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Angry Librarian
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $174.46
Salt Sum: 23.26
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Commander

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Sydri, Galvanic Genius

{U}: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value until end of turn. {W}{B}: Target artifact creature gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Sydri, Galvanic Genius (c16) 224
1

Artifact

Quantity: 24Price: $51.06
Arcane Encyclopedia

{3}, {T}: Draw a card.

Artifact
Arcane Encyclopedia (jmp) 459
1
Component Pouch

{T}, Remove a component counter from Component Pouch: Add two mana of different colors. {T}: Roll a d20. 1—9 | Put a component counter on Component Pouch. 10—20 | Put two component counters on Component Pouch.

Artifact
Component Pouch (afc) 59
1
Emmessi Tome

{5}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Artifact
Emmessi Tome (plst) EMA-221
1
Folio of Fancies

Players have no maximum hand size. {X}{X}, {T}: Each player draws X cards. {2}{U}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Artifact
Folio of Fancies (eld) 46
1
Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Artifact
Geth's Grimoire (plst) DST-123
1
Grimoire of the Dead

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead. {T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Artifact
Grimoire of the Dead (scd) 265
1
Investigator's Journal

Investigator's Journal enters the battlefield with a number of suspect counters on it equal to the greatest number of creatures a player controls. {2}, {T}, Remove a suspect counter from Investigator's Journal: Draw a card. {2}, Sacrifice Investigator's Journal: Draw a card.

Artifact
Investigator's Journal (vow) 258
1
Mangara's Tome

When Mangara's Tome enters the battlefield, search your library for five cards, exile them in a face-down pile, and shuffle that pile. Then shuffle your library. {2}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, instead put the top card of the exiled pile into its owner's hand.

Artifact
Mangara's Tome (mir) 309
1
Mazemind Tome

{T}, Put a page counter on Mazemind Tome: Scry 1. {2}, {T}, Put a page counter on Mazemind Tome: Draw a card. When there are four or more page counters on Mazemind Tome, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.

Artifact
Mazemind Tome (m21) 232
1
Mercadian Atlas

At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't play a land this turn, you may draw a card.

Artifact
Mercadian Atlas (mmq) 305
1
Mysterious Tome

Artifact
Mysterious Tome // Chilling Chronicle (mid) 63Mysterious Tome // Chilling Chronicle (mid) 63
1
Otherworld Atlas

{T}: Put a charge counter on Otherworld Atlas. {T}: Each player draws a card for each charge counter on Otherworld Atlas.

Artifact
Otherworld Atlas (avr) 219
1
Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
1
Sarevok's Tome

When Sarevok's Tome enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. {T}: Add {C}. If you have the initiative, add {C}{C} instead. {3}, {T}: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.

Artifact
Sarevok's Tome (clb) 685
1
Scroll of the Masters

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a lore counter on Scroll of the Masters. {3}, {T}: Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each lore counter on Scroll of the Masters.

Artifact
Scroll of the Masters (plst) FRF-163
1
Spellbook

You have no maximum hand size.

Artifact
Spellbook (plst) 10E-343
1
Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") {T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Journal (j22) 800
1
Tamiyo's Logbook

{5}{U}, {T}: Draw a card. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each other artifact you control.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Logbook (one) 70
1
The Book of Exalted Deeds

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying. {W}{W}{W}, {T}, Exile The Book of Exalted Deeds: Put an enlightened counter on target Angel. It gains "You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game." Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
The Book of Exalted Deeds (afr) 4
1
The Underworld Cookbook

{T}, Discard a card: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.") {4}, {T}, Sacrifice The Underworld Cookbook: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Artifact
The Underworld Cookbook (mh2) 240
1
Tome of the Guildpact

Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, draw a card. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Tome of the Guildpact (rna) 242
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
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 (40k) 261
1
Wizard's Spellbook

{T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Roll a d20. Activate only as a sorcery. 1—9 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy. 10—19 | Copy that card. You may cast the copy by paying {1} rather than paying its mana cost. 20 | Copy each card exiled with Wizard's Spellbook. You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.

Artifact
Wizard's Spellbook (afr) 82
1

Creature

Quantity: 23Price: $30.09
Academy Loremaster

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player may draw an additional card. If they do, spells they cast this turn cost {2} more to cast.

