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Commander

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Susan Foreman
If you would planeswalk, instead look at the top two cards of your planar deck, put one on the bottom of your planar deck and the other on top, then planeswalk.
: Add
.
Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)
Legendary Creature - Time Lord
Susan Foreman (who) 110
The War Doctor
Whenever one or more other permanents phase out and whenever one or more other cards are put into exile from anywhere, put a time counter on The War Doctor.
Whenever The War Doctor attacks, it deals damage equal to the number of time counters on it to any target. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
Legendary Creature - Doctor Time Lord
The War Doctor (who) 167

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Artifact

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Chimil, the Inner Sun
Spells you control can't be countered.
At the beginning of your end step, discover 5. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 5 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Legendary Artifact
Chimil, the Inner Sun (ecc) 137
Glider Staff
When this Equipment enters, airbend up to one target creature. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for
rather than its mana cost.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has flying.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Glider Staff (tla) 22
Rhonas's Monument
Green creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn.
Legendary Artifact
Rhonas's Monument (plst) AKH-236

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Creature

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Aang, Airbending Master
When Aang enters, airbend another target creature. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for
rather than its mana cost.)
Whenever one or more creatures you control leave the battlefield without dying, you get an experience counter.
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 white Ally creature token for each experience counter you have.
Legendary Creature - Human Avatar Ally
Aang, Airbending Master (tle) 74
Aang, the Last Airbender
Flying
When Aang enters, airbend up to one other target nonland permanent. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for
rather than its mana cost.)
Whenever you cast a Lesson spell, Aang gains lifelink until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Avatar Ally
Aang, the Last Airbender (tla) 4
Annoyed Altisaur
Reach, trample
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creature - Dinosaur
Annoyed Altisaur (mh3) 284
Apex Devastator
Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)
Creature - Hydra Chimera
Apex Devastator (m3c) 220
Appa, Loyal Sky Bison
Flying
Whenever Appa enters or attacks, choose one —
• Target creature you control gains flying until end of turn.
• Airbend another target nonland permanent you control. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for
rather than its mana cost.)
Legendary Creature - Ally Bison
Appa, Loyal Sky Bison (tla) 9
Appa, Steadfast Guardian
Flash
Flying
When Appa enters, airbend any number of other target nonland permanents you control. (Exile them. While each one is exiled, its owner may cast it for
rather than its mana cost.)
Whenever you cast a spell from exile, create a 1/1 white Ally creature token.
Legendary Creature - Ally Bison
Appa, Steadfast Guardian (tla) 10
Aurora Phoenix
Flying
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Whenever you cast a spell with cascade, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Phoenix
Aurora Phoenix (clb) 778
Beast Whisperer
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
Creature - Elf Druid
Beast Whisperer (clu) 158
Bloodbraid Challenger
Cascade
Haste
Escape—
, Exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
Creature - Elf Berserker
Bloodbraid Challenger (m3c) 122
Bloodbraid Elf
Haste (This creature can attack and
as soon as it comes under your control.)
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creature - Elf Berserker
Bloodbraid Elf (j25) 743
Boarding Party
Haste
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creature - Human Pirate
Boarding Party (cmr) 163
Bonehoard Dracosaur
Flying, first strike
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play them this turn. If you exiled a land card this way, create a 3/1 red Dinosaur creature token. If you exiled a nonland card this way, create a Treasure token.
Creature - Dragon Dinosaur
Bonehoard Dracosaur (lci) 134
Commander Liara Portyr
Whenever you attack, spells you cast from exile this turn cost
less to cast, where X is the number of players being attacked. Exile the top X cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards.
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Commander Liara Portyr (clb) 270
Enlisted Wurm
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creature - Wurm
Enlisted Wurm (j25) 744
Etali, Primal Conqueror
Trample
When Etali enters, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among the nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
: Transform Etali. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dinosaur
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness (mom) 137Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness (mom) 137
Flaming Tyrannosaurus
Menace
Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, this creature deals 3 damage to any target. Then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.
Creature - Dinosaur
Flaming Tyrannosaurus (who) 85
Giver of Runes
: Another target creature you control gains protection from colorless or from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Creature - Cleric Kor
Giver of Runes (h1r) 3
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost
less to cast.
Whenever Goreclaw attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Bear
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma (blc) 222
Keeper of Secrets
First strike, haste
Symphony of Pain — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, this creature deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to target opponent.
Creature - Demon
Keeper of Secrets (40k) 78
Krosan Drover
Creature spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater cost
less to cast.
Creature - Elf
Krosan Drover (scg) 122
Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Haste
Whenever Laelia attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your library and/or your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Laelia.
Legendary Creature - Warrior Spirit
Laelia, the Blade Reforged (soc) 246
Maelstrom Colossus
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creature Artifact - Golem
Maelstrom Colossus (j25) 754
Monk Gyatso
Whenever another creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability, you may airbend that creature. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for
rather than its mana cost.)
Legendary Creature - Human Monk
Monk Gyatso (tle) 81
Mother of Runes
: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Creature - Human Cleric
Mother of Runes (clb) 702
Nalfeshnee
Flying
Whenever you cast a spell from exile, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy. If it's a permanent spell, the copy gains haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this permanent." (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Creature - Beast Demon
Nalfeshnee (clb) 678
Noise Marine
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Sonic Blaster — When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to the number of spells you've cast this turn to any target.
Creature - Warrior Astartes
Noise Marine (40k) 82
Radagast of Rhosgobel
The first creature spell you cast each turn costs
less to cast and can be cast as though it had flash.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Avatar
Radagast of Rhosgobel (hob) 136
Savvy Trader
When this creature enters, exile target permanent card from your graveyard. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.
Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost
less to cast.
Creature - Human Citizen
Savvy Trader (otc) 33
Skrelv, Defector Mite
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Skrelv can't block.
,
: Choose a color. Another target creature you control gains toxic 1 and hexproof from that color until end of turn. It can't be blocked by creatures of that color this turn. (
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Legendary Creature Artifact - Phyrexian Mite
Skrelv, Defector Mite (one) 33
Sweet-Gum Recluse
Flash
Cascade
Reach
When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on each of any number of target creatures that entered this turn.
Creature - Spider
Sweet-Gum Recluse (clb) 835
Trumpeting Carnosaur
Trample
When this creature enters, discover 5.
, Discard this card: It deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
Creature - Dinosaur
Trumpeting Carnosaur (lci) 171
Wild-Magic Sorcerer
The first spell you cast from exile each turn has cascade. (When you cast your first spell from exile, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creature - Shaman Orc Sorcerer
Wild-Magic Sorcerer (clb) 816

