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4 color modular
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
Legal
Est deck cost: $321.66
Salt Sum: 27.13
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Commander

Quantity: 2Price: $10.98
Akiri, Line-Slinger

First strike, vigilance Akiri, Line-Slinger gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Akiri, Line-Slinger (c16) 26
1
Reyhan, Last of the Abzan

Reyhan, Last of the Abzan enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever a creature you control dies or is put into the command zone, if it had one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on target creature. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Reyhan, Last of the Abzan (cmr) 534
1

Artifact

Quantity: 10Price: $33.40
Animation Module

Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a permanent you control, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. {3}, {T}: Choose a counter on target permanent or player. Give that permanent or player another counter of that kind.

Artifact
Animation Module (kld) 194
1
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (moc) 348
1
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (brr) 4
1
Inspiring Statuary

Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Artifact
Inspiring Statuary (moc) 361
1
Lux Artillery

Whenever you cast an artifact creature spell, it gains sunburst. (It enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) At the beginning of your end step, if there are thirty or more counters among artifacts and creatures you control, Lux Artillery deals 10 damage to each opponent.

Artifact
Lux Artillery (onc) 27
1
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead. {1}{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Artifact
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire (mom) 198
1
Sculpting Steel

You may have Sculpting Steel enter the battlefield as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.

Artifact
Sculpting Steel (moc) 374
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
1
Throne of Geth

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

Artifact
Throne of Geth (2xm) 301
1
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (moc) 389
1

Creature

Quantity: 14Price: $67.02
Corpsejack Menace

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Creature
Corpsejack Menace (plst) IMA-197
1
Fain, the Broker

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. {T}, Remove a counter from a creature you control: Create a Treasure token. {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. {3}{B}: Untap Fain, the Broker.

Creature
Fain, the Broker (brc) 105
1
Felisa, Fang of Silverquill

Flying Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, if it had counters on it, create X tapped 2/1 white and black Inkling creature tokens with flying, where X is the number of counters it had on it.

Creature
Felisa, Fang of Silverquill (clb) 845
1
Glissa, the Traitor

First strike, deathtouch Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Glissa, the Traitor (mbs) 96
1
Goblin Welder

{T}: Choose target artifact a player controls and target artifact card in that player's graveyard. If both targets are still legal as this ability resolves, that player simultaneously sacrifices the artifact and returns the artifact card to the battlefield.

Creature
Goblin Welder (ddu) 35
1
Hamza, Guardian of Arashin

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Hamza, Guardian of Arashin (moc) 327
1
Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter

Haste {T}, Sacrifice an artifact creature: Create two Treasure tokens. {T}, Sacrifice a noncreature artifact: Create two 1/1 colorless Construct artifact creature tokens.

Creature
Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter (clb) 277
1
Kodama of the West Tree

Reach Modified creatures you control have trample. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) Whenever a modified creature you control deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Kodama of the West Tree (neo) 199
1
Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion

If you would put one or more counters on a creature or planeswalker you control or on yourself, put that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion (clb) 378
1
Marionette Master

Fabricate 3 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put three +1/+1 counters on it or create three 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.) Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to Marionette Master's power.

Creature
Marionette Master (brc) 109
1
Oswald Fiddlebender

Magical Tinkering — {W}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed artifact's mana value, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Oswald Fiddlebender (afr) 304
1
Rishkar, Peema Renegade

When Rishkar, Peema Renegade enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. Each creature you control with a counter on it has "{T}: Add {G}."

Creature
Rishkar, Peema Renegade (moc) 310
1
Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

Flying Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Creature
Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle (brc) 77
1
Teysa Karlov

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Creature tokens you control have vigilance and lifelink.

Creature
Teysa Karlov (mul) 61
1

Enchantment

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All Will Be One

Whenever you put one or more counters on a permanent or player, All Will Be One deals that much damage to target opponent, creature an opponent controls, or planeswalker an opponent controls.

Enchantment
All Will Be One (one) 118
1
Biotransference

Creatures you control are artifacts in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you lose 1 life and create a 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature token.

Enchantment
Biotransference (40k) 30
1
Cathars' Crusade

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Enchantment
Cathars' Crusade (jmp) 95
1
Master Chef

Commander creatures you own have "This creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it" and "Other creatures you control enter the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on them."

