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The Ancient One
Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard.
: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.
Legendary Creature - Spirit God
The Ancient One (lci) 222

Commander

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Mask of Griselbrand
Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Mask of Griselbrand (mid) 111
Millstone
,
: Target player mills two cards.
Artifact
Millstone (plst) M14-213

Artifact

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Invasion of Amonkhet
(As a Siege enters, choose an opponent to protect it. You and others can attack it. When it's defeated, exile it, then cast it transformed.)
When this Siege enters, each player mills three cards, then each opponent discards a card and you draw a card. (To mill three cards, a player puts the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Battle - Siege
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert (mom) 231Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert (mom) 231

Battle

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Excavated Wall
Defender
,
: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Excavated Wall (stx) 255
Havoc Demon
Flying
When this creature dies, all creatures get -5/-5 until end of turn.
Creature - Demon
Havoc Demon (ema) 90
Herald of Anguish
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for
.)
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent discards a card.
, Sacrifice an artifact: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
Creature - Demon
Herald of Anguish (brc) 108
Inspired Sphinx
Flying
When this creature enters, draw cards equal to the number of opponents you have.
: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.
Creature - Sphinx
Inspired Sphinx (scd) 55
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each
in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.
Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 365
Lotleth Giant
Undergrowth — When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent for each creature card in your graveyard.
Creature - Zombie Giant
Lotleth Giant (cmm) 171
Marauding Brinefang
Ward
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Islandcycling
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Creature - Dinosaur
Marauding Brinefang (lci) 64
Meteor Golem
When this creature enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Meteor Golem (fdn) 256
Millikin
, Mill a card: Add
. (Activate only as an instant. To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature Artifact - Construct
Millikin (dmr) 231
Mirrorshell Crab
Ward
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Channel —
, Discard this card: Counter target spell or ability unless its controller pays
.
Creature Artifact - Crab
Mirrorshell Crab (neo) 63
Overseer of the Damned
Flying
When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature.
Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Creature - Demon
Overseer of the Damned (mkc) 132
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 - Beast Phyrexian
Phyrexian Ingester (cmm) 111
Primoc Escapee
Flying
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Beast Bird
Primoc Escapee (lgn) 49
Pursued Whale
When this creature enters, each opponent creates a 1/1 red Pirate creature token with "This token can't block" and "Creatures you control attack each combat if able."
Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost
more to cast.
Creature - Whale
Pursued Whale (clb) 732
Quicksilver Gargantuan
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's 7/7.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Quicksilver Gargantuan (som) 39
Sandstone Oracle
Flying
When this creature enters, choose an opponent. If that player has more cards in hand than you, draw cards equal to the difference.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sandstone Oracle (cmm) 406
Sapphire Dragon
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, scry 2.
Creature - Dragon
Sapphire Dragon // Psionic Pulse (clb) 94
Scholar of the Ages
When this creature enters, return up to two target instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Scholar of the Ages (cmr) 93
Scholar of the Lost Trove
Flying
When this creature enters, you may cast target instant, sorcery, or artifact card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If an instant or sorcery spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Creature - Sphinx
Scholar of the Lost Trove (jmp) 14
Scourge of Nel Toth
Flying
You may cast this creature from your graveyard by paying
and sacrificing two creatures rather than paying its mana cost.
Creature - Dragon Zombie
Scourge of Nel Toth (scd) 104
Scrapdiver Serpent
This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an artifact.
Creature - Serpent
Scrapdiver Serpent (cmr) 94
Sepulchral Primordial
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Creature - Avatar
Sepulchral Primordial (znc) 54
Shard of the Void Dragon
Flying
Spear of the Void Dragon — Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice.
Matter Absorption — Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield or is put into exile from the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Creature - C'tan
Shard of the Void Dragon (40k) 56
Silent-Blade Oni
Ninjutsu
(
, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that player's hand. You may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Demon Ninja
Silent-Blade Oni (otc) 241
Spellweaver Duo
Assist (Another player can pay up to
of this spell's cost.)
When this creature enters, you may return target tapped creature to its owner's hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Spellweaver Duo (bbd) 42
Sphinx of the Final Word
This spell can't be countered.
Flying
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant and sorcery spells you control can't be countered.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of the Final Word (ogw) 63
Sphinx of Uthuun
Flying
When this creature enters, reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Uthuun (cmr) 406
Spined Megalodon
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Shark
Spined Megalodon (plst) M21-72
Striped Riverwinder
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Serpent
Striped Riverwinder (plst) HOU-48
Surtland Elementalist
As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Giant card from your hand or pay
.
Whenever this creature attacks, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Wizard Giant
Surtland Elementalist (khm) 375
Sutured Ghoul
Trample
As this creature enters, exile any number of creature cards from your graveyard.
Sutured Ghoul's power is equal to the total power of the exiled cards and its toughness is equal to their total toughness.
Creature - Zombie
Sutured Ghoul (m12) 112
Sword Coast Serpent
This creature can't be blocked as long as you've cast a noncreature spell this turn.
Creature - Dragon Serpent
Sword Coast Serpent // Capsizing Wave (clb) 99
Terror Ballista
Menace
Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Unearth
(
: 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 Artifact - Construct
Terror Ballista (bro) 290
Thieving Amalgam
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Whenever a creature you control but don't own dies, its owner loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Ape Snake
Thieving Amalgam (otc) 150
Tolarian Serpent
At the beginning of your upkeep, mill seven cards.
Creature - Serpent
Tolarian Serpent (wth) 57
Tolarian Terror
This spell costs
less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Ward
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Creature - Serpent
Tolarian Terror (fdn) 167
Tromokratis
Tromokratis has hexproof unless it's attacking or blocking.
Tromokratis can't be blocked unless all creatures defending player controls block it. (If any creature that player controls doesn't block this creature, it can't be blocked.)
Legendary Creature - Kraken
Tromokratis (cmm) 129
Twins of Discord
Whenever you attack, choose odd or even. Creatures with mana value of that quality can't block this turn. (Zero is even.)
Each other colorless creature you control has bloodthirst 2. (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, that creature enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.)
Creature - Eldrazi
Twins of Discord (m3c) 37
Umbra Stalker
Chroma — Umbra Stalker's power and toughness are each equal to the number of black mana symbols in the mana costs of cards in your graveyard.
Creature - Elemental
Umbra Stalker (eve) 48
Vile Mutilator
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment.
Flying, trample
When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken enchantment of their choice, then sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
Creature - Demon
Vile Mutilator (dsk) 122
Waker of Waves
Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.
, Discard this card: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Creature - Whale
Waker of Waves (m21) 84
Windreader Sphinx
Flying
Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Sphinx
Windreader Sphinx (scd) 64
Wretched Gryff
Emerge
(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When you cast this spell, draw a card.
Flying
Creature - Eldrazi Hippogriff
Wretched Gryff (plst) EMN-12
Writhing Necromass
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Deathtouch
Creature - Zombie Giant
Writhing Necromass (dmu) 115

