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{"ops":[{"insert":"Budget Week asks how much personality and mechanical cohesion we can squeeze out of a precon-sized budget. The entire deck, excluding basic lands, must cost no more than the first commander precon listed on Amazon, $49.60. No individual card may exceed $1, except the commander, which may cost up to $10.\n\nRepeatable token engines grow each attack’s payoff, while mana creatures contribute to both ramp and damage. Resolve token-making attack triggers before Arabella’s ability to count the new arrivals. Protection keeps her swinging, and that life cushion lets the deck attack aggressively.\n\nTokentron builds a small army around one heavily upgraded doll. Every creature with power 2 or less increases Arabella’s attack-trigger damage to every opponent. Give her lifelink, keep her alive, and use the enormous life swings to support an increasingly aggressive board.\n\nEstablish mana and inexpensive bodies, then deploy Arabella alongside a lifelink or protection piece. The mana creatures serve two roles: accelerating the larger engines while contributing to Arabella’s damage.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Loyal Apprentice"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Legion Warboss"}},{"insert":" , and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Searslicer Goblin"}},{"insert":" provide steady production. Griffin Aerie converts lifegain into additional flyers, while "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mobilization"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dawn of Hope"}},{"insert":" , and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Trading Post"}},{"insert":" give spare mana somewhere useful to go. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Assemble the Legion"}},{"insert":" supplies growing pressure over longer games.\n\nWhen Arabella attacks alongside token-producing triggers, resolve the token makers first. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rabble Rousing"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Skyknight Vanguard"}},{"insert":" , and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tilonalli's Summoner"}},{"insert":" can create bodies that immediately increase Arabella’s damage that combat.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kirol, Attentive First-Year"}},{"insert":" copies the trigger by tapping two spare creatures; those tapped creatures still count. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Firebender Ascension"}},{"insert":" supplies another source of trigger copying once charged.\n\n"}]}

Commander

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Arabella, Abandoned Doll
Whenever Arabella attacks, it deals X damage to each opponent and you gain X life, where X is the number of creatures you control with power 2 or less.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Toy
Arabella, Abandoned Doll (dsk) 208

Commander

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Burn

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Molten Gatekeeper
Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
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 Artifact - Golem
Molten Gatekeeper (mh3) 128

Burn

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Copy

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Firebender Ascension
When this enchantment enters, create a 2/2 red Soldier creature token with firebending 1.
Whenever a creature you control attacking causes a triggered ability of that creature to trigger, put a quest counter on this enchantment. Then if it has four or more quest counters on it, you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Enchantment
Firebender Ascension (tla) 137
Kirol, Attentive First-Year
Tap two untapped creatures you control: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. Activate only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Cleric
Kirol, Attentive First-Year (ecl) 231

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Creature

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Everett K. Ross, Hapless Attaché
Commander creatures you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.
Whenever an opponent attacks you with two or more creatures, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Everett K. Ross, Hapless Attaché (msc) 13

Creature

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Cycling

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Splendor Mare
Lifelink
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, put a lifelink counter on target creature you control.
Creature - Unicorn Elk
Splendor Mare (plst) IKO-32

Cycling

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Draw

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Dawn of Hope
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.
Enchantment
Dawn of Hope (ltc) 164
Mentor of the Meek
Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
Creature - Human Soldier
Mentor of the Meek (scd) 28
Norn's Wellspring
Whenever a creature you control dies, scry 1 and put an oil counter on this artifact.
,
, Remove two oil counters from this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Norn's Wellspring (one) 24
Rune of Sustenance
Enchant permanent
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it has lifelink.
As long as enchanted permanent is an Equipment, it has "Equipped creature has lifelink."
Enchantment - Aura Rune
Rune of Sustenance (khm) 25
Splitskin Doll
When this creature enters, draw a card. Then discard a card unless you control another creature with power 2 or less.
Creature Artifact - Toy
Splitskin Doll (dsk) 33
Staff of the Storyteller
When this artifact enters, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
Whenever you create one or more creature tokens, put a story counter on this artifact.
,
, Remove a story counter from this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Staff of the Storyteller (soc) 111
Trading Post
,
, Discard a card: You gain 4 life.
,
, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
,
, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
,
, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Trading Post (msc) 224

