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Proliferation Station
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Commander

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Helga, Skittish Seer

Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 4 or greater, you draw a card, gain 1 life, and put a +1/+1 counter on Helga. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Helga's power. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with {X} in their mana costs.

Creature
Helga, Skittish Seer (blb) 332

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Counters

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Branching Evolution

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Enchantment
Branching Evolution (mh3) 285
Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Enchantment
Hardened Scales (pip) 470
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead. {1}{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Artifact
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire (mom) 198
Power Fist

Equipped creature has trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it." Equip {2}

Artifact
Power Fist (pip) 81
Quilled Greatwurm

Trample Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage during your turn, put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (It must survive to get the counters.) You may cast this card from your graveyard by removing six counters from among creatures you control in addition to paying its other costs.

Creature
Quilled Greatwurm (fdn) 111
Railway Brawler

Reach, trample Whenever another creature you control enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its power. Plot {3}{G} (You may pay {3}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Railway Brawler (otj) 175
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

Trample, haste If you would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead. If an opponent would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, they put half that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead, rounded down.

Creature
Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider (khm) 333

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Proliferate

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Dreamtide Whale

Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Dreamtide Whale (mh3) 59
Evolution Sage

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Evolution Sage (war) 159
Inexorable Tide

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Enchantment
Inexorable Tide (som) 35
Metastatic Evangel

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Metastatic Evangel (mh3) 393
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Flying If you would proliferate, proliferate twice instead. {1}{U/P}{U/P}, Remove three counters from among other artifacts, creatures, and planeswalkers you control: Put an indestructible counter on Tekuthal. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Creature
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus (one) 71

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Removal

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (slp) 7
Archdruid's Charm

Choose one — • Search your library for a creature or land card and reveal it. Put it onto the battlefield tapped if it's a land card. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Then shuffle. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. • Exile target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Archdruid's Charm (mkm) 408
Ezuri's Predation

For each creature your opponents control, create a 4/4 green Phyrexian Beast creature token. Each of those tokens fights a different one of those creatures.

Sorcery
Ezuri's Predation (clb) 824
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
Flare of Denial

You may sacrifice a nontoken blue creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Flare of Denial (mh3) 62
Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (inr) 303
Mystic Snake

Flash When this creature enters, counter target spell.

Creature
Mystic Snake (spg) 35
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
Rampaging Yao Guai

Vigilance, trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature enters, destroy any number of target artifacts and/or enchantments with total mana value X or less.

Creature
Rampaging Yao Guai (pip) 82
Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (ima) 210
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (mkc) 88
Ugin's Binding

Devoid (This card has no color.) Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Whenever you cast a colorless spell with mana value 7 or greater, you may exile this card from your graveyard. When you do, return each nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.

Instant
Ugin's Binding (mh3) 76
Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (aer) 181

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Burn

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Giggling Skitterspike

Indestructible Whenever this creature attacks, blocks, or becomes the target of a spell, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent. {5}: Monstrosity 5. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put five +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

Creature Artifact
Giggling Skitterspike (dsc) 66

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Draw

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Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may draw a card.

Creature
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait (plst) CMR-365
Danny Pink

Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Creatures you control have "Whenever one or more counters are put on this creature for the first time each turn, draw a card."

Creature
Danny Pink (who) 39
Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (wot) 53
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card. −1: Untap target permanent.

Planeswalker
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner (plst) WAR-232
Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar

Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn. Whenever one or more creatures you control each with power greater than its base power deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar (lci) 232
Pollywog Prodigy

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.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell with mana value less than this creature's power, draw a card.

Creature
Pollywog Prodigy (blc) 15
Sylvan Library

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Enchantment
Sylvan Library (ema) 187
Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student

Creature
Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar (mh3) 242Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar (mh3) 242
Twenty-Toed Toad

Your maximum hand size is twenty. Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on Twenty-Toed Toad and draw a card. Whenever Twenty-Toed Toad attacks, you win the game if there are twenty or more counters on it or you have twenty or more cards in hand.

