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Kellan, the Kid
Flying, lifelink
Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, you may cast a permanent spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue Faerie
Kellan, the Kid (otj) 213

Commander

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Echocasting Symposium
Target player creates a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Sorcery - Lesson
Echocasting Symposium (sos) 44
Gorion, Wise Mentor
Vigilance
Whenever you cast an Adventure spell, you may copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Gorion, Wise Mentor (clb) 276

Copy

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Ancient Bronze Dragon
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. When you do, put X +1/+1 counters on each of up to two target creatures, where X is the result.
Creature - Elder Dragon
Ancient Bronze Dragon (clb) 214
Emergency Phytomedic
This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Cleric Dryad
Emergency Phytomedic // Seed Suture (fra) 130
Germination Practicum
Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Sorcery - Lesson
Germination Practicum (sos) 149

Counters

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Apex Devastator
Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)
Creature - Hydra Chimera
Apex Devastator (m3c) 220
Avatar of Burgeoning Echoes
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, empower Jace 2. (Put two loyalty counters on a Jace token you control. If you don't control one, first create a blue Jace planeswalker token with "[−1]: Surveil 1" and "[−3]: Draw a card.")
Planeswalkers you control have "[−10]: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each land you control."
Creature - Avatar
Avatar of Burgeoning Echoes (fra) 122
Bilbo Baggins, Burglar
When Bilbo Baggins enters, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Rogue Halfling
Bilbo Baggins, Burglar // Take a Glance (hob) 34
Brainsurge
Draw four cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainsurge (frc) 40
Emeritus of Ideation
Flying, ward

This creature enters prepared.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile eight cards from your graveyard. If you do, this creature becomes prepared.
Creature - Human Wizard
Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall (sos) 45
Fblthp, Lost on the Range
Ward

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
The top card of your library has plot. The plot cost is equal to its mana cost.
You may plot nonland cards from the top of your library.
Legendary Creature - Homunculus
Fblthp, Lost on the Range (otj) 48
Memory Deluge
Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast this spell. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Memory Deluge (inr) 361
Quantum Riddler
Flying
When this creature enters, draw a card.
As long as you have one or fewer cards in hand, if you would draw one or more cards, you draw that many cards plus one instead.
Warp
Creature - Sphinx
Quantum Riddler (eoe) 72
Stock Up
Look at the top five cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Sorcery
Stock Up (dft) 67
Tam, Observant Sequencer
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, Tam becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Legendary Creature - Wizard Gorgon
Tam, Observant Sequencer // Deep Sight (sos) 237
Tatyova, Benthic Druid
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Druid Merfolk
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (fdn) 247
The Arkenstone
Creatures you control get +1/+1.
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card.
Legendary Artifact
The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart (hob) 170
The Mighty Thor, Jane Foster
Flying
Whenever The Mighty Thor attacks, exile up to one target nontoken artifact or creature, then return that card to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.
Whenever an Equipment you control enters, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human God Hero
The Mighty Thor, Jane Foster (msh) 222
Urianger Augurelt
Whenever you play a land from exile or cast a spell from exile, you gain 2 life.
Draw Arcanum —
: Look at the top card of your library. You may exile it face down.
Play Arcanum —
: Until end of turn, you may play cards exiled with Urianger Augurelt. Spells you cast this way cost
less to cast.
Legendary Creature - Elf Advisor
Urianger Augurelt (fic) 96

Draw

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Celestial Colonnade
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.
Land
Celestial Colonnade (who) 260
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (mdd) 301
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (mdd) 294
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (mdd) 292
Seachrome Coast
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Seachrome Coast (blc) 328
Skycloud Expanse
,
: Add
.
Land
Skycloud Expanse (trc) 559
Skycoach Waypoint
: Add
.
,
: Target creature becomes prepared. (Only creatures with prepare spells can become prepared.)
Land
Skycoach Waypoint (sos) 261
Snow-Covered Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Snow Land - Plains
Snow-Covered Plains (khm) 276
Spara's Headquarters
(
: Add
,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island Forest
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 257

Land

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Rabaroo Troop
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gains flying until end of turn and you gain 1 life.
Plainscycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature - Kangaroo Rabbit
Rabaroo Troop (tla) 32

Lifegain

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Hope Estheim
Lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent mills X cards, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Hope Estheim (fin) 226
Vastlands Scavenger
Deathtouch
This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Druid Bear
Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life (sos) 166

