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Retroactive: Archimandrite Scholar Central
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $665.90
Salt Sum: 29.05
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $0.49
The Archimandrite

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4. Whenever you gain life, each Advisor, Artificer, and Monk you control gains vigilance and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained. Tap three untapped Advisors, Artificers, and/or Monks you control: Draw a card.

Creature
The Archimandrite (brc) 26
1

Artifact

Quantity: 16Price: $36.36
Eye of Ramos

{T}: Add {U}. Sacrifice Eye of Ramos: Add {U}.

Artifact
Eye of Ramos (mmq) 294
1
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (5ed) 369
1
Fire Diamond

Fire Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R}.

Artifact
Fire Diamond (mir) 302
1
Heart of Ramos

{T}: Add {R}. Sacrifice Heart of Ramos: Add {R}.

Artifact
Heart of Ramos (mmq) 296
1
Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Artifact
Ivory Tower (4ed) 328
1
Juju Bubble

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When you play a card, sacrifice Juju Bubble. {2}: You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Juju Bubble (vis) 147
1
Marble Diamond

Marble Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}.

Artifact
Marble Diamond (mir) 310
1
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (wth) 153
1
Rejuvenation Chamber

Fading 2 (This artifact enters the battlefield with two fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) {T}: You gain 2 life.

Artifact
Rejuvenation Chamber (nem) 137
1
Sky Diamond

Sky Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (mir) 319
1
Sol Grail

As Sol Grail enters the battlefield, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Sol Grail (all) 130
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (3ed) 274
1
Spellbook

You have no maximum hand size.

Artifact
Spellbook (exo) 138
1
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (uds) 139
1
Tooth of Ramos

{T}: Add {W}. Sacrifice Tooth of Ramos: Add {W}.

Artifact
Tooth of Ramos (mmq) 313
1
Worn Powerstone

Worn Powerstone enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (usg) 318
1

Creature

Quantity: 25Price: $334.77
Atalya, Samite Master

{X}, {T}: Choose one — • Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn. Spend only white mana on X. • You gain X life. Spend only white mana on X.

Creature
Atalya, Samite Master (inv) 4
1
Ayesha Tanaka

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.) {T}: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source unless that ability's controller pays {W}. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Creature
Ayesha Tanaka (chr) 73
1
Aysen Bureaucrats

{T}: Tap target creature with power 2 or less.

Creature
Aysen Bureaucrats (hml) 3a
1
Corrupt Eunuchs

When Corrupt Eunuchs enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to target creature.

Creature
Corrupt Eunuchs (ptk) 106
1
Council of Advisors

When Council of Advisors enters the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature
Council of Advisors (ptk) 40
1
Devout Monk

When Devout Monk enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Devout Monk (s99) 14
1
Fleet-Footed Monk

Fleet-Footed Monk can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or greater.

Creature
Fleet-Footed Monk (por) 15
1
Goblin Tinkerer

{R}, {T}: Destroy target artifact. That artifact deals damage equal to its mana value to Goblin Tinkerer.

Creature
Goblin Tinkerer (mir) 180
1
Icatian Moneychanger

Icatian Moneychanger enters the battlefield with three credit counters on it. When Icatian Moneychanger enters the battlefield, it deals 3 damage to you. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a credit counter on Icatian Moneychanger. Sacrifice Icatian Moneychanger: You gain 1 life for each credit counter on Icatian Moneychanger. Activate only during your upkeep.

Creature
Icatian Moneychanger (fem) 10a
1
Imperial Recruiter

When Imperial Recruiter enters the battlefield, search your library for a creature card with power 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Imperial Recruiter (ptk) 113
1
Kongming, "Sleeping Dragon"

Other creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Kongming, "Sleeping Dragon" (ptk) 9
1
Monk Idealist

When Monk Idealist enters the battlefield, return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Monk Idealist (usg) 20
1
Monk Realist

When Monk Realist enters the battlefield, destroy target enchantment.

Creature
Monk Realist (usg) 21
1
Pang Tong, "Young Phoenix"

{T}: Target creature gets +0/+2 until end of turn. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Creature
Pang Tong, "Young Phoenix" (ptk) 14
1
Raka Disciple

{W}, {T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn. {U}, {T}: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Raka Disciple (apc) 66
1
Rakavolver

Kicker {1}{W} and/or {U} (You may pay an additional {1}{W} and/or {U} as you cast this spell.) If Rakavolver was kicked with its {1}{W} kicker, it enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it and with "Whenever Rakavolver deals damage, you gain that much life." If Rakavolver was kicked with its {U} kicker, it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it and with flying.

