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A case study on why Mercadian Masques is the best set ever
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Est deck cost: $1738.32
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Commander

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Rona, Herald of Invasion

Creature
Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator (mom) 295Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator (mom) 295

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Finisher

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Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (ths) 89
Persistent Petitioners

{1}, {T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.) Tap four untapped Advisors you control: Target player mills twelve cards. A deck can have any number of cards named Persistent Petitioners.

Creature
Persistent Petitioners (rvr) 316

Finisher

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Tutor

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Bog Glider

Flying {T}, Sacrifice a land: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 2 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Bog Glider (pcy) 58
Cateran Brute

{2}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 2 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Cateran Brute (mmq) 120
Cateran Enforcer

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) {4}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 4 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Cateran Enforcer (mmq) 121
Cateran Kidnappers

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Cateran Kidnappers (mmq) 122
Cateran Overlord

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature. {6}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 6 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Cateran Overlord (mmq) 123
Cateran Persuader

{1}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 1 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Cateran Persuader (mmq) 124
Cateran Slaver

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) {5}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 5 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Cateran Slaver (mmq) 125
Cateran Summons

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

Sorcery
Cateran Summons (mmq) 126
Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, 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.)

Creature
Dimir House Guard (rvr) 324
Parallel Thoughts

When this enchantment enters, search your library for seven cards, exile them in a face-down pile, and shuffle that pile. Then shuffle your library. If you would draw a card, you may instead put the top card of the pile you exiled into your hand.

Enchantment
Parallel Thoughts (scg) 44
Rathi Fiend

When this creature enters, each player loses 3 life. {3}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Rathi Fiend (nem) 68
Rathi Intimidator

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) {2}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 2 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Rathi Intimidator (nem) 69
Seahunter

{3}, {T}: Search your library for a Merfolk permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Seahunter (nem) 41
Skyship Weatherlight

When Skyship Weatherlight enters, search your library for any number of artifact and/or creature cards, exile them, then shuffle. {4}, {T}: Choose a card at random that was exiled with Skyship Weatherlight. Put that card into its owner's hand.

Artifact
Skyship Weatherlight (pls) 133
Transit Mage

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 4 or 5, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Transit Mage (dft) 70
Trinket Mage

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Trinket Mage (tsr) 320

Tutor

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Combo

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Maskwood Nexus

Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)

Artifact
Maskwood Nexus (m3c) 299
Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree

{2}, {T}: Target opponent mills three cards. Put a land card from their graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control. It gains "If this land would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else." {10}, {T}, Sacrifice Realmbreaker: Search your library for any number of Praetor cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Artifact
Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree (mom) 263

Combo

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Land

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Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Academy Ruins (drc) 58
Bad River

This land enters tapped. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bad River (mir) 324
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (tsr) 406
Buried Ruin

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

Land
Buried Ruin (brc) 177
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (brc) 178
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (brc) 181
Dimir Aqueduct

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

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (brc) 182
Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dimir Guildgate (rvr) 400
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (brc) 184
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (brc) 185
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (pw21) 4
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (inv) 337
Mistvault Bridge

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Artifact Land
Mistvault Bridge (brc) 189
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (tsr) 408
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 438
Rhystic Cave

{T}: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color unless any player pays {1}. Activate only as an instant.

Land
Rhystic Cave (pcy) 142
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (brc) 198
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (brc) 204
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (inv) 339
Tainted Isle

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Isle (tor) 141
Temple of Deceit

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (brc) 205
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (brc) 210
Thawing Glaciers

This land enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Return this land to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Land
Thawing Glaciers (all) 144
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 (rvr) 466
Vault of Whispers

{T}: Add {B}.

Artifact Land
Vault of Whispers (brc) 211
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (rvr) 415

Land

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Copy

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Aboleth Spawn

Flash Ward {2} Probing Telepathy — Whenever a creature entering under an opponent's control causes a triggered ability of that creature to trigger, you may copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Aboleth Spawn (clb) 612
Clone

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield.

Creature
Clone (ons) 75

Copy

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Ramp

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Bog Witch

{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Add {B}{B}{B}.

