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Sound System
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Commander

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Soundwave, Sonic Spy

Creature Artifact
Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain back (bot) 14Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain back (bot) 14
1

Draw

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Folio of Fancies

Players have no maximum hand size. {X}{X}, {T}: Each player draws X cards. {2}{U}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Artifact
Folio of Fancies (eld) 46
1
Symmetry Matrix

Whenever a creature with power equal to its toughness enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Symmetry Matrix (bro) 252
1
Trading Post

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life. {1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Trading Post (brc) 169
1
Universal Surveillance

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Universal Surveillance (nec) 17
1
Vega, the Watcher

Flying Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, draw a card.

Creature
Vega, the Watcher (khm) 233
1

Evasion

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Behind the Scenes

Creatures you control have skulk. (They can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) {4}{W}: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Behind the Scenes (soi) 100
1
Key to the City

{T}, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn. Whenever Key to the City becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Key to the City (c21) 248
1
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (plst) C19-217
1

Finisher

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Bonehoard

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards. Equip {2}

Artifact
Bonehoard (nec) 147
1
Mnemonic Betrayal

Exile all opponents' graveyards. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them. At the beginning of the next end step, if any of those cards remain exiled, return them to their owners' graveyards. Exile Mnemonic Betrayal.

Sorcery
Mnemonic Betrayal (grn) 189
1

Land

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Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Access Tunnel (stx) 262
1
Ancient Spring

Ancient Spring enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {T}, Sacrifice Ancient Spring: Add {W}{B}.

Land
Ancient Spring (inv) 319
1
Arcane Sanctum

Arcane Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Land
Arcane Sanctum (moc) 390
1
Choked Estuary

As Choked Estuary enters the battlefield, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Choked Estuary enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (lcc) 322
1
Darkwater Catacombs

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (mkc) 257
1
Duskmantle, House of Shadow

{T}: Add {C}. {U}{B}, {T}: Target player mills a card.

Land
Duskmantle, House of Shadow (rav) 277
1
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (lcc) 329
1
Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Fetid Pools enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Fetid Pools (akh) 243
1
Gates of Istfell

Gates of Istfell enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {2}{W}{U}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Gates of Istfell: You gain 2 life and draw two cards.

Land
Gates of Istfell (khm) 256
1
Idyllic Beachfront

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Idyllic Beachfront enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Idyllic Beachfront (dmu) 249
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (lci) 395
6
Nephalia Drownyard

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}{B}, {T}: Target player mills three cards.

Land
Nephalia Drownyard (lcc) 344
1
Phyrexia's Core

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: You gain 1 life.

Land
Phyrexia's Core (c21) 309
1
Pit of Offerings

Pit of Offerings enters the battlefield tapped. When Pit of Offerings enters the battlefield, exile up to three target cards from graveyards. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled cards' colors.

Land
Pit of Offerings (lci) 278
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (lci) 393
3
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (cmm) 1020
1
Razortide Bridge

Razortide Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Artifact Land
Razortide Bridge (brc) 195
1
Restless Fortress

Restless Fortress enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. {2}{W}{B}: Restless Fortress becomes a 1/4 white and black Nightmare creature until end of turn. It's still a land. Whenever Restless Fortress attacks, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Land
Restless Fortress (woe) 259
1
Restless Reef

Restless Reef enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {2}{U}{B}: Until end of turn, Restless Reef becomes a 4/4 blue and black Shark creature with deathtouch. It's still a land. Whenever Restless Reef attacks, target player mills four cards.

Land
Restless Reef (lci) 282
1
River of Tears

{T}: Add {U}. If you played a land this turn, add {B} instead.

Land
River of Tears (brc) 197
1
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (cmm) 1027
1
Scoured Barrens

Scoured Barrens enters the battlefield tapped. When Scoured Barrens enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Scoured Barrens (mom) 272
1
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Sunken Hollow enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (lcc) 355
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (lci) 398
3
Vivid Creek

Vivid Creek enters the battlefield tapped with two charge counters on it. {T}: Add {U}. {T}, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Creek: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Vivid Creek (ncc) 444
1
Vivid Meadow

Vivid Meadow enters the battlefield tapped with two charge counters on it. {T}: Add {W}. {T}, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Meadow: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Vivid Meadow (ncc) 446
1
Waterfront District

Waterfront District enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {2}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Waterfront District: Draw a card.

Land
Waterfront District (snc) 259
1

Mill

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218
1
Altar of the Brood

Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent mills a card.

Artifact
Altar of the Brood (ktk) 216
1
Consuming Aberration

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards. Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Consuming Aberration (clb) 840
1
Imperious Mindbreaker

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters the battlefield. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Imperious Mindbreaker is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent mills cards equal to its toughness."

Creature
Imperious Mindbreaker (voc) 33
1
Invasion of Amonkhet

Battle
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert (mom) 231Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert (mom) 231
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Maddening Cacophony

Kicker {3}{U} Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.

Sorcery
Maddening Cacophony (znr) 67
1
Patient Rebuilding

At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent mills three cards, then you draw a card for each land card put into their graveyard this way.

Enchantment
Patient Rebuilding (m19) 67
1
Phenax, God of Deception

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue and black is less than seven, Phenax isn't a creature. Creatures you control have "{T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is this creature's toughness."