Creature
Rakavolver (apc) 68
1
Reliquary Monk

When Reliquary Monk dies, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reliquary Monk (uds) 14
1
Sage of Lat-Nam

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Creature
Sage of Lat-Nam (atq) 13
1
Seasoned Tactician

{3}, Exile the top four cards of your library: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.

Creature
Seasoned Tactician (all) 17
1
Soltari Monk

Protection from black Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Creature
Soltari Monk (tmp) 45
1
Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul Warden (exo) 21
1
Tobias Andrion

Creature
Tobias Andrion (chr) 87
1
Tundra Kavu

{T}: Target land becomes a Plains or an Island until end of turn.

Creature
Tundra Kavu (apc) 71
1
Venerable Monk

When Venerable Monk enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.

Creature
Venerable Monk (por) 35
1
Zhuge Jin, Wu Strategist

{T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Creature
Zhuge Jin, Wu Strategist (ptk) 66
1

Enchantment

Quantity: 9Price: $99.43
Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Enchantment
Angelic Chorus (usg) 3
1
Contemplation

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Contemplation (sth) 4
1
Delusions of Mediocrity

When Delusions of Mediocrity enters the battlefield, you gain 10 life. When Delusions of Mediocrity leaves the battlefield, you lose 10 life.

Enchantment
Delusions of Mediocrity (7ed) 70
1
Gratuitous Violence

If a creature you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Enchantment
Gratuitous Violence (ons) 212
1
Illusions of Grandeur

Cumulative upkeep {2} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When Illusions of Grandeur enters the battlefield, you gain 20 life. When Illusions of Grandeur leaves the battlefield, you lose 20 life.

Enchantment
Illusions of Grandeur (ice) 79
1
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (ice) 87
1
Raka Sanctuary

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a white or blue permanent, Raka Sanctuary deals 1 damage to target creature. If you control a white permanent and a blue permanent, Raka Sanctuary deals 3 damage instead.

Enchantment
Raka Sanctuary (apc) 67
1
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45
1
Spiritual Sanctuary

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls a Plains, they gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Spiritual Sanctuary (leg) 38
1

Instant

Quantity: 8Price: $20.54
Absorb

Counter target spell. You gain 3 life.

Instant
Absorb (inv) 226
1
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (all) 22a
1
Congregate

Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.

Instant
Congregate (usg) 8
1
Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant
Lightning Bolt (4ed) 208
1
Reviving Vapors

Reveal the top three cards of your library and put one of them into your hand. You gain life equal to that card's mana value. Put all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.

Instant
Reviving Vapors (inv) 265
1
Shadow Rift

Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Draw a card.

Instant
Shadow Rift (tmp) 86
1
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (ice) 54
1
Truce

Each player may draw up to two cards. For each card less than two a player draws this way, that player gains 2 life.

Instant
Truce (hml) 20
1

Land

Quantity: 35Price: $121.71
Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Adarkar Wastes (7ed) 325
1
Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Battlefield Forge (apc) 139
1
City of Brass

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (5ed) 413
1
Gemstone Mine

Gemstone Mine enters the battlefield with three mining counters on it. {T}, Remove a mining counter from Gemstone Mine: Add one mana of any color. If there are no mining counters on Gemstone Mine, sacrifice it.

Land
Gemstone Mine (wth) 164
1
Henge of Ramos

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Henge of Ramos (mmq) 318
1
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (mmq) 320
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (5ed) 434
6
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (5ed) 445
6
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (5ed) 431
13
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (tmp) 322
1
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (apc) 142
1
Skycloud Expanse

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

Land
Skycloud Expanse (ody) 327
1
Tarnished Citadel

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Tarnished Citadel deals 3 damage to you.

Land
Tarnished Citadel (ody) 329
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 6Price: $52.60
Donate

Target player gains control of target permanent you control.

Sorcery
Donate (uds) 31
1
Energy Bolt

Choose one — • Energy Bolt deals X damage to target player or planeswalker. • Target player gains X life.

Sorcery
Energy Bolt (mir) 263
1
Relentless Assault

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Sorcery
Relentless Assault (p02) 115
1
Righteous Fury

Destroy all tapped creatures. You gain 2 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Righteous Fury (p02) 21
1
Sacred Nectar

You gain 4 life.

Sorcery
Sacred Nectar (por) 25
1
Seize the Day

Untap target creature. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Seize the Day (ody) 220
1

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Description

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