Istvan • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.00

Istvan, Butcher of Eln

Istvan attacks each combat if able.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Istvan by creatures.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put two +1/+1 counters on Istvan.

Legendary Creature - Human

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

Commander

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Artifact

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Crude Bent Blade

When this Equipment enters, target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Artifact

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Counters

Qty: 2 Price: $79.98

Tarrian's Soulcleaver

Equipped creature has vigilance.
Whenever another artifact or creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$4.99 $3.42 $2.60

The Ozolith

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

Legendary Artifact

$74.99 $62.27 $60.50

Counters

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Creature

Qty: 3 Price: $27.47

Bloodline Recollector

At the beginning of each end step, if three or more creatures died this turn, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

Creature - Vampire Warlock

Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving (fra) 49

$6.99 $6.39 $5.56

Emeritus of Woe

This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
At the beginning of your end step, if two or more creatures died this turn, this creature becomes prepared.

Creature - Vampire Warlock

Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor (sos) 80

$14.99 $11.96 $9.36

M.O.D.O.K.

Flying, lifelink
Mental Organism — Pay 3 life: M.O.D.O.K. connives. Activate only during your turn. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Designed Only for Killing — Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Villain

$5.49 $4.00 $3.28

Creature

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Drain

Qty: 2 Price: $6.78

Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Vampire

$4.49 $3.91 $2.57

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

$2.29 $3.82 $1.00

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 5 Price: $12.05

Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature - Demon

$2.29 $2.88 $0.86

Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Menace
Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

$1.49 $0.58 $0.36

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.49 $0.37 $0.16

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.79 $6.25 $7.29

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Enchantment

$5.99 $4.61 $3.30

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

Haunted Cloak

Equipped creature has vigilance, trample, and haste.
Equip

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

Artifact - Equipment

$0.59 $0.39 $0.15

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.42 $0.15

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 26 Price: $227.74

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$3.49 $1.49 $1.27

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$37.99 $28.89 $26.05

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

: Add

: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Legendary Land

$74.99 $48.63 $40.23

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

: Add

: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Legendary Land

$37.99 $33.30 $29.17

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $---- $----

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Legendary Land

$59.99 $55.11 $53.44

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

$3.49 $2.32 $1.14

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $45.28

Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$2.29 $2.74 $1.33

Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.

: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$42.99 $30.75 $27.35

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 8 Price: $117.03

Commander's Plate

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity.
Equip commander

Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$49.99 $40.88 $37.59

Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact

$10.99 $8.84 $8.03

Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

$29.99 $23.80 $17.18

Darksteel Plate

Indestructible
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$6.99 $7.04 $5.21

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$10.99 $8.94 $8.54

Pariah's Shield

All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to equipped creature instead.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$7.49 $8.79 $6.41

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

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

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

Uncle Istvan

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures.

Creature - Human

$0.59 $0.37 $0.21

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 4 Price: $18.96

Colossus Hammer

Equipped creature gets +10/+10 and loses flying.
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$2.99 $2.78 $0.93

Lashwrithe

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Artifact - Equipment

$1.49 $0.68 $0.60

Leyline Axe

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$8.49 $5.82 $3.69

Nightmare Lash

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.
Equip—Pay 3 life. (Pay 3 life: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $8.12 $1.79

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 12 Price: $129.74

Blood Pet

Sacrifice this creature: Add

Creature - Thrull

$0.79 $0.66 $0.15

Burnished Hart

, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact - Elk

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

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

$21.99 $18.34 $13.76

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$10.99 $7.18 $6.30

Expedition Map

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

Artifact

$2.99 $1.31 $1.25

Extraplanar Lens

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile target land you control.
Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Artifact

$17.99 $13.94 $11.46

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$18.99 $12.32 $11.87

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each

in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian

$1.99 $1.08 $0.77

Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '

: Add

.'"

Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana

$14.99 $9.30 $7.97

Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional

: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature - Vampire Shade

$9.99 $6.66 $6.22

Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Enchantment

$27.99 $21.11 $19.17

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.69 $0.36 $0.18

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $34.98

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$22.99 $20.95 $19.78

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.

: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Artifact Enchantment

$11.99 $9.50 $7.90

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 27 Price: $281.10

Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $3.65 $3.68

Crypt Rats

: This creature deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

Creature - Rat

$0.99 $0.60 $0.37

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$23.99 $20.69 $17.48

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant

$2.49 $1.23 $0.55

Demon's Disciple

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

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment

$21.99 $17.89 $12.51

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.25 $0.15

Fleshbag Marauder

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

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.49 $0.28 $0.21

Gaius van Baelsar

When Gaius van Baelsar enters, choose one —
• Each player sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each player sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.

Legendary Creature - Human Soldier

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant

$1.49 $0.62 $0.45

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.40 $0.21

Maha, Its Feathers Night

Flying, trample
Ward—Discard a card.
Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.

Legendary Creature - Elemental Bird

$27.99 $20.76 $19.79

Mandate of Abaddon

Choose target creature you control. Destroy all creatures with power less than that creature's power.

Sorcery

$6.99 $3.86 $3.64

Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature - Wurm Phyrexian

$---- $2.00 $2.60

Meathook Massacre II

When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice.
Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.

Legendary Enchantment

$3.99 $2.43 $2.03

Nemesis Mask

All creatures able to block equipped creature do so.
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$10.99 $10.64 $6.65

Orcish Bowmasters

Flash
When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature - Archer Orc

$59.99 $43.12 $40.11

Overwhelming Forces

Destroy all creatures target opponent controls. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.

Sorcery

$89.99 $89.99 $79.08

Pestilence Demon

Flying

: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Creature - Demon

$1.49 $0.54 $0.31

Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

Creature - Horror Phyrexian

$11.99 $9.43 $8.08

Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature - Human Shaman

$0.59 $0.40 $0.30

Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature - Beast Horror

$1.29 $1.03 $0.31

Royal Assassin

: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.79 $0.43 $0.26

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Instant

$1.99 $1.28 $0.46

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.29 $1.60 $1.56

Zodiark, Umbral God

Indestructible
When Zodiark enters, each player sacrifices half the non-God creatures they control of their choice, rounded down.
Whenever a player sacrifices another creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Zodiark.

Legendary Creature - God

$0.59 $0.60 $0.15

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 1 Price: $0.69

Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Aetherborn

$0.69 $0.32 $0.15

Sac Outlet

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $8.49

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian

$8.49 $6.36 $5.84

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $57.99

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$57.99 $53.87 $52.43

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,050.21

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.30Total Mana Value: 244.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.30Total Mana Value: 244.00

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