Creature

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Winds of Rebuke
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Each player mills two cards.
Instant
Winds of Rebuke (akh) 76

Defense

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Dig Through Time
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Instant
Dig Through Time (dsc) 115
Scour the Laboratory
Delirium — This spell costs
less to cast if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Draw three cards.
Instant
Scour the Laboratory (emn) 73
Treasure Cruise
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (m3c) 195

Draw

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Broken Ambitions
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
. Clash with an opponent. If you win, that spell's controller mills four cards. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on their choice of the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a greater mana value.)
Instant
Broken Ambitions (lrw) 54
Jwari Disruption
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins (znr) 64Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins (znr) 64

Instant

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Bad River
This land enters tapped.
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Bad River (dmc) 197
Choked Estuary
As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Choked Estuary (mkc) 254
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (m3c) 331
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (m3c) 340
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (bro) 270
Maestros Theater
When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.
Land
Maestros Theater (snc) 251
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, 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 (m3c) 358
Port of Karfell
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Land
Port of Karfell (mkc) 280
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (pip) 296
Sunken Palace
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Exile seven cards from your graveyard: Add
. When you spend this mana to cast a spell or activate an ability, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be copied.)
Land - Cave
Sunken Palace (m3c) 133
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (stx) 371
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Terramorphic Expanse (afc) 267

