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Archeaologist Durnan v2
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Commander

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Durnan of the Yawning Portal

Whenever Durnan attacks, look at the top four cards of your library. You may exile a creature card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may cast it. That spell has undaunted. (It costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Durnan of the Yawning Portal (clb) 657
Passionate Archaeologist

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever you cast a spell from exile, this creature deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to target opponent."

Enchantment
Passionate Archaeologist (clb) 656

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Cast from Exile

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Bloodbraid Elf

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) 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.)

Creature
Bloodbraid Elf (j25) 743
Caves of Chaos Adventurer

Trample When this creature enters, you take the initiative. Whenever this creature attacks, exile the top card of your library. If you've completed a dungeon, you may play that card this turn without paying its mana cost. Otherwise, you may play that card this turn.

Creature
Caves of Chaos Adventurer (clb) 167
Dire Fleet Daredevil

First strike When this creature enters, exile target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. You may cast it this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Dire Fleet Daredevil (clb) 788
Dream Pillager

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile that many cards from the top of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards.

Creature
Dream Pillager (clb) 791
Escape to the Wilds

Exile the top five cards of your library. You may play cards exiled this way until the end of your next turn. You may play an additional land this turn.

Sorcery
Escape to the Wilds (clb) 843
Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Etali, Primal Storm (clb) 793
Inspired Tinkering

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. Create three Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Inspired Tinkering (clb) 183
Laelia, the Blade Reforged

Haste Whenever Laelia attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your library and/or your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Laelia.

Creature
Laelia, the Blade Reforged (clb) 801
Light Up the Stage

Spectacle {R} (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 (clb) 802
Mezzio Mugger

Whenever this creature attacks, exile the top card of each player's library. You may play those cards this turn, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells. Blitz {2}{R} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

Creature
Mezzio Mugger (ncc) 49
Reckless Impulse

Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Sorcery
Reckless Impulse (vow) 174
Share the Spoils

When this enchantment enters and whenever an opponent loses the game, exile the top card of each player's library. During each player's turn, that player may play a land or cast a spell from among cards exiled with this enchantment, and they may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. When they do, exile the top card of their library.

Enchantment
Share the Spoils (afc) 34
Tlincalli Hunter

Creature
Tlincalli Hunter // Retrieve Prey (clb) 682
Urabrask, Heretic Praetor

Haste At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, the next time they would draw a card this turn, instead they exile the top card of their library. They may play it this turn.

Creature
Urabrask, Heretic Praetor (snc) 129
Valakut Exploration

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. At the beginning of your end step, if there are cards exiled with this enchantment, put them into their owner's graveyard, then this enchantment deals that much damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Valakut Exploration (znr) 175
Vivien, Champion of the Wilds

You may cast creature spells as though they had flash. +1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gains vigilance and reach. −2: Look at the top three cards of your library. Exile one face down and put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. For as long as it remains exiled, you may cast it if it's a creature spell.

Planeswalker
Vivien, Champion of the Wilds (clb) 838
Wand of Wonder

{4}, {T}: Roll a d20. Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card, then shuffles the rest into their library. You may cast up to X instant and/or sorcery spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. 1—9 | X is one. 10—19 | X is two. 20 | X is three.

Artifact
Wand of Wonder (clb) 204

Cast from Exile

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Commander Defense

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Boar Umbra

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Boar Umbra (uma) 158
Dread Linnorm

Creature
Dread Linnorm // Scale Deflection (clb) 225
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (clb) 864
Snake Umbra

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card." Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Snake Umbra (nec) 130
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 {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (clb) 339

Commander Defense

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Creature

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Lizard Blades

Double strike Equipped creature has double strike. Reconfigure {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Lizard Blades (neo) 153

Creature

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Cycle Suspend

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Arc Blade

Arc Blade deals 2 damage to any target. Exile Arc Blade with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{2}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{R} 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.)

Sorcery
Arc Blade (tsr) 152
Cyclical Evolution

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Exile Cyclical Evolution with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{2}{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{G} 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.)

Sorcery
Cyclical Evolution (fut) 125
Rousing Refrain

Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end. Exile Rousing Refrain with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{1}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{R} 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.)

Sorcery
Rousing Refrain (c21) 56
Venture Forth

Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Exile Venture Forth with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{1}{G}

Sorcery
Venture Forth (clb) 683

Cycle Suspend

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Evasion

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Trailblazer's Boots

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Trailblazer's Boots (plst) ZEN-208
Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Whispersilk Cloak (dsc) 257

Evasion

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Exile Payoff

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Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald

Whenever you cast a spell from exile or a land you control enters from exile, create a 2/2 green Wolf creature token. {1}, {T}, Discard a card: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.

