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3/7/2025
Can You Dig It! - [Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists]
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Est deck cost: $84.83
Salt sum: 26.41
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Commander

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Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists

{T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Discover X, where X is the mana value of the exiled card. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Creature
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists (rex) 10

Commander

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Cycling

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Slipstream Eel

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Slipstream Eel (plst) CM2-49

Cycling

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Instant

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No More Lies

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
No More Lies (mkm) 221
Repulsive Mutation

Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Then counter up to one target spell unless its controller pays mana equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.

Instant
Repulsive Mutation (mkm) 227
Seized from Slumber

This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a tapped creature. Destroy target creature.

Instant
Seized from Slumber (dsk) 28
Wing It

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Put a flying counter on it. Scry 1.

Instant
Wing It (mh3) 48

Instant

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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 (lcc) 299
Coiling Oracle

When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Creature
Coiling Oracle (rvr) 172
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (lcc) 235
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (lcc) 270
Helga, Skittish Seer

Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 4 or greater, you draw a card, gain 1 life, and put a +1/+1 counter on Helga. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Helga's power. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with {X} in their mana costs.

Creature
Helga, Skittish Seer (blb) 217
Orazca Relic

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) {T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life and draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Artifact
Orazca Relic (afc) 213
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (lcc) 248
Selesnya Signet

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

Artifact
Selesnya Signet (rvr) 267
Simic Signet

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

Artifact
Simic Signet (rvr) 269
Sisay's Ring

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

Artifact
Sisay's Ring (cmr) 340

Ramp

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Untap

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Bounding Krasis

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, you may tap or untap target creature.

Creature
Bounding Krasis (plst) ORI-212
Murkfiend Liege

Other green creatures you control get +1/+1. Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1. Untap all green and/or blue creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Murkfiend Liege (2x2) 259

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Copy

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Repudiate

Instant
Repudiate // Replicate (rvr) 249
Volo, Guide to Monsters

Whenever you cast a creature spell that doesn't share a creature type with a creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, copy that spell. (A copy of a creature spell becomes a token.)

Creature
Volo, Guide to Monsters (afr) 238

Copy

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Draw

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Chulane, Teller of Tales

Vigilance Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Chulane, Teller of Tales (mkc) 202
Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (scd) 185
Hydroid Krasis

When you cast this spell, you gain half X life and draw half X cards. Round down each time. Flying, trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Hydroid Krasis (clu) 195
Monstrous Vortex

Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, discover X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Enchantment
Monstrous Vortex (mh3) 162
Volo, Itinerant Scholar

When Volo enters, create Volo's Journal, a legendary colorless artifact token with hexproof and "Whenever you cast a creature spell, note one of its creature types that hasn't been noted for Volo's Journal." {2}, {T}: Draw a card for each creature type noted for target permanent you control named Volo's Journal. Choose a Background

Creature
Volo, Itinerant Scholar (clb) 103

Draw

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Land

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Azorius Guildgate

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

Land
Azorius Guildgate (clu) 230
Blossoming Sands

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Blossoming Sands (dft) 252
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mkm) 285
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mkm) 279
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 (mkc) 279
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mkm) 278
Selesnya Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Selesnya Guildgate (clu) 245
Simic Growth Chamber

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

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (clu) 247
Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Simic Guildgate (clu) 248
Stirring Wildwood

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. {1}{G}{W}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/4 green and white Elemental creature with reach. It's still a land.

Land
Stirring Wildwood (uma) 251
Temple of Mystery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (mkc) 303
Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Thornwood Falls (mom) 274
Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Tranquil Cove (mom) 275
Tranquil Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {G}{W}{U} ({G}{W}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Tranquil Landscape (mh3) 231
Vineglimmer Snarl

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

Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (lcc) 368
Willowrush Verge

{T}: Add {U}. {T}: Add {G}. Activate only if you control a Forest or an Island.

Land
Willowrush Verge (dft) 270

Land

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Recursion

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Colossal Skyturtle

Flying, ward {2} Channel — {2}{G}, Discard this card: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Channel — {1}{U}, Discard this card: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature Enchantment
Colossal Skyturtle (neo) 216
Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy. Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (mh3) 267

Recursion

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Counters

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Master Chef

Commander creatures you own have "This creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it" and "Other creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them."

Enchantment
Master Chef (clb) 241
Renegade Krasis

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever this creature evolves, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Renegade Krasis (dgm) 47
Vulpikeet

Mutate {2}{W} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Flying Whenever this creature mutates, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Vulpikeet (iko) 37

Counters

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Enchantment

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Buried in the Garden

Enchant land When this Aura enters, exile target nonland permanent you don't control until this Aura leaves the battlefield. Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Enchantment
Buried in the Garden (mkm) 191
Case of the Trampled Garden

When this Case enters, distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures you control. To solve — Creatures you control have total power 8 or greater. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — Whenever you attack, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature. It gains trample until end of turn.

