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{"ops":[{"insert":"For this challenge I decided to build a deck where the number of cards doubled at each mana value.\n1 card that costs 1 mana.\n2 that cost 2.\n4 that cost 3.\n8 that cost 4.\n16 that cost 5.\n32 that cost 6.\n\nThis immediately poses a challenge where my curve is heavily top loaded. My solve for this was to include creatures with alternate ways to use or cast them, such as landcyling abilities or reduced costs.\n\nTo take advantage of all the cycling and large creatures in the graveyard and help me cast the ones that aren't, my commander [[Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists]] can dig then up to discover new cards from my library.\n\nCards like [[Sylvan Library]] and [[Brutalizer Exarch]] help me set up the top of my library to discover into.\n[[Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty]] lets me cascade off my free discoveries.\n[[Monstrous Vortex]] fills a similar role, and can chain discoveries.\nEvoke and warp creatures let me utilize my high cost cards and still get value from them if I haven't fetched up enough mana yet, and gets some of them in my graveyard to dig up. As well as a few cards that profit from casting higher cost cards, allowing me to draw or otherwise benefit. All of which still count if I cast them for free.\nLastly, [[Chakram Retriever]] let's me re-use my commander's ability as many times as creatures I have in my graveyard. Untapping them whenever I cast the card discovered from their ability.\n"}]}
Commander
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists
, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Discover X, where X is the mana value of the exiled card. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Legendary Creature - Human Scientist
Commander
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Clones
Sakashima's Protege
Flash
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any permanent that entered this turn.
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any permanent that entered this turn.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Clones
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Creature
Berta, Wise Extrapolator
Increment (Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana you spent is greater than this creature's power or toughness, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on Berta, add one mana of any color.
, : Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token and put X +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on Berta, add one mana of any color.
, : Create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token and put X +1/+1 counters on it.
Legendary Creature - Druid Frog
Jubilation
When this creature enters, creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn.
Encore (, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
Encore (, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Wistfulness
When this creature enters, if was spent to cast it, exile target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.
When this creature enters, if was spent to cast it, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
When this creature enters, if was spent to cast it, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Evoke (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Creature
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Cycling
Ice Flan
When this creature enters, tap target artifact or creature an opponent controls. Put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Islandcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Islandcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature - Ooze Elemental
Lunar Hatchling
Flying, trample
Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Escape—, Exile a land you control, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Escape—, Exile a land you control, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Creature - Beast Alien
Cycling
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Draw
Anticausal Vestige
When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card, then you may put a permanent card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Creature - Eldrazi
Gandalf, Westward Voyager
Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, each opponent reveals the top card of their library. If any of those cards shares a card type with that spell, copy that spell, you may choose new targets for the copy, and each opponent draws a card. Otherwise, you draw a card. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Legendary Creature - Wizard Avatar
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater have cascade.
Spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater have cascade.
Legendary Creature - Druid Snake
Keruga, the Macrosage
Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with mana value 3 or greater and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)
When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.
When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.
Legendary Creature - Dinosaur Hippo
Monstrous Vortex
Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, discover X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Enchantment
Draw
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Land
Land
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Ramp
Entish Restoration
Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Kodama of the East Tree
Reach
Whenever another permanent you control enters, if it wasn't put onto the battlefield with this ability, you may put a permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your hand onto the battlefield.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Whenever another permanent you control enters, if it wasn't put onto the battlefield with this ability, you may put a permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your hand onto the battlefield.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Spirit
Orchard Strider
When this creature enters, create two Food tokens. (They're artifacts with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Basic landcycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature - Treefolk
Ramp
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Recursion
Karmic Guide
Flying, protection from black
Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Angel Spirit
Recursion
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Removal
Alabaster Host Intercessor
When this creature enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until this creature leaves the battlefield.
Plainscycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Plainscycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature - Samurai Phyrexian
Atraxi Warden
Flying
When this creature enters, exile up to one target tapped creature.
Suspend 5— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
When this creature enters, exile up to one target tapped creature.
Suspend 5— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with five time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Creature - Eye Alien
Protector of the Wastes
Flying
When this creature enters or becomes monstrous, exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments controlled by different players.
: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
When this creature enters or becomes monstrous, exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments controlled by different players.
: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
Creature - Dragon
Removal
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Sorcery
Echocasting Symposium
Target player creates a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Sorcery - Lesson
Sorcery
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Tutor
Tutor
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Untap
Untap
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Description
{"ops":[{"insert":"For this challenge I decided to build a deck where the number of cards doubled at each mana value.\n1 card that costs 1 mana.\n2 that cost 2.\n4 that cost 3.\n8 that cost 4.\n16 that cost 5.\n32 that cost 6.\n\nThis immediately poses a challenge where my curve is heavily top loaded. My solve for this was to include creatures with alternate ways to use or cast them, such as landcyling abilities or reduced costs.\n\nTo take advantage of all the cycling and large creatures in the graveyard and help me cast the ones that aren't, my commander [[Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists]] can dig then up to discover new cards from my library.\n\nCards like [[Sylvan Library]] and [[Brutalizer Exarch]] help me set up the top of my library to discover into.\n[[Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty]] lets me cascade off my free discoveries.\n[[Monstrous Vortex]] fills a similar role, and can chain discoveries.\nEvoke and warp creatures let me utilize my high cost cards and still get value from them if I haven't fetched up enough mana yet, and gets some of them in my graveyard to dig up. As well as a few cards that profit from casting higher cost cards, allowing me to draw or otherwise benefit. All of which still count if I cast them for free.\nLastly, [[Chakram Retriever]] let's me re-use my commander's ability as many times as creatures I have in my graveyard. Untapping them whenever I cast the card discovered from their ability.\n"}]}