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{"ops":[{"insert":"ELEVATOR PITCH\nThe commander reads like a fast double-strike attacker. The flip is that attacking leaves Quicksilver tapped through the opponents' turns, and while tapped it lets you cast spells as though they had flash. Those spells feed token makers, spell-damage payoffs, and Treasure generation at instant speed.\n\nTHE RUG PULL — INVISIBLE THREAT\n- MASK — VERIFIED (oracle_all.json): Quicksilver has flash, double strike, and haste; as long as it is tapped, you may cast spells as though they had flash.\n- FLIP — VERIFIED (oracle_all.json): Third Path Iconoclast and Saheeli make artifact tokens from noncreature spells; Young Pyromancer makes tokens from instants/sorceries; Guttersnipe damages each opponent; Storm-Kiln Artist makes Treasures when you cast or copy an instant/sorcery.\n- FLIP TURN — Target window: turns 4–7; not goldfish-tested.\n- TELLS — Quicksilver attacking, a token payoff, Storm-Kiln Artist, or Guttersnipe. The commander is a visible timing engine; the hidden part is the density of opponents'-turn triggers.\n- RESILIENCE — Commander cost {3}{U}{R}; first taxed recast {5}{U}{R}; after two previous command-zone casts {7}{U}{R} (VERIFIED, CR 903.8). The spell payoffs work without Quicksilver; only the flash permission is lost.\n- POD FIT — Provisional Bracket 3: 0 Game Changers, no extra-turn or mass-land-denial card found, and no two-card loop verified in the targeted review. This is a focused spellslinger deck with substantial interaction.\n\nHOW THE DECK PLAYS\n- TURNS 1–3: Develop mana and a token or draw payoff. Keep one cheap answer available.\n- TURNS 4–6: Cast Quicksilver and attack when safe. While it remains tapped through opponents' turns, cast instants and other spells at flash timing; Quicksilver untaps on your next untap step.\n- FLIP: Accumulate tokens and spell triggers, then use Mizzix's Mastery or Experimental Overload to rebuild or make a large Weird. The intended win window is a target, not a tested result.\n\nKEY CARDS\n- VERIFIED (oracle_all.json): Mizzix's Mastery can copy/cast instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard; Experimental Overload creates a Weird sized by those cards and can return an instant/sorcery to hand.\n- VERIFIED (oracle_all.json): Counterspell, Cryptic Command, Disallow, Negate, Saw It Coming, and Swan Song interact on the stack. Dive Down and Shore Up protect a creature.\n\nREAL BRACKET\nPROVISIONAL BRACKET 3 — 0 Game Changers; no extra turns or mass land denial found; no intentional two-card infinite was verified in the targeted review. The curated combo catalogue had no exact list match, but that is not proof that no unusual pair exists.\n\nBRACKET CONVERSION\nNo conversion requested or added. Decklist unchanged.\n\nRESILIENCE\nMANUAL FOUR-TURN CHECK ONLY; no Jev score or goldfish was run. Third Path Iconoclast, Young Pyromancer, Saheeli, Guttersnipe, and Storm-Kiln Artist keep the deck progressing without the commander. SECOND WIN PATH: token combat plus Guttersnipe / other spell-damage payoffs. PLAN B if Quicksilver is exposed: play the normal spellslinger game at sorcery speed and preserve the counterspell suite.\n\nINTERACTION & PROTECTION\nVERIFIED (oracle_all.json): Counterspell, Cryptic Command, Disallow, Exclude, Izzet Charm, Metallic Rebuke, Negate, Saw It Coming, Swan Song, Dive Down, and Shore Up. Do not tap out before the table's biggest turn if the token board is your only clock.\n\nMANA BASE\nVERIFIED from the list and local Oracle records: 37 true lands / 1 MDFC land (Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore) / 8 mana rocks / 0 mana dorks / 46 total sources.\n\nMULLIGAN NOTES\nKeep two or three lands, early fixing, and either a payoff or cheap selection. A hand of expensive sorceries with no early development does not exploit the commander's timing text.\n\nTOP 5 ORACLE TAGS\n- single-target-instant-sorcery\n- cast-trigger-you\n- cantrip\n- synergy-instant\n- synergy-sorcery\n"}]}
Quicksilver, Speedster
Flash
Double strike, haste
As long as Quicksilver is tapped, you may cast spells as though they had flash.
Legendary Creature - Mutant Hero
Quicksilver, Speedster (msc) 91

Commander

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Rising of the Day
Creatures you control have haste.
Legendary creatures you control get +1/+0.
Enchantment
Rising of the Day (ltr) 145

Anthem

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Electrostatic Field
Defender
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Creature - Wall
Electrostatic Field (otc) 164
Firebrand Archer
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Creature - Human Archer
Firebrand Archer (fdn) 196
Guttersnipe
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.
Creature - Goblin Shaman
Guttersnipe (hoc) 196

Burn

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Glasspool Mimic
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control, except it's a Shapeshifter Rogue in addition to its other types.
Creature - Rogue Shapeshifter
Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore (znr) 60
Phyrexian Metamorph
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter Phyrexian
Phyrexian Metamorph (eoc) 75

