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Launch the Hostages
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $304.20
Salt Sum: 30.58
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Ayara, Widow of the Realm

Creature
Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen (mom) 90Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen (mom) 90
1

Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (otc) 252
1
Battlemage's Bracers

Equipped creature has haste. Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {1}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. Equip {2}

Artifact
Battlemage's Bracers (c21) 48
1
Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
1
Fire Diamond

Fire Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R}.

Artifact
Fire Diamond (clb) 313
1
Illusionist's Bracers

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. Equip {3}

Artifact
Illusionist's Bracers (rvr) 260
1
Luxurious Locomotive

Whenever Luxurious Locomotive attacks, create a Treasure token for each creature that crewed it this turn. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") Crew 1. Activate only once each turn. (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact
Luxurious Locomotive (otj) 244
1
Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
1
Staff of Domination

{1}: Untap Staff of Domination. {2}, {T}: You gain 1 life. {3}, {T}: Untap target creature. {4}, {T}: Tap target creature. {5}, {T}: Draw a card.

Artifact
Staff of Domination (cmr) 343
1
Strionic Resonator

{2}, {T}: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Artifact
Strionic Resonator (moc) 384
1
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (scd) 282
1

Card Advantage

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Cut of the Profits

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Sorcery
Cut of the Profits (snc) 72
1
Demand Answers

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Demand Answers (mkm) 306
1
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107
1
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (one) 151
1
Tormenting Voice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Tormenting Voice (j22) 615
1
Valakut Exploration

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. At the beginning of your end step, if there are cards exiled with Valakut Exploration, put them into their owner's graveyard, then Valakut Exploration deals that much damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Valakut Exploration (znr) 175
1

Creature

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Calamity, Galloping Inferno

Haste Whenever Calamity, Galloping Inferno attacks while saddled, choose a nonlegendary creature that saddled it this turn and create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of it. Sacrifice that token at the beginning of the next end step. Repeat this process once. Saddle 1

Creature
Calamity, Galloping Inferno (otj) 116
1
Feldon of the Third Path

{2}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target creature card in your graveyard, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Feldon of the Third Path (moc) 277
1
Gisa, the Hellraiser

Ward—{2}, Pay 2 life. Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace. Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Gisa, the Hellraiser (otj) 89
1
Jaxis, the Troublemaker

{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control. It gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery. Blitz {1}{R} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

Creature
Jaxis, the Troublemaker (snc) 112
1
Kaervek, the Punisher

Whenever you commit a crime, exile up to one target black card from your graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy. If you do, you lose 2 life. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime. Copies of permanent spells become tokens.)

Creature
Kaervek, the Punisher (otj) 289
1

Double Down

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Fiery Emancipation

If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Enchantment
Fiery Emancipation (wot) 42
1
Gratuitous Violence

If a creature you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Enchantment
Gratuitous Violence (afc) 127
1
Obosh, the Preypiercer

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with odd mana values and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) If a source you control with an odd mana value would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Creature
Obosh, the Preypiercer (mul) 54
1
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead. {1}{R/P}{R/P}, Discard two cards: Put an indestructible counter on Solphim, Mayhem Dominus. ({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.)

Creature
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus (one) 312
1

Enchantment

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Aggravated Assault

{3}{R}{R}: Untap all creatures you control. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Aggravated Assault (wot) 39
1
Outpost Siege

As Outpost Siege enters the battlefield, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. • Dragons — Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, Outpost Siege deals 1 damage to any target.

Enchantment
Outpost Siege (clb) 804
1
Sneak Attack

{R}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice the creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Sneak Attack (wot) 79
1

Going into the deck

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Descent into Avernus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on Descent into Avernus. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and Descent into Avernus deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on Descent into Avernus.

Enchantment
Descent into Avernus (clb) 169
1
Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali, Primal Storm attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Etali, Primal Storm (mkc) 152
1
Kazuul's Fury

Instant
Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146
1
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
1
Mayhem Devil

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, Mayhem Devil deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Mayhem Devil (rvr) 199
1
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (mkc) 133
1
Rakdos, the Muscle

Flying, trample Whenever you sacrifice another creature, exile cards equal to its mana value from the top of target player's library. Until your next end step, you may play those cards, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells. Sacrifice another creature: Rakdos, the Muscle gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Rakdos, the Muscle (otj) 226
1
Reckless Endeavor

Roll two d12 and choose one result. Reckless Endeavor deals damage equal to that result to each creature. Then create a number of Treasure tokens equal to the other result.

Sorcery
Reckless Endeavor (afc) 33
1
RMS Titanic

Flying, trample When RMS Titanic deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice it and create that many Treasure tokens. Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact
RMS Titanic (who) 93
1
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (moc) 379
1
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (mkc) 141
1
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108
1

Grand Larceny

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Captivating Crew

{3}{R}: Gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Captivating Crew (otc) 159
1
Eriette's Tempting Apple

When Eriette's Tempting Apple enters the battlefield, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Eriette's Tempting Apple: You gain 3 life. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Eriette's Tempting Apple: Target opponent loses 3 life.

Artifact
Eriette's Tempting Apple (woe) 245
1
Furnace Reins

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. Until end of turn, it gains haste and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Furnace Reins (mom) 141
1
Kari Zev's Expertise

Gain control of target creature or Vehicle until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn. You may cast a spell with mana value 2 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Kari Zev's Expertise (aer) 88
1
Plargg and Nassari

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. An opponent chooses a nonland card exiled this way. You may cast up to two spells from among the other cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Plargg and Nassari (mat) 18
1
Take for a Ride

Take for a Ride has flash as long as you've committed a crime this turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Take for a Ride (otj) 148
1
Treasure Nabber

Whenever an opponent taps an artifact for mana, gain control of that artifact until the end of your next turn.

