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Helga WIP
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $232.56
Salt sum: 46.31
Est Commander Bracket: 1 or 2
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Helga, Skittish Seer

Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 4 or greater, you draw a card, gain 1 life, and put a +1/+1 counter on Helga, Skittish Seer. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Helga, Skittish Seer's power. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with {X} in their mana costs.

Creature
Helga, Skittish Seer (blb) 217

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Draw

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Fathom Mage

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.) Whenever a +1/+1 counter is put on Fathom Mage, you may draw a card.

Creature
Fathom Mage (ncc) 339
Greater Good

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

Enchantment
Greater Good (mb2) 207
Lifecrafter's Bestiary

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay {G}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Lifecrafter's Bestiary (mkc) 231
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (j25) 371
Up the Beanstalk

When Up the Beanstalk enters and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.

Enchantment
Up the Beanstalk (woe) 195

Draw

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Protection

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Overprotect

Target creature you control gets +3/+3 and gains trample, hexproof, and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Overprotect (blb) 185
Robe of Stars

Equipped creature gets +0/+3. Astral Projection — {1}{W}: Equipped creature phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Robe of Stars (afc) 11

Protection

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Big Dudes

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Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may draw a card.

Creature
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait (dsc) 210
Bonny Pall, Clearcutter

Reach When Bonny Pall, Clearcutter enters, create Beau, a legendary blue Ox creature token with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." Whenever you attack, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.

Creature
Bonny Pall, Clearcutter (otj) 196
Defiler of Vigor

Trample As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {G} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay. Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Defiler of Vigor (dmu) 160
Gandalf, Westward Voyager

Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, each opponent reveals the top card of their library. If any of those cards shares a card type with that spell, copy that spell, you may choose new targets for the copy, and each opponent draws a card. Otherwise, you draw a card. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Creature
Gandalf, Westward Voyager (ltc) 6
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma (blc) 222
Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (inr) 68
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater have cascade.

Creature
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty (cmr) 280
Maelstrom Colossus

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Creature Artifact
Maelstrom Colossus (j25) 754
Nezahal, Primal Tide

This spell can't be countered. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card. Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal, Primal Tide. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Nezahal, Primal Tide (cmr) 401
Prime Speaker Zegana

Prime Speaker Zegana enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control. When Prime Speaker Zegana enters, draw cards equal to its power.

Creature
Prime Speaker Zegana (rvr) 211
Primordial Hydra

Primordial Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, double the number of +1/+1 counters on Primordial Hydra. Primordial Hydra has trample as long as it has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Primordial Hydra (j22) 712
Stormtide Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) All lands are Islands in addition to their other types. Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Creature
Stormtide Leviathan (cmr) 407
Storvald, Frost Giant Jarl

Ward {3} Other creatures you control have ward {3}. Whenever Storvald enters or attacks, choose one or both — • Target creature has base power and toughness 7/7 until end of turn. • Target creature has base power and toughness 1/1 until end of turn.

Creature
Storvald, Frost Giant Jarl (afc) 55
Surrak and Goreclaw

Trample Other creatures you control have trample. Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Surrak and Goreclaw (mom) 337
Thryx, the Sudden Storm

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.

Creature
Thryx, the Sudden Storm (j25) 65

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Evasion

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Dragon Throne of Tarkir

Equipped creature has defender and "{2}, {T}: Other creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power." Equip {3}

Artifact
Dragon Throne of Tarkir (plst) KTK-219
Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (blc) 219
Odric, Master Tactician

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Whenever Odric, Master Tactician and at least three other creatures attack, you choose which creatures block this combat and how those creatures block.

Creature
Odric, Master Tactician (cmm) 46
Zegana, Utopian Speaker

When Zegana, Utopian Speaker enters, if you control another creature with a +1/+1 counter on it, draw a card. {4}{G}{U}: Adapt 4. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

Creature
Zegana, Utopian Speaker (lcc) 298

Evasion

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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) 51
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle enters tapped with five slumber counters on it. As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. (It's not a creature.) Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Creature
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle (dsc) 211
Beanstalk Giant

Creature
Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps (dsc) 172
Fertilid

Fertilid enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {1}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Fertilid: Target player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

Creature
Fertilid (moc) 296
Gyre Sage

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}: Add {G} for each +1/+1 counter on Gyre Sage.

Creature
Gyre Sage (moc) 300
Nature's Lore

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

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (mkc) 178
Rites of Flourishing

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns.

Enchantment
Rites of Flourishing (blc) 122
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Tireless Provisioner

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Tireless Provisioner (j25) 728
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (pip) 252

Ramp

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Boardwipe

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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 (pip) 156
Realm-Cloaked Giant

Creature
Realm-Cloaked Giant // Cast Off (blc) 149

Boardwipe

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Finisher

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Aminatou's Augury

Exile the top eight cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield. Until end of turn, for each nonland card type, you may cast a spell of that type from among the exiled cards without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Aminatou's Augury (dsc) 71
End-Raze Forerunners

Vigilance, trample, haste When End-Raze Forerunners enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and trample until end of turn.

Creature
End-Raze Forerunners (blc) 214
Simic Ascendancy

{1}{G}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, put that many growth counters on Simic Ascendancy. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Simic Ascendancy has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.

Enchantment
Simic Ascendancy (blc) 260

Finisher

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Removal

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Incubation

Sorcery
Incubation // Incongruity (clu) 197
Naturalize

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Naturalize (plst) M19-190
Parting Gust

Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) Exile target nontoken creature. If the gift wasn't promised, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Parting Gust (blb) 24
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (drc) 37
Trygon Predator

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.

Creature
Trygon Predator (dsc) 238

Removal

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Counters

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Benevolent Hydra

Benevolent Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on another creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead. {T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Benevolent Hydra: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.

Creature
Benevolent Hydra (j22) 38
Felidar Retreat

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Create a 2/2 white Cat Beast creature token. • Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn.

Enchantment
Felidar Retreat (cmm) 821
Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Enchantment
Hardened Scales (pip) 200
Innkeeper's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. {G}: Level 2 Permanents you control with counters on them have ward {1}. {3}{G}: Level 3 If you would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead.

Enchantment
Innkeeper's Talent (blb) 180
Kami of Whispered Hopes

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Kami of Whispered Hopes's power.

Creature
Kami of Whispered Hopes (mom) 196
Leinore, Autumn Sovereign

Coven — At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control. Then if you control three or more creatures with different powers, draw a card.

Creature
Leinore, Autumn Sovereign (mic) 1
Retreat to Kazandu

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • You gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Retreat to Kazandu (j25) 707
Thrummingbird

Flying Whenever Thrummingbird deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Thrummingbird (cmm) 858

Counters

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GY Hate

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Ground Seal

When Ground Seal enters, draw a card. Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.

Enchantment
Ground Seal (c18) 149
Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Scavenging Ooze (fdn) 232

GY Hate

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Tutor

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Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Crop Rotation (dmr) 154
Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Solve the Equation (stx) 54

Tutor

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Counterspell

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Long River's Pull

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.

Instant
Long River's Pull (blb) 58
Quandrix Command

Choose two — • Return target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand. • Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. • Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. • Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.

Instant
Quandrix Command (lcc) 280

Counterspell

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Land

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Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 291
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 282
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 272

Land

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Untap

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Drumbellower

Flying Untap all creatures you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Drumbellower (nec) 6
Freed from the Real

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

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (plst) SOK-38

Untap

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Deck Info

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17 pips - 11 cards
15 mana - 15 cards
38 pips - 26 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
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49 pips - 39 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
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3 mana - 2 cards
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