Socratic Method • (Azorius Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

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Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Defender
Sokrates has hexproof as long as it's untapped.
Sokratic Dialogue —

: Until end of turn, target creature gains "If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. This creature's controller and that player each draw half that many cards, rounded down."

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

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Commander

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Anthem

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Knowledge Is Power

Creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn.

Enchantment

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Anthem

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Draw

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Accumulate Wisdom

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Put each of those cards into your hand instead if there are three or more Lesson cards in your graveyard.

Instant - Lesson

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$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature - Avatar

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Brainstorm

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

Instant

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$3.49 $3.76 $1.90

Confounding Conundrum

When this enchantment enters, draw a card.
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player had another land enter the battlefield under their control this turn, they return a land they control to its owner's hand.

Enchantment

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$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Consider

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

Instant

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$0.79 $0.42 $0.26

Curse of Verbosity

Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you draw a card. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Enchantment - Aura Curse

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$1.49 $1.00 $0.50

Duelist of the Mind

Flying, vigilance
Duelist of the Mind's power is equal to the number of cards you've drawn this turn.
Whenever you commit a crime, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature - Human Advisor

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$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Eidolon of Philosophy

, Sacrifice this creature: Draw three cards.

Creature Enchantment - Spirit

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$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Elite Instructor

When this creature enters, draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

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$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Font of Mythos

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws two additional cards.

Artifact

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Intellectual Offering

Choose an opponent. You and that player each draw three cards.
Choose an opponent. Untap all nonland permanents you control and all nonland permanents that player controls.

Instant

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$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Lunar Insight

Draw a card for each different mana value among nonland permanents you control.

Sorcery

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$0.69 $0.37 $0.15

Mangara, the Diplomat

Lifelink
Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

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$0.99 $0.27 $0.15

Meeting of Minds

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for

or one mana of that creature's color.)
Draw two cards.

Instant

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$0.69 $0.24 $0.15

Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card.

Creature - Human Soldier

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$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Minds Aglow

Join forces — Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player draws X cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Sorcery

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$1.79 $1.35 $0.72

Overwhelming Intellect

Counter target creature spell. Draw cards equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

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$0.35 $0.25 $0.20

Ponder

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

Sorcery

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$3.99 $2.94 $2.31

Radical Idea

Draw a card.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Instant

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$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Rush of Knowledge

Draw cards equal to the greatest mana value among permanents you control.

Sorcery

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$0.35 $0.36 $0.15

Staggering Insight

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

Enchantment - Aura

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$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Legendary Enchantment

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$5.99 $3.15 $3.12

The Council of Four

Whenever a player draws their second card during their turn, you draw a card.
Whenever a player casts their second spell during their turn, you create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.

Legendary Creature - Human Noble

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$2.29 $1.69 $0.97

Think Twice

Draw a card.
Flashback

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

Instant

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$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Thirst for Knowledge

Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.

Instant

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$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Train of Thought

Replicate

(When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.)
Draw a card.

Sorcery

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$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Triskaidekaphile

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game.

: Draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

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$1.49 $0.73 $0.19

Well of Ideas

When this enchantment enters, draw two cards.
At the beginning of each other player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
At the beginning of your draw step, draw two additional cards.

Enchantment

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$2.29 $2.26 $1.25

Words of Wisdom

You draw two cards, then each other player draws a card.

Instant

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$1.29 $0.69 $0.56

Draw

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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

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$5.99 $7.00 $4.79

Azor's Elocutors

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a filibuster counter on this creature. Then if this creature has five or more filibuster counters on it, you win the game.
Whenever a source deals damage to you, remove a filibuster counter from this creature.

Creature - Human Advisor

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$0.59 $0.39 $0.15

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
+1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.
−8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Legendary Planeswalker - Jace

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (plst) WAR-54

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$12.99 $9.88 $9.37

Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature - Human Wizard

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$2.29 $1.75 $1.30

Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment

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$6.49 $4.59 $4.28

Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian

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$1.49 $0.71 $0.70

Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact - Construct Phyrexian

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$11.99 $7.86 $6.07

Teferi's Tutelage

When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then discard a card.
Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Enchantment

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$0.69 $0.30 $0.15

Finisher

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Flavor Only

Qty: 3 Price: $1.05

Knowledge Seeker

Vigilance
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create a Clue token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature - Spirit Fox

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$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Traveling Philosopher

Creature - Human Advisor

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$0.35 $0.03 $0.15

Voice of Reason

Flying, protection from blue

Creature - Angel

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$0.35 $0.36 $0.15

Flavor Only

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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $243.31

Academy Ruins

: Add

: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Legendary Land

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$9.99 $9.96 $8.81

Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type.

: Add

: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land

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$57.99 $47.05 $48.56

Command Tower

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

Land

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$0.79 $0.29 $0.26

Cryptic Caves

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land

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$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Deserted Beach

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

: Add

Land

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$8.99 $5.38 $4.94

Echoing Deeps

You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land card in a graveyard, except it's a Cave in addition to its other types.

: Add

Land - Cave

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$0.99 $0.73 $0.27

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

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$0.59 $0.27 $0.15

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

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$18.99 $17.30 $15.10

Hall of Oracles

: Add

: Add one mana of any color.

: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you've cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn.

Land

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$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Hallowed Fountain

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

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$10.99 $6.97 $7.70

Irrigated Farmland

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island

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$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

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$0.49 $0.17 $0.15

Meticulous Archive

(

: 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 - Plains Island

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$15.99 $10.17 $9.82

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

: Add

: Untap target legendary permanent.

