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Commander

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Ygra, Eater of All
Ward—Sacrifice a Food.
Other creatures are Food artifacts in addition to their other types and have "
,
, Sacrifice this permanent: You gain 3 life."
Whenever a Food is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on Ygra.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Cat
Ygra, Eater of All (blb) 241

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Counters

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Blood Researcher
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Vampire Druid
Blood Researcher (stx) 166
Sphere Grid
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.
Unlock Ability — Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have reach and trample.
Enchantment
Sphere Grid (fic) 70
The Ooze
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it leaves the battlefield, create a Mutagen token for each +1/+1 counter on it. (A Mutagen token is an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
: Exile target card from a graveyard. Create a Mutagen token.
Legendary Artifact
The Ooze (tmt) 177

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Discard

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Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal
Flying, lifelink
Whenever Aclazotz attacks, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you draw a card.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.
When Aclazotz dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control.
Legendary Creature - Bat God
Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead (lci) 88Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead (lci) 88
Tergrid, God of Fright
Menace
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Legendary Creature - God
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
Whenever an opponent discards a card, exile it from their graveyard with a stash counter on it.
During your turn, you may play cards you don't own with stash counters on them from exile, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells.
,
: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Rogue
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar (fdn) 72

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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
Blood Artist (soc) 209
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
Whenever Sephiroth enters or attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever another creature dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. If this is the fourth time this ability has resolved this turn, transform Sephiroth.
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier Avatar
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel (fin) 115Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel (fin) 115
Vein Ripper
Flying
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Vampire Assassin
Vein Ripper (mkm) 110

Drain

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Draw

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Archon of Cruelty
Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.
Creature - Archon
Archon of Cruelty (frc) 47
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 is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (msc) 155
Bloodline Recollector
At the beginning of each end step, if three or more creatures died this turn, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving (fra) 49
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Nightmare
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (eoc) 82
Ohran Frostfang
Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch.
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Snow Creature - Snake
Ohran Frostfang (soc) 279
Plumb the Forbidden
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.
Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (soc) 224
Season of Gathering
Choose up to five
worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once.
— Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control. It gains vigilance and trample until end of turn.
— Choose artifact or enchantment. Destroy all permanents of the chosen type.
— Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.
Sorcery
Season of Gathering (blb) 192
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
+2: Create two 0/1 black Thrull creature tokens.
+1: You may sacrifice another creature or planeswalker. If you do, draw two cards, then draw another card if the sacrificed permanent was a commander.
−10: Gain control of all commanders. Put all commanders from the command zone onto the battlefield under your control.
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools can be your commander.
Partner
Legendary Planeswalker - Szat
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools (cmr) 153
Village Rites
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137
Vraska, Golgari Queen
+2: You may sacrifice another permanent. If you do, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
−3: Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
−9: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Legendary Planeswalker - Vraska
Vraska, Golgari Queen (grn) 213

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Land

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Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (frc) 22
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (msc) 240
Fabled Passage
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Land
Fabled Passage (frc) 71
Festering Thicket
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Swamp Forest
Festering Thicket (soc) 371
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (trk) 325
Fountainport
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a token: Draw a card.
,
, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token.
,
: Create a Treasure token.
Land
Fountainport (blb) 253
Golgari Rot Farm
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Golgari Rot Farm (ecc) 151
Overgrown Tomb
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Forest
Overgrown Tomb (trk) 289
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (hoc) 212
Susur Secundi, Void Altar
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ |
,
, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Planet
Susur Secundi, Void Altar (eoe) 259
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (trk) 321
Turbulent Fen
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless your opponents control eight or more lands.
Land - Swamp Forest
Turbulent Fen (soc) 55
Underground Mortuary
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Swamp Forest
Underground Mortuary (mkm) 271
Vernal Fen
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Swamp Forest
Vernal Fen (soc) 419

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Mill

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Breach the Multiverse
Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.
Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 94

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Protection

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Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (pip) 202
Snakeskin Veil
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Snakeskin Veil (tdm) 159
Whispersilk Cloak
Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Whispersilk Cloak (msc) 225

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Ramp

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Ashnod's Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (msc) 793
Herald of Leshrac
Flying
Cumulative upkeep—Gain control of a land you don't control. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
This creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control but don't own.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, each player gains control of each land they own that you control.
Creature - Avatar
Herald of Leshrac (plst) CSP-62
Nature's Lore
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Nature's Lore (msc) 177
Phyrexian Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
Rev, Tithe Extractor
Whenever you attack, target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token, then look at the top card of that player's library and exile it face down. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled. (A Treasure token is an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Rev, Tithe Extractor (j25) 45
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
The Darkness Crystal (fin) 96

