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Accumulating Enigmas of the Ancients
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $342.72
Salt Sum: 24.57
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Commander

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Tayam, Luminous Enigma

Each other creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional vigilance counter on it. {3}, Remove three counters from among creatures you control: Mill three cards, then return a permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Tayam, Luminous Enigma (c20) 16
1

Artifact

Quantity: 16Price: $63.24
Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (tmp) 276
1
Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (mir) 296
1
Dragon Blood

{3}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Artifact
Dragon Blood (usg) 293
1
Ensnaring Bridge

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

Artifact
Ensnaring Bridge (sth) 133
1
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (5ed) 369
1
Horn of Ramos

{T}: Add {G}. Sacrifice Horn of Ramos: Add {G}.

Artifact
Horn of Ramos (mmq) 299
1
Magnetic Web

If a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them attack if able. Whenever a creature with a magnet counter on it attacks, all creatures with magnet counters on them block that creature this turn if able. {1}, {T}: Put a magnet counter on target creature.

Artifact
Magnetic Web (tmp) 295
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
Moss Diamond

Moss Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G}.

Artifact
Moss Diamond (mir) 312
1
Skull of Ramos

{T}: Add {B}. Sacrifice Skull of Ramos: Add {B}.

Artifact
Skull of Ramos (mmq) 312
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
Soldevi Digger

{2}: Put the top card of your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

Artifact
Soldevi Digger (all) 131
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

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Aboroth

Cumulative upkeep—Put a -1/-1 counter on Aboroth. (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.)

Creature
Aboroth (wth) 117
1
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (5ed) 280
1
Elves of Deep Shadow

{T}: Add {B}. Elves of Deep Shadow deals 1 damage to you.

Creature
Elves of Deep Shadow (drk) 76
1
Flow of Maggots

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.) Flow of Maggots can't be blocked by non-Wall creatures.

Creature
Flow of Maggots (ice) 125
1
Fyndhorn Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Fyndhorn Elves (ice) 244
1
Gallowbraid

Trample Cumulative upkeep—Pay 1 life. (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.)

Creature
Gallowbraid (wth) 70
1
Gurzigost

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Gurzigost unless you put two cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. {G}{G}, Discard a card: You may have Gurzigost assign its combat damage this turn as though it weren't blocked.

Creature
Gurzigost (tor) 126
1
Harbinger of Night

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature.

Creature
Harbinger of Night (mir) 128
1
Harvester Druid

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

Creature
Harvester Druid (jud) 120
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
Kjeldoran Home Guard

At end of combat, if Kjeldoran Home Guard attacked or blocked this combat, put a -0/-1 counter on Kjeldoran Home Guard and create a 0/1 white Deserter creature token.

Creature
Kjeldoran Home Guard (all) 8
1
Lichenthrope

If damage would be dealt to Lichenthrope, put that many -1/-1 counters on it instead. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a -1/-1 counter from Lichenthrope.

Creature
Lichenthrope (vis) 112
1
Llanowar Dead

{T}: Add {B}.

Creature
Llanowar Dead (apc) 109
1
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (5ed) 313
1
Matopi Golem

{1}: Regenerate Matopi Golem. When it regenerates this way, put a -1/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Matopi Golem (vis) 150
1
Morinfen

Flying Cumulative upkeep—Pay 1 life. (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.)

Creature
Morinfen (wth) 75
1
Mother of Runes

{T}: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Creature
Mother of Runes (ulg) 14
1
Necra Disciple

{G}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {W}, {T}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to any target this turn.

Creature
Necra Disciple (apc) 44
1
Necravolver

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

Creature
Necravolver (apc) 46
1
Osai Vultures

Flying At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a carrion counter on Osai Vultures. Remove two carrion counters from Osai Vultures: Osai Vultures gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Osai Vultures (4ed) 38
1
Phyrexian Broodlings

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Phyrexian Broodlings.

Creature
Phyrexian Broodlings (ulg) 58
1
Quirion Elves

As Quirion Elves enters the battlefield, choose a color. {T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Creature
Quirion Elves (inv) 203
1
Quirion Explorer

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

Creature
Quirion Explorer (pls) 90
1
Revered Unicorn

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 Revered Unicorn leaves the battlefield, you gain life equal to the number of age counters on it.

Creature
Revered Unicorn (wth) 23
1
Serrated Biskelion

{T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on Serrated Biskelion and a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature Artifact
Serrated Biskelion (wth) 156
1
Shield Sphere

Defender Whenever Shield Sphere blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Shield Sphere (all) 129
1
Skeleton Scavengers

Skeleton Scavengers enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. Pay {1} for each +1/+1 counter on Skeleton Scavengers: Regenerate Skeleton Scavengers. When it regenerates this way, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Skeleton Scavengers (sth) 70
1
Soldevi Simulacrum

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.) {1}: Soldevi Simulacrum gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Soldevi Simulacrum (ice) 339
1
Spike Cannibal

Spike Cannibal enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When Spike Cannibal enters the battlefield, move all +1/+1 counters from all creatures onto it.

Creature
Spike Cannibal (exo) 75
1
Sustaining Spirit

Cumulative upkeep {1}{W} (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.) Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Creature
Sustaining Spirit (all) 18
1
Trade Caravan

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a currency counter on Trade Caravan. Remove two currency counters from Trade Caravan: Untap target basic land. Activate only during an opponent's upkeep.