Enchantment
Master Chef (clb) 241
1
Phyrexian Scriptures

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types. II — Destroy all nonartifact creatures. III — Exile all opponents' graveyards.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Scriptures (moc) 266
1
Rhythm of the Wild

Creature spells you control can't be countered. Nontoken creatures you control have riot. (They enter the battlefield with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)

Enchantment
Rhythm of the Wild (nec) 142
1

Instant

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Ruinous Intrusion

Exile target artifact or enchantment. Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the mana value of the permanent exiled this way.

Instant
Ruinous Intrusion (mic) 28
1
Silkguard

Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures you control. Auras, Equipment, and modified creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Instant
Silkguard (nec) 29
1

Land

Quantity: 36Price: $37.86
Ancient Den

{T}: Add {W}.

Artifact Land
Ancient Den (plst) MRD-278
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
1
Darkmoss Bridge

Darkmoss Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Artifact Land
Darkmoss Bridge (mh2) 245
1
Darksteel Citadel

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact Land
Darksteel Citadel (c21) 285
1
Drossforge Bridge

Drossforge Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Artifact Land
Drossforge Bridge (mh2) 246
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (moc) 398
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mom) 290
4
Gavony Township

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{G}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Land
Gavony Township (moc) 406
1
Glimmervoid

At the beginning of the end step, if you control no artifacts, sacrifice Glimmervoid. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Glimmervoid (2xm) 319
1
Goldmire Bridge

Goldmire Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Artifact Land
Goldmire Bridge (moc) 407
1
Great Furnace

{T}: Add {R}.

Artifact Land
Great Furnace (c21) 292
1
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 (moc) 409
1
Llanowar Reborn

Llanowar Reborn enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Graft 1 (This land enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this land onto it.)

Land
Llanowar Reborn (moc) 413
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mom) 289
4
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (moc) 418
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mom) 282
4
Power Depot

Power Depot enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts. Modular 1

Artifact Land
Power Depot (mh2) 251
1
Rustvale Bridge

Rustvale Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Artifact Land
Rustvale Bridge (mh2) 253
1
Slagwoods Bridge

Slagwoods Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Artifact Land
Slagwoods Bridge (mh2) 256
1
Spire of Industry

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control an artifact.

Land
Spire of Industry (moc) 426
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 286
4
Thornglint Bridge

Thornglint Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Artifact Land
Thornglint Bridge (mh2) 258
1
Tree of Tales

{T}: Add {G}.

Artifact Land
Tree of Tales (mrd) 285
1
Vault of Whispers

{T}: Add {B}.

Artifact Land
Vault of Whispers (brc) 211
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 7Price: $31.53
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 (plst) C18-138
1
Damning Verdict

Destroy all creatures with no counters on them.

Sorcery
Damning Verdict (ncc) 15
1
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (dmc) 133
1
Saheeli's Directive

Improvise (Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of artifact cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Saheeli's Directive (c18) 26
1
Three Visits

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

Sorcery
Three Visits (clb) 837
1
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (moc) 270
1
Wake the Past

Return all artifact cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Wake the Past (c21) 75
1

artifact creature

Quantity: 23Price: $86.29
Alibou, Ancient Witness

Other artifact creatures you control have haste. Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control attack, Alibou, Ancient Witness deals X damage to any target and you scry X, where X is the number of tapped artifacts you control.

Creature Artifact
Alibou, Ancient Witness (c21) 7
1
Arcbound Crusher

Trample Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Crusher. Modular 1 (This creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Creature Artifact
Arcbound Crusher (dst) 95
1
Arcbound Overseer

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature with modular you control. Modular 6 (This creature enters the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Creature Artifact
Arcbound Overseer (plst) DST-99
1
Arcbound Prototype

Modular 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Creature Artifact
Arcbound Prototype (mh2) 4
1
Arcbound Ravager

Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Ravager. Modular 1 (This creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Creature Artifact
Arcbound Ravager (mma) 198
1
Arcbound Reclaimer

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Arcbound Reclaimer: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library. Modular 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Creature Artifact
Arcbound Reclaimer (dst) 101
1
Arcbound Shikari

First strike When Arcbound Shikari enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each other artifact creature you control. Modular 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Creature Artifact
Arcbound Shikari (mh2) 184
1
Arcbound Slith

Whenever Arcbound Slith deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Modular 1 (This creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Creature Artifact
Arcbound Slith (plst) DST-102
1
Arcbound Tracker

Menace Modular 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.) Whenever you cast a spell other than your first spell each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Tracker.

