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The Arcane Puppeteer
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Est deck cost: $327.32
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Commander

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Magar of the Magic Strings

{1}{B}{R}: Note the name of target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard and put it onto the battlefield face down. It's a 3/3 creature with "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may create a copy of the card with the noted name. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost" and "If this creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else."

Creature
Magar of the Magic Strings (unf) 514

Commander

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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 (mkc) 247
Blast Zone

This land enters with a charge counter on it. {T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on this land. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this land.

Land
Blast Zone (war) 244
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (lcc) 320
Desert of the Fervent

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. Cycling {1}{R} ({1}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Fervent (c20) 266
Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (otc) 289
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (who) 276
Foreboding Ruins

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

Land
Foreboding Ruins (voc) 174
Forgotten Cave

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. Cycling {R} ({R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Forgotten Cave (cmr) 483
Geier Reach Sanitarium

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

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (afc) 241
Haunted Ridge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 263
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mid) 274
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (snc) 279
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (unf) 238
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (unf) 243
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (lci) 290
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (pip) 323
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (pip) 324
Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (afc) 257
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (c21) 312
Shadowblood Ridge

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

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (voc) 181
Smoldering Crater

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Smoldering Crater (btd) 77
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (dmc) 234
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (thb) 252
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m21) 311
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (snc) 276
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (snc) 277
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (unf) 237
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (unf) 242
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (one) 264
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (lci) 289
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (pip) 321
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dsk) 274
Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Land
Thespian's Stage (who) 323

Land

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Sorcery

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Plague Spores

Destroy target nonblack creature and target land. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Plague Spores (inv) 260

Sorcery

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Anthem

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Anger

Haste As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Anger (ltc) 210
Mass Hysteria

All creatures have haste.

Enchantment
Mass Hysteria (mrd) 99

Anthem

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Protection

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Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (who) 243
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (brr) 58
Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Whispersilk Cloak (lcc) 119

Protection

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Stax

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Urabrask the Hidden

Creatures you control have haste. Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Creature
Urabrask the Hidden (clb) 811

Stax

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Burn

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Sentinel Tower

Whenever an instant or sorcery spell is cast during your turn, this artifact deals damage to any target equal to 1 plus the number of instant and sorcery spells cast before that spell this turn.

Artifact
Sentinel Tower (bbd) 79

Burn

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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 (40k) 227
Brass's Bounty

For each land you control, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Brass's Bounty (c21) 160
Glittering Stockpile

{T}: Add {R}. Put a stash counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of stash counters on this artifact.

Artifact
Glittering Stockpile (snc) 107
Hit the Mother Lode

Discover 10. If the discovered card's mana value is less than 10, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the difference. (To discover 10, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 10 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.)

Sorcery
Hit the Mother Lode (lci) 153
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (clb) 799
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (afc) 214
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (40k) 250
Storm-Kiln Artist

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Storm-Kiln Artist (stx) 115
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (40k) 257

Ramp

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Theft

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Fevered Suspicion

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among those nonland cards without paying their mana costs. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Fevered Suspicion (afc) 47

Theft

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Draw

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Avaricious Dragon

Flying At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card. At the beginning of your end step, discard your hand.

Creature
Avaricious Dragon (ori) 131
Big Score

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Big Score (blc) 193
Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 161
Blood for the Blood God!

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature that died this turn. Discard your hand, then draw eight cards. Blood for the Blood God! deals 8 damage to each opponent. Exile Blood for the Blood God!

Instant
Blood for the Blood God! (40k) 108
Bloodsoaked Insight

Sorcery
Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass (mh3) 252Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass (mh3) 252
Collector's Vault

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact
Collector's Vault (woe) 244
Decaying Time Loop

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Instant
Decaying Time Loop (who) 80
Electric Revelation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. Flashback {3}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Instant
Electric Revelation (dbl) 135
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (dmc) 122
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 322
Reforge the Soul

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards. Miracle {1}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Reforge the Soul (c16) 132
Seize the Spoils

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Seize the Spoils (khm) 149
Thrill of Possibility

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

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (sta) 46
Unexpected Windfall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Unexpected Windfall (plst) AFR-164
Valakut Awakening

Instant
Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (znr) 174Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (znr) 174
Wheel of Misfortune

Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery
Wheel of Misfortune (cmr) 211
Zephyr Boots

Equipped creature has flying. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Zephyr Boots (stx) 261

Draw

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Recursion

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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 you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Creature
Chainer, Nightmare Adept (plst) MH2-289
Fated Return

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains indestructible. If it's your turn, scry 2.

Instant
Fated Return (znc) 42
Ghouls' Night Out

For each player, choose a creature card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types and they gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Sorcery
Ghouls' Night Out (mic) 19
Macabre Mockery

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Macabre Mockery (rna) 191
Nurgle's Conscription

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control, then exile that player's graveyard.

Instant
Nurgle's Conscription (40k) 44

Recursion

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Tokens

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Army of the Damned

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Army of the Damned (mic) 106
Iraxxa, Empress of Mars

Trample Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.) Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, create a 2/2 red Alien Warrior creature token.

Creature
Iraxxa, Empress of Mars (who) 89

Tokens

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Evasion

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Angrath, Captain of Chaos

Creatures you control have menace. −2: Amass Zombies 2. (Put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)

Planeswalker
Angrath, Captain of Chaos (war) 227
Chariot of Victory

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste. Equip {1}

Artifact
Chariot of Victory (jou) 159
Filth

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.

Creature
Filth (plst) JUD-66
Key to the City

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

Artifact
Key to the City (c21) 248
Prowler's Helm

Equipped creature can't be blocked except by Walls. Equip {2}

Artifact
Prowler's Helm (ths) 219
Thieves' Tools

When this Equipment enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Equipped creature can't be blocked as long as its power is 3 or less. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Thieves' Tools (afr) 122
Trailblazer's Boots

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Trailblazer's Boots (onc) 144
Vorrac Battlehorns

Equipped creature has trample and can't be blocked by more than one creature. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Artifact
Vorrac Battlehorns (mrd) 271

Evasion

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Removal

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Aether Snap

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

Sorcery
Aether Snap (dst) 37
Bituminous Blast

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Bituminous Blast deals 4 damage to target creature.

Instant
Bituminous Blast (40k) 221
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (40k) 204
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (40k) 205
Flare of Malice

You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Flare of Malice (mh3) 331
Hurl Through Hell

Exile target creature. Until the end of your next turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Instant
Hurl Through Hell (afc) 48
In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (znc) 45
Kill! Maim! Burn!

Choose one or more — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target creature. • Kill! Maim! Burn! deals 3 damage to target player.

Instant
Kill! Maim! Burn! (40k) 128
Mandate of Abaddon

Choose target creature you control. Destroy all creatures with power less than that creature's power.

Sorcery
Mandate of Abaddon (40k) 40
Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Soul Shatter (znr) 127
Terminal Agony

Destroy target creature. Madness {B}{R} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Terminal Agony (mh2) 215
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (2x2) 389
This Is How It Ends

Target creature's owner shuffles it into their library, then faces a villainous choice — They lose 5 life, or they shuffle another creature they own into their library.

Instant
This Is How It Ends (who) 70

Removal

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (3ed) 105
Gamble

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Gamble (dmr) 121
Oriq Loremage

{T}: Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. If it's an instant or sorcery card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Oriq Loremage (pstx) 80p

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