Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher

Vigilance
{T}: Add an amount of {C} equal to Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher's toughness. This mana can't be spent to cast spells from your hand.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Mountain

Sol Ring

Neera, Wild Mage

Whenever you cast a spell, you may put it on the bottom of its owner's library. If you do, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Thermo-Alchemist

Defender
{T}: Thermo-Alchemist deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, untap Thermo-Alchemist.

Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Guttersnipe deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Negate

Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Dragon Cultist

Commander creatures you own have "At the beginning of your end step, if a source you controlled dealt 5 or more damage this turn, create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying."

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Campfire

{1}, {T}: You gain 2 life.
{2}, {T}, Exile Campfire: Put all commanders you own from the command zone and from your graveyard into your hand. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Bhaal's Invoker

Scorching Ray — {8}: Bhaal's Invoker deals 4 damage to each opponent.

Splashy Spellcaster

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a Sorcerer Role token attached to up to one other target creature you control. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, scry 1.")

Omenspeaker

When Omenspeaker enters the battlefield, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)

Prismari Apprentice

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Prismari Apprentice can't be blocked this turn. If that spell has mana value 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Prismari Apprentice.

Wizards of Thay

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.

Electrostatic Infantry

Trample
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Electrostatic Infantry.

Worn Powerstone

Worn Powerstone enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Firemind Vessel

Firemind Vessel enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add two mana of different colors.

Flowstone Infusion

Target creature gets +2/-2 until end of turn.

Daring Escape

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Scry 1.

Coming In Hot

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Hithlain Knots

Tap target creature. Scry 1.
Draw a card.

Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Startling Development

Until end of turn, target creature becomes a blue Serpent with base power and toughness 4/4.
Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Unleash Fury

Double the power of target creature until end of turn.

Abrade

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

Lazotep Plating

Amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Sinister Sabotage

Counter target spell.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Arcane Signet

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

Fire Diamond

Fire Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.

Sky Diamond

Sky Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Founding the Third Path

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 1 or 2 from your hand without paying its mana cost.
II — Target player mills four cards.
III — Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy.

Beluna's Gatekeeper

Entry Denied

Return target creature you don't control with mana value 3 or less to its owner's hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Beluna's Gatekeeper // Entry Denied

Fang Dragon

Forktail Sweep

Forktail Sweep deals 1 damage to each creature you don't control. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Fang Dragon // Forktail Sweep

Grapeshot

Grapeshot deals 1 damage to any target.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sweltering Suns

Sweltering Suns deals 3 damage to each creature.
Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Improvised Weaponry

Improvised Weaponry deals 2 damage to any target. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Coronation of Chaos

Up to three target creatures can't block this turn. Goad them. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

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.)

Chain Reaction

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

Fiery Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Fiery Confluence deals 1 damage to each creature.
• Fiery Confluence deals 2 damage to each opponent.
• Destroy target artifact.

Hate Mirage

Choose up to two target creatures you don't control. For each of those creatures, create a token that's a copy of that creature. Those tokens gain haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

Mana Geyser

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

Candlekeep Inspiration

Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X, where X is the number of cards you own in exile and in your graveyard that are instant cards, are sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Command Tower

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Counterspell

Blur

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Draw a card.

Dream Fracture

Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card.
Draw a card.

Island

Edgin, Larcenous Lutenist

Each nonland card in your hand without foretell has foretell. Its foretell cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by {2}. (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile it from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, goad target creature an opponent controls.

Passionate Archaeologist

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever you cast a spell from exile, this creature deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to target opponent."

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice Burnished Hart: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Reliquary Tower

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

Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters the battlefield with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Rod of Absorption

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, exile it instead of putting it into a graveyard as it resolves.
{X}, {T}, Sacrifice Rod of Absorption: You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled with Rod of Absorption with total mana value X or less without paying their mana costs.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
Once each turn, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from the top of your library. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Vantress Transmuter

Croaking Curse

Tap target creature. Create a Cursed Role token attached to it. (Enchanted creature is 1/1.)

Vantress Transmuter // Croaking Curse

Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Merchant of the Vale

Haggle

You may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Merchant of the Vale // Haggle

Minecart Daredevil

Ride the Rails

Target creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Minecart Daredevil // Ride the Rails

Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Queen of Ice

Whenever Queen of Ice deals combat damage to a creature, tap that creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Rage of Winter

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Queen of Ice // Rage of Winter

Bellowing Bruiser

Beat a Path

Up to two target creatures can't block this turn. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Bellowing Bruiser // Beat a Path

Two-Headed Hunter

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Twice the Rage

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Two-Headed Hunter // Twice the Rage

Sleight of Hand

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

Candy Trail

When Candy Trail enters the battlefield, scry 2.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Candy Trail: You gain 3 life and draw a card.

Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Homebrew Gale, Archaeologist

Tested at LGS (AU-Holmes) could use artifact removal and a better curve. Multicast means twice as much mana is spent per turn.

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