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Commander

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Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Flying, vigilance
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirko.
At the beginning of your end step, you may return target creature card with power less than Mirko's from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If it would die, exile it instead.)
Legendary Creature - Vampire Detective
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist (mkc) 2

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Anthem

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Favorable Winds
Creatures you control with flying get +1/+1.
Enchantment
Favorable Winds (scd) 52
Glen Elendra Liege
Flying
Other blue creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.
Creature - Knight Faerie
Glen Elendra Liege (2x2) 217

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Bombs

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Apocalypse Demon
Flying
Apocalypse Demon's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your graveyard.
At the beginning of your upkeep, tap this creature unless you sacrifice another creature.
Creature - Demon
Apocalypse Demon (hou) 58
Auton Soldier
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it isn't legendary, is an artifact in addition to its other types, and has myriad. (Whenever it 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.)
Creature Artifact - Soldier Alien
Auton Soldier (who) 36

Bombs

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Draw

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Dimir Strandcatcher
Flying
Whenever you attack, surveil X, where X is the number of opponents being attacked.
At the beginning of each end step, if three or more cards were put into your graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield this turn, draw a card.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Dimir Strandcatcher (clu) 30
Disinformation Campaign
When this enchantment enters, you draw a card and each opponent discards a card.
Whenever you surveil, return this enchantment to its owner's hand.
Enchantment
Disinformation Campaign (mkc) 208
Forbidden Alchemy
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Forbidden Alchemy (tdc) 152
Marauding Sphinx
Flying, vigilance, ward

Whenever you commit a crime, surveil 2. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Creature - Rogue Sphinx
Marauding Sphinx (otj) 56
Notion Rain
Surveil 2, then draw two cards. Notion Rain deals 2 damage to you. (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.)
Sorcery
Notion Rain (mkc) 217
Satoru, the Infiltrator
Menace
Whenever Satoru and/or one or more other nontoken creatures you control enter, if none of them were cast or no mana was spent to cast them, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue Ninja
Satoru, the Infiltrator (otj) 230
Twilight Prophet
Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Twilight Prophet (mkc) 143

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $167.64
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (tdc) 107
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (drc) 152
Gloomlake Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control an Island or a Swamp.
Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 260
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tdm) 279
Morphic Pool
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Polluted Delta
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Riptide Laboratory
: Add
.
,
: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.
Land
Riptide Laboratory (mh2) 303
Shipwreck Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shipwreck Marsh (inr) 284
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (tdc) 398
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tdm) 282
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Undercity Sewers
(
: Add
or
.)
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 - Island Swamp
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (drc) 181
Watery Grave
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Watery Grave (rvr) 291

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Mill/Surveil

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Case of the Shifting Visage
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1.
To solve — There are fifteen or more cards in your graveyard. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell, copy that spell. (The copy becomes a token.)
Enchantment - Case
Case of the Shifting Visage (mkc) 19
Diviner of Mist
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, mill four cards. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard with mana value 4 or less without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Creature - Dragon
Diviner of Mist (tdc) 20
Doom Whisperer
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: 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.)
Creature - Demon Nightmare
Doom Whisperer (mkc) 128
Dream Eater
Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, surveil 4. When you do, you may return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. (To surveil 4, look at the top four cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Creature - Nightmare Sphinx
Dream Eater (dsc) 116
Essence Anchor
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
: Create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token. Activate only during your turn and only if a card left your graveyard this turn.
Artifact
Essence Anchor (tdm) 44
Gossip's Talent
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Whenever a creature you control enters, surveil 1.
: Level 2
Whenever you attack, target attacking creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.
: Level 3
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may exile it, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Enchantment - Class
Gossip's Talent (blb) 51
Mindwhisker
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, creatures your opponents control get -1/-0.
Creature - Wizard Rat
Mindwhisker (blb) 60
Stitcher's Supplier
When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature - Zombie
Stitcher's Supplier (tdc) 196
Unshakable Tail
When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1.
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
, Sacrifice a Clue: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Zombie Detective
Unshakable Tail (mkc) 29

