Professor Zei, Anthropologist (no dups, no game changers, no board wipes, rule of cool) • (Izzet Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

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Professor Zei, Anthropologist

, Discard a card: Draw a card.

, Sacrifice Professor Zei: Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn.

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor Ally

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Commander

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Burn

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Crackle with Power

Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.

Sorcery

$59.99 $47.93 $48.05

Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Creature - Goblin Shaman

$11.99 $8.44 $8.75

Burn

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Copy

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Expansion

Copy target instant or sorcery spell with mana value 4 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Thousand-Year Storm

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Enchantment

$1.99 $0.98 $0.30

Veyran, Voice of Duality

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Veyran gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
If you casting or copying an instant or sorcery spell causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Efreet

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Copy

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Counters

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Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays

Instant

$24.99 $25.84 $25.73

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

$6.99 $4.67 $3.70

Big Score

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

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

Instant

$2.79 $1.71 $0.87

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Instant

$8.49 $7.73 $4.48

Brainstorm

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

Instant

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Chart a Course

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Consider

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

Instant

$1.99 $2.30 $1.51

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

$0.49 $0.43 $0.15

Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

$9.99 $9.56 $9.28

Frantic Search

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

Instant

$19.99 $16.57 $12.50

Opt

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

Instant

$9.49 $6.58 $6.67

Ponder

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

Sorcery

$12.99 $9.94 $6.55

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

$15.99 $11.72 $11.96

Thirst for Knowledge

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

Instant

$---- $---- $----

Unexpected Windfall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

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

Instant

$4.99 $2.90 $2.00

Draw

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Land

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Cascade Bluffs

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, or

Land

$49.99 $51.64 $41.66

Command Tower

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

Land

$42.99 $34.28 $31.58

Desolate Lighthouse

: Add

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Land

$3.99 $3.36 $3.05

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.59 $0.34 $0.15

Fiery Islet

, Pay 1 life: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land

$15.99 $12.49 $11.44

Frostboil Snarl

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.35 $0.18

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$4.49 $2.61 $2.74

Izzet Boilerworks

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

: Add

Land

$2.49 $1.63 $1.01

Mountain

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Basic Land - Mountain

$0.99 $0.35 $0.15

Mystic Sanctuary

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: 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

$2.79 $1.43 $1.01

Otawara, Soaring City

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.
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

$44.99 $28.09 $27.09

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$19.99 $15.20 $12.93

Riverglide Pathway

: Add

Land

Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (slu) 20

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Shivan Reef

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.79 $0.33 $0.15

Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance (neo) 276

$4.49 $3.01 $2.60

Spirebluff Canal

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

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.93 $4.01

Steam Vents

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: Add

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

Land - Island Mountain

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Stormcarved Coast

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

: Add

Land

$4.99 $2.49 $2.29

Sulfur Falls

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

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

Temple of Epiphany

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 $0.26 $0.15

Temple of the False God

: Add

. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Training Center

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

: Add

Land

$21.99 $18.13 $17.52

Land

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Lifegain

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Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact

$27.99 $20.94 $18.95

Lifegain

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Protection

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Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

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Slip Out the Back

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

Instant

$6.99 $5.28 $4.94

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

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: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $2.08 $2.19

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.42 $0.39

Birgi, God of Storytelling

Whenever you cast a spell, add

. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.
Creatures you control can boast twice during each of your turns rather than once.

Legendary Creature - God

Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty (khm) 123

$34.99 $27.70 $22.92

Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact

$1.79 $0.92 $0.78

Izzet Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $0.43 $0.27

Liquimetal Torque

: Add

: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact

$5.49 $3.13 $3.07

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.35 $0.26

Prismatic Lens

: Add

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.41 $0.25

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.61 $1.30

Storm-Kiln Artist

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Creature - Shaman Dwarf

$4.49 $1.86 $1.46

Talisman of Creativity

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$2.29 $1.67 $1.25

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$3.99 $2.36 $2.42

Ramp

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Recursion

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Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.49 $0.37 $0.31

Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant

$0.79 $0.37 $0.18

Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery.
Overload

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

Sorcery

$8.99 $8.31 $6.54

Past in Flames

Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

$2.49 $2.48 $2.16

Snapcaster Mage

Flash
When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature - Human Wizard

$20.99 $16.97 $16.27

Recursion

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Removal

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Abrade

Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.

Instant

$0.35 $0.31 $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

$5.49 $3.04 $3.11

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 $1.84 $2.06

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

$0.79 $0.72 $0.31

Comet Storm

Multikicker

(You may pay an additional

any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

Instant

$3.99 $4.03 $2.09

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $4.42 $2.94

Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Instant

$2.99 $3.66 $1.70

Grapeshot

Grapeshot deals 1 damage to any target.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.32 $0.15

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant

$2.29 $0.87 $0.80

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays

.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Instant

$0.99 $1.00 $0.52

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Pongify

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

Instant

$4.49 $2.83 $2.70

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 $0.84 $0.91

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 $0.56 $0.15

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

$16.99 $10.64 $10.09

Wash Away

Cleave

(You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].

Instant

$1.49 $0.46 $0.19

Removal

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Tokens

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Metallurgic Summonings

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.

, Exile this enchantment: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.

Enchantment

$2.29 $2.41 $1.04

Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.49 $0.51 $0.39

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 $1.88 $0.45

The Locust God

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste.

: Draw a card, then discard a card.
When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Legendary Creature - God

$8.49 $7.39 $6.24

Third Path Iconoclast

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.

Creature - Human Monk

$1.29 $0.37 $0.22

Young Pyromancer

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

Creature - Human Shaman

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Tokens

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Deck size: 100Est cost: $754.92

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Avg Mana Value: 2.51Total Mana Value: 158.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.51Total Mana Value: 158.00

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