Creature Artifact
Arcbound Tracker (mh2) 112
1
Arcbound Wanderer

Modular—Sunburst (This creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)

Creature Artifact
Arcbound Wanderer (mma) 200
1
Blaster, Combat DJ

Creature Artifact
Blaster, Combat DJ // Blaster, Morale Booster (bot) 22Blaster, Combat DJ // Blaster, Morale Booster (bot) 22
1
Cradle Clearcutter

Prototype {2}{G} — 1/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) {T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to Cradle Clearcutter's power.

Creature Artifact
Cradle Clearcutter (bro) 198
1
Crystalline Crawler

Converge — Crystalline Crawler enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Crystalline Crawler: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Crystalline Crawler.

Creature Artifact
Crystalline Crawler (cm2) 183
1
Etched Oracle

Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {1}, Remove four +1/+1 counters from Etched Oracle: Target player draws three cards.

Creature Artifact
Etched Oracle (plst) C16-252
1
Filigree Vector

When Filigree Vector enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each of any number of target creatures and a charge counter on each of any number of target artifacts. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice another artifact: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature Artifact
Filigree Vector (moc) 15
1
Megatron, Tyrant

Creature Artifact
Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force (bot) 12Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force (bot) 12
1
Scrap Trawler

Whenever Scrap Trawler or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.

Creature Artifact
Scrap Trawler (moc) 373
1
Steel Overseer

{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Steel Overseer (c21) 267
1
Stonecoil Serpent

Reach, trample, protection from multicolored Stonecoil Serpent enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature Artifact
Stonecoil Serpent (eld) 235
1
Triskelion

Triskelion enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Triskelion: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Triskelion (dmr) 452
1
Verdurous Gearhulk

Trample When Verdurous Gearhulk enters the battlefield, distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control.

Creature Artifact
Verdurous Gearhulk (mic) 145
1
Walking Ballista

Walking Ballista enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Ballista. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Walking Ballista: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (j22) 806
1
Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

Modular 1 If a modular triggered ability would put one or more +1/+1 counters on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead. {R}: Destroy target artifact you control. {W}: Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp gains flying until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp (mh2) 243
1

Maybeboard

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Audacious Reshapers

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an artifact card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Audacious Reshapers deals damage to you equal to the number of cards revealed this way.

Creature
Audacious Reshapers (brc) 112
1
Bronze Guardian

Double strike Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) Other artifacts you control have ward {2}. Bronze Guardian's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Creature Artifact
Bronze Guardian (brc) 70
1
Energy Chamber

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact creature. • Put a charge counter on target noncreature artifact.

Artifact
Energy Chamber (5dn) 117
1
Flamewar, Brash Veteran

Creature Artifact
Flamewar, Brash Veteran // Flamewar, Streetwise Operative (bot) 10Flamewar, Brash Veteran // Flamewar, Streetwise Operative (bot) 10
1
Graceful Restoration

Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. • Return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Graceful Restoration (mh2) 201
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
Ironsoul Enforcer

Whenever Ironsoul Enforcer or a commander you control attacks alone, return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature Artifact
Ironsoul Enforcer (nec) 7
1
Ivorytusk Fortress

Untap each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Ivorytusk Fortress (ktk) 179
1
Kuldotha Forgemaster

{T}, Sacrifice three artifacts: Search your library for an artifact card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Kuldotha Forgemaster (2xm) 266
1
Mirrorworks

Whenever another nontoken artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that artifact.

Artifact
Mirrorworks (brc) 149
1
Pia's Revolution

Whenever a nontoken artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to your hand unless target opponent has Pia's Revolution deal 3 damage to them.

Enchantment
Pia's Revolution (aer) 91
1
Reconstruct History

Return up to one target artifact card, up to one target enchantment card, up to one target instant card, up to one target sorcery card, and up to one target planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Reconstruct History.

Sorcery
Reconstruct History (stx) 222
1
Scrap Welder

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact with mana value X: Return target artifact card with mana value less than X from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Scrap Welder (neo) 159
1
Slagstone Refinery

Whenever Slagstone Refinery or another nontoken artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield or is put into exile from the battlefield, create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

Artifact
Slagstone Refinery (bro) 243
1
Staff of Compleation

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color. {T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate. {T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card. {5}: Untap Staff of Compleation.

Artifact
Staff of Compleation (one) 242
1
Uncivil Unrest

Nontoken creatures you control have riot. (They enter the battlefield with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.) If a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage instead.

Enchantment
Uncivil Unrest (moc) 35
1
Yotian Dissident

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Yotian Dissident (bro) 227
1

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