Elminster • (Azorius Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

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Elminster

Whenever you scry, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs

less to cast, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way.
+2: Draw a card, then scry 2.
−3: Exile the top card of your library. Create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to that card's mana value.
Elminster can be your commander.

Legendary Planeswalker - Elminster

$2.49 $1.32 $1.09

Commander

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Blink

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Oath of Teferi

When Oath of Teferi enters, exile another target permanent you control. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
You may activate the loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control twice each turn rather than only once.

Legendary Enchantment

$8.49 $6.99 $6.99

Blink

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Copy

Qty: 1 Price: $3.99

Elminster's Simulacrum

For each opponent, you create a token that's a copy of up to one target creature that player controls.

Instant

$3.99 $2.54 $1.90

Copy

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Draw

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Augury Owl

Flying
When this creature enters, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Creature - Bird

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Behold the Multiverse

Scry 2, then draw two cards.
Foretell

(During your turn, you may pay

and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant

$0.79 $0.29 $0.15

Brainsurge

Draw four cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant

$1.99 $1.06 $0.35

Cryptic Annelid

When this creature enters, scry 1, then scry 2, then scry 3. (To scry X, look at the top X cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Creature - Beast Worm

$1.49 $0.21 $0.15

Crystal Ball

: 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.)

Artifact

$0.79 $0.53 $0.16

Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for

.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant

$0.59 $0.37 $0.20

Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays

, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact - Human Soldier

$74.99 $58.97 $54.17

Foresee

Scry 4, then draw two cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Lórien Revealed

Draw three cards.
Islandcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Sorcery

$8.99 $5.83 $----

Lost Isle Calling

Whenever you scry, put a verse counter on this enchantment.

, Exile this enchantment: Draw a card for each verse counter on this enchantment. If it had seven or more verse counters on it, take an extra turn after this one. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Matoya, Archon Elder

Whenever you scry or surveil, draw a card. (Draw after you scry or surveil.)

Legendary Creature - Human Warlock

$2.29 $1.28 $0.19

Mystic Speculation

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

$2.79 $1.59 $0.61

Netherese Puzzle-Ward

Focus Beam — At the beginning of your upkeep, roll a d4. Scry X, where X is the result.
Perfect Illumination — Whenever you roll a die's highest natural result, draw a card.

Enchantment

$2.79 $1.12 $0.76

Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Palantír of Orthanc

At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Legendary Artifact

$24.99 $17.82 $16.67

Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong

: Scry 2.
Whenever you scry or surveil, look at the top card of your library. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Do this only once each turn. (Look at the card after you scry or surveil.)

Legendary Artifact

$10.99 $8.01 $5.21

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$5.49 $3.76 $2.19

Precognitive Perception

Draw three cards.
Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, instead scry 3, then draw three cards.

Instant

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (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

$1.79 $0.78 $0.51

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$74.99 $67.54 $49.67

Rumor Gatherer

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, draw a card instead.

Creature - Wizard Elf

$1.49 $0.52 $0.43

Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery

$1.79 $2.79 $0.71

Sigiled Starfish

: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature - Starfish

$0.49 $0.10 $0.15

The Temporal Anchor

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 2.
Whenever you choose to put one or more cards on the bottom of your library while scrying, exile that many cards from the bottom of your library.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with The Temporal Anchor.

Legendary Artifact

$0.59 $0.28 $0.15

Ugin's Insight

Scry X, where X is the greatest mana value among permanents you control, then draw three cards.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Draw

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Finisher

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Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery

$8.49 $6.76 $5.21

Time Stretch

Target player takes two extra turns after this one.

Sorcery

$5.99 $4.30 $4.16

Finisher

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Land

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Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.

: Add

: Scry 2.

