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Retroactive: Volo's Ancient Guide
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $638.18
Salt sum: 46.69
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Commander

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Volo, Guide to Monsters

Whenever you cast a creature spell that doesn't share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, copy that spell. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)

Creature
Volo, Guide to Monsters (afr) 238

Commander

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Land

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Coral Atoll

Coral Atoll enters tapped. When Coral Atoll enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{U}.

Land
Coral Atoll (vis) 160
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (5ed) 448
Gemstone Mine

Gemstone Mine enters 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
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (5ed) 435
Jungle Basin

Jungle Basin enters tapped. When Jungle Basin enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Forest you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{G}.

Land
Jungle Basin (vis) 164
Lotus Vale

If Lotus Vale would enter, 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
Reflecting Pool

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

Land
Reflecting Pool (tmp) 322
Scorched Ruins

If Scorched Ruins would enter, sacrifice two untapped lands instead. If you do, put Scorched Ruins onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}{C}.

Land
Scorched Ruins (wth) 166
Skyshroud Forest

Skyshroud Forest enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. Skyshroud Forest deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Skyshroud Forest (tmp) 326
Teferi's Isle

Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) Teferi's Isle enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}{U}.

Land
Teferi's Isle (mir) 330
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (scg) 143
Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Yavimaya Coast (apc) 143

Land

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Artifact

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Altar of Dementia

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

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (tmp) 276
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (6ed) 274
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (inv) 306
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (3ed) 274

Artifact

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Sorcery

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Aether Mutation

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that creature's mana value.

Sorcery
Aether Mutation (apc) 91
Deep Reconnaissance

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Flashback {4}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Deep Reconnaissance (ody) 236
Hush

Destroy all enchantments. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Hush (usg) 266
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (por) 178
Overrun

Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Sorcery
Overrun (tmp) 243
Primal Growth

Kicker—Sacrifice a creature. (You may sacrifice a creature in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, instead search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Primal Growth (pls) 87
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (tmp) 245
Temporal Spring

Put target permanent on top of its owner's library.

Sorcery
Temporal Spring (apc) 125

Sorcery

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Creature

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Ancient Ooze

Ancient Ooze's power and toughness are each equal to the total mana value of other creatures you control.

Creature
Ancient Ooze (scg) 112
Birds of Paradise

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

Creature
Birds of Paradise (5ed) 280
Caller of the Claw

Flash When Caller of the Claw enters, create a 2/2 green Bear creature token for each nontoken creature put into your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

Creature
Caller of the Claw (lgn) 121
Clone

You may have Clone enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Creature
Clone (2ed) 52
Cloud of Faeries

Flying When Cloud of Faeries enters, untap up to two lands. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Cloud of Faeries (ulg) 29
Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Forgotten Ancient. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from Forgotten Ancient onto other creatures.

Creature
Forgotten Ancient (scg) 120
Genesis

At the beginning of your upkeep, if Genesis is in your graveyard, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Genesis (jud) 117
Giant Oyster

You may choose not to untap Giant Oyster during your untap step. {T}: For as long as Giant Oyster remains tapped, target tapped creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step, and at the beginning of each of your draw steps, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature. When Giant Oyster leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, remove all -1/-1 counters from the creature.

Creature
Giant Oyster (hml) 28
Great Whale

When Great Whale enters, untap up to seven lands.

Creature
Great Whale (usg) 77
Homarid Shaman

{U}: Tap target green creature.

Creature
Homarid Shaman (fem) 20
Man-o'-War

When Man-o'-War enters, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Man-o'-War (por) 59
Merfolk Looter

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Merfolk Looter (exo) 39
Mischievous Quanar

{3}{U}{U}: Turn Mischievous Quanar face down. Morph {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When Mischievous Quanar is turned face up, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for that copy.

Creature
Mischievous Quanar (scg) 42
Mystic Snake

Flash When Mystic Snake enters, counter target spell.