Creature
Bog Witch (mmq) 118
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (mmq) 129
Didgeridoo

{3}: You may put a Minotaur permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Didgeridoo (hml) 105
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (plg22) 1
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (cmd) 262
Training Grounds

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Enchantment
Training Grounds (mat) 9

Ramp

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Counterspells

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (mmq) 69
Ertai Resurrected

Flash When Ertai Resurrected enters, choose up to one — • Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller draws a card. • Destroy another target creature or planeswalker. Its controller draws a card.

Creature
Ertai Resurrected (dmu) 199
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) 315
Stronghold Machinist

{U}{U}, {T}, Discard a card: Counter target noncreature spell.

Creature
Stronghold Machinist (nem) 46
Subtlety

Flash Flying When this creature enters, choose up to one target creature spell or planeswalker spell. Its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library. Evoke—Exile a blue card from your hand.

Creature
Subtlety (h2r) 6
Tishana's Tidebinder

Flash When this creature enters, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Creature
Tishana's Tidebinder (lci) 335
Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Venser, Shaper Savant (v13) 15

Counterspells

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Recursion

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Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Dread Return (dmr) 302
Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) When Emry enters, mill four cards. {T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Creature
Emry, Lurker of the Loch (brc) 81
Karn, the Great Creator

Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated. +1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. −2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand.

Planeswalker
Karn, the Great Creator (mb2) 3
Lazav, the Multifarious

When Lazav enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {X}: Lazav becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except its name is Lazav, the Multifarious, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has this ability.

Creature
Lazav, the Multifarious (rvr) 371
Rootwater Diver

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Rootwater Diver (tmp) 81
Snapcaster Mage

Flash When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature
Snapcaster Mage (inr) 478

Recursion

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Draw

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Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (brc) 120
Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Dark Confidant (rvr) 323
Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Dig Through Time (plg21) 2
Fblthp, the Lost

When Fblthp enters, draw a card. If it entered from your library or was cast from your library, draw two cards instead. When Fblthp becomes the target of a spell, shuffle Fblthp into its owner's library.

Creature
Fblthp, the Lost (tsr) 308
Mulldrifter

Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards. Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Mulldrifter (tsr) 311
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (tsr) 315
Psychic Frog

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, draw a card. Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Exile three cards from your graveyard: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Psychic Frog (mh3) 433
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (tsr) 319
Whirlpool Rider

When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards.

Creature
Whirlpool Rider (apc) 35

Draw

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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) 405
Alexi, Zephyr Mage

{X}{U}, {T}, Discard two cards: Return X target creatures to their owners' hands.

Creature
Alexi, Zephyr Mage (pcy) 28
Entrails Feaster

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile a creature card from a graveyard. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. If you don't, tap this creature.

Creature
Entrails Feaster (ons) 143
Kitesail Larcenist

Flying, ward {1} When this creature enters, for each player, choose up to one other target artifact or creature that player controls. For as long as this creature remains on the battlefield, the chosen permanents become Treasure artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color" and lose all other abilities.

Creature
Kitesail Larcenist (lci) 61
Massacre Girl

Menace When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Massacre Girl (rvr) 328
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (dmr) 398
Rathi Assassin

{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target tapped nonblack creature. {3}, {T}: Search your library for a Mercenary permanent card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Rathi Assassin (pnem) 67
Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (pw23) 10
Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Snuff Out (mmq) 162
Vendetta

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Instant
Vendetta (mmq) 170
Volatile Stormdrake

Flying, hexproof from activated and triggered abilities When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and target creature an opponent controls. If you do, you get {E}{E}{E}{E}, then sacrifice that creature unless you pay an amount of {E} equal to its mana value.

Creature
Volatile Stormdrake (mh3) 404
Weeping Angel

Flash First strike, vigilance Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, this creature isn't a creature until end of turn. If this creature would deal combat damage to a creature, prevent that damage and that creature's owner shuffles it into their library.

Creature Artifact
Weeping Angel (who) 1140

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Deck Info

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0 mana - 3 cards
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20 mana - 20 cards
40 pips - 28 cards
25 mana - 21 cards
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6 mana - 5 cards
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