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Thinking Man's Game
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Commander

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Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Defender Sokrates has hexproof as long as it's untapped. Sokratic Dialogue — {T}: Until end of turn, target creature gains "If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. This creature's controller and that player each draw half that many cards, rounded down."

Creature
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher (acr) 67

Commander

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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 (tsp) 269
Adarkar Wastes

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

Land
Adarkar Wastes (ice) 351
Azorius Chancery

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

Land
Azorius Chancery (2x2) 400
Celestial Colonnade

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. {3}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.

Land
Celestial Colonnade (who) 483
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 659
Deserted Beach

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

Land
Deserted Beach (mid) 281
Fountain of Cho

This land enters tapped. {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {W} for each storage counter removed this way.

Land
Fountain of Cho (mmq) 317
Hall of Heliod's Generosity

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

Land
Hall of Heliod's Generosity (mh1) 241
Hallowed Fountain

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

Land
Hallowed Fountain (sld) 123
Hengegate Pathway

Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 293Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 293
Icatian Store

This land enters tapped. You may choose not to untap this land during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this land is tapped, put a storage counter on it. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {W} for each storage counter removed this way.

Land
Icatian Store (5ed) 419
Irrigated Farmland

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

Land
Irrigated Farmland (akh) 245
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (pgru) 2
Kor Haven

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{W}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn.

Land
Kor Haven (nem) 141
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) 250
Meticulous Archive

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Meticulous Archive (pmkm) 264s
Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (plst) CHK-279
Mirrorpool

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}{C}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {4}{C}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

Land
Mirrorpool (cmm) 1010
Nephalia Academy

If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard a card, you may reveal that card and put it on top of your library instead of putting it anywhere else. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Nephalia Academy (plst) EMN-205
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
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 (plg21) C3
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (pgru) 1
Razortide Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Razortide Bridge (brc) 195
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Rivendell

Rivendell enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Land
Rivendell (ltr) 344
Sand Silos

This land enters tapped. You may choose not to untap this land during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this land is tapped, put a storage counter on it. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {U} for each storage counter removed this way.

Land
Sand Silos (5ed) 423
Saprazzan Cove

This land enters tapped. {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {U} for each storage counter removed this way.

Land
Saprazzan Cove (mmq) 327
Sea of Clouds

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
Seachrome Coast

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

Land
Seachrome Coast (som) 229
Study Hall

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. When you spend this mana to cast your commander, scry X, where X is the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Land
Study Hall (c21) 80
Temple of Enlightenment

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 {W} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (bng) 163
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 (gtc) 248

Land

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Recursion

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Abiding Grace

At the beginning of your end step, choose one — • You gain 1 life. • Return target creature card with mana value 1 from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Enchantment
Abiding Grace (h2r) 1
Ascend from Avernus

Return all creature and planeswalker cards with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile Ascend from Avernus.

Sorcery
Ascend from Avernus (clb) 5
Heliod, the Radiant Dawn

Creature Enchantment
Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse (mom) 17Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse (mom) 17
Tragic Poet

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

Creature
Tragic Poet (ulg) 24

Recursion

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Untap

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Freed from the Real

Enchant creature {U}: Tap enchanted creature. {U}: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (sok) 38
Pemmin's Aura

Enchant creature {U}: Untap enchanted creature. {U}: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn. {U}: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {1}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Pemmin's Aura (plst) SCG-45
Second Wind

Enchant creature {T}: Tap enchanted creature. {T}: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Second Wind (fut) 57

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Copy

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Helm of the Host

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste. Equip {5}

Artifact
Helm of the Host (blc) 276

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Lifegain

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Boon Reflection

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Enchantment
Boon Reflection (2xm) 10
Confessor

Whenever a player discards a card, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Confessor (ody) 15
Leonin Elder

Whenever an artifact enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Leonin Elder (mrd) 10
Sanguine Sacrament

You gain twice X life. Put Sanguine Sacrament on the bottom of its owner's library.

Instant
Sanguine Sacrament (plst) XLN-33
Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul Warden (exo) 21
Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul's Attendant (plst) ROE-44

Lifegain

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Removal

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Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (plst) MKC-56
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (mmq) 69
Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (otc) 92
Devout Harpist

{T}: Destroy target Aura attached to a creature.

Creature
Devout Harpist (ulg) 6
Displacement Wave

Return all nonland permanents with mana value X or less to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Displacement Wave (ori) 55
False Prophet

When this creature dies, exile all creatures.

Creature
False Prophet (uds) 6
Farewell

Choose one or more — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery
Farewell (pneo) 13p
Heliod's Intervention

Choose one — • Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments. • Target player gains twice X life.

Instant
Heliod's Intervention (thb) 300
Null Elemental Blast

Choose one — • Counter target multicolored spell. • Destroy target multicolored permanent.

Instant
Null Elemental Blast (mh3) 12
Order of the Sacred Torch

{T}, Pay 1 life: Counter target black spell.

Creature
Order of the Sacred Torch (6ed) 32
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (sld) 226
Spell Swindle

Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Spell Swindle (moc) 237
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (brb) 84
Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Unwind (dom) 72
Valorous Stance

Choose one — • Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.) • Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

Instant
Valorous Stance (inr) 48
White Sun's Twilight

You gain X life. Create X 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1 and "This token can't block." If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures. (Players dealt combat damage by a creature with toxic 1 also get a poison counter.)

Sorcery
White Sun's Twilight (one) 38

Removal

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Creature

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Benalish Hero

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Creature
Benalish Hero (5ed) 10
Camel

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.) As long as this creature is attacking, prevent all damage Deserts would deal to this creature and to creatures banded with this creature.