Creature Enchantment
Phenax, God of Deception (plst) BNG-152
1
The Cyber-Controller

When The Cyber-Controller enters the battlefield, each opponent mills X cards. Put all creature cards milled this way onto the battlefield face down under your control. They're 2/2 Cyberman artifact creatures. Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact
The Cyber-Controller (who) 405
1
Thief of Sanity

Flying Whenever Thief of Sanity deals combat damage to a player, look at the top three cards of that player's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest into their graveyard. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

Creature
Thief of Sanity (ncc) 354
1
Undead Alchemist

If a Zombie you control would deal combat damage to a player, instead that player mills that many cards. Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from their library, exile that card and create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Undead Alchemist (mic) 105
1

Power-Up

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Barbed Spike

When Barbed Spike enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying, then attach Barbed Spike to it. Equipped creature gets +1/+0. Equip {2}

Artifact
Barbed Spike (mh2) 5
1
Obscura Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1. • Target creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.) • Target player returns a creature card from their graveyard to their hand.

Instant
Obscura Confluence (ncc) 76
1
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun

At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature token you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. Embalm {3}{W}{U} ({3}{W}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Human Cleric with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun (akh) 207
1
Thunderstaff

As long as Thunderstaff is untapped, if a creature would deal combat damage to you, prevent 1 of that damage. {2}, {T}: Attacking creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Artifact
Thunderstaff (cma) 237
1
Tooth of Chiss-Goria

Flash Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) {T}: Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Artifact
Tooth of Chiss-Goria (mrd) 264
1
Umezawa's Jitte

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte. Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one — • Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. • Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. • You gain 2 life. Equip {2}

Artifact
Umezawa's Jitte (plst) BOK-163
1

Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (woc) 145
1
Azorius Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Artifact
Azorius Signet (cmm) 941
1
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (cmm) 377
1
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) Everflowing Chalice enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (plst) WWK-123
1
Firemind Vessel

Firemind Vessel enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add two mana of different colors.

Artifact
Firemind Vessel (cmm) 383
1
Goldvein Pick

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Goldvein Pick (j22) 769
1
Honored Heirloom

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {2}, {T}: Exile target card from a graveyard.

Artifact
Honored Heirloom (vow) 257
1
Mirran Safehouse

As long as Mirran Safehouse is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all land cards in all graveyards.

Artifact
Mirran Safehouse (one) 232
1
Relic of Legends

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Relic of Legends (dmu) 236
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (woc) 149
1
Talisman of Hierarchy

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Talisman of Hierarchy deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (lcc) 315
1
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (lcc) 317
1

Recursion

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Bond of Insight

Each player mills four cards. Return up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Bond of Insight.

Sorcery
Bond of Insight (war) 43
1
Extract from Darkness

Each player mills two cards. Then you put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Extract from Darkness (2x2) 210
1
Jailbreak

Return target permanent card in an opponent's graveyard to the battlefield under their control. When that permanent enters the battlefield, return up to one target permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Jailbreak (ncc) 17
1

Removal

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Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (woc) 84
1
Beckon Apparition

Exile target card from a graveyard. Create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.

Instant
Beckon Apparition (uma) 211
1
Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Instant
Crypt Incursion (dgm) 23
1
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (moc) 322
1
Drown in the Loch

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant
Drown in the Loch (clb) 842
1
Launch Mishap

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Instant
Launch Mishap (j22) 14
1
Nihil Spellbomb

{T}, Sacrifice Nihil Spellbomb: Exile target player's graveyard. When Nihil Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Nihil Spellbomb (scd) 270
1
Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Time Wipe (plst) WAR-223
1
Winds of Rebuke

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Each player mills two cards.

Instant
Winds of Rebuke (akh) 76
1

Tokens

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Access Denied

Counter target spell. Create X 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.

Instant
Access Denied (nec) 11
1
Depose

Instant
Depose // Deploy (rna) 225
1
Dovin, Grand Arbiter

+1: Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put a loyalty counter on Dovin, Grand Arbiter. −1: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. You gain 1 life. −7: Look at the top ten cards of your library. Put three of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Planeswalker
Dovin, Grand Arbiter (voc) 153
1
Screeching Scorchbeast

Flying, menace Whenever Screeching Scorchbeast attacks, each player gets two rad counters. Whenever one or more nonland cards are milled, you may create that many 2/2 black Zombie Mutant creature tokens. Do this only once each turn.

Creature
Screeching Scorchbeast (pip) 49
1
See Double

This spell can't be copied. Choose one. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, you may choose both. • Copy target spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) • Create a token that's a copy of target creature.

Instant
See Double (mom) 77
1
Sweep the Skies

Converge — Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying for each color of mana spent to cast this spell.

Sorcery
Sweep the Skies (mh2) 70
1
Thopter Shop

Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. {2}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Artifact
Thopter Shop (brc) 19
1
Thopter Spy Network

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control an artifact, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Enchantment
Thopter Spy Network (moc) 241
1
Whirler Rogue

When Whirler Rogue enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying. Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Whirler Rogue (cmm) 132
1

Tutor

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Muddle the Mixture

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, 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 (plst) RAV-60
1
Perplex

Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, 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
1
Reshape

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Reshape (plst) DST-31
1

Cassettes

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Laserbeak

Flying, hexproof

Creature Artifact Token
Laserbeak (tbot) 1
1
Ravage

Menace, deathtouch

Creature Artifact Token
Ravage (tbot) 2
1

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Description

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