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Recursion
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Commander

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Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Creature
Meren of Clan Nel Toth (c15) 49

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Planeswalker

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Grist, the Hunger Tide

As long as Grist isn't on the battlefield, it's a 1/1 Insect creature in addition to its other types. +1: Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then mill a card. If an Insect card was milled this way, put a loyalty counter on Grist and repeat this process. −2: You may sacrifice a creature. When you do, destroy target creature or planeswalker. −5: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Planeswalker
Grist, the Hunger Tide (mh2) 202

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Grist, Voracious Larva

Creature
Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 251Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 251
Spymaster's Vault

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 358
Wight of the Reliquary

Vigilance This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Wight of the Reliquary (mh3) 207

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Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When this creature enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Creature
Acidic Slime (m12) 161
Activated Sleeper

Flash You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn, except it's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Creature
Activated Sleeper (dmc) 24
Archfiend of Depravity

Flying At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature
Archfiend of Depravity (e01) 31
Avatar of Woe

If there are ten or more creature cards total in all graveyards, this spell costs {6} less to cast. Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) {T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Creature
Avatar of Woe (arc) 9
Avenger of Zendikar

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

Creature
Avenger of Zendikar (c13) 135
Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Bane of Progress

When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.

Creature
Bane of Progress (cc1) 3
Beledros Witherbloom

Flying At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Beledros Witherbloom (stx) 282
Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dmu) 84
Bramble Familiar

Creature
Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest (woe) 283
Burning-Rune Demon

Flying When this creature enters, you may search your library for exactly two cards not named Burning-Rune Demon that have different names. If you do, reveal those cards. An opponent chooses one of them. Put the chosen card into your hand and the other into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature
Burning-Rune Demon (khm) 349
Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (ths) 213
Cemetery Prowler

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile a card from a graveyard. Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each card type they share with cards exiled with this creature.

Creature
Cemetery Prowler (vow) 191
Corpse Augur

When this creature dies, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creature cards in target player's graveyard.

Creature
Corpse Augur (c15) 17
Custodi Lich

When this creature enters, you become the monarch. Whenever you become the monarch, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Custodi Lich (cn2) 41
Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 81
Dawntreader Elk

{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Dawntreader Elk (jmp) 387
Defiler of Vigor

Trample As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {G} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay. Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Defiler of Vigor (dmu) 160
Demon of Dark Schemes

Flying When this creature enters, all other creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever another creature dies, you get {E} (an energy counter). {2}{B}, Pay {E}{E}{E}{E}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped.

Creature
Demon of Dark Schemes (kld) 73
Destructor Dragon

Flying When this creature dies, destroy target noncreature permanent.

Creature
Destructor Dragon (frf) 127
Doomed Necromancer

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Doomed Necromancer (2xm) 88
Dryad Arbor

(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G}.")

Creature Land
Dryad Arbor (dsc) 273
Elvish Piper

{G}, {T}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Elvish Piper (ltc) 239
Fiend Artisan

This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard. {X}{B/G}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Fiend Artisan (iko) 220
Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Deathtouch When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Gonti, Lord of Luxury (znc) 44
Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature
Harvester of Souls (e01) 34
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed

Undergrowth — When Izoni enters, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. {B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed (grn) 180
Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace When Junji dies, choose one — • Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life. • Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

Creature
Junji, the Midnight Sky (m3c) 199
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest (plst) 2XM-209
Mitotic Slime

When this creature dies, create two 2/2 green Ooze creature tokens. They have "When this token dies, create two 1/1 green Ooze creature tokens."

Creature
Mitotic Slime (pca) 67
Mycoloth

Devour 2 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with twice that many +1/+1 counters on it.) At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Mycoloth (ala) 140
Night Incarnate

Deathtouch When this creature leaves the battlefield, all creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn. Evoke {3}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Night Incarnate (c18) 17
Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Pawn of Ulamog (plst) ROE-122
Phyrexian Delver

When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Creature
Phyrexian Delver (c18) 115
Phyrexian Plaguelord

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Phyrexian Plaguelord (c15) 131
Priest of Forgotten Gods

{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.

