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{"ops":[{"insert":"The 'Choose a Background' mechanic has been one of my favorites ever since I've started playing, and this unpopular Commander and Background pairing brought an idea I had a while ago to mind. Utilizing underutilized enchantment, Myth Unbound, this deck wants to cast, kill, and recast Faceless One infinitely to draw infinite cards and win with either Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries.\n\nTo explain the process, Myth Unbound is a two generic, one green cost enchantment that reduces the cost of your commander by one generic for each time it's been cast from the command zone this game, and it also draws a card whenever your commander is put into the command zone from anywhere. The fun part is that, with two Myth Unbound's on the battlefield, they negate your commander's commander tax! Furthermore, any additional copies means that the actual cost of your commander is reduced. This deck's main purpose is to find Myth Unbound, find ways to copy it at least two more times, and then cast and recast a now free (granted you've already cast it at least five times (not too hard with the amount of ramp included!)) Faceless One however many times it takes to win.\n\nA multitude of copy effects, some being able to copy either Myth Unbound "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"OR"},{"insert":" Faceless One depending on the situtation, nearly guarantee you find enough to copy Myth Unbound to get a free commander and copy Faceless One to kill it on entry. A "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"very"},{"insert":" generous ramp package means less lands within the deck to draw more nonland cards and guarantee you can play every card you find!\n\nFor good measure, three of the cards in this deck are meant to search for Myth Unbound and get it to your hand.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Pro tip, Green Sun's Zenith on turn one with X equalling zero can grab Dryad Arbor as a zero-cost mana dork!"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Faceless One // Candlekeep Sage currently has 7 decks listed for the Simic color pairing as I am writing this."},{"insert":"\n"}]}
Candlekeep Sage
Commander creatures you own have "When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, draw a card."
Legendary Enchantment - Background
Candlekeep Sage (clb) 60
Faceless One
If Faceless One is your commander, choose a color before the game begins. Faceless One is the chosen color.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Legendary Creature Enchantment - Background
Faceless One (clb) 1

Commander

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Absorbing Man
Vigilance
At the beginning of your first main phase, until your next turn, Absorbing Man becomes a copy of up to one target artifact, non-Aura enchantment, or land, except his name is Absorbing Man, he's a legendary 4/4 Human Villain creature in addition to his other types, and he has vigilance.
Legendary Creature - Human Villain
Absorbing Man (msh) 199
Impossible Man
Flying
: Impossible Man becomes a copy of another target permanent until end of turn, except his name is Impossible Man.
Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter Alien
Impossible Man (msc) 625

Copy Myth Unbound

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Applied Geometry
Create a token that's a copy of target non-Aura permanent you control, except it's a 0/0 Fractal creature in addition to its other types. Put six +1/+1 counters on it.
Sorcery
Applied Geometry (sos) 172
Cackling Counterpart
Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Cackling Counterpart (inr) 55
Clever Impersonator
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Clever Impersonator (plst) KTK-34
Copy Enchantment
You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any enchantment on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Copy Enchantment (rvr) 39
Estrid's Invocation
You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of an enchantment you control, except it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile this enchantment. If you do, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control."
Enchantment
Estrid's Invocation (mh3) 269
Flash Photography
You may cast this spell as though it had flash if it targets a permanent you control.
Create a token that's a copy of target permanent.
Flashback
Sorcery
Flash Photography (fic) 463
Flesh Duplicate
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has vanishing 3 if that creature doesn't have vanishing. (A permanent with vanishing 3 enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
Creature - Shapeshifter Rebel
Flesh Duplicate (who) 44
Food Chain
Exile a creature you control: Add X mana of any one color, where X is 1 plus the exiled creature's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.
Enchantment
Food Chain (2x2) 147
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
Machine God's Effigy
You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact and it has "
: Add
." (It's not a creature.)
: Add
.
Artifact
Machine God's Effigy (brc) 16
Mirage Mirror
: This artifact becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.
Artifact
Mirage Mirror (msc) 206
Mirror Image
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Mirror Image (j22) 62
Mirrormade
You may have this enchantment enter as a copy of any artifact or enchantment on the battlefield.
Enchantment
Mirrormade (dsc) 120
Moritte of the Frost
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
You may have Moritte enter as a copy of a permanent you control, except it's legendary and snow in addition to its other types and, if it's a creature, it enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it and has changeling.
Legendary Snow Creature - Shapeshifter
Moritte of the Frost (khm) 223
Omni-Changeling
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has changeling.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Omni-Changeling (ecl) 62
Phantasmal Image
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."
Creature - Illusion
Phantasmal Image (afc) 89
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
Replication Technique
Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Players may choose new targets for their copies.)
Create a token that's a copy of target permanent you control.
Sorcery
Replication Technique (soc) 200

Explode Faceless One

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Explore
You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Explore (tle) 259
Greater Good
Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.
Enchantment
Greater Good (msc) 174
Growth Spiral
Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Instant
Growth Spiral (trc) 476
Mind into Matter
Draw X cards. Then you may put a permanent card with mana value X or less from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Mind into Matter (sos) 202
Planar Genesis
Look at the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't, put a card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Instant
Planar Genesis (mh3) 198

Extra Draw

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Long-Term Plans
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.
Instant
Long-Term Plans (plst) SCG-38
Parallel Thoughts
When this enchantment enters, search your library for seven cards, exile them in a face-down pile, and shuffle that pile. Then shuffle your library.
If you would draw a card, you may instead put the top card of the pile you exiled into your hand.
Enchantment
Parallel Thoughts (scg) 44
Pia, Aether Ascetic
When Pia enters, you may discard a card. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Legendary Creature - Human Druid
Pia, Aether Ascetic (fra) 264

