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Kess and Make Up - Budget
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $91.30
Salt Sum: 30.68
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Commander

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Kess, Dissident Mage

Flying Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Kess, Dissident Mage (mh1) 206
1

Copy

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Double Vision

Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Enchantment
Double Vision (m21) 142
1
Galvanic Iteration

When you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. Flashback {1}{U}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Galvanic Iteration (mid) 224
1
Ral, Storm Conduit

Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Ral, Storm Conduit deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker. +2: Scry 1. −2: When you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Planeswalker
Ral, Storm Conduit (war) 211
1
Repeated Reverberation

When you next cast an instant spell, cast a sorcery spell, or activate a loyalty ability this turn, copy that spell or ability twice. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Instant
Repeated Reverberation (m20) 156
1
Twinferno

Choose one — • When you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. • Target creature you control gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Twinferno (dmu) 149
1
Zevlor, Elturel Exile

Haste {2}, {T}: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single opponent or a single permanent an opponent controls this turn, for each other opponent, choose that player or a permanent they control, copy that spell, and the copy targets the chosen player or permanent.

Creature
Zevlor, Elturel Exile (clb) 296
1

Creature

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Crackling Drake

Flying Crackling Drake's power is equal to the total number of instant and sorcery cards you own in exile and in your graveyard. When Crackling Drake enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature
Crackling Drake (grn) 163
1
Hypersonic Dragon

Flying, haste You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash. (You may cast them any time you could cast an instant.)

Creature
Hypersonic Dragon (gk1) 39
1
Parnesse, the Subtle Brush

Whenever you or a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless that player pays 4 life. Whenever you copy a spell, up to one target opponent may also copy that spell. They may choose new targets for that copy.

Creature
Parnesse, the Subtle Brush (ncc) 8
1
Shadow Kin

Flash At the beginning of your upkeep, each player mills three cards. You may exile a creature card from among the cards milled this way. If you do, Shadow Kin becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.

Creature
Shadow Kin (mic) 16
1
Talrand, Sky Summoner

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

Creature
Talrand, Sky Summoner (jmp) 181
1

Draw/Advantage

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Cryptic Pursuit

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Whenever a face-down creature you control dies, exile it if it's an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card until the end of your next turn.

Enchantment
Cryptic Pursuit (ncc) 70
1
Eldritch Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of cards in their graveyard.

Sorcery
Eldritch Pact (clb) 126
1
Environmental Sciences

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.

Sorcery
Environmental Sciences (stx) 1
1
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (c19) 140
1
Maestros Charm

Choose one — • Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. • Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life. • Maestros Charm deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Maestros Charm (snc) 317
1
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 {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Otherworldly Gaze (mid) 67
1
Practical Research

Draw four cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an instant or sorcery card.

Instant
Practical Research (stx) 212
1
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."

Enchantment
Scion of Halaster (clb) 145
1
Secrets of the Dead

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

Enchantment
Secrets of the Dead (dka) 48
1
See the Truth

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. If this spell was cast from anywhere other than your hand, put each of those cards into your hand instead.

Sorcery
See the Truth (m21) 69
1
Silundi Vision

Instant
Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80
1
Tainted Indulgence

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard.

Instant
Tainted Indulgence (snc) 227
1
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (m21) 165
1

Finisher

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Din of the Fireherd

Create a 5/5 black and red Elemental creature token. Target opponent sacrifices a creature for each black creature you control, then sacrifices a land for each red creature you control.

Sorcery
Din of the Fireherd (shm) 184
1
Maddening Cacophony

Kicker {3}{U} Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.

Sorcery
Maddening Cacophony (znr) 67
1
Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (pm21) 117p
1
Twist Allegiance

You and target opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Twist Allegiance (bok) 120
1

Grave Hate

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Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile target player's graveyard.

Artifact
Tormod's Crypt (m21) 241
1

Land

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Bloodfell Caves

Bloodfell Caves enters the battlefield tapped. When Bloodfell Caves enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Bloodfell Caves (m21) 243
1
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (cmr) 350
1
Contaminated Aquifer

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Contaminated Aquifer enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Contaminated Aquifer (dmu) 245
1
Crumbling Necropolis

Crumbling Necropolis enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (e02) 45
1
Dismal Backwater

Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield tapped. When Dismal Backwater enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (40k) 276
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (bro) 261
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (ncc) 400
1
Frostboil Snarl

As Frostboil Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Frostboil Snarl enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Frostboil Snarl (stx) 265
1
Geothermal Bog

