Counter Intelligence • (Mono-Blue Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$3.99 $3.99 $2.39

Commander

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Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.

: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact

$13.99 $14.80 $12.03

Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$16.99 $10.80 $10.78

Copy

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Archmage of Runes

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature - Wizard Giant

$5.49 $2.88 $2.86

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant

$2.29 $3.22 $1.13

Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—

, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Enter the Enigma

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.34 $0.15

Jin-Gitaxias

Ward

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, draw a card.

: Exile Jin-Gitaxias, then return it to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you have seven or more cards in hand.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis (mom) 65

$17.99 $12.35 $10.81

Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash
At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards.
Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$16.99 $15.13 $12.48

Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards

Reach
Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, you may draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Scientist Hero

Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards (msh) 66

$0.39 $0.33 $0.15

Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery

$1.99 $1.73 $0.62

The Magic Mirror

This spell costs

less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror, then draw a card for each knowledge counter on The Magic Mirror.

Legendary Artifact

$3.49 $3.31 $2.84

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for

.)
Draw three cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment - Fish Horse

$1.49 $0.58 $0.52

Draw

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Island

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Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

: Add

: Untap target legendary permanent.

Legendary Land

Minamo, School at Water's Edge (chk) 279

$79.99 $57.62 $47.24

Mistrise Village

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.

: Add

: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.

Land

$10.99 $6.25 $4.64

Mystic Sanctuary

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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

$3.49 $1.59 $1.38

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

: Add

: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Legendary Land

$74.99 $47.28 $41.50

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$4.99 $3.35 $3.09

Land

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The Water Crystal

Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.
If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill that many cards plus four instead.

: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Legendary Artifact

$6.49 $3.79 $2.70

Mill

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Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$4.99 $3.95 $3.09

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.49 $2.70 $2.38

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

$2.99 $2.03 $1.81

Protection

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.79 $0.70 $0.66

Haughty Djinn

Flying
Haughty Djinn's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Creature - Djinn

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Jace's Sanctum

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.

Enchantment

$2.79 $1.71 $0.64

Mindsplice Apparatus

Flash
At the beginning of your upkeep, put an oil counter on this artifact.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast for each oil counter on this artifact.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.93 $0.15

Mocking Sprite

Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Creature - Rogue Faerie

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

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 $11.66 $7.65

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.52 $1.53

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $2.42 $1.72

Ramp

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Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Spells can't be countered.
Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$1.99 $1.30 $1.06

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 $18.91 $14.62

Recursion

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Access Denied

Counter target spell. Create X 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.

Instant

$3.99 $2.29 $1.51

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

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

Instant

$4.99 $3.49 $3.09

Annul

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$4.49 $2.50 $2.07

Archmage's Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Instant

$3.49 $2.26 $1.66

Condescend

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

. 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.)

Instant

$1.29 $0.78 $0.46

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $2.57 $2.60

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

$3.99 $5.98 $5.01

Desertion

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$2.29 $0.58 $0.65

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Ertai's Scorn

This spell costs

less to cast if an opponent cast two or more spells this turn.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Exclude

Counter target creature spell.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Flusterstorm

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays

.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Instant

$15.99 $13.79 $12.02

Forbid

Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Counter target spell.

Instant

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Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$59.99 $47.74 $46.03

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 $7.33 $6.26

It'll Quench Ya!

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Instant - Lesson

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of

equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$69.99 $54.10 $50.73

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Instant

$0.35 $0.36 $0.15

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Instant

$0.79 $0.43 $0.18

Mindbreak Trap

If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Exile any number of target spells.

Instant - Trap

$22.99 $15.15 $11.94

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.35 $0.40 $0.31

Pact of Negation

Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay

. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant

$21.99 $16.42 $13.54

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Instant

$0.79 $0.38 $0.20

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

$0.49 $0.34 $0.15

Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays

Instant

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Strix Serenade

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

$3.49 $2.86 $1.79

Swan Song

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

Instant

$16.99 $11.81 $11.45

Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Instant

$1.79 $1.41 $0.90

Removal

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Agent of Treachery

When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more permanents you don't own, draw three cards.

Creature - Human Rogue

$9.49 $7.33 $4.83

Blatant Thievery

For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls.

Sorcery

$4.49 $1.33 $1.64

Mind's Dilation

Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, that player exiles the top card of their library. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment

$4.49 $4.41 $2.76

Roil Elemental

Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may gain control of target creature for as long as you control this creature.

Creature - Elemental

$16.99 $14.55 $7.54

Theft

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Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature - Horror Squid

$0.59 $0.34 $0.27

Council of Reeds

The "legend rule" doesn't apply to creatures you control.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn, create a token that's a copy of Council of Reeds.

Legendary Creature - Human Scientist Hero

$0.99 $0.54 $0.31

Namor the Sub-Mariner

Flying
Namor's power is equal to the number of Merfolk you control.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with one or more blue mana symbols in its mana cost, create that many 1/1 blue Merfolk creature tokens.

Legendary Creature - Merfolk Mutant Villain

$4.99 $2.51 $2.04

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 $0.33 $0.15

Tokens

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Harbinger of the Seas

Nonbasic lands are Islands.

Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$1.99 $1.30 $0.44

Tidespout Tyrant

Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature - Djinn

$2.99 $2.80 $1.40

Time Warp

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery

$9.99 $7.12 $6.71

Wiccan, Rising Magician

Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile another target nonland, nontoken permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Legendary Creature - Mutant Hero Warlock

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $644.27

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Avg Mana Value: 3.38Total Mana Value: 220.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.38Total Mana Value: 220.00

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