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Est deck cost: $180.77
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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $16.99
Arcum Dagsson

{T}: Target artifact creature's controller sacrifices it. That player may search their library for a noncreature artifact card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Arcum Dagsson (csp) 27

Commander

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Artifact

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Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (ori) 221
Batterbone

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has vigilance and lifelink. Equip {5}

Artifact
Batterbone (mh2) 221
Batterskull

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink. {3}: Return this Equipment to its owner's hand. Equip {5}

Artifact
Batterskull (plst) NPH-130
Codex Shredder

{T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.) {5}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Artifact
Codex Shredder (cmr) 304
Elixir of Immortality

{2}, {T}: You gain 5 life. Shuffle this artifact and your graveyard into their owner's library.

Artifact
Elixir of Immortality (c21) 243
Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Torque (brc) 145
Marina Vendrell's Grimoire

When Marina Vendrell's Grimoire enters, if you cast it, draw five cards. You have no maximum hand size and don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards. Whenever you lose life, discard that many cards. Then if you have no cards in hand, you lose the game.

Artifact
Marina Vendrell's Grimoire (dsk) 64
Nevinyrral's Disk

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Artifact
Nevinyrral's Disk (cmm) 965
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 (ltc) 288
Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Artifact
Venser's Journal (c21) 273

Artifact

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Creature

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Cathodion

When this creature dies, add {C}{C}{C}.

Creature Artifact
Cathodion (plst) CM2-179
Hangarback Walker

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying for each +1/+1 counter on this creature. {1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Hangarback Walker (plst) ORI-229
Junk Diver

Flying When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Artifact
Junk Diver (mh3) 293
Myr Moonvessel

When this creature dies, add {C}.

Creature Artifact
Myr Moonvessel (dst) 133
Myr Retriever

When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Artifact
Myr Retriever (plst) CM2-203
Myr Sire

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Myr artifact creature token.

Creature Artifact
Myr Sire (cmm) 400
Ornithopter

Flying

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter (dmr) 233
Peace Strider

When this creature enters, you gain 3 life.

Creature Artifact
Peace Strider (plst) BBD-243
Phyrexian Walker

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Walker (vis) 152
Plague Myr

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) {T}: Add {C}.

Creature Artifact
Plague Myr (onc) 139
Sai, Master Thopterist

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. {1}{U}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Draw a card.

Creature
Sai, Master Thopterist (j25) 63
Scrap Trawler

Whenever this creature dies or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.

Creature Artifact
Scrap Trawler (moc) 373
Shimmer Myr

Flash You may cast artifact spells as though they had flash.

Creature Artifact
Shimmer Myr (cmm) 409
Silver Myr

{T}: Add {U}.

Creature Artifact
Silver Myr (nec) 158
Spectral Adversary

Flash Flying When this creature enters, you may pay {1}{U} any number of times. When you pay this cost one or more times, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature, then up to that many other target artifacts, creatures, and/or enchantments phase out.

Creature
Spectral Adversary (mid) 77
Spellskite

{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Spellskite (clb) 873
Unctus, Grand Metatect

Other blue creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, draw a card, then discard a card." Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1. {U/P}: Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a blue artifact in addition to its other colors and types. Activate only as a sorcery. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Unctus, Grand Metatect (one) 75

Creature

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Draw

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Circuit Mender

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Circuit Mender (blc) 267
Filigree Familiar

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. When this creature dies, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Filigree Familiar (cmr) 308
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards. Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur (plst) NPH-37
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (j25) 371

Draw

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Finisher

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Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (plst) UMA-61

Finisher

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Instant

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Compelling Deterrence

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card if you control a Zombie.

