Empress in Reverse • (Mono-Blue Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $1.49

Llawan, Cephalid Empress

When Llawan enters, return all blue creatures your opponents control to their owners' hands.
Your opponents can't cast blue creature spells.

Legendary Creature - Octopus Noble

$1.49 $1.16 $0.84

Commander

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Blink

Qty: 3 Price: $77.97

Displacer Kitten

Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature - Beast Cat

$39.99 $32.50 $26.57

Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Instant

$2.99 $1.92 $1.01

Thassa, Deep-Dwelling

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

: Tap another target creature.

Legendary Creature Enchantment - God

$34.99 $27.50 $27.46

Blink

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Burn

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Rug of Smothering

Flying
Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 1 life for each spell they've cast this turn.

Creature Artifact - Construct

$1.99 $0.56 $0.52

Burn

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Clones

Qty: 1 Price: $3.99

Phyrexian Metamorph

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter Phyrexian

$3.99 $2.08 $1.97

Clones

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Copy

Qty: 5 Price: $38.55

Alter Reality

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Flashback

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

Instant

$2.99 $2.28 $0.95

Glamerdye

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another.
Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Instant

$4.99 $2.70 $1.56

Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.

: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact

$12.99 $13.15 $8.87

Sleight of Mind

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (For example, you may change "target black spell" to "target blue spell." This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Instant

$0.59 $0.36 $0.20

Whim of Volrath

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another until end of turn. (For example, you may change "nonred creature" to "nongreen creature" or "plainswalk" to "swampwalk.")

Instant

$16.99 $7.84 $6.35

Copy

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Counters

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Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$64.99 $53.31 $51.03

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$74.99 $59.93 $58.35

Counters

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Creature

Qty: 2 Price: $0.70

Indigo Faerie

Flying

: Target permanent becomes blue in addition to its other colors until end of turn.

Creature - Wizard Faerie

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Tidal Visionary

: Target creature becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Creature

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Draw

Qty: 15 Price: $148.51

Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.49 $0.56 $0.51

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant

$2.79 $1.52 $1.66

Defiler of Dreams

Flying
As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost

less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.

Creature - Sphinx Phyrexian

$0.99 $0.46 $0.18

Flow of Knowledge

Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard two cards.

Instant

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Frantic Search

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

Instant

$1.99 $2.07 $1.03

Insight

Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you draw a card.

Enchantment

$2.29 $1.89 $1.09

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep

(At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$16.99 $12.64 $11.45

Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
−2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Legendary Planeswalker - Narset

$1.49 $1.36 $0.88

Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.39 $0.27 $0.15

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$4.49 $4.13 $2.34

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (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

$1.29 $0.76 $0.52

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$79.99 $67.84 $50.01

Sway of Illusion

Any number of target creatures become the color of your choice until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.55 $0.18

Thassa's Oracle

When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$24.99 $22.87 $18.75

Windfall

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

Sorcery

$8.49 $5.79 $4.67

Draw

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Enchantment

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

Swirl the Mists

As this enchantment enters, choose a color word.
All instances of color words in the text of spells and permanents are changed to the chosen color word.

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.40 $0.20

Enchantment

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $1.99

Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.99 $2.45 $0.82

Finisher

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Instant

Qty: 2 Price: $8.58

Sea Kings' Blessing

One or more target creatures become blue until end of turn.

Instant

$7.99 $5.63 $3.81

Spectral Shift

Choose one —
• Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one basic land type with another. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
• Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Entwine

(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant

$0.59 $0.43 $0.25

Instant

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Land

Qty: 18 Price: $131.48

Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.

: Add

: Scry 2.

Land

$0.69 $0.39 $0.26

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Lonely Sandbar

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Mystic Sanctuary

(

: Add

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

Land - Island

$2.29 $1.10 $0.96

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 $53.35 $46.29

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 $26.28 $26.05

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.11 $4.03

Seat of the Synod

: Add

Artifact Land

$1.29 $0.83 $0.66

Land

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Mill

Qty: 1 Price: $12.99

Grindstone

: Target player mills two cards. If two cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process.

