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Commander

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Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
As long as Archelos is tapped, other permanents enter tapped.
As long as Archelos is untapped, other permanents enter untapped.
Legendary Creature - Shaman Turtle
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic (dmc) 140

Commander

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Board Wipes

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Crippling Fear
Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.
Sorcery
Crippling Fear (cmm) 862

Board Wipes

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Card Draw

Qty: 8 Price: $13.40
Distant Melody
Choose a creature type. Draw a card for each permanent you control of that type.
Sorcery
Distant Melody (lcc) 154
Fecund Greenshell
Reach
As long as you control ten or more lands, creatures you control get +2/+2.
Whenever this creature or another creature you control with toughness greater than its power enters, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
Creature - Elemental Turtle
Fecund Greenshell (blb) 171
Guild Summit
When this enchantment enters, you may tap any number of untapped Gates you control. Draw a card for each Gate tapped this way.
Whenever a Gate you control enters, draw a card.
Enchantment
Guild Summit (grn) 41
Harmonize
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Harmonize (dsc) 182
Icon of Ancestry
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
,
: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Artifact
Icon of Ancestry (lcc) 305
The Pride of Hull Clade
This spell costs
less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.
Defender
: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Legendary Creature - Turtle Crocodile Elk
The Pride of Hull Clade (mkm) 172
Thunderous Snapper
Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.
Creature - Hydra Turtle
Thunderous Snapper (eld) 215
Vanquisher's Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.
Artifact
Vanquisher's Banner (lcc) 316

Card Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 3 Price: $13.69
Mistford River Turtle
Whenever this creature attacks, another target attacking non-Human creature can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Turtle
Mistford River Turtle (eld) 56
Sword Coast Sailor
Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, this creature can't be blocked this turn."
Legendary Enchantment - Background
Sword Coast Sailor (clb) 98
The Black Gate
As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.
Legendary Land - Gate
The Black Gate (ltc) 80

Evasion

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Gate Stuff

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Black Dragon Gate
This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than black.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land - Gate
Black Dragon Gate (clb) 347
Crop Rotation
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Crop Rotation (dmr) 154
Expedition Map
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Gateway Plaza
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay
.
: Add one mana of any color.
Land - Gate
Gateway Plaza (plst) GRN-247
Golgari Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Golgari Guildgate (fdn) 689
Gond Gate
Gates you control enter untapped.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.
Land - Gate
Gond Gate (clb) 353
Heap Gate
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color.
,
, Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Land - Gate
Heap Gate (clb) 354
Manor Gate
This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than green.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land - Gate
Manor Gate (clb) 356
March from Velis Vel
Choose a nonbasic land type. Each land you control of that type becomes a copy of target creature you control until end of turn and gains haste until end of turn.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
March from Velis Vel (m3c) 100
Open the Gates
Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Open the Gates (rvr) 151
Planar Nexus
This land is every nonbasic land type. (Nonbasic land types include Cave, Desert, Gate, Lair, Locus, Mine, Power-Plant, Sphere, Tower, and Urza's.)
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Planar Nexus (m3c) 132
Plaza of Harmony
When this land enters, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 3 life.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any type that a Gate you control could produce.
Land
Plaza of Harmony (plst) RNA-254
Sea Gate
This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than blue.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land - Gate
Sea Gate (clb) 359
Simic Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Simic Guildgate (fdn) 695
Thran Portal
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
As this land enters, choose a basic land type.
This land is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Mana abilities of this land cost an additional 1 life to activate.
Land - Gate
Thran Portal (dmu) 259
Urza's Cave
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land - Urza's Cave
Urza's Cave (mh3) 234

Gate Stuff

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Grave Hate

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Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (tdc) 341

Grave Hate

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Land

Qty: 18 Price: $14.30
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (tdc) 107
Dimir Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Dimir Guildgate (clu) 234
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (tdm) 255
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (tdc) 360
Foreboding Landscape
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Forest, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Foreboding Landscape (tdc) 365
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (tdm) 285
Golgari Rot Farm
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Golgari Rot Farm (tdc) 368
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tdm) 279
Opulent Palace
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Opulent Palace (tdm) 264
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: 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.)
Land
Path of Ancestry (tdc) 382
Simic Growth Chamber
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Simic Growth Chamber (dsc) 298
Sunken Citadel
This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
: Add two mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to activate abilities of land sources.
Land - Cave
Sunken Citadel (lci) 285
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tdm) 281
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Terramorphic Expanse (tdc) 408
Vesuva
You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.
Land
Vesuva (tsr) 289

Land

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Protection

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Shell Shield
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Target creature you control gets +0/+3 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature also gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Shell Shield (znr) 79
Tortoise Formation
Creatures you control gain shroud until end of turn. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)
Instant
Tortoise Formation (ala) 61
Tower Defense
Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.
Instant
Tower Defense (tdc) 275
Treefolk Umbra
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+2 and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
Enchantment - Aura
Treefolk Umbra (mh1) 185