Land

$0.69 $0.31 $0.26

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.40 $0.27

Deserted Beach

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$6.99 $5.98 $5.40

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

$9.99 $7.30 $5.21

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

$2.99 $2.22 $1.27

Floodfarm Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

Land

$14.99 $9.39 $9.16

Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.65 $0.48

Island

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: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.17 $0.15

Isolated Watchtower

: Add

: Scry 1, then you may reveal the top card of your library. If a basic land card is revealed this way, put it onto the battlefield tapped. Activate only if an opponent controls at least two more lands than you.

Land

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

Meticulous Archive

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.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land - Plains Island

$21.99 $15.10 $12.02

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

$0.79 $0.28 $0.20

Mystic Gate

: Add

, or

Land

$4.49 $4.66 $5.07

Mystic Sanctuary

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: Add

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

Land - Island

$8.99 $8.58 $7.88

Otawara, Soaring City

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$44.99 $28.09 $26.91

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.17 $0.15

Port Town

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.46 $0.18

Prismatic Vista

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$39.99 $31.28 $28.10

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.99 $5.14 $3.73

Rivendell

Rivendell enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.

: Add

: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Legendary Land

$2.99 $1.07 $0.98

Sea of Clouds

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$29.99 $21.03 $18.75

Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Zhalfirin Void

When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.34 $0.15

Land

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Protection

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Perch Protection

Gift an extra turn (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they take an extra turn after this one.)
Create four 2/2 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. If the gift was promised, all permanents you control phase out, and until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything.
Exile Perch Protection.

Instant

$4.99 $3.82 $3.31

Protection

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Pump

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Gandalf, White Rider

Vigilance
Whenever you cast a spell, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. Scry 1.
When Gandalf dies, you may put it into its owner's library fifth from the top.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Avatar

$7.99 $7.73 $5.23

Pump

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.93 $0.44

Archaeomancer's Map

When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact

$1.99 $1.11 $1.02

Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

Enchantment

$2.49 $0.58 $0.58

Pearl Medallion

White spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$16.99 $12.92 $7.29

Princess Yue

When Princess Yue dies, if she was a nonland creature, return this card to the battlefield tapped under your control. She's a land named Moon. She gains "

: Add

." (She's still legendary.)

: Scry 2.

Legendary Creature - Human Ally Noble

$5.49 $1.62 $1.64

Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$27.99 $21.41 $16.78

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.41 $1.35

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $2.38 $2.59

Tithe

Search your library for a Plains card. If target opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for an additional Plains card. Reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant

$34.99 $37.59 $22.50

Ramp

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Recursion

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Mnemonic Deluge

Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Copy that card three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs. Exile Mnemonic Deluge.

Sorcery

$17.99 $8.37 $8.33

Recursion

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Removal

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

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

Instant

$5.99 $4.63 $3.12

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$5.49 $3.76 $1.75

Cleansing Nova

Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

$47.99 $39.43 $40.57

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$5.49 $4.45 $3.87

Elvish Mariner

Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.
Whenever you scry, tap up to X target nonland permanents, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way.

Creature - Elf Pilot

$5.99 $4.10 $2.66

Hour of Reckoning

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for

or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy all nontoken creatures.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.58 $0.26

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of

equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$74.99 $51.54 $49.23

Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant

$3.49 $2.84 $2.05

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant

$4.49 $2.27 $1.04

Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Instant

$0.69 $0.37 $0.15

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery

$4.49 $2.88 $1.53

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant

$2.99 $1.47 $1.53

Terminus

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries.
Miracle

(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$4.99 $3.50 $3.21

Removal

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Tokens

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Ancient Gold Dragon

Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. You create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to the result.

Creature - Elder Dragon

$49.99 $45.14 $41.20

Entreat the Angels

Create X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying.
Miracle

(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.83 $0.15

Storm Herd

Create X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying, where X is your life total.

Sorcery

$1.99 $1.10 $1.08

Tokens

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Tutor

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Personal Tutor

Search your library for a sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Sorcery

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

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $814.90

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.59Total Mana Value: 219.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.59Total Mana Value: 219.00

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