Artifact

$12.99 $13.89 $5.19

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 7 Price: $85.23

Blind Seer

: Target spell or permanent becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$1.79 $0.88 $0.50

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

Flying
Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."

Legendary Creature - Spirit

$7.99 $4.51 $4.42

Painter's Servant

As this creature enters, choose a color.
All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are the chosen color in addition to their other colors.

Creature Artifact - Scarecrow

$57.99 $54.27 $38.72

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$4.99 $3.32 $2.49

Shifting Sky

As this enchantment enters, choose a color.
All nonland permanents are the chosen color.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.34 $0.23

Spellskite

: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian

$9.99 $8.12 $7.35

Stormtide Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Creature - Leviathan

$1.99 $2.34 $0.48

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 7 Price: $15.49

High Tide

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

Instant

$1.29 $1.62 $0.61

Midnight Clock

: Add

: Put an hour counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact.
When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.28 $0.15

Mind Bend

Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another. (For example, you may change "nonblack creature" to "nongreen creature" or "forestwalk" to "islandwalk." This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Instant

$1.99 $2.77 $0.91

Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$9.99 $7.79 $6.43

Scuttlemutt

: Add one mana of any color.

: Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Scarecrow

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.59 $0.25 $0.22

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

$0.59 $0.35 $0.19

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.49

Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.49 $0.34 $0.19

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 19 Price: $269.83

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant

$1.49 $0.63 $0.15

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 $3.05 $2.49

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 $1.72 $1.50

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $3.51 $2.95

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

$47.99 $39.32 $33.38

Distorting Lens

: Target permanent becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.

Artifact

$3.49 $0.77 $0.50

Douse

: Counter target red spell.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.32 $0.20

Fierce Guardianship

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

Instant

$84.99 $64.73 $64.60

Hibernation

Return all green permanents to their owners' hands.

Instant

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature - Horror Kraken

$9.49 $6.13 $5.99

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

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

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 $57.79 $52.10

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.37 $0.15

Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant

$4.49 $2.70 $2.45

Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant

$1.99 $0.81 $0.59

Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant

$0.39 $0.33 $0.15

Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Instant

$4.99 $3.88 $3.71

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

$17.99 $9.72 $9.73

Wash Out

Return all permanents of the color of your choice to their owners' hands.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.42 $0.31

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 3 Price: $12.77

Back to Basics

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Enchantment

$5.49 $6.29 $4.07

Chill

Red spells cost

more to cast.

Enchantment

$4.99 $2.21 $1.84

Harbinger of the Seas

Nonbasic lands are Islands.

Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$2.29 $1.39 $0.64

Stax

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$1.29 $1.72 $0.45

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 8 Price: $62.12

Fabricate

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

Sorcery

$12.99 $10.28 $8.32

Merchant Scroll

Search your library for a blue instant card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$5.99 $5.06 $3.69

Muddle the Mixture

Counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Transmute

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant

$3.99 $2.48 $1.86

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$21.99 $18.27 $18.07

Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$5.99 $4.19 $3.28

Tribute Mage

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 2, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Human Wizard

$2.29 $1.17 $0.70

Trinket Mage

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.39 $0.49 $0.36

Whir of Invention

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for

.)
Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant

$8.49 $6.30 $5.09

Tutor

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Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $0.69

Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant

$0.69 $0.43 $0.18

Untap

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,017.12

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.63Total Mana Value: 216.00

Quantity of

Blink

Burn

Clones

Commander

Copy

Counters

Creature

Draw

Enchantment

Finisher

Instant

Land

Mill

Protection

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Stax

Tokens

Tutor

Untap

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0 mana - 2 cards

Cost

92 pips - 72 cards

Production

20 mana - 20 cards

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0 mana - 2 cards

Cost

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0 mana - 2 cards

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4 mana - 4 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.63Total Mana Value: 216.00

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Blink

Burn

Clones

Commander

Copy

Counters

Creature

Draw

Enchantment

Finisher

Instant

Land

Mill

Protection

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

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