Istvan • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

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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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Anthem

Qty: 1 Price: $16.99

Konda's Banner

Konda's Banner can be attached only to a legendary creature.
Creatures that share a color with equipped creature get +1/+1.
Creatures that share a creature type with equipped creature get +1/+1.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$16.99 $11.75 $10.38

Anthem

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Counters

Qty: 2 Price: $14.48

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 $7.38 $6.73

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

$5.49 $4.57 $3.09

Counters

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Drain

Qty: 5 Price: $16.75

Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$4.49 $3.72 $2.24

Dreadhound

When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Whenever a creature dies or a creature card is put into a graveyard from a library, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Demon Dog

$0.79 $0.32 $0.15

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

$0.99 $---- $0.67

Sanguine Bond

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Enchantment

$7.99 $5.22 $4.61

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Rogue Ally

$2.49 $1.34 $1.21

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 8 Price: $16.32

Aphotic Wisps

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Draw a card.

Instant

$1.29 $0.28 $0.15

Grim Haruspex

Morph

(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for

. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$3.49 $2.93 $1.53

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

Morbid Opportunist

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

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.39 $0.33 $0.15

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.49 $---- $----

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$5.99 $4.54 $3.38

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (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

$0.39 $0.29 $0.20

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.29 $3.52 $0.47

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 2 Price: $0.70

Breach

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Ebony Charm

Choose one —
• Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
• Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.
• Target creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Evasion

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Land

Qty: 36 (37 w/ MDFC)Price: $231.94

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$3.49 $1.43 $1.36

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$37.99 $30.56 $23.96

Cabal Stronghold

: Add

for each basic Swamp you control.

Land

$21.99 $12.43 $11.46

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 $0.27 $0.18

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 $52.07

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$5.99 $4.28 $4.15

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

$64.99 $56.14 $54.84

War Room

: Add

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

Land

$6.49 $5.55 $4.16

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 $0.59 $0.68

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 1 Price: $139.99

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$139.99 $99.43 $101.06

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 6 Price: $45.30

Butcher's Glee

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains lifelink until end of turn. Regenerate it. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Kaldra Compleat

Living weapon
Indestructible
Equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has first strike, trample, indestructible, haste, and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, exile that creature."
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$9.49 $10.08 $7.90

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$6.49 $4.02 $3.90

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111

$20.99 $12.78 $11.24

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

$4.99 $2.20 $2.17

Whispersilk Cloak

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

Artifact - Equipment

$2.99 $2.07 $2.08

Protection

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Pump

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Blackblade Reforged

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

Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $3.09 $3.11

Lashwrithe

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 for each Swamp you control.
Equip

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Artifact - Equipment

$1.49 $0.68 $0.60

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 10 Price: $88.60

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.79 $0.84 $0.56

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

$6.49 $5.43 $4.99

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $---- $0.29

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 $15.11 $13.95

Gilded Lotus

: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact

$1.29 $0.76 $0.36

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$19.99 $12.59 $11.46

Mind Stone

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, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.33 $0.26

Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Enchantment

$29.99 $23.67 $20.92

Sol Ring

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Artifact

$2.79 $1.52 $1.06

Thran Dynamo

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $1.80 $1.87

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $13.99

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 $6.57 $6.62

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 20 Price: $142.68

Blood on the Snow

Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all planeswalkers.
Then return a creature or planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of

spent to cast this spell. (

is mana from a snow source.)

Snow Sorcery

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$22.99 $21.57 $16.66

Deadly Rollick

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

Instant

$39.99 $28.05 $24.99

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Defile

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

Instant

$2.79 $2.05 $1.52

Demon's Disciple

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

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.59 $0.30 $0.15

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment

$19.99 $20.37 $12.92

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Fleshbag Marauder

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

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Grappling Hook

Equipped creature has double strike.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may have target creature block it this turn if able.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$1.29 $1.48 $0.61

Grave Pact

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

Enchantment

$39.99 $32.86 $28.13

Hero's Downfall

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery

$2.99 $3.17 $2.34

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$0.69 $0.38 $0.15

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

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

Murderous Cut

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

.)
Destroy target creature.

Instant

$0.69 $0.38 $0.33

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery

$1.99 $2.67 $1.04

Nemesis Mask

All creatures able to block equipped creature do so.
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

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

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

$0.39 $0.34 $0.19

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 $5.00 $4.42

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Aetherborn

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

Sac Outlet

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Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $6.49

Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.

, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature - Rogue Dauthi

$6.49 $5.68 $4.13

Stax

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $6.99

Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

, Sacrifice another Vampire or Zombie: Put two +1/+1 counters on Kalitas.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Warrior

$6.99 $7.12 $4.93

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 2 Price: $99.98

Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$79.99 $67.98 $56.91

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$19.99 $17.44 $14.54

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $847.27

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.30Total Mana Value: 211.00

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Protection

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Removal

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Tokens

Tutor

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Avg Mana Value: 3.30Total Mana Value: 211.00

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