Land

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Abhorrent Overlord
Flying
When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
Creature - Demon
Abhorrent Overlord (ths) 75
Abundant Maw
Emerge
(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When you cast this spell, target opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
Creature - Eldrazi Leech
Abundant Maw (emn) 1
Ancient Stone Idol
Flash
This spell costs
less to cast for each attacking creature.
Trample
When this creature dies, create a 6/12 colorless Construct artifact creature token with trample.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Ancient Stone Idol (mkc) 222
Angler Turtle
Hexproof
Creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able.
Creature - Turtle
Angler Turtle (scd) 43
Arcane Proxy
Prototype
— 2/1 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.)
When this creature enters, if you cast it, exile target instant or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to this creature's power from your graveyard. Copy that card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.
Creature Artifact - Wizard
Arcane Proxy (bro) 75
Arcbound Overseer
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with modular.
Modular 6 (This creature enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Creature Artifact - Golem
Arcbound Overseer (plst) DST-99
Archfiend of Sorrows
Flying
When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Unearth
(
: 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 - Demon
Archfiend of Sorrows (mh2) 74
Archfiend of Spite
Flying
Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to this creature, that source's controller loses that much life unless they sacrifice that many permanents of their choice.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Demon
Archfiend of Spite (c19) 14
Arvinox, the Mind Flail
Arvinox isn't a creature unless you control three or more permanents you don't own.
At the beginning of your end step, exile the bottom card of each opponent's library face down. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may cast permanent spells from among them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - Horror
Arvinox, the Mind Flail (dsc) 130
Avatar of Woe
If there are ten or more creature cards total in all graveyards, this spell costs
less to cast.
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Creature - Avatar
Avatar of Woe (pd3) 6
Baleful Force
At the beginning of each upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Elemental
Baleful Force (c13) 70
Benthic Anomaly
Devoid (This card has no color.)
When you cast this spell, for each opponent, choose a creature that player controls. Create a token that's a copy of one of those creatures, except its power is equal to the total power of those creatures, its toughness is equal to the total toughness of those creatures, and it's a colorless Eldrazi creature.
Creature - Eldrazi Serpent
Benthic Anomaly (m3c) 46
Breaker of Armies
All creatures able to block this creature do so.
Creature - Eldrazi
Breaker of Armies (plst) BFZ-3
Breaker of Creation
When you cast this spell, you gain 1 life for each colorless permanent you control.
Hexproof from each color
Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)
Creature - Eldrazi
Breaker of Creation (mh3) 1
Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
When Brinelin enters and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 6 or greater, you may return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Kraken
Brinelin, the Moon Kraken (cmm) 78
Bringer of the Last Gift
Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it, each player sacrifices all other creatures they control. Then each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard that weren't put there this way to the battlefield.
Creature - Vampire Demon
Bringer of the Last Gift (lci) 94
Chancellor of the Dross
You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life, then you gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Flying, lifelink
Creature - Vampire Phyrexian
Chancellor of the Dross (nph) 54
Chancellor of the Spires
You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent mills seven cards.
Flying
When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Sphinx Phyrexian
Chancellor of the Spires (nph) 31
Colossal Whale
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile target creature defending player controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)
Creature - Whale
Colossal Whale (ltc) 186
Colossus of Akros
Defender, indestructible
: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as this creature is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Colossus of Akros (ths) 214
Colossus of Sardia
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
: Untap this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Colossus of Sardia (plst) 10E-317
Conspiracy Unraveler
Flying
You may collect evidence 10 rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast. (To collect evidence 10, exile cards with total mana value 10 or greater from your graveyard.)
Creature - Sphinx Detective
Conspiracy Unraveler (mkm) 47
Cresting Mosasaurus
Emerge
(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When this creature enters, if you cast it, return each non-Dinosaur creature to its owner's hand.
Creature - Dinosaur
Cresting Mosasaurus (rex) 2
Cyclone Summoner
When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, return all permanents to their owners' hands except for Giants, Wizards, and lands.
Creature - Wizard Giant
Cyclone Summoner (khm) 52
Death-Rattle Oni
Flash
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature that died this turn.
When this creature enters, destroy all other creatures that were dealt damage this turn.
Creature - Demon Spirit
Death-Rattle Oni (mat) 13
Deathbringer Regent
Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand and there are five or more other creatures on the battlefield, destroy all other creatures.
Creature - Dragon
Deathbringer Regent (j22) 396
Demon of Loathing
Flying, trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Creature - Demon
Demon of Loathing (gn3) 45
Denizen of the Deep
When this creature enters, return each other creature you control to its owner's hand.
Creature - Serpent
Denizen of the Deep (dmr) 47
Depth Charge Colossus
Prototype
— 6/6 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.)
This creature doesn't untap during your untap step.
: Untap this creature.
Creature Artifact - Dreadnought
