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Switchable Commanders, the Initiative
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $90.04
Salt Sum: 24.07
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Commander

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Dungeon Delver

Commander creatures you own have "Room abilities of dungeons you own trigger an additional time."

Enchantment
Dungeon Delver (clb) 67
1
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat

Menace At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, create a Treasure token. Create three of those tokens instead if you've completed a dungeon. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat (clb) 143
1

Backup Commander

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Criminal Past

Commander creatures you own have menace and "This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard." (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Enchantment
Criminal Past (clb) 122
1
Imoen, Mystic Trickster

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, draw a card. Draw another card if you've completed a dungeon. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Imoen, Mystic Trickster (clb) 77
1

Copy

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Tomb of Horrors Adventurer

When Tomb of Horrors Adventurer enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it. If you've completed a dungeon, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Creature
Tomb of Horrors Adventurer (clb) 100
1

Drain

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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
Ravenloft Adventurer

When Ravenloft Adventurer enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it. Whenever Ravenloft Adventurer attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.

Creature
Ravenloft Adventurer (clb) 142
1

Draw

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Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Other Rogues you control get +1/+1. Whenever one or more Rogues you control deal combat damage to a player, that player mills a card for each 1 damage dealt to them. If the player mills at least one creature card this way, you draw a card. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Anowon, the Ruin Thief (znc) 1
1
Curiosity

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Curiosity (wot) 17
1
Discovery

Sorcery
Discovery // Dispersal (clu) 187
1
Dungeoneer's Pack

Dungeoneer's Pack enters the battlefield tapped. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Dungeoneer's Pack: You take the initiative, gain 3 life, draw a card, and create a Treasure token. Activate only as a sorcery. (A Treasure token is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact
Dungeoneer's Pack (clb) 312
1
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (cmm) 96
1
Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature
Harvester of Souls (cn2) 138
1
Mari, the Killing Quill

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it with a hit counter on it. Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile. If you do, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens."

Creature
Mari, the Killing Quill (otc) 138
1
Notion Rain

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. Notion Rain deals 2 damage to you. (To 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.)

Sorcery
Notion Rain (grn) 193
1
Open into Wonder

X target creatures can't be blocked this turn. Until end of turn, those creatures gain "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

Sorcery
Open into Wonder (znc) 34
1
Opt

Scry 1. Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (woc) 101
1
Scion of Halaster

Commander creatures you own have "The first time you would draw a card each turn, instead look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard and the other back on top of your library. Then draw a card."

Enchantment
Scion of Halaster (clb) 145
1
Skullport Merchant

When Skullport Merchant enters the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature or a Treasure: Draw a card.

Creature
Skullport Merchant (afr) 120
1
Treasure Chest

{4}, Sacrifice Treasure Chest: Roll a d20. 1 | Trapped! — You lose 3 life. 2—9 | Create five Treasure tokens. 10—19 | You gain 3 life and draw three cards. 20 | Search your library for a card. If it's an artifact card, you may put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand. Then shuffle.

Artifact
Treasure Chest (afr) 252
1

Dungeon

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Displacer Beast

When Displacer Beast enters the battlefield, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.) Displacement — {3}{U}: Return Displacer Beast to its owner's hand.

Creature
Displacer Beast (afr) 54
1
Shortcut Seeker

Whenever Shortcut Seeker deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Shortcut Seeker (afr) 73
1
Underdark Explorer

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When Underdark Explorer enters the battlefield, you take the initiative.

Creature
Underdark Explorer (clb) 154
1
Zombie Ogre

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Zombie Ogre (afr) 129
1

Evasion

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Alora, Merry Thief

Whenever you attack, up to one target attacking creature can't be blocked this turn. Return that creature to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Alora, Merry Thief (clb) 55
1
Aqueous Form

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked. Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Enchantment
Aqueous Form (cmr) 56
1
Rilsa Rael, Kingpin

Deathtouch When Rilsa Rael, Kingpin enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. Whenever you attack, target attacking creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. If you've completed a dungeon, that creature also gets +5/+0 and gains first strike and menace until end of turn.

Creature
Rilsa Rael, Kingpin (clb) 293
1
Sword Coast Sailor

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, this creature can't be blocked this turn."

Enchantment
Sword Coast Sailor (clb) 98
1
Trailblazer's Torch

When Trailblazer's Torch enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked, it deals 2 damage to each creature blocking it. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Trailblazer's Torch (clb) 340
1
Vicious Battlerager

When Vicious Battlerager enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. Spiked Retribution — Whenever Vicious Battlerager becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller loses 5 life.

Creature
Vicious Battlerager (clb) 155
1

Finisher

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Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch. {5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, Vorpal Sword gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game." Equip {B}{B}

Artifact
Vorpal Sword (afr) 124
1

Land

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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 (cmm) 419
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 (lcc) 320
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (clb) 351
1
Creeping Tar Pit

Creeping Tar Pit enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {1}{U}{B}: Creeping Tar Pit becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. It's still a land.

