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Toluz, Clever Conductor

When Toluz enters, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile them from your graveyard.
When Toluz dies, put the cards exiled with it into their owner's hand.

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Commander

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Twincast

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant

$7.99 $7.48 $3.74

Copy

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Levitating Statue

Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this artifact.

: This artifact becomes a 1/1 Construct artifact creature until end of turn.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Counters

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Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.79 $0.74 $0.67

Baleful Strix

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

Creature Artifact - Bird

$8.99 $5.08 $5.18

Behold the Multiverse

Scry 2, then draw two cards.
Foretell

(During your turn, you may pay

and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant

$0.79 $0.30 $0.15

Brilliant Ultimatum

Exile the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. You may play lands and cast spells from one of those piles. If you cast a spell this way, you cast it without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery

$1.99 $1.20 $0.26

Cling to Dust

Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card.
Escape—

, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Instant

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Defacing Duskmage

Deathtouch
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

Creature - Warlock Dog

Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit (soc) 45

$0.59 $0.69 $0.15

Esper Charm

Choose one —
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Draw two cards.
• Target player discards two cards.

Instant

$0.79 $1.16 $0.20

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Foulmire Knight

Deathtouch

Creature - Knight Zombie

Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight (moc) 249

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

King T'Challa

Flash
Whenever a player draws their second card each turn, you draw a card.

: Transform King T'Challa. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Creature - Human Hero Noble

King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring (msh) 219

$11.99 $7.18 $7.09

Ledger Shredder

Flying
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature - Bird Advisor

$11.99 $8.89 $7.99

Morbid Opportunist

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

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.69 $0.59 $0.18

Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Legendary Enchantment

Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (plst) XLN-74

$3.99 $2.17 $1.44

Sygg, River Cutthroat

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Legendary Creature - Merfolk Rogue

$9.49 $6.23 $2.86

Tainted Indulgence

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard.

Instant

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Wretched Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Draw

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Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery

$8.99 $6.35 $6.19

Candlekeep Inspiration

Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards you own in exile and in your graveyard that are instant cards, are sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.25 $0.15

Finisher

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Agna Qel'a

This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land.

: Add

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Land

$2.29 $0.89 $0.36

Arcane Lighthouse

: Add

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

Land

$2.99 $1.89 $1.29

Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.41 $0.15

Bleachbone Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Plains or a Swamp.

Land

$14.99 $8.30 $5.50

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$2.99 $1.44 $1.45

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.59 $0.55 $0.40

Creeping Tar Pit

This land enters tapped.

: Add

: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature. It's still a land. It can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$0.59 $0.35 $0.17

Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.36 $0.29

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.49 $0.66 $0.20

Forbidden Orchard

: Add one mana of any color.
Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Land

$12.99 $10.17 $9.07

Island

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: Add

Basic Land - Island

$---- $---- $----

Morphic Pool

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

: Add

Land

$10.99 $7.72 $7.64

Mystic Sanctuary

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Island

$2.99 $1.34 $1.37

Ni'Var Science Academy

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
When this land enters untapped, choose one —
• Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
• Surveil 1.

: Add

Land

$1.99 $1.63 $1.27

Otawara, Soaring City

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$44.99 $28.46 $26.67

Plains

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: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$---- $---- $----

Reflecting Pool

: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land

$5.99 $5.38 $3.70

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$---- $---- $----

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$19.99 $12.53 $10.70

Land

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Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$8.49 $6.40 $5.32

Hydroelectric Specimen

Flash
When this creature enters, you may change the target of target instant or sorcery spell with a single target to this creature.

Creature - Weird

Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240

$2.79 $1.40 $0.95

Inkshield

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.

Instant

$6.49 $5.46 $4.78

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111

$18.99 $11.29 $10.42

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.49 $2.66 $2.38

Taigam, Ojutai Master

Instant, sorcery, and Dragon spells you control can't be countered.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, if Taigam attacked this turn, that spell gains rebound. (Exile the spell as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Legendary Creature - Human Monk

$0.79 $0.59 $0.25

Your Temple Is Under Attack

Choose one —
• Pray for Protection — Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
• Strike a Deal — You and target opponent each draw two cards.

Instant

$1.49 $0.44 $0.36

Protection

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Glasswing Grace

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and lifelink.

