A Pesty Problem • (Abzan Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

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Lifegain +1/+1 Counters Sacrifice Casual Aristocrats

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Commander

Size: 100

Lifegain +1/+1 Counters Sacrifice Casual Aristocrats

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

Ghave, Guru of Spores

Ghave enters with five +1/+1 counters on it.

, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Legendary Creature - Fungus Shaman

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Commander

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Control

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Beast Within

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

Instant

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$1.29 $0.83

Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add

for each permanent destroyed this way.

Sorcery

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$1.29 $2.63

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery

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$0.59 $0.37

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

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$2.79 $1.17

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant

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$2.79 $1.40

Control

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Creature

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Brood Monitor

Devoid (This card has no color.)
When this creature enters, create three 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add

Creature - Eldrazi Drone

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$0.35 $0.28

Good-Fortune Unicorn

Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

Creature - Unicorn

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$0.49 $0.35

Juniper Order Ranger

Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature and a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Human Knight Ranger

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$0.35 $0.32

Woodland Champion

Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature - Elf Scout

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$0.35 $0.16

Creature

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Flicker

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Emiel the Blessed

: Exile another target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may pay

. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it. If it's a Unicorn, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead. (

can be paid with either

Legendary Creature - Unicorn

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$13.99 $15.82

Flickerform

Enchant creature

: Exile enchanted creature and all Auras attached to it. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, return the other cards exiled this way to the battlefield under their owners' control attached to that creature.

Enchantment - Aura

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$1.79 $2.53

Semester's End

Exile any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers you control. At the beginning of the next end step, return each of them to the battlefield under its owner's control. Each of them enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Instant

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$1.99 $1.14

Teleportation Circle

At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target artifact or creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Enchantment

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$17.99 $12.33

Flicker

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Land

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Bountiful Promenade

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

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$42.99 $22.51

Branchloft Pathway

: Add

Land

Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (znr) 284

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$4.49 $2.56

Brightclimb Pathway

: Add

Land

Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 285

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$6.99 $4.41

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

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$0.59 $0.34

Darkbore Pathway

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Land

Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (pkhm) 254s

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$10.99 $6.30

Fetid Heath

: Add

, or

Land

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$1.79 $2.03

Forest

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Basic Land - Forest

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$0.49 $0.25

Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

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$0.79 $0.31

Indatha Triome

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: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Swamp Forest

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$27.99 $20.11

Orzhov Basilica

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

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$0.59 $0.34

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

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$0.49 $0.10

Selesnya Sanctuary

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

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$0.59 $0.29

Swamp

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Basic Land - Swamp

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Twilight Mire

: Add

, or

Land

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$0.99 $1.34

Undergrowth Stadium

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

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$10.99 $7.17

Vault of Champions

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

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$23.99 $16.31

Wooded Bastion

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, or

Land

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$21.99 $16.64

Land

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Learn

Qty: 3 Price: $1.43

Eyetwitch

Flying
When this creature dies, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Creature - Bat Eye

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$0.59 $0.27

Field Trip

Search your library for a basic Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Sorcery

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$0.35 $0.10

Gnarled Professor

Trample
When this creature enters, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Creature - Druid Treefolk

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$0.49 $0.16

Learn

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Lifegain

Qty: 20 Price: $43.00

Abiding Grace

At the beginning of your end step, choose one —
• You gain 1 life.
• Return target creature card with mana value 1 from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Enchantment

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$0.35 $0.32

Ajani's Welcome

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

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$3.99 $1.81

Angel of Renewal

Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 1 life for each creature you control.

Creature - Angel Ally

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$0.35 $0.29

Angel of Vitality

Flying
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Creature - Angel

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$1.49 $1.09

Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Enchantment

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$9.99 $6.44

Anointer Priest

Whenever a creature token you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Embalm

(

, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Human Cleric with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Human Cleric

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$0.35 $0.22

Answered Prayers

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. If this enchantment isn't a creature, it becomes a 3/3 Angel creature with flying in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Enchantment

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$0.35 $0.19

Ashes of the Abhorrent

Players can't cast spells from graveyards or activate abilities of cards in graveyards.
Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

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$1.29 $0.58

Boon Reflection

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Enchantment

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$14.99 $12.67

Cram Session

You gain 4 life.
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Sorcery

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$0.35 $0.14

Defiant Bloodlord

Flying
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Creature - Vampire

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$0.49 $0.39

Devouring Tendrils

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control. When the permanent you don't control dies this turn, you gain 2 life.

Sorcery

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$0.35 $0.12

Fortifying Draught

You gain 2 life. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Instant

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$0.35 $0.08

Honor Troll

Vigilance
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
This creature gets +2/+1 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Creature - Druid Troll

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$0.35 $0.14

Infuse with Vitality

Until end of turn, target creature gains deathtouch and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
You gain 2 life.

