Alela - Strumpet swarm • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

Alela, Artful Provocateur

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+0.
Whenever you cast an artifact or enchantment spell, create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying.

Legendary Creature - Faerie Warlock

$1.29 $1.03 $0.79

Commander

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Draw

Qty: 7 Price: $21.13

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Legendary Artifact Enchantment

$0.59 $0.98 $0.57

Coastal Piracy

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment

$2.29 $2.91 $0.52

Idol of Oblivion

: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Artifact

$4.99 $2.57 $2.56

Kindred Discovery

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

Enchantment

$10.99 $9.14 $6.74

Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card.

Creature - Human Soldier

$0.99 $0.31 $0.15

Paradoxical Outcome

Return any number of target nonland, nontoken permanents you control to their owners' hands. Draw a card for each card returned to your hand this way.

Instant

$0.49 $0.51 $0.15

Sai, Master Thopterist

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

, Sacrifice two artifacts: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Artificer

$0.79 $0.67 $0.23

Draw

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Draw and token

Qty: 18 Price: $75.84

Alchemist's Vial

When this artifact enters, draw a card.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature can't attack or block this turn.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact - Bird

$8.99 $4.01 $5.18

Chromatic Sphere

, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. Draw a card. (Activate only as an instant.)

Artifact

$0.59 $0.47 $0.15

Chromatic Star

, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.
When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.37 $0.26

Conjurer's Bauble

, Sacrifice this artifact: Put up to one target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.67 $0.32

Darkwater Egg

, Sacrifice this artifact: Add

. Draw a card. (Activate only as an instant.)

Artifact

$0.39 $0.36 $0.25

Elsewhere Flask

When this artifact enters, draw a card.
Sacrifice this artifact: Choose a basic land type. Each land you control becomes that type until end of turn.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Golden Egg

When this artifact enters, draw a card.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.

Artifact - Food

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Guild Globe

When this artifact enters, draw a card.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Add two mana of different colors.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Metalspinner's Puzzleknot

When this artifact enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

, Sacrifice this artifact: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Nihil Spellbomb

, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.
When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact

$5.49 $2.64 $2.60

Prophetic Prism

When this artifact enters, draw a card.

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Relic of Progenitus

: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard.

, Exile this artifact: Exile all graveyards. Draw a card.

Artifact

$10.99 $7.72 $7.29

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$9.49 $6.32 $4.90

Skycloud Egg

, Sacrifice this artifact: Add

. Draw a card. (Activate only as an instant.)

Artifact

$0.59 $0.32 $0.20

Stupefying Touch

Enchant creature
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
Enchanted creature's activated abilities can't be activated.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Tome of Legends

This artifact enters with a page counter on it.
Whenever your commander enters or attacks, put a page counter on this artifact.

, Remove a page counter from this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact - Book

$0.69 $1.09 $0.36

Tsabo's Web

When this artifact enters, draw a card.
Each land with an activated ability that isn't a mana ability doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Artifact

$34.99 $27.93 $15.00

Draw and token

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Land

Qty: 34 Price: $212.46

Arcane Sanctum

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.79 $0.55 $0.33

Buried Ruin

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land

$0.79 $0.59 $0.42

Caves of Koilos

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.49 $0.83 $0.62

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.35 $0.20

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$13.99 $6.11 $7.21

Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.

: Add

Land

$4.49 $3.69 $2.33

Godless Shrine

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Swamp

$12.99 $9.18 $8.12

Grand Coliseum

This land enters tapped.

: Add

: Add one mana of any color. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$2.99 $3.55 $0.56

Hall of Heliod's Generosity

: Add

: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Legendary Land

$15.99 $10.41 $10.26

Hallowed Fountain

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Island

$11.99 $7.32 $7.43

Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life.

: Add

, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Legendary Land

$23.99 $15.47 $15.00

Island

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Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.09 $0.15

Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$6.99 $5.99 $6.03

Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$42.99 $29.57 $20.97

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.15 $0.15

Prairie Stream

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This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Plains Island

$2.99 $4.19 $2.60

Sea of Clouds

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$29.99 $19.38 $17.87

Silent Clearing

, Pay 1 life: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land

$5.49 $5.43 $4.25

Sunken Hollow

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This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Island Swamp

$7.49 $6.24 $4.99

Swamp

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Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.11 $0.15

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$3.99 $3.09 $2.83

Watery Grave

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Swamp

$14.99 $9.50 $9.37

Land

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Power increase

Qty: 9 Price: $41.17

Adaptive Automaton

As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact - Construct

$2.79 $1.85 $0.94

Favorable Winds

Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.43 $0.39

Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.