Enchantment - Aura

Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel (mh3) 254

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Pump

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Primal Amulet

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on this artifact. Then if there are four or more charge counters on it, you may remove those counters and transform it.

Artifact

Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring (xln) 243

$15.99 $11.43 $7.52

Stormscape Familiar

Flying
White spells and black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Creature - Bird

$0.49 $0.78 $0.65

Ramp

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Obscura Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1.
• Target creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
• Target player returns a creature card from their graveyard to their hand.

Instant

$0.49 $0.36 $0.15

Slickshot Lockpicker

When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Plot

(You may pay

and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Snapcaster Mage

Flash
When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature - Human Wizard

$20.99 $16.61 $15.82

The Scarab God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Legendary Creature - God

$4.49 $2.87 $2.38

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.42 $0.39

Recursion

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Absorb

Counter target spell. You gain 3 life.

Instant

$0.49 $0.36 $0.16

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant

$2.79 $1.99 $3.03

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

$0.79 $0.51 $0.21

Boggart Trawler

When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard.

Creature - Goblin

Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243

$3.49 $2.24 $1.38

Countersquall

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Instant

$1.29 $0.41 $0.46

Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery

$3.49 $1.75 $1.51

Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant

$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$5.49 $4.05 $2.31

Dromar's Charm

Choose one —
• You gain 5 life.
• Counter target spell.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Instant

$0.99 $0.48 $0.15

Fade Away

For each creature, its controller sacrifices a permanent of their choice unless they pay

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.27 $0.15

Fell the Profane

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$8.99 $5.18 $4.25

Fracture

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

Instant

$0.79 $0.30 $0.15

Hindering Light

Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.59 $0.30 $0.15

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature - Horror Kraken

$10.99 $5.59 $5.89

Mortify

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Instant

$0.39 $0.25 $0.15

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Observed Stasis

Flash
Enchant creature an opponent controls
When this Aura enters, remove enchanted creature from combat. Then draw a card for each tapped creature its controller controls.
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and can't attack or block.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.59 $0.28 $0.15

Permission Denied

Counter target noncreature spell. Your opponents can't cast noncreature spells this turn.

Instant

$17.99 $13.90 $14.48

Render Silent

Counter target spell. Its controller can't cast spells this turn.

Instant

$4.49 $1.77 $1.47

Sink into Stupor

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Instant

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241

$14.99 $9.23 $8.56

Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$8.49 $5.17 $4.84

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery

$1.99 $1.72 $1.65

Swan Song

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

Instant

$16.99 $12.00 $11.45

Tyrant's Scorn

Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or less.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Undermine

Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life.

Instant

$4.49 $2.54 $0.88

Unmake

Exile target creature.

Instant

$0.39 $0.16 $0.15

Vanishing Verse

Exile target monocolored permanent.

Instant

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Void Rend

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant

$1.29 $0.36 $0.20

Removal

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Dream Harvest

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they have exiled cards with total mana value 5 or greater this way. Until end of turn, you may cast cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.32 $0.15

Theft

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Officious Interrogation

This spell costs

more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Choose any number of target players. Investigate X times, where X is the total number of creatures those players control.

Instant

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Shark Typhoon

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Ultron, Unlimited

Flying
Whenever Ultron attacks, he connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever a creature you control connives, you may pay

. If you do, create a 2/2 colorless Robot Villain artifact creature token.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Villain Robot

$0.59 $0.47 $0.22

Tokens

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Waterlogged Teachings

Search your library for an instant card or a card with flash, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant

Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261

$0.99 $0.40 $0.15

Tutor

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Bird

Flying

Creature Token - Bird

$0.59 $---- $0.93

Clue

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.

Artifact Token - Clue

$0.35 $---- $----

Copy

(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)

Token

$0.35 $---- $----

Inkling

Flying

Creature Token - Inkling

$0.35 $---- $0.30

Robot Villain

Creature Artifact Token - Villain Robot

$0.35 $---- $0.15

Shark

Flying

Creature Token - Shark

$---- $---- $0.80

Spirit

Creature Token - Spirit

$2.79 $---- $----

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $409.05

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Avg Mana Value: 3.17Total Mana Value: 219.00

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46 pips - 35 cards

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Avg Mana Value: 3.17Total Mana Value: 219.00

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