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

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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

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

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Long-Lost Lances

Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
During your turn, creatures you control that are equipped have first strike and vigilance.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$2.99 $1.52 $1.37

Sting, Bilbo's Sword

Flash
When Sting enters, put a hone counter on Sting for each creature target opponent controls. Attach Sting to up to one target creature you control. (Each hone counter on an Equipment grants +1/+0 to equipped creature.)
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$0.49 $0.44 $0.15

Artifact

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Copy

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The Masamune

As long as equipped creature is attacking, it has first strike and must be blocked if able.
Equipped creature has "If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of this creature or an emblem you own to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time."
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$0.99 $1.12 $0.57

Copy

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Counters

Qty: 2 Price: $85.98

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

$5.99 $3.78 $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

$79.99 $62.79 $63.59

Counters

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Draw

Qty: 6 Price: $11.74

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature - Nightmare

$6.49 $4.64 $3.01

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

$1.79 $0.69 $0.63

Morbid Opportunist

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

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.49 $5.45 $----

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 $0.32 $0.18

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.99 $3.19 $0.47

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 3 Price: $2.93

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 $0.35 $0.15

Hero's Heirloom

Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has trample and haste.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Sword of Vengeance

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike, vigilance, trample, and haste.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$1.99 $1.37 $1.38

Evasion

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Finisher

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Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.

: Until end of turn, this Equipment gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$2.79 $2.47 $2.21

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $127.15

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

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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

$69.99 $54.23 $56.24

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$1.49 $---- $0.41

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

$39.99 $35.75 $32.15

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 3 Price: $46.07

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

$0.59 $0.21 $0.19

Loxodon Warhammer

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

Artifact - Equipment

$2.49 $3.42 $1.51

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 $38.21 $33.48

Lifegain

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Protection

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Champion's Helm

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.
As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$2.49 $1.28 $1.29

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

$54.99 $47.95 $39.58

Demonic Gifts

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control."

Instant

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Feign Death

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

$2.29 $1.33 $0.39

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

$7.99 $5.63 $5.10

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 $9.60 $8.59

Mithril Coat

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

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$34.99 $32.34 $28.42

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment

$19.99 $27.00 $23.70

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 $1.01 $1.01

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 $2.06 $2.14

Protection

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Pump

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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

$7.99 $5.96 $4.85

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 $7.17 $1.92

Pump

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Ramp

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Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional

Sorcery

$3.99 $2.16 $1.70

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $0.36 $0.37

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 $15.16 $14.06

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$19.99 $12.83 $10.80

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.66 $1.63

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$5.49 $3.49 $3.27

Ramp

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Recursion

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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 $22.13 $20.81

Recursion

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Removal

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Accursed Marauder

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

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$2.99 $1.45 $0.81

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

$6.49 $5.46 $4.10

Crypt Rats

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

Creature - Rat

$0.79 $0.75 $0.52

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$21.99 $20.82 $17.81

Defile

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

Instant

$2.99 $2.01 $1.81

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Fleshbag Marauder

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

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.39 $0.32 $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

$24.99 $22.16 $19.54

Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment

$37.99 $33.42 $31.13

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 $0.39 $0.15

Maha, Its Feathers Night

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

Legendary Creature - Elemental Bird

$24.99 $22.03 $20.37

Mandate of Abaddon

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

Sorcery

$7.99 $4.12 $3.98

Massacre Girl

Menace
When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

$1.29 $0.59 $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

$4.99 $2.42 $2.45

Merciless Executioner

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

Creature - Warrior Orc

$1.29 $0.51 $----

Mire in Misery

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or enchantment of their choice.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.75 $0.41

Pestilence

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.

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

Enchantment

$2.99 $0.59 $0.57

Pestilence Demon

Flying

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

Creature - Demon

$1.29 $0.66 $0.36

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

$0.35 $0.40 $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

$2.29 $1.44 $0.75

Soul Shatter

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

Instant

$5.49 $3.35 $3.24

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

$5.99 $7.83 $4.58

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

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

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

$5.99 $4.84 $4.27

Removal

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $9.49

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

$9.49 $7.35 $6.72

Tokens

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Deck size: 100Est cost: $690.90

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Avg Mana Value: 2.88Total Mana Value: 184.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.88Total Mana Value: 184.00

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