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Geothermal Bog enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Geothermal Bog (dmu) 247
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (clb) 457
8
Maestros Theater

When Maestros Theater enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Maestros Theater (snc) 251
1
Molten Tributary

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) Molten Tributary enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Molten Tributary (dmu) 251
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dmu) 271
6
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (dmu) 255
1
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Smoldering Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (dmc) 234
1
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Sunken Hollow enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (ncc) 431
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dmu) 269
6
Swiftwater Cliffs

Swiftwater Cliffs enters the battlefield tapped. When Swiftwater Cliffs enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Swiftwater Cliffs (neo) 277
1
Temple of Epiphany

Temple of Epiphany enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Epiphany enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Epiphany (m21) 252
1
Temple of Malice

Temple of Malice enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Malice enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Malice (dmc) 236
1
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (cmr) 357
1

Mass Removal

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Extinction Event

Choose odd or even. Exile each creature with mana value of the chosen quality. (Zero is even.)

Sorcery
Extinction Event (iko) 88
1
In Garruk's Wake

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

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (clb) 759
1
Make an Example

Each opponent separates the creatures they control into two piles. For each opponent, you choose one of their piles. Each opponent sacrifices the creatures in their chosen pile. (Piles can be empty.)

Sorcery
Make an Example (ncc) 37
1
River's Rebuke

Return all nonland permanents target player controls to their owner's hand.

Sorcery
River's Rebuke (ncc) 231
1

Protection

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (40k) 191
1
Illusionist's Gambit

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step on an opponent's turn. Remove all attacking creatures from combat and untap them. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Each of those creatures attacks that combat if able. They can't attack you or planeswalkers you control that combat.

Instant
Illusionist's Gambit (c13) 47
1
Polymorphist's Jest

Until end of turn, each creature target player controls loses all abilities and becomes a blue Frog with base power and toughness 1/1.

Instant
Polymorphist's Jest (m15) 75
1
Role Reversal

Exchange control of two target permanents that share a permanent type.

Sorcery
Role Reversal (war) 214
1
Wyll's Reversal

Choose target spell or ability with one or more targets. Roll a d20 and add the greatest power among creatures you control. 1—14 | You may choose new targets for that spell or ability. 15+ | You may choose new targets for that spell or ability. Then copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Wyll's Reversal (clb) 209
1
You Come to a River

Choose one — • Fight the Current — Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. • Find a Crossing — Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Instant
You Come to a River (afr) 83
1

Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (40k) 229
1
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (40k) 233
1
Cormela, Glamour Thief

Haste {1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}{R}. Spend this mana only to cast instant and/or sorcery spells. When Cormela, Glamour Thief dies, return up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Cormela, Glamour Thief (snc) 301
1
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dmc) 182
1
Goblin Electromancer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Goblin Electromancer (grn) 174
1
Izzet Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Artifact
Izzet Signet (ddj) 17
1
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (mh2) 430
1
Patrician Geist

Flying Other Spirits you control get +1/+1. Spells you cast from your graveyard cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Patrician Geist (mid) 69
1
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (c17) 221
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (afc) 215
1
Storm-Kiln Artist

Storm-Kiln Artist gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Storm-Kiln Artist (stx) 115
1
Wizards of Thay

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token that's a copy of this creature that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.

Creature
Wizards of Thay (clb) 105
1

Recursion

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Bond of Insight

Each player mills four cards. Return up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bond of Insight.

Sorcery
Bond of Insight (war) 43
1

Target Removal

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Chaotic Transformation

Exile up to one target artifact, up to one target creature, up to one target enchantment, up to one target planeswalker, and/or up to one target land. For each permanent exiled this way, its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a card that shares a card type with it, puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Sorcery
Chaotic Transformation (dmu) 117
1
Divide by Zero

Return target spell or permanent with mana value 1 or greater to its owner's hand. Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Instant
Divide by Zero (stx) 41
1
Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (znr) 102
1
Hurl Through Hell

Exile target creature. Until the end of your next turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Instant
Hurl Through Hell (afc) 48
1
Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (voc) 156
1
Rona's Vortex

Kicker {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell.) Return target creature or planeswalker you don't control to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, put that permanent on the bottom of its owner's library instead.

Instant
Rona's Vortex (dmu) 63
1
Run Away Together

Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Run Away Together (clb) 92
1
Soul Shatter

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

Instant
Soul Shatter (pznr) 127p
1
Wizard's Retort

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Wizard. Counter target spell.

