Ares • (Rakdos Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Ares, God of War

Ares attacks each combat if able.
Whenever an attacking creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Legendary Creature - Warrior Villain God

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Commander

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Anger

Haste
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature - Incarnation

$1.29 $0.53 $0.34

Enduring Courage

Whenever another creature you control enters, it gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.
When Enduring Courage dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment - Dog Glimmer

$5.49 $3.14 $2.34

Rising of the Day

Creatures you control have haste.
Legendary creatures you control get +1/+0.

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.43 $0.15

Anthem

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Ball Lightning

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Haste (This creature can attack and

as soon as it comes under your control.)
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Creature - Elemental

$0.49 $0.47 $0.15

Kratos, God of War

Double strike
All creatures have haste.
At the beginning of each player's end step, Kratos deals damage to that player equal to the number of creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn.

Legendary Creature - Warrior God

$54.99 $47.38 $45.83

Burn

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Flare of Duplication

You may sacrifice a nontoken red creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant

$2.79 $1.87 $1.23

Copy

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Crookshank Kobolds

Creature - Kobold

$2.79 $2.07 $0.97

Creature

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Lightning Skelemental

Trample, haste
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards.
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Creature - Skeleton Elemental

$0.99 $0.34 $0.15

Discard

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Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$4.49 $3.55 $2.50

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER

Whenever Sephiroth enters or attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever another creature dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. If this is the fourth time this ability has resolved this turn, transform Sephiroth.

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier Avatar

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel (fin) 115

$39.99 $25.49 $26.03

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

$2.79 $1.48 $1.25

Drain

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Agent Venom

Flash
Menace
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Legendary Creature - Soldier Hero Symbiote

$0.69 $0.29 $0.15

Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Instant

$0.99 $0.36 $0.15

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 $0.33 $0.15

Grim Haruspex

Morph

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

. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$2.79 $3.01 $1.42

Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Creature - Knight Zombie

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.

Instant

$1.49 $0.40 $0.26

Seize the Spotlight

Each opponent chooses fame or fortune. For each player who chose fame, gain control of a creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures and they gain haste until end of turn. For each player who chose fortune, you draw a card and create a Treasure token.

Sorcery

$16.99 $13.89 $13.52

Skullclamp

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

Artifact - Equipment

$7.99 $6.39 $4.94

Teval's Judgment

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.

Enchantment

$15.99 $10.74 $8.74

Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Instant

$0.99 $0.62 $0.23

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Protection from Humans
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.

, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

$37.99 $27.30 $26.03

Draw

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Ornithopter

Flying

Creature Artifact - Thopter

$0.59 $0.32 $0.15

Evasion

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Arena of Glory

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain.

: Add

, Exert this land: Add

. If any of that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (An exerted permanent won't untap during your next untap step.)

Land

$12.99 $8.57 $7.16

Blazemire Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Land

$19.99 $14.35 $10.21

Blood Crypt

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Swamp Mountain

$13.99 $8.77 $8.51

Bloodstained Mire

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

Land

$27.99 $20.67 $17.71

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$2.99 $1.41 $1.44

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$34.99 $30.24 $26.15

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.59 $0.34 $0.19

Field of the Dead

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land

$29.99 $26.46 $23.38

Graven Cairns

: Add

, or

Land

$2.99 $1.40 $1.36

Haunted Ridge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$9.49 $8.97 $5.67

High Market

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land

$1.49 $0.53 $0.46

Lazotep Quarry

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land - Desert

$6.49 $4.68 $4.11

Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$14.99 $8.28 $8.13

Mountain

(

: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

$1.29 $0.32 $0.15

Phyrexian Tower

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: Add

Legendary Land

$44.99 $33.06 $30.06

Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.37 $0.23

Raucous Theater

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land - Swamp Mountain

$17.99 $11.73 $8.78

Reflecting Pool

: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land

$16.99 $13.94 $6.40

Sulfurous Springs

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$2.29 $1.08 $0.41

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

Tainted Peak

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land

$1.79 $1.63 $1.53

Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out.

: Add

: Add one mana of any color.

