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The Evolving Swarm - Tayam, Luminous Engima
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Est deck cost: $123.52
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Commander

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Tayam, Luminous Enigma

Each other creature you control enters with an additional vigilance counter on it. {3}, Remove three counters from among creatures you control: Mill three cards, then return a permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Tayam, Luminous Enigma (c20) 16

Commander

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Land

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Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (j25) 154
Blossoming Sands

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Blossoming Sands (mom) 268
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (fdc) 3
Deceptive Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Swamp, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {W}{B}{G} ({W}{B}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Deceptive Landscape (mh3) 219
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (fdn) 281
Graypelt Refuge

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Graypelt Refuge (ltc) 316
Jungle Hollow

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Jungle Hollow (fdn) 263
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (lcc) 339
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (fdn) 273
Restless Fortress

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

Land
Restless Fortress (woe) 259
Restless Prairie

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. {2}{G}{W}: This land becomes a 3/3 green and white Llama creature until end of turn. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Land
Restless Prairie (lci) 281
Sandsteppe Citadel

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.

Land
Sandsteppe Citadel (cmm) 1024
Scoured Barrens

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Scoured Barrens (ltc) 329
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 276

Land

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Buff

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Abzan Falconer

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

Creature
Abzan Falconer (moc) 165
Ainok Bond-Kin

Outlast {1}{W} ({1}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has first strike.

Creature
Ainok Bond-Kin (cmm) 7
Envoy of the Ancestors

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Modified creatures you control have lifelink. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Creature
Envoy of the Ancestors (mh3) 23
Inspiring Paladin

During your turn, this creature has first strike. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) During your turn, creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have first strike.

Creature
Inspiring Paladin (fdn) 18
Tuskguard Captain

Outlast {G} ({G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

Creature
Tuskguard Captain (cmm) 328

Buff

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Proliferate

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Cankerbloom

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Cankerbloom (one) 161
Contagion Clasp

When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Artifact
Contagion Clasp (pip) 229
Copper Longlegs

Reach {1}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Copper Longlegs (one) 165
Huatli's Raptor

Vigilance When this creature enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Huatli's Raptor (war) 200
Metastatic Evangel

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Metastatic Evangel (mh3) 35
Planewide Celebration

Choose four. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Create a 2/2 Citizen creature token that's all colors. • Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. • Proliferate. • You gain 4 life.

Sorcery
Planewide Celebration (war) 172
Proud Pack-Rhino

When this creature enters, choose one — • Put a shield counter on target permanent. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Proud Pack-Rhino (mh3) 41
Staff of Compleation

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color. {T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate. {T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card. {5}: Untap this artifact.

Artifact
Staff of Compleation (one) 242

Proliferate

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Counters

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Abzan Ascendancy

When this enchantment enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Abzan Ascendancy (2x2) 165
Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit (cmm) 11
Anafenza, the Foremost

Whenever Anafenza attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on another target tapped creature you control. If a nontoken creature an opponent owns would die or a creature card not on the battlefield would be put into an opponent's graveyard, exile that card instead.

Creature
Anafenza, the Foremost (ktk) 163
Arcus Acolyte

Reach, lifelink Outlast {G/W} ({G/W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each other creature you control without a +1/+1 counter on it has outlast {G/W}.

Creature
Arcus Acolyte (mh2) 185
Arwen, Weaver of Hope

Each other creature you control enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to Arwen's toughness.

Creature
Arwen, Weaver of Hope (ltc) 35
Avatar of the Resolute

Reach, trample This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Avatar of the Resolute (dtk) 175
Battering Krasis

Trample Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Battering Krasis (dgm) 41
Botanical Brawler

Trample This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on another permanent you control, if it's the first time +1/+1 counters have been put on that permanent this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Botanical Brawler (mom) 220
Branching Evolution

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Enchantment
Branching Evolution (mh3) 285
Breathless Knight

Flying, lifelink Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, if that creature entered from a graveyard or you cast it from a graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Breathless Knight (mh2) 187
Conclave Mentor

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead. When this creature dies, you gain life equal to its power.

Creature
Conclave Mentor (moc) 320
Cursed Wombat

{2}{B}{G}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Permanents you control have "Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this permanent, put an additional +1/+1 counter on it. This ability triggers only once each turn."

Creature
Cursed Wombat (mh3) 181
Drillworks Mole

{2}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and a +1/+1 counter on up to one target commander creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Drillworks Mole (clb) 311
Faithful Watchdog

Vigilance This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Faithful Watchdog (mh3) 185
Gluntch, the Bestower

Flying At the beginning of your end step, choose a player. They put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. Choose a second player to draw a card. Then choose a third player to create two Treasure tokens.

