Ancient one • (Dimir Commander deck) • Archidekt

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The Ancient One

Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard.

: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.

Legendary Creature - Spirit God

$2.29 $2.05 $0.93

Commander

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Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature - Zombie

$2.49 $4.60 $0.96

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit

$42.99 $28.54 $24.67

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.

: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

$1.79 $1.52 $1.18

Drain

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Archon of Cruelty

Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature - Archon

$8.99 $4.12 $2.67

Consecrated Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature - Sphinx

$44.99 $33.13 $30.89

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant

$0.35 $0.32 $0.16

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant

$2.29 $1.74 $1.03

Likeness Looter

Flying

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

: This creature becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except it has flying and this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature - Faerie Shapeshifter

$4.99 $2.84 $2.58

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 $11.36 $11.23

Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment

$79.99 $67.49 $67.73

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

$42.99 $38.29 $33.94

Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Instant

$15.99 $9.24 $8.32

The Everflowing Well

When The Everflowing Well enters, mill two cards, then draw two cards.
Descend 8 — At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, transform The Everflowing Well.

Legendary Artifact

The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools (lci) 56

$0.59 $0.38 $0.15

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery

$7.49 $5.44 $4.42

Draw

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Wonder

Flying
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature - Incarnation

$2.99 $4.00 $2.03

Evasion

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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 $17.62

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$2.99 $1.39 $1.41

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$34.99 $30.25 $25.00

Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped.

: Add

for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land

$5.49 $3.75 $3.69

Dakmor Salvage

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Land

$0.79 $0.27 $0.15

Darkslick Shores

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

: Add

Land

$4.49 $2.97 $2.50

Darkwater Catacombs

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.37 $0.18

Detection Tower

: Add

: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Land

$4.49 $2.62 $2.02

Drowned Catacomb

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

: Add

Land

$1.79 $0.85 $0.78

Island

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: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.16 $0.15

Marsh Flats

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

Land

$42.99 $31.96 $30.94

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

: Add

: Untap target legendary permanent.

Legendary Land

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

$74.99 $58.69 $54.74

Misty Rainforest

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

Land

$42.99 $36.66 $33.86

Phyrexian Tower

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: Add

Legendary Land

$44.99 $32.70 $30.06

Polluted Delta

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

Land

$32.99 $21.55 $19.27

Spymaster's Vault

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.

: Add

: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Land

$3.49 $3.12 $2.13

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.15 $0.15

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$2.49 $0.81 $0.54

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Legendary Land

$69.99 $52.52 $53.61

War Room

: Add

, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land

$5.49 $3.23 $1.76

Watery Grave

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: Add

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

Land - Island Swamp

$6.49 $4.83 $4.98

Land

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Mesmeric Orb

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

Artifact

$22.99 $17.04 $15.71

Mill

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.40 $0.41

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional

Creature - Spirit

$27.99 $20.97 $17.55

Dimir Signet

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $0.95 $0.39

Expedition Map

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

Artifact

$2.49 $1.86 $1.27

Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact

$1.79 $0.83 $0.85

Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay

. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.

: Add

Artifact

$149.99 $111.47 $98.99

Millikin

, Mill a card: Add

. (Activate only as an instant. To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature Artifact - Construct

$0.39 $0.33 $0.15

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.34 $0.20

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.69 $1.59

Talisman of Dominance

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$1.99 $0.97 $0.69

Training Grounds

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost

less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Enchantment

$11.99 $8.16 $5.54

Ramp

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment - Aura

$8.49 $7.57 $5.78

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.50 $0.36

Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Sorcery

$4.99 $6.02 $2.93

Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment

$24.99 $18.24 $17.00

Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment

$2.29 $2.50 $1.30

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 $8.61 $8.04

Sepulchral Primordial

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature - Avatar

$0.69 $0.31 $0.15

Stitch Together

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.29 $0.23

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery

$1.79 $1.44 $0.66

Recursion

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Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.99 $0.38 $0.15

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

$4.99 $3.49 $3.09

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

$4.49 $2.50 $2.07

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $4.10 $2.30

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

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

Instant

$42.99 $38.41 $36.12

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$24.99 $21.13 $19.54

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.23 $0.15

Fierce Guardianship

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

Instant

$79.99 $63.76 $62.92

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 $5.49 $4.86

Fleshbag Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature - Horror Kraken

$10.99 $5.52 $5.81

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery

$1.29 $2.76 $0.77

Pongify

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

Instant

$3.99 $3.09 $2.76

Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant

$1.99 $1.04 $0.77

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 $0.24 $0.15

Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$8.49 $5.24 $4.86

Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Instant

$5.49 $5.31 $4.11

Terror Tide

Fathomless descent — All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

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 $5.61

Removal

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Diluvian Primordial

Flying
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature - Avatar

$0.79 $0.63 $0.41

Theft

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Grave Titan

Deathtouch
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Creature - Giant

$0.99 $0.35 $0.15

Tokens

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Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$2.99 $2.57 $2.35

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$94.99 $65.23 $62.50

Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Instant

$23.99 $17.11 $17.10

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,318.82

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.98Total Mana Value: 182.00

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12 mana - 9 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.98Total Mana Value: 182.00

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