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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.99
Arcades, the Strategist
Flying, vigilance
Whenever a creature you control with defender enters, draw a card.
Each creature you control with defender assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power and can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Arcades, the Strategist (plst) M19-212

Commander

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Artifact

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Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56

Artifact

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cards to remove for defenders

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Bant Charm
Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library.
• Counter target instant spell.
Instant
Bant Charm (2x2) 181
Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainstorm (sta) 13
Cryptic Command
Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.
Instant
Cryptic Command (plst) IMA-48
Flawless Maneuver
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Flawless Maneuver (cmm) 24
Growth Spiral
Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Instant
Growth Spiral (dsc) 88
Mana Drain
Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of
equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Noxious Revival
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Put target card from a graveyard on top of its owner's library.
Instant
Noxious Revival (mb2) 70
Spidersilk Armor
Creatures you control get +0/+1 and have reach. (They can block creatures with flying.)
Enchantment
Spidersilk Armor (plst) MMQ-273
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.
Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 32

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Counters

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Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (tmp) 57
Dovin's Veto
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (fdn) 710
Soulsworn Jury
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target creature spell.
Creature - Spirit
Soulsworn Jury (dis) 17

Counters

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Creature

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Crashing Drawbridge
Defender
: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crashing Drawbridge (tdc) 316
Jeskai Barricade
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Defender
When this creature enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.
Creature - Wall
Jeskai Barricade (frf) 15
Perimeter Captain
Defender
Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.
Creature - Human Soldier
Perimeter Captain (plst) WWK-16
Sanctuary Wall
Defender
,
: Tap target creature. You may put a stun counter on it. If you do, put a stun counter on this creature. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Sanctuary Wall (mkm) 32
Stalwart Shield-Bearers
Defender
Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.
Creature - Human Soldier
Stalwart Shield-Bearers (roe) 46
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) 352
The Walls of Ba Sing Se
Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Wall
The Walls of Ba Sing Se (tla) 261
Vertigo Spawn
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, tap that creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Creature - Illusion
Vertigo Spawn (cn2) 125
Wall of Denial
Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Denial (cmm) 939
Wall of Frost
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Frost (plst) MM3-56
Wall of Glare
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
This creature can block any number of creatures.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Glare (plst) UDS-25
Wall of Runes
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Creature - Wall
Wall of Runes (m21) 85

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Draw

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Plagon, Lord of the Beach
When Plagon enters, draw a card for each creature you control with toughness greater than its power.
: Target creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power this turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Starfish
Plagon, Lord of the Beach (j25) 37
Wall of Blossoms
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Blossoms (tdc) 277
Wall of Omens
Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Omens (tdc) 138

Draw

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Land

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Azorius Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Azorius Guildgate (fdn) 683
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
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
Bountiful Promenade
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Bountiful Promenade (clb) 348
Breeding Pool
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Forest
Breeding Pool (eoe) 251
Canopy Vista
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Forest
Canopy Vista (fic) 378
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
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (eoc) 59
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (tla) 286
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
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (eoc) 160
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
Hallowed Fountain
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Hallowed Fountain (ecl) 265
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
Hinterland Harbor
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Hinterland Harbor (fic) 403
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (tla) 283
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 (dgm) 152
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (tle) 304
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (fic) 413
Rejuvenating Springs
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (tdc) 386
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
Sea of Clouds
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
Seaside Citadel
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Seaside Citadel (fic) 420
Selesnya Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Selesnya Guildgate (fdn) 694
Simic Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Simic Guildgate (fdn) 695
Spara's Headquarters
(
: Add
,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Plains Island Forest
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 355
Sunpetal Grove
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sunpetal Grove (fic) 432
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
Temple Garden
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Forest
Temple Garden (ecl) 268
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

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Lifegain

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Wall of Essence
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Essence (m15) 41

Lifegain

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mana dork

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Ulvenwald Captive
Defender
: Add
.
: Transform this creature.
Creature - Horror Werewolf
Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination (emn) 175Ulvenwald Captive // Ulvenwald Abomination (emn) 175
Wall of Roots
Defender
Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add
. Activate only once each turn.
Creature - Plant Wall
Wall of Roots (tdc) 278

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Protection

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Crystal Barricade
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Crystal Barricade (fdn) 7
Eerie Interlude
Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Instant
Eerie Interlude (khc) 22
Heroic Intervention
Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Heroic Intervention (pip) 202
Mirror Shield
Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has hexproof and "Whenever a creature with deathtouch blocks or becomes blocked by this creature, destroy that creature."
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Mirror Shield (thb) 234
Resolute Watchdog
Defender
, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Creature - Dog
Resolute Watchdog (rna) 19

