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The Empress [Mind Control]
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Est deck cost: $200.53
Salt sum: 41.12
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Commander

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Merieke Ri Berit

Merieke Ri Berit doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Merieke Ri Berit. When Merieke Ri Berit leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

Creature
Merieke Ri Berit (tsb) 95

Commander

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Copy

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Clone Legion

For each creature target player controls, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Sorcery
Clone Legion (ncc) 215
Faerie Artisans

Flying Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. Then exile all other tokens created with this creature.

Creature
Faerie Artisans (plst) C16-8
Followed Footsteps

Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Followed Footsteps (cn2) 111
Mirrorweave

Each other creature becomes a copy of target nonlegendary creature until end of turn.

Instant
Mirrorweave (c16) 234

Copy

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Land

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Ancient Spring

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Add {W}{B}.

Land
Ancient Spring (inv) 319
Arcane Sanctum

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

Land
Arcane Sanctum (dmc) 196
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 (khc) 106
Azorius Guildgate

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

Land
Azorius Guildgate (rna) 244
Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (ori) 245
Choked Estuary

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

Land
Choked Estuary (who) 261
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (who) 263
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (who) 269
Dimir Aqueduct

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

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (brc) 182
Dimir Guildgate

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

Land
Dimir Guildgate (grn) 245
Dismal Backwater

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

Land
Dismal Backwater (40k) 276
Dreadship Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {U} and/or {B}.

Land
Dreadship Reef (plst) CM2-247
Fetid Pools

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

Land
Fetid Pools (otc) 296
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 (ktk) 233
Godless Shrine

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

Land
Godless Shrine (gtc) 242
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (m21) 264
Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (lcc) 337
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mom) 277
Scoured Barrens

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

Land
Scoured Barrens (m21) 250
Submerged Boneyard

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

Land
Submerged Boneyard (scd) 321
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (who) 312
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (j22) 104
Tranquil Cove

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

Land
Tranquil Cove (scd) 329
Transguild Promenade

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Transguild Promenade (rtr) 249
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (cm2) 275

Land

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Removal

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Coerced to Kill

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature. Enchanted creature has base power and toughness 1/1, has deathtouch, and is an Assassin in addition to its other types.

Enchantment
Coerced to Kill (mkm) 192
Insidious Will

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • You may choose new targets for target spell. • Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Insidious Will (kld) 52
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 (who) 210
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (moc) 211

Removal

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Untap

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Nimbleclaw Adept

Bigby's Hand — {T}: Untap two other target permanents. Activate only as a sorcery and only once each turn.

Creature
Nimbleclaw Adept (clb) 86
Norritt

{T}: Untap target blue creature. {T}: Choose target non-Wall creature the active player has controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn. That creature attacks this turn if able. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step if it didn't attack this turn. Activate only before attackers are declared.

Creature
Norritt (ice) 155

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2x Merieke's Ability

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Illusionist's Bracers

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. Equip {3}

Artifact
Illusionist's Bracers (rvr) 260
Robaran Mercenaries

Vigilance This creature has all activated abilities of all legendary creatures you control.

Creature
Robaran Mercenaries (dmc) 22

2x Merieke's Ability

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Death & Sacrifice

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Archfiend of Depravity

Flying At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature
Archfiend of Depravity (frf) 62
Dictate of Erebos

Flash Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment
Dictate of Erebos (jou) 65
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector (mid) 103
Mimic Vat

Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with this artifact to its owner's graveyard. {3}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with this artifact. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Artifact
Mimic Vat (ncc) 372
Puppeteer Clique

Flying When this creature enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it. 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
Puppeteer Clique (woc) 115
Yahenni, Undying Partisan

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

Creature
Yahenni, Undying Partisan (lcc) 214

Death & Sacrifice

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Merieke Reset

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Captain of the Mists

Whenever another Human you control enters, untap this creature. {1}{U}, {T}: You may tap or untap target permanent.

Creature
Captain of the Mists (ddq) 24
Fatestitcher

{T}: You may tap or untap another target permanent. Unearth {U} ({U}: 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
Fatestitcher (ala) 43
Freed from the Real

Enchant creature {U}: Tap enchanted creature. {U}: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (sok) 38
Kelpie Guide

{T}: Untap another target permanent you control. {T}: Tap target permanent. Activate only if you control eight or more lands.

Creature
Kelpie Guide (stx) 45
Nephalia Smuggler

{3}{U}, {T}: Exile another target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Nephalia Smuggler (2x2) 61
Puppeteer

{U}, {T}: You may tap or untap target creature.

Creature
Puppeteer (10e) 98
Vizier of Tumbling Sands

{T}: Untap another target permanent. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, untap target permanent.