: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Land - Gate

$37.99 $34.34 $29.74

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Legendary Land

$69.99 $52.64 $53.61

Land

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Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

$17.99 $13.43 $12.74

Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant

$94.99 $73.65 $74.19

Protection

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.41 $0.39

Atsushi, the Blazing Sky

Flying, trample
When Atsushi dies, choose one —
• Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
• Create three Treasure tokens.

Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit

$0.99 $0.69 $0.15

Burnt Offering

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add X mana in any combination of

and/or

, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant

$0.99 $1.42 $0.64

Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Add

for each card in target opponent's hand.
• Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery

$49.99 $41.29 $38.62

Kobolds of Kher Keep

Creature - Kobold

$3.99 $3.26 $1.43

Memnite

Creature Artifact - Construct

$2.79 $3.10 $1.76

Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add

Creature - Vampire Shaman

$1.49 $0.64 $0.26

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 $3.22 $2.96

Professional Face-Breaker

Menace
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token.
Sacrifice a Treasure: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.

Creature - Human Warrior

$6.49 $4.93 $4.32

Rakdos Signet

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $3.80 $1.35

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.36 $1.37

Talisman of Indulgence

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$2.29 $1.56 $1.08

The Fire Crystal

Red spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Creatures you control have haste.

: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Legendary Artifact

$11.99 $8.81 $7.59

Ramp

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Chthonian Nightmare

When this enchantment enters, you get

(three energy counters).
Pay X

, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment

$3.49 $1.62 $1.50

Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace
When Junji dies, choose one —
• Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.
• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit

$1.29 $0.79 $0.57

Phyrexian Reclamation

, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment

$3.99 $3.18 $3.03

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Sorcery

$12.99 $8.69 $7.87

Recursion

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Attrition

, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Enchantment

$24.99 $18.58 $16.24

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs

less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery

$1.99 $1.78 $0.82

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant

$0.69 $0.42 $0.29

Deadly Rollick

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

Instant

$37.99 $26.86 $27.09

Fell the Profane

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$8.99 $5.72 $5.00

Flare of Malice

You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant

$7.99 $5.30 $4.84

Mayhem Devil

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature - Devil

$0.69 $0.34 $0.28

Orcish Bowmasters

Flash
When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature - Archer Orc

$57.99 $38.09 $37.56

Rot-Curse Rakshasa

Trample
Decayed (This creature can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Renew —

, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a decayed counter on each of X target creatures. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature - Demon

$3.49 $2.20 $1.04

The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Legendary Enchantment

$32.99 $25.75 $25.00

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery

$8.99 $5.48 $5.66

Removal

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Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Zombie

$3.99 $4.51 $3.02

Goblin Bombardment

Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

Enchantment

$4.99 $3.15 $2.53

Umbral Collar Zealot

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

Creature - Human Cleric

$1.29 $0.38 $0.15

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature - Wizard Vampire

$1.49 $0.62 $0.46

Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Creature - Wizard Goblin Zombie

$29.99 $23.23 $20.32

Sac Outlet

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Urabrask the Hidden

Creatures you control have haste.
Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$5.99 $4.47 $3.93

Stax

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Crimson Kobolds

Creature - Kobold

$2.49 $2.54 $0.98

Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature - Human Shaman

$2.29 $1.38 $1.03

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh

First strike, menace, trample
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Legendary Creature - Warrior Kobold

$2.49 $2.18 $1.61

Tokens

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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

$6.99 $3.81 $3.59

Gimli's Reckless Might

Creatures you control have haste.
Formidable — Whenever you attack, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, target attacking creature you control fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Enchantment

$13.99 $9.14 $7.07

Nasty End

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

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

$42.99 $34.94 $33.71

Sifter of Skulls

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add

." (

represents colorless mana.)

Creature - Eldrazi

$1.29 $1.44 $0.51

Skittering Precursor

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Menace
Whenever you sacrifice a nontoken permanent, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,059.80

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.49Total Mana Value: 157.00

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Burn

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Recursion

Removal

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Tokens

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Avg Mana Value: 2.49Total Mana Value: 157.00

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