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Elf Bawl [Mono-B Elves]
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $69.08
Salt sum: 25.88
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Commander

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Miara, Thorn of the Glade

Whenever Miara or another Elf you control dies, you may pay {1} and 1 life. If you do, draw a card. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Miara, Thorn of the Glade (cmr) 133
Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Nadier. When Nadier leaves the battlefield, create a number of 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens equal to its power. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel (cmr) 135

Commander

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Draw

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Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
Dusk Legion Zealot

When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Dusk Legion Zealot (plst) RIX-70
Novice Occultist

When this creature dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Novice Occultist (mid) 117
Scorn-Blade Berserker

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Scorn-Blade Berserker (mom) 124
Skemfar Avenger

Whenever another nontoken Elf or Berserker you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Skemfar Avenger (pkhm) 109p
Starving Revenant

When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life. Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Starving Revenant (plci) 123p
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (m3c) 206
Undead Augur

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Undead Augur (j22) 482
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (m21) 126

Draw

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Pump

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Pride of the Perfect

Elves you control get +2/+0.

Enchantment
Pride of the Perfect (cmr) 144

Pump

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Anthem

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Hall of Triumph

As Hall of Triumph enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.

Artifact
Hall of Triumph (pjou) 162

Anthem

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Evasion

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Faerie Dreamthief

Flying When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Faerie Dreamthief (woe) 89

Evasion

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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 (dmc) 177
Ecologist's Terrarium

When this artifact enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Ecologist's Terrarium (neo) 246
Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Heraldic Banner (fdn) 254
Honored Heirloom

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

Artifact
Honored Heirloom (vow) 257
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dmr) 385

Ramp

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Creature

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Infestation Sage

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token with flying.

Creature
Infestation Sage (fdn) 64

Creature

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Land

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Arid Archway

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. If another Desert was returned this way, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Land
Arid Archway (otj) 252
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 (dsc) 260
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Everglades

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Swamp you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{B}.

Land
Everglades (c14) 294
Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (lcc) 335
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (plst) DIS-173
Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (j22) 817
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (fdn) 264
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m20) 269
Tocasia's Dig Site

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Tocasia's Dig Site (bro) 266
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) 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
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

Land

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Recursion

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Elderfang Ritualist

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

Creature
Elderfang Ritualist (khm) 385
Ghost Lantern

Artifact
Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit (clb) 128
Graveshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Graveshifter (moc) 251
Grim Return

Choose target creature card in a graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

Instant
Grim Return (m14) 100
Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (wot) 33
Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Patriarch's Bidding (mh2) 275
Raise the Draugr

Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Raise the Draugr (khm) 105
Retrofitted Transmogrant

{3}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature Artifact
Retrofitted Transmogrant (mh3) 106
Return from Extinction

Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Return from Extinction (mh1) 104
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (mh3) 278

Recursion

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Discard

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Elderfang Disciple

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Elderfang Disciple (khm) 93
Elvish Doomsayer

When this creature dies, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Elvish Doomsayer (cmr) 120
Inscription of Ruin

Kicker {2}{B}{B} Choose one. If this spell was kicked, choose any number instead. • Target opponent discards two cards. • Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or less.

Sorcery
Inscription of Ruin (pznr) 108p
Mind Rake

Target player discards two cards. Overload {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mind Rake (plst) MH1-96

Discard

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Mill

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Corpse Churn

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant
Corpse Churn (iko) 81

Mill

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Removal

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Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant
Consuming Corruption (mh3) 84
Crippling Fear

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Crippling Fear (khm) 82
Elvish Dreadlord

Deathtouch When this creature dies, non-Elf creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn. Encore {5}{B}{B} ({5}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Elvish Dreadlord (cmr) 121
Eyeblight Massacre

Non-Elf creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Eyeblight Massacre (cmr) 125
Grasp of Darkness

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Instant
Grasp of Darkness (m21) 102
Join the Dead

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. Descend 4 — That creature gets -10/-10 until end of turn instead if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard.

Instant
Join the Dead (lci) 110
Overwhelming Remorse

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Overwhelming Remorse (bro) 110
Tendrils of Corruption

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant
Tendrils of Corruption (gvl) 54

Removal

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Drain

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Agent of the Iron Throne

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever an artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life."

Enchantment
Agent of the Iron Throne (clb) 107
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 421
Nadier's Nightblade

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Nadier's Nightblade (mh3) 275
Skemfar Shadowsage

When this creature enters, choose one — • Each opponent loses X life, where X is the greatest number of creatures you control that have a creature type in common. • You gain X life, where X is the greatest number of creatures you control that have a creature type in common.

Creature
Skemfar Shadowsage (khm) 110

Drain

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Protection

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Cultist of the Absolute

Commander creatures you own get +3/+3 and have flying, deathtouch, "Ward—Pay 3 life," and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature."

Enchantment
Cultist of the Absolute (clb) 123
Feign Death

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Feign Death (afr) 103
Lavaspur Boots

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste and ward {1}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Lavaspur Boots (otj) 243
Leather Armor

Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and has ward {1}. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) Equip {0}. Activate only once each turn.

Artifact
Leather Armor (afr) 248
Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Undying Malice (vow) 134

Protection

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Tokens

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Deathknell Berserker

When this creature dies, if its power was 3 or greater, create a 2/2 black Zombie Berserker creature token.

Creature
Deathknell Berserker (khm) 83
Desecrated Tomb

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

Artifact
Desecrated Tomb (pm19) 230
Doomed Dissenter

When this creature dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Doomed Dissenter (vow) 106
Exquisite Huntmaster

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token. Encore {4}{B} ({4}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Exquisite Huntmaster (cmr) 122
Eyeblight Cullers

When this creature dies, create three 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens, then mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Eyeblight Cullers (cmr) 124
Nested Shambler

When this creature dies, create X tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens, where X is this creature's power.

Creature
Nested Shambler (mh2) 95
Prowess of the Fair

Whenever another nontoken Elf is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

Enchantment Kindred
Prowess of the Fair (lrw) 136
Rise of the Dread Marn

Create X 2/2 black Zombie Berserker creature tokens, where X is the number of nontoken creatures that died this turn. Foretell {B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Rise of the Dread Marn (pkhm) 107p
Synapse Necromage

When this creature dies, create two 1/1 black Fungus creature tokens with "This token can't block."

Creature
Synapse Necromage (lci) 125
Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155
Universal Automaton

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)

Creature Artifact
Universal Automaton (mh1) 235

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