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Commander

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The Wandering Minstrel
Lands you control enter untapped.
The Minstrel's Ballad — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control five or more Towns, create a 2/2 Elemental creature token that's all colors.
: Other creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Towns you control.
Legendary Creature - Human Bard
The Wandering Minstrel (fin) 249

Commander

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Anthem

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Hold the Gates
Creatures you control get +0/+1 for each Gate you control and have vigilance.
Enchantment
Hold the Gates (gtc) 16

Anthem

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Burn

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Cemetery Gatekeeper
First strike
When this creature enters, exile a card from a graveyard.
Whenever a player plays a land or casts a spell, if it shares a card type with the exiled card, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.
Creature - Vampire
Cemetery Gatekeeper (vow) 148
Crackling Perimeter
Tap an untapped Gate you control: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Enchantment
Crackling Perimeter (gtc) 88

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Counters

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Westgate Regent
Flying
Ward—Discard a card. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player discards a card.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Vampire
Westgate Regent (afr) 126

Counters

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Creature

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Armory Guard
This creature has vigilance as long as you control a Gate.
Creature - Soldier Giant
Armory Guard (ddl) 12
Gateway Shade
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Tap an untapped Gate you control: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Creature - Shade
Gateway Shade (gtc) 65
Oona's Gatewarden
Defender, flying
Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Creature - Soldier Faerie
Oona's Gatewarden (shm) 173
Shinka Gatekeeper
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to you.
Creature - Warrior Ogre
Shinka Gatekeeper (bok) 117
Smelt-Ward Gatekeepers
When this creature enters, if you control two or more Gates, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.
Creature - Human Warrior
Smelt-Ward Gatekeepers (dgm) 39
Sunspire Gatekeepers
When this creature enters, if you control two or more Gates, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.
Creature - Human Soldier
Sunspire Gatekeepers (dgm) 9

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Draw

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Deduce
Draw a card. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Instant
Deduce (soa) 16
Gateway Sneak
Whenever a Gate you control enters, this creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Creature - Rogue Vedalken
Gateway Sneak (rna) 40
Genesis Wave
Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.
Sorcery
Genesis Wave (ima) 164
Glarb, Calamity's Augur
Deathtouch
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells with mana value 4 or greater from the top of your library.
: Surveil 2.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Frog Noble
Glarb, Calamity's Augur (blb) 215
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
Opal Lake Gatekeepers
When this creature enters, if you control two or more Gates, you may draw a card.
Creature - Soldier Vedalken
Opal Lake Gatekeepers (dgm) 16

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Land

Qty: 43 Price: $82.55
Azorius Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Azorius Guildgate (rvr) 272
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) 600
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 (clb) 346
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
Boros Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Boros Guildgate (gtc) 239
Citadel Gate
This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than white.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land - Gate
Citadel Gate (clb) 349
Cliffgate
This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than red.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land - Gate
Cliffgate (clb) 350
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (clb) 351
Dimir Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Dimir Guildgate (dgm) 148
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (afr) 353
Fabled Passage
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (m15) 269
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (afr) 278
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 (rna) 247
Golgari Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Golgari Guildgate (rtr) 239
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
Gruul Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Gruul Guildgate (gtc) 243
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
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (7ed) 335
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (neo) 295
Izzet Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Izzet Guildgate (rvr) 405
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
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 (pdgm) 152★
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (woe) 265
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (inr) 294
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, 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 (c17) 262
North Pole Gates
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
North Pole Gates (tla) 274
Orzhov Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Orzhov Guildgate (gtc) 244
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (neo) 293
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 (rna) 254
Rakdos Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Rakdos Guildgate (rvr) 408
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
Selesnya Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Selesnya Guildgate (c17) 279
Simic Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Simic Guildgate (gtc) 246
Snow-Covered Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Snow Land - Plains
Snow-Covered Plains (khm) 277
Snow-Covered Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Snow Land - Swamp
Snow-Covered Swamp (khm) 281
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (neo) 298
Talon Gates of Madara
When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out.
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color.
: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Land - Gate
Talon Gates of Madara (m3c) 134
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Terramorphic Expanse (tsp) 279
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) 422
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
Vibrant Cityscape
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Vibrant Cityscape (spm) 188

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Lifegain

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Congregate
Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.
Instant
Congregate (m14) 14
Saruli Gatekeepers
When this creature enters, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 7 life.
Creature - Warrior Elf
Saruli Gatekeepers (dgm) 48

Lifegain

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Mill

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Krydle of Baldur's Gate
Whenever Krydle deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 1 life and mills a card, then you gain 1 life and scry 1.
Whenever you attack, you may pay
. If you do, target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Elf Rogue
Krydle of Baldur's Gate (afr) 226

Mill

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Protection

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Consulate Skygate
Defender
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Consulate Skygate (kld) 202
Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate
Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you have a full party, choose target nonland permanent an opponent controls. Until your next turn, it can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
Sacrifice Linvala: Choose hexproof or indestructible. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Angel
Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate (znr) 226
Way of the Thief
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.
Enchanted creature can't be blocked as long as you control a Gate.
Enchantment - Aura
Way of the Thief (gtc) 56

Protection

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Pump

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Gatebreaker Ram
This creature gets +1/+1 for each Gate you control.
As long as you control two or more Gates, this creature has vigilance and trample.
Creature - Sheep
Gatebreaker Ram (rna) 126
Gatekeeper Gargoyle
Flying
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Gate you control.
Creature Artifact - Gargoyle
Gatekeeper Gargoyle (grn) 235