Creature
Twenty-Toed Toad (blc) 51
Well Rested

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature becomes untapped, put two +1/+1 counters on it, then you gain 2 life and draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn."

Enchantment
Well Rested (pip) 88

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Protection

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Avacyn, Angel of Hope

Flying, vigilance, indestructible Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Creature
Avacyn, Angel of Hope (inr) 477
Flare of Fortitude

You may sacrifice a nontoken white creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Until end of turn, your life total can't change, and permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible.

Instant
Flare of Fortitude (mh3) 321
High Fae Trickster

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Creature
High Fae Trickster (fdn) 40
Legolas's Quick Reflexes

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Untap target creature. Until end of turn, it gains hexproof, reach, and "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature."

Instant
Legolas's Quick Reflexes (ltc) 493
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (mrd) 199
March of Swirling Mist

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Instant
March of Swirling Mist (neo) 61
Mutational Advantage

Permanents you control with counters on them gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to those permanents this turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Mutational Advantage (pip) 111
Vigor

Trample If damage would be dealt to another creature you control, prevent that damage. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way. When Vigor is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Creature
Vigor (pip) 347

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Tokens

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Doubling Season

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead. If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

Enchantment
Doubling Season (wot) 52
Jacked Rabbit

Ravenous (This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, draw a card when it enters.) Whenever this creature attacks, create a number of 1/1 white Rabbit creature tokens equal to this creature's power.

Creature
Jacked Rabbit (blc) 9
Koma, Cosmos Serpent

This spell can't be countered. At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 3/3 blue Serpent creature token named Koma's Coil. Sacrifice another Serpent: Choose one — • Tap target permanent. Its activated abilities can't be activated this turn. • Koma gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Koma, Cosmos Serpent (mkc) 213

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Clones

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Altered Ego

This spell can't be countered. You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Altered Ego (inr) 228

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Finisher

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Ulamog, the Defiler

When you cast this spell, target opponent exiles the top half of their library, rounded up. Ward—Sacrifice two permanents. Ulamog enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the greatest mana value among cards in exile. Ulamog has annihilator X, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Ulamog, the Defiler (mh3) 15

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Ramp

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Defiler of Vigor

Trample As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {G} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay. Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Defiler of Vigor (dmu) 160
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (mkc) 227
Fanatic of Rhonas

{T}: Add {G}. Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Fanatic of Rhonas (mh3) 152
Goldvein Hydra

Vigilance, trample, haste This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power.

Creature
Goldvein Hydra (otj) 167
Seedborn Muse

Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Seedborn Muse (mkc) 186
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power. {G}, {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Creature
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds (cmm) 1064
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
Twitching Doll

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Put a nest counter on this creature. {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Create a 2/2 green Spider creature token with reach for each counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature Artifact
Twitching Doll (dsk) 384

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Tutor

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Invasion of Ikoria

Battle
Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria (mom) 190Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria (mom) 190

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Copy

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Doppelgang

For each of X target permanents, create X tokens that are copies of that permanent.

Sorcery
Doppelgang (mkm) 198
Mockingbird

Flying You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield with mana value less than or equal to the amount of mana spent to cast this creature, except it's a Bird in addition to its other types and it has flying.

Creature
Mockingbird (blb) 61

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes

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

Land
Adarkar Wastes (blc) 291
Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (tmp) 315
Barkchannel Pathway

Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251
Blast Zone

This land enters with a charge counter on it. {T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on this land. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this land.

Land
Blast Zone (bro) 369
Bountiful Promenade

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Bountiful Promenade (bbd) 81
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 659
Dreamroot Cascade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Dreamroot Cascade (who) 273
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (mkc) 260
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
Floodfarm Verge

{T}: Add {W}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

Land
Floodfarm Verge (dsk) 330
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dsk) 276
Hedge Maze

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Hedge Maze (mkm) 326
Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (pip) 267
Hushwood Verge

{T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control a Forest or a Plains.

