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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.00
Istvan, Butcher of Eln
Istvan attacks each combat if able.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Istvan by creatures.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put two +1/+1 counters on Istvan.
Legendary Creature - Human
Istvan, Butcher of Eln (mbc) 14

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Clearing the Board

Qty: 5 Price: $30.25
Maha, Its Feathers Night
Flying, trample
Ward—Discard a card.
Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Bird
Maha, Its Feathers Night (blb) 100
Mutilate
All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Sorcery
Mutilate (c14) 150
Pestilence Demon
Flying
: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Creature - Demon
Pestilence Demon (c14) 153
Rain of Daggers
Destroy all creatures target opponent controls. You lose 2 life for each creature destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Rain of Daggers (p02) 85
Shriveling Rot
Choose one —
• Until end of turn, whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it.
• Until end of turn, whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness.
Entwine
(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Instant
Shriveling Rot (dst) 54

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Death Payoffs

Qty: 6 Price: $29.20
Harvester of Souls
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.
Creature - Demon
Harvester of Souls (j25) 453
Koh, the Face Stealer
When Koh enters, exile up to one other target creature.
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may exile it.
Pay 1 life: Choose a creature card exiled with Koh.
Koh has all activated and triggered abilities of the last chosen card.
Legendary Creature - Spirit Shapeshifter
Koh, the Face Stealer (tla) 322
Necrosynthesis
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature."
When enchanted creature dies, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is its power. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Enchantment - Aura
Necrosynthesis (mid) 115
Ogre Slumlord
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
Rats you control have deathtouch.
Creature - Rogue Ogre
Ogre Slumlord (blc) 186
Sadistic Glee
Enchant creature
Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.
Enchantment - Aura
Sadistic Glee (tmp) 153
Vogar, Necropolis Tyrant
Menace
Whenever another creature dies during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Vogar.
When Vogar dies, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.
Legendary Creature - Zombie Giant
Vogar, Necropolis Tyrant (gn3) 3

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Don't Enter the Swamp

Qty: 9 Price: $262.77
Blood Reckoning
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.
Enchantment
Blood Reckoning (m13) 81
Crawlspace
No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.
Artifact
Crawlspace (c13) 240
Dread
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.
When Dread is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Dread (lrw) 107
Ensnaring Bridge
Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.
Artifact
Ensnaring Bridge (7ed) 294
Forcefield
: The next time an unblocked creature of your choice would deal combat damage to you this turn, prevent all but 1 of that damage.
Artifact
Forcefield (cei) 244
Hissing Miasma
Whenever a creature attacks you, its controller loses 1 life.
Enchantment
Hissing Miasma (gpt) 51
Marchesa's Decree
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.
Enchantment
Marchesa's Decree (cn2) 44
No Mercy
Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.
Enchantment
No Mercy (ulg) 56
Revenge of Ravens
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (eld) 104

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Istvan's Other Gear

Qty: 6 Price: $16.20
Glaring Spotlight
Creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Artifact
Glaring Spotlight (gtc) 229
Hot Soup
Equipped creature can't be blocked.
Whenever equipped creature is dealt damage, destroy it.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Hot Soup (plst) M15-219
Hunter's Blowgun
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Equipped creature has deathtouch during your turn. Otherwise, it has reach.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Hunter's Blowgun (lci) 255
Scythe of the Wretched
Equipped creature gets +2/+2.
Whenever a creature dealt damage by equipped creature this turn dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control. Attach this Equipment to that creature.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Scythe of the Wretched (mrd) 239
Smoke Bomb
Flash
All creatures have shroud. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact. When you do, target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.
Artifact
Smoke Bomb (acr) 75
Trailblazer's Boots
Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Trailblazer's Boots (onc) 144

Istvan's Other Gear

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Istvans Things

Qty: 7 Price: $12.77
Bonesplitter
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Bonesplitter (cmr) 458
Chitinous Cloak
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Chitinous Cloak (ogw) 163
Darksteel Axe
Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this Equipment.)
Equipped creature gets +2/+0.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Darksteel Axe (2xm) 247
Haunted Cloak
Equipped creature has vigilance, trample, and haste.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Haunted Cloak (cmm) 389
Leyline Axe
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has double strike and trample.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Leyline Axe (fdn) 353
Warlord's Axe
Equipped creature gets +3/+1.
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Warlord's Axe (m11) 220
Whispersilk Cloak
Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Whispersilk Cloak (pca) 115

