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Ephara - Flicker Fun Emporium
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Est deck cost: $4588.13
Salt sum: 47.94
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Commander

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Ephara, God of the Polis

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white and blue is less than seven, Ephara isn't a creature. At the beginning of each upkeep, if you had another creature enter the battlefield under your control last turn, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Ephara, God of the Polis (sld) 72

Commander

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Bounce

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Riptide Gearhulk

Double strike Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) When this creature enters, for each opponent, put up to one target nonland permanent that player controls into its owner's library third from the top.

Creature Artifact
Riptide Gearhulk (dft) 219

Bounce

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Draw

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Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45
Wall of Omens

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Omens (f11) 3

Draw

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Finisher

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Delney, Streetwise Lookout

Creatures you control with power 2 or less can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Delney, Streetwise Lookout (mkm) 12
Mirror Entity

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {X}: Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X and gain all creature types.

Creature
Mirror Entity (mm2) 26
Moonshaker Cavalry

Flying When this creature enters, creatures you control gain flying and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Creature
Moonshaker Cavalry (sch) 17
Venser, the Sojourner

+2: Exile target permanent you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. −1: Creatures can't be blocked this turn. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, exile target permanent."

Planeswalker
Venser, the Sojourner (som) 135

Finisher

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Land

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Arid Archway

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. If another Desert was returned this way, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Land
Arid Archway (otj) 252
Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (2x2) 400
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 (m21) 246
Field of the Dead

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land
Field of the Dead (m20) 247
Flooded Strand

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

Land
Flooded Strand (exp) 16
Glacial Floodplain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Glacial Floodplain (khm) 257
Hallowed Fountain

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

Land
Hallowed Fountain (exp) 6
Idyllic Beachfront

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Idyllic Beachfront (dmu) 249
Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Irrigated Farmland (pakh) 245s
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (und) 90
Lonely Arroyo

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Lonely Arroyo (otj) 260
Lotus Field

Hexproof This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice two lands. {T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Land
Lotus Field (slc) 2023
Meticulous Archive

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Meticulous Archive (mkm) 264
Mystic Gate

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

Land
Mystic Gate (exp) 26
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (ppro) 2022-3
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (und) 88
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (exp) 1
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 (zne) 27
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (f13) 2
Sea of Clouds

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

Land
Sea of Clouds (zne) 16
Snow-Covered Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Island (mh1) 251
Snow-Covered Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Plains (mh1) 250
Tundra

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)

Land
Tundra (3ed) 289
Vesuva

You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.

Land
Vesuva (m3c) 404

Land

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Protection

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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 token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (snc) 464
Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Fierce Guardianship

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

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 489
Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target noncreature spell. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Glen Elendra Archmage (mma) 47
Kor Haven

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{W}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn.

Land
Kor Haven (exp) 41
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (j16) 2
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (sld) 164
Whitemane Lion

Flash When this creature enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Whitemane Lion (ema) 37

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (sld) 589
Archaeomancer's Map

When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Archaeomancer's Map (lcc) 101
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (sld) 286
Claim Jumper

Vigilance When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then if an opponent controls more lands than you, repeat this process once. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Creature
Claim Jumper (otj) 8
Knight of the White Orchid

First strike When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Knight of the White Orchid (sld) 1045
Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Land Tax (g10) 5
Loyal Warhound

Vigilance When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Loyal Warhound (pafr) 23a
Oketra's Monument

White creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 1/1 white Warrior creature token with vigilance.

Artifact
Oketra's Monument (akh) 233
Pearl Medallion

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

Artifact
Pearl Medallion (cmm) 401
Sand Scout

When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a Desert card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, create a 1/1 red, green, and white Sand Warrior creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Sand Scout (otc) 47
Sapphire Medallion

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

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (cmm) 407
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (prna) 22p
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mps) 24
Space Marine Scout

First strike, vigilance Concealed Position — When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Space Marine Scout (40k) 15★
Stormscape Familiar

Flying White spells and black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Stormscape Familiar (tsb) 32
Sunscape Familiar

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Green spells and blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Sunscape Familiar (pls) 17
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmr) 703
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 (mm2) 234

Ramp

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Recursion

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Emeria, the Sky Ruin

This land enters tapped. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. {T}: Add {W}.