Find Myth Unbound

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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
Laboratory Maniac
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
Creature - Human Wizard
Laboratory Maniac (inr) 359

Finisher

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Barkchannel Pathway
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Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251
Breeding Pool
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Forest
Breeding Pool (trk) 279
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (trc) 521
Dreamroot Cascade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dreamroot Cascade (sos) 254
Dryad Arbor
(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "
: Add
.")
Creature Land - Dryad Forest
Dryad Arbor (dsc) 273
Flooded Grove
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.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Flooded Grove (soc) 373
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (mdd) 301
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (trc) 537
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (mdd) 294
Reflecting Pool
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
Land
Reflecting Pool (frc) 23
Rejuvenating Springs
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Rejuvenating Springs (msc) 260
Vineglimmer Snarl
As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (trc) 577
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (soc) 425

Land

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Myth Unbound
Your commander costs
less to cast for each time it's been cast from the command zone this game.
Whenever your commander is put into the command zone from anywhere, draw a card.
Enchantment
Myth Unbound (c18) 32

Myth Unbound

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Birds of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Bird
Birds of Paradise (msc) 170
Boreal Druid
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.
Snow Creature - Elf Druid
Boreal Druid (plst) CSP-105
Delighted Halfling
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.
: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.
Creature - Citizen Halfling
Delighted Halfling (ltr) 158
Elvish Mystic
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.
Creature - Elf Druid
Elvish Mystic (hoc) 205
Fyndhorn Elves
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.
Creature - Elf Druid
Fyndhorn Elves (fdc) 204
Green Sun's Zenith
Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Sorcery
Green Sun's Zenith (2x2) 150
Llanowar Elves
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.
Creature - Elf Druid
Llanowar Elves (fdn) 227
Sol Ring
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.
Artifact
Sol Ring (trc) 499
Wild Growth
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional
.
Enchantment - Aura
Wild Growth (pip) 208

One Mana Ramp

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Bloomvine Regent
Flying
Whenever this creature or another Dragon you control enters, you gain 3 life.
Creature - Dragon
Bloomvine Regent // Claim Territory (tdm) 136
Cultivate
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Cultivate (trc) 460
Cycle of Renewal
Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant - Lesson
Cycle of Renewal (tla) 170
Entish Restoration
Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Entish Restoration (ltr) 163
Flare of Cultivation
You may sacrifice a nontoken green creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Flare of Cultivation (mh3) 154
Harrow
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Harrow (eoc) 98
Kodama's Reach
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery - Arcane
Kodama's Reach (ecc) 113
Larval Scoutlander
When this Spacecraft enters, you may sacrifice a land or Lander. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 7+.)
7+ | Flying
Artifact - Spacecraft
Larval Scoutlander (eoe) 194
Nissa's Pilgrimage
Search your library for up to two basic Forest cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, search your library for up to three basic Forest cards instead of two.
Sorcery
Nissa's Pilgrimage (c17) 155
Overgrowth
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional
.
Enchantment - Aura
Overgrowth (j22) 702
Roiling Regrowth
Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Roiling Regrowth (eoc) 105
Springbloom Druid
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Elf Druid
Springbloom Druid (soc) 287

Three Mana Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (trc) 485
Nature's Lore
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Nature's Lore (trc) 467
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Shaman Snake
Sakura-Tribe Elder (soc) 285
Simic Signet
,
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.
Artifact
Simic Signet (dsc) 252
Talisman of Curiosity
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.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (drc) 140
Three Visits
Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Three Visits (msc) 181

Two Mana Ramp

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Deck Info

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37 mana - 35 cards
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{"ops":[{"insert":"The 'Choose a Background' mechanic has been one of my favorites ever since I've started playing, and this unpopular Commander and Background pairing brought an idea I had a while ago to mind. Utilizing underutilized enchantment, Myth Unbound, this deck wants to cast, kill, and recast Faceless One infinitely to draw infinite cards and win with either Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries.\n\nTo explain the process, Myth Unbound is a two generic, one green cost enchantment that reduces the cost of your commander by one generic for each time it's been cast from the command zone this game, and it also draws a card whenever your commander is put into the command zone from anywhere. The fun part is that, with two Myth Unbound's on the battlefield, they negate your commander's commander tax! Furthermore, any additional copies means that the actual cost of your commander is reduced. This deck's main purpose is to find Myth Unbound, find ways to copy it at least two more times, and then cast and recast a now free (granted you've already cast it at least five times (not too hard with the amount of ramp included!)) Faceless One however many times it takes to win.\n\nA multitude of copy effects, some being able to copy either Myth Unbound "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"OR"},{"insert":" Faceless One depending on the situtation, nearly guarantee you find enough to copy Myth Unbound to get a free commander and copy Faceless One to kill it on entry. A "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"very"},{"insert":" generous ramp package means less lands within the deck to draw more nonland cards and guarantee you can play every card you find!\n\nFor good measure, three of the cards in this deck are meant to search for Myth Unbound and get it to your hand.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Pro tip, Green Sun's Zenith on turn one with X equalling zero can grab Dryad Arbor as a zero-cost mana dork!"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"bold":true},"insert":"Faceless One // Candlekeep Sage currently has 7 decks listed for the Simic color pairing as I am writing this."},{"insert":"\n"}]}
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