Depth Charge Colossus (bro) 78
Diluvian Primordial
Flying
When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Creature - Avatar
Diluvian Primordial (otc) 96
Dreadfeast Demon
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice a non-Demon creature. If you do, create a token that's a copy of this creature.
Creature - Demon
Dreadfeast Demon (vow) 108
Drownyard Behemoth
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Emerge
(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
This creature has hexproof as long as it entered this turn.
Creature - Crab Eldrazi
Drownyard Behemoth (emn) 4
Drownyard Lurker
Vigilance
When you cast or cycle Drownyard Lurker, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add
."
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Eldrazi Trilobite
Drownyard Lurker (mh3) 3
Dusk Mangler
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature, discard a card, or pay 4 life.
When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards a card, and loses 4 life.
Creature - Horror
Dusk Mangler (snc) 77
Eddymurk Crab
Flash
This spell costs
less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
This creature enters tapped if it's not your turn.
When this creature enters, tap up to two target creatures.
Creature - Elemental Crab
Eddymurk Crab (blb) 48
Elder Brain
Menace
Whenever this creature attacks a player, exile all cards from that player's hand, then they draw that many cards. You may play lands and cast spells from among the exiled cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
Creature - Horror
Elder Brain (clb) 125
Elder Deep-Fiend
Flash
Emerge
(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When you cast this spell, tap up to four target permanents.
Creature - Octopus Eldrazi
Elder Deep-Fiend (cmr) 368
Eldrazi Devastator
Trample
Creature - Eldrazi
Eldrazi Devastator (plst) BFZ-7
Enigma Thief
Prowl
(You may cast this spell for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Sphinx or Rogue.)
Flying
When this creature enters, for each opponent, return up to one target nonland permanent that player controls to its owner's hand.
Creature - Rogue Sphinx
Enigma Thief (znc) 4
Errant Ephemeron
Flying
Suspend 4—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with four 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. It has haste.)
Creature - Illusion
Errant Ephemeron (tsr) 66
Eye of Duskmantle
Flying, lifelink
You may play lands and cast spells from among cards in your graveyard you've surveilled this turn. If you cast a spell this way, you pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.
Creature - Eye
Eye of Duskmantle (mkc) 27
Gate Colossus
Affinity for Gates (This spell costs
less to cast for each Gate you control.)
This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Whenever a Gate you control enters, you may put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Gate Colossus (rvr) 257
Gorex, the Tombshell
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of creature cards from your graveyard. This spell costs
less to cast for each card exiled this way.
Deathtouch
Whenever Gorex attacks or dies, choose a card at random exiled with Gorex and put that card into its owner's hand.
Legendary Creature - Zombie Turtle
Gorex, the Tombshell (mic) 20
Great Whale
When this creature enters, untap up to seven lands.
Creature - Whale
Great Whale (usg) 77
Grozoth
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, you may search your library for any number of cards that have mana value 9, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
: This creature loses defender until end of turn.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Leviathan
Grozoth (rav) 53
Gurmag Angler
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Creature - Zombie Fish
Gurmag Angler (plst) UMA-102
Hand of Emrakul
You may sacrifice four Eldrazi Spawn rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.)
Creature - Eldrazi
Hand of Emrakul (roe) 5
Hoverguard Sweepers
Flying
When this creature enters, you may return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands.
Creature - Drone
Hoverguard Sweepers (c14) 113
Hulking Metamorph
Prototype
— 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of an artifact or creature you control, except it's an artifact creature in addition to its other types, and its power and toughness are equal to this creature's power and toughness.
Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter
Hulking Metamorph (bro) 79
Huskburster Swarm
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature card you own in exile and in your graveyard.
Menace, deathtouch
Creature - Elemental Insect
Huskburster Swarm (blb) 98
Icebreaker Kraken
Affinity for snow lands (This spell costs
less to cast for each snow land you control.)
When this creature enters, artifacts and creatures target opponent controls don't untap during that player's next untap step.
Return three snow lands you control to their owner's hand: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
Snow Creature - Kraken
Icebreaker Kraken (khm) 63
Inkwell Leviathan
Trample
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Creature Artifact - Leviathan
Inkwell Leviathan (2xm) 55
Kederekt Leviathan
When this creature enters, return all other nonland permanents to their owners' hands.
Unearth
(
: 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 - Leviathan
Kederekt Leviathan (2x2) 55
Kuro, Pitlord
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Kuro unless you pay
.
Pay 1 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit
Kuro, Pitlord (dvd) 44
Lorthos, the Tidemaker
Whenever Lorthos attacks, you may pay
. If you do, tap up to eight target permanents. Those permanents don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.
Legendary Creature - Octopus
Lorthos, the Tidemaker (cmm) 103
Maelstrom Colossus
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Creature Artifact - Golem
Maelstrom Colossus (cmr) 322
Metalwork Colossus
This spell costs
less to cast, where X is the total mana value of noncreature artifacts you control.
Sacrifice two artifacts: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Metalwork Colossus (cmm) 960
Mindleech Mass
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may look at that player's hand. If you do, you may cast a spell from among those cards without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Horror
Mindleech Mass (rvr) 201
Octavia, Living Thesis
This spell costs
less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Ward