Land
Emeria, the Sky Ruin (zen) 213
Redemption Choir

Lifelink Coven — Whenever this creature enters or attacks, if you control three or more creatures with different powers, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Redemption Choir (lcc) 74

Recursion

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Removal

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Dusk

Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (pakh) 210s
Gilded Drake

Flying When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't or can't make an exchange, sacrifice this creature. This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal.

Creature
Gilded Drake (usg) 76
Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Loran of the Third Path (bro) 12
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (f15) 7
Skyclave Apparition

When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less. When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Creature
Skyclave Apparition (gdy) 2
Solitude

Flash Lifelink When this creature enters, exile up to one other target creature. That creature's controller gains life equal to its power. Evoke—Exile a white card from your hand.

Creature
Solitude (mh2) 307
Stonecloaker

Flash Flying When this creature enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand. When this creature enters, exile target card from a graveyard.

Creature
Stonecloaker (plc) 19
Swan Song

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

Instant
Swan Song (ths) 65
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (j13) 1
Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Venser, Shaper Savant (tsr) 96

Removal

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Tokens

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Charismatic Conqueror

Vigilance Whenever an artifact or creature an opponent controls enters untapped, they may tap that permanent. If they don't, you create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

Creature
Charismatic Conqueror (lcc) 38
Genku, Future Shaper

Whenever another nontoken permanent you control leaves the battlefield, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn. Create a creature token with those characteristics. • 2/2 white Fox with vigilance. • 1/2 blue Moonfolk with flying. • 1/1 black Rat with lifelink. {3}{W}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Genku, Future Shaper (mh3) 186
Illustrious Wanderglyph

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Other artifact creatures you control get +2/+2 as long as you have the city's blessing. At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature token.

Creature Artifact
Illustrious Wanderglyph (lcc) 9
Nadir Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Creature
Nadir Kraken (thb) 305
Ranar the Ever-Watchful

Flying, vigilance The first card you foretell each turn costs {0} to foretell. Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your hand or a spell or ability you control exiles one or more permanents from the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Creature
Ranar the Ever-Watchful (khc) 2
The Watcher in the Water

The Watcher in the Water enters tapped with nine stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token. Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.

Creature
The Watcher in the Water (ltr) 526

Tokens

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Tutor

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Recruiter of the Guard

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with toughness 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Recruiter of the Guard (cn2) 22
Spellseeker

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Spellseeker (j20) 3

Tutor

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Tokens & Extras

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Bird

Flying

Creature Token
Bird (wwoe) 2
Copy

(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)

Token
Copy (tlci) 1
Gnome

Creature Artifact Token
Gnome (tlci) 16
Illusion

Creature Token
Illusion (tznr) 6
Tentacle

Creature Token
Tentacle (tmkc) 9
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (plny) 1
Vampire

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature Token
Vampire (tlci) 4
Venser, the Sojourner Emblem

Whenever you cast a spell, exile target permanent.

Emblem
Venser, the Sojourner Emblem (tddi) 1
Warrior

Vigilance

Creature Token
Warrior (tdmc) 4
Zombie

Creature Token
Zombie (trvr) 6

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck stats

53 pips - 43 cards
28 mana - 24 cards
28 pips - 23 cards
25 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
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0 mana - 4 cards
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11 mana - 9 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Deck Build: This is a Control-Blink deck."},{"insert":"\n\nThis has been my pet deck since I started playing back in 2014. The idea is to out-value your opponents by having creatures ETB on every person's turn, capitalizing on draw power from Ephara and flicker effects to control the board. Blink your stuff for protection and blink theirs to get your creatures through as needed. You are here for the long game., chipping in damage as you go.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Power Level:"},{"insert":"\nThis deck aims to be as competitive as possible without using infinite combos, stax, or CEDH packages (to match my given playgroup. The pods I play in try to provide aggressive game play and not oppressive game play. \n\nCommanders I regularly go up against in my pods are:\nXenagos, God of Revels\nKrenko, Mob Boss\nThe Locust God\nEsika , God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge\nAtraxa, Praetor's Voice\nMarneus Calgar\nPantlaza, Sun-Favored\nMalcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator & Breeches, Brazen Plunderer\nWyleth, Soul of Steel\n"}]}
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