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Ink-Trick Esika
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Est deck cost: $108.64
Salt sum: 19.58
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Commander

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Esika, God of the Tree

Creature
Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge (khm) 168Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge (khm) 168

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
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 (dmc) 197
Canopy Vista

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

Land
Canopy Vista (blc) 296
Canyon Slough

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

Land
Canyon Slough (dsc) 266
Cinder Glade

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

Land
Cinder Glade (blc) 299
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (who) 263
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 (inr) 278
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (cmm) 993
Fetid Pools

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

Land
Fetid Pools (otc) 296
Flood Plain

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

Land
Flood Plain (afc) 237
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dsk) 276
Grasslands

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

Land
Grasslands (dmc) 214
Irrigated Farmland

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

Land
Irrigated Farmland (pip) 268
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dsk) 273
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dsk) 275
Mountain Valley

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

Land
Mountain Valley (dmc) 219
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (otc) 310
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dsk) 272
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (dmc) 225
Rocky Tar Pit

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

Land
Rocky Tar Pit (ddp) 69
Scattered Groves

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

Land
Scattered Groves (otc) 315
Sheltered Thicket

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

Land
Sheltered Thicket (blc) 330
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (lcc) 353
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (dmc) 235
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dsk) 274
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 (j25) 156

Land

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Treasure Tokens

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Ancestors' Aid

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Ancestors' Aid (lci) 132
Depths of Desire

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Depths of Desire (xln) 52
Flick a Coin

Flick a Coin deals 1 damage to any target. You create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Draw a card.

Instant
Flick a Coin (woe) 128
Gold Rush

Create a Treasure token. Until end of turn, up to one target creature gets +2/+2 for each Treasure you control.

Instant
Gold Rush (otj) 166
Improvised Weaponry

Improvised Weaponry deals 2 damage to any target. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Improvised Weaponry (afr) 150
Involuntary Employment

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Involuntary Employment (fdn) 203
Prismari Command

Choose two — • Prismari Command deals 2 damage to any target. • Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards. • Target player creates a Treasure token. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Prismari Command (lcc) 279
Sudden Breakthrough

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Sudden Breakthrough (stx) 116

Treasure Tokens

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Actual Commander

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Ink-Treader Nephilim

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, if that spell targets only this creature, copy the spell for each other creature that spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those creatures.

Creature
Ink-Treader Nephilim (gpt) 117

Actual Commander

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Protection/Recursion

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Disentomb

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Disentomb (m12) 93
Faith's Shield

Target permanent you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Fateful hour — If you have 5 or less life, instead you and each permanent you control gain protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Instant
Faith's Shield (dka) 7
Gaea's Blessing

Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library. Draw a card. When this card is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Sorcery
Gaea's Blessing (dom) 161
Pull from Eternity

Put target face-up exiled card into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Pull from Eternity (tsp) 35
Raise Dead

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Raise Dead (cn2) 146
Razor Barrier

Target permanent you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Instant
Razor Barrier (ddf) 26
Royal Treatment

Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. Create a Royal Role token attached to that creature. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}.)

Instant
Royal Treatment (woe) 183
Shelter

Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Shelter (mh1) 28
Shore Up

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap it. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Shore Up (blb) 69
Simic Charm

Choose one — • Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. • Permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. • Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Simic Charm (gtc) 195
Snakeskin Veil

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Snakeskin Veil (j25) 713
Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Spell Pierce (xln) 81
Turn Aside

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

Instant
Turn Aside (plst) EMN-78

Protection/Recursion

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Win Con/Finsher

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Fists of Flame

Draw a card. Until end of turn, target creature gains trample and gets +1/+0 for each card you've drawn this turn. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Instant
Fists of Flame (j25) 550
Impact Tremors

Whenever a creature you control enters, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Impact Tremors (wot) 44

Win Con/Finsher

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Card Draw

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Ancestral Anger

Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is 1 plus the number of cards named Ancestral Anger in your graveyard. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ancestral Anger (j25) 516
Cerulean Wisps

Target creature becomes blue until end of turn. Untap that creature. Draw a card.

Instant
Cerulean Wisps (plst) SHM-31
Charge Through

Target creature gains trample until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Charge Through (stx) 124
Crimson Wisps

Target creature becomes red and gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.) Draw a card.