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (tdc) 105
Baldur's Gate
: Add
.
,
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.
Legendary Land - Gate
Baldur's Gate (clb) 345
Blossoming Tortoise
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, mill three cards, then return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Activated abilities of lands you control cost
less to activate.
Land creatures you control get +1/+1.
Creature - Turtle
Blossoming Tortoise (woe) 163
Circuitous Route
Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Circuitous Route (plst) GRN-125
Cultivate
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Cultivate (tdc) 253
Growth Spiral
Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Instant
Growth Spiral (dsc) 88
Herald's Horn
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost
less to cast.
At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.
Artifact
Herald's Horn (lcc) 304
Kodama's Reach
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery - Arcane
Kodama's Reach (tdc) 261
Navigation Orb
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifact
Navigation Orb (clb) 329
Planar Genesis
Look at the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't, put a card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Instant
Planar Genesis (mh3) 198
Quandrix Cultivator
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Creature - Druid Turtle
Quandrix Cultivator (stx) 218
Rampant Growth
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Rampant Growth (tdc) 265
Simic Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Simic Signet (dsc) 252
Snapping Voidcraw
Devoid (This card has no color.)
: Add
.
,
: Draw a card.
Creature - Turtle Eldrazi
Snapping Voidcraw (mh3) 204
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (tdc) 106
Springleaf Drum
, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Springleaf Drum (2xm) 291

Ramp

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Recursion

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Colossal Skyturtle
Flying, ward

Channel —
, Discard this card: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Creature Enchantment - Turtle
Colossal Skyturtle (neo) 216
Echoing Deeps
You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land card in a graveyard, except it's a Cave in addition to its other types.
: Add
.
Land - Cave
Echoing Deeps (lci) 271
Gorex, the Tombshell
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of creature cards from your graveyard. This spell costs
less to cast for each card exiled this way.
Deathtouch
Whenever Gorex attacks or dies, choose a card at random exiled with Gorex and put that card into its owner's hand.
Legendary Creature - Zombie Turtle
Gorex, the Tombshell (cmm) 164

Recursion

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Spot Removal

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Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (tdc) 249
Dragon Turtle
Flash
Drag Below — When this creature enters, tap it and up to one target creature an opponent controls. They don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.
Creature - Dragon Turtle
Dragon Turtle (afr) 56
Kappa Tech-Wrecker
Ninjutsu

This creature enters with a deathtouch counter on it.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a deathtouch counter from it. When you do, exile target artifact or enchantment that player controls.
Creature - Ninja Turtle
Kappa Tech-Wrecker (neo) 198
Return to Nature
Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.
Instant
Return to Nature (moc) 309

Spot Removal

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Tap My Stuff

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Retreat to Coralhelm
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• You may tap or untap target creature.
• Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Enchantment
Retreat to Coralhelm (dsc) 126
Survivors' Encampment
: Add
.
, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.
Land - Desert
Survivors' Encampment (hou) 184

Tap My Stuff

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Tribal Stuff

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Aegis Turtle
Creature - Turtle
Aegis Turtle (fdn) 150
Angler Turtle
Hexproof
Creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able.
Creature - Turtle
Angler Turtle (clb) 713
Armored Whirl Turtle
Creature - Turtle
Armored Whirl Turtle (gs1) 7
Calcite Snapper
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
Creature - Turtle
Calcite Snapper (wwk) 25
Cold-Water Snapper
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Creature - Turtle
Cold-Water Snapper (dom) 48
Giant Tortoise
This creature gets +0/+3 as long as it's untapped.
Creature - Turtle
Giant Tortoise (ema) 52
Hexbane Tortoise
Ward
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Enlist (As this creature attacks, you may tap a nonattacking creature you control without summoning sickness. When you do, add its power to this creature's until end of turn.)
Creature - Turtle
Hexbane Tortoise (dmu) 166
Horned Turtle
Creature - Turtle
Horned Turtle (7ed) 80
Meandering Towershell
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Whenever this creature attacks, exile it. Return it to the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking at the beginning of the declare attackers step on your next turn.
Creature - Turtle
Meandering Towershell (ktk) 141
Riptide Turtle
Flash
Defender
Creature - Turtle
Riptide Turtle (thb) 61
Sailors' Bane
This spell costs
less to cast for each card you own in exile and in your graveyard that's an instant card, a sorcery card, or a card that has an Adventure.
Ward
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Creature - Dragon Turtle
Sailors' Bane (clb) 93
Scuttlegator
Defender
: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)
As long as this creature has a +1/+1 counter on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Creature - Crab Turtle Crocodile
Scuttlegator (clu) 206
Thriving Turtle
When this creature enters, you get
(two energy counters).
Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay
. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Creature - Turtle
Thriving Turtle (kld) 66
Tidepool Turtle
: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Turtle
Tidepool Turtle (dmu) 69
Wandering Tombshell
Creature - Zombie Turtle
Wandering Tombshell (dtk) 127

Tribal Stuff

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Value Stuff

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Case of the Locked Hothouse
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
To solve — You control seven or more lands. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — You may look at the top card of your library any time, and you may play lands and cast creature and enchantment spells from the top of your library.
Enchantment - Case
Case of the Locked Hothouse (mkm) 155

Value Stuff

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Win Cons

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Assault Formation
Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.
: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.
Enchantment
Assault Formation (tdc) 246
Basilisk Gate
: Add
.
,
: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Gate
Basilisk Gate (mb2) 104
Bedrock Tortoise
During your turn, creatures you control have hexproof.
Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Creature - Turtle
Bedrock Tortoise (lci) 176
Glaive of the Guildpact
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each Gate you control and has vigilance and menace. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Glaive of the Guildpact (grn) 236
Kappa Cannoneer
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for
.)
Ward

Whenever this creature or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It can't be blocked this turn.
Creature Artifact - Warrior Turtle
Kappa Cannoneer (mh3) 270
Maze's End
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.
Land
Maze's End (plst) DGM-152
Obelisk of Urd
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2.
Artifact
Obelisk of Urd (znc) 115

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