elminster • (Azorius Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.29

Elminster

Whenever you scry, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs

less to cast, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way.
+2: Draw a card, then scry 2.
−3: Exile the top card of your library. Create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to that card's mana value.
Elminster can be your commander.

Legendary Planeswalker - Elminster

$2.29 $1.19 $0.92

Commander

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Burn

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Temporal Mastery

Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Mastery.
Miracle

(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery

$5.49 $4.94 $4.15

Burn

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Counters

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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

$69.99 $51.16 $51.04

Counters

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Draw

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Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.29 $0.66 $0.52

Consult the Star Charts

Kicker

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell.)
Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of lands you control. Put one of those cards into your hand. If this spell was kicked, put two of those cards into your hand instead. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant

$5.99 $2.94 $2.03

Cryptic Annelid

When this creature enters, scry 1, then scry 2, then scry 3. (To scry X, look at the top X cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Creature - Beast Worm

$0.59 $0.38 $0.19

Crystal Ball

: Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Artifact

$0.69 $0.53 $0.34

Deliberate

Scry 2, then draw a card.

Instant

$0.39 $0.16 $0.15

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for

.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant

$0.59 $0.31 $0.15

Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays

, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact - Human Soldier

$69.99 $59.32 $58.19

Foresee

Scry 4, then draw two cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Jace, Mirror Mage

Kicker

When Jace enters, if Jace was kicked, create a token that's a copy of Jace, except it's not legendary and its starting loyalty is 1.
+1: Scry 2.
0: Draw a card and reveal it. Remove a number of loyalty counters equal to that card's mana value from Jace.

Legendary Planeswalker - Jace

$1.29 $0.59 $0.41

Matoya, Archon Elder

Whenever you scry or surveil, draw a card. (Draw after you scry or surveil.)

Legendary Creature - Human Warlock

$1.79 $0.94 $0.20

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 $15.57 $12.18

Mystic Speculation

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

$2.49 $1.80 $0.54

Netherese Puzzle-Ward

Focus Beam — At the beginning of your upkeep, roll a d4. Scry X, where X is the result.
Perfect Illumination — Whenever you roll a die's highest natural result, draw a card.

Enchantment

$2.79 $1.18 $0.39

Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong

: Scry 2.
Whenever you scry or surveil, look at the top card of your library. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Do this only once each turn. (Look at the card after you scry or surveil.)

Legendary Artifact

$8.99 $6.52 $5.21

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

$1.49 $0.88 $0.56

Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment

$94.99 $70.41 $67.73

Scour All Possibilities

Scry 2, then draw a card.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Scroll Rack

: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Artifact

$42.99 $31.00 $31.26

Sea Gate Restoration

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand plus one. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Sorcery

Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76

$47.99 $35.90 $33.76

Sensei's Divining Top

: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact

$39.99 $40.67 $37.18

Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery

$1.29 $2.84 $0.72

Sigiled Starfish

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

Creature - Starfish

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Tamiyo's Epiphany

Scry 4, then draw two cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for

.)
Draw three cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Draw

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Evasion

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Faerie Seer

Flying
When this creature enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Creature - Wizard Faerie

$0.99 $0.36 $0.19

Evasion

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Finisher

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Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery

$7.49 $6.23 $5.19

Candlekeep Inspiration

Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards you own in exile and in your graveyard that are instant cards, are sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.26 $0.15

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

$16.99 $15.71 $13.44

Time Stretch

Target player takes two extra turns after this one.

Sorcery

$6.49 $5.51 $4.79

Finisher

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Instant

Qty: 1 Price: $11.99

Erode

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant

$11.99 $6.95 $5.21

Instant

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.79 $0.38 $0.23

Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.

: Add

: Scry 2.

Land

$0.69 $0.30 $0.18

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.37 $0.23

Deserted Beach

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

: Add

Land

$9.49 $6.40 $4.14

Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$9.49 $5.81 $5.21

Fabled Passage

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land

$1.79 $0.95 $0.70

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

$22.99 $15.95 $12.67

Floodfarm Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

Land

$13.99 $7.68 $8.32

Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.34 $0.17

Gleaming Bastion

: Add

. Activate only if this land entered this turn or if you control a basic land.

