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Optimus Counter Deck
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $157.88
Salt sum: 32.17
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Commander

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Optimus Prime, Hero

Creature Artifact
Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader (bot) 13Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader (bot) 13

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Anthem

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Kotori, Pilot Prodigy

Vehicles you control have crew 2. At the beginning of combat on your turn, target artifact creature you control gains lifelink and vigilance until end of turn.

Creature
Kotori, Pilot Prodigy (nec) 2

Anthem

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 52
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (dsc) 240
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (drc) 125
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 57

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Counters

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Abzan Falconer

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

Creature
Abzan Falconer (moc) 165
Denry Klin, Editor in Chief

Denry Klin, Editor in Chief enters with your choice of a +1/+1, first strike, or vigilance counter on it. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if Denry has counters on it, put the same number of each kind of counter on that creature.

Creature
Denry Klin, Editor in Chief (ncc) 71
Elite Scaleguard

When Elite Scaleguard enters, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, tap target creature defending player controls.

Creature
Elite Scaleguard (cmm) 22
Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion

If you would put one or more counters on a creature or planeswalker you control or on yourself, put that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion (clb) 29
Lux Artillery

Whenever you cast an artifact creature spell, it gains sunburst. (It enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) At the beginning of your end step, if there are thirty or more counters among artifacts and creatures you control, Lux Artillery deals 10 damage to each opponent.

Artifact
Lux Artillery (onc) 27
Reluctant Role Model

Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if Reluctant Role Model is tapped, put a flying, lifelink, or +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever Reluctant Role Model or another creature you control dies, if it had counters on it, put those counters on up to one target creature.

Creature
Reluctant Role Model (dsk) 289
Resourceful Defense

Whenever a permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target permanent you control. {4}{W}: Move any number of counters from target permanent you control to another target permanent you control.

Enchantment
Resourceful Defense (ncc) 19
Steel Overseer

{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Steel Overseer (c21) 267
Uncivil Unrest

Nontoken creatures you control have riot. (They enter with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.) If a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage instead.

Enchantment
Uncivil Unrest (moc) 35
Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp

Modular 1 If a modular triggered ability would put one or more +1/+1 counters on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead. {R}: Destroy target artifact you control. {W}: Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp gains flying until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp (mh2) 243

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Creature

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Exemplar of Light

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on this creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Exemplar of Light (fdn) 11
Generous Pup

Vigilance Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on Generous Pup, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Generous Pup (j25) 4
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

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Draw

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Boromir, Gondor's Hope

Whenever Boromir, Gondor's Hope enters or attacks, look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a Human or artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Boromir, Gondor's Hope (ltc) 49
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (dsc) 113
Losheel, Clockwork Scholar

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to attacking artifact creatures you control. Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Losheel, Clockwork Scholar (cmm) 38
Prowl, Stoic Strategist

Creature Artifact
Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle (bot) 1Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle (bot) 1

Draw

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Enchantment

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Born to Drive

Enchant artifact or creature As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it gets +1/+1 for each creature and/or Vehicle you control. Channel — {2}{W}, Discard Born to Drive: Create two 1/1 colorless Pilot creature tokens with "This creature crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater."

Enchantment
Born to Drive (neo) 6
Whirlwind of Thought

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, draw a card.

Enchantment
Whirlwind of Thought (moc) 344

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Evasion

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Herald of Secret Streams

Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them can't be blocked.

Creature
Herald of Secret Streams (lcc) 158
Winged Hive Tyrant

Flying, haste The Will of the Hive Mind — Other creatures you control with counters on them have flying and haste.

Creature
Winged Hive Tyrant (40k) 148

Evasion

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Finisher

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Akki Battle Squad

Whenever one or more modified creatures you control attack, untap all modified creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Creature
Akki Battle Squad (nec) 18
Sage of Hours

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Sage of Hours, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Remove all +1/+1 counters from Sage of Hours: For each five counters removed this way, take an extra turn after this one.

Creature
Sage of Hours (jou) 50

Finisher

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Instant

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (drc) 37

Instant

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Land

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Archway Commons

Archway Commons enters tapped. When Archway Commons enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Archway Commons (stx) 263
Archway of Innovation

Archway of Innovation enters tapped unless you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Land
Archway of Innovation (mh3) 214
Azorius Chancery

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

Land
Azorius Chancery (dsc) 261
Boros Garrison

Boros Garrison enters tapped. When Boros Garrison enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{W}.

