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Santa Jonny - Gifts on the House! (Primer, EDH, Jon Irenicus)
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $1478.24
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Commander

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Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

At the beginning of your end step, target opponent gains control of up to one target creature you control. Put two +1/+1 counters on it and tap it. It's goaded for the rest of the game and it gains "This creature can't be sacrificed." (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever a creature you own but don't control attacks, you draw a card.

Creature
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One (clb) 536
1

Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (sld) 1492
1
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (scd) 263
1
Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice Jeweled Lotus: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Artifact
Jeweled Lotus (cmm) 702
1
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (sld) 1493
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (sld) 1494
1
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (40k) 255
1
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (sld) 1495
1

Creature

Quantity: 25Price: $142.07
Abyssal Persecutor

Flying, trample You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

Creature
Abyssal Persecutor (ima) 78
1
Archfiend of the Dross

Flying Archfiend of the Dross enters the battlefield with four oil counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an oil counter from Archfiend of the Dross. Then if it has no oil counters on it, you lose the game. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, its controller loses 2 life.

Creature
Archfiend of the Dross (one) 304
1
Deadeye Navigator

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{1}{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

Creature
Deadeye Navigator (mm3) 36
1
Demonic Taskmaster

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than Demonic Taskmaster.

Creature
Demonic Taskmaster (avr) 95
1
Desecration Elemental

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever a player casts a spell, sacrifice a creature.

Creature
Desecration Elemental (5dn) 45
1
Dimir Infiltrator

Dimir Infiltrator can't be blocked. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Dimir Infiltrator (pca) 86
1
Drinker of Sorrow

Drinker of Sorrow can't block. Whenever Drinker of Sorrow deals combat damage, sacrifice a permanent.

Creature
Drinker of Sorrow (lgn) 66
1
Ebon Drake

Flying Whenever a player casts a spell, you lose 1 life.

Creature
Ebon Drake (5dn) 48
1
Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore

Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack. Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore can't be blocked except by Walls.

Creature
Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore (dmr) 83
1
Flesh Reaver

Whenever Flesh Reaver deals damage to a creature or opponent, Flesh Reaver deals that much damage to you.

Creature
Flesh Reaver (usg) 136
1
Greater Harvester

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a permanent. Whenever Greater Harvester deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices two permanents.

Creature
Greater Harvester (dst) 44
1
Hellcarver Demon

Flying Whenever Hellcarver Demon deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice all other permanents you control and discard your hand. Exile the top six cards of your library. You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Hellcarver Demon (roe) 113
1
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, Ledger Shredder connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
1
Master of the Feast

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card.

Creature Enchantment
Master of the Feast (jou) 75
1
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
Notion Thief (znc) 96
1
Peregrine Drake

Flying When Peregrine Drake enters the battlefield, untap up to five lands.

Creature
Peregrine Drake (dmr) 292
1
Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample Whenever a source deals damage to Phyrexian Obliterator, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents.

Creature
Phyrexian Obliterator (one) 308
1
Phyrexian Vatmother

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you get a poison counter.

Creature
Phyrexian Vatmother (mbs) 52
1
Rotting Regisaur

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card.

Creature
Rotting Regisaur (m20) 111
1
Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (mul) 16
1
Steel Golem

You can't cast creature spells.

Creature Artifact
Steel Golem (10e) 344
1
Tergrid, God of Fright

Creature
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112
1
The Master, Mesmerist

{T}: Target creature an opponent controls with power less than or equal to The Master's power gains skulk until end of turn. Goad it. (A creature with skulk can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Whenever a creature with skulk deals combat damage to one of your opponents, put a +1/+1 counter on The Master and draw a card.

Creature
The Master, Mesmerist (who) 145
1
Thought Eater

Flying Your maximum hand size is reduced by three.

Creature
Thought Eater (ody) 106
1
Toxrill, the Corrosive

At the beginning of each end step, put a slime counter on each creature you don't control. Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 for each slime counter on them. Whenever a creature you don't control with a slime counter on it dies, create a 1/1 black Slug creature token. {U}{B}, Sacrifice a Slug: Draw a card.

Creature
Toxrill, the Corrosive (dbl) 399
1

Enchantment

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
1
Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Dance of the Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Dance of the Dead." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach Dance of the Dead to it. When Dance of the Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

Enchantment
Dance of the Dead (ice) 118
1
Exchange of Words

When Exchange of Words enters the battlefield, choose two target creatures. For as long as Exchange of Words remains on the battlefield, exchange the text boxes of those creatures.