Instant
Wizard's Retort (jmp) 198
1

Maybeboard

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Allure of the Unknown

Reveal the top six cards of your library. An opponent exiles a nonland card from among them, then you put the rest into your hand. That opponent may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Allure of the Unknown (thb) 207
1
Arcane Melee

Instant and sorcery spells cost {2} less to cast.

Enchantment
Arcane Melee (c13) 29
1
Barrin's Spite

Choose two target creatures controlled by the same player. Their controller chooses and sacrifices one of them. Return the other to its owner's hand.

Sorcery
Barrin's Spite (inv) 235
1
Beacon of Unrest

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Beacon of Unrest (40k) 194
1
Betrayal

Enchant creature an opponent controls Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, you draw a card.

Enchantment
Betrayal (vis) 26
1
Blood Price

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Blood Price (znr) 93
1
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (c21) 115
1
Covenant of Minds

Reveal the top three cards of your library. Target opponent may choose to put those cards into your hand. If they don't, put those cards into your graveyard and draw five cards.

Sorcery
Covenant of Minds (ala) 38
1
Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (m10) 91
1
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (brc) 138
1
Do or Die

Separate all creatures target player controls into two piles. Destroy all creatures in the pile of that player's choice. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Do or Die (inv) 102
1
Expressive Iteration

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Sorcery
Expressive Iteration (stx) 186
1
Fevered Suspicion

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among those nonland cards without paying their mana costs. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Fevered Suspicion (afc) 47
1
Firemind's Research

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on Firemind's Research. {1}{U}, Remove two charge counters from Firemind's Research: Draw a card. {1}{R}, Remove five charge counters from Firemind's Research: It deals 5 damage to any target.

Enchantment
Firemind's Research (grn) 171
1
Ghouls' Night Out

For each player, choose a creature card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types and they gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Sorcery
Ghouls' Night Out (mic) 19
1
Hour of Devastation

All creatures lose indestructible until end of turn. Hour of Devastation deals 5 damage to each creature and each non-Bolas planeswalker.

Sorcery
Hour of Devastation (hou) 97
1
Maestros Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Return target monocolored instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. • Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. • Goad each creature target player controls. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Sorcery
Maestros Confluence (ncc) 75
1
Mana Geode

When Mana Geode enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Mana Geode (war) 241
1
Moonlight Bargain

Look at the top five cards of your library. For each card, put that card into your graveyard unless you pay 2 life. Then put the rest into your hand.

Instant
Moonlight Bargain (rav) 95
1
Muse Vortex

Exile the top X cards of your library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value X or less from among them without paying its mana cost. Then put the exiled instant and sorcery cards that weren't cast this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Muse Vortex (c21) 28
1
Poison the Cup

Destroy target creature. If this spell was foretold, scry 2. Foretell {1}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Poison the Cup (khm) 103
1
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
Preordain (ncc) 230
1
Rootha, Mercurial Artist

{2}, Return Rootha, Mercurial Artist to its owner's hand: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Rootha, Mercurial Artist (stx) 227
1
Solve the Equation

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

Sorcery
Solve the Equation (stx) 54
1
Spiteful Repossession

Spiteful Repossession deals damage to each opponent who controls more lands than you equal to the difference. Then create a number of Treasure tokens equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery
Spiteful Repossession (ncc) 98
1
Stolen Goods

Target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Stolen Goods (c15) 107
1
Stunning Reversal

The next time you would lose the game this turn, instead draw seven cards and your life total becomes 1. Exile Stunning Reversal.

Instant
Stunning Reversal (bbd) 51
1
Teach by Example

When you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Teach by Example (stx) 241
1
The Mirari Conjecture

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Return target instant card from your graveyard to your hand. II — Return target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. III — Until end of turn, whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Enchantment
The Mirari Conjecture (dom) 57
1
Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155
1
Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Traumatize (m11) 77
1
Unsubstantiate

Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Unsubstantiate (m21) 82
1
Vadrik, Astral Archmage

If it's neither day nor night, it becomes day as Vadrik, Astral Archmage enters the battlefield. Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {X} less to cast, where X is Vadrik's power. Whenever day becomes night or night becomes day, put a +1/+1 counter on Vadrik.

Creature
Vadrik, Astral Archmage (mid) 248
1
Vile Consumption

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay 1 life."

Enchantment
Vile Consumption (inv) 285
1
Worn Powerstone

Worn Powerstone enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (40k) 263
1
Wrong Turn

Target opponent gains control of target creature. (If an attacking or blocking creature changes controllers, it's removed from combat.)

Instant
Wrong Turn (cmr) 107
1

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