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Izzet Control
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Est deck cost: $257.73
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Commander

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Melek, Reforged Researcher

Melek's power and toughness are each equal to twice the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs {3} less to cast.

Creature
Melek, Reforged Researcher (mkm) 430

Commander

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Copy

Qty: 2 Price: $6.48
Return the Favor

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. + {1} — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant
Return the Favor (otj) 142
Reverberate

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Reverberate (m13) 145

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Land

Qty: 31 (35 w/ MDFC)Price: $76.85
Arena of Glory

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}, Exert this land: Add {R}{R}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (An exerted permanent won't untap during your next untap step.)

Land
Arena of Glory (mh3) 215
Cascade Bluffs

{T}: Add {C}. {U/R}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Cascade Bluffs (blc) 297
Castle Vantress

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.

Land
Castle Vantress (dsc) 267
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (onc) 151
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (drc) 155
Ferrous Lake

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Land
Ferrous Lake (blc) 303
Frostboil Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Frostboil Snarl (drc) 158
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (clu) 260
Izzet Boilerworks

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

Land
Izzet Boilerworks (otc) 302
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (clu) 268
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, 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 (clb) 904
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (mkc) 277
Shivan Reef

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

Land
Shivan Reef (drc) 170
Stormcarved Coast

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

Land
Stormcarved Coast (inr) 285
Sulfur Falls

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

Land
Sulfur Falls (drc) 173
Temple of Epiphany

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Epiphany (m3c) 387
Thundering Falls

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) 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
Thundering Falls (mkm) 269
Training Center

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

Land
Training Center (cmm) 434

Land

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Score Big

Qty: 6 Price: $12.00
Big Score

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Big Score (snc) 102
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (c21) 176
Pirate's Pillage

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Pirate's Pillage (2x2) 120
Pirate's Prize

Draw two cards. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Pirate's Prize (xln) 68
Seize the Spoils

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Seize the Spoils (gn3) 86
Unexpected Windfall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Unexpected Windfall (afr) 164

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Blockers

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Third Path Iconoclast

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 colorless Soldier artifact creature token.

Creature
Third Path Iconoclast (tdc) 307
Young Pyromancer

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token.

Creature
Young Pyromancer (j25) 618

Blockers

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Draw

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Behold the Multiverse

Scry 2, then draw two cards. Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Behold the Multiverse (khm) 46
Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Draw a card.

Instant
Consider (tdc) 148
Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Deep Analysis (tdc) 150
Fact or Fiction

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.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (jvc) 26
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (dmr) 51
Lórien Revealed

Draw three cards. Islandcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Sorcery
Lórien Revealed (ltr) 60
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (tdc) 161
Scattered Thoughts

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Instant
Scattered Thoughts (vow) 74
Silundi Vision

Instant
Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80
Stock Up

Look at the top five cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Sorcery
Stock Up (dft) 67
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (sta) 46
Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Wavebreak Hippocamp (j25) 387

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Ramp

Qty: 8 Price: $17.38
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (onc) 125
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (onc) 130
Goblin Electromancer

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Goblin Electromancer (otc) 228
Haughty Djinn

Flying Haughty Djinn's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Haughty Djinn (pdmu) 52p
Izzet Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Artifact
Izzet Signet (lcc) 306
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (m3c) 305
Talisman of Creativity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (mh1) 231
Thunderclap Drake

Flying Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{U}, Sacrifice this creature: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Creature
Thunderclap Drake (otc) 17

Ramp

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Tutor

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Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60
Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Solve the Equation (stx) 54

Tutor

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Buff Spell

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Summons of Saruman

Amass Orcs X. Mill X cards. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value X or less from among them without paying its mana cost. (To amass Orcs X, put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.) Flashback—{3}{U}{R}, Exile X cards from your graveyard.

Sorcery
Summons of Saruman (ltc) 480
Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Traumatize (m14) 77

Buff Spell

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Fifty Shades Of "No"

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Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (blc) 191
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (dsc) 162
Confounding Riddle

Choose one — • Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.

