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Kess, Dissident Mage
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Est deck cost: $407.36
Salt sum: 33.54
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Commander

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Kess, Dissident Mage

Flying Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Kess, Dissident Mage (ncc) 344

Commander

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Land

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Blazemire Verge

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Land
Blazemire Verge (dsk) 329
Cascade Bluffs

{T}: Add {C}. {U/R}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Cascade Bluffs (blc) 297
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (fdc) 3
Crumbling Necropolis

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

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (ncc) 397
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
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dsc) 271
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (e01) 94
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (dsc) 275
Gloomlake Verge

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

Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 260
Graven Cairns

{T}: Add {C}. {B/R}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Graven Cairns (dsc) 280
Hidden Grotto

When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Hidden Grotto (blb) 254
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mh3) 305
Izzet Boilerworks

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

Land
Izzet Boilerworks (brc) 188
Jwari Disruption

Instant
Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins (znr) 64Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins (znr) 64
Meteor Crater

{T}: Choose a color of a permanent you control. Add one mana of that color.

Land
Meteor Crater (pls) 140
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (pip) 852
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 (clu) 243
Riverpyre Verge

{T}: Add {R}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control an Island or a Mountain.

Land
Riverpyre Verge (dft) 260
Rush of Inspiration

Instant
Rush of Inspiration // Crackling Falls (mh3) 257Rush of Inspiration // Crackling Falls (mh3) 257
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (inr) 284
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (m3c) 375
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (pss1) 247
Stormcarved Coast

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

Land
Stormcarved Coast (inr) 285
Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Sulfur Falls (blc) 333
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (wc01) jt345
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (otc) 325
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (dsc) 313
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (5ed) 426

Land

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Self-mill

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Ashling, Flame Dancer

You don't lose unspent red mana as steps and phases end. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, discard a card, then draw a card. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, Ashling deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control. If it's the third time, add {R}{R}{R}{R}.

Creature
Ashling, Flame Dancer (mh3) 115
Dragon's Rage Channeler

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) Delirium — As long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2, has flying, and attacks each combat if able.

Creature
Dragon's Rage Channeler (plst) MH2-121
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (ulg) 32
Inspiration from Beyond

Mill three cards, then return an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Inspiration from Beyond (fdn) 43
Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Otherworldly Gaze (dsc) 122
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
Professor Onyx

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. +1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. −3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls. −8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.

Planeswalker
Professor Onyx (stx) 276
Ransack the Lab

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Ransack the Lab (mh1) 103

Self-mill

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Burn

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Acidic Soil

Acidic Soil deals damage to each player equal to the number of lands they control.

Sorcery
Acidic Soil (plst) USG-172
Boltwave

Boltwave deals 3 damage to each opponent.

Sorcery
Boltwave (fdn) 79
End the Festivities

End the Festivities deals 1 damage to each opponent and each creature and planeswalker they control.

Sorcery
End the Festivities (vow) 155
Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch

Sorcerous Inspiration — At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand. Fire of Tzeentch — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch (40k) 119
Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Guttersnipe (j25) 138
Judith, Carnage Connoisseur

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, choose one — • That spell gains deathtouch and lifelink. • Create a 2/2 red Imp creature token with "When this token dies, it deals 2 damage to each opponent."

Creature
Judith, Carnage Connoisseur (mkm) 210
Tectonic Hazard

Tectonic Hazard deals 1 damage to each opponent and each creature they control.

Sorcery
Tectonic Hazard (lci) 169

Burn

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Lifegain

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Maestros Charm

Choose one — • Look at the top five cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. • Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life. • Maestros Charm deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Maestros Charm (snc) 199
Sedgemoor Witch

Menace Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.) Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Creature
Sedgemoor Witch (stx) 86

Lifegain

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Card Advantage

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Archmage of Runes

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature
Archmage of Runes (fdn) 30
Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Draw a card.

Instant
Consider (pw22) 1
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (woc) 90
Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Gitaxian Probe (nph) 35
Hostile Negotiations

Exile the top three cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top three cards of your library in another face-down pile. Look at the cards in each pile, then turn a pile of your choice face up. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Hostile Negotiations (bro) 105
Marchesa, Dealer of Death

Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay {1}. If you do, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Marchesa, Dealer of Death (otj) 220
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 386
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 (m10) 68
See the Truth

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. If this spell was cast from anywhere other than your hand, put each of those cards into your hand instead.

Sorcery
See the Truth (m21) 69
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 (gn3) 86
Seize the Spotlight

Each opponent chooses fame or fortune. For each player who chose fame, gain control of a creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures and they gain haste until end of turn. For each player who chose fortune, you draw a card and create a Treasure token.

Sorcery
Seize the Spotlight (otc) 179
Steam Augury

Reveal the top five cards of your library and separate them into two piles. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Steam Augury (c15) 233

Card Advantage

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Protection

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Baleful Strix

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

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (otc) 215

Protection

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Chaos

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Dance with Calamity

Shuffle your library. As many times as you choose, you may exile the top card of your library. If the total mana value of the cards exiled this way is 13 or less, you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Sorcery
Dance with Calamity (moc) 29
Ignite the Future

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may play cards this way without paying their mana costs. Flashback {7}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Ignite the Future (j22) 555

Chaos

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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 (pip) 224
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (otc) 255
Cormela, Glamour Thief

Haste {1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}{R}. Spend this mana only to cast instant and/or sorcery spells. When Cormela dies, return up to one target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Cormela, Glamour Thief (snc) 301
Cursed Mirror

{T}: Add {R}. As this artifact enters, you may have it become a copy of any creature on the battlefield until end of turn, except it has haste.

Artifact
Cursed Mirror (mh3) 279
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (4ed) 129
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (5ed) 369
Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Creature
Nightscape Familiar (dmr) 94
Seething Song

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

Instant
Seething Song (c21) 179
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (m3c) 305
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 (drc) 138
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 (otc) 181
Urabrask

Creature
Urabrask // The Great Work (mom) 169Urabrask // The Great Work (mom) 169

Ramp

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Copy

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Increasing Vengeance

Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies. Flashback {3}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Increasing Vengeance (c19) 147
Reverberate

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Reverberate (pd2) 20
Twincast

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Twincast (m10) 78

Copy

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Removal

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
Dimir Charm

Choose one — • Counter target sorcery spell. • Destroy target creature with power 2 or less. • Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Put one back and the rest into that player's graveyard.

Instant
Dimir Charm (gtc) 154
Drown in the Loch

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant
Drown in the Loch (clb) 842
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (cmm) 159
Fiery Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Fiery Confluence deals 1 damage to each creature. • Fiery Confluence deals 2 damage to each opponent. • Destroy target artifact.

Sorcery
Fiery Confluence (lcc) 226
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (dsc) 143
Izzet Charm

Choose one — • Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}. • Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature. • Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Instant
Izzet Charm (rvr) 190
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Mental Misstep

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with mana value 1.

Instant
Mental Misstep (nph) 38
Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Narset's Reversal (plst) WAR-62
Niblis of Frost

Flying Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Niblis of Frost (pemn) 72
Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (dsc) 229
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (otc) 183
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

Removal

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