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Imskir Iron-Eater
Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs less to cast for each artifact you control.)
When Imskir enters, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is half the number of artifacts you control, rounded down.
, Sacrifice an artifact: Imskir deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value to any target.
When Imskir enters, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is half the number of artifacts you control, rounded down.
, Sacrifice an artifact: Imskir deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value to any target.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Commander
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Artifact
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The One Ring
Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
Legendary Artifact
Card Draw
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Bolas's Citadel
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
Legendary Artifact
Underworld Breach
Each nonland card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.)
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.
Enchantment
Combo
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Opposition Agent
Flash
You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries.
While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.
You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries.
While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.
Creature - Human Rogue
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
Whenever Ragavan deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card.
Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
Dash (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)
Legendary Creature - Pirate Monkey
Creature
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Free Artifact
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Lotus Bloom
Suspend 3— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.
Artifact
Mox Tantalite
Suspend 3— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
: Add one mana of any color.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Free Mana
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Bloodsoaked Insight
This spell costs less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.
Target opponent exiles the top three cards of their library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. If you cast a spell this way, mana of any type can be spent to cast it.
Target opponent exiles the top three cards of their library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. If you cast a spell this way, mana of any type can be spent to cast it.
Sorcery
Land
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Ramp
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Removal
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Ritual
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Beseech the Mirror
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.
Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.
Sorcery
Tutor
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Description
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This deck is not cEDH, but instead a high power combo deck looking to win somewhere in turns 4-6.\n\nWhy All Spells? - Key Cards"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"By only playing spells in the deck, we have access to some strategies with Balustrade Spy and Bolas’s Citadel. \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aetherflux Reservoir"}},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Before explaining how those two cards interact with the deck, it is important to first mention the core of most of the win conditions the deck wants to go for: Aetherflux Reservoir. Our main two strategies involve gaining access to everything in the entire deck, and Aetherflux Reservoir presents the perfect outlet for this. Because of how many 0-1 cost cards the deck runs, having access to all of these with an Aetherflux Reservoir out allows us to gain an immense amount of life and bolt the entire table.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"A personal note I made for playing this deck is that once I have finished the wheel spinning (or shortcutted it if the table allows), paying all 150 life at once, holding priority to have a trigger for each player on the stack at the same time. This means if someone has a protection piece such as Teferi’s Protection, there are no issues of potential kingmaking if you did it one at a time. While you still hand someone the game this way, it cannot reasonably be claimed you did so with any intentionality."},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Balustrade Spy"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"A key piece of this deck, and a large reason I put it together, is Balustrade Spy. Balustrade Spy allows us to put our entire deck into the graveyard, and serves as a one-card win condition for the deck. Through a variety of lines, we gain access to this graveyard and use Aetherflux Reservoir to destroy the entire table.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bolas's Citadel"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Bolas’s Citadel is a card that can already see potent use in many decks. However, the interaction it has with hitting a couple lands in a row can often make it fall to the wayside in favor of Ad Nauseum. However, because this deck has no front-faced lands, we do not need to find Sensei-s Divining Top before jamming our Citadel (Though Top is still in the deck as a good, cheap artifact on its own). In addition, the low curve of our many eggs means that while technically not deterministic, resolving a Bolas’s Citadel effectively guarantees victory.\n\nWinning the Game"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nBalustrade Spy + Past in Flames + Yawgmoth’s Will"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"One of the main combo lines this deck goes for is by using Balustrade Spy as a one-card win condition. It is worth noting that the exact nature of this line can vary if certain cards are in hand, or if excess mana is available. However, the following line is generally the way it plays out.