Creature
Priest of Forgotten Gods (rna) 83
Protean Hulk

When this creature dies, search your library for any number of creature cards with total mana value 6 or less, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Protean Hulk (gk2) 83
Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (rix) 82
Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (m15) 194
Sakura-Tribe Elder

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

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (c20) 187
Sarulf, Realm Eater

Whenever a permanent an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Sarulf. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Sarulf has one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may remove all of them. If you do, exile each other nonland permanent with mana value less than or equal to the number of counters removed this way.

Creature
Sarulf, Realm Eater (khm) 228
Sheoldred

Creature
Sheoldred // The True Scriptures (mom) 125Sheoldred // The True Scriptures (mom) 125
Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (jmp) 278
Sifter of Skulls

Devoid (This card has no color.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Creature
Sifter of Skulls (m3c) 203
Sloppity Bilepiper

Jolly Gutpipes — {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: The next creature spell you cast this turn has cascade. (When you next cast a creature spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Creature
Sloppity Bilepiper (40k) 59
Smothering Abomination

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.

Creature
Smothering Abomination (bfz) 99
Sméagol, Helpful Guide

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, the Ring tempts you. Whenever the Ring tempts you, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest into their graveyard.

Creature
Sméagol, Helpful Guide (ltr) 330
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (c15) 269
Spore Frog

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

Creature
Spore Frog (mh1) 180
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (eld) 107
Tallyman of Nurgle

Lifelink The Seven-fold Chant — At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. If seven or more creatures died this turn, instead you draw seven cards and you lose 7 life.

Creature
Tallyman of Nurgle (40k) 60
Terastodon

When this creature enters, you may destroy up to three target noncreature permanents. For each permanent put into a graveyard this way, its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Creature
Terastodon (cns) 181
Torgaar, Famine Incarnate

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way. When Torgaar enters, up to one target player's life total becomes half their starting life total, rounded down.

Creature
Torgaar, Famine Incarnate (dom) 108
Verdant Sun's Avatar

Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Creature
Verdant Sun's Avatar (xln) 213
Veteran Explorer

When this creature dies, each player may search their library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Veteran Explorer (2xm) 186
Viridian Emissary

When this creature dies, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Viridian Emissary (cma) 162
Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Viscera Seer (m11) 120
Vorinclex

Creature
Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution (mom) 213Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution (mom) 213
Whisper, Blood Liturgist

{T}, Sacrifice two creatures: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Whisper, Blood Liturgist (dom) 111
Woe Strider

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Woe Strider (thb) 123
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Protection from Humans Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card. {B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (dmr) 110

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Land

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Barad-dûr

Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {B}. {X}{X}{B}, {T}: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Land
Barad-dûr (ltr) 425
Barren Moor

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

Land
Barren Moor (c21) 277
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c15) 281
Darkbore Pathway

Land
Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 292Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 292
Deathcap Glade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Deathcap Glade (vow) 281
Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (iko) 247
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (cn2) 219
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (znr) 384
Hive of the Eye Tyrant

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {3}{B}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/3 black Beholder creature with menace and "Whenever this creature attacks, exile target card from defending player's graveyard." It's still a land.

Land
Hive of the Eye Tyrant (afr) 258
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (ddr) 29
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: 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 (c20) 292
Necroblossom Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Necroblossom Snarl (stx) 269
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (c17) 56
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (jmp) 493
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (c19) 268
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (j22) 106
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (c15) 314

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Sideboard

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Fallaji Wayfarer

Fallaji Wayfarer is all colors. This ability doesn't affect its color identity. (It can be in any deck whose commander's color identity includes green.) Multicolored spells you cast have convoke. (Your creatures can help cast those spells. Each creature you tap while casting a multicolored spell pays for {1} or one mana of a color that creature is.)

Creature
Fallaji Wayfarer (dmc) 11
Old Rutstein

When Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If a noncreature, nonland card is milled this way, create a Blood token.

Creature
Old Rutstein (vow) 244
The Grey Havens

When The Grey Havens enters, scry 1. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creature cards in your graveyard.

Land
The Grey Havens (ltr) 255
Umori, the Collector

Companion — Each nonland card in your starting deck shares a card type. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) As Umori enters, choose a card type. Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Umori, the Collector (iko) 231

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