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Octopus
Octavia, Living Thesis (otc) 103
Phyrexian Triniform
When this creature dies, create three 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature tokens.
Encore
(
, 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 Artifact - Golem Phyrexian
Phyrexian Triniform (cmm) 969
Reiver Demon
Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all nonartifact, nonblack creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Creature - Demon
Reiver Demon (dvd) 43
Sailors' Bane
This spell costs
less to cast for each card you own in exile and in your graveyard that's an instant card, a sorcery card, or a card that has an Adventure.
Ward
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Creature - Dragon Turtle
Sailors' Bane (clb) 93
Scion of Darkness
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Avatar
Scion of Darkness (2x2) 86
Shadow of Mortality
If your life total is less than your starting life total, this spell costs
less to cast, where X is the difference.
Creature - Avatar
Shadow of Mortality (snc) 94
Skeletal Wurm
: Regenerate this creature.
Creature - Skeleton Wurm
Skeletal Wurm (plst) ROE-127
Sphinx of the Second Sun
Flying
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The beginning phase includes the untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of the Second Sun (mkc) 118
Star Whale
Flying, vigilance
Other creatures you control have ward
.
Suspend 6—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with six 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. It has haste.)
Creature - Whale Alien
Star Whale (who) 55
Stormtide Leviathan
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
All lands are Islands in addition to their other types.
Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.
Creature - Leviathan
Stormtide Leviathan (cmr) 407
Stratadon
Domain — This spell costs
less to cast for each basic land type among lands you control.
Trample
Creature Artifact - Beast
Stratadon (pls) 135
Su-Chi Cave Guard
Vigilance
Ward
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
When this creature dies, add eight
. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Su-Chi Cave Guard (bro) 249
Tidal Force
At the beginning of each upkeep, you may tap or untap target permanent.
Creature - Elemental
Tidal Force (c13) 62
Tidespout Tyrant
Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, return target permanent to its owner's hand.
Creature - Djinn
Tidespout Tyrant (rvr) 320
Tombstalker
Flying
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Creature - Demon
Tombstalker (tsr) 146
Torgaar, Famine Incarnate
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs
less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way.
When Torgaar enters, up to one target player's life total becomes half their starting life total, rounded down.
Legendary Creature - Avatar
Torgaar, Famine Incarnate (dom) 108
Twisted Riddlekeeper
Emerge
(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When you cast this spell, tap up to two target permanents. Put a stun counter on each of them. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Flying
Creature - Sphinx Eldrazi
Twisted Riddlekeeper (mh3) 14
Vexing Scuttler
Emerge
(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When you cast this spell, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Crab Eldrazi
Vexing Scuttler (emn) 11
Vilis, Broker of Blood
Flying
, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Legendary Creature - Demon
Vilis, Broker of Blood (j25) 70
Void Beckoner
Deathtouch
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, put a deathtouch counter on target creature you control.
Creature - Horror Nightmare
Void Beckoner (iko) 104
Walking Skyscraper
This spell costs
less to cast for each modified creature you control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
Trample
This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Creature Artifact - Construct
Walking Skyscraper (neo) 263

