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Shorikai, Genesis Engine
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Est deck cost: $223.03
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $2.99
Shorikai, Genesis Engine

{1}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card. Create a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This creature crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater." Crew 8 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 8 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.) Shorikai, Genesis Engine can be your commander.

Artifact
Shorikai, Genesis Engine (nec) 4
1

Board Wipes

Quantity: 2Price: $4.78
Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (brc) 69
1
Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Wrath of God (dmr) 37
1

Bounce Spells

Quantity: 7Price: $12.67
Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (scd) 42
1
Crystal Shard

{3}, {T} or {U}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Artifact
Crystal Shard (plst) MRD-159
1
Disperse

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant
Disperse (m19) 50
1
Ephara's Dispersal

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets an attacking creature. Return target creature to its owner's hand. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Ephara's Dispersal (mom) 55
1
Machine Over Matter

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control an artifact creature. Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant
Machine Over Matter (bro) 57
1
Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Narset's Reversal (war) 62
1
Silent Departure

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Flashback {4}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Silent Departure (ema) 72
1

Card Draw

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Ancient Silver Dragon

Flying Whenever Ancient Silver Dragon deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. Draw cards equal to the result. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Creature
Ancient Silver Dragon (clb) 382
1
Archmage Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if you drew two or more cards this turn, you may put a quest counter on Archmage Ascension. As long as Archmage Ascension has six or more quest counters on it, if you would draw a card, you may instead search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Archmage Ascension (zen) 42
1
Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Baral, Chief of Compliance (aer) 28
1
Betrayal

Enchant creature an opponent controls Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, you draw a card.

Enchantment
Betrayal (vis) 26
1
Curse of Verbosity

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you draw a card. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Enchantment
Curse of Verbosity (clb) 717
1
Dovin's Acuity

When Dovin's Acuity enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life and draw a card. Whenever you cast an instant spell during your main phase, you may return Dovin's Acuity to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Dovin's Acuity (rna) 168
1
Ever-Watching Threshold

Whenever an opponent attacks, if they attacked you and/or a planeswalker you control, draw a card.

Enchantment
Ever-Watching Threshold (scd) 50
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 (dmr) 48
1
Four Knocks

Vanishing 4 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) At the beginning of your precombat main phase, draw a card.

Enchantment
Four Knocks (who) 20
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) 420
1
Secrets of the Dead

Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment
Secrets of the Dead (c19) 95
1
Strategic Planning

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Strategic Planning (khm) 77
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
Vanish into Memory

Exile target creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power. At the beginning of your next upkeep, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, discard cards equal to that creature's toughness.

Instant
Vanish into Memory (afc) 196
1

Counter Spells

Quantity: 8Price: $14.02
An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (snc) 51
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 45
1
Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
1
Essence Scatter

Counter target creature spell.

Instant
Essence Scatter (ddt) 6
1
Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Mana Leak (2x2) 58
1
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (scd) 58
1
Psychic Barrier

Counter target creature spell. Its controller loses 1 life.

Instant
Psychic Barrier (nph) 43
1
Urza's Rebuff

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Tap up to two target creatures.

Instant
Urza's Rebuff (bro) 71
1

Graveyard

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Archaeomancer

When Archaeomancer enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Archaeomancer (plst) C17-81
1
Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy. Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (dmr) 27
1
Tenacious Tomeseeker

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) When Tenacious Tomeseeker enters the battlefield, if it was bargained, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Tenacious Tomeseeker (woe) 74
1

Land

Quantity: 34Price: $15.26
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (onc) 151
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (bro) 281
20
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (bro) 279
10
Port Town

As Port Town enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, Port Town enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Port Town (scd) 313
1
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (scd) 314
1
Skycloud Expanse

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

Land
Skycloud Expanse (brc) 201
1

Mill

Quantity: 4Price: $12.18
Jace's Erasure

Whenever you draw a card, you may have target player mill a card.

Enchantment
Jace's Erasure (m12) 60
1
Merfolk Mesmerist

{U}, {T}: Target player mills two cards.

Creature
Merfolk Mesmerist (m12) 66
1
Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (m19) 68
1
Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Traumatize (m14) 77
1

No Max Handsize

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Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (who) 296
1
Spellbook

You have no maximum hand size.

Artifact
Spellbook (m10) 220
1
Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Artifact
Venser's Journal (c21) 273
1
Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You have no maximum hand size. {2}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards. {4}{U}: Level 3 Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Wizard Class (afr) 81
1

Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (moc) 348
1
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (scd) 259
1
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (moc) 352
1
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
1
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (moc) 356
1
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (moc) 364
1
Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Instant
Snap (dmr) 66
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
1
Talisman of Progress

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

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (scd) 283
1
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (scd) 285
1

Removal

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Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "{T}: Add {C}" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment
Imprisoned in the Moon (voc) 106
1
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (onc) 84
1
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (tsr) 79
1
Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim

Whenever you draw a card, put a loyalty counter on Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim. 0: Draw a card. −2: Create a 2/2 blue Spirit creature token with vigilance and "Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." −12: Target opponent chooses a permanent they control and returns it to its owner's hand. Then they shuffle each nonland permanent they control into its owner's library.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim (bro) 293
1

Untap

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Aphetto Alchemist

{T}: Untap target artifact or creature. Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Aphetto Alchemist (ons) 64
1
Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant
Dramatic Reversal (kld) 44
1
Retreat to Coralhelm

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, choose one — • You may tap or untap target creature. • Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Enchantment
Retreat to Coralhelm (plst) BFZ-82
1
Stinging Lionfish

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, you may tap or untap target nonland permanent.

Creature Enchantment
Stinging Lionfish (j22) 352
1
Unwinding Clock

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

Artifact
Unwinding Clock (plst) NPH-164
1

WinCon

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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
1
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.

Planeswalker
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (war) 54
1
Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (plst) ISD-61
1
Thassa's Oracle

When Thassa's Oracle enters the battlefield, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Creature
Thassa's Oracle (thb) 73
1
Triskaidekaphile

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game. {3}{U}: Draw a card.

Creature
Triskaidekaphile (mid) 81
1

Sideboard

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Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Adarkar Wastes (dmu) 243
1
Deserted Beach

Deserted Beach enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Deserted Beach (mid) 260
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (plst) CON-142
1
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
1
Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
1
Hengegate Pathway

Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260
1
Mystic Gate

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

Land
Mystic Gate (2xm) 324
1
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
1
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
1
Sea of Clouds

Sea of Clouds enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
1
Seachrome Coast

Seachrome Coast enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Seachrome Coast (one) 258
1
Windfall

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

Sorcery
Windfall (lcc) 180
1

Tokens

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Ape

Creature Token
Ape (ttsr) 10
3
Pilot

This creature crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater.

Creature Token
Pilot (tneo) 1
15
Spirit

Vigilance Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Token
Spirit (tbro) 1
5
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tlci) 18
6

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Description

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