Creature
Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald (clb) 647
Kami of Celebration

Whenever a modified creature you control attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) Whenever you cast a spell from exile, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Kami of Celebration (nec) 20
Nalfeshnee

Flying Whenever you cast a spell from exile, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy. If it's a permanent spell, the copy gains haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this permanent." (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Creature
Nalfeshnee (clb) 678
Wild-Magic Sorcerer

The first spell you cast from exile each turn has cascade. (When you cast your first spell from exile, 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.)

Creature
Wild-Magic Sorcerer (clb) 816

Exile Payoff

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Land

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Castle Embereth

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain. {T}: Add {R}. {1}{R}{R}, {T}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Land
Castle Embereth (clb) 883
Cinder Glade

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Cinder Glade (clb) 887
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (clb) 351
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (clb) 893
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (clb) 469
Gruul Turf

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Land
Gruul Turf (2x2) 325
Kessig Wolf Run

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Land
Kessig Wolf Run (clb) 898
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (clb) 902
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (clb) 465
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (clb) 904
Racers' Ring

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. {2}{R}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Racers' Ring (snc) 253
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (clb) 913
Spinerock Knoll

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Land
Spinerock Knoll (clb) 916

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (clb) 298
Beanstalk Giant

Creature
Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps (clb) 819
Cemetery Prowler

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile a card from a graveyard. Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each card type they share with cards exiled with this creature.

Creature
Cemetery Prowler (vow) 191
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 (clb) 821
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (ncc) 290
Goblin Anarchomancer

Each spell you cast that's red or green costs {1} less to cast.

Creature
Goblin Anarchomancer (mh2) 200
Gruul Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Artifact
Gruul Signet (afc) 207
Guild Artisan

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, you create two Treasure tokens." (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Guild Artisan (clb) 179
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
Kodama's Reach (clb) 826
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (c21) 176
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (mkc) 178
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (2x2) 155
Rift Sower

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two 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. It has haste.)

Creature
Rift Sower (mh2) 170
Runaway Steam-Kin

Whenever you cast a red spell, if this creature has fewer than three +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove three +1/+1 counters from this creature: Add {R}{R}{R}.

Creature
Runaway Steam-Kin (grn) 115
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (clb) 832
Savvy Trader

When this creature enters, exile target permanent card from your graveyard. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Savvy Trader (otc) 33
Search for Tomorrow

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two 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.)

Sorcery
Search for Tomorrow (clb) 834
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (clb) 871

Ramp

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Removal

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Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (clb) 820
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (clb) 780
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 (2x2) 105
Demon Bolt

Demon Bolt deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker. Foretell {R} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Demon Bolt (clb) 787
Embereth Shieldbreaker

Creature
Embereth Shieldbreaker // Battle Display (clb) 792
Emerald Dragon

Creature
Emerald Dragon // Dissonant Wave (clb) 229
Feral Encounter

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may exile a creature card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card this turn. At the beginning of the next combat phase this turn, target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature you don't control.

Sorcery
Feral Encounter (woe) 169
Green Slime

Flash When this creature enters, counter target activated or triggered ability from an artifact or enchantment source. If a permanent's ability is countered this way, destroy that permanent. Foretell {G} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
Green Slime (clb) 680
You Find Some Prisoners

Choose one — • Break Their Chains — Destroy target artifact. • Interrogate Them — Exile the top three cards of target opponent's library. Choose one of them. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Instant
You Find Some Prisoners (afr) 169

Removal

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Primeval Bounty

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 3 life.

Enchantment
Primeval Bounty (j25) 701
Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Artifact
Strionic Resonator (ncc) 381
Wulfgar of Icewind Dale

Melee (Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each opponent you attacked this combat.) If a creature you control attacking causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Wulfgar of Icewind Dale (afc) 56

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Bear Umbra

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, untap all lands you control." Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Bear Umbra (nec) 113
Braid of Fire

Cumulative upkeep—Add {R}. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Enchantment
Braid of Fire (sld) 729
Delayed Blast Fireball

Delayed Blast Fireball deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control. If this spell was cast from exile, it deals 5 damage to each opponent and each creature they control instead. Foretell {4}{R}{R} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Delayed Blast Fireball (clb) 676
Professional Face-Breaker

Menace Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice a Treasure: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.

Creature
Professional Face-Breaker (j22) 581
Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Shadowspear (plst) THB-236
Sylvan Library

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Enchantment
Sylvan Library (ema) 187

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Maybeboard

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Hua Tuo, Honored Physician

{T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Creature
Hua Tuo, Honored Physician (plst) C13-149
Reclaim

Put target card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Instant
Reclaim (plst) ORI-195

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