Land
Boros Garrison (clu) 231
Buried Ruin

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

Land
Buried Ruin (pip) 254
Clifftop Retreat

Clifftop Retreat enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Clifftop Retreat (blc) 300
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Command Beacon: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (otc) 279
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (sld) 710
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 (drc) 153
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (drc) 155
Gateway Plaza

Gateway Plaza enters tapped. When Gateway Plaza enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Gateway Plaza (plst) GRN-247
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 281
Mage-Ring Network

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on Mage-Ring Network. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from Mage-Ring Network: Add {C} for each storage counter removed this way.

Land
Mage-Ring Network (cmm) 1009
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dft) 286
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 279
Razortide Bridge

Razortide Bridge enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Artifact Land
Razortide Bridge (pip) 281
Rustvale Bridge

Rustvale Bridge enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Artifact Land
Rustvale Bridge (pip) 285
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 (dsc) 308
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (drc) 179
Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Tranquil Cove (dft) 267
Wind-Scarred Crag

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Wind-Scarred Crag (dft) 271

Land

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Lifegain

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Envoy of the Ancestors

Outlast {W} ({W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Modified creatures you control have lifelink. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Creature
Envoy of the Ancestors (mh3) 23

Lifegain

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Planeswalker

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Daretti, Scrap Savant

+2: Discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards. −2: Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield. −10: You get an emblem with "Whenever an artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step." Daretti, Scrap Savant can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Daretti, Scrap Savant (cmm) 213

Planeswalker

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Proliferate

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Throne of Geth

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Artifact
Throne of Geth (2xm) 301
Unbounded Potential

Choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Entwine {3}{W} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Unbounded Potential (cmm) 67

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Protection

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Bronze Guardian

Double strike Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) Other artifacts you control have ward {2}. Bronze Guardian's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control.

Creature Artifact
Bronze Guardian (brc) 70
Cauldron of Souls

{T}: Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Artifact
Cauldron of Souls (plst) CM2-180
Gold-Forged Thopteryx

Flying, lifelink Each legendary permanent you control has ward {2}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)

Creature Artifact
Gold-Forged Thopteryx (mat) 31
Together Forever

When Together Forever enters, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.) {1}: Choose target creature with a counter on it. When that creature dies this turn, return that card to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Together Forever (moc) 212

Protection

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Ramp

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Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play historic lands and cast historic spells from the top of your library. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass (acr) 15
Enthusiastic Mechanaut

Flying Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Artifact
Enthusiastic Mechanaut (neo) 218
Etherium Sculptor

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Artifact
Etherium Sculptor (brc) 82
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dsc) 245
Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist

Creature Artifact
Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian (bot) 3Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian (bot) 3
Talisman of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. Talisman of Progress deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (pip) 249

Ramp

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Recursion

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Emry, Lurker of the Loch

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control. When Emry, Lurker of the Loch 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 (eld) 43
Ratchet, Field Medic

Creature Artifact
Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer (bot) 2Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer (bot) 2

Recursion

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Removal

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Arcee, Sharpshooter

Creature Artifact
Arcee, Sharpshooter // Arcee, Acrobatic Coupe (bot) 7Arcee, Sharpshooter // Arcee, Acrobatic Coupe (bot) 7
Collective Effort

Escalate—Tap an untapped creature you control. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. • Destroy target enchantment. • Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls.

Sorcery
Collective Effort (onc) 61
Dispatch

Tap target creature. Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, exile that creature.

Instant
Dispatch (pip) 159
Lion Sash

{W}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a permanent card, put a +1/+1 counter on Lion Sash. Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on Lion Sash. Reconfigure {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Lion Sash (neo) 26
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Organic Extinction

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Destroy all nonartifact creatures.

Sorcery
Organic Extinction (mkc) 76
Requisition Raid

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Destroy target artifact. + {1} — Destroy target enchantment. + {1} — Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls.

Sorcery
Requisition Raid (otj) 26
Simic Manipulator

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) {T}, Remove one or more +1/+1 counters from Simic Manipulator: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of +1/+1 counters removed this way.

Creature
Simic Manipulator (gtc) 50

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Sorcery

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Invoke Justice

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of creatures and/or Vehicles target player controls.

Sorcery
Invoke Justice (neo) 21
Wake the Past

Return all artifact cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Wake the Past (pip) 221

Sorcery

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Tokens

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Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink When Wurmcoil Engine dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Creature Artifact
Wurmcoil Engine (brr) 63

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Tutor

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Reckless Handling

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, shuffle, then discard a card at random. If an artifact card was discarded this way, Reckless Handling deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Sorcery
Reckless Handling (mat) 19

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Deck Info

Deck stats

37 pips - 30 cards
26 mana - 26 cards
21 pips - 18 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
10 pips - 10 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
9 mana - 6 cards
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