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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $418.23
Barren Moor
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Barren Moor (mh1) 236
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (lcc) 320
Crypt of Agadeem
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each black creature card in your graveyard.
Land
Crypt of Agadeem (tdc) 354
Lake of the Dead
If this land would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add
.
Land
Lake of the Dead (all) 140
Leechridden Swamp
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped.
,
: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.
Land - Swamp
Leechridden Swamp (ddr) 65
Mortuary Mire
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
: Add
.
Land
Mortuary Mire (clb) 900
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (cn2) 220
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (ust) 214
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) 416
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Witch's Cottage
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Swamp
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

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Leave the Old Man Alone

Qty: 9 Price: $17.35
Archetype of Finality
Creatures you control have deathtouch.
Creatures your opponents control lose deathtouch and can't have or gain deathtouch.
Creature Enchantment - Gorgon
Archetype of Finality (plst) BNG-58
Coat with Venom
Target creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Instant
Coat with Venom (j25) 412
Dauthi Embrace
: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Enchantment
Dauthi Embrace (tmp) 120
Dauthi Trapper
: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Creature - Minion Dauthi
Dauthi Trapper (sth) 56
Filth
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.
Creature - Incarnation
Filth (jud) 66
Grasping Shadows
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. Put a dread counter on this enchantment. Then if there are three or more dread counters on it, transform it.
Enchantment
Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair (lci) 108Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair (lci) 108
Tainted Strike
Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Instant
Tainted Strike (som) 80
Touch of Moonglove
Target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. Whenever a creature dealt damage by that creature dies this turn, its controller loses 2 life. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Instant
Touch of Moonglove (ori) 123
Vial of Poison
, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Artifact
Vial of Poison (m14) 226

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Misc. Beneficial Effects

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Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (sta) 26
Darkness
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Instant
Darkness (tsb) 40
Dread Presence
Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Nightmare
Dread Presence (m20) 96
Foggy Swamp Visions
As an additional cost to cast this spell, waterbend
. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for
.)
Exile X target creature cards from graveyards. For each creature card exiled this way, create a token that's a copy of it. At the beginning of your next end step, sacrifice those tokens.
Sorcery
Foggy Swamp Visions (tla) 102
Herald of Leshrac
Flying
Cumulative upkeep—Gain control of a land you don't control. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
This creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control but don't own.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, each player gains control of each land they own that you control.
Creature - Avatar
Herald of Leshrac (csp) 62
Read the Bones
Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Sorcery
Read the Bones (j25) 479
Swamp Mosquito
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, defending player gets a poison counter. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
Creature - Insect
Swamp Mosquito (tsb) 49
Uncle Istvan
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures.
Creature - Human
Uncle Istvan (4ed) 165

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Removal

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Defile
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (mm2) 79
Feed the Swarm
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (soa) 29
Go for the Throat
Destroy target nonartifact creature.
Instant
Go for the Throat (bro) 102
Tragic Slip
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.
Instant
Tragic Slip (inr) 134
Withering Torment
Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Rodents of Unusual Size

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99
Crypt Rats
: This creature deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.
Creature - Rat
Crypt Rats (vis) 55

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Traps

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Bear Trap
Flash
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 3 damage to target creature.
Artifact
Bear Trap (dsk) 243
Leonin Bladetrap
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 2 damage to each attacking creature without flying.
Artifact
Leonin Bladetrap (c13) 245
Pit Trap
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target attacking creature without flying. It can't be regenerated.
Artifact
Pit Trap (7ed) 313
Spiked Pit Trap
Flash
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Choose target creature, then roll a d20.
1—9 | This artifact deals 5 damage to that creature.
10—20 | This artifact deals 5 damage to that creature. Create a Treasure token.
Artifact
Spiked Pit Trap (afr) 251
Swampsnare Trap
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets a creature with flying.
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -5/-3.
Enchantment - Aura
Swampsnare Trap (tla) 120

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