Mill

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Absolute Virtue
This spell can't be countered.
Flying
You have protection from each of your opponents. (You can't be dealt damage, enchanted, or targeted by anything controlled by your opponents.)
Legendary Creature - Warrior Avatar
Absolute Virtue (fin) 212
Bofur, Reliable Guardian
Lifelink
Legendary Creature - Scout Dwarf
Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care (hob) 6
Dragonfire Blade
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has hexproof from monocolored.
Equip
. This ability costs
less to activate for each color of the creature it targets.
Artifact - Equipment
Dragonfire Blade (tdm) 240
Flawless Maneuver
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Flawless Maneuver (frc) 25
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
Sigarda, Font of Blessings
Flying
Other permanents you control have hexproof.
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast Angel spells and Human spells from the top of your library.
Legendary Creature - Angel
Sigarda, Font of Blessings (mat) 47
The Eagles Are Coming!
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Choose target creature you own. If this spell was kicked, instead choose any number of target creatures you own. Return each chosen creature to your hand. At the beginning of the next upkeep, create a 4/4 white Bird Soldier creature token with flying for each creature returned to your hand this way.
Instant
The Eagles Are Coming! (hob) 12
Vigorbloom Charm
Choose one —
• Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
• You draw a card and gain 3 life.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then it fights target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Instant
Vigorbloom Charm (fra) 160

Protection

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Raised by Giants
Commander creatures you own have base power and toughness 10/10 and are Giants in addition to their other types.
Legendary Enchantment - Background
Raised by Giants (clb) 250

Pump

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Birds of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Bird
Birds of Paradise (msc) 170
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (trc) 462
Path to the Festival
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if there are three or more basic land types among lands you control, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Path to the Festival (mid) 191
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (trc) 499
Wilderness Reclamation
At the beginning of your end step, untap all lands you control.
Enchantment
Wilderness Reclamation (dsc) 205

Ramp

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Emeritus of Abundance
Vigilance
This creature enters prepared.
Whenever this creature attacks, if you control eight or more lands, this creature becomes prepared.
Creature - Elf Druid
Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth (sos) 145

Recursion

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Airbending Lesson
Airbend target nonland permanent. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for
rather than its mana cost.)
Draw a card.
Instant - Lesson
Airbending Lesson (tla) 8
Amphibian Downpour
Flash
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies. Copies become tokens.)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1.
Enchantment - Aura
Amphibian Downpour (mh3) 51
Break Down the Door
Choose one —
• Exile target artifact.
• Exile target enchantment.
• Manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Instant
Break Down the Door (dsk) 170
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (fdc) 61
Diviner of Victory
This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Whenever you scry or surveil, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Wizard Dwarf
Diviner of Victory // Unwind History (fra) 28
Emeritus of Truce
When this creature enters, target player creates a 1/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. Then if an opponent controls more creatures than you, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Cleric Cat
Emeritus of Truce // Swords to Plowshares (sos) 13
Endless Detour
The owner of target spell, nonland permanent, or card in a graveyard puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
Instant
Endless Detour (fic) 324
Erode
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Erode (sos) 15
Glen Elendra's Answer
This spell can't be countered.
Counter all spells your opponents control and all abilities your opponents control. Create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie creature token with flying for each spell and ability countered this way.
Instant
Glen Elendra's Answer (ecl) 52
Pick Your Poison
Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices an artifact of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature with flying of their choice.
Sorcery
Pick Your Poison (mkm) 170
Reality Shift
Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)
Instant
Reality Shift (trc) 442
Suppression Ray
Tap all creatures target player controls. You may pay any amount of
. If you do, choose up to that many creatures tapped this way. Put a stun counter on each of them. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Sorcery
Suppression Ray // Orderly Plaza (mh3) 260Suppression Ray // Orderly Plaza (mh3) 260

Removal

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Inevitable Betrayal
Suspend 3—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay
and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.
Sorcery
Inevitable Betrayal (mh2) 390

Theft

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Jadzi, Steward of Fate
Jadzi enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
When Jadzi enters, draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Jadzi, Steward of Fate // Oracle's Gift (sos) 55
Overlord of the Mistmoors
Impending 4—
(If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.)
Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, create two 2/1 white Insect creature tokens with flying.
Creature Enchantment - Avatar Horror
Overlord of the Mistmoors (frc) 29
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
Shark Typhoon (frc) 44

Tokens

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Eladamri's Call
Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Instant
Eladamri's Call (mh1) 197
Recruiter of the Guard
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with toughness 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Soldier
Recruiter of the Guard (mh3) 266
Step Through
Return two target creatures to their owners' hands.
Wizardcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Sorcery
Step Through (mh2) 392

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck stats

32 pips - 25 cards
15 mana - 15 cards
47 pips - 30 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 1 card
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 1 card
30 pips - 22 cards
14 mana - 14 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 2 cards
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Description

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Kellan’s land option accelerates development, while Wilderness Reclamation leaves mana available for interaction after your turn.\nStock Up, Brainsurge, Memory Deluge, Tatyova, Benthic Druid, and Emeritus of Ideation keep resources flowing.\nEladamri’s Call and Recruiter of the Guard find creatures for your current position. Step Through’s wizardcycling provides another targeted search option.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Key Synergies"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Displacer Kitten + prepared creatures:"},{"insert":" Casting a prepared noncreature spell triggers Kitten. Blink the creature that supplied it to reset it and prepare again. 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