1.5k
7/14/2023
Commander Masters Preview: Xantcha, Sleeper Agent - Spy Trio (Xantcha, Sleeper Agent EDH)
Deck Size: 100
Commander
Legal
Est deck cost: $364.81
Salt sum: 37.5
No deck tags
1.5k
7/14/2023
Compare
Deck filters

Choose your preferred layout. You can change this at any time using the Deck filters / View as options above.

Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $1.79
Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

Xantcha enters under the control of an opponent of your choice. Xantcha attacks each combat if able and can't attack its owner or planeswalkers its owner controls. {3}: Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

Creature
Xantcha, Sleeper Agent (plst) C18-50

Commander

(CTRL to add secondary)

Lands

Qty: 36 Price: $119.70
Blightstep Pathway

Land
Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (plst) KHM-252Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (plst) KHM-252
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (cmr) 349
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 420
Drossforge Bridge

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Artifact Land
Drossforge Bridge (brc) 183
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (plst) CON-142
Foreboding Ruins

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Foreboding Ruins (scd) 300
Geier Reach Sanitarium

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

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (dmc) 213
Great Furnace

{T}: Add {R}.

Artifact Land
Great Furnace (brc) 187
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (c16) 301
Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (cmm) 447
Path of Ancestry

This land enters 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 (cmm) 423
Sanctum of Eternity

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Return target commander you own from the battlefield to your hand. Activate only during your turn.

Land
Sanctum of Eternity (c19) 59
Shadowblood Ridge

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

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (brc) 199
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (scd) 319
Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dmu) 256
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (cmm) 444
Tainted Peak

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Peak (voc) 184
Vault of Whispers

{T}: Add {B}.

Artifact Land
Vault of Whispers (brc) 211

Lands

(CTRL to add secondary)

Artifacts

Qty: 16 Price: $46.20
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 367
Ashnod's Transmogrant

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonartifact creature. That creature becomes an artifact in addition to its other types.

Artifact
Ashnod's Transmogrant (5ed) 350
Despotic Scepter

{T}: Destroy target permanent you own. It can't be regenerated.

Artifact
Despotic Scepter (ice) 316
Dollhouse of Horrors

{1}, {T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card, except it's a 0/0 Construct artifact in addition to its other types and it has "This token gets +1/+1 for each Construct you control." It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Dollhouse of Horrors (vow) 255
Heartstone

Activated abilities of creatures cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Artifact
Heartstone (sth) 134
Helm of Possession

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control this artifact and this artifact remains tapped.

Artifact
Helm of Possession (tmp) 291
Liquimetal Coating

{T}: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Coating (cm2) 197
Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Torque (brc) 145
Lithoform Engine

{2}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {3}, {T}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {4}, {T}: Copy target permanent spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

Artifact
Lithoform Engine (brc) 146
Mirage Mirror

{2}: This artifact becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

Artifact
Mirage Mirror (nec) 154
Prototype Portal

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an artifact card from your hand. {X}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card. X is the mana value of that card.

Artifact
Prototype Portal (plst) SOM-195
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (scd) 272
Rings of Brighthearth

Whenever you activate an ability, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {2}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Artifact
Rings of Brighthearth (cmr) 335
Sculpting Steel

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

Artifact
Sculpting Steel (moc) 374
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (scd) 282

Artifacts

(CTRL to add secondary)

Sorceries

Qty: 8 Price: $72.08
Claim the Firstborn

Gain control of target creature with mana value 3 or less until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Claim the Firstborn (eld) 118
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (plst) UMA-93
Disrupt Decorum

Goad all creatures you don't control. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Sorcery
Disrupt Decorum (clb) 789
Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (scd) 77
Footsteps of the Goryo

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Sorcery
Footsteps of the Goryo (sok) 68
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (scd) 151
Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 97
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (cmm) 267

Sorceries

(CTRL to add secondary)

Creatures

Qty: 22 Price: $47.39
Activated Sleeper

Flash You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn, except it's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Creature
Activated Sleeper (dmc) 24
Akroan Horse

Defender When this creature enters, an opponent gains control of it. At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent creates a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Creature Artifact
Akroan Horse (plst) C16-241
Apprentice Necromancer

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it.

