Istvan - Test • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

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Aggro +1/+1 Counters Sacrifice Deathtouch Equipment

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Aggro +1/+1 Counters Sacrifice Deathtouch Equipment

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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

$1.99 $7.97 $2.45

Commander

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Barbed Servitor

Indestructible
When this creature enters, suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, target opponent loses that much life.

Creature Artifact - Construct

$0.79 $0.34 $0.15

Bonders' Enclave

: Add

: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Land

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

Endless Atlas

: Draw a card. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Artifact

$1.79 $2.53 $1.50

Grasping Shadows

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. Put a dread counter on this enchantment. Then if there are three or more dread counters on it, transform it.

Enchantment

Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair (lci) 108

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Infiltration Lens

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by a creature, you may draw two cards.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$1.99 $2.07 $1.11

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 $0.83 $0.36

Morbid Opportunist

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

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.59 $0.59 $0.17

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$5.49 $2.71 $2.67

Ruin Raider

Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to the card's mana value.

Creature - Orc Pirate

$0.49 $0.45 $0.15

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.31 $0.30

Card Velocity

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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

$8.99 $6.12 $6.04

Death Trigger Enhancer

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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

$4.99 $3.45 $2.73

Lurking Skirge

When a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, if this permanent is an enchantment, it becomes a 3/2 Phyrexian Imp creature with flying.

Enchantment

$1.29 $0.59 $0.26

Malakir Cullblade

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Vampire Warrior

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

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

$6.99 $4.76 $3.16

Necrosynthesis

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."
When enchanted creature dies, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is its power. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Slaughter Specialist

When this creature enters, each opponent creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Vampire Warrior

$1.99 $0.92 $0.26

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

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Death Triggers

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Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$4.49 $3.35 $2.87

Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar

Commanders you control have menace and deathtouch.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Legendary Creature - Cat Nightmare

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Mer-Ek Nightblade

Outlast

(

: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has deathtouch.

Creature - Assassin Orc

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature - Human Shaman

$2.49 $1.39 $1.03

Rune of Mortality

Enchant permanent
When this Aura enters, draw a card.
As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it has deathtouch.
As long as enchanted permanent is an Equipment, it has "Equipped creature has deathtouch."

Enchantment - Aura Rune

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.

: Until end of turn, this Equipment gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $2.48 $2.14

Deathtouch

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General's Regalia

: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, that damage is dealt to target creature you control instead.

Artifact

$1.99 $3.73 $1.04

Ignore Damage

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Accursed Marauder

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

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$1.29 $0.35 $0.15

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.23 $0.15

Fleshbag Marauder

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

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

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

$9.99 $10.51 $6.76

Gravelighter

Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card if a creature died this turn. Otherwise, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature - Spirit

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Guul Draz Assassin

Level up

(

: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
LEVEL 2-3
2/2

: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
LEVEL 4+
4/4

: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Creature - Vampire Assassin

$2.49 $2.41 $1.54

King's Assassin

: Destroy target tapped creature. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.59 $0.25 $0.15

Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature - Human Shaman

$0.69 $0.36 $0.28

Reaper from the Abyss

Flying
Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, destroy target non-Demon creature.

Creature - Demon

$1.29 $0.48 $0.29

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 $1.57 $0.52

Tsabo's Assassin

: Destroy target creature if it shares a color with the most common color among all permanents or a color tied for most common. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Creature - Zombie Assassin Phyrexian

$0.49 $0.67 $0.28

Kills Creatures

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.

: Add

Land

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Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.39 $0.15

War Room

: Add

, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land

$4.99 $5.55 $4.16

Land

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.79 $0.56 $0.40

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

$7.49 $6.05 $5.06

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.69 $0.39 $0.38

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$5.49 $6.46 $2.10

Grim Hireling

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create two Treasure tokens.

, Sacrifice X Treasures: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature - Rogue Tiefling

$17.99 $15.15 $10.42

Heartless Pillage

Target opponent discards two cards.
Raid — If you attacked this turn, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$21.99 $18.02 $16.25

Spoils of Evil

For each artifact or creature card in target opponent's graveyard, add

and you gain 1 life.

Instant

$4.49 $6.18 $2.58

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$4.49 $3.08 $2.50

Mana Stuff

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Archfiend of Depravity

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature - Demon

$0.99 $0.31 $0.26

Rain of Daggers

Destroy all creatures target opponent controls. You lose 2 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Mass Disruption

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Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant

$0.99 $0.45 $0.23

Retribution of the Ancients

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

Enchantment

$1.29 $0.60 $0.39

Royal Assassin

: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.79 $0.40 $0.15

Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant

$6.49 $4.18 $3.89

Suspended Sentence

Destroy target creature an opponent controls. That player loses 3 life. Exile Suspended Sentence with three time counters on it.
Suspend 3—

(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay

and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Instant

$1.29 $0.55 $0.56

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.99 $2.33 $1.21

Targeted Disruption

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Brass Squire

: Attach target Equipment you control to target creature you control.

