Istvan, Butcher of Eln • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Equipment Legends Historic Modified Creatures

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Equipment Legends Historic Modified Creatures

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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

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Commander

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Artifact

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

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 $0.16 $0.15

Artifact

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Counters

Qty: 3 Price: $11.77

Blade of the Bloodchief

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$8.99 $7.45 $6.65

Sadistic Glee

Enchant creature
Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$1.29 $1.70 $0.52

Vincent Valentine

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a number of +1/+1 counters on Vincent Valentine equal to that creature's power.
Whenever Vincent Valentine attacks, you may transform it.

Legendary Creature - Assassin

Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast (fin) 125

$1.49 $1.70 $0.35

Counters

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Drain

Qty: 1 Price: $3.99

Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$3.99 $3.80 $2.28

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 4 Price: $21.32

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

$5.99 $4.35 $3.61

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.

, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature Enchantment - God

$12.99 $11.54 $8.17

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

$1.99 $0.71 $0.63

Necrosynthesis

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."
When enchanted creature dies, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is its power. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 3 Price: $3.03

Fear

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Enchanted creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

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

$0.69 $0.35 $0.15

Trailblazer's Boots

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$1.99 $1.13 $1.04

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $2.79

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 $2.31 $1.99

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $346.24

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$3.49 $1.41 $1.53

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$39.99 $31.36 $23.71

Cabal Stronghold

: Add

for each basic Swamp you control.

Land

$21.99 $12.38 $9.90

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.35 $0.20

Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.

: Add

, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Legendary Land

$24.99 $19.32 $17.08

Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.43 $0.37

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 $56.45 $58.82

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.11 $4.03

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$1.99 $---- $0.52

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 $35.26 $32.14

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$1.29 $0.50 $0.26

The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

: Add

: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Legendary Land - Gate

$12.99 $9.22 $8.32

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Legendary Land

$64.99 $56.74 $55.47

Vesuva

You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.

Land

$5.49 $3.37 $3.18

Witch's Clinic

: Add

: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Land

$19.99 $15.07 $13.69

Witch's Cottage

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: Add

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

Land - Swamp

$1.99 $0.86 $0.75

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 4 Price: $49.66

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

$0.69 $0.21 $0.20

Loxodon Warhammer

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

Artifact - Equipment

$2.49 $3.33 $1.39

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 $37.37 $33.48

Vampiric Link

Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

Enchantment - Aura

$3.49 $2.53 $2.04

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 7 Price: $113.79

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 $44.54 $36.56

Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

$19.99 $15.71 $14.37

Darksteel Plate

Indestructible
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $4.51 $4.18

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

$7.49 $5.27 $5.47

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment

$19.99 $16.45 $17.89

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

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$4.99 $2.03 $2.46

Uncle Istvan

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

Creature - Human

$0.35 $0.27 $0.18

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 3 Price: $17.97

Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control.
Equip legendary creature

Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $3.15 $2.93

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 $5.30 $4.16

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 $8.30 $1.92

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 11 Price: $185.29

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$1.29 $0.57 $0.59

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

$6.99 $4.95 $4.99

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legendary Artifact

$6.49 $3.76 $3.38

Brass Squire

: Attach target Equipment you control to target creature you control.

Creature Artifact - Myr

$2.29 $1.12 $0.95

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $0.34 $0.26

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$11.99 $6.71 $5.92

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$19.99 $12.70 $10.40

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.52 $1.56

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 $2.56 $3.01

The Darkness Crystal

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.

: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Legendary Artifact

$6.49 $5.01 $4.02

The Soul Stone

Indestructible

: Add

, Exile a creature you control: Harness The Soul Stone. (Once harnessed, its ∞ ability is active.)
∞ — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Legendary Artifact - Infinity Stone

$119.99 $93.63 $97.62

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $36.98

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 $7.52 $6.25

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 $22.76 $20.81

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 20 Price: $230.80

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

$0.99 $0.44 $0.25

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

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$6.49 $5.48 $4.16

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$22.99 $20.60 $18.93

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.22 $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

$27.99 $22.50 $20.30

Grave Pact

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

Enchantment

$39.99 $33.16 $30.83

Liliana's Triumph

Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you control a Liliana planeswalker, each opponent also discards a card.

Instant

$0.59 $0.27 $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 $21.30 $19.70

Mandate of Abaddon

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

Sorcery

$7.99 $4.10 $3.73

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 $2.64 $2.42

Mire in Misery

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or enchantment of their choice.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.75 $0.41

Nazgûl Battle-Mace

Equipped creature has menace, deathtouch, annihilator 1, and "Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control unless that player pays 3 life." (Whenever a creature with annihilator 1 attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$27.99 $20.70 $20.11

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

$13.99 $10.00 $9.02

Royal Assassin

: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.79 $0.39 $0.23

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 $1.16 $0.72

Soul Shatter

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

Instant

$5.49 $3.52 $3.31

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

$32.99 $25.20 $25.19

Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery

$5.99 $4.52 $4.68

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.29 $1.42 $1.46

Zodiark, Umbral God

Indestructible
When Zodiark enters, each player sacrifices half the non-God creatures they control of their choice, rounded down.
Whenever a player sacrifices another creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Zodiark.

Legendary Creature - God

$0.59 $0.55 $0.15

Removal

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Tutor

Qty: 3 Price: $147.27

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$84.99 $67.62 $61.47

Diabolic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$2.29 $1.15 $1.00

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$59.99 $54.98 $52.45

Tutor

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Tokens & Extras

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

Walker

Creature Token - Zombie

$1.29 $3.23 $3.27

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,172.54

Color Cost & Production

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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