Creature
Mystic Snake (apc) 112
Nantuko Elder

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

Creature
Nantuko Elder (ody) 254
Palinchron

Flying When Palinchron enters, untap up to seven lands. {2}{U}{U}: Return Palinchron to its owner's hand.

Creature
Palinchron (ulg) 38
Penumbra Wurm

Trample When Penumbra Wurm dies, create a 6/6 black Wurm creature token with trample.

Creature
Penumbra Wurm (apc) 84
Peregrine Drake

Flying When Peregrine Drake enters, untap up to five lands.

Creature
Peregrine Drake (usg) 88
Pygmy Hippo

Whenever Pygmy Hippo attacks and isn't blocked, you may have defending player activate a mana ability of each land they control and lose all unspent mana. If you do, Pygmy Hippo assigns no combat damage this turn and at the beginning of your next main phase this turn, you add an amount of {C} equal to the amount of mana that player lost this way.

Creature
Pygmy Hippo (vis) 133
Seedborn Muse

Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Seedborn Muse (lgn) 138
Silverglade Pathfinder

{1}{G}, {T}, Discard a card: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Silverglade Pathfinder (mmq) 270
Spiny Starfish

{U}: Regenerate Spiny Starfish. At the beginning of each end step, if Spiny Starfish regenerated this turn, create a 0/1 blue Starfish creature token for each time it regenerated this turn.

Creature
Spiny Starfish (all) 35
Spore Frog

Sacrifice Spore Frog: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Creature
Spore Frog (pcy) 126
Striped Bears

When Striped Bears enters, draw a card.

Creature
Striped Bears (wth) 140
Thallid

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on Thallid. Remove three spore counters from Thallid: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Creature
Thallid (fem) 74a
Tidal Kraken

Tidal Kraken can't be blocked.

Creature
Tidal Kraken (mmq) 110
Triskelion

Triskelion enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Triskelion: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Triskelion (atq) 73
Uktabi Orangutan

When Uktabi Orangutan enters, destroy target artifact.

Creature
Uktabi Orangutan (vis) 123
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When Wall of Blossoms enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (sth) 125
Weatherseed Treefolk

Trample When Weatherseed Treefolk dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Creature
Weatherseed Treefolk (ulg) 116

Creature

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Enchantment

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Aura Flux

Other enchantments have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {2}."

Enchantment
Aura Flux (ulg) 27
Customs Depot

Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card, then discard a card.

Enchantment
Customs Depot (mmq) 71
Energy Flux

All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {2}."

Enchantment
Energy Flux (atq) 9
Equilibrium

Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Equilibrium (exo) 32
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
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
Overgrowth

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

Enchantment
Overgrowth (sth) 111
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45
Titania's Song

Each noncreature artifact loses all abilities and becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. If Titania's Song leaves the battlefield, this effect continues until end of turn.

Enchantment
Titania's Song (atq) 35
Tranquil Grove

{1}{G}{G}: Destroy all other enchantments.

Enchantment
Tranquil Grove (wth) 142
Wild Growth

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

Enchantment
Wild Growth (ice) 277

Enchantment

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Instant

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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) 22b
Capsize

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant
Capsize (tmp) 55
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (tmp) 57
Crumble

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. That artifact's controller gains life equal to its mana value.

Instant
Crumble (atq) 32
Dismiss

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

Instant
Dismiss (tmp) 58
Forbid

Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Counter target spell.

Instant
Forbid (exo) 35
Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Harrow (tmp) 230
Intervene

Counter target spell that targets a creature.

Instant
Intervene (ulg) 33
Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Instant
Memory Lapse (hml) 32a
Whispers of the Muse

Buyback {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Draw a card.

Instant
Whispers of the Muse (tmp) 103
Worldly Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

Instant
Worldly Tutor (6ed) 269

Instant

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23 mana - 21 cards
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16 mana - 10 cards
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