Uncle Istvan? Is that you? • (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

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Commander

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Artifact

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Crude Bent Blade

When this Equipment enters, target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Equip

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

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Lich's Relic

When this Equipment enters, you may pay

. When you do, for each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $2.93 $3.04

Unstable Molecule Suit

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has indestructible.
Equip commander

Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$1.79 $1.34 $1.20

Artifact

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Copy

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Masterwork of Ingenuity

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

Artifact - Equipment

$1.49 $1.66 $0.78

The Masamune

As long as equipped creature is attacking, it has first strike and must be blocked if able.
Equipped creature has "If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of this creature or an emblem you own to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time."
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$0.99 $1.05 $0.35

Copy

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Counters

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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

$6.99 $6.62 $5.61

Sadistic Glee

Enchant creature
Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

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Super Shredder

Menace
Whenever another permanent leaves the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Super Shredder.

Legendary Creature - Human Mutant Ninja

$20.99 $17.15 $15.15

The Ozolith

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

Legendary Artifact

$74.99 $61.09 $60.94

Vincent Valentine

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a number of +1/+1 counters on Vincent Valentine equal to that creature's power.
Whenever Vincent Valentine attacks, you may transform it.

Legendary Creature - Assassin

Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast (fin) 125

$0.99 $1.54 $0.31

Counters

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Creature

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Emeritus of Woe

This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
At the beginning of your end step, if two or more creatures died this turn, this creature becomes prepared.

Creature - Vampire Warlock

Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor (sos) 80

$15.99 $11.78 $10.42

Troop of Ponies

, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Horse

$0.99 $0.32 $0.15

Creature

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Drain

Qty: 1 Price: $4.99

Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$4.99 $3.38 $2.55

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 3 Price: $22.57

Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Menace
Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

$1.29 $0.52 $0.31

Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Instant

$1.29 $0.79 $0.20

Vogar, Necropolis Tyrant

Menace
Whenever another creature dies during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vogar.
When Vogar dies, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Legendary Creature - Zombie Giant

$19.99 $12.32 $13.12

Draw

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Evasion

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Sword of Vengeance

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike, vigilance, trample, and haste.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$1.79 $1.51 $1.20

Evasion

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.32 $0.28

Genji Glove

Equipped creature has double strike.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, if it's the first combat phase of the turn, untap it. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$12.99 $7.09 $6.97

Rite of Consumption

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery

$4.99 $2.82 $2.74

Finisher

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Infect

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Tainted Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Instant

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Infect

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Land

Qty: 32 (33 w/ MDFC)Price: $153.48

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$32.99 $28.63 $24.04

Cabal Stronghold

: Add

for each basic Swamp you control.

Land

$20.99 $13.54 $9.48

Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped.

: Add

for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land

$4.99 $3.71 $3.64

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

$79.99 $57.34 $56.90

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

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

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

$1.29 $0.38 $0.20

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 4 Price: $53.56

Eternal Thirst

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.79 $0.21 $0.20

Qarsi Revenant

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Renew —

, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a flying counter, a deathtouch counter, and a lifelink counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature - Vampire

$2.49 $2.41 $0.78

Sangromancer

Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Creature - Vampire Shaman

$2.29 $0.75 $0.65

Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.

: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$47.99 $36.34 $31.51

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 11 Price: $137.01

Armor of Shadows

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Commander's Plate

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity.
Equip commander

Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$49.99 $36.25 $36.32

Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

$18.99 $14.90 $12.86

Gift of Doom

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has deathtouch and indestructible.
Morph—Sacrifice another creature. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for

. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
As this Aura is turned face up, you may attach it to a creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$4.99 $4.35 $3.54

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$6.49 $3.79 $4.00

Mithril Coat

Flash
Indestructible
When Mithril Coat enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control.
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$29.99 $24.84 $22.90

Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Instant

$2.79 $1.40 $0.65

Resurrection Orb

Equipped creature has lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Equip

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

Artifact - Equipment

$20.99 $15.74 $14.32

Thran Power Suit

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Aura and Equipment attached to it and has ward

. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays

.)
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$1.29 $0.95 $0.83

Uncle Istvan

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures.

Creature - Human

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant

$0.79 $0.37 $0.33

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Bladed Bracers

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
As long as equipped creature is a Human or an Angel, it has vigilance.
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 8 Price: $147.22

Blood Pet

Sacrifice this creature: Add

Creature - Thrull

$1.99 $1.67 $0.82

Bubbling Muck

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

Sorcery

$4.99 $2.60 $2.34

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 $15.79 $16.75

Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add

Instant

$12.99 $8.58 $6.72

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.55 $1.33

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

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

The Darkness Crystal

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.

: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Legendary Artifact

$6.99 $4.05 $3.69

The Soul Stone

Indestructible

: Add

, Exile a creature you control: Harness The Soul Stone. (Once harnessed, its ∞ ability is active.)
∞ — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Legendary Artifact - Infinity Stone

$94.99 $85.76 $86.62

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 3 Price: $13.78

Doomed Necromancer

, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature - Human Cleric Mercenary

$0.79 $0.38 $0.17

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

$12.99 $6.46 $7.81

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

Sheoldred, Whispering One (plst) JMP-278

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Recursion

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Removal

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Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Demon's Disciple

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

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

Fell the Profane

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$8.99 $5.16 $4.48

Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.

Instant

$8.49 $6.44 $5.64

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

$0.79 $1.46 $0.51

Illness in the Ranks

Creature tokens get -1/-1.

Enchantment

$0.59 $0.21 $0.15

Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.40 $0.20

Maha, Its Feathers Night

Flying, trample
Ward—Discard a card.
Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.

Legendary Creature - Elemental Bird

$24.99 $20.57 $18.21

Massacre Girl

Menace
When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

$0.69 $0.52 $0.26

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

$4.49 $2.06 $2.04

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

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Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

Creature - Horror Phyrexian

$12.99 $9.61 $7.90

Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature - Beast Horror

$1.29 $1.00 $0.36

Royal Assassin

: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.59 $0.38 $0.15

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Instant

$2.29 $1.48 $0.71

The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Legendary Enchantment

$32.99 $25.86 $24.74

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant

$0.59 $0.25 $0.15

Will of the Abzan

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Any number of target opponents each sacrifice a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls and lose 3 life.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$7.49 $4.21 $4.20

Removal

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $9.49

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian

$9.49 $6.39 $6.01

Tokens

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Deck size: 100Est cost: $801.75

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Avg Mana Value: 2.65Total Mana Value: 180.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.65Total Mana Value: 180.00

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