you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain • (Grixis Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Nekusar, the Mindrazer

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar deals 1 damage to that player.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Zombie

$2.79 $2.74 $1.81

Commander

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Luxury Suite

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

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Land

$29.99 $28.65 $23.06

Morphic Pool

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

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Land

$44.99 $32.19 $33.33

Training Center

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

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Land

$23.99 $21.06 $17.01

Bond Lands

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Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian

$1.79 $0.82 $0.81

Razorkin Needlehead

This creature has first strike during your turn.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to them.

Creature - Human Assassin

$7.99 $6.02 $5.35

Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment

$2.79 $2.27 $1.75

Burn

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Otawara, Soaring City

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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

$59.99 $37.15 $36.78

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

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.
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

$29.99 $17.91 $17.71

Channel Lands

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Dragonskull Summit

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

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Land

$2.49 $1.80 $1.30

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.

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Land

$3.99 $2.19 $1.05

Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.

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Land

$1.79 $0.67 $0.36

Check Lands

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Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$89.99 $55.09 $55.79

Counters

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Breathstealer's Crypt

If a player would draw a card, instead they draw a card and reveal it. If it's a creature card, that player discards it unless they pay 3 life.

Enchantment

$7.99 $10.90 $3.59

Chains of Mephistopheles

If a player would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, that player discards a card instead. If the player discards a card this way, they draw a card. If the player doesn't discard a card this way, they mill a card.

Enchantment

$1699.99 $1260.44 $969.06

Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery

$5.99 $2.48 $2.50

Discard

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Fate Unraveler

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.

Creature Enchantment - Hag

$3.49 $2.99 $2.25

Drain

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Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Legendary Artifact

$4.99 $2.72 $2.70

Brass's Tunnel-Grinder

When Brass's Tunnel-Grinder enters, discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards plus one.
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a bore counter on Brass's Tunnel-Grinder. Then if there are three or more bore counters on it, remove those counters and transform it. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

Legendary Artifact

Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift (lci) 135

$3.49 $3.06 $2.36

Consecrated Sphinx

Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature - Sphinx

$42.99 $32.95 $30.20

Echo of Eons

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

$3.99 $2.84 $2.69

Faerie Mastermind

Flash
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card.

: Each player draws a card.

Creature - Rogue Faerie

$17.99 $12.52 $10.14

Fists of Flame

Draw a card. Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and gets +1/+0 for each card you've drawn this turn. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Instant

$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
+1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.
−8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Legendary Planeswalker - Jace

Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (plst) WAR-54

$18.99 $12.61 $12.50

Magus of the Wheel

, Sacrifice this creature: Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.49 $1.19 $0.93

Mind's Eye

Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.41 $0.15

Molten Psyche

Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.
Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, Molten Psyche deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of cards that player has drawn this turn.

Sorcery

$7.49 $4.79 $4.50

Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn.
−2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Legendary Planeswalker - Narset

$2.29 $1.21 $0.87

Niv-Mizzet, Parun

This spell can't be countered.
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.
Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Dragon

$5.99 $5.58 $4.41

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.

: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Dragon

$1.29 $1.08 $0.65

Notion Thief

Flash
If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature - Human Rogue

$3.49 $3.20 $1.97

Ob Nixilis Reignited

+1: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
−3: Destroy target creature.
−8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a player draws a card, you lose 2 life."

Legendary Planeswalker - Nixilis

$0.99 $0.38 $0.15

Phyrexian Tyranny

Whenever a player draws a card, that player loses 2 life unless they pay

Enchantment

$1.49 $1.56 $1.19

Plagiarize

Until end of turn, if target player would draw a card, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Instant

$0.59 $0.46 $0.26

Proft's Eidetic Memory

When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters, draw a card.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.

Legendary Enchantment

$3.99 $2.91 $2.07

Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact - Construct Phyrexian

$8.99 $5.02 $4.10

Spiteful Visions

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever a player draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment

$1.99 $1.40 $0.36

Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Legendary Enchantment

$7.49 $5.14 $3.95

Thassa's Oracle

When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$23.99 $22.04 $18.63

The Unagi of Kyoshi Island

Flash
Ward—Waterbend

. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays

. They can tap their artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for

.)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw two cards.

Legendary Creature - Serpent

$2.29 $2.35 $0.94

Valakut Awakening

Put any number of cards from your hand on the bottom of your library, then draw that many cards plus one.

Instant

Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (plst) ZNR-174

$27.99 $16.62 $15.45

Wheel of Fortune

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery

$449.99 $398.31 $248.80

Wheel of Misfortune

Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery

$10.99 $6.70 $5.78

Will of the Jeskai

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Each player may discard their hand and draw five cards.
• Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.

Sorcery

$6.99 $4.85 $4.43

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery

$7.99 $5.44 $4.37

Draw

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Blackcleave Cliffs

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

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Land

$4.49 $2.82 $1.96

Darkslick Shores

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

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Land

$5.49 $3.22 $1.82

Spirebluff Canal

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

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Land

$6.99 $4.05 $2.96

Fast Lands

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Bloodstained Mire

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$49.99 $35.71 $32.30

Polluted Delta

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$47.99 $37.82 $37.06

Scalding Tarn

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$94.99 $67.36 $63.34

Fetchlands

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Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature - Human Wizard

$2.79 $1.80 $1.46

Finisher

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Cabal Coffers

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for each Swamp you control.

