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Commander

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Chainer, Nightmare Adept
Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Minion
Chainer, Nightmare Adept (mh2) 289

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Burn

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Arc Runner
Haste (This creature can attack and
as soon as it comes under your control.)
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
Creature - Elemental Ox
Arc Runner (m11) 123
Ball Lightning
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Haste (This creature can attack and
as soon as it comes under your control.)
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
Creature - Elemental
Ball Lightning (fdn) 618
Blistering Firecat
Trample, haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
Morph
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Creature - Elemental Cat
Blistering Firecat (ons) 189
Hellspark Elemental
Trample, haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
Unearth
(
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Elemental
Hellspark Elemental (plst) DDK-46
Lightning Serpent
Trample, haste
This creature enters with X +1/+0 counters on it.
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
Creature - Elemental Serpent
Lightning Serpent (csp) 88
Sunspine Lynx
Players can't gain life.
Damage can't be prevented.
When this creature enters, it deals damage to each player equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.
Creature - Elemental Cat
Sunspine Lynx (blb) 155

Burn

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Counters

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Magma Pummeler
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If damage would be dealt to this creature while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove that many +1/+1 counters from it. When one or more counters are removed from this creature this way, it deals that much damage to any target.
Creature - Elemental
Magma Pummeler (vow) 169

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Creature

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Champion of the Path
As an additional cost to cast this spell, behold an Elemental and exile it. (Exile an Elemental you control or an Elemental card from your hand.)
Whenever another Elemental you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.
Creature - Elemental Sorcerer
Champion of the Path (ecl) 130

Creature

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Discard

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Lightning Skelemental
Trample, haste
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards.
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
Creature - Skeleton Elemental
Lightning Skelemental (plst) MH1-208

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Drain

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Jaws of Defeat
Whenever a creature you control enters, target opponent loses life equal to the difference between that creature's power and its toughness.
Enchantment
Jaws of Defeat (tdc) 27
Rottenmouth Viper
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of nonland permanents. This spell costs
less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this way.
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a blight counter on it. Then for each blight counter on it, each opponent loses 4 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.
Creature - Elemental Snake
Rottenmouth Viper (blb) 107

Drain

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Draw

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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
Big Score (msc) 802
Cathartic Reunion
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards.
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Cathartic Reunion (ecc) 91
Corrupted Conviction
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
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
Deadly Dispute (tdc) 177
Demand Answers
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or discard a card.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Demand Answers (mkm) 122
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
Faithless Looting (soc) 244
Monument to Endurance
Whenever you discard a card, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Each opponent loses 3 life.
Artifact
Monument to Endurance (dft) 237
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (hoc) 189
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
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
Read the Bones (j25) 479
Seize the Spoils
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Sorcery
Seize the Spoils (sos) 129
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Teval's Judgment
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.
Enchantment
Teval's Judgment (tdc) 28
Thrill of Possibility
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Thrill of Possibility (dmu) 148
Village Rites
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137

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Finisher

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Malignus
Malignus's power and toughness are each equal to half the highest life total among your opponents, rounded up.
Damage that would be dealt by this creature can't be prevented.
Creature - Elemental Spirit
Malignus (plst) AVR-148
Nova Chaser
Trample
Champion an Elemental (When this enters, sacrifice it unless you exile another Elemental you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)
Creature - Warrior Elemental
Nova Chaser (lrw) 187

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Land

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Blackcleave Cliffs
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Blackcleave Cliffs (dsc) 263
Blazemire Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
Land
Blazemire Verge (dsk) 256
Bloodstained Mire
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 435
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (soc) 363
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (msc) 236
Dragonskull Summit
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dragonskull Summit (msc) 238
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (msc) 241
Foreboding Ruins
As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Foreboding Ruins (msc) 244
Graven Cairns
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Graven Cairns (fic) 401
Haunted Ridge
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Haunted Ridge (inr) 280
Luxury Suite
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Luxury Suite (msc) 252
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (trk) 323
Rakdos Carnarium
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Rakdos Carnarium (ecc) 161
Shadowblood Ridge
,
: Add
.
Land
Shadowblood Ridge (fic) 421
Smoldering Marsh
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Swamp Mountain
Smoldering Marsh (msc) 266
Sulfurous Springs
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Sulfurous Springs (eoc) 185
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (trk) 321
Tainted Peak
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Peak (dsc) 304

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Lifegain

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Essence Harvest
Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Sorcery
Essence Harvest (avr) 100
Rite of Consumption
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.
Sorcery
Rite of Consumption (plst) SHM-76

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
Lightning Greaves (soc) 350

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
Arcane Signet (msc) 194
Burnt Offering
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add X mana in any combination of
and/or
, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.
Instant
Burnt Offering (ice) 116
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (msc) 793
Flamebraider
: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Elemental spells or activate abilities of Elemental sources.
Creature - Elemental Bard
Flamebraider (ecl) 139
Incandescent Soulstoke
Other Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1.
,
: You may put an Elemental creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Creature - Elemental Shaman
Incandescent Soulstoke (ecc) 94
Manaforge Cinder
: Add
or
. Activate no more than three times each turn.
Creature - Elemental Shaman
Manaforge Cinder (shm) 191
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (soc) 352
Rakdos Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dsc) 250
Smokebraider
: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Elemental spells or activate abilities of Elementals.
Creature - Elemental Shaman
Smokebraider (ecc) 96
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (soc) 128
Talisman of Indulgence
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (msc) 220
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (hoc) 211