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Enchantment

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Airbender Ascension
When this enchantment enters, airbend up to one target creature.
Whenever a creature you control enters, put a quest counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your end step, if this enchantment has four or more quest counters on it, exile up to one target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Enchantment
Airbender Ascension (tla) 6
Bigger on the Inside
Enchant artifact or land
Enchanted permanent has "
: Target player adds two mana of any one color. The next spell they cast this turn has cascade." (When they cast their next spell, they exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card that costs less. They may cast it without paying its mana cost. They put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Enchantment - Aura
Bigger on the Inside (who) 115
Guardian Project
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.
Enchantment
Guardian Project (pip) 199
Passionate Archaeologist
Commander creatures you own have "Whenever you cast a spell from exile, this creature deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to target opponent."
Legendary Enchantment - Background
Passionate Archaeologist (clb) 656
Shadow in the Warp
The first creature spell you cast each turn costs
less to cast.
Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.
Enchantment
Shadow in the Warp (40k) 140
The Legend of Yangchen
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I — Starting with you, each player chooses up to one permanent with mana value 3 or greater from among permanents your opponents control. Exile those permanents.
II — You may have target opponent draw three cards. If you do, draw three cards.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.
Enchantment - Saga
The Legend of Yangchen // Avatar Yangchen (tla) 27The Legend of Yangchen // Avatar Yangchen (tla) 27
Up the Beanstalk
When this enchantment enters and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.
Enchantment
Up the Beanstalk (woe) 195

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Instant

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Airbender's Reversal
Choose one —
• Destroy target attacking creature.
• Airbend target creature you control. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for
rather than its mana cost.)
Instant - Lesson
Airbender's Reversal (tla) 7
Airbending Lesson
Airbend target nonland permanent. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for
rather than its mana cost.)
Draw a card.
Instant - Lesson
Airbending Lesson (tla) 8
Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (msc) 169
Boros Charm
Choose one —
• Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
• Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.
Instant
Boros Charm (fdn) 721
Generous Gift
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Instant
Generous Gift (msc) 133
Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (pip) 202
Natural Reclamation
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Instant
Natural Reclamation (clb) 829
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (msc) 143
Violent Outburst
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
Instant
Violent Outburst (j25) 746