Land

$37.99 $31.56 $26.15

Command Beacon

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, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land

$12.99 $10.20 $7.36

Command Tower

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

Land

$2.29 $1.65 $1.30

Emergence Zone

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, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land

$4.99 $4.02 $3.37

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 $1.41 $1.36

Phyrexian Tower

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, Sacrifice a creature: Add

Legendary Land

$39.99 $32.45 $30.47

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

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Land

$6.49 $4.66 $3.94

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Legendary Land

$74.99 $56.40 $52.10

Land

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Curse of Fool's Wisdom

Enchant player
Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Madness

(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment - Aura Curse

$6.49 $4.88 $3.02

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$109.99 $100.48 $96.90

Lifegain

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Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment

$7.49 $4.00 $3.13

Mill

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Kederekt Parasite

Whenever an opponent draws a card, if you control a red permanent, you may have this creature deal 1 damage to that player.

Creature - Horror

$12.99 $7.94 $6.53

Pingers

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Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Add

for each card in target opponent's hand.
• Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery

$47.99 $39.91 $37.51

Midnight Clock

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: Put an hour counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact.
When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.34 $0.16

Ramp

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Agadeem's Awakening

Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.

Sorcery

Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90

$32.99 $25.11 $25.99

Recursion

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $2.64 $2.50

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Instant

$39.99 $28.33 $25.99

Fell the Profane

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$8.99 $5.73 $5.00

Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$84.99 $65.90 $65.23

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 $52.08 $50.01

Mana Sculpt

Counter target spell. If you control a Wizard, add an amount of

equal to the amount of mana spent to cast that spell at the beginning of your next main phase.

Instant

$1.99 $0.71 $0.40

Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Ob Nixilis deals 1 damage to that player.
−2: Destroy target creature. Its controller draws two cards.

Legendary Planeswalker - Nixilis

$0.79 $0.53 $0.51

Orcish Bowmasters

Flash
When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature - Archer Orc

$59.99 $36.82 $37.13

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

$13.99 $8.29 $8.75

Sundering Eruption

Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Creatures without flying can't block this turn.

Sorcery

Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure (mh3) 248

$3.49 $1.03 $1.04

Removal

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Blood Crypt

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Swamp Mountain

$18.99 $11.59 $10.42

Steam Vents

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Mountain

$19.99 $12.86 $12.57

Watery Grave

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Swamp

$32.99 $24.88 $21.87

Shocklands

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Haunted Ridge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

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Land

$9.99 $6.28 $5.53

Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

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Land

$8.99 $5.76 $4.16

Stormcarved Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

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Land

$6.49 $4.34 $3.49

Slow Lands

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Omen Machine

Players can't draw cards.
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player exiles the top card of their library. If it's a land card, the player puts it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, the player casts it without paying its mana cost if able.

Artifact

$1.99 $2.86 $0.62

Zur's Weirding

Players play with their hands revealed.
If a player would draw a card, they reveal it instead. Then any other player may pay 2 life. If a player does, put that card into its owner's graveyard. Otherwise, that player draws a card.

Enchantment

$1.49 $1.03 $0.66

Stax

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Raucous Theater

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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 Mountain

$27.99 $15.55 $12.61

Thundering Falls

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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 - Island Mountain

$27.99 $18.24 $17.85

Undercity Sewers

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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 - Island Swamp

$32.99 $21.55 $18.10

Surveil Lands

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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

$0.69 $0.28 $0.25

Homunculus Horde

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature - Homunculus

$2.29 $1.14 $0.42

Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment.
Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment

$2.79 $5.68 $2.80

The Locust God

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste.

: Draw a card, then discard a card.
When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Legendary Creature - God

$7.49 $6.52 $6.25

Zurzoth, Chaos Rider

Whenever an opponent draws their first card each turn, if it's not their turn, you create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "When this token dies, it deals 1 damage to any target."
Whenever one or more Devils you control attack one or more players, you and those players each draw a card, then discard a card at random.

Legendary Creature - Devil

$2.29 $2.04 $1.13

Tokens

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Xander's Lounge

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This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Island Swamp Mountain

$27.99 $19.14 $17.29

Triomes

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Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$89.99 $66.46 $60.42

Gamble

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$22.99 $18.41 $16.86

Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$20.99 $16.08 $15.63

Tutor

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Blazemire Verge

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

Land

$20.99 $14.85 $13.53

Gloomlake Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control an Island or a Swamp.

Land

$18.99 $14.40 $12.35

Riverpyre Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control an Island or a Mountain.

Land

$27.99 $15.94 $11.22

Verge Lands

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $4,029.60

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.51Total Mana Value: 228.00

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Burn

Channel Lands

Check Lands

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Counters

Discard

Drain

Draw

Fast Lands

Fetchlands

Finisher

Land

Lifegain

Mill

Pingers

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Shocklands

Slow Lands

Stax

Surveil Lands

Tokens

Triomes

Tutor

Verge Lands

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Avg Mana Value: 3.51Total Mana Value: 228.00

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