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Protection

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Giant's Amulet
When this Equipment enters, you may pay
. If you do, create a 4/4 blue Giant Wizard creature token, then attach this Equipment to it.
Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and has "This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped."(It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Giant's Amulet (khm) 59
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.)
Instant
Lazotep Plating (war) 59
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (tdc) 102
Ring of Evos Isle
: Equipped creature gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature if it's blue.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Ring of Evos Isle (m13) 211
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (tdc) 328

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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
Cryptex
, Collect evidence 3: Add one mana of any color. Put an unlock counter on this artifact. (To collect evidence 3, exile cards with total mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard.)
Sacrifice this artifact: Surveil 3, then draw three cards. Activate only if this artifact has five or more unlock counters on it.
Artifact
Cryptex (mkm) 251
Decanter of Endless Water
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (drc) 129
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (tdc) 318
Hedron Archive
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.
Artifact
Hedron Archive (blc) 275
Peregrine Drake
Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.
Creature - Drake
Peregrine Drake (dmr) 65
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (tdc) 106
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (drc) 141
Warden of Evos Isle
Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Wizard Bird
Warden of Evos Isle (j25) 385

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Recursion

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Charnel Serenade
Surveil 3, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Exile Charnel Serenade with three time counters on it.
Suspend 3—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Charnel Serenade (mkc) 26
Drana, the Last Bloodchief
Flying
Whenever Drana attacks, defending player chooses a nonlegendary creature card in your graveyard. You return that card to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. The creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Cleric
Drana, the Last Bloodchief (znr) 98
Eye of Duskmantle
Flying, lifelink
You may play lands and cast spells from among cards in your graveyard you've surveilled this turn. If you cast a spell this way, you pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.
Creature - Eye
Eye of Duskmantle (mkc) 27
Mission Briefing
Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (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
Mission Briefing (mkc) 110
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to that card's mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Creature - Sphinx
Sphinx of Forgotten Lore (fdn) 51

Recursion

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Removal

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Chupacabra Echo
Fathomless descent — When this creature enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
Creature - Beast Spirit Horror
Chupacabra Echo (lci) 97
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Dalek Drone
Flying, menace
Exterminate! — When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls. That player loses 3 life.
Creature Artifact - Dalek
Dalek Drone (who) 64
Dark Hatchling
Flying
When this creature enters, destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Creature - Horror
Dark Hatchling (clb) 747
Dragonlord Silumgar
Flying, deathtouch
When Dragonlord Silumgar enters, gain control of target creature or planeswalker for as long as you control Dragonlord Silumgar.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Dragonlord Silumgar (2x2) 203
Echoing Truth
Return target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent to their owners' hands.
Instant
Echoing Truth (plst) DMC-109
Ephara's Dispersal
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets an attacking creature.
Return target creature to its owner's hand. 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
Ephara's Dispersal (mkc) 103
Go for the Throat
Destroy target nonartifact creature.
Instant
Go for the Throat (j25) 447
Hullbreaker Horror
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Creature - Horror Kraken
Hullbreaker Horror (inr) 357
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (tdc) 182
Patron of the Vein
Flying
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.
Creature - Vampire Shaman
Patron of the Vein (lcc) 207
Price of Fame
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets a legendary creature.
Destroy target creature.
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
Price of Fame (mkc) 135
Season of Loss
Choose up to five
worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once.
— Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
— Draw a card for each creature that died under your control this turn.
— Each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Sorcery
Season of Loss (blb) 112
Terror Tide
Fathomless descent — All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
Sorcery
Terror Tide (lci) 127

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Surveil Payoffs

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Dimir Spybug
Flying
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Insect
Dimir Spybug (mkc) 206
Enhanced Surveillance
You may look at an additional two cards each time you surveil.
Exile this enchantment: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.
Enchantment
Enhanced Surveillance (mkc) 102
Thoughtbound Phantasm
Defender
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
As long as this creature has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Creature - Spirit
Thoughtbound Phantasm (mkc) 122
Whispering Snitch
Whenever you surveil for the first time each turn, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Rogue
Whispering Snitch (mkc) 144

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Tutor

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Buried Alive
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Entomb
Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Instant
Entomb (dmr) 82
Mausoleum Secrets
Undergrowth — Search your library for a black card with mana value less than or equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Instant
Mausoleum Secrets (grn) 75
Muddle the Mixture
Counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Instant
Muddle the Mixture (rvr) 50
Perplex
Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Instant
Perplex (rav) 217

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