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Recursion

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Animate Dead
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Enchantment - Aura
Animate Dead (soc) 207
Ardyn, the Usurper
Demons you control have menace, lifelink, and haste.
Starscourge — At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target creature card from a graveyard. If you exiled a card this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 5/5 black Demon.
Legendary Creature - Human Elder Noble
Ardyn, the Usurper (fin) 89
Avacyn, Angel of Horror
Flying, deathtouch
Whenever Avacyn or another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.
Legendary Creature - Angel
Avacyn, Angel of Horror (frc) 7
Bloodghast
This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Vampire Spirit
Bloodghast (soc) 210
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
Reanimate (fic) 282
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fic) 283
Victimize
Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Victimize (tdc) 198

Recursion

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Removal

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Butcher of Malakir
Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Creature - Vampire Warrior
Butcher of Malakir (lcc) 187
Captivating Vampire
Other Vampire creatures you control get +1/+1.
Tap five untapped Vampires you control: Gain control of target creature. It becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types.
Creature - Vampire
Captivating Vampire (inr) 100
Dictate of Erebos
Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Dictate of Erebos (plst) JOU-65
Fade from History
Each player who controls an artifact or enchantment creates a 2/2 green Bear creature token. Then destroy all artifacts and enchantments.
Sorcery
Fade from History (bro) 177
Grave Pact
Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Grave Pact (cmm) 165
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
Massacre Wurm (fdn) 714
New Blood
As an additional cost to cast this spell, tap an untapped Vampire you control.
Gain control of target creature. Change the text of that creature by replacing all instances of one creature type with Vampire.
Sorcery
New Blood (lcc) 202
Pest Infestation
Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Sorcery
Pest Infestation (soc) 282
Scarwood Bandits
Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
,
: Unless an opponent pays
, gain control of target artifact for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.
Creature - Human Rogue
Scarwood Bandits (drk) 85
Sorin, Vampire Lord
+1: Up to one target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
−2: Sorin deals 4 damage to any target. You gain 4 life.
−8: Until end of turn, each Vampire you control gains "
: Gain control of target creature."
Legendary Planeswalker - Sorin
Sorin, Vampire Lord (m20) 290
Willow Satyr
You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step.
: Gain control of target legendary creature for as long as you control this creature and this creature remains tapped.
Creature - Satyr
Willow Satyr (leg) 212

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Sac Outlet

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Altar of Dementia
Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218

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Stax

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Dauthi Voidwalker
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Rogue Dauthi
Dauthi Voidwalker (tdc) 176

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Theft

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Brainstealer Dragon
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of each opponent's library. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent owns enters the battlefield under your control, they lose life equal to its mana value.
Creature - Dragon Horror
Brainstealer Dragon (otc) 127
Court of Locthwain
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of target opponent's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it. If you're the monarch, until end of turn, you may cast a spell from among cards exiled with this enchantment without paying its mana cost.
Enchantment
Court of Locthwain (woc) 23
Gonti, Night Minister
Whenever a player casts a spell they don't own, that player creates a Treasure token.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller looks at the top card of that opponent's library and exiles it face down. They may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Mana of any type can be spent to cast a spell this way.
Legendary Creature - Rogue Aetherborn
Gonti, Night Minister (dft) 87
Inside Information
Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play those cards this turn. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
Sorcery
Inside Information (hob) 76
Outrageous Robbery
Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library face down. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast it.
Instant
Outrageous Robbery (mkm) 97
Tinybones, the Pickpocket
Deathtouch
Whenever Tinybones deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target nonland permanent card from that player's graveyard, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Rogue
Tinybones, the Pickpocket (otj) 109
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
Flying, lifelink
Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents.
If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
Legendary Creature - Elder Demon
Valgavoth, Terror Eater (dsk) 120

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Tokens

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Bloodline Keeper
Flying
: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.
: Transform this creature. Activate only if you control five or more Vampires.
Creature - Vampire
Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage (inr) 461Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage (inr) 461
Camellia, the Seedmiser
Menace
Other Squirrels you control have menace.
Whenever you sacrifice one or more Foods, create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token.
, Forage: Put a +1/+1 counter on each other Squirrel you control. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.)
Legendary Creature - Squirrel Warlock
Camellia, the Seedmiser (blb) 207
Chatterfang, Squirrel General
Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus that many 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens are created instead.
, Sacrifice X Squirrels: Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Warrior Squirrel
Chatterfang, Squirrel General (blc) 209
Maskwood Nexus
Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.
,
: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)
Artifact
Maskwood Nexus (drc) 132
Valentin, Dean of the Vein
Menace, lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay
. If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Legendary Creature - Vampire Warlock
Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161