Creature
Vizier of Tumbling Sands (cmm) 131

Merieke Reset

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Stax

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Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (c17) 57
Orzhov Advokist

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. If a player does, creatures that player controls can't attack you or planeswalkers you control until your next turn.

Creature
Orzhov Advokist (c21) 99
Pariah

Enchant creature All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to enchanted creature instead.

Enchantment
Pariah (plst) 10E-33

Stax

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Wipe

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Terminus

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Terminus (mm3) 26

Wipe

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Clones

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Clone

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

Creature
Clone (m13) 45
Evil Twin

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "{U}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature with the same name as this creature."

Creature
Evil Twin (mm3) 162
Mercurial Pretender

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control, except it has "{2}{U}{U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand."

Creature
Mercurial Pretender (m15) 68

Clones

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Draw

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Daxos of Meletis

Daxos can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. Whenever Daxos deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library. You gain life equal to that card's mana value. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Creature
Daxos of Meletis (ncc) 335
Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Deathtouch When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Gonti, Lord of Luxury (znc) 44
Manifold Insights

Reveal the top ten cards of your library. Starting with the next opponent in turn order, each opponent chooses a different nonland card from among them. Put the chosen cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Manifold Insights (c16) 10

Draw

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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 (ltc) 273
Commander's Sphere

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

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (lcc) 301
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (afc) 206
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (mkc) 232
Obelisk of Esper

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

Artifact
Obelisk of Esper (c13) 250
Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
Star Compass

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a basic land you control could produce.

Artifact
Star Compass (ima) 229

Ramp

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Tap For Pain

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Ethersworn Adjudicator

Flying {1}{W}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature or enchantment. {2}{U}: Untap this creature.

Creature Artifact
Ethersworn Adjudicator (moc) 222
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

Grimgrin enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step. Sacrifice another creature: Untap Grimgrin and put a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever Grimgrin attacks, destroy target creature defending player controls, then put a +1/+1 counter on Grimgrin.

Creature
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born (isd) 214
Royal Assassin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature
Royal Assassin (dmr) 310
Simic Manipulator

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.) {T}, Remove one or more +1/+1 counters from this creature: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of +1/+1 counters removed this way.

Creature
Simic Manipulator (gtc) 50
Stalking Assassin

{3}{U}, {T}: Tap target creature. {3}{B}, {T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature
Stalking Assassin (inv) 277

Tap For Pain

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Control Player

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Cruel Entertainment

Choose target player and another target player. The first player controls the second player during the second player's next turn, and the second player controls the first player during the first player's next turn.

Sorcery
Cruel Entertainment (c16) 11
Worst Fears

You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)

Sorcery
Worst Fears (jou) 87

Control Player

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Exchange Creatures

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Perplexing Chimera

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may exchange control of this creature and that spell. If you do, you may choose new targets for the spell. (If the spell becomes a permanent, you control that permanent.)

Creature Enchantment
Perplexing Chimera (bng) 48
Reins of Power

Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Instant
Reins of Power (clb) 734

Exchange Creatures

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Recursion

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Beacon of Unrest

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Beacon of Unrest (40k) 194
Illicit Masquerade

Flash When this enchantment enters, put an impostor counter on each creature you control. Whenever a creature you control with an impostor counter on it dies, exile it. Return up to one other target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Enchantment
Illicit Masquerade (mkm) 88

Recursion

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Theft

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Corrupted Conscience

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature. Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Enchantment
Corrupted Conscience (plst) MBS-22
Desertion

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Desertion (cn2) 107
Hostage Taker

When this creature enters, exile another target creature or artifact until this creature leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Hostage Taker (lcc) 271
Illusory Gains

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, attach this Aura to that creature.

Enchantment
Illusory Gains (dtk) 59
Mind Flayer

Dominate Monster — When this creature enters, gain control of target creature for as long as you control this creature.

Creature
Mind Flayer (clb) 728
Rags

Sorcery
Rags // Riches (akh) 222
Soul Ransom

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature. Discard two cards: This Aura's controller sacrifices it, then draws two cards. Only your opponents may activate this ability.

Enchantment
Soul Ransom (mm3) 186
Willbreaker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes the target of a spell or ability you control, gain control of that creature for as long as you control this creature.

Creature
Willbreaker (ori) 84

Theft

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Sideboard

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 281
Soul Manipulation

Choose one or both — • Counter target creature spell. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Soul Manipulation (arb) 29
Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant
Tragic Slip (cmm) 192

Sideboard

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Deck Info

Deck stats

12 pips - 10 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
46 pips - 34 cards
28 mana - 28 cards
28 pips - 20 cards
29 mana - 29 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 5 cards
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