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Volrath the Risen
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Est deck cost: $9366.53
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Commander

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Volrath the Fallen

{1}{B}, Discard a creature card: Volrath gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the discarded card's mana value.

Creature
Volrath the Fallen (nem) 75

Commander

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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $1476.13
Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (exp) 36
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (f07) 10
Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Hall of the Bandit Lord

Hall of the Bandit Lord enters tapped. {T}, Pay 3 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.

Land
Hall of the Bandit Lord (chk) 277
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (j17) 4
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: 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.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (ths) 223
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (sld) 607
Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Land
Shizo, Death's Storehouse (chk) 283
Snow-Covered Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Swamp (mh1) 252
The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Land
The Black Gate (ltc) 160
Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Land
Thespian's Stage (gtc) 248
Tower of the Magistrate

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Target creature gains protection from artifacts until end of turn.

Land
Tower of the Magistrate (mmq) 330
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (plc) 165
Volrath's Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Volrath's Stronghold (sth) 143

Land

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Artifact

Qty: 19 Price: $5272.47
Brotherhood Regalia

Equipped creature has ward {2}, is an Assassin in addition to its other types, and can't be blocked. Equip legendary creature {1} Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Brotherhood Regalia (acr) 71
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (zen) 201
Fleetfeather Sandals

Equipped creature has flying and haste. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Fleetfeather Sandals (ths) 216
Grim Monolith

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. {4}: Untap this artifact.

Artifact
Grim Monolith (ulg) 126
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (tmp) 292
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (f09) 8
Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (mps) 17
Manifold Key

{1}, {T}: Untap another target artifact. {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Manifold Key (tsr) 398
Mithril Coat

Flash Indestructible When Mithril Coat enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control. Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mithril Coat (ltr) 245
Psychic Paper

As this Equipment becomes attached to a creature, choose a creature card name and a creature type. Equipped creature has ward {1}, it can't be blocked, and its name and creature type are the last chosen name and creature type. Equip {2}

Artifact
Psychic Paper (who) 181
Quicksilver Amulet

{4}, {T}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Quicksilver Amulet (ulg) 130
Scroll Rack

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Artifact
Scroll Rack (mps) 22
Silver Shroud Costume

Flash When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. That creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equipped creature can't be blocked. Equip {3}

Artifact
Silver Shroud Costume (pip) 670
Smoke Bomb

Flash All creatures have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.) At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact. When you do, target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Smoke Bomb (acr) 75
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (g05) 3
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 {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (m12) 219
Sword of Feast and Famine

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Feast and Famine (j14) 6
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 791
Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Artifact
Vedalken Orrery (cns) 206

Artifact

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Planeswalker

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Karn Liberated

+4: Target player exiles a card from their hand. −3: Exile target permanent. −14: Restart the game, leaving in exile all non-Aura permanent cards exiled with Karn. Then put those cards onto the battlefield under your control.

Planeswalker
Karn Liberated (puma) U2
Karn, the Great Creator

Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated. +1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. −2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand.

Planeswalker
Karn, the Great Creator (war) 1★
Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control. −6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Planeswalker
Liliana of the Dark Realms (psdc) 102★

Planeswalker

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Creature

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Artisan of Kozilek

When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)

Creature
Artisan of Kozilek (roe) 2
Blightsteel Colossus

Trample, infect, indestructible If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Creature Artifact
Blightsteel Colossus (mbs) 99
Conduit of Ruin

When you cast this spell, you may search your library for a colorless creature card with mana value 7 or greater, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top. The first creature spell you cast each turn costs {2} less to cast.

Creature
Conduit of Ruin (pbfz) 4s
Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (gtc) 61
Draco

Domain — This spell costs {2} less to cast for each basic land type among lands you control. Flying Domain — At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {10}. This cost is reduced by {2} for each basic land type among lands you control.

Creature Artifact
Draco (pls) 131
Dread Defiler

Devoid (This card has no color.) {3}{C}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Target opponent loses life equal to the exiled card's power. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Creature
Dread Defiler (ogw) 68
Emrakul, the Promised End

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard. When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn. Flying, trample, protection from instants

Creature
Emrakul, the Promised End (emn) 6
Filth

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.

Creature
Filth (jud) 66
It That Betrays

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.) Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
It That Betrays (roe) 7
Keen Duelist

At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.

Creature
Keen Duelist (sld) 828
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

When you cast this spell, draw four cards. Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Kozilek is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Creature
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth (puma) U3
Pathrazer of Ulamog

Annihilator 3 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices three permanents of their choice.) This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Creature
Pathrazer of Ulamog (roe) 9
Phage the Untouchable

When Phage enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, you lose the game. Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated. Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game.

Creature
Phage the Untouchable (cns) 120
Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Rune-Scarred Demon (m12) 106
Shadow of Mortality

If your life total is less than your starting life total, this spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the difference.

Creature
Shadow of Mortality (snc) 287
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.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (sld) 211
Summoner's Egg

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile a card from your hand face down. When this creature dies, turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature Artifact
Summoner's Egg (5dn) 157
Twilight Prophet

Flying Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Creature
Twilight Prophet (rix) 88
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

When you cast this spell, exile two target permanents. Indestructible Whenever Ulamog attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library.

Creature
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger (bfz) 15
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent. Indestructible Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Creature
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (puma) U4

Creature

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Sorcery

Qty: 10 Price: $762.26
All Is Dust

Each player sacrifices all permanents they control that are one or more colors.

Sorcery Kindred
All Is Dust (sld) 268
Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.) Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Beseech the Queen (shm) 57
Bubbling Muck

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

Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (uds) 54
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (p08) 1
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (sld) 187
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (g08) 3
Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 315
Imperial Seal

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Imperial Seal (j16) 6
Restart Sequence

Freerunning {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Restart Sequence (acr) 30
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (2xm) 345

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (clb) 620
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (dkm) 7
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (apc) 47
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (ulg) 63
Strands of Night

{B}{B}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a Swamp: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Enchantment
Strands of Night (7ed) 165★

Enchantment

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Instant

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Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) A25-82
Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Imp's Mischief (plc) 72
Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Instant
Stinging Study (c21) 371
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
Tainted Strike (som) 80
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (g00) 2

Instant

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