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Commander

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Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire

Flying Whenever Vaevictis Asmadi attacks, for each player, choose target permanent that player controls. Those players sacrifice those permanents. Each player who sacrificed a permanent this way reveals the top card of their library, then puts it onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card.

Creature
Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire (m19) 225

Commander

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Fodder

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Bootleggers' Stash

Lands you control have "{T}: Create a Treasure token."

Artifact
Bootleggers' Stash (snc) 288
Revelation

Players play with their hands revealed.

Enchantment
Revelation (chr) 68

Fodder

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Removal

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Burning Sands

Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller sacrifices a land of their choice.

Enchantment
Burning Sands (ody) 180
Fraying Line

When this artifact enters, put a rope counter on target creature you control. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may pay {2}. If they do, they put a rope counter on a creature they control. Otherwise, exile this artifact and each creature without a rope counter on it, then remove all rope counters from all creatures.

Artifact
Fraying Line (clb) 597
Invasion of Fiora

Battle
Invasion of Fiora // Marchesa, Resolute Monarch (mom) 114Invasion of Fiora // Marchesa, Resolute Monarch (mom) 114
Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (bro) 331
Seal of Primordium

Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment
Seal of Primordium (plc) 153
Tainted Aether

Whenever a creature enters, its controller sacrifices a creature or land of their choice.

Enchantment
Tainted Aether (usg) 161
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (mid) 112
Uba Mask

If a player would draw a card, that player exiles that card face up instead. Each player may play lands and cast spells from among cards they exiled with this artifact this turn.

Artifact
Uba Mask (chk) 272

Removal

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Card Advantage

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Brass's Tunnel-Grinder

Artifact
Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift (lci) 373Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift (lci) 373
Court of Locthwain

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of target opponent's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it. If you're the monarch, until end of turn, you may cast a spell from among cards exiled with this enchantment without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Court of Locthwain (woc) 31
Stolen Strategy

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of each opponent's library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Enchantment
Stolen Strategy (clb) 807
The Flux

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after VI.) I — This Saga deals 4 damage to target creature an opponent controls. II, III, IV, V — Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. VI — Add six {R}.

Enchantment
The Flux (who) 86
The Ruinous Powers

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose an opponent at random. Exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may play that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it. When you cast a spell this way, its owner loses life equal to its mana value.

Enchantment
The Ruinous Powers (40k) 139★
Visions of Phyrexia

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't play a card from exile this turn, create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

Enchantment
Visions of Phyrexia (bro) 342
Wild Wasteland

Skip your draw step. At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn.

Enchantment
Wild Wasteland (pip) 924
Wrenn and Seven

+1: Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. 0: Put any number of land cards from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. −3: Create a green Treefolk creature token with reach and "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." −8: Return all permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand. You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size."

Planeswalker
Wrenn and Seven (mid) 208

Card Advantage

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Land

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Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (sld) 469
Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (unf) 279
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 463
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (wwk) 132
Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 266
Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (2x2) 320
Command Beacon

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

Land
Command Beacon (sld) 470
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (sld) 1697
Crucible of the Spirit Dragon

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {T}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Dragon spells or activate abilities of Dragons.

Land
Crucible of the Spirit Dragon (afc) 231
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (sld) 471
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mh3) 505
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 (zne) 18
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (unf) 238
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (unf) 489
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (unf) 284
Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Prismatic Vista (spg) 38
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (rtr) 245
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (c20) 306
Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Land
Shizo, Death's Storehouse (dmc) 233
Spire Garden

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

Land
Spire Garden (bbd) 85
Stomping Ground

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Stomping Ground (unf) 280
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (otj) 274
Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Land
Talon Gates of Madara (m3c) 82
The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Land
The Black Gate (ltc) 490
The Mycosynth Gardens

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {X}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target nontoken artifact you control with mana value X.

Land
The Mycosynth Gardens (one) 402
Twisted Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {B}{R}{G} ({B}{R}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Twisted Landscape (mh3) 521
Undergrowth Stadium

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

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmr) 359
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (uma) 254
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 479
Wooded Foothills

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Wooded Foothills (mh3) 361
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (m3c) 409
Ziatora's Proving Ground

({T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Ziatora's Proving Ground (snc) 295

Land

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Tsar Bomba

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Aid from the Cowl

Revolt — At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, you may put it on the bottom of your library.

Enchantment
Aid from the Cowl (aer) 105
City on Fire

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage instead.

Enchantment
City on Fire (mom) 363
It That Betrays

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.) Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
It That Betrays (ddp) 43
Omen Machine

Players can't draw cards. At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player exiles the top card of their library. If it's a land card, the player puts it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, the player casts it without paying its mana cost if able.