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Evasion

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On Serra's Wings
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is legendary, gets +1/+1, and has flying, vigilance, and lifelink.
Legendary Enchantment - Aura
On Serra's Wings (cmr) 380

Evasion

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Land

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Battlefield Forge
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Battlefield Forge (fic) 375
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
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (msc) 241
Furycalm Snarl
As this land enters, you may reveal a Mountain or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Furycalm Snarl (msc) 247
Kher Keep
: Add
.
,
: Create a 0/1 red Kobold creature token named Kobolds of Kher Keep.
Legendary Land
Kher Keep (mkc) 270
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (trk) 323
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
Myriad Landscape (m3c) 358
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (trk) 317
Rugged Prairie
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Rugged Prairie (fic) 417
Sunscorched Divide
,
: Add
.
Land
Sunscorched Divide (fic) 433
Temple of the False God
: Add
. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Land
Temple of the False God (soc) 416

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Lifegain

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Alabaster Mage
: Target creature you control gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)
Creature - Human Wizard
Alabaster Mage (2xm) 2
Batterbone
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has vigilance and lifelink.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Batterbone (mh2) 221
Envoy of the Ancestors
Outlast
(
,
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)
Modified creatures you control have lifelink. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
Creature - Human Cleric
Envoy of the Ancestors (mh3) 23
Lifelink
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)
Enchantment - Aura
Lifelink (m12) 24

Lifegain

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Protection

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Enter the Avatar State
Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes an Avatar in addition to its other types and gains flying, first strike, lifelink, and hexproof. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant - Lesson
Enter the Avatar State (tla) 18
Hardened Escort
Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Creature - Human Soldier
Hardened Escort (dsk) 16
Loyal Unicorn
Vigilance
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to creatures you control this turn. Other creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.
Creature - Unicorn
Loyal Unicorn (cmm) 40
Protection Magic
Put a shield counter on each of up to three target creatures. (If a creature with a shield counter would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Instant
Protection Magic (fic) 24
Selfless Spirit
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Creature - Cleric Spirit
Selfless Spirit (soc) 167
Take Up the Shield
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Take Up the Shield (msh) 39

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Ramp

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Alloy Myr
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature Artifact - Myr
Alloy Myr (plst) MM2-201
Boros Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Boros Signet (tdc) 314
Brood Birthing
If you control an Eldrazi Spawn, create three 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add
." Otherwise, create one of those tokens.
Sorcery
Brood Birthing (roe) 138
Cartographer's Hawk
Flying
When this creature deals combat damage to a player who controls more lands than you, return it to its owner's hand. If you do, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Bird
Cartographer's Hawk (cmm) 18
Emrakul's Hatcher
When this creature enters, create three 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add
."
Creature - Eldrazi Drone
Emrakul's Hatcher (plst) DDP-59
Gold Myr
: Add
.
Creature Artifact - Myr
Gold Myr (som) 157
Iron Myr
: Add
.
Creature Artifact - Myr
Iron Myr (som) 168
Knight of the White Orchid
First strike
When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Knight
Knight of the White Orchid (sld) 7139
Ornithopter of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature Artifact - Thopter
Ornithopter of Paradise (drc) 133
Rapacious One
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add
."
Creature - Eldrazi Drone
Rapacious One (cmm) 249
Solemn Simulacrum
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Solemn Simulacrum (msc) 215
Sunset Strikemaster
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 6 damage to target creature with flying.
Creature - Human Monk
Sunset Strikemaster (tdm) 126
Talisman of Conviction
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Conviction (msc) 217

Ramp

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Recursion

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Brotherhood Outcast
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Return target Aura or Equipment card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Put a shield counter on target creature. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Creature - Human Soldier
Brotherhood Outcast (pip) 12
Call a Surprise Witness
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a flying counter on it. It's a Spirit in addition to its other types.
Sorcery
Call a Surprise Witness (mkm) 6
Reveillark
Flying
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Evoke
(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Creature - Elemental
Reveillark (2x2) 26