Mana Intensive Lads

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Logic Knot
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Logic Knot (tsr) 73

No

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (otc) 252
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221

Ramp

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Artisan of Kozilek
When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)
Creature - Eldrazi
Artisan of Kozilek (mm2) 2
Bond of Insight
Each player mills four cards. Return up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bond of Insight.
Sorcery
Bond of Insight (war) 43
Cauldron's Gift
Adamant — If at least three black mana was spent to cast this spell, mill four cards.
You may choose a creature card in your graveyard. If you do, return it to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.
Sorcery
Cauldron's Gift (eld) 83
Covetous Castaway
When this creature dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Disturb
(You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
Creature - Human
Covetous Castaway // Ghostly Castigator (mid) 45Covetous Castaway // Ghostly Castigator (mid) 45
Extract from Darkness
Each player mills two cards. Then you put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Extract from Darkness (2x2) 210
Halo-Charged Skaab
When this creature enters, each player mills two cards. Then you may put an instant, sorcery, or battle card from your graveyard on top of your library. (To mill two cards, a player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Creature - Zombie
Halo-Charged Skaab (mom) 60
Liliana, Death's Majesty
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards.
−3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
−7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.
Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
Liliana, Death's Majesty (j22) 433
Path of the Schemer
Each player mills two cards. Then you put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It's an artifact in addition to its other types.
Will of the Planeswalkers — Starting with you, each player votes for planeswalk or chaos. If planeswalk gets more votes, planeswalk. If chaos gets more votes or the vote is tied, chaos ensues.
Sorcery
Path of the Schemer (moc) 28
Psychic Spiral
Shuffle all cards from your graveyard into your library. Target player mills that many cards.
Instant
Psychic Spiral (rtr) 47
Sibsig Muckdraggers
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Zombie
Sibsig Muckdraggers (frf) 83
Stream of Thought
Target player mills four cards. You shuffle up to four cards from your graveyard into your library.
Replicate
(When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Sorcery
Stream of Thought (plst) MH1-71
Summon Undead
You may mill three cards. Then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Sorcery
Summon Undead (clb) 151
The Cauldron of Eternity
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Whenever a creature you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.
,
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact
The Cauldron of Eternity (eld) 82
Wand of Vertebrae
: Mill a card.
,
, Exile this artifact: Shuffle up to five target cards from your graveyard into your library.
Artifact
Wand of Vertebrae (grn) 242

Recursion/Reanimating

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Carrion Grub
This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the greatest power among creature cards in your graveyard.
When this creature enters, mill four cards. (Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature - Insect
Carrion Grub (m21) 92
Eye Collector
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each player mills a card. (Each player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Creature - Faerie
Eye Collector (eld) 86
Fallaji Archaeologist
When this creature enters, mill three cards. You may put a noncreature, nonland card from among the cards milled this way into your hand. If you don't, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature - Human Scout
Fallaji Archaeologist (bro) 48
Gyruda, Doom of Depths
Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with even mana values. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for
as a sorcery.)
When Gyruda enters, each player mills four cards. Put a creature card with an even mana value from among the milled cards onto the battlefield under your control.
Legendary Creature - Demon Kraken
Gyruda, Doom of Depths (iko) 221
Koma's Faithful
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
When this creature dies, each player mills three cards. (They each put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Creature - Cleric Elf
Koma's Faithful (khm) 102
Memory Vampire
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, any number of target players each mill that many cards. Then you may collect evidence 9. When you do, you may cast target nonland card from defending player's graveyard without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Vampire Detective
Memory Vampire (clu) 38
Mindwrack Harpy
Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, each player mills three cards.
Creature Enchantment - Harpy
Mindwrack Harpy (cmm) 869
Monstrous War-Leech
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
As this creature enters, if it was kicked, mill four cards. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Monstrous War-Leech's power and toughness are each equal to the greatest mana value among cards in your graveyard.
Creature - Horror Leech
Monstrous War-Leech (dmu) 98
Raul, Trouble Shooter
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a spell from among cards in your graveyard that were milled this turn.
: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Legendary Creature - Rogue Zombie Mutant
Raul, Trouble Shooter (pip) 115
Reito Sentinel
Defender
When this creature enters, target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)
: Put target card from a graveyard on the bottom of its owner's library.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Reito Sentinel (neo) 256
Returned Reveler
When this creature dies, each player mills three cards.
Creature - Zombie Satyr
Returned Reveler (j22) 460
Screeching Scorchbeast
Flying, menace
Whenever this creature attacks, each player gets two rad counters.
Whenever one or more nonland cards are milled, you may create that many 2/2 black Zombie Mutant creature tokens. Do this only once each turn.
Creature - Bat Mutant
Screeching Scorchbeast (pip) 49
Stitcher Geralf
,
: Each player mills three cards. Exile up to two creature cards put into graveyards this way. Create an X/X blue Zombie creature token, where X is the total power of the cards exiled this way.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Stitcher Geralf (cmm) 121
Vantress Gargoyle
Flying
This creature can't attack unless defending player has seven or more cards in their graveyard.
This creature can't block unless you have four or more cards in hand.
: Each player mills a card.
Creature Artifact - Gargoyle
Vantress Gargoyle (eld) 71
Wick's Patrol
When this creature enters, mill three cards. When you do, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the greatest mana value among cards in your graveyard.
Creature - Rat Warlock
Wick's Patrol (blb) 121

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