Creature
Trade Caravan (hml) 19a
1
Uktabi Efreet

Cumulative upkeep {G} (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.)

Creature
Uktabi Efreet (wth) 143
1
Utopia Tree

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Utopia Tree (inv) 219
1
Volunteer Reserves

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.) 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.)

Creature
Volunteer Reserves (wth) 29
1
Wall of Roots

Defender Put a -0/-1 counter on Wall of Roots: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Wall of Roots (mir) 253
1
Yavimaya Ants

Trample, haste Cumulative upkeep {G}{G} (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.)

Creature
Yavimaya Ants (all) 105
1

Enchantment

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (5ed) 140
1
Aura of Silence

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. Sacrifice Aura of Silence: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment
Aura of Silence (wth) 7
1
Carpet of Flowers

At the beginning of each of your main phases, if you haven't added mana with this ability this turn, you may add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of Islands target opponent controls.

Enchantment
Carpet of Flowers (usg) 240
1
Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Dance of the Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Dance of the Dead." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach Dance of the Dead to it. When Dance of the Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

Enchantment
Dance of the Dead (ice) 118
1
Fertile Ground

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Enchantment
Fertile Ground (usg) 252
1
Necra Sanctuary

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a green or white permanent, target player loses 1 life. If you control a green permanent and a white permanent, that player loses 3 life instead.

Enchantment
Necra Sanctuary (apc) 45
1
Necromancy

You may cast Necromancy as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When Necromancy enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach Necromancy to it. When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment
Necromancy (vis) 64
1
Overgrown Estate

Sacrifice a land: You gain 3 life.

Enchantment
Overgrown Estate (apc) 113
1
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (apc) 47
1
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (ice) 277
1

Instant

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Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (ice) 54
1

Land

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Brushland

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

Land
Brushland (5ed) 412
1
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (apc) 140
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 (chr) 112
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (5ed) 446
10
Henge of Ramos

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

Land
Henge of Ramos (mmq) 318
1
Krosan Verge

Krosan Verge enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Krosan Verge: Search your library for a Forest card and a Plains card, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Krosan Verge (jud) 141
1
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (apc) 141
1
Lotus Vale

If Lotus Vale would enter the battlefield, sacrifice two untapped lands instead. If you do, put Lotus Vale onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Land
Lotus Vale (wth) 165
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (5ed) 432
5
Reflecting Pool

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

Land
Reflecting Pool (tmp) 322
1
Riftstone Portal

{T}: Add {C}. As long as Riftstone Portal is in your graveyard, lands you control have "{T}: Add {G} or {W}."

Land
Riftstone Portal (jud) 143
1
Sungrass Prairie

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

Land
Sungrass Prairie (ody) 328
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (5ed) 441
8
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
Undiscovered Paradise

{T}: Add one mana of any color. During your next untap step, as you untap your permanents, return Undiscovered Paradise to its owner's hand.

Land
Undiscovered Paradise (vis) 167
1

Sorcery

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Gaea's Blessing

Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library. Draw a card. When Gaea's Blessing is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Sorcery
Gaea's Blessing (wth) 129
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Welcome to the deck where you might say \"gee, I wish I had more cumulative upkeep on the board!\" "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tayam, Luminous Enigma"}},{"insert":" gives new life to creatures with Cumulative Upkeep, an ability that causes them to spawn a shiny new counter every single turn for Tayam to eat!\n\nThe deck snowballs quickly with even limited access to Cumulative Upkeep, using Tayam to spew more lands and mana rocks onto the field in order to churn through more counters. Once "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Harbinger of Night"}},{"insert":" hits the field, the deck kicks into overdrive, being able to Tayam several times every turn and almost certainly putting the field into a position where victory is, as most things in a deck centered around Cumulative Upkeep, only a matter of time\n\nTo win the game, we have many weapons in our arsenal. Reanimation effects like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dance of the Dead"}},{"insert":" can be used to recur boss monsters such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aboroth"}},{"insert":", who looks pretty good being pruned of counters and granted Vigilance by Tayam. The deck can also use this interaction to mill: a solid going rate is 10 cards for 3 mana with Dance and Aboroth being fed into Altar of Dementia and then revived once more by Tayam. Tayam itself will not mill out, thanks to multiple library-restocking tools sucn as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Gaea's Blessing"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Soldevi Digger"}},{"insert":".\n\nBecayse Tayam can recur any creature in the deck from the graveyard and potentially sacrifice at will, the entire engine is highly resistant to most forms of removal, being able to reestablish with the massive mana advantage it produces if anything short of the most overwhelming exile removal or harsh grave hate is used against it. Seeing that "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sustaining Spirit"}},{"insert":" is among the cards with cumulative upkeep, that makes Tayam very hard to kill even if "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ensnaring Bridge"}},{"insert":" isn't ruining absolutely everything for everyone else.\n\nAnd I know what you're thinking \"Gee, that sure is an Enigma and it seems to Accumulate, but what about the Ancients?\"\n\nThe astute reader may have noticed that other than Tayam itself, only cards printed before the introduction of the 8th edition card frame have been allowed. Tayam's 99 is the oldest of the oldschool, for we shall play not only out of our own graveyard, but WotC's!\n"}]}
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