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Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
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Est deck cost: $401.82
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Commander

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Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

First strike Whenever Alesha, Who Smiles at Death attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

Creature
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (sld) 1007
1

Boardwipe

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Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Damn (mh2) 80
1
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (a25) 96
1
Ruinous Ultimatum

Destroy all nonland permanents your opponents control.

Sorcery
Ruinous Ultimatum (iko) 204
1
Slaughter the Strong

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

Sorcery
Slaughter the Strong (rix) 22
1
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (tsr) 352
1

Card Draw

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Assemble the Players

You may look at the top card of your library any time. Once each turn, you may cast a creature spell with power 2 or less from the top of your library.

Enchantment
Assemble the Players (mkm) 3
1
Callous Bloodmage

When Callous Bloodmage enters the battlefield, choose one — • Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life." • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • Exile target player's graveyard.

Creature
Callous Bloodmage (stx) 66
1
Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (clb) 124
1
Demand Answers

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Demand Answers (mkm) 122
1
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card. {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted (thb) 262
1
Inti, Seneschal of the Sun

Whenever you attack, you may discard a card. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature. It gains trample until end of turn. Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card until your next end step.

Creature
Inti, Seneschal of the Sun (lci) 156
1
Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature with power 2 or less enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Mentor of the Meek (m19) 27
1
Merchant of Truth

Flying Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, investigate. Clues you control have exalted. (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each instance of exalted among permanents you control.)

Creature
Merchant of Truth (mkc) 11
1
Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, Midnight Reaper deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Creature
Midnight Reaper (grn) 77
1
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (mid) 113
1
Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way. You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (stx) 81
1
Snarling Gorehound

Menace Whenever another creature with power 2 or less enters the battlefield under your control, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Snarling Gorehound (mkm) 105
1
Tarrian's Journal

Artifact
Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz (lci) 126Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz (lci) 126
1
Welcoming Vampire

Flying Whenever one or more other creatures with power 2 or less enter the battlefield under your control, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Welcoming Vampire (vow) 46
1
Wheel of Misfortune

Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery
Wheel of Misfortune (cmr) 211
1

Drain

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Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (c17) 99
1
Corpse Knight

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Corpse Knight (moc) 321
1
Cruel Celebrant

Whenever Cruel Celebrant or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Cruel Celebrant (war) 188
1
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Deathtouch Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life. Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim (dmu) 198
1
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (c14) 146
1
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (gnt) 36
1

Haste Enabler

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Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (cmr) 474
1

Land

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Arid Mesa

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

Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 244
1
Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (cm2) 235
1
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (c18) 238
1
Clifftop Retreat

Clifftop Retreat enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Clifftop Retreat (pdom) 239p
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c19) 237
1
Dragonskull Summit

Dragonskull Summit enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (xln) 252
1
Elegant Parlor

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) Elegant Parlor enters the battlefield tapped. When Elegant Parlor enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Elegant Parlor (mkm) 260
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (cm2) 250
1
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: 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 (pw21) 4
1
Flamekin Village

As Flamekin Village enters the battlefield, you may reveal an Elemental card from your hand. If you don't, Flamekin Village enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Land
Flamekin Village (cm2) 251
1
Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (emn) 203
1
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (plst) CM2-253
1
Godless Shrine

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

Land
Godless Shrine (rna) 248
1
Hanweir Battlements

{T}: Add {C}. {R}, {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn. {3}{R}{R}, {T}: If you both own and control Hanweir Battlements and a creature named Hanweir Garrison, exile them, then meld them into Hanweir, the Writhing Township.

Land
Hanweir Battlements (emn) 204
1
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (cma) 257
1
Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (dom) 241
1
Marsh Flats

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

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (unf) 238
1
Pit of Offerings

Pit of Offerings enters the battlefield tapped. When Pit of Offerings enters the battlefield, exile up to three target cards from graveyards. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled cards' colors.

Land
Pit of Offerings (lci) 278
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (unf) 235
6
Sacred Foundry

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) As Sacred Foundry enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Sacred Foundry (grn) 254
1
Sacred Peaks

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) Sacred Peaks enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Sacred Peaks (dmu) 254
1
Savai Triome

({T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.) Savai Triome enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Savai Triome (iko) 312
1
Shadowy Backstreet

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) Shadowy Backstreet enters the battlefield tapped. When Shadowy Backstreet enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 268
1
Sunlit Marsh

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) Sunlit Marsh enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Sunlit Marsh (dmu) 257
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (unf) 237
4
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (clb) 929
1

Protection

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Boros Charm

Choose one — • Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Boros Charm (gk1) 84
1

Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmr) 297
1
Deep Gnome Terramancer

Flash Mold Earth — Whenever one or more lands enter the battlefield under an opponent's control without being played, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Do this only once each turn.

