Arcanis the Omnipotent - Wizard Blue Control [Updated 5.3.25] • (Mono-Blue Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Wizards Control Counterspells Draw Bounce

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.79

Arcanis the Omnipotent

: Draw three cards.

: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.

Legendary Creature - Wizard

$2.79 $2.78 $0.57

Commander

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Copy

Qty: 4 Price: $26.76

Elite Arcanist

When this creature enters, you may exile an instant card from your hand.

: Copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.79 $0.30 $0.15

Elminster's Simulacrum

For each opponent, you create a token that's a copy of up to one target creature that player controls.

Instant

$3.99 $2.54 $1.53

Spark Double

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Creature - Illusion

$13.99 $10.58 $8.87

Twincast

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant

$7.99 $7.67 $3.12

Copy

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Counters

Qty: 4 Price: $98.62

Daze

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Instant

$2.29 $0.88 $0.91

Dissipate

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$84.99 $63.83 $59.32

Mindbreak Trap

If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Exile any number of target spells.

Instant - Trap

$10.99 $9.64 $6.56

Counters

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Creature

Qty: 3 Price: $16.47

Archmage of Runes

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature - Wizard Giant

$4.99 $3.64 $2.86

Gogo, Master of Mimicry

: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control X times. You may choose new targets for the copies. This ability can't be copied and X can't be 0. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Legendary Creature - Wizard

$5.49 $4.80 $3.97

High Fae Trickster

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Creature - Wizard Faerie

$5.99 $3.72 $3.36

Creature

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Draw

Qty: 14 Price: $233.42

Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$0.69 $0.41 $0.25

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Instant

$5.49 $3.09 $2.54

Brainstorm

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

Instant

$4.99 $3.70 $1.18

Jace Beleren

+2: Each player draws a card.
−1: Target player draws a card.
−10: Target player mills twenty cards.

Legendary Planeswalker - Jace

$2.49 $0.63 $0.67

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library.
0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
−1: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
−12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.

Legendary Planeswalker - Jace

$37.99 $20.13 $22.14

Jace, Vryn's Prodigy

: Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are five or more cards in your graveyard, exile Jace, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound (plst) ORI-60

$10.99 $6.96 $7.01

Jace's Archivist

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

Creature - Wizard Vedalken

$16.99 $15.57 $11.98

Ponder

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

Sorcery

$6.99 $5.68 $3.82

Proft's Eidetic Memory

When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters, draw a card.
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.

Legendary Enchantment

$4.49 $3.36 $2.54

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$84.99 $69.95 $63.97

Sea Gate Restoration

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand plus one. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Sorcery

Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76

$44.99 $34.88 $34.43

Spellbook

You have no maximum hand size.

Artifact - Book

$4.49 $3.46 $2.10

Think Twice

Draw a card.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Windfall

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

Sorcery

$7.49 $6.12 $5.15

Draw

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Finisher

Qty: 2 Price: $20.98

Expropriate

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.

Sorcery

$17.99 $13.76 $12.62

Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature - Human Wizard

$2.99 $1.89 $1.11

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 36 (37 w/ MDFC)Price: $169.04

Halimar Depths

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

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Land

$1.29 $0.80 $0.31

Island

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Basic Land - Island

$4.99 $4.65 $2.37

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.

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, 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

$0.59 $0.30 $0.26

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$5.99 $5.37 $3.61

Riptide Laboratory

: Add

: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.

Land

$1.49 $0.65 $0.47

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 1 Price: $12.99

Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Artifact - Book

$12.99 $9.05 $6.92

Lifegain

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Mill

Qty: 4 Price: $68.36

Bruvac the Grandiloquent

If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill twice that many cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$54.99 $46.13 $41.68

Jace, Memory Adept

+1: Draw a card. Target player mills a card.
0: Target player mills ten cards.
−7: Any number of target players each draw twenty cards.

Legendary Planeswalker - Jace

$4.49 $5.78 $1.71

Jace's Erasure

Whenever you draw a card, you may have target player mill a card.

Enchantment

$0.39 $0.25 $0.15

Maddening Cacophony

Kicker

Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.

Sorcery

$8.49 $7.22 $6.00

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 3 Price: $7.13

Portal Mage

Flash
When this creature enters 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.)

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$4.49 $3.05 $1.04

Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

Flash
Creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield have flash.
Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$2.29 $2.52 $1.02

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 8 Price: $40.42

Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$5.99 $4.31 $3.12

Caged Sun

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add an additional one mana of that color.

Artifact

$4.49 $4.05 $3.59

Gauntlet of Power

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a basic land is tapped for mana of the chosen color, its controller adds an additional one mana of that color.

Artifact

$3.99 $4.12 $3.32

Omniscience

You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.

Enchantment

$7.99 $6.74 $5.14

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $2.16 $1.53

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$4.99 $3.50 $2.34

Thran Dynamo

: Add

Artifact

$7.49 $5.72 $2.60

Wizards of Thay

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.

Creature - Human Wizard

$2.49 $1.37 $0.50

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $1.08

Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.59 $0.37 $0.31

Feldon's Cane

, Exile this artifact: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Artifact

$0.49 $0.43 $0.28

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 18 Price: $113.04

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant

$0.99 $0.41 $0.15

Aetherspouts

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Instant

$1.79 $0.76 $0.55

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

$4.49 $2.55 $2.00

Capsize

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

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

$1.79 $0.74 $0.31

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $4.42 $2.87

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

Instant

$7.49 $3.84 $2.59

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

$37.99 $34.73 $28.19

Disallow

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

Instant

$0.99 $1.76 $0.26

Dream Fracture

Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature - Horror Kraken

$9.49 $6.14 $5.73

Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "

: Add

" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.59 $0.34 $0.15

Mana Short

Tap all lands target player controls and that player loses all unspent mana.

Instant

$0.79 $0.42 $0.15

Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant

$3.49 $2.18 $2.00

Patron Wizard

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Creature - Human Wizard

$6.99 $6.25 $5.72

Stifle

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

Instant

$13.99 $10.29 $8.85

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

$16.99 $10.84 $10.68

Time Stop

End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities, including this spell. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage heals and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Instant

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Witness Protection

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Removal

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Maybeboard

Qty: 3 Price: $140.37

Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$64.99 $47.81 $47.43

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of

equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$74.99 $56.12 $51.25

Remand

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.39 $0.24 $0.20

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $811.10

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Avg Mana Value: 3.45Total Mana Value: 221.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.45Total Mana Value: 221.00

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