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Raffine, Scheming Seer
Flying, ward

Whenever you attack, target attacking creature connives X, where X is the number of attacking creatures. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Legendary Creature - Demon Sphinx
Raffine, Scheming Seer (snc) 213

Commander

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Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Bird
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
Esper Sentinel
Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays
, where X is this creature's power.
Creature Artifact - Human Soldier
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Faerie Mastermind
Flash
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card.
: Each player draws a card.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Faerie Mastermind (mom) 58
Ghostly Pilferer
Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card.
Discard a card: This creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Rogue Spirit
Ghostly Pilferer (otc) 98
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Rhystic Study
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays
.
Enchantment
Rhystic Study (jmp) 169
Smuggler's Share
At the beginning of each end step, draw a card for each opponent who drew two or more cards this turn, then create a Treasure token for each opponent who had two or more lands enter the battlefield under their control this turn.
Enchantment
Smuggler's Share (mkc) 84
Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim
Whenever you draw a card, put a loyalty counter on Teferi.
0: Draw a card.
−2: Create a 2/2 blue Spirit creature token with vigilance and "Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this token."
−12: Target opponent chooses a permanent they control and returns it to its owner's hand. Then they shuffle each nonland permanent they control into its owner's library.
Legendary Planeswalker - Teferi
Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim (bro) 66
Teferi's Ageless Insight
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.
Legendary Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (j25) 371
Trouble in Pairs
If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.
Whenever an opponent attacks you with two or more creatures, draws their second card each turn, or casts their second spell each turn, you draw a card.
Enchantment
Trouble in Pairs (mkc) 15

Draw

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Peer into the Abyss
Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.
Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (plst) M21-117
Thassa's Oracle
When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Thassa's Oracle (thb) 73

Finisher

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Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (otc) 280
Deserted Beach
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Deserted Beach (mid) 260
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
Flooded Strand
, 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 (mh3) 220
Godless Shrine
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Swamp
Godless Shrine (rvr) 277
Hallowed Fountain
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 280
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tdm) 279
Marsh Flats
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Morphic Pool
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Otawara, Soaring City
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (mh3) 310
Polluted Delta
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Prismatic Vista
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
Reflecting Pool
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
Scrubland
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Plains Swamp
Scrubland (30a) 277
Sea of Clouds
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
Shattered Sanctum
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shattered Sanctum (vow) 264
Shipwreck Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (mh3) 314
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Tundra
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Plains Island
Tundra (30a) 280
Underground Sea
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Island Swamp
Underground Sea (30a) 281
Vault of Champions
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 436
Watery Grave
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Watery Grave (rvr) 291

Land

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Flawless Maneuver
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Flawless Maneuver (cmm) 24
Propaganda
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 258
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 (2x2) 32
The Ozolith
Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.
Legendary Artifact
The Ozolith (iko) 237

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (otc) 252
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (dsc) 240
Bone Miser
Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever you discard a land card, add
.
Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Bone Miser (c19) 15
Currency Converter
Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard.
,
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
: Put a card exiled with this artifact into its owner's graveyard. If it's a land card, create a Treasure token. If it's a nonland card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token.
Artifact
Currency Converter (ncc) 81
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (drc) 129
Mox Amber
: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.
Legendary Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Orzhov Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Orzhov Signet (drc) 134
Smothering Tithe
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay
. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 57
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
Waste Not
Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add
.
Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.
Enchantment
Waste Not (c16) 117

Ramp

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Phyrexian Reclamation
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124
Reanimate
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Sorcery
Reanimate (dsc) 155

Recursion

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Archfiend of Ifnir
Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Demon
Archfiend of Ifnir (akh) 78
Cyclonic Rift
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Instant
Cyclonic Rift (cmm) 84
Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
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) 94
Force of Will
You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 50
Mana Drain
Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of
equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Orcish Bowmasters
Flash
When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.
Creature - Archer Orc
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 103
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 (blc) 147
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (drc) 37
Winds of Abandon
Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Winds of Abandon (plst) MH1-37

Removal

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Agatha's Soul Cauldron
You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate abilities of creatures you control.
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with Agatha's Soul Cauldron.
: Exile target card from a graveyard. When a creature card is exiled this way, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Legendary Artifact
Agatha's Soul Cauldron (woe) 242
Containment Construct
Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard. If you do, you may play that card this turn.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Containment Construct (neo) 243
Cryptcaller Chariot
Menace
Whenever you discard one or more cards, create that many tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Crew 2
Artifact - Vehicle
Cryptcaller Chariot (dft) 80
Dark Deal
Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.
Sorcery
Dark Deal (frf) 66
Dauthi Voidwalker
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Rogue Dauthi
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 81
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Faith of the Devoted
Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Enchantment
Faith of the Devoted (c19) 112
Feast of Sanity
Whenever you discard a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Feast of Sanity (mh2) 84
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay
. If you do, create a tapped token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Zombie
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist (drc) 1
Kamiz, Obscura Oculus
Whenever you attack, target attacking creature can't be blocked this turn. It connives. Then choose another attacking creature with lesser power. That creature gains double strike until end of turn. (To have a creature connive, draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
Legendary Creature - Rogue Octopus
Kamiz, Obscura Oculus (ncc) 3
Ledger Shredder
Flying
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Creature - Bird Advisor
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
Likeness Looter
Flying
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
: This creature becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except it has flying and this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Faerie Shapeshifter
Likeness Looter (woe) 208
Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
Flash
Flying
Whenever Malcolm deals combat damage to a player, put a chorus counter on it. Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are four or more chorus counters on Malcolm, you may cast the discarded card without paying its mana cost.
Legendary Creature - Pirate Siren
Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel (lci) 63
Monument to Endurance
Whenever you discard a card, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Each opponent loses 3 life.
Artifact
Monument to Endurance (dft) 237
Psychosis Crawler
Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian
Psychosis Crawler (mkc) 234
Queza, Augur of Agonies
Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Advisor Octopus
Queza, Augur of Agonies (snc) 212
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107
Tergrid, God of Fright
Menace
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Legendary Creature - God
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112
Windfall
Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.
Sorcery
Windfall (otc) 123

Synergy

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Demonic Consultation
Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.
Instant
Demonic Consultation (mb2) 181
Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck stats

14 pips - 13 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
24 pips - 19 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
35 pips - 26 cards
27 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 3 cards
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Description

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