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Land

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Arid Mesa
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 436
Battlefield Forge
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Battlefield Forge (soc) 362
Boseiju, Who Endures
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 266
Bountiful Promenade
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Bountiful Promenade (msc) 226
Branchloft Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (plst) ZNR-258Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (plst) ZNR-258
Brushland
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Brushland (fic) 377
Clifftop Retreat
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains.
: Add
or
.
Land
Clifftop Retreat (msc) 231
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (msc) 236
Cragcrown Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway (plst) ZNR-261Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway (plst) ZNR-261
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (msc) 241
Fabled Passage
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Land
Fabled Passage (msc) 242
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (trk) 325
Jetmir's Garden
(
: Add
,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Mountain Forest
Jetmir's Garden (snc) 250
Karplusan Forest
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Karplusan Forest (eoc) 164
Kessig Wolf Run
: Add
.
,
: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
Land
Kessig Wolf Run (tdc) 375
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (trk) 323
Needleverge Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway (plst) ZNR-263Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway (plst) ZNR-263
Overgrown Farmland
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Overgrown Farmland (tdc) 381
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (trk) 317
Reflecting Pool
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Rockfall Vale
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Rockfall Vale (tdc) 387
Rootbound Crag
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
: Add
or
.
Land
Rootbound Crag (msc) 261
Sacred Foundry
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Mountain
Sacred Foundry (trk) 295
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
Spectator Seating
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Spectator Seating (msc) 268
Spire Garden
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Spire Garden (tmc) 75
Stomping Ground
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Mountain Forest
Stomping Ground (trk) 299
Sundown Pass
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sundown Pass (sos) 264
Sunpetal Grove
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sunpetal Grove (msc) 272
Temple Garden
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Forest
Temple Garden (trk) 301
Windswept Heath
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235
Wooded Foothills
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Wooded Foothills (mh3) 441

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Planeswalker

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Quintorius Kand
Whenever you cast a spell from exile, Quintorius Kand deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.
+1: Create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.
−3: Discover 4.
−6: Exile any number of target cards from your graveyard. Add
for each card exiled this way. You may play those cards this turn.
Legendary Planeswalker - Quintorius
Quintorius Kand (lci) 238

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Sorcery

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Avatar's Wrath
Choose up to one target creature, then airbend all other creatures. (Exile them. While each one is exiled, its owner may cast it for
rather than its mana cost.)
Until your next turn, your opponents can't cast spells from anywhere other than their hands.
Exile Avatar's Wrath.
Sorcery
Avatar's Wrath (tla) 12
Call Forth the Tempest
Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order. Then do it again.)
Call Forth the Tempest deals damage to each creature your opponents control equal to the total mana value of other spells you've cast this turn.
Sorcery
Call Forth the Tempest (hoc) 22
Cultivate
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Cultivate (msc) 172
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (msc) 815
Into the Time Vortex
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Into the Time Vortex (msc) 165
Let the Galaxy Burn
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Let the Galaxy Burn deals X plus 2 damage to each creature that didn't enter this turn.
Sorcery
Let the Galaxy Burn (40k) 81
Nature's Lore
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Nature's Lore (msc) 177
Skyshroud Claim
Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Skyshroud Claim (eoc) 107
Three Visits
Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Three Visits (msc) 181
Volcanic Torrent
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Volcanic Torrent deals X damage to each creature and planeswalker your opponents control, where X is the number of spells you've cast this turn.
Sorcery
Volcanic Torrent (soc) 260
Walk with the Ancestors
Return up to one target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Discover 4. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Sorcery
Walk with the Ancestors (lci) 218