Instant
Crimson Wisps (j25) 533
Enter the Enigma

Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Enter the Enigma (dsk) 52
Expedite

Target creature gains haste until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Expedite (ogw) 108
Might of the Meek

Target creature gains trample until end of turn. It also gets +1/+0 until end of turn if you control a Mouse. Draw a card.

Instant
Might of the Meek (blb) 144
Nighthaze

Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Draw a card.

Sorcery
Nighthaze (roe) 118
Niveous Wisps

Target creature becomes white until end of turn. Tap that creature. Draw a card.

Instant
Niveous Wisps (shm) 15
Renegade Tactics

Target creature can't block this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Renegade Tactics (cmr) 195
Slip Through Space

Devoid (This card has no color.) Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Slip Through Space (ogw) 47

Card Draw

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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 (who) 239
Beneath the Sands

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Beneath the Sands (hou) 111
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 (who) 240
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (blc) 212
Edge of Autumn

If you control four or fewer lands, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling—Sacrifice a land. (Sacrifice a land, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Edge of Autumn (tsr) 201
Enter the Unknown

Target creature you control explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on the creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.) You may play an additional land this turn.

Sorcery
Enter the Unknown (rix) 128
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (onc) 130
Grow from the Ashes

Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, instead search your library for two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Grow from the Ashes (fdn) 225
Natural Connection

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Natural Connection (c20) 184
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (j25) 704
Scale the Heights

Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. You gain 2 life. You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Scale the Heights (znr) 202
Swell of Growth

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Swell of Growth (bfz) 191
Wayfarer's Bauble

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

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (lcc) 317

Ramp

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Creature Tokens

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Cackling Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Cackling Counterpart (inr) 55
Electroduplicate

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token." Flashback {2}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Electroduplicate (fdn) 85
For the Common Good

Create X tokens that are copies of target token you control. Then tokens you control gain indestructible until your next turn. You gain 1 life for each token you control.

Sorcery
For the Common Good (blb) 172
Fungal Infection

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Instant
Fungal Infection (j22) 416
Inscription of Insight

Kicker {2}{U}{U} Choose one. If this spell was kicked, choose any number instead. • Return up to two target creatures to their owners' hands. • Scry 2, then draw two cards. • Target player creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the number of cards in their hand.

Sorcery
Inscription of Insight (znr) 61
Launch the Fleet

Strive — This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Until end of turn, any number of target creatures each gain "Whenever this creature attacks, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token that's tapped and attacking."

Sorcery
Launch the Fleet (40k) 188
Luxurious Libation

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn. Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token.

Instant
Luxurious Libation (snc) 152
Make Your Mark

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. When that creature dies this turn, create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token.

Instant
Make Your Mark (stx) 204
Otherworldly Outburst

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. When that creature dies this turn, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token.

Instant
Otherworldly Outburst (emn) 138
Rat Out

Up to one target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. You create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."

Instant
Rat Out (woe) 103
Renegade's Getaway

Target permanent gains indestructible until end of turn. Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy a permanent with indestructible, and if it's a creature, it can't be destroyed by damage.)

Instant
Renegade's Getaway (aer) 69
Repudiate

Instant
Repudiate // Replicate (rna) 227
Spawning Breath

Spawning Breath deals 1 damage to any target. Create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Instant
Spawning Breath (roe) 164
Startle

Target creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.) Draw a card.

Instant
Startle (mid) 78

Creature Tokens

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Sorcery

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Traitorous Greed

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Add two mana of any one color. (The creature can attack and {T} this turn.)

Sorcery
Traitorous Greed (m21) 166

Sorcery

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Maybeboard

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Make Mischief

Make Mischief deals 1 damage to any target. Create a 1/1 red Devil creature token. It has "When this token dies, it deals 1 damage to any target."

Sorcery
Make Mischief (emn) 135
Windswift Slice

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. Create a number of 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens equal to the amount of excess damage dealt this way.

Instant
Windswift Slice (ltc) 45

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck stats

9 pips - 9 cards
22 mana - 20 cards
18 pips - 15 cards
23 mana - 21 cards
7 pips - 7 cards
22 mana - 20 cards
20 pips - 20 cards
24 mana - 22 cards
24 pips - 20 cards
24 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
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Description

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