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You get infinite ETB and LTB effects, which can pay off with Ygra, "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Blood Artist"}},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" , "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel"}},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" "},{"insert":"or "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Vein Ripper"}},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" "},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You've taken all your opponents creatures and they have nothing left."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nNo matter what you do, you should get some fun creatures and plays. Either through your own tricks and treats, or taking your opponents' tricks and treats.\n\nTheme 1: Theft"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"While Golgari has access to black, green does not particularly support the theft archetype well. 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"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Captivating Vampire"}},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" "},{"insert":" allows you to tap multiple vampires to steal a creature. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"New Blood"}},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" "},{"insert":" allows you to tap a vampire to make something else a vampire and take it. For some reason, you have to tap vampires a lot. There are 9 vampires in the deck, with "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage"}},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" , "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Maskwood Nexus"}},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" , "},{"insert":"and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Black Market Connections"}},{"insert":" included to help pad that number.\n\nOur "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"only"},{"insert":" green theft effects are here, with "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Willow Satyr"}},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" "},{"insert":"allowing legend theft and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Scarwood Bandits"}},{"insert":" allowing any creature theft, as long as Ygra is out. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools"}},{"insert":" steals commanders for particularly juicy sacrifice targets. Lastly, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Herald of Leshrac"}},{"insert":" steals lands instead of creatures, and offers some control support.\n\nTake creatures in your opponents' hands"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"While it's the most fun to take what your opponents have just cast, taking stuff out of their hands is pretty fun too. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tinybones, Bauble Burglar"}},{"insert":" lead the charge here. Tergrid gets the creatures for free, but Tinybones forces a discard. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Archon of Cruelty"}},{"insert":" play support roles by also forcing discard.\n\nTake creatures from your opponents' decks"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This goal is simple: take your opponents stuff before they get to see it. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rev, Tithe Extractor"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Gonti, Night Minister"}},{"insert":" steal cards off combat damage; "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Outrageous Robbery"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Breach the Multiverse"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Inside Information"}},{"insert":" steal cards once; "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Brainstealer Dragon"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Court of Locthwain"}},{"insert":" regularly feed you your opponents cards. Take what they have, most of the time without them knowing what they're giving you.\n\nTake creatures from your opponents' graveyards"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Perhaps the most classic form of theft in black, reanimate what is in your opponents graveyards. Of course, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Reanimate"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Animate Dead"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tinybones, the Pickpocket"}},{"insert":" let you choose the biggest and baddest graveyard creatures, but the real beauty of this theft strategy is "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"how it well it works with filling your opponents graveyards"},{"insert":". \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dauthi Voidwalker"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Valgavoth, Terror Eater"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ardyn, the Usurper"}},{"insert":" , and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rise of the Dark Realms"}},{"insert":" takes opponents creatures and add them to your army. When this deck regularly kills or forces opponents to sacrifice their creatures, these cards are powerful pay-offs. Maybe you sacrificed your opponent's commander and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grave Pact"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dictate of Erebos"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Braids, Arisen Nightmare"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Butcher of Malakir"}},{"insert":" gets you three new victims. Or maybe you pop the "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Heroic Intervention"}},{"insert":" before destroying all food artifacts with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fade from History"}},{"insert":" . One moment creatures are dying, the next they're on your battlefield.\n\nTheme 2: Now I kill your guys, who are my guys"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Of course, you can kill your opponents' creatures through combat, but it's more fun to take them and be rewarded for killing them. Ygra is an obvious pay-off. Eat their creatures, gain 3 life, remove their creatures "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"AND"},{"insert":" Ygra gets bigger. It's beautifully diabolical. And it got me thinking: \"What else can I do with your stuff?\"\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Victimize"}},{"insert":" lets you trade their creature for two of your dead ones. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Altar of Dementia"}},{"insert":" kills their creature and mills their deck (giving more targets for theft!) and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ashnod's Altar"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Phyrexian Altar"}},{"insert":" let you turn their creature into mana. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vraska, Golgari Queen"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Plumb the Forbidden"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Village Rites"}},{"insert":" turn them into cards. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Camellia, the Seedmiser"}},{"insert":" makes them into squirrels. In any of these strategies, what's theirs becomes yours, then dies to serve you. Combine that with one of the "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grave Pact"}},{"insert":" effects and you get to keep taking candy from their bags.\n\nUtility Cards"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"There are a few utility cards in this deck to help support the main themes or help smooth game play. Most are obvious effects for getting damage through, protecting your board, or reducing their board. There are two inclusions I made to contribute to the trick or treat theme of a kid who eats your candy.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ohran Frostfang"}},{"insert":" creates a dilemma for your opponents: \"Do I block and let my creatures die from my stolen creatures? Or I take damage from my stolen creatures and give card advantage?\" It's cruel and this Ygra decks benefits either way. You either give the deck treats, or you give the deck treats. \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Avacyn, Angel of Horror"}},{"insert":" has been a hyped new card, and here it definitely earns its keep. The key words \"under your control\" allows you "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"to keep your opponents' creatures after they die"},{"insert":". They don't go back to the owner! Sacrifice them or use them in battle then do it again the next turn. Constantly hold their treats over them.\n\nClosing Thoughts"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"I hope you enjoy this deck! I certainly enjoyed building it. As someone who plays Ygra, it was fun to find a way that ensures your opponents' creatures "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"actually get sacrificed as food"},{"insert":". As someone who's been forced to share candy, it was fun to build an archenemy deck that takes and eats everyone's treats. \n\n\n"}]}
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