Enchantment
Case of the Trampled Garden (mkm) 156

Enchantment

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Proliferate

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Roalesk, Apex Hybrid

Flying, trample When Roalesk enters, put two +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control. When Roalesk dies, proliferate, then proliferate again. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)

Creature
Roalesk, Apex Hybrid (ncc) 349

Proliferate

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Removal

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Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Enchantment
Darksteel Mutation (cmm) 21
Dovin's Veto

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

Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Frilled Mystic

Flash When this creature enters, you may counter target spell.

Creature
Frilled Mystic (rvr) 183
Journey to Nowhere

When this enchantment enters, exile target creature. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Enchantment
Journey to Nowhere (cmd) 17
Pouncing Shoreshark

Mutate {3}{U} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Flash Whenever this creature mutates, you may return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Creature
Pouncing Shoreshark (iko) 64
Sharktocrab

{2}{G}{U}: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Sharktocrab (rvr) 222
Voidslime

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

Instant
Voidslime (rvr) 237

Removal

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Creature

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Aeromunculus

Flying {2}{G}{U}: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Aeromunculus (rna) 152
Armored Armadillo

Ward {1} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) {3}{W}: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its toughness.

Creature
Armored Armadillo (otj) 3
Battering Krasis

Trample Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Battering Krasis (dgm) 41
Drakewing Krasis

Flying, trample

Creature
Drakewing Krasis (gtc) 157
Flycatcher Giraffid

This creature enters with your choice of a vigilance counter or a reach counter on it.

Creature
Flycatcher Giraffid (iko) 153
Kellan, the Kid

Flying, lifelink Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, you may cast a permanent spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Kellan, the Kid (otj) 213
Morska, Undersea Sleuth

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put two +1/+1 counters on Morska.

Creature
Morska, Undersea Sleuth (mkc) 3
Sauroform Hybrid

{4}{G}{G}: Adapt 4. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Sauroform Hybrid (rna) 140
Scuttlegator

Defender {6}{G/U}{G/U}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.) As long as this creature has a +1/+1 counter on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature
Scuttlegator (rna) 218
Shambleshark

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Shambleshark (gtc) 193
Skitter Eel

{2}{U}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Skitter Eel (plst) RNA-53
The Goose Mother

Flying The Goose Mother enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When The Goose Mother enters, create half X Food tokens, rounded up. Whenever The Goose Mother attacks, you may sacrifice a Food. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
The Goose Mother (woe) 204
The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control. Defender {2}{U}{U}: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature
The Pride of Hull Clade (mkm) 382
Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor

Creatures you control have vigilance and "{T}: Surveil 1." (To surveil 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) {2}{G}{G}{W}{W}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Return any number of target artifact cards with total mana value 10 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor (bro) 224
Undercover Crocodelf

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Disguise {3}{G/U}{G/U} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)

Creature
Undercover Crocodelf (mkm) 239
Unruly Krasis

Trample Whenever this creature attacks, you may have the base power and toughness of another target creature you control become X/X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power. {3}{G}{U}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Unruly Krasis (clu) 50
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood

Whenever Xolatoyac enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. At the beginning of your end step, untap each permanent you control with a counter on it.

Creature
Xolatoyac, the Smiling Flood (lcc) 8

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Evasion

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Elusive Krasis

This creature can't be blocked. Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Elusive Krasis (gtc) 160

Evasion

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Protection

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Blessed Sanctuary

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to you and creatures you control. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, create a 2/2 white Unicorn creature token.

Enchantment
Blessed Sanctuary (j22) 157
Take Up the Shield

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Take Up the Shield (otj) 34
Unbreakable Formation

Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures and they gain vigilance until end of turn.

Instant
Unbreakable Formation (rvr) 32

Protection

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Sorcery

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Expel the Unworthy

Kicker {2}{W} (You may pay an additional {2}{W} as you cast this spell.) Choose target creature with mana value 3 or less. If this spell was kicked, instead choose target creature. Exile the chosen creature, then its controller gains life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Expel the Unworthy (mh3) 25

Sorcery

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Sideboard

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Fisher's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal it if it's a land card. Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token if you revealed it this way. Then draw a card. {G}{U}: Level 2 If you would create a Fish token, create a 3/3 blue Shark creature token instead. {2}{G}{U}: Level 3 If you would create a Shark token, create an 8/8 blue Octopus creature token instead.

Enchantment
Fisher's Talent (blc) 36
Fishing Pole

Equipped creature has "{1}, {T}, Tap Fishing Pole: Put a bait counter on Fishing Pole." Whenever equipped creature becomes untapped, remove a bait counter from this Equipment. If you do, create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Fishing Pole (fdn) 128

Sideboard

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Deck Info

Deck stats

21 pips - 20 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
42 pips - 34 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
49 pips - 40 cards
25 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 3 cards
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