Creature
Academy Loremaster (dmu) 40
1
Augury Owl

Flying When Augury Owl enters the battlefield, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Creature
Augury Owl (j22) 273
1
Automatic Librarian

When Automatic Librarian enters the battlefield, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Creature Artifact
Automatic Librarian (dmu) 229
1
Bane Alley Broker

{T}: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand face down. You may look at cards exiled with Bane Alley Broker. {U}{B}, {T}: Return a card exiled with Bane Alley Broker to its owner's hand.

Creature
Bane Alley Broker (gtc) 145
1
Biblioplex Assistant

Flying When Biblioplex Assistant enters the battlefield, put up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Creature Artifact
Biblioplex Assistant (stx) 251
1
Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever Body of Knowledge is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature
Body of Knowledge (cmr) 59
1
Campus Guide

When Campus Guide enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Creature Artifact
Campus Guide (j22) 758
1
Cogwork Archivist

Reach {2}, {T}: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.

Creature Artifact
Cogwork Archivist (stx) 254
1
Disciple of Griselbrand

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Creature
Disciple of Griselbrand (c13) 74
1
Epistolary Librarian

Veil of Time — Whenever Epistolary Librarian attacks, you may cast a spell with mana value X or less from your hand without paying its mana cost, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

Creature
Epistolary Librarian (40k) 118
1
Hanna, Ship's Navigator

{1}{W}{U}, {T}: Return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Hanna, Ship's Navigator (a25) 206
1
Karn, Silver Golem

Whenever Karn, Silver Golem blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -4/+4 until end of turn. {1}: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Karn, Silver Golem (usg) 298
1
Ludevic's Test Subject

Creature
Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination (isd) 64Ludevic's Test Subject // Ludevic's Abomination (isd) 64
1
Magus of the Disk

Magus of the Disk enters the battlefield tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Creature
Magus of the Disk (c20) 94
1
Onyx Mage

{1}{B}: Target creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Onyx Mage (m12) 103
1
Ormos, Archive Keeper

Flying If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead put five +1/+1 counters on Ormos, Archive Keeper. {1}{U}{U}, Discard three cards with different names: Draw five cards.

Creature
Ormos, Archive Keeper (plst) JMP-13
1
Overwhelmed Apprentice

When Overwhelmed Apprentice enters the battlefield, each opponent mills two cards. Then you scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Creature
Overwhelmed Apprentice (j22) 333
1
Skilled Animator

When Skilled Animator enters the battlefield, target artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 5/5 for as long as Skilled Animator remains on the battlefield.

Creature
Skilled Animator (j22) 348
1
Suspicious Bookcase

Defender {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Suspicious Bookcase (snc) 245
1
Tome Anima

Tome Anima can't be blocked as long as you've drawn two or more cards this turn.

Creature
Tome Anima (j22) 364
1
Tomebound Lich

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Whenever Tomebound Lich enters the battlefield or deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Tomebound Lich (m20) 219
1
Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher

Vigilance {T}: Add an amount of {C} equal to Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher's toughness. This mana can't be spent to cast spells from your hand. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher (clb) 102
1
Walking Atlas

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature Artifact
Walking Atlas (wwk) 131
1

Enchantment

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Curse of the Bloody Tome

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player mills two cards.

Enchantment
Curse of the Bloody Tome (isd) 50
1
Haunted Library

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Haunted Library (voc) 6
1
Personal Sanctuary

During your turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Enchantment
Personal Sanctuary (m12) 30
1
Words of Wind

{1}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each player returns a permanent they control to its owner's hand instead.

Enchantment
Words of Wind (ons) 122
1

Instant

Quantity: 7Price: $16.13
Archive Trap

If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

Instant
Archive Trap (plst) ZEN-41
1
Blur

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. Draw a card.

Instant
Blur (clb) 58
1
Bury in Books

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets an attacking creature. Put target creature into its owner's library second from the top.

Instant
Bury in Books (j22) 279
1
Contact Other Plane

Roll a d20. 1—9 | Draw two cards. 10—19 | Scry 2, then draw two cards. 20 | Scry 3, then draw three cards.

Instant
Contact Other Plane (clb) 62
1
Crushing Disappointment

Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.

Instant
Crushing Disappointment (stx) 68
1
Dark Dabbling

Regenerate target creature. Draw a card. (The next time the creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.) Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, also regenerate each other creature you control.