Clones

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Quantum Misalignment
Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it isn't legendary.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Quantum Misalignment (msc) 152
Rite of Replication
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.
Sorcery
Rite of Replication (soc) 202
Spark Double
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.
Creature - Illusion
Spark Double (msc) 279
Stolen Identity
Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Stolen Identity (ncc) 233

Copy

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Brineborn Cutthroat
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Whenever you cast a spell during an opponent's turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Merfolk Pirate
Brineborn Cutthroat (fdn) 152

Counters

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Big Score
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
Big Score (msc) 802
Consider
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Consider (tle) 157
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (trc) 438
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
Kindred Discovery (msc) 150
Light Up the Stage
Spectacle
(You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.)
Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.
Sorcery
Light Up the Stage (dsc) 166
Opt
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Opt (tdc) 158
Ponder
Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Ponder (trc) 440
Preordain
Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Sorcery
Preordain (tdc) 161
Prismari Charm
Choose one —
• Surveil 2, then draw a card.
• Prismari Charm deals 1 damage to each of one or two targets.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Instant
Prismari Charm (sos) 211
Spectral Sailor
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
: Draw a card.
Creature - Spirit Pirate
Spectral Sailor (fdn) 164
Tezzeret's Gambit
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Sorcery
Tezzeret's Gambit (eoc) 47
Thirst for Knowledge
Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.
Instant
Thirst for Knowledge (trc) 443
Thoughtcast
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs
less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Draw two cards.
Sorcery
Thoughtcast (trc) 444
Unexpected Windfall
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
Unexpected Windfall (fdc) 184

Draw

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Faerie Vandal
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Faerie Vandal (j25) 311

Evasion

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Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (trc) 521
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (trc) 527
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (trc) 528
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 (trc) 529
Frostboil Snarl
As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Frostboil Snarl (trc) 533
Great Furnace
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Great Furnace (eoc) 161
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (mdd) 294
Misty Rainforest
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 438
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (mdd) 298
Mystic Sanctuary
(
: 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
Mystic Sanctuary (soc) 388
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Path of Ancestry (trc) 545
Reflecting Pool
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
Land
Reflecting Pool (frc) 23
Scorched Geyser
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Mountain
Scorched Geyser (trc) 554
Seat of the Synod
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (eoc) 176
Shivan Reef
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Shivan Reef (frc) 83
Spire of Industry
: Add
.
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control an artifact.
Land
Spire of Industry (trc) 562
Steam Vents
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Mountain
Steam Vents (trk) 298
Sulfur Falls
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sulfur Falls (trc) 563
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Terramorphic Expanse (trc) 571

Land

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Bolt Bend
This spell costs
less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
Instant
Bolt Bend (tle) 163
Dive Down
Target creature you control gets +0/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Dive Down (fdn) 588
Final-Word Phantom
Flash
Flying
During each opponent's end step, you may cast spells as though they had flash.
Creature - Spirit Detective
Final-Word Phantom (mkc) 22
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (trc) 496
Shore Up
Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap it. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Shore Up (blb) 69

Protection

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Expressive Firedancer
Opus — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. If five or more mana was spent to cast that spell, this creature also gains double strike until end of turn.
Creature - Human Sorcerer
Expressive Firedancer (sos) 114

Pump

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (trc) 485
Astral Cornucopia
This artifact enters with X charge counters on it.
: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each charge counter on this artifact.
Artifact
Astral Cornucopia (trc) 486
Everflowing Chalice
Multikicker
(You may pay an additional
any number of times as you cast this spell.)
This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.
: Add
for each charge counter on this artifact.
Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (trc) 490
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (frc) 57
Izzet Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Izzet Signet (frc) 58
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (trc) 497
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (trc) 499
Storm-Kiln Artist
This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control.
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Shaman Dwarf
Storm-Kiln Artist (soc) 255
Talisman of Creativity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (trc) 504

Ramp

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Experimental Overload
Create an X/X blue and red Weird creature token, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Then you may return an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Experimental Overload.
Sorcery
Experimental Overload (m21) 218
Mizzix's Mastery
Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Mizzix's Mastery (otc) 175
Past in Flames
Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Past in Flames (40k) 206

Recursion

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Abrade
Choose one —
• Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature.
• Destroy target artifact.
Instant
Abrade (trc) 449
Aetherize
Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.
Instant
Aetherize (fdn) 151
Blasphemous Act
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.
Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (msc) 163
Chain Reaction
Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.
Sorcery
Chain Reaction (trc) 450
Chaos Warp
The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.
Instant
Chaos Warp (msc) 164
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (fdc) 61
Cryptic Command
Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.
Instant
Cryptic Command (trc) 435
Disallow
Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
Instant
Disallow (trc) 436
Exclude
Counter target creature spell.
Draw a card.
Instant
Exclude (cmm) 90
Izzet Charm
Choose one —
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays
.
• Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature.
• Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Instant
Izzet Charm (rvr) 368
Metallic Rebuke
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for
.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Metallic Rebuke (plst) AER-39
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (trc) 439
Saw It Coming
Counter target spell.
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
Saw It Coming (khm) 76
Swan Song
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.
Instant
Swan Song (eoc) 46
Wave Goodbye
Return each creature without a +1/+1 counter on it to its owner's hand.
Sorcery
Wave Goodbye (tmc) 46

