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Silent Life
Deck Size: 62
Modern
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Est deck cost: $219.86
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Creature

Quantity: 12Price: $73.32
Avacyn's Pilgrim

{T}: Add {W}.

Creature
Avacyn's Pilgrim (mic) 132
4
Linvala, Keeper of Silence

Flying Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.

Creature
Linvala, Keeper of Silence (mm3) 13
4
Thallid Shell-Dweller

Defender At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Thallid Shell-Dweller. Remove three spore counters from Thallid Shell-Dweller: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Creature
Thallid Shell-Dweller (tsr) 237
4

Enchantment

Quantity: 15Price: $41.45
Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (khc) 26
3
Life and Limb

All Forests and all Saprolings are 1/1 green Saproling creatures and Forest lands in addition to their other types. (They're affected by summoning sickness.)

Enchantment
Life and Limb (tsr) 215
4
Sterling Grove

Other enchantments you control have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.) {1}, Sacrifice Sterling Grove: Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Enchantment
Sterling Grove (mh2) 293
4
Stony Silence

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

Enchantment
Stony Silence (mm3) 25
1
Touch the Spirit Realm

When Touch the Spirit Realm enters the battlefield, exile up to one target artifact or creature until Touch the Spirit Realm leaves the battlefield. Channel — {1}{W}, Discard Touch the Spirit Realm: Exile target artifact or creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Touch the Spirit Realm (neo) 40
3

Instant

Quantity: 3Price: $1.05
Fungal Rebirth

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If a creature died this turn, create two 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens.

Instant
Fungal Rebirth (m21) 182
3

Land

Quantity: 20Price: $65.70
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

Land
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea (dmc) 217
1
Snow-Covered Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Forest (khm) 284
4
Snow-Covered Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Forest (khm) 285
4
Snow-Covered Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Plains (khm) 276
8
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

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

Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (mh2) 261
3

Planeswalker

Quantity: 1Price: $12.99
Karn, the Great Creator

Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated. +1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. −2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand.

Planeswalker
Karn, the Great Creator (war) 1
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 11Price: $11.79
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 (c18) 138
4
Planar Outburst

Destroy all nonland creatures. Awaken 4—{5}{W}{W}{W} (If you cast this spell for {5}{W}{W}{W}, also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Sorcery
Planar Outburst (bfz) 42
3
Search for Glory

Search your library for a snow permanent card, a legendary card, or a Saga card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 1 life for each {S} spent to cast this spell. ({S} is mana from a snow source.)

Sorcery
Search for Glory (khm) 27
4

Sideboard

Quantity: 6Price: $11.00
Energy Refractor

When Energy Refractor enters the battlefield, draw a card. {2}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Energy Refractor (bro) 234
1
Haywire Mite

When Haywire Mite dies, you gain 2 life. {G}, Sacrifice Haywire Mite: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Creature Artifact
Haywire Mite (bro) 199
1
Mask of the Jadecrafter

{X}, {T}, Sacrifice Mask of the Jadecrafter: Create an X/X colorless Golem artifact creature token. Activate only as a sorcery. Unearth {2}{G} ({2}{G}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Mask of the Jadecrafter (bro) 201
1
Orbs of Warding

You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) If a creature would deal damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage.

Artifact
Orbs of Warding (ori) 234
1
Rootwire Amalgam

Prototype {1}{G} — 2/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) {3}{G}{G}, Sacrifice Rootwire Amalgam: Create an X/X colorless Golem artifact creature token, where X is three times Rootwire Amalgam's power. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature Artifact
Rootwire Amalgam (bro) 203
1
Steel Seraph

Prototype {1}{W}{W} — 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) Flying At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature you control gains your choice of flying, vigilance, or lifelink until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Steel Seraph (bro) 38
1

Tokens & Extras

Quantity: 4Price: $2.56
Saproling

Creature Token
Saproling (t2x2) 17
2
Saproling

Creature Token
Saproling (tdmu) 18
2

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Description

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