\nHave "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Balustrade Spy"}},{"insert":" in hand and {7}{B}{B}{R} available."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast Balustrade Spy, putting your entire library into the graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Flashback "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Past in Flames"}},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"With the last {B}, flashback "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dark Ritual"}},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Use the {B}{B}{B} from Dark Ritual to flashback "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Yawgmoth's Will"}},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lotus Petal"}},{"insert":" from graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Use the Lotus Petal to cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Culling the Weak"}},{"insert":", sacrificing Balustrade Spy."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Use the mana from Culling the Weak to cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aetherflux Reservoir"}},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast as many spells as you need from the graveyard to get more than 200 life, then bolt the table. The exact amount of life you gain can vary, but it will be well into the hundreds. For most playgroups, this step can be skipped, show all of the 0-drops and rituals in the deck and explain that you can gain enough life to kill the table while having spare to play against effects such as Deflecting Swat."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nBalustrade Spy + Underworld Breach + Lion’s Eye Diamond + Cut // Ribbons"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Turning our library upside down can also allow us to use Underworld Breach and Lion’s Eye Diamond to generate a large amount of mana to Ribbons the table. This line is cheaper, but requires both Balustrade Spy and Underworld Breach in hand to start.\nHave "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Balustrade Spy"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Underworld Breach"}},{"insert":" in hand and {4}{B}{R} available."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast Balustrade Spy, putting your entire library into the graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast Underworld Breach."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lion's Eye Diamond"}},{"insert":" from your graveyard, exiling three cards. Make sure you don’t exile Cut // Ribbons."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Sacrifice Lion’s Eye Diamond for {B}{B}{B}."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Repeat steps 4-5 with your whole graveyard (except Cut // Ribbons) to get ~80{B}."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Aftermath cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cut // Ribbons"}},{"insert":", paying the large amount of mana into X."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This is using the aftermath ability, not escaping it via Underworld Breach, so you do not need to exile three cards for this casting."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nBolas’s Citadel\nAs explained above, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bolas's Citadel"}},{"insert":" can win games by itself due to not having any land stoppers. In general, resolving a Bolas’s Citadel allows you to win the game there and then. Instead of specific lines, instead are a couple notes about winning from a Bolas’s Citadel.\nYour goal after resolving a Citadel is to find Aetherflux Reservoir is quickly as possible. While the curve of the deck may be low, it still needs Reservoir to avoid paying your life away to death. This means that any tutors you find should be used to find Reservoir. Even Gamble should be used on a Reservoir, and in the case of it being discarded look for Underworld Breach or Yawgmoth’s Will. One Aetherflux Reservoir is on the field, you can continue to cast the entire deck and bolt the table."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Bolas’s Citadel can also be used to pivot into one of the previous lines. Since you will be casting mana sources and rituals off the top of the library, it is possible to get the mana necessary to use a different line if the pieces line up. If you can cast Balustrade Spy to dump the library and have {4}{B}{R} available to finish from there, go for it. Similarly, if you already have Underworld Breach out and hit Balustrade Spy, dumping the library can allow a Ribbons win."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Some notes about pivoting:"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"-- Do not target yourself with Balustrade Spy if you cannot win off of it. As tempting as it can be to see the wincon of the deck and jam it, without the mana or Breach to finish the line you will just be decking yourself. If you hit Balustrade Spy before you can win with it, simply target a different player with it and go for Aetherflux"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"-- Note that casting Yawgmoth’s Will before Balustrade Spy locks out Spy as a wincon. Because Will makes it so that everything going to your graveyard instead gets exiled, attempting to Balustrade Spy yourself afterwards results in exiling your entire library. Similar to finding Spy early, in this case simply write off pivoting and focus on finding Reservoir."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"-- Something important to keep in mind when attempting to pivot to an Underworld Breach line is that you need to have enough cards in your graveyard to fuel your Lion’s Eye Diamond. While this will generally be fine in normal gameplay, if you hit a long streak of cheap things before Breach and Balustrade Spy, you may not have enough cards in your graveyard. Make sure that your Balustrade Spy will give you enough cards in the graveyard to win with Cut // Ribbons. You need a number of cards equal to the highest life total among opponents (rounded up to the nearest multiple of 3) in addition to LED and Ribbons to have enough mana. 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