Removal

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Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
−2: Target artifact you control becomes a copy of another target artifact or creature you control until end of turn, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
Legendary Planeswalker - Saheeli
Saheeli, Sublime Artificer (drc) 119
Third Path Iconoclast
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.
Creature - Human Monk
Third Path Iconoclast (tdc) 307
Young Pyromancer
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.
Creature - Human Shaman
Young Pyromancer (tdc) 95

Tokens

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29 mana - 29 cards
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7 mana - 6 cards
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{"ops":[{"insert":"ELEVATOR PITCH\nThe commander reads like a fast double-strike attacker. The flip is that attacking leaves Quicksilver tapped through the opponents' turns, and while tapped it lets you cast spells as though they had flash. Those spells feed token makers, spell-damage payoffs, and Treasure generation at instant speed.\n\nTHE RUG PULL — INVISIBLE THREAT\n- MASK — VERIFIED (oracle_all.json): Quicksilver has flash, double strike, and haste; as long as it is tapped, you may cast spells as though they had flash.\n- FLIP — VERIFIED (oracle_all.json): Third Path Iconoclast and Saheeli make artifact tokens from noncreature spells; Young Pyromancer makes tokens from instants/sorceries; Guttersnipe damages each opponent; Storm-Kiln Artist makes Treasures when you cast or copy an instant/sorcery.\n- FLIP TURN — Target window: turns 4–7; not goldfish-tested.\n- TELLS — Quicksilver attacking, a token payoff, Storm-Kiln Artist, or Guttersnipe. The commander is a visible timing engine; the hidden part is the density of opponents'-turn triggers.\n- RESILIENCE — Commander cost {3}{U}{R}; first taxed recast {5}{U}{R}; after two previous command-zone casts {7}{U}{R} (VERIFIED, CR 903.8). The spell payoffs work without Quicksilver; only the flash permission is lost.\n- POD FIT — Provisional Bracket 3: 0 Game Changers, no extra-turn or mass-land-denial card found, and no two-card loop verified in the targeted review. This is a focused spellslinger deck with substantial interaction.\n\nHOW THE DECK PLAYS\n- TURNS 1–3: Develop mana and a token or draw payoff. Keep one cheap answer available.\n- TURNS 4–6: Cast Quicksilver and attack when safe. While it remains tapped through opponents' turns, cast instants and other spells at flash timing; Quicksilver untaps on your next untap step.\n- FLIP: Accumulate tokens and spell triggers, then use Mizzix's Mastery or Experimental Overload to rebuild or make a large Weird. The intended win window is a target, not a tested result.\n\nKEY CARDS\n- VERIFIED (oracle_all.json): Mizzix's Mastery can copy/cast instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard; Experimental Overload creates a Weird sized by those cards and can return an instant/sorcery to hand.\n- VERIFIED (oracle_all.json): Counterspell, Cryptic Command, Disallow, Negate, Saw It Coming, and Swan Song interact on the stack. Dive Down and Shore Up protect a creature.\n\nREAL BRACKET\nPROVISIONAL BRACKET 3 — 0 Game Changers; no extra turns or mass land denial found; no intentional two-card infinite was verified in the targeted review. The curated combo catalogue had no exact list match, but that is not proof that no unusual pair exists.\n\nBRACKET CONVERSION\nNo conversion requested or added. Decklist unchanged.\n\nRESILIENCE\nMANUAL FOUR-TURN CHECK ONLY; no Jev score or goldfish was run. Third Path Iconoclast, Young Pyromancer, Saheeli, Guttersnipe, and Storm-Kiln Artist keep the deck progressing without the commander. SECOND WIN PATH: token combat plus Guttersnipe / other spell-damage payoffs. PLAN B if Quicksilver is exposed: play the normal spellslinger game at sorcery speed and preserve the counterspell suite.\n\nINTERACTION & PROTECTION\nVERIFIED (oracle_all.json): Counterspell, Cryptic Command, Disallow, Exclude, Izzet Charm, Metallic Rebuke, Negate, Saw It Coming, Swan Song, Dive Down, and Shore Up. Do not tap out before the table's biggest turn if the token board is your only clock.\n\nMANA BASE\nVERIFIED from the list and local Oracle records: 37 true lands / 1 MDFC land (Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore) / 8 mana rocks / 0 mana dorks / 46 total sources.\n\nMULLIGAN NOTES\nKeep two or three lands, early fixing, and either a payoff or cheap selection. A hand of expensive sorceries with no early development does not exploit the commander's timing text.\n\nTOP 5 ORACLE TAGS\n- single-target-instant-sorcery\n- cast-trigger-you\n- cantrip\n- synergy-instant\n- synergy-sorcery\n"}]}
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