Kerrus
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Commander
Jegantha, the Wellspring
Companion — No card in your starting deck has more than one of the same mana symbol in its mana cost. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for as a sorcery.)
: Add . This mana can't be spent to pay generic mana costs.
: Add . This mana can't be spent to pay generic mana costs.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Elk
Commander
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Creature
Iroh, Grand Lotus
Firebending 2
During your turn, each non-Lesson instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost. (You may cast a card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
During your turn, each Lesson card in your graveyard has flashback .
During your turn, each non-Lesson instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost. (You may cast a card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
During your turn, each Lesson card in your graveyard has flashback .
Legendary Creature - Human Ally Noble
Sedgemoor Witch
Menace
Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Creature - Human Warlock
Selvala, Eager Trailblazer
Vigilance
Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with ": Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery."
: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each different power among creatures you control.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with ": Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery."
: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each different power among creatures you control.
Legendary Creature - Elf Scout
Veyran, Voice of Duality
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Veyran gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
If you casting or copying an instant or sorcery spell causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
If you casting or copying an instant or sorcery spell causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Efreet
Creature
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Draw
Draw
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Enablers
Enablers
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Enchantment
Enchantment
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Hidden Commander
Hidden Commander
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Instant
Instant
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Land
Land
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Planeswalker
Professor Onyx
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
+1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
−3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.
−8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.
+1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
−3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.
−8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.
Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
Ral, Storm Conduit
Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Ral deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
+2: Scry 1.
−2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
+2: Scry 1.
−2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Legendary Planeswalker - Ral
Planeswalker
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Protection
Angel's Grace
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.
You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.
Instant
Protection
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Ramp
Ramp
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Search
Search
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Sorcery
Sorcery
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Splice
Hundred-Talon Strike
Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn.
Splice onto Arcane—Tap an untapped white creature you control. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)
Splice onto Arcane—Tap an untapped white creature you control. (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)
Instant - Arcane
Splice
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Value
Value
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{"ops":[{"insert":"This was my original 'Crash MTGO' deck, because every time I played it, MTGO crashed. WotC did themselves and the community a disservice by never making the Nephilim legendary- and I had always wanted to make an Ink-Treader deck that I could bring to my playgroups and actually play. After an abortive attempt with several local groups, all of which refused to let me play it, I gave up and disassembled the deck. \n\nBut I wondered if, perhaps, there was a way to still make my dream come true- and so I built this on MTGO. A deck designed around a hidden commander- a card that could never be the legal commander, but would still be the fulcrum the deck turned around- and this is it. I've played this a lot- and found that it's a deck that you can't play with any given playgroup more than a couple times, usually only enough to have it 'go off' once. But it's still one of my favourites because it's just so damn wacky and fun. \n\nThe short short version of how this deck plays and wins is that you get Ink-Treader Nephilim onto the field with cantrips in hand and enough creatures on the field. If there aren't enough creatures, the deck relies on enablers like Natural Affinity (an all-star that's always useful), Make Mischief, Heat Shimmer- and other token generators that flood out the board with creatures. Once sufficient creatures are out, a single cantrip becomes dozens of casts, which turns into dozens of card draws. With ramp cards like Swell of Growth or Journey to the Oracle, all the lands in hand can be deposited into play and immediately used, as well as ramp cards like Storm-Kiln Artist. Everything you draw is just fuel for the fire, until you can get out one of several win-cons. Aetherflux, Fateful Showdown, Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, or Ral, Storm Conduit all enable various means of winning. Most of those are direct damage, though jace will just let you draw out the deck for the win. \n\nA major subtheme of the deck, taking advantage of the mechanics of copying spells, are Splice cards. The majority of these hail from Kamigawa, though some splice-onto-instant/sorcery cards were printed in Modern Horizons. When an instant or sorcery is copied, everything that is spliced onto it is also copied allowing for impromptu modification and reuse of otherwise non-qualifying spells (ie: spells that don't target Ink-Treader Nephilim). These cards, used in conjunction can generate mana, gain life, pump creatures, further fueling the combo until you're self sufficient. \n\nUltimately, the deck is very tricky to play- but very rewarding too. I'm looking forward to the full release of Strixhaven's previews to further update it, because casting and copying instants and sorceries is what this deck's jam is!\n"}]}