Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Massacre Wurm

When Massacre Wurm enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Deathtouch
Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Sidisi, Undead Vizier exploits a creature, you may search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance
When Loran of the Third Path enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.
{T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Skyclave Apparition

When Skyclave Apparition enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less.
When Skyclave Apparition leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Lifelink
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda, the Dusk Rose.
When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Ashen Rider

Flying
When Ashen Rider enters or dies, exile target permanent.

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Contractual Safeguard

Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a shield counter on a creature you control. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Choose a kind of counter on a creature you control. Put a counter of that kind on each other creature you control.

Resourceful Defense

Whenever a permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target permanent you control.
{4}{W}: Move any number of counters from target permanent you control to another target permanent you control.

Conjurer's Closet

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Vault of Champions

Vault of Champions enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Burning-Rune Demon

Flying
When Burning-Rune Demon enters, you may search your library for exactly two cards not named Burning-Rune Demon that have different names. If you do, reveal those cards. An opponent chooses one of them. Put the chosen card into your hand and the other into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Tainted Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Arcane Signet

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

Flickerwisp

Flying
When Flickerwisp enters, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Forbidding Spirit

When Forbidding Spirit enters, until your next turn, creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {2} for each of those creatures.

Sol Ring

Transmogrant Altar

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Create a 3/3 colorless Zombie artifact creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.

Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Commander's Sphere

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

Orzhov Basilica

Orzhov Basilica enters tapped.
When Orzhov Basilica enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {W}{B}.

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

Reanimate

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

Mangara of Corondor

{T}: Exile Mangara of Corondor and target permanent.

Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Endless Sands

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Exile target creature you control.
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Endless Sands: Return each creature card exiled with Endless Sands to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Yosei, the Morning Star

Flying
When Yosei, the Morning Star dies, target player skips their next untap step. Tap up to five target permanents that player controls.

Greater Auramancy

Other enchantments you control have shroud. (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Enchanted creatures you control have shroud.

Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

Flying, lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.

Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

The Eternal Wanderer

No more than one creature can attack The Eternal Wanderer each combat.
+1: Exile up to one target artifact or creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of that player's next end step.
0: Create a 2/2 white Samurai creature token with double strike.
−4: For each player, choose a creature that player controls. Each player sacrifices all creatures they control not chosen this way.

Command Tower

Restoration Angel

Flash
Flying
When Restoration Angel enters, you may exile target non-Angel creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Luminous Broodmoth

Flying
Whenever a creature you control without flying dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a flying counter on it.

Reliquary Tower

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

Gilded Lotus

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Shattered Sanctum

Shattered Sanctum enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters 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.

Charming Prince

When Charming Prince enters, choose one —
• Scry 2.
• You gain 3 life.
• Exile another target creature you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Knight of the White Orchid

First strike
When Knight of the White Orchid enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice Jeweled Lotus: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Altar of the Pantheon

Your devotion to each color and each combination of colors is increased by one.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a God, a Demigod, or a legendary enchantment, you gain 1 life.

Promise of Loyalty

Each player puts a vow counter on a creature they control and sacrifices the rest. Each of those creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control for as long as it has a vow counter on it.

Brought Back

Choose up to two target permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn. Return them to the battlefield tapped.

Insatiable Avarice

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {2} — Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
+ {B}{B} — Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Athreos, Shroud-Veiled

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your end step, put a coin counter on another target creature.
Whenever a creature with a coin counter on it dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Archon of Cruelty

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

Discerning Financier

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
{2}{W}: Choose another player. That player gains control of target Treasure you control. You draw a card.

Cunning Rhetoric

Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

The Ozolith

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

Concealed Courtyard

Concealed Courtyard enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Cleansing Nova

Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
{T}, Sacrifice Dauthi Voidwalker: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Ravenous Chupacabra

When Ravenous Chupacabra enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink
When Wurmcoil Engine dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Ashnod's Altar

Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Swamp

Plains

Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Portal to Phyrexia

When Portal to Phyrexia enters, each opponent sacrifices three creatures.
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.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

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