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Surveil The Dead
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Est deck cost: $405.11
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Commander

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Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

Flying, vigilance Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirko. At the beginning of your end step, you may return target creature card with power less than Mirko's from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If it would die, exile it instead.)

Creature
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist (mkc) 2

Commander

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Discard

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Liliana of the Veil

+1: Each player discards a card. −2: Target player sacrifices a creature. −6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of their choice.

Planeswalker
Liliana of the Veil (dmu) 373
Urborg Syphon-Mage

{2}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Each other player loses 2 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Creature
Urborg Syphon-Mage (dmr) 106

Discard

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Infect

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Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) {B}: Skithiryx gains haste until end of turn. {B}{B}: Regenerate Skithiryx.

Creature
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon (mul) 17

Infect

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Recursion

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Animate Dead

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

Enchantment
Animate Dead (mkc) 125
Charnel Serenade

Surveil 3, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Exile Charnel Serenade with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{2}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{B} 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.)

Sorcery
Charnel Serenade (mkc) 26
Doomed Necromancer

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Doomed Necromancer (j25) 426
Enhanced Surveillance

You may look at an additional two cards each time you surveil. Exile this enchantment: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Enchantment
Enhanced Surveillance (mkc) 102
Eye of Duskmantle

Flying, lifelink You may play lands and cast spells from among cards in your graveyard you've surveilled this turn. If you cast a spell this way, you pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Creature
Eye of Duskmantle (mkc) 27
Grimoire of the Dead

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead. {T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.

Artifact
Grimoire of the Dead (scd) 265
Metamorphosis Fanatic

Lifelink When this creature enters, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it. Miracle {1}{B} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Creature
Metamorphosis Fanatic (dsc) 21
Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Mission Briefing (mkc) 110
Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment
Necromancy (mkc) 131
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
Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (plst) NPH-73
Sword of Once and Future

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from blue and from black. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 2. Then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Once and Future (mom) 265

Recursion

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Clones

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Copycrook

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "Whenever this creature attacks, it connives." (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Copycrook (mh3) 55
Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Metamorph (mkc) 116
Vizier of Many Faces

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except if this creature was embalmed, the token has no mana cost, it's white, and it's a Zombie in addition to its other types. Embalm {3}{U}{U}

Creature
Vizier of Many Faces (drc) 84

Clones

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Drain

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Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142

Drain

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Land

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Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (mkc) 254
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Conduit Pylons

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
Conduit Pylons (otj) 254
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (otc) 282
Dismal Backwater

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

Land
Dismal Backwater (dft) 254
Drowned Catacomb

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

Land
Drowned Catacomb (drc) 152
Fetid Pools

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

Land
Fetid Pools (drc) 156
Gloomlake Verge

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

Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 260
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 (dft) 282
Murky Sewer

This land enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Murky Sewer (dsk) 263
Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Nesting Grounds (mh3) 302
River of Tears

{T}: Add {U}. If you played a land this turn, add {B} instead.

Land
River of Tears (mkc) 283
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (inr) 284
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (drc) 174
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 285
Tainted Isle

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

Land
Tainted Isle (dsc) 303
Temple of Deceit

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 {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (drc) 176
Tocasia's Dig Site

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Tocasia's Dig Site (mkc) 308
Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) 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
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270

Land

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Removal

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Don't Make a Sound

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. If they do, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Don't Make a Sound (dsk) 49
Dream Eater

Flash Flying When this creature enters, surveil 4. When you do, you may return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. (To surveil 4, look at the top four cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature
Dream Eater (dsc) 116
Ephara's Dispersal

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets an attacking creature. Return target creature to its owner's hand. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Ephara's Dispersal (mkc) 103
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) 303
Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Massacre Wurm (dsc) 147
Pile On

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Pile On (mkc) 134
Price of Fame

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a legendary creature. Destroy target creature. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Price of Fame (mkc) 135
Royal Assassin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature
Royal Assassin (acr) 93
Sinister Sabotage

Counter target spell. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Sinister Sabotage (rvr) 61
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277

Removal

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Copy

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Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant (neo) 59
Malleable Impostor

Flash Flying You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it's a Faerie Shapeshifter in addition to its other types and it has flying.

Creature
Malleable Impostor (woc) 10

Copy

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Draw

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Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards. {2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.

Creature
Arcanis the Omnipotent (dmr) 39
Archon of Cruelty

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature
Archon of Cruelty (mh2) 75
Commune with Evil

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You gain 3 life.

Sorcery
Commune with Evil (dsk) 87
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
Consider

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

Instant
Consider (clu) 84
Curate

Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) Draw a card.

Instant
Curate (mkc) 99
Diresight

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sorcery
Diresight (blb) 91
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards. Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur (mul) 11
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
Psychic Frog

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, draw a card. Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Exile three cards from your graveyard: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Psychic Frog (mh3) 199
Soul Diviner

{T}, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Soul Diviner (war) 218
Starving Revenant

When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life. Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Starving Revenant (lci) 123
Windreader Sphinx

Flying Whenever a creature with flying attacks, you may draw a card.

Creature
Windreader Sphinx (j25) 391

Draw

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Mill

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Case of the Shifting Visage

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. To solve — There are fifteen or more cards in your graveyard. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell, copy that spell. (The copy becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Case of the Shifting Visage (mkc) 19
Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature
Doom Whisperer (mkc) 128

Mill

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Sac Outlet

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Fain, the Broker

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. {T}, Remove a counter from a creature you control: Create a Treasure token. {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. {3}{B}: Untap Fain.

Creature
Fain, the Broker (otc) 133

Sac Outlet

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Counters

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Necropolis Regent

Flying Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Necropolis Regent (j25) 469
Power Conduit

{T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Choose one — • Put a charge counter on target artifact. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Artifact
Power Conduit (ncc) 376

Counters

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Evasion

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Hexavus

Flying This creature enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a flying counter on another target creature. {1}, Remove a counter from another creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Hexavus (brc) 14

Evasion

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Protection

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Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 258

Protection

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Theft

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Wrexial, the Risen Deep

Islandwalk, swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island or a Swamp.) Whenever Wrexial deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Wrexial, the Risen Deep (ncc) 359

Theft

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Creature

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Marvo, Deep Operative

Whenever Marvo attacks, clash with defending player. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.) Whenever you win a clash, draw a card. Then you may cast a spell from your hand with mana value 8 or less without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Marvo, Deep Operative (mkc) 315

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Finisher

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Sire of Seven Deaths

First strike, vigilance Menace, trample Reach, lifelink Ward—Pay 7 life.

Creature
Sire of Seven Deaths (fdn) 1
Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up. When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

Creature
Unstoppable Slasher (dsk) 119

Finisher

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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
Ashnod's Altar

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

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Commander's Sphere

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

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (drc) 125
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) A25-82
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 703
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (drc) 141

Ramp

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Tutor

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Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Diabolic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (plst) ODY-129
Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 82
Final Parting

Search your library for two cards. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Sorcery
Final Parting (cmm) 160
Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Rune-Scarred Demon (fdn) 184

Tutor

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