Enchantment
Exchange of Words (unf) 45
1
Heartless Summoning

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Creatures you control get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Heartless Summoning (isd) 104
1
Necromancy

You may cast Necromancy as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When Necromancy enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach Necromancy to it. When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment
Necromancy (plst) VIS-64
1
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (wot) 25
1
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.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (m21) 76
1

Instant

Quantity: 16Price: $416.30
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (cmm) 485
1
Deadly Rollick

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

Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 695
1
Entomb

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

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 426
1
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (cmm) 631
1
Fierce Guardianship

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

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 694
1
Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 50
1
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
Force of Will (dmr) 50
1
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (cmm) 632
1
Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
1
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
1
Mystical Tutor

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

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 421
1
Reins of Power

Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Instant
Reins of Power (clb) 734
1
Run Away Together

Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Run Away Together (cmr) 87
1
Sudden Substitution

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Exchange control of target noncreature spell and target creature. Then the spell's controller may choose new targets for it.

Instant
Sudden Substitution (c19) 11
1
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 314
1
Wrong Turn

Target opponent gains control of target creature. (If an attacking or blocking creature changes controllers, it's removed from combat.)

Instant
Wrong Turn (cmr) 107
1

Land

Quantity: 35Price: $360.05
Barren Moor

Barren Moor enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Barren Moor (ons) 312
1
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dmc) 199
1
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
1
Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (eld) 241
1
Choked Estuary

As Choked Estuary enters the battlefield, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Choked Estuary enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (moc) 394
1
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260
1
Command Beacon

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

Land
Command Beacon (cmr) 349
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (sld) 1496
1
Darkslick Shores

Darkslick Shores enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Darkslick Shores (one) 250
1
Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (who) 276
1
Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you tap Forbidden Orchard for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Land
Forbidden Orchard (2x2) 405
1
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (ltc) 365
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (one) 268
4
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (dmr) 398
1
Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 603
1
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 414
1
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
1
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 663
1
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (rtr) 245
1
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Sunken Hollow enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (moc) 428
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (one) 269
5
Tainted Isle

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Isle (mic) 183
1
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 416
1
Temple of Deceit

Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (thb) 245
1
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (bro) 300
1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (ltc) 375
1
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (rvr) 301
1

Planeswalker

Quantity: 1Price: $9.49
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.

Planeswalker
Narset, Parter of Veils (war) 61
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 8Price: $108.78
Dark Deal

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

Sorcery
Dark Deal (frf) 66
1
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
1
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (znr) 102
1
Modify Memory

Exchange control of two target creatures controlled by different players. If you control neither creature, draw three cards.

Sorcery
Modify Memory (clb) 83
1
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (cc2) 5
1
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77
1
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (cc2) 6
1
Windfall

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

Sorcery
Windfall (cmm) 859
1

Maybeboard

Quantity: 18Price: $599.94
Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Bloodchief Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Bloodchief Ascension has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (plst) ZEN-82
1
Combat Research

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card." As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)

Enchantment
Combat Research (dmu) 44
1
Endless Whispers

Each creature has "When this creature dies, choose target opponent. That player puts this card from its owner's graveyard onto the battlefield under their control at the beginning of the next end step."

Enchantment
Endless Whispers (5dn) 49
1
Ertai Resurrected

Flash When Ertai Resurrected enters the battlefield, choose up to one — • Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller draws a card. • Destroy another target creature or planeswalker. Its controller draws a card.

Creature
Ertai Resurrected (dmu) 298
1
Evil Eye of Urborg

Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack. Whenever Evil Eye of Urborg becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature.

Creature
Evil Eye of Urborg (tsp) 107
1
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa, Glorious Resurrector onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector (mid) 103
1
Mana Crypt

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Crypt (2xm) 270
1
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (otp) 67
1
March of Swirling Mist

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Instant
March of Swirling Mist (neo) 61
1
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dmr) 385
1
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (ima) 220
1
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (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.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 288
1
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 427
1
Opposition Agent

Flash You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries. While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature
Opposition Agent (cmr) 651
1
Phage the Untouchable

When Phage the Untouchable enters the battlefield, if you didn't cast it from your hand, you lose the game. Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated. Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game.

Creature
Phage the Untouchable (sld) 1195
1
Plague Reaver

At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice each other creature you control. Discard two cards, Sacrifice Plague Reaver: Choose target opponent. Return Plague Reaver to the battlefield under that player's control at the beginning of their next upkeep.

Creature
Plague Reaver (cmr) 143
1
Puca's Mischief

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exchange control of target nonland permanent you control and target nonland permanent an opponent controls with an equal or lesser mana value.