Instant
Dark Dabbling (plst) ORI-89
1
Impulse

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Impulse (gn3) 30
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Land

Quantity: 33Price: $53.83
Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Academy Ruins (plst) 2XM-309
1
Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Access Tunnel (stx) 262
1
Arcane Sanctum

Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Land
Arcane Sanctum (moc) 390
1
Archway Commons

Archway Commons enters the battlefield tapped. When Archway Commons enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Archway Commons (stx) 263
1
Azorius Chancery

Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield tapped. When Azorius Chancery enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (brc) 175
1
Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Azorius Guildgate (khc) 107
1
Blast Zone

Blast Zone enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it. {T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on Blast Zone. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice Blast Zone: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Blast Zone.

Land
Blast Zone (bro) 258
1
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (onc) 147
1
Castle Vantress

Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Land
Castle Vantress (clb) 885
1
Celestial Colonnade

Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. {3}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, Celestial Colonnade becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.

Land
Celestial Colonnade (uma) 238
1
Coastal Tower

Coastal Tower enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Coastal Tower (scd) 296
1
Concealed Courtyard

Concealed Courtyard enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Concealed Courtyard (kld) 245
1
Creeping Tar Pit

Creeping Tar Pit enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {1}{U}{B}: Creeping Tar Pit becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. It's still a land.

Land
Creeping Tar Pit (clb) 888
1
Crystal Grotto

When Crystal Grotto enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Crystal Grotto (dmu) 246
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
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (brc) 181
1
Desert of the Mindful

Desert of the Mindful enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Mindful (j22) 812
1
Detection Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Land
Detection Tower (m19) 249
1
Dimir Aqueduct

Dimir Aqueduct enters the battlefield tapped. When Dimir Aqueduct enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (brc) 182
1
Dimir Guildgate

Dimir Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dimir Guildgate (znc) 127
1
Dromar's Cavern

When Dromar's Cavern enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you return a non-Lair land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Land
Dromar's Cavern (dmr) 246
1
Fetid Heath

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

Land
Fetid Heath (moc) 399
1
Forsaken Sanctuary

Forsaken Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Forsaken Sanctuary (c18) 247
1
Hall of Oracles

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you've cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn.

Land
Hall of Oracles (stx) 267
1
Hall of Storm Giants

If you control two or more other lands, Hall of Storm Giants enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {5}{U}: Until end of turn, Hall of Storm Giants becomes a 7/7 blue Giant creature with ward {3}. It's still a land. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.)

Land
Hall of Storm Giants (afr) 257
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (plst) AKH-258
5
Jwar Isle Refuge

Jwar Isle Refuge enters the battlefield tapped. When Jwar Isle Refuge enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Jwar Isle Refuge (scd) 306
1
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
Salt Marsh

Salt Marsh enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Salt Marsh (scd) 316
1

Planeswalker

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Karn, Living Legacy

+1: Create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.") −1: Pay any amount of mana. Look at that many cards from the top of your library, then put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. −7: You get an emblem with "Tap an untapped artifact you control: This emblem deals 1 damage to any target."

Planeswalker
Karn, Living Legacy (dmu) 1
1
Tasha, the Witch Queen

Whenever you cast a spell you don't own, create a 3/3 black Demon creature token. +1: Draw a card. For each opponent, exile up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard and put a page counter on it. −3: You may cast a spell from among cards in exile with page counters on them without paying its mana cost. Tasha, the Witch Queen can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Tasha, the Witch Queen (clb) 294
1

Sorcery

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Arcane Endeavor

Roll two d8 and choose one result. Draw cards equal to that result. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to the other result from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Arcane Endeavor (afc) 14
1
Diminishing Returns

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library. You exile the top ten cards of your library. Then each player draws up to seven cards.

Sorcery
Diminishing Returns (ema) 46
1
Increasing Confusion

Target player mills X cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, that player mills twice that many cards instead. Flashback {X}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Increasing Confusion (dka) 41
1
Index

Look at the top five cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Sorcery
Index (m13) 55
1
Rise and Shine

Target noncreature artifact you control becomes a 0/0 artifact creature. Put four +1/+1 counters on each artifact that became a creature this way. Overload {4}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Rise and Shine (moc) 233
1
Tome Scour

Target player mills five cards.

Sorcery
Tome Scour (m14) 75
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Dumb book tribal.\nWinCons include: Thumping opponents with books, drawing yourself into oblivion to make a big cat and some angry books godlike. \nChallenge mode is forcing your opponents to deck out before you do with all the card draw in this deck.\nAlternate WinCons include stealing everyone elses creatures out of the graveyard, and slowly pestering someone to death with unblockable commander damage CodeName: \"Shhhh!\".\n"}]}
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