Recursion

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Removal

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Austere Command
Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.
Sorcery
Austere Command (msc) 121
Citywide Bust
Destroy all creatures with toughness 4 or greater.
Sorcery
Citywide Bust (scd) 11
Dusk
Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (drc) 65

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Sac Outlet

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Dissection Tools
When this Equipment enters, manifest dread, then attach this Equipment to that creature.
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has deathtouch and lifelink.
Equip—Sacrifice a creature.
Artifact - Equipment
Dissection Tools (dsk) 245

Sac Outlet

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Tokens

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Assemble the Legion
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a muster counter on this enchantment. Then create a 1/1 red and white Soldier creature token with haste for each muster counter on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Assemble the Legion (pip) 210
Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
0: Put a loyalty counter on each red planeswalker you control.
0: Create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.
−2: You may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Legendary Planeswalker - Chandra
Chandra, Acolyte of Flame (m20) 126
Dragonmaster Outcast
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control six or more lands, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.
Creature - Human Shaman
Dragonmaster Outcast (tdc) 211
Griffin Aerie
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying.
Enchantment
Griffin Aerie (plst) M21-22
Idol of False Gods
,
: Create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add
."
Whenever another Eldrazi you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this artifact.
As long as this artifact has eight or more +1/+1 counters on it, it's a 0/0 creature in addition to its other types and it has annihilator 2.
Artifact Kindred - Eldrazi
Idol of False Gods (mh3) 210
Legion Warboss
Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token. That token gains haste until end of turn and attacks this combat if able.
Creature - Goblin Soldier
Legion Warboss (tdc) 220
Loyal Apprentice
Haste
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. That token gains haste until end of turn.
Creature - Human Artificer
Loyal Apprentice (tdc) 222
Mobilization
Soldier creatures have vigilance.
: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.
Enchantment
Mobilization (c14) 81
Mogg War Marshal
Echo
(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When this creature enters or dies, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.
Creature - Goblin Warrior
Mogg War Marshal (dmr) 131
Myr Battlesphere
When this creature enters, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, this creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.
Creature Artifact - Construct Myr
Myr Battlesphere (tdc) 322
Rabble Rousing
Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Whenever you attack with one or more creatures, create that many 1/1 green and white Citizen creature tokens. Then if you control ten or more creatures, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Enchantment
Rabble Rousing (snc) 24
Roadside Assistance
Enchant creature or Vehicle
When this Aura enters, create a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater."
Enchanted permanent gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.
Enchantment - Aura
Roadside Assistance (dft) 26
Searslicer Goblin
Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.
Creature - Goblin Warrior
Searslicer Goblin (fdn) 93
Skyknight Vanguard
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token that's tapped and attacking.
Creature - Human Knight
Skyknight Vanguard (plst) M20-218
Spawn-Gang Commander
Devoid (This card has no color.)
When you cast this spell, create three 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens with "Sacrifice this token: Add
."
, Sacrifice an Eldrazi: This creature deals 2 damage to any target.
Creature - Goblin Eldrazi
Spawn-Gang Commander (mh3) 140
Squire's Devotion
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.
When this Aura enters, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
Enchantment - Aura
Squire's Devotion (rix) 25
The Jolly Balloon Man
Haste
,
: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control, except it's a 1/1 red Balloon creature in addition to its other colors and types and it has flying and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Human Clown
The Jolly Balloon Man (dsk) 219
Tibalt, Rakish Instigator
Your opponents can't gain life.
−2: Create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "When this token dies, it deals 1 damage to any target."
Legendary Planeswalker - Tibalt
Tibalt, Rakish Instigator (plst) WAR-146
Tilonalli's Summoner
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay
. If you do, create X 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens that are tapped and attacking. At the beginning of the next end step, exile those tokens unless you have the city's blessing.
Creature - Human Shaman
Tilonalli's Summoner (rix) 121
Urabrask's Forge
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put an oil counter on this artifact, then create an X/1 red Phyrexian Horror creature token with trample and haste, where X is the number of oil counters on this artifact. Sacrifice that token at the beginning of the next end step.
Artifact
Urabrask's Forge (one) 153

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Deck Info

Deck stats

43 pips - 36 cards
32 mana - 30 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
24 pips - 21 cards
23 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
12 mana - 11 cards
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