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Great Balls of lightning
Deck Size: 100
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Commander

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Kresh the Bloodbraided

Whenever another creature dies, you may put X +1/+1 counters on Kresh the Bloodbraided, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Kresh the Bloodbraided (ncc) 345

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Arc Runner

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Arc Runner.

Creature
Arc Runner (m11) 123
Ball Lightning

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature.

Creature
Ball Lightning (mb2) 130
Blistering Firecat

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Blistering Firecat. Morph {R}{R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Blistering Firecat (ons) 189
Groundbreaker

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Groundbreaker.

Creature
Groundbreaker (plst) PLC-148
Hell's Thunder

Flying, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Hell's Thunder. Unearth {4}{R} ({4}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Hell's Thunder (plst) ALA-103
Hellspark Elemental

Trample, haste At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Hellspark Elemental. Unearth {1}{R} ({1}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Hellspark Elemental (plst) DDK-46
Lightning Serpent

Trample, haste Lightning Serpent enters with X +1/+0 counters on it. At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Lightning Serpent.

Creature
Lightning Serpent (csp) 88
Lightning Skelemental

Trample, haste Whenever Lightning Skelemental deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards. At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Lightning Skelemental.

Creature
Lightning Skelemental (plst) MH1-208
Timbermare

Haste Echo {5}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When Timbermare enters, tap all other creatures.

Creature
Timbermare (plc) 140

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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 (drc) 52
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 (moc) 295
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (dmc) 133
Golgari Signet

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

Artifact
Golgari Signet (dsc) 246
Gruul Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Artifact
Gruul Signet (blc) 273
Ignoble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Creature
Ignoble Hierarch (mh2) 166
Kodama's Reach

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
Kodama's Reach (moc) 306
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (clb) 244
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dsc) 250
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (2x2) 155
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (clb) 832
Skyshroud Claim

Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Skyshroud Claim (bbd) 213
Talisman of Impulse

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. Talisman of Impulse deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Impulse (blc) 287
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (dsc) 254
Talisman of Resilience

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Talisman of Resilience deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (dsc) 255
Utopia Sprawl

Enchant Forest As Utopia Sprawl enters, choose a color. Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of the chosen color.

Enchantment
Utopia Sprawl (afc) 172
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (afc) 174

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Tokens

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Beledros Witherbloom

Flying At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life." Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Beledros Witherbloom (blc) 247
Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature
Ophiomancer (mh3) 276
Rite of the Raging Storm

Creatures named Lightning Rager can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player creates a 5/1 red Elemental creature token named Lightning Rager. It has trample, haste, and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature."

Enchantment
Rite of the Raging Storm (mkc) 159

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Anthem

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Anger

Haste As long as Anger is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Anger (ltc) 210

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Land

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Blood Crypt

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

Land
Blood Crypt (rvr) 273
Cinder Glade

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

Land
Cinder Glade (moc) 395
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Deathcap Glade

Deathcap Glade enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Deathcap Glade (vow) 261
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dmc) 207
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mom) 281
Haunted Ridge

Haunted Ridge enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 263
Karplusan Forest

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. Karplusan Forest deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Karplusan Forest (dmu) 250
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (bro) 264
Luxury Suite

Luxury Suite enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mom) 280
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Rockfall Vale

Rockfall Vale enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rockfall Vale (mid) 266
Rootbound Crag

Rootbound Crag enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rootbound Crag (xln) 256
Spire Garden

Spire Garden enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Spire Garden (clb) 361
Stomping Ground

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) As Stomping Ground enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Stomping Ground (rvr) 289
Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dmu) 256
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (who) 201
Undergrowth Stadium

Undergrowth Stadium enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmr) 359
Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dom) 248

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Recursion

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Animate Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (mkc) 125
Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
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 (cmm) 153
Feldon of the Third Path

{2}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target creature card in your graveyard, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Feldon of the Third Path (moc) 277
Funeral Room

Enchantment
Funeral Room // Awakening Hall (dsk) 100
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (dsc) 155
Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fdn) 183
Thunderkin Awakener

Haste Whenever Thunderkin Awakener attacks, choose target Elemental creature card in your graveyard with toughness less than Thunderkin Awakener's toughness. Return that card to the battlefield tapped and attacking. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Thunderkin Awakener (m20) 162
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96

Recursion

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Burn

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Kazuul's Fury

Instant
Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146
Ziatora, the Incinerator

Flying At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, Ziatora, the Incinerator deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target and you create three Treasure tokens.

Creature
Ziatora, the Incinerator (snc) 231

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Protection

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Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Revitalizing Repast

Instant
Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256

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Removal

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Accursed Marauder

When Accursed Marauder enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
Artifact Mutation

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. Create X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens, where X is that artifact's mana value.

Instant
Artifact Mutation (ncc) 326
Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (dsc) 84
Bridgeworks Battle

Sorcery
Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Fling

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Fling deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target.

Instant
Fling (j25) 553
Foundation Breaker

When Foundation Breaker enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment. Evoke {1}{G} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Foundation Breaker (mh2) 160
Ingot Chewer

When Ingot Chewer enters, destroy target artifact. Evoke {R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Ingot Chewer (plst) CM2-110
Rise of the Witch-king

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you sacrificed a creature this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Rise of the Witch-king (ltr) 221
Shriekmaw

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When Shriekmaw enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Shriekmaw (mkc) 139
Spitebellows

When Spitebellows leaves the battlefield, it deals 6 damage to target creature. Evoke {1}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Spitebellows (cmm) 257
Stump Stomp

Sorcery
Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing (mh3) 259Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing (mh3) 259

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Draw

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Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (j25) 115
Disciple of Bolas

When Disciple of Bolas enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (ncc) 247
Disciple of Freyalise

Creature
Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (inr) 151
Greater Good

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

Enchantment
Greater Good (mb2) 207
High-Society Hunter

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever another nontoken creature dies, draw a card.

Creature
High-Society Hunter (fdn) 61
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (blc) 255
Mosswood Dreadknight

Creature
Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers (woe) 231
Priest of Forgotten Gods

{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.

Creature
Priest of Forgotten Gods (j25) 478
Spinner of Souls

Reach Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Spinner of Souls (fdn) 112
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (ltc) 229
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137

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Pump

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Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder

Whenever you attack, double target creature's power until end of turn.

Creature
Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder (snc) 204

Pump

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Sac Outlet

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Carrion Feeder

Carrion Feeder can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (plst) MH1-81
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard. {1}{B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return Jarad from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord (cma) 179

Sac Outlet

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Brawn

Trample As long as Brawn is in your graveyard and you control a Forest, creatures you control have trample.

Creature
Brawn (moc) 292
Gluttonous Hellkite

When you cast this spell, each player sacrifices X creatures. Gluttonous Hellkite enters with two +1/+1 counters on it for each creature sacrificed this way. Flying, trample

Creature
Gluttonous Hellkite (m3c) 125
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger

When Kroxa enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped. Whenever Kroxa enters or attacks, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent who didn't discard a nonland card this way loses 3 life. Escape—{B}{B}{R}{R}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Creature
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger (thb) 221
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (ltc) 203
Old Rutstein

When Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If a noncreature, nonland card is milled this way, create a Blood token.

Creature
Old Rutstein (vow) 244
Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink

{1}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery. {6}{R}{R}{R}, {T}: Create five tokens that are copies of another target creature you control. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink (mom) 334
Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107
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
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue

Deathtouch At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, each opponent may discard a card or sacrifice a permanent of their choice. Zoyowa Lava-Tongue deals 3 damage to each opponent who didn't. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

Creature
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue (lci) 245

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