Istvan • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

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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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Counters

Qty: 1 Price: $5.49

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

$5.49 $2.62 $3.20

Counters

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Drain

Qty: 2 Price: $15.48

Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$5.49 $3.90 $3.24

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

$9.99 $7.81 $6.50

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 8 Price: $71.22

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Enchantment

$16.99 $13.81 $11.46

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Instant

$9.99 $6.41 $5.91

Morbid Opportunist

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

Creature - Human Rogue

$21.99 $17.36 $17.14

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$4.99 $5.33 $5.47

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$9.99 $7.11 $5.15

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (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

$0.49 $0.31 $0.18

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$4.49 $3.46 $2.52

Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Instant

$2.29 $0.53 $0.37

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.69

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

$0.69 $0.35 $0.15

Evasion

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $319.14

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$54.99 $35.84 $35.89

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$64.99 $62.44 $62.39

Cabal Stronghold

: Add

for each basic Swamp you control.

Land

$21.99 $12.48 $11.34

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.

: Add

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

Land

$4.49 $4.20 $3.33

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 $55.76 $58.82

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 $35.27 $32.14

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$1.99 $1.51 $0.62

Witch's Cottage

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Swamp

$1.99 $0.89 $0.73

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $110.68

Eternal Thirst

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.69 $0.21 $0.20

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

$109.99 $78.93 $80.22

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 12 Price: $194.54

Armor of Shadows

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

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

$59.99 $48.91 $44.53

Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

$29.99 $24.07 $16.66

Hammer of Nazahn

Whenever Hammer of Nazahn or another Equipment you control enters, you may attach that Equipment to target creature you control.
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has indestructible.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$9.49 $7.90 $8.09

Imp's Mischief

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

Instant

$9.99 $7.89 $6.76

Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control
When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment - Aura

$2.79 $2.23 $2.12

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$16.99 $12.78 $8.41

Mithril Coat

Flash
Indestructible
When Mithril Coat enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control.
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$44.99 $32.97 $33.31

Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Instant

$2.99 $1.00 $0.94

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

$4.99 $2.32 $2.34

Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant

$0.99 $0.32 $0.26

Whispersilk Cloak

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

Artifact - Equipment

$10.99 $9.31 $7.02

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 1 Price: $10.99

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

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

Artifact - Equipment

$10.99 $7.72 $7.07

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 7 Price: $237.43

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$129.99 $93.31 $99.32

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add

for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment

$13.99 $7.54 $9.46

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legendary Artifact

$6.49 $3.79 $3.38

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

$20.99 $15.48 $15.00

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$15.99 $15.19 $14.10

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$32.99 $23.48 $20.72

Sol Ring

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Artifact

$16.99 $17.13 $17.63

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $38.98

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

$13.99 $9.52 $8.33

Victimize

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

Sorcery

$24.99 $17.73 $16.70

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 25 Price: $326.21

Accursed Marauder

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

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.69 $0.36 $0.15

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

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

Artifact - Equipment

$47.99 $39.95 $72.72

Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$23.99 $19.27 $18.23

Deadly Rollick

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

Instant

$37.99 $26.56 $26.71

Defile

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

Instant

$4.99 $4.66 $4.35

Demon's Disciple

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

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.59 $0.38 $0.17

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.41 $0.15

Fleshbag Marauder

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

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Gisa's Favorite Shovel

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has menace.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a creature of their choice. If they do, you create a Walker token.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$27.99 $22.62 $21.43

Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant

$7.49 $7.02 $6.16

Gravelighter

Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card if a creature died this turn. Otherwise, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature - Spirit

$0.49 $0.41 $0.15

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$7.99 $5.92 $5.40

Innocent Blood

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.64 $0.35

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

$11.99 $9.67 $7.29

Merciless Executioner

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

Creature - Warrior Orc

$1.29 $---- $----

Mire in Misery

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or enchantment of their choice.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.76 $0.39

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

$0.39 $0.39 $0.29

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

$3.49 $2.81 $1.03

Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant

$5.49 $3.52 $3.31

The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Legendary Enchantment

$32.99 $25.28 $25.08

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery

$7.49 $5.30 $4.59

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant

$89.99 $97.81 $102.11

Will of the Abzan

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Any number of target opponents each sacrifice a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls and lose 3 life.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$7.49 $5.74 $4.69

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.29 $1.38 $1.52

Removal

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $1.79

Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature - Human Shaman

$1.79 $1.45 $0.65

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $119.99

Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$119.99 $78.33 $76.94

Tutor

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Tokens & Extras

Qty: 5 Price: $9.45

Shapeshifter

Changeling (This token is every creature type.)

Creature Token - Shapeshifter

$5.99 $---- $10.42

Snake

Deathtouch

Creature Token - Snake

$0.79 $---- $0.15

Treasure

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

Artifact Token - Treasure

$0.69 $---- $0.15

Walker

Creature Token - Zombie

$1.29 $3.33 $3.27

Wicked

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Enchantment Token - Aura Role

$0.69 $0.40 $0.35

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,462.08

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.41Total Mana Value: 154.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.41Total Mana Value: 154.00

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