Land
Creeping Tar Pit (clb) 888
1
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (otc) 282
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 (clu) 233
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 (otc) 290
1
Dungeon Descent

Dungeon Descent enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Land
Dungeon Descent (afr) 255
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (ltc) 306
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (who) 276
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 (otc) 296
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (m21) 265
4
Mistvault Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Mistvault Bridge (mh2) 249
1
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (mkc) 276
1
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When Mystic Sanctuary enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (mkc) 277
1
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield 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 (who) 293
1
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (otc) 312
1
Rivendell

Rivendell enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Land
Rivendell (ltr) 259
1
River of Tears

{T}: Add {U}. If you played a land this turn, add {B} instead.

Land
River of Tears (mkc) 283
1
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (lcc) 349
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 (otc) 325
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh2) 486
8
Tainted Isle

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

Land
Tainted Isle (mkc) 300
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 (otc) 328
1
Treasure Vault

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}, Sacrifice Treasure Vault: Create X Treasure tokens.

Artifact Land
Treasure Vault (afr) 358
1
Undercity Sewers

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

Land
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
1

Lifegain

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Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink. Equip {3}

Artifact
Loxodon Warhammer (c21) 249
1
Passageway Seer

Lifelink When Passageway Seer enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, put a +1/+1 counter on Passageway Seer.

Creature
Passageway Seer (clb) 141
1

Protection

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Agent of the Shadow Thieves

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn."

Enchantment
Agent of the Shadow Thieves (clb) 108
1
Armor of Shadows

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Armor of Shadows (clb) 112
1
Cloak and Dagger

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Whenever a Rogue creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Cloak and Dagger to it. Equip {3}

Artifact Tribal
Cloak and Dagger (mor) 141
1
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 (lcc) 314
1

Pump

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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 (2xm) 245
1

Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (who) 239
1
Dimir Keyrune

{T}: Add {U} or {B}. {U}{B}: Dimir Keyrune becomes a 2/2 blue and black Horror artifact creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Dimir Keyrune (clb) 856
1
Dungeon Map

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Artifact
Dungeon Map (afr) 242
1
Hoard Robber

Whenever Hoard Robber deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Hoard Robber (afr) 110
1
Prosperous Thief

Ninjutsu {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever one or more Ninja or Rogue creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Prosperous Thief (neo) 73
1
Sarevok's Tome

When Sarevok's Tome enters the battlefield, you take the initiative. {T}: Add {C}. If you have the initiative, add {C}{C} instead. {3}, {T}: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.

Artifact
Sarevok's Tome (clb) 685
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (lcc) 313
1
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mkc) 242
1
Treasure Map

Artifact
Treasure Map // Treasure Cove (lci) 267Treasure Map // Treasure Cove (lci) 267
1

Recursion

Quantity: 4Price: $4.12
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 (nec) 91
1
Fates' Reversal

Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Sorcery
Fates' Reversal (afr) 102
1
From the Catacombs

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control with a corpse counter on it. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. You take the initiative. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Sorcery
From the Catacombs (clb) 671
1
Lich-Knights' Conquest

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, enchantments, and/or tokens. Return that many creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Lich-Knights' Conquest (woe) 96
1

Removal

Quantity: 10Price: $4.86
Bar the Gate

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Instant
Bar the Gate (afr) 47
1
Blood Money

Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token.

Sorcery
Blood Money (lcc) 183
1
Etrata, the Silencer

Etrata, the Silencer can't be blocked. Whenever Etrata deals combat damage to a player, exile target creature that player controls and put a hit counter on that card. That player loses the game if they own three or more exiled cards with hit counters on them. Etrata's owner shuffles Etrata into their library.

Creature
Etrata, the Silencer (grn) 170
1
Hornswoggle

Counter target creature spell. You create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Hornswoggle (rix) 39
1
Myrkul's Edict

Roll a d20. 1—9 | Choose an opponent. That player sacrifices a creature. 10—19 | Each opponent sacrifices a creature. 20 | Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.

Sorcery
Myrkul's Edict (clb) 135
1
Necromantic Selection

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

Sorcery
Necromantic Selection (afc) 103
1
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (bbd) 123
1
Overwhelming Remorse

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Overwhelming Remorse (bro) 110
1
Price of Fame

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a legendary creature. Destroy target creature. 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
Price of Fame (mkc) 135
1
Thieving Skydiver

Kicker {X}. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional {X} as you cast this spell.) Flying When Thieving Skydiver enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with mana value X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to Thieving Skydiver.

Creature
Thieving Skydiver (otc) 118
1

Theft

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Rogue Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library face down. You may look at it for as long as it remains exiled. {1}{U}{B}: Level 2 Creatures you control have menace. {2}{U}{B}: Level 3 You may play cards exiled with Rogue Class, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Enchantment
Rogue Class (afr) 230
1

Tokens

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Notorious Throng

Prowl {5}{U} (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.) Create X 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature tokens with flying, where X is the damage dealt to your opponents this turn. If this spell's prowl cost was paid, take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery Tribal
Notorious Throng (znc) 33
1

Tutor

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Trophy Mage

When Trophy Mage enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Trophy Mage (ddu) 42
1

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