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Winter, Cynical Opportunist
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Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Deathtouch Whenever Winter attacks, mill three cards. Delirium — At the beginning of your end step, you may exile any number of cards from your graveyard with four or more card types among them. If you do, put a permanent card from among them onto the battlefield with a finality counter on it.

Creature
Winter, Cynical Opportunist (dsc) 7

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Recursion

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Aftermath Analyst

When this creature enters, mill three cards. {3}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Aftermath Analyst (mkm) 148
Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (mkc) 125
Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
Incarnation Technique

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it.) Mill five cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Incarnation Technique (c21) 41
Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment
Necromancy (mkc) 131
Perennial Behemoth

You may play lands from your graveyard. Unearth {G}{G} ({G}{G}: 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
Perennial Behemoth (otc) 262
Polluted Cistern

Enchantment
Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette (dsc) 23
Portal to Phyrexia

When this artifact enters, each opponent sacrifices three creatures of their choice. At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Artifact
Portal to Phyrexia (bro) 240
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (dsc) 155
Rise of the Witch-king

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you sacrificed a creature this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Rise of the Witch-king (ltr) 221
Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (ima) 108
Stitch Together

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Stitch Together (c18) 119
Virtue of Persistence

Enchantment
Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn (woe) 115
Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (dsc) 159

Recursion

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Card Advantage

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Diresight

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sorcery
Diresight (blb) 91
Matzalantli, the Great Door

Artifact
Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (dsc) 79
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156

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Removal

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Archon of Cruelty

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature
Archon of Cruelty (mh2) 75
Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (mkm) 187
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (dsc) 80
Binding the Old Gods

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls. II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Enchantment
Binding the Old Gods (dsc) 213
Drag to the Roots

Delirium — This spell costs {2} less to cast as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Drag to the Roots (dsk) 213
Haywire Mite

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life. {G}, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Creature Artifact
Haywire Mite (dsc) 247
Invasion of Fiora

Battle
Invasion of Fiora // Marchesa, Resolute Monarch (mom) 114Invasion of Fiora // Marchesa, Resolute Monarch (mom) 114
Lignify

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is a Treefolk with base power and toughness 0/4 and loses all abilities.

Enchantment Kindred
Lignify (ltc) 252
Necron Deathmark

Flash Synaptic Disintegrator — When this creature enters, destroy up to one target creature and target player mills three cards.

Creature Artifact
Necron Deathmark (40k) 42
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (dsc) 151
Tear Asunder

Kicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} as you cast this spell.) Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.

Instant
Tear Asunder (blc) 241
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277

Removal

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Land

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Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Darkmoss Bridge

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Artifact Land
Darkmoss Bridge (dsc) 269
Deathcap Glade

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

Land
Deathcap Glade (vow) 261
Dryad Arbor

(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G}.")

Creature Land
Dryad Arbor (dsc) 273
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (blb) 252
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dsk) 285
Golgari Rot Farm

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

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (dsc) 279
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (dsc) 287
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 (mh3) 302
Overgrown Tomb

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

Land
Overgrown Tomb (rvr) 283
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
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dsk) 281
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Tree of Tales

{T}: Add {G}.

Artifact Land
Tree of Tales (dsc) 319
Underground Mortuary

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) 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
Underground Mortuary (mkm) 271
Undergrowth Stadium

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

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 435
Valgavoth's Lair

Hexproof This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Land Enchantment
Valgavoth's Lair (dsk) 271
Vault of Whispers

{T}: Add {B}.

Artifact Land
Vault of Whispers (dsc) 322
Verdant Catacombs

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

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dsc) 326

Land

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Demolisher Spawn

Trample, haste Delirium — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, other attacking creatures get +4/+4 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Demolisher Spawn (dsc) 31
Hornet Queen

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Creature
Hornet Queen (dsc) 184
Power Conduit

{T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Choose one — • Put a charge counter on target artifact. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Artifact
Power Conduit (ncc) 376
Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Flying, lifelink Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents. If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead. During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

Creature
Valgavoth, Terror Eater (dsk) 120

Utility

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Mill

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Barrowgoyf

Deathtouch, lifelink Barrowgoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may mill that many cards. If you do, you may put a creature card from among them into your hand.

Creature
Barrowgoyf (m3c) 102
Cemetery Tampering

Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill three cards. Then if there are twenty or more cards in your graveyard, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Cemetery Tampering (dsc) 135
Deadbridge Chant

When this enchantment enters, mill ten cards. At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Enchantment
Deadbridge Chant (dsc) 215
Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature
Doom Whisperer (mkc) 128
Grapple with the Past

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant
Grapple with the Past (dsc) 82
Grisly Salvage

Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

Instant
Grisly Salvage (dsc) 219
Grist, the Hunger Tide

As long as Grist isn't on the battlefield, it's a 1/1 Insect creature in addition to its other types. +1: Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then mill a card. If an Insect card was milled this way, put a loyalty counter on Grist and repeat this process. −2: You may sacrifice a creature. When you do, destroy target creature or planeswalker. −5: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Planeswalker
Grist, the Hunger Tide (dsc) 220
Mulch

Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Mulch (dsc) 189
Nyx Weaver

Reach At the beginning of your upkeep, mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) {1}{B}{G}, Exile this creature: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Enchantment
Nyx Weaver (dsc) 226
Overlord of the Balemurk

Impending 5—{1}{B} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with five time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, mill four cards, then you may return a non-Avatar creature card or a planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Enchantment
Overlord of the Balemurk (dsk) 113
Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107
Satyr Wayfinder

When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.

Creature
Satyr Wayfinder (otc) 204
Shigeki, Jukai Visionary

{1}{G}, {T}, Return Shigeki to its owner's hand: Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest into your graveyard. Channel — {X}{X}{G}{G}, Discard this card: Return X target nonlegendary cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Enchantment
Shigeki, Jukai Visionary (dsc) 198
Six

Reach Whenever Six attacks, mill three cards. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. During your turn, nonland permanent cards in your graveyard have retrace. (You may cast permanent cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)

Creature
Six (mh3) 169
Stitcher's Supplier

When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Stitcher's Supplier (dsc) 157
Underrealm Lich

If you would draw a card, instead look at the top three cards of your library, then put one into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Pay 4 life: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Creature
Underrealm Lich (clu) 215
Wrenn and Seven

+1: Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. 0: Put any number of land cards from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. −3: Create a green Treefolk creature token with reach and "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." −8: Return all permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand. You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size."

Planeswalker
Wrenn and Seven (dsc) 207

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dsc) 92
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (lcc) 242
Invasion of Zendikar

Battle
Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave (mom) 194Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave (mom) 194
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (mkc) 178
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (dsc) 193
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (dsc) 194
Skull Prophet

{T}: Add {B} or {G}. {T}: Mill two cards.

Creature
Skull Prophet (iko) 206
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
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 (dsc) 253
Talisman of Resilience

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (dsc) 255
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (otc) 209
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) 201

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Deck Info

Deck stats

0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
50 pips - 35 cards
28 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
35 pips - 31 cards
28 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
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Description

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