Creature
Apprentice Necromancer (uma) 84
Ardent Elementalist

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Ardent Elementalist (mid) 128
Captivating Crew

{3}{R}: Gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Captivating Crew (c20) 144
Corpse Augur

When this creature dies, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creature cards in target player's graveyard.

Creature
Corpse Augur (clb) 744
Dusk Legion Zealot

When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Dusk Legion Zealot (plst) RIX-70
Feldon of the Third Path

{2}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target creature card in your graveyard, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Feldon of the Third Path (moc) 277
Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Gixian Puppeteer (bro) 99
Goblin Engineer

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. {R}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Return target artifact card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Goblin Engineer (plst) MH1-128
Humble Defector

{T}: Draw two cards. Target opponent gains control of this creature. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Humble Defector (c21) 174
Jaxis, the Troublemaker

{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control. It gains haste and "When this token dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery. Blitz {1}{R} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

Creature
Jaxis, the Troublemaker (snc) 112
Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant

Whenever you attack a player, tap target creature that player controls and goad it. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever an opponent attacks another one of your opponents, you and the attacking player each draw a card and lose 1 life.

Creature
Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant (afc) 49
Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (khm) 216
Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient

Whenever you activate an ability of an artifact, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {R}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient (m15) 153
Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Massacre Wurm (moc) 256
Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink

{1}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery. {6}{R}{R}{R}, {T}: Create five tokens that are copies of another target creature you control. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink (mom) 334
Phyrexian Gargantua

When this creature enters, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Creature
Phyrexian Gargantua (mom) 121
Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Psychosis Crawler (moc) 371
Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Deathtouch Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When Sidisi exploits a creature, you may search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Sidisi, Undead Vizier (plst) DTK-120
Sleeper Agent

When this creature enters, target opponent gains control of it. At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 2 damage to you.

Creature
Sleeper Agent (plst) 10E-178
Valki, God of Lies

Creature
Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor (plst) KHM-114Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor (plst) KHM-114

Creatures

(CTRL to add secondary)

Enchantments

Qty: 7 Price: $67.09
Artifact Possession

Enchant artifact Whenever enchanted artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an ability of enchanted artifact without {T} in its activation cost, this Aura deals 2 damage to that artifact's controller.

Enchantment
Artifact Possession (atq) 15
Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (plst) JMP-231
Haunting Wind

Whenever an artifact becomes tapped or a player activates an artifact's ability without {T} in its activation cost, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that artifact's controller.

Enchantment
Haunting Wind (atq) 17
Mana Flare

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

Enchantment
Mana Flare (5ed) 249
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124
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
Tortured Existence

{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Tortured Existence (plst) STH-74

Enchantments

(CTRL to add secondary)

Instants

Qty: 10 Price: $10.56
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (moc) 273
Corrupted Conviction

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

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (mom) 98
Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (clb) 124
Hurl Through Hell

Exile target creature. Until the end of your next turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Instant
Hurl Through Hell (afc) 48
Kolaghan's Command

Choose two — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Target player discards a card. • Destroy target artifact. • Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to any target.

Instant
Kolaghan's Command (2x2) 239
Nasty End

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Instant
Nasty End (ltr) 99
Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (scd) 239
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (scd) 249
Village Rites

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

Instant
Village Rites (j22) 486
Wake the Dead

Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn. Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Wake the Dead (cmm) 197

Instants

(CTRL to add secondary)

Deck Info

Deck stats

0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
38 pips - 31 cards
26 mana - 26 cards
26 pips - 22 cards
29 mana - 27 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
10 mana - 9 cards
CategoriesQtyOdds
Click charts to focus on cards

Deck Tokens & Extras (4)

Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Spy Trio (Xantcha, Sleeper Agent EDH) is a deck list from the article, Commander Masters Preview: Xantcha, Sleeper Agent."},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nView the original article here:\n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://commandersherald.com/commander-masters-preview-xantcha-sleeper-agent/"},"insert":"https://commandersherald.com/commander-masters-preview-xantcha-sleeper-agent/"},{"insert":"\n"}]}

Leave a comment

{"ops":[]}
AutoNew CategoryMaybeboardSideboard