Instant
Compelling Deterrence (soi) 52
Teferi's Time Twist

Exile target permanent you control. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. If it enters as a creature, it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Instant
Teferi's Time Twist (war) 72

Instant

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Land

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Brokers Hideout

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Brokers Hideout (snc) 248
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (pip) 254
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Glimmerpost

When this land enters, you gain 1 life for each Locus on the battlefield. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Glimmerpost (som) 227
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (acr) 303
Maestros Theater

When this land enters, 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
Obscura Storefront

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

Land
Obscura Storefront (dsc) 291
Phyrexia's Core

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

Land
Phyrexia's Core (c21) 309
Radiant Fountain

When this land enters, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Radiant Fountain (c21) 310
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (j25) 773
Seraph Sanctuary

When this land enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever an Angel you control enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Seraph Sanctuary (plst) AVR-228
Tomb of the Spirit Dragon

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: You gain 1 life for each colorless creature you control.

Land
Tomb of the Spirit Dragon (cmm) 1048
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (mkc) 310

Land

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Lifegain

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Bottle Gnomes

Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life.

Creature Artifact
Bottle Gnomes (plst) CM2-177
Bottle Golems

Trample When this creature dies, you gain life equal to its power.

Creature Artifact
Bottle Golems (mh2) 222
Delusions of Mediocrity

When this enchantment enters, you gain 10 life. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose 10 life.

Enchantment
Delusions of Mediocrity (7ed) 70
Diamond Mare

As this creature enters, choose a color. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Diamond Mare (fdn) 672
Golem's Heart

Whenever a player casts an artifact spell, you may gain 1 life.

Artifact
Golem's Heart (plst) SOM-161
Illusions of Grandeur

Cumulative upkeep {2} (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.) When this enchantment enters, you gain 20 life. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose 20 life.

Enchantment
Illusions of Grandeur (me1) 40
Ivory Crane Netsuke

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have seven or more cards in hand, you gain 4 life.

Artifact
Ivory Crane Netsuke (sok) 155
Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Artifact
Ivory Tower (4ed) 328
Kraken's Eye

Whenever a player casts a blue spell, you may gain 1 life.

Artifact
Kraken's Eye (m12) 211
Spectrum Sentinel

Protection from multicolored (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything multicolored.) Whenever a nonbasic land an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Spectrum Sentinel (bro) 244
Staff of the Mind Magus

Whenever you cast a blue spell or an Island you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Staff of the Mind Magus (m15) 234

Lifegain

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Planeswalker

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Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead. +1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card. −8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.

Planeswalker
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries (plst) WAR-54

Planeswalker

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Protection

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Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (cmm) 944
Encroaching Mycosynth

Nonland permanents you control are artifacts in addition to their other types. The same is true for permanent spells you control and nonland permanent cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Artifact
Encroaching Mycosynth (one) 47
Padeem, Consul of Innovation

Artifacts you control have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control the artifact with the greatest mana value or tied for the greatest mana value, draw a card.

Creature
Padeem, Consul of Innovation (j25) 62
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85

Protection

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Ramp

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Etherium Sculptor

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Artifact
Etherium Sculptor (brc) 82
Forsaken Monument

Colorless creatures you control get +2/+2. Whenever you tap a permanent for {C}, add an additional {C}. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, you gain 2 life.

Artifact
Forsaken Monument (cmm) 950
Foundry Inspector

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Artifact
Foundry Inspector (cmm) 385
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 54
Master Transmuter

{U}, {T}, Return an artifact you control to its owner's hand: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature Artifact
Master Transmuter (brc) 87
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (j25) 153
Sky Diamond

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

Artifact
Sky Diamond (scd) 273

Ramp

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Removal

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68

Removal

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Sorcery

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Argivian Restoration

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Argivian Restoration (plst) DDF-69
Reconstruction

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Reconstruction (3ed) 77

Sorcery

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Tokens

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Alandra, Sky Dreamer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying. Whenever you draw your fifth card each turn, Alandra and Drakes you control each get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Creature
Alandra, Sky Dreamer (mkc) 94

Tokens

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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 (rvr) 50

Tutor

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Untap

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Corridor Monitor

When this creature enters, untap target artifact or creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Corridor Monitor (2xm) 46

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"The first two artifacts to bring out with Arcum should always be Alhammaretts Archive and Marina Vendrells Grimoire. This will allow you to draw 4 cards for every 1 life you gain. Win condition is to draw through your deck with lifegain and cast laboratory maniac.\n"}]}
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