Avoiding Alimony • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $3.49

The Master of Keys

Flying
When The Master of Keys enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it and mill twice X cards.
Each enchantment card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.)

Legendary Creature Enchantment - Horror

$3.49 $2.16 $0.29

Commander

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Artifact

Qty: 7 Price: $55.93

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$1.29 $0.64 $0.59

Azorius Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.69 $0.32 $0.17

Cloud Key

As this artifact enters, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$2.99 $1.58 $1.44

Dimir Signet

: Add

Artifact

$1.99 $1.54 $0.96

Lotus Petal

, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$44.99 $40.24 $33.34

Orzhov Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $0.38 $0.31

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.55 $1.56

Artifact

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Battle

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

Invasion of Theros

(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, search your library for an Aura, God, or Demigod card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Battle - Siege

Invasion of Theros // Ephara, Ever-Sheltering (mom) 23

$1.29 $0.45 $0.16

Battle

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Creature

Qty: 7 Price: $9.23

Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward

When Abdel Adrian enters, exile any number of other nonland permanents you control until Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield. Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token for each permanent exiled this way.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Demon of Fate's Design

Flying, trample
Once during each of your turns, you may cast an enchantment spell by paying life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

, Sacrifice another enchantment: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed enchantment's mana value.

Creature Enchantment - Demon

$0.79 $0.38 $0.15

Fear of Sleep Paralysis

Flying
Eerie — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, tap up to one target creature and put a stun counter on it.
Stun counters can't be removed from permanents your opponents control. (They won't untap if they have stun counters.)

Creature Enchantment - Nightmare

$1.29 $0.40 $0.32

Inquisitive Glimmer

Enchantment spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Unlock costs you pay cost

less.

Creature Enchantment - Fox Glimmer

$0.69 $0.35 $0.15

Mesa Enchantress

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, you may draw a card.

Creature - Human Druid

$1.29 $1.10 $0.66

Starfield Mystic

Enchantment spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever an enchantment you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.69 $0.29 $0.15

Zur, Eternal Schemer

Flying
Enchantment creatures you control have deathtouch, lifelink, and hexproof.

: Target non-Aura enchantment you control becomes a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$3.99 $3.73 $2.33

Creature

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Enchantment

Qty: 28 Price: $212.86

All That Glitters

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact and/or enchantment you control.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.69 $0.85 $0.55

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment - Aura

$7.99 $7.25 $5.21

Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment

$6.49 $4.31 $4.16

Copy Enchantment

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

Enchantment

$2.79 $2.37 $1.16

Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay

. If the player does, untap that creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$17.99 $18.71 $8.37

Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Enchantment - Aura

$1.99 $1.21 $0.56

Ethereal Armor

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each enchantment you control and has first strike.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.69 $0.36 $0.15

Extravagant Replication

At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of another target nonland permanent you control.

Enchantment

$0.69 $0.38 $0.15

Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "

: Add

" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.79 $0.35 $0.15

Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment

$6.99 $6.57 $5.19

Monologue Tax

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.

Enchantment

$1.99 $1.12 $1.05

Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment

$23.99 $20.07 $19.07

One with the Multiverse

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a spell from your hand or the top of your library without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment

$4.49 $2.70 $2.80

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$6.49 $4.38 $3.55

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$4.49 $2.16 $2.44

Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay

and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment

$11.99 $8.27 $7.29

Scion of Halaster

Commander creatures you own have "The first time you would draw a card each turn, instead look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard and the other back on top of your library. Then draw a card."

Legendary Enchantment - Background

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Seal of Cleansing

Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Seal of Removal

Sacrifice this enchantment: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Secret Arcade

Nonland permanents you control and permanent spells you control are enchantments in addition to their other types.
(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

$2.49 $3.11 $1.04

Secrets of the Dead

Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.46 $0.18

Shark Typhoon

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

Enchantment

$2.99 $1.86 $2.02

Sigil of the Empty Throne

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.47 $0.50

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay

. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Enchantment

$69.99 $59.75 $55.95

Starfield of Nyx

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
As long as you control five or more enchantments, each other non-Aura enchantment you control is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.

