection

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains first strike until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Writhing Necromass

This spell costs

less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Deathtouch

Creature - Zombie Giant

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 38 Price: $17.24

Contaminated Landscape

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Evolving Wilds

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Forum of Amity

This land enters tapped.

: Add

: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.20 $0.15

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Razortide Bridge

This land enters tapped.
Indestructible

: Add

Artifact Land

$0.79 $0.30 $0.15

Scoured Barrens

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Serpent's Pass

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Skybridge Towers

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.18 $0.15

Thriving Heath

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than white.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Thriving Isle

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than blue.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Thriving Moor

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than black.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Land

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Mill

Qty: 3 Price: $1.33

Crow of Dark Tidings

Flying
When this creature enters or dies, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature - Bird Zombie

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Returned Centaur

When this creature enters, target player mills four cards.

Creature - Zombie Centaur

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Stitcher Geralf

: Each player mills three cards. Exile up to two creature cards put into graveyards this way. Create an X/X blue Zombie creature token, where X is the total power of the cards exiled this way.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 2 Price: $1.34

Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant

$0.99 $0.74 $0.33

Unhallowed Phalanx

This creature enters tapped.

Creature - Soldier Zombie

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Due Diligence

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, target creature you control other than enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and gains vigilance until end of turn.
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has vigilance.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 9 Price: $8.17

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$1.29 $0.80 $0.50

Lantern of Revealing

: Add one mana of any color.

: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, you may put it on the bottom of your library.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Letter of Acceptance

: Add one mana of any color.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Magnifying Glass

: Add

: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Artifact

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Orzhov Cluestone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Rooftop Storm

You may pay

rather than pay the mana cost for Zombie creature spells you cast.

Enchantment

$1.99 $2.47 $1.36

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $2.17 $1.55

Starnheim Memento

: Add

: Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Traveler's Amulet

, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 6 Price: $3.82

Fell Horseman

When this creature dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

Creature - Knight Zombie

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Gisa and Geralf

When Gisa and Geralf enters, mill four cards.
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a Zombie creature spell from your graveyard.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$0.99 $0.48 $0.19

Hour of Eternity

Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Liliana, Death's Majesty

+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards.
−3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
−7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.

Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana

$1.29 $0.42 $0.20

Macabre Reconstruction

This spell costs

less to cast if a creature card was put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn.
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Retrofitted Transmogrant

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature Artifact - Zombie

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 12 Price: $5.18

Compelling Deterrence

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card if you control a Zombie.

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay

.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Festering Mummy

When this creature dies, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Flip the Switch

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Get Out

Choose one —
• Counter target creature or enchantment spell.
• Return one or two target creatures and/or enchantments you own to your hand.

Instant

$0.99 $0.37 $0.15

Jailbreak Scheme

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+

— Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It can't be blocked this turn.
+

— Target artifact or creature's owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Makeshift Binding

When this enchantment enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. You gain 2 life.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Not on My Watch

Exile target attacking creature.

Instant

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Out Cold

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.)
Tap up to two target creatures and put a stun counter on each of them. Investigate. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Overcharged Amalgam

Flash
Flying
Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When this creature exploits a creature, counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Creature - Horror Zombie

$0.69 $0.39 $0.25

Rot-Tide Gargantua

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When this creature exploits a creature, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature - Zombie Kraken

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Sanctify

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 3 life.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Boneyard Desecrator

Menace

, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. If an outlaw was sacrificed this way, create a Treasure token. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.)

Creature - Zombie Mercenary

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Sac Outlet

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Sorcery

Qty: 2 Price: $0.70

Cost of Brilliance

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Procrastinate

Tap target creature. Put twice X stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Sorcery

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Tokens

Qty: 4 Price: $3.54

Falcon Abomination

Flying
When this creature enters, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature - Bird Zombie

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Geralf, the Fleshwright

Whenever you cast a spell during your turn other than your first spell that turn, create a 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature token.
Whenever a Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie that entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Legendary Creature - Human Warlock

$2.49 $1.38 $0.98

Hobbling Zombie

Deathtouch
When this creature dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Liliana's Devotee

Zombies you control get +1/+0.
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you may pay

. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature - Human Warlock

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Tokens

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Maybeboard

Qty: 34 Price: $12.08

Azorius Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Bladebrand

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Blight Rot

Put four -1/-1 counters on target creature.

Instant

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Blossombind

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature can't become untapped and can't have counters put on it.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant

$0.39 $0.28 $0.15

Crypt Feaster

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Threshold — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Divergent Equation

Return up to X target instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Exile Divergent Equation.

Instant

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Dramatic Accusation

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

: Shuffle enchanted creature into its owner's library.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.07 $0.15

Emerge from the Cocoon

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain 3 life.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Fierce Retribution

Cleave

(You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Destroy target [attacking] creature.

Instant

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Last Gasp

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Maalfeld Twins

When this creature dies, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Masterful Flourish

Target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Moaning Wall

Defender
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature - Zombie Wall

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Ojutai Monument

: Add

: This artifact becomes a 4/4 white and blue Dragon artifact creature with flying until end of turn.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Phylactery Lich

Indestructible
As this creature enters, put a phylactery counter on an artifact you control.
When you control no permanents with phylactery counters on them, sacrifice this creature.

Creature - Zombie

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Piercing Light

Piercing Light deals 2 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Potioner's Trove

: Add one mana of any color.

: You gain 2 life. Activate only if you've cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Returned Phalanx

Defender

: This creature can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

Creature - Soldier Zombie

$0.35 $0.05 $0.15

Rotting Mastodon

Creature - Zombie Elephant

$0.35 $0.05 $0.15

Run Away Together

Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Scattered Thoughts

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Secrets of the Key

Investigate. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, investigate twice instead. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Flashback

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Sewer Shambler

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Scavenge

(

, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to this card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Silent Departure

Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Skulduggery

Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1.

Instant

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Stab Wound

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player loses 2 life.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Stand Up for Yourself

Destroy target creature with power 3 or greater.

Instant

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Swift Response

Destroy target tapped creature.

Instant

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Syncopate

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Syphon Essence

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "

, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Twisted Abomination

: Regenerate this creature. (The next time this creature would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Swampcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature - Zombie Mutant

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Wretched Throng

When this creature dies, you may search your library for a card named Wretched Throng, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Horror Zombie

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Zombie Boa

: Choose a color. Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature of that color this turn, destroy that creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature - Zombie Snake

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $63.20

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.84Total Mana Value: 176.00

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Pump

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Sac Outlet

Sorcery

Tokens

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13 mana - 13 cards

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30 pips - 24 cards

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28 pips - 25 cards

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21 mana - 21 cards

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4 mana - 3 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.84Total Mana Value: 176.00

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