Creature
Gluntch, the Bestower (clb) 275
Good-Fortune Unicorn

Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

Creature
Good-Fortune Unicorn (fdn) 240
Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Enchantment
Hardened Scales (pip) 200
Hexdrinker

Level up {1} ({1}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.) LEVEL 3-7 4/4 Protection from instants LEVEL 8+ 6/6 Protection from everything

Creature
Hexdrinker (mh1) 168
Hydra Trainer

You may exert this creature as it attacks. When you do, target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of counters on permanents you control. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.) {2}{G}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Hydra Trainer (mh3) 159
Iron Apprentice

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When this creature dies, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Iron Apprentice (neo) 248
Iron Bully

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Creature Artifact
Iron Bully (j22) 778
Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion

If you would put one or more counters on a creature or planeswalker you control or on yourself, put that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion (clb) 29
Luminarch Aspirant

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Luminarch Aspirant (ncc) 205
Master Chef

Commander creatures you own have "This creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it" and "Other creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them."

Enchantment
Master Chef (clb) 241
Mossborn Hydra

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, double the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Mossborn Hydra (fdn) 107
Scute Mob

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control five or more lands, put four +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Scute Mob (c18) 161
Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Haste Whenever Skullbriar deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Counters remain on Skullbriar as it moves to any zone other than a player's hand or library.

Creature
Skullbriar, the Walking Grave (2x2) 277
Warden of the Grove

At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, it endures X, where X is the number of counters on this creature. (Put X +1/+1 counters on the creature that entered or create an X/X white Spirit creature token.)

Creature
Warden of the Grove (tdm) 166
Wildborn Preserver

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Whenever another non-Human creature you control enters, you may pay {X}. When you do, put X +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Wildborn Preserver (fdn) 650
Winding Constrictor

If one or more counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead. If you would get one or more counters, you get that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters instead.

Creature
Winding Constrictor (pip) 223

Counters

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (otc) 252
Commander's Sphere

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

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (dsc) 244
Darksteel Ingot

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.) {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Darksteel Ingot (otc) 256
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dsc) 245
Manalith

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Manalith (m19) 239
Pristine Talisman

{T}: Add {C}. You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (ltc) 283
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (m3c) 305
Wall of Roots

Defender Put a -0/-1 counter on this creature: Add {G}. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Wall of Roots (ncc) 319
Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (mh3) 298
Wrenn and Realmbreaker

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." +1: Up to one target land you control becomes a 3/3 Elemental creature with vigilance, hexproof, and haste until your next turn. It's still a land. −2: Mill three cards. You may put a permanent card from among the milled cards into your hand. −7: You get an emblem with "You may play lands and cast permanent spells from your graveyard."

Planeswalker
Wrenn and Realmbreaker (mom) 217

Ramp

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Draw

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Hollowmurk Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Sultai or Abzan. • Sultai — Whenever a counter is put on a creature you control, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. • Abzan — Whenever you attack, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature. It gains menace until end of turn.

Enchantment
Hollowmurk Siege (tdm) 192
Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar

Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn. Whenever one or more creatures you control each with power greater than its base power deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar (lci) 232

Draw

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Recursion

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Eerie Ultimatum

Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Eerie Ultimatum (iko) 184
Lurrus of the Dream-Den

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Lifelink Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.

Creature
Lurrus of the Dream-Den (iko) 226

Recursion

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Evasion

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Atraxa's Skitterfang

This creature enters with three oil counters on it. At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may remove an oil counter from this creature. When you do, target creature you control gains your choice of flying, vigilance, deathtouch, or lifelink until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Atraxa's Skitterfang (one) 223
Champion of Lambholt

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block creatures you control. Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Champion of Lambholt (moc) 293

Evasion

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Removal

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Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (mkc) 126
Godsend

Equipped creature gets +3/+3. Whenever equipped creature blocks or becomes blocked by one or more creatures, you may exile one of those creatures. Your opponents can't cast spells with the same name as a card exiled with Godsend. Equip {3}

Artifact
Godsend (j25) 204
Knight of Autumn

When this creature enters, choose one — • Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • You gain 4 life.

Creature
Knight of Autumn (afc) 187
Retribution of the Ancients

{B}, Remove X +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Enchantment
Retribution of the Ancients (ktk) 85
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277

Removal

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Deck Info

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22 mana - 22 cards
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17 pips - 13 cards
20 mana - 20 cards
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42 pips - 36 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
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8 mana - 6 cards
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