Ramp

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Recursion

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Dread Return
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Dread Return (cmm) 153
Grave Venerations
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Grave Venerations (ecc) 9
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
Reanimate (fic) 282
Thunderkin Awakener
Haste
Whenever this creature attacks, choose target Elemental creature card in your graveyard with toughness less than this creature's toughness. Return that card to the battlefield tapped and attacking. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Creature - Elemental Shaman
Thunderkin Awakener (m20) 162

Recursion

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Removal

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Bedevil
Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.
Instant
Bedevil (msc) 182
Blasphemous Act
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.
Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (soc) 238
Cavalier of Night
Lifelink
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
When this creature dies, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Knight Elemental
Cavalier of Night (plst) M20-94
Chandra's Ignition
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.
Sorcery
Chandra's Ignition (m3c) 209
Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (c20) 42
Sarkhan's Unsealing
Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 4, 5, or 6, this enchantment deals 4 damage to any target.
Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 7 or greater, this enchantment deals 4 damage to each opponent and each creature and planeswalker they control.
Enchantment
Sarkhan's Unsealing (jmp) 361
Shriekmaw
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke
(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Creature - Elemental
Shriekmaw (ecc) 85
Spitebellows
When this creature leaves the battlefield, it deals 6 damage to target creature.
Evoke
(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Creature - Elemental
Spitebellows (cmm) 257
Terminate
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Terminate (msc) 189
Untimely Malfunction
Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
• One or two target creatures can't block this turn.
Instant
Untimely Malfunction (dsk) 161
Vandalblast
Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Vandalblast (cmm) 646
Warstorm Surge
Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.
Enchantment
Warstorm Surge (afc) 149
Where Ancients Tread
Whenever a creature you control with power 5 or greater enters, you may have this enchantment deal 5 damage to any target.
Enchantment
Where Ancients Tread (c13) 130

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Tutor

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Buried Alive
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Entomb
Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Instant
Entomb (dmr) 304
Flamekin Harbinger
When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Elemental card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Creature - Elemental Shaman
Flamekin Harbinger (plst) LRW-167

Tutor

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Maybeboard

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Fury
Double strike
When this creature enters, it deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers.
Evoke—Exile a red card from your hand.
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Fury (ecc) 50
Grief
Menace
When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Evoke—Exile a black card from your hand.
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Grief (h2r) 7
Impulsivity
When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Encore
(
, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Impulsivity (ecc) 13
Lamentation
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls. You gain 3 life.
Encore
(
, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Lamentation (ecc) 10
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.
Instant
Lightning Bolt (clu) 141
Mournwhelk
When this creature enters, target player discards two cards.
Evoke
(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Creature - Elemental
Mournwhelk (lrw) 127
Night Incarnate
Deathtouch
When this creature leaves the battlefield, all creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn.
Evoke
(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Creature - Elemental
Night Incarnate (c18) 17
Saw in Half
Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.
Instant
Saw in Half (unf) 88
Spark Elemental
Trample, haste (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking. This creature can attack and
as soon as it comes under your control.)
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.
Creature - Elemental
Spark Elemental (10e) 237
Syphon Mind
Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.
Sorcery
Syphon Mind (msc) 159
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
Unexpected Windfall (pip) 193
Unholy Annex
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card. If you control a Demon, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Otherwise, you lose 2 life.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
Enchantment - Room
Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber (dsk) 118

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{"ops":[{"insert":"I've always wanted to build around Chainer but, every version I tried before this one never had a theme that clicked. I went through a few iterations chasing different flavors before finally sitting down with his lore. his control over dementia abilities and the nightmare fueled powers that come with it. That's when the deck actually started to take shape.\n\nI wanted something aggressive, and I kept coming back to Flayer of the Hatebound. there's something perfect about a creature that turns death itself into a weapon. But as I built around that idea, I realized the same burn effect could be replicated across an entire creature type instead of a single card. Then I stumbled onto Champion of the Path, and that was the moment the real deck clicked into place. An Elemental reanimation burn deck, where simply entering the battlefield is the win condition.\n\nChainer's ability to loop creatures out of the graveyard turned that idea into something explosive. Recur a Ball Lightning and it's a quick burst, recur something like Nova Chaser and you're looking at a genuine haymaker, over and over, for the cost of a discard. The deck ended up far more synergistic than I expected. Every Elemental you cast is doing double duty the moment it hits the battlefield.\n\nThe hardest part of tuning it has been the card draw/discard balance. This deck eats through resources fast, and keeping Chainer fed while still drawing into the pieces that make the burn plan actually explosive took a lot more calibration than I expected.\n"}]}
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