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Elminster - CS
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Commander

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Elminster

Whenever you scry, the next instant or sorcery spell you cast this turn costs {X} less to cast, where X is the number of cards looked at while scrying this way. +2: Draw a card, then scry 2. −3: Exile the top card of your library. Create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to that card's mana value. Elminster can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Elminster (clb) 274

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Adarkar Wastes (10e) 347
Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Land
Castle Vantress (clb) 885
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (cmr) 349
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (clb) 351
Deserted Beach

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Deserted Beach (mid) 260
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (clb) 352
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
Hengegate Pathway

Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (clb) 456
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (ncc) 410
Mystic Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Mystic Gate (2xm) 324
Nimbus Maze

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains.

Land
Nimbus Maze (afc) 252
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (clb) 452
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (ncc) 421
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (clb) 911
Sea of Clouds

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
Skycloud Expanse

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Skycloud Expanse (ncc) 427
Zhalfirin Void

When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Zhalfirin Void (afc) 273

Land

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Sorcery

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Alrund's Epiphany

Create two 1/1 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Alrund's Epiphany. Foretell {4}{U}{U} (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.)

Sorcery
Alrund's Epiphany (khm) 41
Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery
Approach of the Second Sun (plst) AKH-4
Beacon of Tomorrows

Target player takes an extra turn after this one. Shuffle Beacon of Tomorrows into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Beacon of Tomorrows (dds) 2
Blatant Thievery

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

Sorcery
Blatant Thievery (c15) 87
Clone Legion

For each creature target player controls, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Sorcery
Clone Legion (ncc) 215
Deploy to the Front

Create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Sorcery
Deploy to the Front (c14) 6
Emeria's Call

Sorcery
Emeria's Call // Emeria, Shattered Skyclave (znr) 12Emeria's Call // Emeria, Shattered Skyclave (znr) 12
Expropriate

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.

Sorcery
Expropriate (plst) CN2-30
Invincible Hymn

Count the number of cards in your library. Your life total becomes that number.

Sorcery
Invincible Hymn (ala) 14
Storm Herd

Create X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying, where X is your life total.

Sorcery
Storm Herd (khc) 33
Temporal Trespass

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Trespass.

Sorcery
Temporal Trespass (frf) 55
Time Stretch

Target player takes two extra turns after this one.

Sorcery
Time Stretch (10e) 118

Sorcery

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Creature

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Sapphire Dragon

Creature
Sapphire Dragon // Psionic Pulse (clb) 94

Creature

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Protection

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Chant of Vitu-Ghazi

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Prevent all damage that would be dealt by creatures this turn. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

Instant
Chant of Vitu-Ghazi (rav) 7

Protection

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Draw/Advantage

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Behold the Multiverse

Scry 2, then draw two cards. Foretell {1}{U} (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
Behold the Multiverse (khm) 46
Brain in a Jar

{1}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact, then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact from your hand without paying its mana cost. {3}, {T}, Remove X charge counters from this artifact: Scry X.

Artifact
Brain in a Jar (soi) 252
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (afc) 79
Cavalier of Gales

Flying When this creature enters, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. When this creature dies, shuffle it into its owner's library, then 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.)

Creature
Cavalier of Gales (m20) 52
Crystal Ball

{1}, {T}: 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.)

Artifact
Crystal Ball (plst) C18-201
Diviner's Portent

Roll a d20 and add the number of cards in your hand. 1—14 | Draw X cards. 15+ | Scry X, then draw X cards.

Instant
Diviner's Portent (afc) 15
Enlightened Tutor

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

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (plst) MIR-14
Foresee

Scry 4, then draw two cards.

Sorcery
Foresee (tsr) 69
Mentor's Guidance

When you cast this spell, copy it if you control a planeswalker, Cleric, Druid, Shaman, Warlock, or Wizard. Scry 1, then draw a card.

Sorcery
Mentor's Guidance (stx) 46
Mystic Speculation

Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Mystic Speculation (fut) 41
Mystical Tutor

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

Instant
Mystical Tutor (plst) SS1-6
Nezahal, Primal Tide

This spell can't be countered. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card. Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Nezahal, Primal Tide (cmr) 401
Omen of the Sea

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this enchantment enters, scry 2, then draw a card. {2}{U}, Sacrifice this enchantment: 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.)

Enchantment
Omen of the Sea (thb) 58
Psychic Impetus

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you scry 2.

Enchantment
Psychic Impetus (clb) 89
Rumor Gatherer

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, draw a card instead.

Creature
Rumor Gatherer (clb) 705
Scroll Rack

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Artifact
Scroll Rack (cmr) 337
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
Tamiyo's Epiphany

Scry 4, then draw two cards.

Sorcery
Tamiyo's Epiphany (war) 71
The Council of Four

Whenever a player draws their second card during their turn, you draw a card. Whenever a player casts their second spell during their turn, you create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.

Creature
The Council of Four (clb) 271
The Magic Mirror

This spell costs {1} 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.

Artifact
The Magic Mirror (eld) 51
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (ncc) 237

Draw/Advantage

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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
Archaeomancer's Map

When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Archaeomancer's Map (c21) 12
Azorius Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Artifact
Azorius Signet (ncc) 361
Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (dom) 215
Keeper of the Accord

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if that player controls more creatures than you, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if that player controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Keeper of the Accord (cmr) 27
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (2x2) 31
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (clb) 871
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (clb) 872
Talisman of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (mrd) 256
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (clb) 879
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (plst) IMA-230
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (clb) 344

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Enchantment

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Favorable Winds

Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.

Enchantment
Favorable Winds (xln) 56
Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Land Tax (plst) BBD-94
Oath of Teferi

When Oath of Teferi enters, exile another target permanent you control. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. You may activate the loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control twice each turn rather than only once.

Enchantment
Oath of Teferi (dom) 200

Enchantment

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Recursion

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Bond of Insight

Each player mills four cards. Return up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bond of Insight.

Sorcery
Bond of Insight (war) 43
Mnemonic Deluge

Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Copy that card three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs. Exile Mnemonic Deluge.

Sorcery
Mnemonic Deluge (cmr) 82

Recursion

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Instant

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Nexus of Fate

Take an extra turn after this one. If Nexus of Fate would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Nexus of Fate and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Instant
Nexus of Fate (m19) 306

Instant

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Removal

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Commit

Instant
Commit // Memory (ncc) 216
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (plst) CMR-395
Fated Retribution

Destroy all creatures and planeswalkers. If it's your turn, scry 2.

Instant
Fated Retribution (bng) 11
Guiding Bolt

Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. 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
Guiding Bolt (clb) 24
Hour of Reckoning

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy all nontoken creatures.

Sorcery
Hour of Reckoning (mic) 87
Junk Winder

Affinity for tokens (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each token you control.) Whenever a token you control enters, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Junk Winder (mh2) 48
No Escape

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. Scry 1.

Instant
No Escape (war) 63
Ondu Inversion

Sorcery
Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins (znr) 30Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins (znr) 30
Vanquish the Horde

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Vanquish the Horde (mid) 41
Voyage's End

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Instant
Voyage's End (jmp) 189

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Deck Info

Deck stats

33 pips - 20 cards
29 mana - 25 cards
59 pips - 34 cards
33 mana - 29 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
14 mana - 11 cards
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