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Thesis Offense is the best Thesis Defense -- Octavia, Living Thesis
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $267.50
Salt Sum: 45.94
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Commander

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Octavia, Living Thesis

This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard. Ward {8} Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.

Creature
Octavia, Living Thesis (c21) 29
1

Bin stuff

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Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Draw a card.

Instant
Consider (woc) 87
1
Contingency Plan

Surveil 5. (Look at the top five cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sorcery
Contingency Plan (plst) EMN-52
1
Curate

Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Draw a card.

Instant
Curate (bro) 44
1
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (woc) 93
1
Lórien Revealed

Draw three cards. Islandcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Sorcery
Lórien Revealed (ltr) 60
1
Mental Note

Mill two cards. Draw a card.

Instant
Mental Note (jud) 46
1
Millikin

{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature Artifact
Millikin (dmr) 231
1
Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Mission Briefing (grn) 44
1
Moment of Truth

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand, one into your graveyard, and one on the bottom of your library.

Instant
Moment of Truth (mom) 67
1
Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Otherworldly Gaze (mid) 67
1
Picklock Prankster

Creature
Picklock Prankster // Free the Fae (woe) 64
1
Search for Azcanta

Enchantment
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (plst) XLN-74Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (plst) XLN-74
1
Stream of Thought

Target player mills four cards. You shuffle up to four cards from your graveyard into your library. Replicate {2}{U}{U} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Stream of Thought (plst) MH1-71
1
Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.

Instant
Thought Scour (2x2) 65
1

Board Wipe

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (scd) 42
1
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (cmm) 84
1
The Phasing of Zhalfir

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, II — Another target nonland permanent phases out. It can't phase in for as long as you control The Phasing of Zhalfir. III — Destroy all creatures. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller creates a 2/2 black Phyrexian creature token.

Enchantment
The Phasing of Zhalfir (dmu) 59
1

Counter

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (snc) 51
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 (woc) 84
1
Bane's Contingency

Counter target spell. If that spell targets a commander you control, instead counter that spell, scry 2, then draw a card.

Instant
Bane's Contingency (clb) 57
1
Circular Logic

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Circular Logic (dmr) 42
1
Convolute

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.

Instant
Convolute (iko) 45
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
1
Defabricate

Choose one — • Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If a spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. • Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Instant
Defabricate (bro) 45
1
Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Instant
Delay (tsr) 61
1
Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant
Disallow (aer) 31
1
Dispersal Shield

Counter target spell if its mana value is less than or equal to the highest mana value among permanents you control.

Instant
Dispersal Shield (scg) 33
1
Dissipate

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Dissipate (mid) 49
1
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
1
Tale's End

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Instant
Tale's End (m20) 77
1

Land

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Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Access Tunnel (stx) 262
1
Castle Vantress

Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Land
Castle Vantress (clb) 885
1
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Demolition Field: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (bro) 260
1
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (plst) CM2-253
1
Inkmoth Nexus

{T}: Add {C}. {1}: Inkmoth Nexus becomes a 1/1 Phyrexian Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying and infect until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Land
Inkmoth Nexus (mbs) 145
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (woe) 270
25
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (woc) 164
1
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
1
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard Otawara, Soaring City: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
1
Rivendell

Rivendell enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Land
Rivendell (ltr) 344
1

Spell Recursion

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Lier, Disciple of the Drowned

Spells can't be countered. Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost.

Creature
Lier, Disciple of the Drowned (mid) 59
1
Sword of Once and Future

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 2. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Once and Future (mom) 265
1

Wipe resilience

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Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Chasm Skulker. When Chasm Skulker dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Chasm Skulker. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature
Chasm Skulker (moc) 218
1
Chrome Host Seedshark

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Creature
Chrome Host Seedshark (mom) 51
1

draw

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Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (afc) 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 (dmr) 59
1
Opt

Scry 1. Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (woc) 101
1
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (ncc) 229
1
Quick Study

Draw two cards.

Instant
Quick Study (woe) 65
1
Silundi Vision

Instant
Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80
1
Tolarian Winds

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.

Instant
Tolarian Winds (7ed) 105
1
Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Wavebreak Hippocamp (j22) 371
1
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (cmm) 859
1

ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (woc) 145
1
Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Baral, Chief of Compliance (aer) 28
1
Glamdring

Equipped creature has first strike and gets +1/+0 for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand with mana value less than or equal to that damage without paying its mana cost. Equip {3}

Artifact
Glamdring (ltr) 239
1
Haughty Djinn

Flying Haughty Djinn's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Haughty Djinn (dmu) 52
1
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 54
1
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on Midnight Clock. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on Midnight Clock. When the twelfth hour counter is put on Midnight Clock, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile Midnight Clock.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (woc) 99
1
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (woc) 148
1
Misleading Signpost

Flash When Misleading Signpost enters the battlefield during the declare attackers step, you may reselect which player or permanent target attacking creature is attacking. (It can't attack its controller or their permanents.) {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Misleading Signpost (woc) 11
1
Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (cmm) 407
1
Sky Diamond

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

Artifact
Sky Diamond (scd) 273
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (woc) 149
1
Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of the Animist (plst) ORI-240
1

removal

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Cyber Conversion

Turn target creature face down. It's a 2/2 Cyberman artifact creature.

Instant
Cyber Conversion (who) 38
1
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (plst) PLC-44
1
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (woc) 104
1

unblockable

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Ghostly Pilferer

Whenever Ghostly Pilferer becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card. Discard a card: Ghostly Pilferer can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Ghostly Pilferer (ncc) 223
1
Invisible Stalker

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Invisible Stalker can't be blocked.

Creature
Invisible Stalker (plst) ISD-60
1
Looter il-Kor

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever Looter il-Kor deals damage to an opponent, draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Looter il-Kor (cmm) 102
1
Mercurial Spelldancer

Mercurial Spelldancer can't be blocked. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on Mercurial Spelldancer. Whenever Mercurial Spelldancer deals combat damage to a player, you may remove two oil counters from it. If you do, when you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Mercurial Spelldancer (one) 61
1
Spectral Sailor

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying {3}{U}: Draw a card.

Creature
Spectral Sailor (j22) 64
1
Wonder

Flying As long as Wonder is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature
Wonder (mh2) 271
1

win con

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Metallurgic Summonings

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is that spell's mana value. {3}{U}{U}, Exile Metallurgic Summonings: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.

Enchantment
Metallurgic Summonings (c21) 122
1

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