Creature
Camel (arn) 3
Kjeldoran Warrior

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Creature
Kjeldoran Warrior (ice) 41

Creature

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Protection

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Absolute Law

All creatures have protection from red.

Enchantment
Absolute Law (usg) 2
Crab Umbra

Enchant creature {2}{U}: Untap enchanted creature. Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Crab Umbra (roe) 58
Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
Devoted Caretaker

{W}, {T}: Target permanent you control gains protection from instant spells and from sorcery spells until end of turn.

Creature
Devoted Caretaker (ody) 18
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (dde) 19
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (sld) 381
Timely Ward

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if it targets a commander. Enchant creature Enchanted creature has indestructible.

Enchantment
Timely Ward (dsc) 107

Protection

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Tokens

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Decree of Justice

Create X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying. Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may pay {X}. If you do, create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Sorcery
Decree of Justice (mh3) 263
Finale of Glory

Create X 2/2 white Soldier creature tokens with vigilance. If X is 10 or more, also create X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying and vigilance.

Sorcery
Finale of Glory (clu) 61

Tokens

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Draw

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Commander's Insight

Target player draws X cards plus an additional card for each time they've cast a commander from the command zone this game.

Instant
Commander's Insight (c21) 23
Even the Score

This spell costs {U}{U}{U} less to cast if an opponent has drawn four or more cards this turn. Draw X cards.

Instant
Even the Score (snc) 42
Mystic Speculation

Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Mystic Speculation (plst) FUT-41
Paradox Haze

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's first upkeep each turn, that player gets an additional upkeep step after this step.

Enchantment
Paradox Haze (plst) TSP-71
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
Sphinx's Revelation

You gain X life and draw X cards.

Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (rvr) 383

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 (brc) 132
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (sld) 286
Ghirapur Orrery

Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, that player draws three cards.

Artifact
Ghirapur Orrery (blc) 270
Lotus Blossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a petal counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of petal counters on this artifact.

Artifact
Lotus Blossom (dmr) 451
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on this artifact. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact. When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (peld) 54p
Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Artifact
Patriar's Seal (plst) CLB-332
Replicating Ring

{T}: Add one mana of any color. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a night counter on this artifact. Then if it has eight or more night counters on it, remove all of them and create eight colorless snow artifact tokens named Replicated Ring with "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Artifact
Replicating Ring (moc) 372
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 57
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 57
Talisman of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (sld) 1052
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (sld) 1495

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Tutor

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Academy Rector

When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Academy Rector (uds) 1
Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 263
Heliod's Pilgrim

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Aura card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Heliod's Pilgrim (thb) 20
Idyllic Tutor

Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Idyllic Tutor (mor) 12
Long-Term Plans

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.

Instant
Long-Term Plans (plst) SCG-38

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Sideboard

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Absolute Grace

All creatures have protection from black.

Enchantment
Absolute Grace (usg) 1
Aura of Dominion

Enchant creature {1}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Aura of Dominion (chk) 51
Azorius Guildgate

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

Land
Azorius Guildgate (rtr) 237
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (arc) 107
Glacial Fortress

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

Land
Glacial Fortress (m10) 226
Hisoka, Minamo Sensei

{2}{U}, Discard a card: Counter target spell if it has the same mana value as the discarded card.

Creature
Hisoka, Minamo Sensei (chk) 66
Judge's Familiar

Flying Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Creature
Judge's Familiar (f13) 5
Lotus Bloom

Suspend 3—{0} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {0} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Lotus Bloom (tsr) 270
Mass Manipulation

Gain control of X target creatures and/or planeswalkers.

Sorcery
Mass Manipulation (rna) 42
Mithril Coat

Flash Indestructible When Mithril Coat enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control. Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mithril Coat (ltr) 245
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) 50
Nimbus Maze

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains.

Land
Nimbus Maze (fut) 178
Nova Cleric

{2}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy all enchantments.

Creature
Nova Cleric (plst) ONS-45
Plea for Guidance

Search your library for up to two enchantment cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Plea for Guidance (bng) 24
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (pbfz) 241p
Rhox Faithmender

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Creature
Rhox Faithmender (m13) 29
Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sun Titan (blc) 157
The Peregrine Dynamo

Haste {1}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control from another legendary source that's not a commander. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Creature Artifact
The Peregrine Dynamo (dmc) 19
Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. {1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (c21) 271
Three Dreams

Search your library for up to three Aura cards with different names, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Dreams (rav) 32

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Maybeboard

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Angelic Aberration

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying, vigilance When this creature enters, sacrifice any number of creatures each with base power or toughness 1 or less. Create that many 4/4 colorless Eldrazi Angel creature tokens with flying and vigilance.

Creature
Angelic Aberration (m3c) 39
Burrenton Forge-Tender

Protection from red Sacrifice this creature: Prevent all damage a red source of your choice would deal this turn.

Creature
Burrenton Forge-Tender (lrw) 7
Children of Korlis

Sacrifice this creature: You gain life equal to the life you've lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Children of Korlis (tsr) 14
Study

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. {4}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Land
Study (clu) 21
The Watcher in the Water

The Watcher in the Water enters tapped with nine stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token. Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.

Creature
The Watcher in the Water (ltr) 75
Traveling Philosopher

Creature
Traveling Philosopher (ths) 34

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Deck Info

Deck stats

47 pips - 35 cards
28 mana - 27 cards
29 pips - 19 cards
33 mana - 32 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
1 pip - 1 card0
13 mana - 12 cards
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