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Deck Info

Deck stats

25 pips - 21 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
32 pips - 25 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
31 pips - 26 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
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{"ops":[{"insert":"This is a Naya "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"cascade, airbend, and cast-from-exile deck"},{"insert":" built around turning exile into both a launchpad and a weapon. The War Doctor is the primary payoff, gaining a time counter whenever cards are put into exile and then converting that stored energy into damage whenever he attacks. Susan Foreman provides the green half of the color identity while also functioning as an early mana dork, giving the deck access to the ramp and creature support needed for a deliberately chunky mana curve. The basic idea is simple: "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"put a lot of cards into exile, cast a lot of those cards back out of exile, and make both sides of that exchange matter."},{"insert":"\n\nCascade is particularly good with The War Doctor because of a slightly unusual rules interaction. Cascade doesn't exile its entire group of cards simultaneously; it exiles them "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"one at a time"},{"insert":" until it finds an eligible spell. That means every individual card the cascade ability digs past represents another exile event and another time counter for The War Doctor. Annoyed Altisaur, Bloodbraid Elf, Bloodbraid Challenger, Boarding Party, Enlisted Wurm, Maelstrom Colossus, Noise Marine, Sweet-Gum Recluse, and Aurora Phoenix all provide cascade bodies, while Apex Devastator brings four separate cascade triggers on one enormous creature. Call Forth the Tempest, Volcanic Torrent, Let the Galaxy Burn, and Into the Time Vortex let the noncreature side of the deck join in as well. A cascade that happens to dig particularly deep can make The War Doctor dramatically more threatening before the spell it found has even resolved.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Airbend is where the \"airdrop\" part really starts."},{"insert":" Airbending one of our creatures exiles it and then lets us cast that card from exile for just {2} instead of paying its normal mana cost. Appa, Loyal Sky Bison, Appa, Steadfast Guardian, Aang, Airbending Master, Aang, the Last Airbender, Monk Gyatso, Glider Staff, Airbender's Reversal, Airbending Lesson, and Airbender Ascension give the deck plenty of ways to temporarily send its own permanents away. That can protect an important creature, reset a useful enter-the-battlefield ability, or—more importantly—put a huge spell into exile so it can be "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"airdropped back onto the battlefield for two mana"},{"insert":".\n\nThat alternative cost doesn't change the card's actual mana value, which is exactly what the deck wants. Airbend a seven- or eight-mana cascade creature and it can be recast for {2}, but its printed mana value is still seven or eight and its cascade ability still works normally. Trumpeting Carnosaur can similarly be recycled for another discover 5, and Etali, Primal Conqueror is an especially exciting creature to pick up and drop again because every new entrance produces another round of free spells from across the table. Airbending the expensive creatures therefore isn't just blink with extra steps—it lets the deck repeatedly cast genuinely large spells for a tiny fraction of their normal cost while still receiving all the benefits associated with their real mana values.\nThe cast-from-exile payoffs make every airdrop significantly better. Appa, Steadfast Guardian creates an Ally whenever we cast from exile. Quintorius Kand deals 2 damage to every opponent and gains us 2 life. Flaming Tyrannosaurus deals 3 damage wherever needed and grows. Keeper of Secrets deals damage to an opponent equal to the spell's mana value, while Passionate Archaeologist gives our commanders a similar payoff. Nalfeshnee is one of the biggest prizes, "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"copying every spell we cast from exile"},{"insert":"; permanent copies become temporary hasty tokens, meaning airbending one large creature and recasting it can suddenly give us both the original and a copy. Savvy Trader makes spells cast from outside the hand cheaper, while Wild-Magic Sorcerer gives the first spell cast from exile each turn cascade, potentially turning one cheap airdrop into the beginning of an entire chain.\n\nCommander Liara Portyr provides another way to start those chains without needing an airbend card. Attacking multiple opponents exiles cards from the top of the library and reduces the cost of spells cast from exile that turn. Bonehoard Dracosaur supplies a steady stream of exiled cards every upkeep, Laelia both exiles cards and grows whenever cards leave the library or graveyard for exile, Chimil discovers 5 every end step, and Quintorius can discover 4 himself. Bigger on the Inside can give the next spell cascade while producing mana to help cast it. Once several of these engines overlap, a single spell from exile can trigger damage, make a token, get copied by Nalfeshnee, gain cascade from Wild-Magic Sorcerer, exile several more cards for The War Doctor, and then cascade into another spell that starts another round of triggers.\n\nThe deck is deliberately creature-heavy and fairly expensive, so the green package keeps the machinery moving. Nature's Lore, Three Visits, Farseek, Cultivate, and Skyshroud Claim accelerate the mana base, while Goreclaw, Krosan Drover, Shadow in the Warp, Radagast of Rhosgobel, and Rhonas's Monument make the large creature suite easier to deploy normally. Beast Whisperer, Guardian Project, and Up the Beanstalk reward those big creature casts with cards. Airbend then gives the deck a second way to use those expensive creatures later: cast the big threat once, airbend it when an opportunity appears, and suddenly the same seven- or eight-mana card is waiting in exile to be redeployed for {2}.\n\nThe gameplan is to ramp early, establish The War Doctor and one of the cast-from-exile payoffs, and then start chaining exile effects rather than simply playing one large creature per turn. Cascade and discover load The War Doctor with time counters, while airbend lets the deck recycle its best creatures and converts them into extremely efficient exile casts. Once The War Doctor has accumulated enough counters, attacking turns all of that earlier setup into a large burst of targeted damage. At the same time, the creatures generated through cascade, discover, Nalfeshnee copies, and repeated airdrops naturally build a sizable combat board, so the deck doesn't have to rely entirely on its commander to finish a game.\n\nAvatar's Wrath provides a particularly thematic reset when the battlefield gets crowded: almost every creature gets airbent rather than simply destroyed, while opponents are temporarily prevented from recasting their exiled cards. We, meanwhile, are playing a deck specifically designed to benefit from putting cards into exile and casting our own creatures back from there. Even a board reset can therefore become another opportunity to charge The War Doctor and prepare the next round of airdrops.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Put the big creatures in the air, charge The War Doctor while they're gone, and then drop them back onto the battlefield for two mana—with cascade, discover, copies, tokens, and plenty of fireworks following them down."},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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