Instant

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$0.39 $0.15

Moldervine Reclamation

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

Enchantment

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$0.59 $0.41

Overgrown Arch

Defender

: You gain 1 life.

, Sacrifice this creature: Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Creature - Plant Wall

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$0.35 $0.14

Rhox Faithmender

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Creature - Monk Rhino

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$4.49 $3.73

Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control.
Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

Sorcery

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$1.79 $0.85

Sylvok Lifestaff

Equipped creature gets +1/+0.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you gain 3 life.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

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$0.35 $0.23

Lifegain

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Mana Fixing

Qty: 11 Price: $16.59

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

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$2.29 $1.83

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

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$0.79 $0.41

Golgari Signet

: Add

Artifact

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$0.99 $0.48

Kodama's Reach

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 - Arcane

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$2.79 $2.50

Orzhov Signet

: Add

Artifact

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$0.69 $0.31

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery

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$0.99 $0.40

Selesnya Signet

: Add

Artifact

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$0.69 $0.94

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

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$3.49 $2.88

Talisman of Hierarchy

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

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$1.29 $0.97

Talisman of Resilience

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

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$1.29 $0.43

Talisman of Unity

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

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$1.29 $0.69

Mana Fixing

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Other

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Mirkwood Bats

Flying
Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Bat

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$1.79 $1.19

Other

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Pests

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Beledros Witherbloom

Flying
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

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$20.99 $22.80

Blex, Vexing Pest

Other Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders you control get +1/+1.
When Blex dies, you gain 4 life.

Legendary Creature - Pest

Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex (stx) 148

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$15.99 $15.86

Blight Mound

Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Enchantment

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$3.99 $3.78

Callous Bloodmage

When this creature enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Exile target player's graveyard.

Creature - Vampire Warlock

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$0.79 $0.34

Hunt for Specimens

Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Sorcery

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$0.35 $0.14

Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery

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$1.99 $4.77

Pestilent Cauldron

, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

: Each opponent mills cards equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

: Exile four target cards from a single graveyard. Draw a card.

Artifact

Pestilent Cauldron // Restorative Burst (stx) 154

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$0.79 $0.37

Professor of Zoomancy

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Creature - Druid Bear

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.14

Sedgemoor Witch

Menace
Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Creature - Human Warlock

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$12.99 $13.93

Tend the Pests

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Create X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life," where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Instant

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$1.99 $0.74

Valentin, Dean of the Vein

Menace, lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay

. If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Legendary Creature - Vampire Warlock

Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (plst) STX-161

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$1.49 $1.15

Pests

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Sack Outlet

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Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add

Artifact

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$17.99 $14.35

Bubbling Cauldron

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 4 life.

, Sacrifice a creature named Festering Newt: Each opponent loses 4 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Artifact

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$0.35 $0.29

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

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$64.99 $57.98

Sack Outlet

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Tutor

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Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

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$39.99 $31.02

Idyllic Tutor

Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

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$17.99 $11.41

Wishclaw Talisman

This artifact enters with three wish counters on it.

, Remove a wish counter from this artifact: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. An opponent gains control of this artifact. Activate only during your turn.

Artifact

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$4.99 $4.07

Tutor

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Sideboard

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Staff of the Death Magus

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Artifact

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$0.35 $0.25

Staff of the Sun Magus

Whenever you cast a white spell or a Plains you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Artifact

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.18

Staff of the Wild Magus

Whenever you cast a green spell or a Forest you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Artifact

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$0.35 $0.12

Sideboard

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Lesson

Qty: 5 Price: $2.03

Basic Conjuration

Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You gain 3 life.

Sorcery - Lesson

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$0.49 $0.26

Confront the Past

Choose one —
• Return target planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Remove twice X loyalty counters from target planeswalker an opponent controls.

Sorcery - Lesson

Color tag templates(None)

$0.49 $0.23

Containment Breach

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If its mana value is 2 or less, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery - Lesson

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.18

Environmental Sciences

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.

Sorcery - Lesson

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$0.35 $0.32

Pest Summoning

Create two 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery - Lesson

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$0.35 $0.16

Lesson

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Tokens & Extras

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Anointer Priest

Whenever a creature token enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Creature Token - Human Cleric Zombie

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$0.35 $0.07

Beast

Creature Token - Beast

Color tag templates(None)

$0.39 $0.14

Pest

When this creature dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Token - Pest

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.74

Saproling

Creature Token - Saproling

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.16

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $485.98

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.89Total Mana Value: 191.00

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Sack Outlet

Tutor

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21 pips - 19 cards

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11 mana - 9 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.89Total Mana Value: 191.00

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