tall poppy syndrome • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

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Horobi, Death's Wail

Flying
Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy that creature.

Legendary Creature - Spirit

$2.29 $1.74 $0.67

Commander

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Counters

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Unspeakable Symbol

Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Enchantment

$2.99 $1.31 $0.67

Counters

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Drain

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Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$4.49 $3.83 $2.54

Drain

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Draw

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Aphotic Wisps

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.99 $0.27 $0.26

Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature - Nightmare

$6.99 $4.46 $4.16

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.

, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature Enchantment - God

$11.99 $10.98 $8.06

Hylda's Crown of Winter

: Tap target creature. This ability costs

less to activate during your turn.

, Sacrifice Hylda's Crown of Winter: Draw a card for each tapped creature your opponents control.

Legendary Artifact

$1.29 $0.44 $0.15

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.49 $0.36 $0.15

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.99 $6.25 $7.18

Nighthaze

Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$5.49 $4.08 $3.18

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.25 $0.15

Draw

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Evasion

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Dauthi Trapper

: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Creature - Minion Dauthi

$0.59 $0.22 $0.15

Shadow Alley Denizen

Whenever another black creature you control enters, target creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Creature - Vampire Rogue

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Vashta Nerada

Indestructible
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Horror Alien

$2.99 $3.33 $2.57

Evasion

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Land

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Arcane Lighthouse

: Add

: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Land

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Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$34.99 $28.71 $26.67

Desert

: Add

: This land deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. Activate only during the end of combat step.

Land - Desert

$2.99 $1.28 $1.27

Forge of Heroes

: Add

: Choose target commander that entered this turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and a loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Land

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Oasis

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Land

$0.49 $0.25 $0.18

Swamp

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Basic Land - Swamp

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Tower of the Magistrate

: Add

: Target creature gains protection from artifacts until end of turn.

Land

$6.49 $8.22 $2.69

Urborg

: Add

: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

Legendary Land

$22.99 $18.64 $11.85

Land

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Landfall

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Retreat to Hagra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
• Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$1.79 $1.89 $0.66

Landfall

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Lifegain

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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

$44.99 $36.06 $33.71

Lifegain

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Protection

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Agent of the Shadow Thieves

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn."

Legendary Enchantment - Background

$0.59 $0.31 $0.15

Cauldron of Souls

: Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Artifact

$9.49 $9.07 $6.29

Eldrazi Monument

Creatures you control get +1/+1 and have flying and indestructible.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. If you can't, sacrifice this artifact.

Artifact

$11.99 $9.44 $9.24

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

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Imp's Mischief

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

Instant

$10.99 $9.28 $8.71

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

$0.79 $0.38 $0.15

Soul of New Phyrexia

Trample

: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

, Exile this card from your graveyard: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Avatar Phyrexian

$1.79 $0.91 $0.57

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Wall

$34.99 $23.67 $22.40

Touch of Darkness

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

Instant

$15.99 $10.35 $9.37

Veilstone Amulet

Whenever you cast a spell, creatures you control can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn.

Artifact

$19.99 $11.33 $8.48

Wail of the Nim

Choose one —
• Regenerate each creature you control.
• Wail of the Nim deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Entwine

(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Protection

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Pump

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Tooth of Chiss-Goria

Flash
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs

less to cast for each artifact you control.)

: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.17 $0.15

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 12 Price: $86.64

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.51 $0.26

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add

for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment

$6.99 $5.53 $3.11

Bubbling Muck

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

Sorcery

$4.49 $2.59 $2.11

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.59 $0.24 $0.20

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$10.99 $7.33 $6.86

Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact

$1.49 $0.47 $0.41

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$19.99 $14.00 $12.49

Liquimetal Torque

: Add

: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact

$6.49 $3.08 $3.01

Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Enchantment

$24.99 $22.07 $19.95

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 $0.17 $0.15

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.43 $1.30

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

$6.49 $4.08 $3.59

Ramp

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Recursion

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Grave Betrayal

Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Enchantment

$5.49 $3.46 $2.03

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

$13.99 $6.55 $6.77

Recursion

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Removal

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Bloodthirsty Blade

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

: Attach this Equipment to target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact - Equipment

$0.69 $0.38 $0.81

Dissection Practice

Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Up to one target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Up to one target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Distorting Lens

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

Artifact

$3.99 $0.79 $0.47

Hex Parasite

: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact - Insect Phyrexian

$7.99 $8.49 $4.89

Inversion Behemoth

At the beginning of combat on your turn, switch the power and toughness of each of any number of target creatures until end of turn.

Creature - Eldrazi

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Liquimetal Coating

: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact

$0.49 $1.15 $0.73

Nowhere to Run

Flash
When this enchantment enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Creatures your opponents control can be the targets of spells and abilities as though they didn't have hexproof. Ward abilities of those creatures don't trigger.

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.57 $0.15

Rathi Trapper

: Tap target creature.

Creature - Human Rogue Rebel

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Retribution of the Ancients

, Remove X +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.55 $0.41

Scale of Chiss-Goria

Flash
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs

less to cast for each artifact you control.)

: Target creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.36 $0.15

Sorceress Queen

: Target creature other than this creature has base power and toughness 0/2 until end of turn.

Creature - Human Wizard Sorcerer

$0.79 $1.31 $0.46

Squee's Toy

: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Tetzimoc, Primal Death

Deathtouch

, Reveal this card from your hand: Put a prey counter on target creature. Activate only during your turn.
When Tetzimoc enters, destroy each creature your opponents control with a prey counter on it.

Legendary Creature - Elder Dinosaur

$1.99 $0.76 $0.60

Tower of Coireall

: Target creature can't be blocked by Walls this turn.

Artifact

$1.29 $1.24 $0.39

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Aetherborn

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Sac Outlet

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$84.99 $69.12 $61.46

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $503.74

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.78Total Mana Value: 164.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.78Total Mana Value: 164.00

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