Land
Hushwood Verge (dsk) 332
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (neo) 296
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (unf) 487
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dsk) 273
Lush Portico

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Lush Portico (mkm) 327
Meticulous Archive

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Meticulous Archive (mkm) 328
Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Land
Minas Tirith (ltr) 256
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (mkc) 275
Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Nesting Grounds (pip) 502
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dsk) 272
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 663
Rivendell

Rivendell enters 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
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (mkc) 284
Shifting Woodland

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}: Add {G}. Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Land
Shifting Woodland (mh3) 228
Spara's Headquarters

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 293
Temple Garden

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

Land
Temple Garden (grn) 258
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (pip) 311
Willowrush Verge

{T}: Add {U}. {T}: Add {G}. Activate only if you control a Forest or an Island.

Land
Willowrush Verge (dft) 375
Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235

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Recursion

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Evolution Witness

{1}{G}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Evolution Witness (mh3) 151

Recursion

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Untap

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Sword of the Paruns

As long as equipped creature is tapped, tapped creatures you control get +2/+0. As long as equipped creature is untapped, untapped creatures you control get +0/+2. {3}: You may tap or untap equipped creature. Equip {3}

Artifact
Sword of the Paruns (rvr) 395

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Maybeboard

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Ancestral Statue

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

Creature Artifact
Ancestral Statue (jmp) 458
Chakram Retriever

Partner with Chakram Slinger (When this creature enters, target player may put Chakram Slinger into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever you cast a spell during your turn, untap target creature.

Creature
Chakram Retriever (bbd) 15
Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Creature
Forgotten Ancient (j25) 147
Intruder Alarm

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.

Enchantment
Intruder Alarm (plst) 8ED-86

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Tokens & Extras

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Clue

{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact Token
Clue (tinr) 22
Copy

(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)

Token
Copy (tmh3) 37
Fanatic of Rhonas

{T}: Add {G}. Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Creature Token
Fanatic of Rhonas (tmh3) 15
Koma's Coil

Creature Token
Koma's Coil (tmkc) 7
Rabbit

Creature Token
Rabbit (tfdn) 5
Spider

Reach

Creature Token
Spider (tdsk) 12
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tblb) 29

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Deck Info

Deck stats

13 pips - 9 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
30 pips - 24 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
50 pips - 34 cards
27 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
12 mana - 9 cards
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{"ops":[{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"This is a reconstruction of my first-ever commander deck using - well - everyone's "},{"attributes":{"strike":true,"italic":true},"insert":"least"},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":" favorite un-boltable bird ("},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Nadu, Winged Wisdom"}},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":") in the command spot. Seriously, though, I wanted to try and build Nadu in a way that wouldn't get me blackballed from my LGS, and after a few games, this appears to be fair? There is zero free interaction between me and Nadu in this deck (no zero-cost equips to cheese), and I have to pay for "},{"attributes":{"strike":true,"italic":true},"insert":"almost"},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":" all triggers of Nadu's ability (the inclusion of "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief"}},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":" makes this a little cheesy, but that's still capped at twice per turn). ("},{"attributes":{"strike":true,"italic":true},"insert":"Of note: proliferation does not target creatures, so it cannot trigger Nadu's ability for anyone. I think that's where a lot of the balance here lives."},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":")"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"The only thing to look out for if you really want to tone this down is "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Magistrate's Scepter"}},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":" once you have a decent proliferation engine going. It makes it hard to lose the game, and even locked in a cage of my own making, Nadu gets to it pretty quickly. It can also go infinite if/when "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider"}},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":{"card-link":"Doubling Season"}},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":" make their appearances, so be warned!"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"strike":true},"insert":"Still, if you've wanted to build the bird and not make new forever enemies, I recommend something like this. I've been complimented on my thoughtfulness and ability to balance after rolling this out this week."},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"10/3/2024"},{"insert":": Recent bans have made my dream of somewhat-fair Nadu "},{"attributes":{"italic":true,"color":"#a10000","bold":true},"insert":"ILLEGAL"},{"insert":", so we're pivoting to Bant, baby! I've been looking for an excuse to use the prettiest card I ever pulled, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Helga, Skittish Seer"}},{"insert":" slots nicely into a counters-focused deck, bringing with her some nice white removal and surprising proliferation options.\n"}]}
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