Enchantment

$19.99 $15.30 $12.85

Stillness in Motion

At the beginning of your upkeep, mill three cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, exile this enchantment and put five cards from your graveyard on top of your library in any order.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Super Intelligence

Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player draws a card.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

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

$12.99 $8.87 $8.47

Enchantment

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Instant

Qty: 12 Price: $516.88

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

$6.49 $3.17 $3.05

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

$3.99 $1.56 $1.61

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$11.99 $6.47 $5.73

Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant

$2.79 $2.18 $1.04

Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant

$1.99 $0.74 $0.91

Inkshield

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.

Instant

$6.49 $6.02 $4.52

Intuition

Search your library for three cards and reveal them. Target opponent chooses one. Put that card into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Instant

$379.99 $362.21 $265.24

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 $56.47 $53.14

Mental Misstep

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Counter target spell with mana value 1.

Instant

$10.99 $8.69 $6.38

Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$0.69 $0.31 $0.15

Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Instant

$12.99 $10.24 $7.58

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$3.49 $1.44 $1.62

Instant

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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $4073.05

Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.69 $0.34 $0.26

Arcane Sanctum

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.99 $0.38 $0.28

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$3.49 $1.50 $1.50

Caves of Koilos

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.49 $1.10 $0.46

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.36 $0.20

Emergence Zone

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land

$5.49 $3.71 $2.91

Evolving Wilds

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

Land

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Exotic Orchard

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Flooded Strand

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

Land

$22.99 $16.02 $14.68

Godless Shrine

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Swamp

$9.99 $---- $----

Hall of Heliod's Generosity

: Add

: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Legendary Land

$15.99 $11.05 $10.05

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

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

Marsh Flats

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

Land

$34.99 $32.73 $28.87

Meticulous Archive

(

: Add

.)
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

$20.99 $12.84 $12.29

Morphic Pool

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

: Add

Land

$42.99 $28.46 $27.01

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

$39.99 $26.25 $27.39

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

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

Polluted Delta

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$29.99 $19.60 $19.05

Raffine's Tower

(

: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Swamp

$18.99 $13.30 $10.93

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.22 $3.97

Scrubland

(

: Add

Land - Plains Swamp

$649.99 $440.54 $311.55

Sea of Clouds

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

: Add

Land

$24.99 $20.42 $19.37

Serra's Sanctum

: Add

for each enchantment you control.

Legendary Land

$549.99 $531.41 $344.57

Shadowy Backstreet

(

: Add

.)
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 Swamp

$18.99 $11.01 $9.69

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

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

Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Tundra

(

: Add

Land - Plains Island

$899.99 $683.83 $401.17

Undercity Sewers

(

: Add

.)
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 - Island Swamp

$22.99 $14.95 $12.95

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$3.49 $1.66 $1.57

Underground Sea

(

: Add

Land - Island Swamp

$1499.99 $1081.09 $729.40

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Legendary Land

$64.99 $57.39 $55.44

Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "

: Add

."
II — This Saga gains "

: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost

, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land Enchantment - Saga Urza's

$47.99 $35.97 $33.34

Vault of Champions

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

: Add

Land

$18.99 $16.71 $15.63

Watery Grave

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Swamp

$9.99 $---- $----

Land

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Sorcery

Qty: 7 Price: $265.43

Dance of the Manse

Return up to X target artifact and/or non-Aura enchantment cards each with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If X is 6 or more, those permanents are 4/4 creatures in addition to their other types.

Sorcery

$0.79 $1.25 $0.41

Glimpse the Unthinkable

Target player mills ten cards.

Sorcery

$4.49 $3.48 $2.39

Idyllic Tutor

Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$15.99 $12.85 $11.43

Redress Fate

Return all artifact and enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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

$0.69 $0.43 $0.15

Replenish

Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in your graveyard.)

Sorcery

$229.99 $229.48 $121.33

Unmarked Grave

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

Sorcery

$4.99 $3.22 $2.49

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery

$8.49 $5.38 $5.19

Sorcery

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $5,138.16

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.92Total Mana Value: 184.00

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29 pips - 25 cards

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29 pips - 25 cards

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11 mana - 10 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.92Total Mana Value: 184.00

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