Enchantment
Puca's Mischief (plst) SHM-47
1
Thaumatic Compass

Artifact
Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (xln) 249Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (xln) 249
1

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Description

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Conclude the game either with a lethal combo, a powerful reanimation target, or by using \"Homeward Path\" when only one opponent remains."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)","bold":true},"insert":"Card Choices with Explanations:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#374151"},"insert":"(Sections still in progress; more to be added)"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Donate Enablers:"},{"insert":"\nJon Irenicus: the man himself is one of our best ways to donate creatures, which is why we want to bring him out as soon as possible."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Wrong Turn"},{"insert":": Useful for transferring your problematic creatures among players."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Sudden Substitution"},{"insert":": Although it requires 4 mana, it acts as a \"Deflecting Swat\" (for spells only) with the added benefit of donating a creature."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Puca's Mischief"},{"insert":": Slightly slow, but offers consistent value through combined theft and donate effects."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Modify Memory: This can either be used to donate creature and steal another, or exchange control of two creatures opponents have for card draw."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Exchange of Words: Similar to Modify Memory this can be used in different ways and is one of my favorite cards in the decks. Get creative!"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Donation Targets:"},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"color":"#374151"},"insert":"("},{"attributes":{"color":"#374151","italic":true},"insert":"Note:"},{"attributes":{"color":"#374151"},"insert":" Jon's ability to prevent opponents from sacrificing the creature is crucial here.)"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Demonic Taskmaster"},{"insert":": Demands creature sacrifice during upkeep."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Archfiend of the Dross: This new guy from Phyrexia All Will Be One can just end the game of a player if done right. It gives opponents time to react, but with some politics you could succeed."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Ebon Drake"},{"insert":": Rapid life drain."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Phyrexian Vatmother"},{"insert":": Big Infect creature that when unblocked can kill a player with poison in two rounds."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Steel Golem"},{"insert":": Blocks artifact and creature casting."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Abyssal Persecutor"},{"insert":": Stops the player from winning; essential against cards like \"Thassa's Oracle\"."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Desecration Elemental"},{"insert":": Forces extensive creature sacrifices."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Greater Harvester"},{"insert":": Makes multiple opponents sacrifice permanents."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Thougt Eater: Cheap CMC, brings down the handsize of opponents"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Drinker of Sorrow: Cheap CMC, early forced permanent sacrifice."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Master of the Feast: Card Draw for everyone except the owner of the creature."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Rotting Regisaur: Big Beater that forces the owner to discard."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Wretched Anurid: Cheap CMC, with life loss. This is most likely to be swapped out."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Discard Outlets/Reamination Enablers:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Entomb"},{"insert":": Premium choice. Deposit any card into the graveyard for one black mana."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Dark Deal/Windfall"},{"insert":": As backup plans, these wheel effects help fill the graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Ledger Shredder"},{"insert":": An outstanding card providing discard outlet, card selection, and a flying attacker for just 2 mana."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Frantic Search"},{"insert":": Assists in card selection and also fills the graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Fact or Fiction"},{"insert":": Draws cards and fills the graveyard, a win-win."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Reanimation Targets:"},{"insert":"\nSheoldred, Whispering One - Repeated value every turn, can be a large threat in his own right."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Gisa/Tergrid - Not as good as the other two targets, but can significantly increase in value the longer they are out."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Toxrill, the Corrosive - Lockdown the entire board, a game ending threat on its own."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Game Ending Combos/Moves:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#343541"},"insert":"Peregrine Drake + Deadeye Navigator: Infinite Mana (after use either Torment of Hailfire or Tergrid's Lantern to win), can get infinite etbs using Deadeye Navigator'a ability once infinite mana is achieved - can add cards with good ETB's into the deck too"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#343541"},"insert":"Narset/Tergrid + Windfall/Dark Deal: Wheel but either you steal all permanents from everyone's hand or Narset stops your opponents from fully refilling their hands"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Reins of Power: In a 1v1 situation against an opponent with a huge board, this can easily be used to swipe in for the win in one turn. As a Jon player, your battlefield will most likely be pretty empty most of the time."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nThis version of the deck is heavily inspired by"},{"attributes":{"background":"#000000"},"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"color":"#d299ff","link":"https://www.moxfield.com/users/Zelreth"},"insert":"Z"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.moxfield.com/users/Zelreth"},"insert":"elreth"},{"insert":" over on Moxfield. I went through many iterations of Jon Irenicus, one was heavily focused on just gifting heavy hitters, one was with lots of small beaters that could enter the battlefield early, however no deck really was super consistent.\n\n"}]}
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