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Othelm and His Pal
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $316.50
Salt Sum: 23.72
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Commander

Quantity: 2Price: $1.48
Othelm, Sigardian Outcast

{2}, {T}: Choose target creature card in your graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Return it to the battlefield tapped. Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have friends forever.)

Creature
Othelm, Sigardian Outcast (slx) 6
1
Wernog, Rider's Chaplain

When Wernog, Rider's Chaplain enters or leaves the battlefield, each opponent may investigate. Each opponent who doesn't loses 1 life. You investigate X times, where X is one plus the number of opponents who investigated this way. Friends forever (You can have two commanders if both have friends forever.)

Creature
Wernog, Rider's Chaplain (slx) 8
1

Card Draw

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Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (mom) 98
1
Deathreap Ritual

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Deathreap Ritual (ncc) 336
1
Fauna Shaman

{G}, {T}, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Fauna Shaman (bro) 179
1
Green Sun's Twilight

Reveal the top X plus one cards of your library. Choose a creature card and/or a land card from among them. Put those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is 5 or more, instead put the chosen cards onto the battlefield or into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Green Sun's Twilight (one) 284
1
Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Creature
Grim Haruspex (clb) 754
1
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (onc) 121
1
Transmogrant's Crown

Equipped creature gets +2/+0. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw a card. Equip {2} or {B}

Artifact
Transmogrant's Crown (bro) 125
1
Tribute to the World Tree

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card if its power is 3 or greater. Otherwise, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Enchantment
Tribute to the World Tree (mom) 373
1
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (j22) 486
1

Counter Matters

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Abzan Ascendancy

When Abzan Ascendancy enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Abzan Ascendancy (2x2) 165
1
Arwen, Weaver of Hope

Each other creature you control enters the battlefield with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to Arwen, Weaver of Hope's toughness.

Creature
Arwen, Weaver of Hope (ltc) 35
1
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 (rtr) 152
1
Fight Rigging

Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters the battlefield, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then if you control a creature with power 7 or greater, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Fight Rigging (snc) 145
1
Jugan, the Rising Star

Flying When Jugan, the Rising Star dies, you may distribute five +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures.

Creature
Jugan, the Rising Star (plst) IMA-172
1
Kami of Whispered Hopes

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Kami of Whispered Hopes's power.

Creature
Kami of Whispered Hopes (mom) 196
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
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 (cm2) 13
1

Graveyard Matters

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Agent of the Iron Throne

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever an artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life."

Enchantment
Agent of the Iron Throne (clb) 107
1
Eerie Ultimatum

Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Eerie Ultimatum (iko) 184
1
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Deathtouch Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life. Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim (dmu) 198
1
Eternal Witness

When Eternal Witness enters the battlefield, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (p30a) 12
1
Genesis Wave

Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent 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
Genesis Wave (ima) 164
1
Priest of Fell Rites

{T}, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice Priest of Fell Rites: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery. Unearth {3}{W}{B} ({3}{W}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Priest of Fell Rites (mh2) 372
1
Saffi Eriksdotter

Sacrifice Saffi Eriksdotter: When target creature is put into your graveyard this turn, return that card to the battlefield.

Creature
Saffi Eriksdotter (tsr) 260
1
Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord

As long as it's your turn, creatures and planeswalkers you control have lifelink. +2: Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. −X: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.

Planeswalker
Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord (war) 217
1
Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever Sun Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sun Titan (ncc) 210
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
Vat of Rebirth

Whenever another artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on Vat of Rebirth. {2}{B}, {T}, Remove four oil counters from Vat of Rebirth: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Vat of Rebirth (one) 113
1
Wrenn and Realmbreaker

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." +1: Up to one target land you control becomes a 3/3 Elemental creature with vigilance, hexproof, and haste until your next turn. It's still a land. −2: Mill three cards. You may put a permanent card from among the milled cards into your hand. −7: You get an emblem with "You may play lands and cast permanent spells from your graveyard."

Planeswalker
Wrenn and Realmbreaker (mom) 217
1

Land

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Argoth, Sanctum of Nature

Argoth, Sanctum of Nature enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary green creature. {T}: Add {G}. {2}{G}{G}, {T}: Create a 2/2 green Bear creature token, then mill three cards. Activate only as a sorcery. (Melds with Titania, Voice of Gaea.)

Land
Argoth, Sanctum of Nature (bro) 256a
1
Blossoming Sands

Blossoming Sands enters the battlefield tapped. When Blossoming Sands enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Blossoming Sands (mom) 268
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 (clb) 882
1
Botanical Plaza

Botanical Plaza enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. {2}{G}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice Botanical Plaza: Draw a card.

Land
Botanical Plaza (snc) 350
1
Branchloft Pathway

Land
Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (plst) ZNR-258Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (plst) ZNR-258
1
Brushland

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. Brushland deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Brushland (bro) 259
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (mic) 170
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
Darkbore Pathway

Land
Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (plst) KHM-254Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (plst) KHM-254
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (bro) 261
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
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (one) 266
4
Graypelt Refuge

Graypelt Refuge enters the battlefield tapped. When Graypelt Refuge enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Graypelt Refuge (scd) 303
1
Jungle Hollow

Jungle Hollow enters the battlefield tapped. When Jungle Hollow enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Jungle Hollow (neo) 269
1
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (sld) 1012a
1
Mirrex

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if Mirrex entered the battlefield this turn. {3}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block." (Players dealt combat damage by it also get a poison counter.)

Land
Mirrex (one) 254
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 (ncc) 419
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (one) 262
4
Sandsteppe Citadel

Sandsteppe Citadel enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.