Instant
Confounding Riddle (lci) 50
Domineering Will

Target player gains control of up to three target nonattacking creatures until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They block this turn if able.

Instant
Domineering Will (clb) 719
Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Return target creature to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Instant
Mystic Confluence (cmm) 108
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (sta) 18
Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Instant
Resculpt (cmm) 115
Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Instant
Rewind (m21) 63
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Soul Read

Choose one — • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}. • Draw two cards.

Instant
Soul Read (j25) 362
Spell Swindle

Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Spell Swindle (xln) 82
Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}{U} — Counter target spell. + {3} — Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control. + {2} — Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Three Steps Ahead (otj) 75
Untimely Malfunction

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target. • One or two target creatures can't block this turn.

Instant
Untimely Malfunction (dsk) 161
Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Unwind (dom) 72
Whirlwind Denial

For each spell and ability your opponents control, counter it unless its controller pays {4}.

Instant
Whirlwind Denial (sta) 23

Fifty Shades Of "No"

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Recursion

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Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery. Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mizzix's Mastery (sta) 43
Mystic Retrieval

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Mystic Retrieval (inr) 77
Past in Flames

Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. Flashback {4}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Past in Flames (ss3) 4
Pinnacle Monk

Creature
Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246

Recursion

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Can't Touch This

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Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment
Leyline of Anticipation (clb) 726
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
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (m3c) 191

Can't Touch This

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Finisher

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Chandra's Ignition

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.

Sorcery
Chandra's Ignition (lcc) 220
Gandalf's Sanction

Gandalf's Sanction deals X damage to target creature, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.

Sorcery
Gandalf's Sanction (ltr) 208
Gravitic Punch

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target player. Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Sorcery
Gravitic Punch (plst) GRN-105
Run for Your Life

One or two target creatures each gain haste until end of turn. They can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste. Escape—{2}{U}{R}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Instant
Run for Your Life (who) 154
Sundering Eruption

Sorcery
Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure (mh3) 248Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure (mh3) 248

Finisher

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Reset Button

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (fdn) 151
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (drc) 101
Consuming Tide

Each player chooses a nonland permanent they control. Return all nonland permanents not chosen this way to their owners' hands. Then you draw a card for each opponent who has more cards in their hand than you.

Sorcery
Consuming Tide (vow) 53
Evacuation

Return all creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Evacuation (m3c) 184
Ill-Timed Explosion

Draw two cards. Then you may discard two cards. When you do, Ill-Timed Explosion deals X damage to each creature, where X is the greatest mana value among cards discarded this way.

Sorcery
Ill-Timed Explosion (mkm) 207
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (otc) 183

Reset Button

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Maybeboard

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Baral's Expertise

Return up to three target artifacts and/or creatures to their owners' hands. You may cast a spell with mana value 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Baral's Expertise (tdc) 146
Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Sorcery
Chain Reaction (onc) 97
Circular Logic

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Circular Logic (dmr) 42
Desertion

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Desertion (plst) CN2-107
Drown in Dreams

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Target player draws X cards. • Target player mills twice X cards.

Instant
Drown in Dreams (m3c) 181
Expansion

Instant
Expansion // Explosion (rvr) 243
Experimental Overload

Create an X/X blue and red Weird creature token, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Then you may return an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Experimental Overload.

Sorcery
Experimental Overload (m21) 218
Increasing Vengeance

Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies. Flashback {3}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Increasing Vengeance (c19) 147
Leadership Vacuum

Target player returns each commander they control from the battlefield to the command zone. Draw a card.

Instant
Leadership Vacuum (c19) 9
Rain of Revelation

Draw three cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Rain of Revelation (m21) 61
Scatter Arc

Counter target noncreature spell. Draw a card.

Instant
Scatter Arc (gtc) 48
Spellgyre

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Surveil 2, then draw two cards. (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.)

Instant
Spellgyre (blb) 72

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