Land

$3.49 $2.07 $1.01

Hallowed Fountain

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: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

$12.99 $7.69 $6.25

Hengegate Pathway

: Add

Land

Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260

$7.49 $4.86 $4.52

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.59 $0.27 $0.15

Isolated Watchtower

: Add

: Scry 1, then you may reveal the top card of your library. If a basic land card is revealed this way, put it onto the battlefield tapped. Activate only if an opponent controls at least two more lands than you.

Land

$2.79 $1.30 $0.34

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

$2.29 $1.53 $1.09

Nimbus Maze

: Add

. Activate only if you control an Island.

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Plains.

Land

$9.49 $7.32 $5.99

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

$39.99 $26.15 $26.92

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

$0.59 $0.32 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.85 $4.15

Sea of Clouds

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

: Add

Land

$27.99 $21.31 $16.73

Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Tundra

(

: Add

Land - Plains Island

$2299.99 $1200.49 $1042.00

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 1 Price: $6.49

Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$6.49 $5.45 $4.16

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 4 Price: $36.96

Emeria's Call

Create two 4/4 white Angel Warrior creature tokens with flying. Non-Angel creatures you control gain indestructible until your next turn.

Sorcery

Emeria's Call // Emeria, Shattered Skyclave (znr) 12

$7.49 $3.85 $3.49

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$7.49 $6.15 $4.61

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.99 $2.32 $2.28

Suppressor Skyguard

Flying
Whenever a player attacks you, if that player has another opponent who isn't being attacked, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this combat.

Creature - Human Knight

$17.99 $11.55 $6.88

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 7 Price: $75.93

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.49 $0.48

Azorius Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.79 $0.33 $0.19

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.35 $0.28

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay

. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Enchantment

$64.99 $56.82 $56.25

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.59 $1.63

Talisman of Progress

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.37 $0.29

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$4.49 $2.53 $2.65

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $16.78

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$0.79 $0.46 $0.15

Mnemonic Deluge

Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Copy that card three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs. Exile Mnemonic Deluge.

Sorcery

$15.99 $8.55 $8.33

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 14 Price: $152.66

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

$6.49 $3.33 $2.64

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$3.99 $1.73 $1.75

Avatar's Wrath

Choose up to one target creature, then airbend all other creatures. (Exile them. While each one is exiled, its owner may cast it for

rather than its mana cost.)
Until your next turn, your opponents can't cast spells from anywhere other than their hands.
Exile Avatar's Wrath.

Sorcery

$6.49 $4.45 $3.31

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $4.09 $2.77

Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance
When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.

: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Artificer

$8.49 $7.37 $5.14

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

$79.99 $57.19 $53.14

Ondu Inversion

Destroy all nonland permanents.

Sorcery

Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins (znr) 30

$1.99 $1.17 $1.00

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant

$2.79 $1.07 $0.96

Pongify

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

Instant

$4.49 $3.39 $1.66

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 $0.30 $0.15

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

$12.99 $8.42 $7.29

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant

$2.99 $1.59 $1.51

Winds of Abandon

Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Overload

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

Sorcery

$7.49 $3.89 $3.75

Witch Enchanter

When this creature enters, destroy target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.

Creature - Human Warlock

Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239

$9.49 $5.60 $5.19

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $1.79

Spider-Woman, Stunning Savior

Flying
Venom Blast — Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Legendary Creature - Human Spider Hero

$1.79 $2.27 $0.23

Stax

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Tokens

Qty: 3 Price: $37.57

Charismatic Conqueror

Vigilance
Whenever an artifact or creature an opponent controls enters untapped, they may tap that permanent. If they don't, you create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

Creature - Vampire Soldier

$34.99 $24.29 $24.23

Storm Herd

Create X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying, where X is your life total.

Sorcery

$1.79 $1.06 $0.94

Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$0.79 $1.75 $0.40

Tokens

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Tutor

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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

$22.99 $19.20 $16.80

Personal Tutor

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

Sorcery

$7.49 $5.92 $5.10

Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$5.49 $4.09 $3.24

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $3,310.70

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.37Total Mana Value: 229.00

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Burn

Commander

Counters

Draw

Evasion

Finisher

Instant

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Lifegain

Protection

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Stax

Tokens

Tutor

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24 pips - 19 cards

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23 mana - 23 cards

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57 pips - 42 cards

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32 mana - 32 cards

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0 mana - 4 cards

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11 mana - 10 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.37Total Mana Value: 229.00

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