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Sleuthsday
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $384.18
Salt Sum: 29.51
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $1.79
Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth

Whenever another creature you control dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a token, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Creature
Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth (mic) 41
1

Artifact

Quantity: 14Price: $42.30
Altar of the Brood

Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent mills a card.

Artifact
Altar of the Brood (ktk) 216
1
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (lcc) 299
1
Bonder's Ornament

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {4}, {T}: Each player who controls a permanent named Bonder's Ornament draws a card.

Artifact
Bonder's Ornament (cmm) 370
1
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (lcc) 301
1
Cranial Plating

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. {B}{B}: Attach Cranial Plating to target creature you control. Equip {1}

Artifact
Cranial Plating (brc) 136
1
Crowded Crypt

{T}: Add {B}. Whenever a creature you control dies, put a corpse counter on Crowded Crypt. {4}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Crowded Crypt: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed for each corpse counter on Crowded Crypt. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Artifact
Crowded Crypt (mic) 17
1
Dimir Locket

{T}: Add {U} or {B}. {U/B}{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}, {T}, Sacrifice Dimir Locket: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Dimir Locket (znc) 111
1
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (lcc) 302
1
Drake-Skull Cameo

{T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Artifact
Drake-Skull Cameo (inv) 302
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
Mistvein Borderpost

You may pay {1} and return a basic land you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Mistvein Borderpost enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Artifact
Mistvein Borderpost (arc) 90
1
Nettlecyst

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact and/or enchantment you control. Equip {2}

Artifact
Nettlecyst (moc) 367
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
Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") {T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Journal (j22) 800
1

Creature

Quantity: 20Price: $52.34
Armix, Filigree Thrasher

Whenever Armix, Filigree Thrasher attacks, you may discard a card. When you do, target creature defending player controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of artifacts you control plus the number of artifact cards in your graveyard. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature Artifact
Armix, Filigree Thrasher (brc) 103
1
Augur of Bolas

When Augur of Bolas enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Creature
Augur of Bolas (war) 41
1
Augury Owl

Flying When Augury Owl enters the battlefield, scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Creature
Augury Owl (j22) 273
1
Contraband Kingpin

Lifelink Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, scry 1.

Creature
Contraband Kingpin (plst) KLD-177
1
Darksteel Juggernaut

Indestructible Darksteel Juggernaut's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control. Darksteel Juggernaut attacks each combat if able.

Creature Artifact
Darksteel Juggernaut (brc) 137
1
Disciple of the Vault

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

Creature
Disciple of the Vault (wc04) ap62a
1
Dream Devourer

Each nonland card in your hand without foretell has foretell. Its foretell cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by {2}. (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile it from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.) Whenever you foretell a card, Dream Devourer gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Dream Devourer (pkhm) 90s
1
Emry, Lurker of the Loch

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control. When Emry, Lurker of the Loch enters the battlefield, mill four cards. {T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Creature
Emry, Lurker of the Loch (mul) 9
1
Extractor Demon

Flying Whenever another creature leaves the battlefield, you may have target player mill two cards. Unearth {2}{B} ({2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Extractor Demon (cmd) 81
1
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card. {4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (bro) 95
1
God-Eternal Bontu

Menace When God-Eternal Bontu enters the battlefield, sacrifice any number of other permanents, then draw that many cards. When God-Eternal Bontu dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Creature
God-Eternal Bontu (war) 92
1
Herald of Anguish

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Flying At the beginning of your end step, each opponent discards a card. {1}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Herald of Anguish (brc) 108
1
Hidetsugu and Kairi

Flying When Hidetsugu and Kairi enters the battlefield, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. When Hidetsugu and Kairi dies, exile the top card of your library. Target opponent loses life equal to its mana value. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Hidetsugu and Kairi (mom) 309
1
Inquisitor Eisenhorn

You may reveal the first card you draw each turn as you draw it. Whenever you reveal an instant or sorcery card this way, create Cherubael, a legendary 4/4 black Demon creature token with flying. Whenever Inquisitor Eisenhorn deals combat damage to a player, investigate that many times. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Creature
Inquisitor Eisenhorn (40k) 127
1
Nadier's Nightblade

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Nadier's Nightblade (cmm) 175
1
Pondering Mage

When Pondering Mage enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Creature
Pondering Mage (plst) MH1-63
1
Seer of Stolen Sight

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever one or more artifacts and/or creatures you control are put into a graveyard from the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Creature
Seer of Stolen Sight (mom) 330
1
Shimmer Dragon

Flying As long as you control four or more artifacts, Shimmer Dragon has hexproof. Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Shimmer Dragon (brc) 95
1
Thought Monitor

Affinity for artifacts Flying When Thought Monitor enters the battlefield, draw two cards.

Creature Artifact
Thought Monitor (brc) 98
1
Vedalken Humiliator

Metalcraft — Whenever Vedalken Humiliator attacks, if you control three or more artifacts, creatures your opponents control lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 1/1 until end of turn.