Creature
Treasure Nabber (cmm) 265
1

Gravediggin'

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Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Creature
Chainer, Nightmare Adept (mh2) 289
1
Isareth the Awakener

Deathtouch Whenever Isareth the Awakener attacks, you may pay {X}. When you do, return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield with a corpse counter on it. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.

Creature
Isareth the Awakener (cmm) 168
1
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (otp) 18
1
Terror of Towashi

Deathtouch Whenever Terror of Towashi attacks, you may pay {3}{B}. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Creature
Terror of Towashi (mom) 331
1
Virtue of Persistence

Enchantment
Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn (woe) 281
1
Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (cp2) 5
1

Instant

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Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (sta) 26
1

Land

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Barren Moor

Barren Moor enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Barren Moor (c21) 277
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (otc) 280
1
Dragonskull Summit

Dragonskull Summit enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (otc) 289
1
Escape Tunnel

{T}, Sacrifice Escape Tunnel: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. {T}, Sacrifice Escape Tunnel: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Escape Tunnel (mkm) 261
1
Foreboding Ruins

As Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Foreboding Ruins (lcc) 330
1
Hidden Necropolis

Hidden Necropolis enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {4}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Hidden Necropolis: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Land
Hidden Necropolis (lci) 275
1
Jagged Barrens

Jagged Barrens enters the battlefield tapped. When Jagged Barrens enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Jagged Barrens (otj) 259
1
Maestros Theater

When Maestros Theater enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Maestros Theater (snc) 251
1
Memorial to Folly

Memorial to Folly enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Memorial to Folly: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Memorial to Folly (c20) 288
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (otj) 284
8
Promising Vein

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Promising Vein: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Promising Vein (lci) 279
1
Rakdos Carnarium

Rakdos Carnarium enters the battlefield tapped. When Rakdos Carnarium enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (clu) 243
1
Raucous Theater

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Raucous Theater enters the battlefield tapped. When Raucous Theater enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Raucous Theater (mkm) 266
1
Restless Vents

Restless Vents enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. {1}{B}{R}: Until end of turn, Restless Vents becomes a 2/3 black and red Insect creature with menace. It's still a land. Whenever Restless Vents attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Land
Restless Vents (lci) 284
1
Riveteers Overlook

When Riveteers Overlook enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Riveteers Overlook (snc) 255
1
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Smoldering Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (otc) 321
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (otj) 281
8
Temple of Malice

Temple of Malice enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Malice enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Malice (otc) 331
1
Terminal Moraine

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Terminal Moraine: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terminal Moraine (dmr) 259
1

That's gotta sting

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Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Sorcery
Chain Reaction (onc) 97
1
Circle of Flame

Whenever a creature without flying attacks you or a planeswalker you control, Circle of Flame deals 1 damage to that creature.

Enchantment
Circle of Flame (m15) 135
1
Comet Storm

Multikicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} any number of times as you cast this spell.) Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

Instant
Comet Storm (cmr) 411
1
Curse of Shaken Faith

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player casts a spell other than the first spell they cast each turn or copies a spell, Curse of Shaken Faith deals 2 damage to them.

Enchantment
Curse of Shaken Faith (mid) 353
1
Repercussion

Whenever a creature is dealt damage, Repercussion deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

Enchantment
Repercussion (wot) 48
1
Sanguine Bond

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (wot) 35
1
Scytheclaw Raptor

Whenever a player casts a spell, if it's not their turn, Scytheclaw Raptor deals 4 damage to them.

Creature
Scytheclaw Raptor (lci) 165
1
Tectonic Hazard

Tectonic Hazard deals 1 damage to each opponent and each creature they control.

Sorcery
Tectonic Hazard (lci) 169
1
Triskelion

Triskelion enters the battlefield with three +1/+1 counters on it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Triskelion: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Triskelion (moc) 387
1
Vengeful Tracker

Whenever an opponent sacrifices an artifact, Vengeful Tracker deals 2 damage to them.

Creature
Vengeful Tracker (mkm) 147
1
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. {3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (j22) 487
1

Cutting from the deck

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Act of Treason

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.)

Sorcery
Act of Treason (rvr) 99
1
Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice Burnished Hart: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (cmm) 373
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 (lcc) 301
1
Flameshadow Conjuring

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {R}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Flameshadow Conjuring (moc) 280
1
Gateway Plaza

Gateway Plaza enters the battlefield tapped. When Gateway Plaza enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Gateway Plaza (plst) GRN-247
1
Involuntary Employment

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Involuntary Employment (snc) 110
1
Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Kaya's Ghostform (war) 94
1
Presumed Dead

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control and suspect it." (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)

Instant
Presumed Dead (mkm) 100
1
Rakdos Guildgate

Rakdos Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Rakdos Guildgate (clu) 244
1
Rampaging Spiketail

When Rampaging Spiketail enters the battlefield, target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Rampaging Spiketail (lci) 116
1
Seismic Monstrosaur

Trample {2}{R}, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card. Mountaincycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Seismic Monstrosaur (lci) 166
1
Sickening Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Sickening Dreams deals X damage to each creature and each player.

Sorcery
Sickening Dreams (pd3) 18
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck will be built around a few things. \n\n1) Flinging creatures and artifacts,\n2) Committing grand larceny and other crimes, and\n3) Recursion. Get the stuff back, baby! \n\nSteal stuff, sac stuff, crime pays kinda stuff. \n"}]}
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