Land
Sandsteppe Citadel (plst) KTK-241
1
Shambling Vent

Shambling Vent enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. {1}{W}{B}: Shambling Vent becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Shambling Vent (clb) 914
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (one) 264
4
Temple of Silence

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

Land
Temple of Silence (clb) 924
1
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (one) 261
1
The Dross Pits

The Dross Pits enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice The Dross Pits: Draw a card.

Land
The Dross Pits (one) 251
1
The Fair Basilica

The Fair Basilica enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice The Fair Basilica: Draw a card.

Land
The Fair Basilica (one) 252
1
The Hunter Maze

The Hunter Maze enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {1}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice The Hunter Maze: Draw a card.

Land
The Hunter Maze (one) 253
1

Mana Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (plst) ELD-331
1
Collective Voyage

Join forces — Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player searches their library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way, puts them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

Sorcery
Collective Voyage (sld) 1009
1
Grim Hireling

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create two Treasure tokens. {B}, Sacrifice X Treasures: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Grim Hireling (clb) 755
1
Heartbeat of Spring

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Enchantment
Heartbeat of Spring (sld) 1010
1
Primeval Herald

Trample Whenever Primeval Herald enters the battlefield or attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Primeval Herald (j22) 42
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (ncc) 379
1
Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (clb) 878
1
Talisman of Resilience

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

Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (c21) 270
1
Talisman of Unity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Unity (scd) 284
1

Mass Removal

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Fell the Mighty

Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.

Sorcery
Fell the Mighty (ncc) 200
1
White Sun's Twilight

You gain X life. Create X 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block." If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures. (Players dealt combat damage by a creature with toxic 1 also get a poison counter.)

Sorcery
White Sun's Twilight (one) 38
1

Spot Removal

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Aura Mutation

Destroy target enchantment. Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that enchantment's mana value.

Instant
Aura Mutation (scd) 217
1
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (ncc) 282
1
Black Sun's Twilight

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Instant
Black Sun's Twilight (one) 84
1
Cankerbloom

{1}, Sacrifice Cankerbloom: Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Cankerbloom (one) 294
1
Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Eaten Alive (mid) 99
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
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
1
Ossification

Enchant basic land you control When Ossification enters the battlefield, exile target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls until Ossification leaves the battlefield.

Enchantment
Ossification (one) 26
1
Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant
Tragic Slip (j22) 74
1

Support

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Bearscape

{1}{G}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a 2/2 green Bear creature token.

Enchantment
Bearscape (sld) 1008
1
Conduit of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard. {T}: Choose target nonland permanent card in your graveyard. If you haven't cast a spell this turn, you may cast that card. If you do, you can't cast additional spells this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Conduit of Worlds (one) 163
1
Drana and Linvala

Flying, vigilance Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated. Drana and Linvala has all activated abilities of all creatures your opponents control. You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate those abilities.

Creature
Drana and Linvala (mom) 222
1
Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control. Trample

Creature
Ghalta, Primal Hunger (plst) RIX-130
1
Glissa Sunslayer

First strike, deathtouch Whenever Glissa Sunslayer deals combat damage to a player, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • Destroy target enchantment. • Remove up to three counters from target permanent.

Creature
Glissa Sunslayer (one) 202
1
Metropolis Reformer

Flying, vigilance You have hexproof. Whenever Metropolis Reformer is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

Creature
Metropolis Reformer (mat) 4
1
Selfless Savior

Sacrifice Selfless Savior: Another target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature
Selfless Savior (sld) 732
1
Skrelv, Defector Mite

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.) Skrelv, Defector Mite can't block. {W/P}, {T}: Choose a color. Another target creature you control gains toxic 1 and hexproof from that color until end of turn. It can't be blocked by creatures of that color this turn. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Skrelv, Defector Mite (one) 33
1

Token Matters

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Ghalta and Mavren

Trample Whenever you attack, choose one — • Create a tapped and attacking X/X green Dinosaur creature token with trample, where X is the greatest power among other attacking creatures. • Create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is the number of other attacking creatures.

Creature
Ghalta and Mavren (mom) 225
1
Glissa, Herald of Predation

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one — • Incubate 2 twice. (To incubate 2, create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.) • Transform all Incubator tokens you control. • Phyrexians you control gain first strike and deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Glissa, Herald of Predation (mom) 308
1
Invasion of Tolvada

Battle
Invasion of Tolvada // The Broken Sky (mom) 241Invasion of Tolvada // The Broken Sky (mom) 241
1
Monastery Mentor

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess.

Creature
Monastery Mentor (mom) 28
1
Skrelv's Hive

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block." Corrupted — As long as an opponent has three or more poison counters, creatures you control with toxic have lifelink.

Enchantment
Skrelv's Hive (one) 376
1
Spawning Pit

Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Spawning Pit. {1}, Remove two charge counters from Spawning Pit: Create a 2/2 colorless Spawn artifact creature token.

Artifact
Spawning Pit (j22) 136
1

Tokens & Extras

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Bear

Creature Token
Bear (tbro) 2
1
Clue

{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact Token
Clue (tmoc) 33
1
Dinosaur

Creature Token
Dinosaur (tmom) 7
1
Monk

Prowess

Creature Token
Monk (tmom) 1
1
Spirit

Flying

Creature Token
Spirit (tmoc) 9
1
Vampire

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature Token
Vampire (tmom) 3
1
Wrenn and Realmbreaker Emblem

You may play lands and cast permanent spells from your graveyard.

Emblem
Wrenn and Realmbreaker Emblem (tmom) 23
1

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Description

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