Creature
Vedalken Humiliator (brc) 100
1

Enchantment

Quantity: 8Price: $21.94
Collective Restraint

Domain — Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {X} for each creature they control that's attacking you, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Enchantment
Collective Restraint (plst) INV-49
1
Enhanced Surveillance

You may look at an additional two cards each time you surveil. Exile Enhanced Surveillance: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Enchantment
Enhanced Surveillance (grn) 40
1
Liliana's Contract

When Liliana's Contract enters the battlefield, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game.

Enchantment
Liliana's Contract (m19) 107
1
March of the Machines

Each noncreature artifact is an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. (Equipment that's a creature can't equip a creature.)

Enchantment
March of the Machines (plst) MRD-42
1
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (clb) 730
1
Trail of Evidence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Enchantment
Trail of Evidence (plst) SOI-93
1
Vow of Flight

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control.

Enchantment
Vow of Flight (cmr) 105
1
Vow of Malice

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Enchantment
Vow of Malice (cm2) 82
1

Instant

Quantity: 11Price: $43.41
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
Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (stx) 64
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
1
Countersquall

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Instant
Countersquall (uma) 198
1
Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
1
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (woc) 90
1
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
1
Machinate

Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of artifacts you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Machinate (dst) 24
1
Metallic Rebuke

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Metallic Rebuke (2xm) 59
1
Pile On

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.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker. 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
Pile On (mom) 122
1
Rowan's Grim Search

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard. You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Instant
Rowan's Grim Search (woe) 104
1

Land

Quantity: 37Price: $207.67
Choked Estuary

As Choked Estuary enters the battlefield, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Choked Estuary enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (lcc) 322
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (lcc) 325
1
Contaminated Aquifer

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Contaminated Aquifer enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Contaminated Aquifer (dmu) 245
1
Darkwater Catacombs

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (woc) 157
1
Dimir Aqueduct

Dimir Aqueduct enters the battlefield tapped. When Dimir Aqueduct enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (woc) 158
1
Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
1
Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Fetid Pools enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Fetid Pools (akh) 243
1
Ice Tunnel

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Ice Tunnel enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Ice Tunnel (khm) 262
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (lci) 395
8
Mistvault Bridge

Mistvault Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Artifact Land
Mistvault Bridge (brc) 189
1
Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
1
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
1
Port of Karfell

Port of Karfell enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {3}{U}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Port of Karfell: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Land
Port of Karfell (lcc) 347
1
Shipwreck Marsh

Shipwreck Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
1
Spire of Industry

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control an artifact.

Land
Spire of Industry (moc) 426
1
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Sunken Hollow enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (lcc) 355
1
Sunken Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {U/B}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Land
Sunken Ruins (2xm) 326
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (lci) 397
8
Tainted Isle

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Isle (woc) 169
1
Temple of Deceit

Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Deceit enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (woc) 170
1
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (bro) 267
1
Waterfront District

Waterfront District enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {2}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Waterfront District: Draw a card.

Land
Waterfront District (snc) 259
1
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (exp) 7
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 9Price: $14.73
Back for Seconds

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. If this spell was bargained, you may put one of those cards with mana value 4 or less onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand.

Sorcery
Back for Seconds (woe) 80
1
Battle at the Bridge

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.

Sorcery
Battle at the Bridge (aer) 53
1
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (cmm) 148
1
Doomsday

Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Sorcery
Doomsday (plst) WTH-66
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
Reverse Engineer

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Reverse Engineer (cmm) 116
1
Terisiare's Devastation

You lose X life and create X tapped Powerstone tokens. Then all creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each artifact you control. (The tokens are artifacts with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")

Sorcery
Terisiare's Devastation (brc) 9
1
Thoughtcast

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Thoughtcast (moc) 242
1
Universal Surveillance

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Universal Surveillance (nec) 17
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"I decided to revisit an old Eloise deck that I originally built in paper when she was first released. The initial version was a unique investigate-focused build, but it proved to be quite ineffective and rather clunky. In contrast, this updated version is a bit more competitive build that centers around leveraging clues to enhance affinity and improvise mechanics, all while incorporating small elements of a pillow-fort strategy. The pillow-fort choices are driven by the aggro-heavy nature of my local metagame.\n\nThe typical Doomsday pile for this deck should include these cards: 1. March of the Machines, 2. A counterspell of your preference, 3. Extractor Demon if life loss is not sufficient to win given the current board state, or Disciple of the Vault if milling isn't a viable win condition, 4. Thoughtcast/Thoughtmonitor, and 5. If you opt for Extractor Demon as the game-ending choice, Emery can facilitate this by placing the demon in the graveyard, making it accessible for Unearth. On the other hand, if you select Disciple as the game-ending choice, it's advisable to include either an additional counterspell or a Thoughtcast/Thoughtmonitor to draw two more cards from the Doomsday pile or keep pieces safe. Keep in mind that this is a Doomsday deck, so you have the flexibility to tailor your piles to suit your specific situations.\n\nThank you again, any advise on improvements without just using Thassa's Oracle lines, I would love to see them.\n"}]}
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