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Barrin, Tolarian Archmage (Semi-retired)
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Est deck cost: $380.40
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Commander

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Barrin, Tolarian Archmage

When Barrin enters, return up to one other target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand. At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent was put into your hand from the battlefield this turn, draw a card.

Creature
Barrin, Tolarian Archmage (m21) 45

Commander

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Land

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Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Land
Castle Vantress (eld) 242
Coral Atoll

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{U}.

Land
Coral Atoll (cmr) 480
Guildless Commons

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

Land
Guildless Commons (cmr) 351
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (znr) 271
Lonely Sandbar

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

Land
Lonely Sandbar (c20) 287
Memorial to Genius

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw two cards.

Land
Memorial to Genius (dom) 243
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: 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 (c20) 292
Mystic Sanctuary

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

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Land
Opal Palace (cm2) 259
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (c20) 301
Remote Isle

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

Land
Remote Isle (c20) 302
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (c20) 303

Land

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Artifact

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Caged Sun

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (plst) CM2-178
Cloudstone Curio

Whenever a nonartifact permanent you control enters, you may return another permanent you control that shares a permanent type with it to its owner's hand.

Artifact
Cloudstone Curio (rav) 257
Crystal Shard

{3}, {T} or {U}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Artifact
Crystal Shard (plst) MRD-159
Elixir of Immortality

{2}, {T}: You gain 5 life. Shuffle this artifact and your graveyard into their owner's library.

Artifact
Elixir of Immortality (plst) M11-206
Empyrial Plate

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand. Equip {2}

Artifact
Empyrial Plate (c16) 251
Erratic Portal

{1}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Artifact
Erratic Portal (plst) EXO-132
Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped. {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Artifact
Nyx Lotus (thb) 235
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c20) 252
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
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (plst) C15-55
Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Artifact
Venser's Journal (c16) 279

Artifact

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Planeswalker

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Mordenkainen

+2: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library. −2: Create a blue Dog Illusion creature token with "This token's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of cards in your hand." −10: Exchange your hand and library, then shuffle. You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size."

Planeswalker
Mordenkainen (afr) 64

Planeswalker

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Creature

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Aeon Chronicler

Aeon Chronicler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Suspend X—{X}{3}{U}. X can't be 0. Whenever a time counter is removed from this card while it's exiled, draw a card.

Creature
Aeon Chronicler (c16) 82
Alrund, God of the Cosmos

Creature
Alrund, God of the Cosmos // Hakka, Whispering Raven (khm) 40Alrund, God of the Cosmos // Hakka, Whispering Raven (khm) 40
Amphin Mutineer

When this creature enters, exile up to one target non-Salamander creature. That creature's controller creates a 4/3 blue Salamander Warrior creature token. Encore {4}{U}{U} ({4}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Amphin Mutineer (cmr) 55
Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards. {2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.

Creature
Arcanis the Omnipotent (c17) 80
Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature
Body of Knowledge (cmr) 59
Cavalier of Gales

Flying When this creature enters, draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. When this creature dies, shuffle it into its owner's library, then scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Creature
Cavalier of Gales (m20) 52
Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature
Chasm Skulker (plst) M15-46
Draining Whelk

Flash Flying When this creature enters, counter target spell. Put X +1/+1 counters on this creature, where X is that spell's mana value.

Creature
Draining Whelk (tsp) 57
Floodgate

Defender When this creature has flying, sacrifice it. When this creature leaves the battlefield, it deals damage to each nonblue creature without flying equal to half the number of Islands you control, rounded down.

Creature
Floodgate (plst) MIR-67
Gadwick, the Wizened

When Gadwick enters, draw X cards. Whenever you cast a blue spell, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Creature
Gadwick, the Wizened (eld) 48
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar (afr) 60
Hoverguard Sweepers

Flying When this creature enters, you may return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands.

Creature
Hoverguard Sweepers (5dn) 32
Kederekt Leviathan

When this creature enters, return all other nonland permanents to their owners' hands. Unearth {6}{U} ({6}{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
Kederekt Leviathan (ala) 48
Kefnet the Mindful

Flying, indestructible Kefnet can't attack or block unless you have seven or more cards in hand. {3}{U}: Draw a card, then you may return a land you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Kefnet the Mindful (akh) 59
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
Meteor Golem

When this creature enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Creature Artifact
Meteor Golem (jmp) 474
Myojin of Seeing Winds

Myojin of Seeing Winds enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand. Myojin of Seeing Winds has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it. Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Seeing Winds: Draw a card for each permanent you control.

Creature
Myojin of Seeing Winds (chk) 75
Nadir Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Creature
Nadir Kraken (thb) 55
Phyrexian Ingester

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. This creature gets +X/+Y, where X is the exiled creature card's power and Y is its toughness.

Creature
Phyrexian Ingester (nph) 41
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
Psychosis Crawler (mbs) 126
Rescuer Sphinx

Flying As this creature enters, you may return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Rescuer Sphinx (war) 65
Sakashima's Student

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.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Ninja in addition to its other creature types.

Creature
Sakashima's Student (pc2) 24
Shrieking Drake

Flying When this creature enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Shrieking Drake (vis) 43
Solemn Simulacrum

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

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (m21) 239
Soramaro, First to Dream

Flying Soramaro's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. {4}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Draw a card.

Creature
Soramaro, First to Dream (sok) 58
Storm Sculptor

This creature can't be blocked. When this creature enters, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Storm Sculptor (jmp) 179
Sturmgeist

Flying Sturmgeist's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Sturmgeist (isd) 82
Thousand Winds

Flying Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, return all other tapped creatures to their owners' hands.

Creature
Thousand Winds (c19) 100
Tidespout Tyrant

Flying Whenever you cast a spell, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Tidespout Tyrant (dis) 34
Tome Raider

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Tome Raider (eld) 68
Toothy, Imaginary Friend

Partner with Pir, Imaginative Rascal (When this creature enters, target player may put Pir into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Toothy. When Toothy leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Toothy, Imaginary Friend (bbd) 12
Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Venser, Shaper Savant (fut) 46
Voracious Greatshark

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

Creature
Voracious Greatshark (iko) 70

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Sorcery

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Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (ths) 46
Sea Gate Restoration

Sorcery
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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Behold the Unspeakable

Enchantment
Behold the Unspeakable // Vision of the Unspeakable (neo) 48Behold the Unspeakable // Vision of the Unspeakable (neo) 48
Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment. Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Ominous Seas (iko) 61
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.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (m21) 76
Thought Reflection

If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Thought Reflection (shm) 53
Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You have no maximum hand size. {2}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards. {4}{U}: Level 3 Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Wizard Class (afr) 81

Enchantment

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Instant

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (tmp) 57
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (c20) 35
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (cmr) 80
Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Return target creature to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Instant
Mystic Confluence (plst) BBD-122
Paradoxical Outcome

Return any number of target nonland, nontoken permanents you control to their owners' hands. Draw a card for each card returned to your hand this way.

Instant
Paradoxical Outcome (kld) 60
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (2xm) 62
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (gk2) 109
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (c19) 92
Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Instant
Rewind (m21) 63
Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Unwind (dom) 72

Instant

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{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck is bounces its own things for more value, while drawing more cards. Win con is to stick something like Psychosis Crawler that cares about hand size and/or triggers on card draw, then draw tons of cards with something like Myojin of Seeing Wind.\n"}]}
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