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Ramp

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Axebane Guardian
Defender
: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.
Creature - Human Druid
Axebane Guardian (tdc) 248
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 (ddm) 48
Gleaming Barrier
Defender
When this creature dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature Artifact - Wall
Gleaming Barrier (fdn) 252
Overgrown Battlement
Defender
: Add
for each creature you control with defender.
Creature - Wall
Overgrown Battlement (tdc) 264
Shield Sphere
Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, put a -0/-1 counter on it.
Creature Artifact - Wall
Shield Sphere (all) 129
Sunscape Familiar
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Green spells and blue spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Wall
Sunscape Familiar (plst) PLS-17
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (tdc) 272
Wild-Field Scarecrow
Defender
, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature Artifact - Scarecrow
Wild-Field Scarecrow (inr) 274

Ramp

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Recursion

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Colfenor's Urn
Whenever a creature with toughness 4 or greater is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may exile it.
At the beginning of the end step, if three or more cards have been exiled with this artifact, sacrifice it. If you do, return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.
Artifact
Colfenor's Urn (tdc) 315

Recursion

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Removal

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Cathedral Membrane
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Defender
When this creature dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.
Creature Artifact - Wall Phyrexian
Cathedral Membrane (nph) 5
Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)
Creature - Spirit
Kaijin of the Vanishing Touch (bok) 39
Nature's Claim
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
Instant
Nature's Claim (mb2) 69
Slaughter the Strong
Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.
Sorcery
Slaughter the Strong (clb) 43
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (eoc) 45
Wall of Nets
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
At end of combat, exile all creatures blocked by this creature.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners' control.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Nets (exo) 24
Wall of Tears
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, return that creature to its owner's hand at end of combat.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Tears (plst) STH-50

Removal

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replace aura shards

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Chelonian Tackle
Target creature you control gets +0/+10 until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Sorcery
Chelonian Tackle (sos) 142

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to replace diving top counter balance

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Assemble the Players
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
Once each turn, you may cast a creature spell with power 2 or less from the top of your library.
Enchantment
Assemble the Players (mkm) 3
Vault 75: Middle School
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Exile all creatures with power 4 or greater.
II, III — Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Enchantment - Saga
Vault 75: Middle School (pip) 27

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to replace force of negation

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Hakoda, Selfless Commander
Vigilance
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast Ally spells from the top of your library.
Sacrifice Hakoda: Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain indestructible until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior Ally
Hakoda, Selfless Commander (tla) 23

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to replace swan song

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Chase Inspiration
Target creature you control gets +0/+3 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Chase Inspiration (sos) 41

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to replace tutors

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Ultimate Magic: Holy
Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. If this spell was cast from exile, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
Foretell
(During your turn, you may pay
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Instant
Ultimate Magic: Holy (fic) 32

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Tutor

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Drift of Phantasms
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Flying
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.)
Creature - Spirit
Drift of Phantasms (rvr) 42
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
Shield-Wall Sentinel
Defender
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with defender, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Shield-Wall Sentinel (dmu) 238

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walls to add

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Carven Caryatid
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Spirit
Carven Caryatid (tdc) 250
Corrupted Shapeshifter
Devoid (This card has no color.)
As this creature enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 creature with flying, a 2/5 creature with vigilance, or a 0/12 creature with defender.
Creature - Shapeshifter Eldrazi
Corrupted Shapeshifter (mh3) 56
Dowsing Dagger
When this Equipment enters, target opponent creates two 0/2 green Plant creature tokens with defender.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may transform this Equipment.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale (plst) XLN-235Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale (plst) XLN-235
Floriferous Vinewall
Defender
When this creature enters, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Creature - Plant Wall
Floriferous Vinewall (m3c) 228
Guard Duty
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has defender.
Enchantment - Aura
Guard Duty (ima) 22
Jungle Barrier
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Jungle Barrier (plst) E02-38
Portcullis Vine
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
,
, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card.
Creature - Plant Wall
Portcullis Vine (m21) 195
Psychic Membrane
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature blocks, you may draw a card.
Creature - Wall
Psychic Membrane (mrd) 46
Rune-Sealed Wall
Defender
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature Artifact - Wall
Rune-Sealed Wall (fdn) 49
Saruli Caretaker
Defender
, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Dryad
Saruli Caretaker (rna) 139

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Maybeboard

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Glyph of Delusion
Put X glyph counters on target creature that target Wall blocked this turn, where X is the power of that blocked creature. The creature gains "This creature doesn't untap during your untap step if it has a glyph counter on it" and "At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a glyph counter from this creature."
Instant
Glyph of Delusion (leg) 60
Glyph of Life
Choose target Wall creature. Whenever that creature is dealt damage by an attacking creature this turn, you gain that much life.
Instant
Glyph of Life (leg) 15

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Tokens & Extras

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Bird
Flying
Creature Token - Bird
Bird (teoc) 3
Treasure
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact Token - Treasure
Treasure (ttla) 22

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Deck Info

Deck stats

30 pips - 27 cards
29 mana - 26 cards
29 pips - 23 cards
29 mana - 26 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
14 mana - 11 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
14 mana - 11 cards
22 pips - 21 cards
31 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
12 mana - 10 cards
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