Creature
Deep Gnome Terramancer (clb) 658
1
Keeper of the Accord

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if that player controls more creatures than you, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if that player controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Keeper of the Accord (cmr) 27
1
Knight of the White Orchid

First strike When Knight of the White Orchid enters the battlefield, 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 (ori) 21
1
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff (ltr) 213
1
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 artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (rna) 22
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c16) 272
1
Solemn Simulacrum

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

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (cm2) 219
1
Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of the Animist (plst) E01-89
1

Recursion

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
1
Brought Back

Choose up to two target permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn. Return them to the battlefield tapped.

Instant
Brought Back (m20) 9
1
Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Creature
Chainer, Nightmare Adept (c19) 39
1
Karmic Guide

Flying, protection from black Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When Karmic Guide enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Karmic Guide (cma) 13
1
Lurrus of the Dream-Den

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Lifelink Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.

Creature
Lurrus of the Dream-Den (mul) 51
1
Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Sorcery
Persist (mh2) 96
1
Reveillark

Flying When Reveillark leaves the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Evoke {5}{W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Creature
Reveillark (uma) 31
1
Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever Sun Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sun Titan (cm2) 37
1
Tortured Existence

{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Tortured Existence (sth) 74
1

Removal

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soi) 242
1
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (war) 190
1
Fiend Hunter

When Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield, you may exile another target creature. When Fiend Hunter leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature
Fiend Hunter (uma) 17
1
Leonin Relic-Warder

When Leonin Relic-Warder enters the battlefield, you may exile target artifact or enchantment. When Leonin Relic-Warder leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature
Leonin Relic-Warder (plst) C17-65
1
Rite of Oblivion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a nonland permanent. Exile target nonland permanent. Flashback {2}{W}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Rite of Oblivion (mid) 237
1
Skyclave Apparition

When Skyclave Apparition enters the battlefield, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less. When Skyclave Apparition 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 (znr) 39
1

Sac Outlet

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (cns) 196
1
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (chr) 92
1
Cultist of the Absolute

Commander creatures you own get +3/+3 and have flying, deathtouch, "Ward—Pay 3 life," and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature."

Enchantment
Cultist of the Absolute (clb) 123
1
Goblin Bombardment

Sacrifice a creature: Goblin Bombardment deals 1 damage to any target.

Enchantment
Goblin Bombardment (plst) DDN-24
1
Viscera Seer

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

Creature
Viscera Seer (c13) 99
1
Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni, Undying Partisan. Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Yahenni, Undying Partisan (aer) 74
1

Tokens

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Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Lifelink Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda, the Dusk Rose. When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Creature
Elenda, the Dusk Rose (lcc) 268
1
Hofri Ghostforge

Spirits you control get +1/+1 and have trample and haste. Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a Spirit in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's graveyard."

Creature
Hofri Ghostforge (stx) 192
1

Tutor

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Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (uma) 88
1
Imperial Recruiter

When Imperial Recruiter enters the battlefield, search your library for a creature card with power 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Imperial Recruiter (mh2) 281
1
Recruiter of the Guard

When Recruiter of the Guard enters the battlefield, 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 (plst) CN2-22
1
Unmarked Grave

Search your library for a nonlegendary card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Unmarked Grave (mh2) 106
1

Sideboard

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Alpine Meadow

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) Alpine Meadow enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Alpine Meadow (khm) 248
1
Archon of Emeria

Flying Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn. Nonbasic lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Archon of Emeria (znr) 4
1
Fanatical Offering

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Instant
Fanatical Offering (lci) 105
1
Felidar Guardian

When Felidar Guardian enters the battlefield, you may exile another target permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature
Felidar Guardian (plst) AER-19
1
Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Kambal, Consul of Allocation (2x2) 237
1
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Haste {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control, except it has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker (j22) 79
1
Snowfield Sinkhole

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) Snowfield Sinkhole enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Snowfield Sinkhole (khm) 269
1
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben (mul) 7
1

Maybeboard

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Body Count

Spectacle {B} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Draw a card for each creature that died under your control this turn.

Instant
Body Count (ncc) 34
1

Tokens & Extras

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Clue

{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact Token
Clue (totj) 16
1
Copy

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

Token
Copy (tclb) 19
1
Illusion

Creature Token
Illusion (tznr) 6
1
Map

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Artifact Token
Map (tlci) 17
1
Pest

When this creature dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Token
Pest (tstx) 5
1
Soldier

Creature Token
Soldier (tonc) 7
1
Treasure

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

Artifact Token
Treasure (t2x2) 22
1
Vampire

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

Creature Token
Vampire (tlci) 4
1

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