Legendary Land

Minamo, School at Water's Edge (plst) CHK-279

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$57.99 $53.99 $54.18

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

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$2.49 $0.95 $1.04

Nimbus Maze

: Add

. Activate only if you control an Island.

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Plains.

Land

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$10.99 $7.28 $4.74

Pit of Offerings

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile up to three target cards from graveyards.

: Add

: Add one mana of any of the exiled cards' colors.

Land - Cave

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$0.59 $0.37 $0.23

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

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$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Port Town

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

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$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Prairie Stream

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

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$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

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$5.49 $3.21 $3.23

Sea of Clouds

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

: Add

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$27.99 $17.49 $19.95

Skycloud Expanse

: Add

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Sunken Palace

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Exile seven cards from your graveyard: Add

. When you spend this mana to cast a spell or activate an ability, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be copied.)

Land - Cave

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$0.79 $0.36 $0.16

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

Color tag templates(None)

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Unknown Shores

: Add

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Urza's Cave

: Add

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

Land - Urza's Cave

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$2.29 $1.01 $0.52

Volatile Fault

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You create a Treasure token.

Land - Cave

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$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Land

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Protection

Qty: 6 Price: $45.44

Absolute Virtue

This spell can't be countered.
Flying
You have protection from each of your opponents. (You can't be dealt damage, enchanted, or targeted by anything controlled by your opponents.)

Legendary Creature - Warrior Avatar

Color tag templates(None)

$3.49 $2.90 $1.97

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

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$6.49 $5.67 $5.14

Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Artifact

Color tag templates(None)

$2.99 $1.75 $1.11

Maze of Ith

: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land

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$11.99 $10.42 $9.37

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

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$4.49 $3.98 $3.08

Silent Arbiter

No more than one creature can attack each combat.
No more than one creature can block each combat.

Creature Artifact - Construct

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$15.99 $12.24 $11.97

Protection

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Ramp

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Azorius Signet

: Add

Artifact

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$0.79 $0.30 $0.20

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

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$4.49 $4.77 $3.06

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

Color tag templates(None)

$0.69 $0.40 $0.28

Monologue Tax

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.

Enchantment

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$2.99 $5.06 $2.14

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

Color tag templates(None)

$2.49 $1.20 $1.27

Talisman of Progress

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

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$1.99 $1.22 $1.01

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

Color tag templates(None)

$3.49 $3.12 $2.67

Traveler's Amulet

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

Artifact

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$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Wayfarer's Bauble

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

Artifact

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$0.99 $0.38 $0.29

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $2.98

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn

When Heliod enters, return target enchantment card that isn't a God from your graveyard to your hand.

: Transform Heliod. Activate only as a sorcery. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Legendary Creature Enchantment - God

Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse (mom) 17

Color tag templates(None)

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Wisdom of Ages

Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Exile Wisdom of Ages.

Sorcery

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$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 14 Price: $35.90

Circular Logic

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

for each card in your graveyard.
Madness

(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Instant

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$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Council's Judgment

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

Sorcery

Color tag templates(None)

$1.29 $0.65 $0.47

Cowed by Wisdom

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block unless its controller pays

for each card in your hand.

Enchantment - Aura

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Exchange of Words

When this enchantment enters, choose two target creatures. For as long as this enchantment remains on the battlefield, exchange the text boxes of those creatures.

Enchantment

Color tag templates(None)

$1.49 $0.91 $0.64

Grasp of Fate

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

Enchantment

Color tag templates(None)

$0.69 $0.49 $0.20

Logic Knot

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

.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Instant

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

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

Color tag templates(None)

$7.49 $5.10 $4.68

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

Color tag templates(None)

$0.99 $0.80 $0.60

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

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$6.99 $4.86 $4.03

Perplexing Test

Choose one —
• Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands.
• Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant

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$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

Power of Persuasion

Choose target creature an opponent controls, then roll a d20.
1—9 | Return it to its owner's hand.
10—19 | Its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
20 | Gain control of it until the end of your next turn.

Sorcery

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Press for Answers

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery

Color tag templates(None)

$5.99 $3.52 $3.08

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

Color tag templates(None)

$8.49 $5.34 $5.15

Removal

(CTRL to add secondary)

Stax

Qty: 2 Price: $1.78

Eidolon of Rhetoric

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Creature Enchantment - Spirit

Color tag templates(None)

$1.29 $0.59 $0.45

Rule of Law

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Enchantment

Color tag templates(None)

$0.49 $0.47 $0.19

Stax

(CTRL to add secondary)

Theft

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Persuasion

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
You control enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

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$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Theft

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $10.99

Personal Tutor

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

Sorcery

Color tag templates(None)

$10.99 $7.11 $6.23

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 5 Price: $38.65

Drumbellower

Flying
Untap all creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature - Spirit

Color tag templates(None)

$2.29 $1.83 $1.55

Freed from the Real

Enchant creature

: Tap enchanted creature.

: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

Color tag templates(None)

$10.99 $6.86 $6.97

Ioreth of the Healing House

: Untap another target permanent.

: Untap two other target legendary creatures.

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

Color tag templates(None)

$0.79 $0.33 $0.15

Thousand-Year Elixir

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

: Untap target creature.

Artifact

Color tag templates(None)

$23.99 $14.50 $14.69

Vizier of Tumbling Sands

: Untap another target permanent.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, untap target permanent.

Creature - Human Cleric

Color tag templates(None)

$0.59 $0.24 $0.15

Untap

(CTRL to add secondary)

Deck Info

Deck size: 119Est cost: $502.41

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.02Total Mana Value: 245.00

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29 pips - 24 cards

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62 pips - 50 cards

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16 mana - 15 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.02Total Mana Value: 245.00

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