: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

Intangible Virtue

Creature tokens you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

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 $11.68 $10.12

Mace of the Valiant

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on this Equipment and has vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap.)
Whenever a creature you control enters, put a charge counter on this Equipment.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Metallic Mimic

As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter

$3.99 $2.97 $1.30

Obelisk of Urd

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for

or one mana of that creature's color.)
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2.

Artifact

$3.99 $3.23 $2.14

Throne of the God-Pharaoh

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control.

Legendary Artifact

$10.99 $7.46 $6.30

Power increase

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Protection

Qty: 2 Price: $13.48

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$7.49 $4.80 $4.37

Sephara, Sky's Blade

You may pay

and tap four untapped creatures you control with flying rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Flying, lifelink
Other creatures you control with flying have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Legendary Creature - Angel

$5.99 $4.34 $4.53

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 5 Price: $10.05

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.79 $0.67 $0.51

Azorius Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.79 $0.39 $0.29

Dimir Signet

: Add

Artifact

$2.49 $1.26 $0.87

Orzhov Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $0.40 $0.26

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$4.99 $5.02 $3.35

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Elixir of Immortality

: You gain 5 life. Shuffle this artifact and your graveyard into their owner's library.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.57 $0.19

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 18 Price: $89.21

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant

$4.49 $2.55 $1.88

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

$4.49 $2.38 $1.64

Attrition

, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Enchantment

$21.99 $19.03 $17.14

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery

$1.99 $1.04 $0.61

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.99 $4.79 $2.35

Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Enchantment - Aura

$2.49 $2.12 $1.15

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Fell the Mighty

Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.33 $0.18

Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant

$2.29 $1.52 $1.04

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

$0.69 $0.31 $0.18

Kindred Dominance

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

Sorcery

$10.99 $10.28 $6.77

Larceny

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Enchantment

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Mind Slash

, Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.44 $0.23

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Pongify

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

Instant

$4.49 $3.53 $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 $1.06 $0.77

Swan Song

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

Instant

$21.99 $14.63 $12.67

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant

$3.99 $1.96 $1.51

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $7.99

Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment

$7.99 $5.27 $3.89

Stax

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Too good

Qty: 4 Price: $29.46

Etchings of the Chosen

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

, Sacrifice a creature of the chosen type: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Enchantment

$0.69 $0.38 $0.15

Grand Architect

Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.

: Target artifact creature becomes blue until end of turn.
Tap an untapped blue creature you control: Add

. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

Creature - Artificer Vedalken

$1.29 $1.05 $0.62

Krark-Clan Ironworks

Sacrifice an artifact: Add

Artifact

$20.99 $16.67 $14.32

Semblance Anvil

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonland card from your hand.
Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$6.49 $6.26 $3.99

Too good

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Maybeboard

Qty: 5 Price: $27.95

Gravitational Shift

Creatures with flying get +2/+0.
Creatures without flying get -2/-0.

Enchantment

$1.99 $1.75 $0.62

Scion of Oona

Flash
Flying
Other Faerie creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other Faeries you control have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)

Creature - Soldier Faerie

$12.99 $12.56 $6.43

Shimmer Dragon

Flying
As long as you control four or more artifacts, this creature has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Draw a card.

Creature - Dragon

$0.69 $0.38 $0.17

Signal Pest

Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)
This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.

Creature Artifact - Pest

$9.99 $11.81 $8.26

Smuggler's Copter

Flying
Whenever this Vehicle attacks or blocks, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact - Vehicle

$2.29 $1.45 $0.57

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $502.87

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.55Total Mana Value: 168.00

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13 mana - 10 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.55Total Mana Value: 168.00

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{"ops":[{"insert":"Built this one for the girlfriend. \nEnded up on a budget version of this - - > https://archidekt.com/decks/197674#Alela,_Artful_Provocateur\nReally love Nick's take on this commander. Just keep getting her trigger as often as you can with functional low cmc enchants and artifacts. \n"}]}