Uncle Istvan • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.00

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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Copy

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

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

$0.79 $1.02 $0.39

Copy

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Counters

Qty: 2 Price: $79.98

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

$4.99 $4.07 $2.86

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

$74.99 $61.76 $61.96

Counters

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Drain

Qty: 2 Price: $6.78

Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$4.49 $3.84 $2.57

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

$2.29 $3.90 $1.01

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 6 Price: $33.24

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 $10.47 $10.65

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

$6.99 $3.39 $2.82

Morbid Opportunist

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

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.49 $0.35 $0.16

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.79 $6.25 $7.29

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$5.49 $4.33 $3.23

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.49 $2.75 $0.44

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

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

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $3.49

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

$3.49 $2.64 $1.55

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $256.93

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$2.99 $1.44 $1.20

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$34.99 $29.15 $26.05

Cabal Stronghold

: Add

for each basic Swamp you control.

Land

$22.99 $12.72 $12.49

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 $46.40 $39.45

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$2.29 $---- $----

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 $34.19 $28.91

Swamp

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Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $---- $----

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Legendary Land

$59.99 $55.25 $50.34

War Room

: Add

, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land

$6.49 $5.22 $3.87

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 3 Price: $45.77

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

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Loxodon Warhammer

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

Artifact - Equipment

$2.29 $2.58 $1.29

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 $29.77 $27.35

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 9 Price: $155.02

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

$3.49 $3.05 $2.31

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

$49.99 $39.21 $36.75

Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

$29.99 $23.79 $17.18

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 $9.14 $8.62

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $3.92 $3.76

Mithril Coat

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

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$32.99 $29.34 $26.44

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment

$20.99 $24.28 $22.53

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

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

Uncle Istvan

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures.

Creature - Human

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 1 Price: $8.49

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

$8.49 $5.58 $3.06

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 8 Price: $69.02

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.79 $0.52 $0.48

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

$7.49 $6.40 $5.05

Bubbling Muck

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

Sorcery

$4.49 $4.68 $1.99

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.79 $0.35 $0.31

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

$21.99 $18.07 $13.75

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$10.99 $7.18 $6.77

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$18.99 $14.51 $11.86

Sol Ring

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Artifact

$3.49 $1.61 $1.60

Ramp

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Recursion

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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 $10.11 $8.23

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 25 Price: $183.56

Accursed Marauder

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

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.59 $0.34 $0.15

Archfiend of Depravity

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature - Demon

$1.79 $3.25 $0.47

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

$5.49 $3.74 $3.68

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$23.99 $21.11 $18.17

Deadly Rollick

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

Instant

$37.99 $28.68 $27.32

Defile

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

Instant

$2.49 $1.32 $0.89

Demon's Disciple

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

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Fleshbag Marauder

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

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.59 $0.28 $0.20

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

$32.99 $22.86 $20.84

Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant

$1.49 $0.62 $0.44

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

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$0.69 $0.32 $0.15

Mandate of Abaddon

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

Sorcery

$6.99 $3.87 $3.58

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

$0.79 $0.54 $0.26

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

$---- $2.43 $----

Merciless Executioner

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

Creature - Warrior Orc

$1.49 $0.52 $----

Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

Creature - Horror Phyrexian

$11.99 $9.46 $7.84

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

$0.59 $0.39 $0.28

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

$1.99 $1.33 $0.47

Soul Shatter

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

Instant

$5.49 $6.00 $3.60

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

$34.99 $24.67 $25.35

Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery

$6.99 $4.97 $3.89

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 $0.26 $0.15

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.29 $1.61 $1.30

Removal

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Tokens

Qty: 2 Price: $10.48

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

$8.49 $6.39 $5.21

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

$1.99 $1.17 $0.95

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $868.13

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Avg Mana Value: 2.68Total Mana Value: 169.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.68Total Mana Value: 169.00

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