Creature Artifact - Myr

$2.29 $1.27 $0.97

Champion's Helm

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.
As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$2.29 $1.33 $0.93

Haunted Cloak

Equipped creature has vigilance, trample, and haste.
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$0.39 $0.36 $0.15

Kusari-Gama

Equipped creature has "

: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn."
Whenever equipped creature deals damage to a blocking creature, this Equipment deals that much damage to each other creature defending player controls.
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$10.99 $6.55 $4.34

Leyline Axe

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$6.99 $3.20 $2.39

Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$2.29 $2.66 $1.42

Short Bow

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has reach and vigilance.
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

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

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$3.49 $2.64 $1.81

Tarrian's Soulcleaver

Equipped creature has vigilance.
Whenever another artifact or creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$4.49 $4.03 $1.40

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

$1.29 $0.86 $0.40

Voltron

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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

$4.99 $3.42 $1.88

Win Con

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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

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Coercive Impetus

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.79 $0.33 $0.15

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

$24.99 $15.81 $13.06

Demon's Disciple

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

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.59 $0.39 $0.15

Do or Die

Separate all creatures target player controls into two piles. Destroy all creatures in the pile of that player's choice. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$9.49 $8.22 $4.16

Dread

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.
When Dread is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Creature - Elemental Incarnation

$9.99 $8.44 $4.95

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

$7.99 $4.12 $3.82

Echo Circlet

Equipped creature can block an additional creature each combat.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Elegy Acolyte

Lifelink
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
Void — At the beginning of your end step, if a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn or a spell was warped this turn, create a 2/2 colorless Robot artifact creature token.

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.79 $0.46 $0.15

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

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

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

$11.99 $6.80 $5.73

In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery

$2.99 $3.03 $2.11

Keeper of the Dead

: Choose target opponent who has at least two fewer creature cards in their graveyard than you do as you activate this ability. Destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Make an Example

Each opponent separates the creatures they control into two piles. For each opponent, you choose one of their piles. Each opponent sacrifices the creatures in their chosen pile. (Piles can be empty.)

Sorcery

$14.99 $10.74 $10.42

Merciless Executioner

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

Creature - Warrior Orc

$0.49 $0.46 $0.23

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment

$16.99 $12.45 $13.52

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

$22.99 $21.02 $20.53

Sadistic Glee

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

Enchantment - Aura

$1.29 $1.28 $0.27

Season of the Witch

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay 2 life.
At the beginning of the end step, destroy all untapped creatures that didn't attack this turn, except for creatures that couldn't attack.

Enchantment

$34.99 $23.97 $20.84

Silent Assassin

: Destroy target blocking creature at end of combat.

Creature - Human Assassin Mercenary

$0.49 $0.57 $0.28

Soulblade Corrupter

Partner with Soulblade Renewer (When this creature enters, target player may put Soulblade Renewer into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Deathtouch
Whenever a creature with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks one of your opponents, that creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature - Human Warrior

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Spiteful Bully

At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 3 damage to target creature you control.

Creature - Zombie Mercenary Phyrexian

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Sword of Sinew and Steel

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from red.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy up to one target planeswalker and up to one target artifact.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$9.99 $14.78 $9.32

Swordsman's Steel

When this Equipment enters, draw a card for each Equipment you control.
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 for each Equipment you control.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$18.99 $12.95 $11.46

Takklemaggot

Enchant creature
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, put a -0/-1 counter on that creature.
When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller chooses a creature that this card could enchant. If the player does, return this card to the battlefield under your control attached to that creature. If they don't, return this card to the battlefield under your control as a non-Aura enchantment. It loses "enchant creature" and gains "At the beginning of that player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player."

Enchantment - Aura

$0.39 $0.26 $0.15

Tenured Inkcaster

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Vampire Warlock

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Virulent Plague

Creature tokens get -2/-2.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

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

$17.99 $14.04 $13.79

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

$6.49 $4.59 $4.32

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $216.25

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.94Total Mana Value: 188.00

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Card Velocity

Commander

Death Trigger Enhancer

Death Triggers

Deathtouch

Ignore Damage

Kills Creatures

Land

Mana Stuff

Mass Disruption

Targeted Disruption

Voltron

Win Con

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Avg Mana Value: 2.94Total Mana Value: 188.00

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Mass Disruption

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Voltron

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