Artifact
Omen Machine (nph) 148
Portal to Phyrexia

When this artifact enters, each opponent sacrifices three creatures of their choice. At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Artifact
Portal to Phyrexia (bro) 240
Possessed Portal

If a player would draw a card, that player skips that draw instead. At the beginning of each end step, each player sacrifices a permanent of their choice unless they discard a card.

Artifact
Possessed Portal (5dn) 144
Primal Surge

Exile the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you do, repeat this process.

Sorcery
Primal Surge (avr) 189
Wondrous Crucible

Permanents you control have ward {2}. At the beginning of your end step, mill two cards, then exile a nonland card at random from your graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Artifact
Wondrous Crucible (brc) 67

Tsar Bomba

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Deck Inspiration

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Earthlink

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {2}. Whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller sacrifices a land of their choice.

Enchantment
Earthlink (ice) 285

Deck Inspiration

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Mana

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (p30m) 1F
Inspiring Statuary

Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Artifact
Inspiring Statuary (brr) 85
Invasion of Zendikar

Battle
Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave (mom) 194Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave (mom) 194
Omen of the Hunt

Flash When this enchantment enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. {2}{G}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Scry 2.

Enchantment
Omen of the Hunt (thb) 192
Omenpath Journey

When this enchantment enters, search your library for up to five land cards that have different names, exile them, then shuffle. At the beginning of your end step, choose a card at random exiled with this enchantment and put it onto the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Omenpath Journey (big) 83
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmr) 700
The Weatherseed Treaty

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I — Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. II — Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. III — Domain — Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains trample until end of turn, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Enchantment
The Weatherseed Treaty (dmu) 188
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (m3c) 315

Mana

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Dire Facilitators

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Dragon Tempest

Whenever a creature you control with flying enters, it gains haste until end of turn. Whenever a Dragon you control enters, it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of Dragons you control.

Enchantment
Dragon Tempest (ima) 125
Eldrazi Conscription

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +10/+10 and has trample and annihilator 2. (Whenever it attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)

Enchantment Kindred
Eldrazi Conscription (sld) 1218
Ferocification

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one — • Target creature you control gets +2/+0 until end of turn. • Target creature you control gains menace and haste until end of turn.

Enchantment
Ferocification (otj) 123
Helm of the Host

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste. Equip {5}

Artifact
Helm of the Host (dom) 217
Hexplate Wallbreaker

For Mirrodin! (When this Equipment enters, create a 2/2 red Rebel creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +2/+2. Whenever equipped creature attacks, if it's the first combat phase of the turn, untap each attacking creature. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Equip {3}{R}

Artifact
Hexplate Wallbreaker (onc) 52
Lantern of Insight

Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target player shuffles.

Artifact
Lantern of Insight (5dn) 135
Rising of the Day

Creatures you control have haste. Legendary creatures you control get +1/+0.

Enchantment
Rising of the Day (ltr) 427
Scroll Rack

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Artifact
Scroll Rack (cmr) 337
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (plst) EMA-232
Shadow in the Warp

The first creature spell you cast each turn costs {2} less to cast. Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Shadow in the Warp (40k) 140
Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Artifact
Strionic Resonator (c19) 224

Dire Facilitators

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Protection

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Asceticism

Creatures you control have hexproof. {1}{G}: Regenerate target creature. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Enchantment
Asceticism (plst) SOM-110
Bladed Battle-Fan

Flash When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. That creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Equipped creature gets +1/+0. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Bladed Battle-Fan (mom) 91
City of Solitude

Players can cast spells and activate abilities only during their own turns.

Enchantment
City of Solitude (vis) 102
Defense Grid

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

Artifact
Defense Grid (brr) 13
Gloom

White spells cost {3} more to cast. Activated abilities of white enchantments cost {3} more to activate.

Enchantment
Gloom (3ed) 113
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (afc) 331
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 427
Price of Glory

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, if it's not that player's turn, destroy that land.

Enchantment
Price of Glory (ody) 214
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (cmr) 702

Protection

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Dire Payoffs

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Nazgûl Battle-Mace

Equipped creature has menace, deathtouch, annihilator 1, and "Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control unless that player pays 3 life." (Whenever a creature with annihilator 1 attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.) Equip {3}

Artifact
Nazgûl Battle-Mace (ltc) 510
Tergrid, God of Fright

Creature
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112

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Recursion

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Conduit of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard. {T}: Choose target nonland permanent card in your graveyard. If you haven't cast a spell this turn, you may cast that card. If you do, you can't cast additional spells this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Conduit of Worlds (one) 163
Crucible of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (m19) 229
Invasion of Shandalar

Battle
Invasion of Shandalar // Leyline Surge (mom) 193Invasion of Shandalar // Leyline Surge (mom) 193
Undergrowth Recon

At the beginning of your upkeep, return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Undergrowth Recon (mkm) 411

Recursion

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