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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 (ncc) 360
Chromatic Lantern
Lands you control have "
: Add one mana of any color."
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (ltc) 275
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 (grn) 125
District Guide
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Elf Scout
District Guide (grn) 128
Gate to the Aether
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player reveals the top card of their library. If it's an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card, the player may put it onto the battlefield.
Artifact
Gate to the Aether (mrd) 174
Gatecreeper Vine
Defender
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Plant
Gatecreeper Vine (rtr) 124
Greenside Watcher
: Untap target Gate.
Creature - Elf Druid
Greenside Watcher (gtc) 122
Kellan, Inquisitive Prodigy
Flying, vigilance
Whenever Kellan attacks, destroy up to one target artifact. If you controlled that permanent, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Faerie Detective
Kellan, Inquisitive Prodigy // Tail the Suspect (mkm) 212
Lavabrink Floodgates
: Add
.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may put a doom counter on this artifact or remove a doom counter from it. Then if it has three or more doom counters on it, sacrifice this artifact. When you do, it deals 6 damage to each creature.
Artifact
Lavabrink Floodgates (c20) 53
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
Nine-Fingers Keene
Menace
Ward—Pay 9 life.
Whenever Nine-Fingers Keene deals combat damage to a player, look at the top nine cards of your library. You may put a Gate card from among them onto the battlefield. Then if you control nine or more Gates, put the rest into your hand. Otherwise, put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Nine-Fingers Keene (clb) 435
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 (rna) 133
Oracle of Mul Daya
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Oracle of Mul Daya (eoc) 102
Reshape the Earth
Search your library for up to ten land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Reshape the Earth (cmr) 249
Sage of the Maze
: Add two mana in any combination of colors.
: Until end of turn, target land you control becomes an X/X Citizen creature with haste in addition to its other types, where X is twice the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Tap an untapped Gate you control: Untap this creature.
Creature - Wizard Elf
Sage of the Maze (m3c) 119
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (c16) 272
Spelunking
When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put a Cave onto the battlefield this way, you gain 4 life.
Lands you control enter untapped.
Enchantment
Spelunking (lci) 213
Tempt with Discovery
Tempting offer — Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Each opponent may search their library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. For each opponent who searches a library this way, search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched a library this way shuffles.
Sorcery
Tempt with Discovery (c19) 183

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Recursion

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Conduit of Worlds
You may play lands from your graveyard.
: Choose target nonland permanent card in your graveyard. If you haven't cast a spell this turn, you may cast that card. If you do, you can't cast additional spells this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Conduit of Worlds (one) 163
Gate Colossus
Affinity for Gates (This spell costs
less to cast for each Gate you control.)
This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Whenever a Gate you control enters, you may put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Gate Colossus (clb) 315
Glacierwood Siege
As this enchantment enters, choose Temur or Sultai.
• Temur — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, target player mills four cards.
• Sultai — You may play lands from your graveyard.
Enchantment
Glacierwood Siege (tdm) 189
Ramunap Excavator
You may play lands from your graveyard.
Creature - Cleric Snake
Ramunap Excavator (hou) 129

Recursion

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Removal

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Bar the Gate
Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)
Instant
Bar the Gate (afr) 47
Beluna's Gatekeeper
Creature - Soldier Giant
Beluna's Gatekeeper // Entry Denied (woe) 43
Castigate
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.
Sorcery
Castigate (gpt) 106
Fumigate
Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Fumigate (ltc) 170
Gatekeeper of Malakir
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Creature - Vampire Warrior
Gatekeeper of Malakir (zen) 89
Gates Ablaze
Gates Ablaze deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of Gates you control.
Sorcery
Gates Ablaze (rna) 102
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Ubul Sar Gatekeepers
When this creature enters, if you control two or more Gates, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
Creature - Soldier Zombie
Ubul Sar Gatekeepers (dgm) 30

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Stax

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Loxodon Gatekeeper
Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter tapped.
Creature - Soldier Elephant
Loxodon Gatekeeper (rav) 25

Stax

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Tokens

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Hard Evidence
Create a 0/3 blue Crab creature token.
Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Sorcery
Hard Evidence (mh2) 46

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Sideboard

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Agate Assault
Choose one —
• Agate Assault deals 4 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.
• Exile target artifact.
Sorcery
Agate Assault (blb) 122
Agate Instigator
Offspring
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.
Creature - Rogue Lizard
Agate Instigator (blc) 21
Archway Angel
Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life for each Gate you control.
Creature - Angel
Archway Angel (fdn) 566
Azor's Gateway
,
: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand. If cards with five or more different mana values are exiled with Azor's Gateway, you gain 5 life, untap Azor's Gateway, and transform it.
Legendary Artifact
Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun (plst) RIX-176Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun (plst) RIX-176
Explore the Underdark
Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
You take the initiative.
Sorcery
Explore the Underdark (clb) 232
Floodgate
Defender
When this creature has flying, sacrifice it.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, it deals damage to each nonblue creature without flying equal to half the number of Islands you control, rounded down.
Creature - Wall
Floodgate (dmr) 49
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (sos) 280
Garrison Sergeant
This creature has double strike as long as you control a Gate.
Creature - Soldier Lizard
Garrison Sergeant (grn) 172
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
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (sos) 274
Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace
Decimate — When Legate Lanius enters, each opponent sacrifices a tenth of the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up.
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Legate Lanius.
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace (pip) 107
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (sos) 278
Ogre Jailbreaker
Defender
This creature can attack as though it didn't have defender as long as you control a Gate.
Creature - Rogue Ogre
Ogre Jailbreaker (mm3) 80
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (sos) 272
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (sos) 276
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

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Deck Info

Deck stats

10 pips - 8 cards
22 mana - 19 cards
19 pips - 17 cards
22 mana - 19 cards
11 pips - 9 cards
21 mana - 18 cards
6 pips - 6 cards
23 mana - 19 cards
26 pips - 20 cards
21 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
12 mana - 11 cards
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