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Ertai's Pride
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Commander

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Ertai, the Corrupted

{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature or enchantment: Counter target spell.

Creature
Ertai, the Corrupted (plst) PLS-107

Commander

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Lifegain

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Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Artifact
Ivory Tower (atq) 53
Queza, Augur of Agonies

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Queza, Augur of Agonies (snc) 212

Lifegain

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Removal

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Allay

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Destroy target enchantment.

Instant
Allay (exo) 1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Dakkon, Shadow Slayer

Dakkon enters with a number of loyalty counters on him equal to the number of lands you control. +1: Surveil 2. −3: Exile target creature. −6: You may put an artifact card from your hand or graveyard onto the battlefield.

Planeswalker
Dakkon, Shadow Slayer (mh2) 192
Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Damn (drc) 89
Daring Apprentice

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell.

Creature
Daring Apprentice (mir) 60
Deny the Witch

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller loses life equal to the number of creatures you control.

Instant
Deny the Witch (40k) 116
Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant
Disallow (drc) 74
Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Ertai, Wizard Adept

{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Counter target spell.

Creature
Ertai, Wizard Adept (exo) 33
Forbid

Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Counter target spell.

Instant
Forbid (plst) EXO-35
Legacy's Allure

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a treasure counter on this enchantment. Sacrifice this enchantment: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of treasure counters on this enchantment. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Enchantment
Legacy's Allure (plst) TMP-71
Lullmage Mentor

Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token. Tap seven untapped Merfolk you control: Counter target spell.

Creature
Lullmage Mentor (zen) 54
Phage the Untouchable

When Phage enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, you lose the game. Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated. Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game.

Creature
Phage the Untouchable (cns) 120
Spell Burst

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Counter target spell with mana value X.

Instant
Spell Burst (tsr) 88

Removal

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Tokens

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Alela, Artful Provocateur

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+0. Whenever you cast an artifact or enchantment spell, create a 1/1 blue Faerie creature token with flying.

Creature
Alela, Artful Provocateur (brc) 119
Archangel Elspeth

+1: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink. −2: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It becomes an Angel in addition to its other types and gains flying. −6: Return all nonland permanent cards with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Planeswalker
Archangel Elspeth (mom) 6
Recruit the Worthy

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Instant
Recruit the Worthy (mh1) 22
Urza, Chief Artificer

Affinity for artifact creatures (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact creature you control.) Artifact creatures you control have menace. At the beginning of your end step, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."

Creature
Urza, Chief Artificer (brc) 2

Tokens

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Protection

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Abeyance

Until end of turn, target player can't cast instant or sorcery spells, and that player can't activate abilities that aren't mana abilities. Draw a card.

Instant
Abeyance (wth) 1
Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {X} for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Enchantment
Sphere of Safety (dsc) 104

Protection

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Sorcery

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Brush with Death

Buyback {2}{B}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Target opponent loses 2 life. You gain 2 life.

Sorcery
Brush with Death (sth) 52

Sorcery

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Tutor

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Demonic Collusion

Buyback—Discard two cards. (You may discard two cards in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Collusion (tsp) 103
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150

Tutor

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Draw

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Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (otc) 215
Barrin's Codex

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a page counter on this artifact. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw X cards, where X is the number of page counters on this artifact.

Artifact
Barrin's Codex (usg) 286
Library of Leng

You have no maximum hand size. If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

Artifact
Library of Leng (cei) 258
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools

+2: Create two 0/1 black Thrull creature tokens. +1: You may sacrifice another creature or planeswalker. If you do, draw two cards, then draw another card if the sacrificed permanent was a commander. −10: Gain control of all commanders. Put all commanders from the command zone onto the battlefield under your control. Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools can be your commander. Partner

Planeswalker
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools (cmr) 153
Thought Reflection

If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Thought Reflection (2xm) 72
Whispers of the Muse

Buyback {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Draw a card.

Instant
Whispers of the Muse (tmp) 103

Draw

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Ramp

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Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (dsc) 243
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (drc) 53
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
Karn's Temporal Sundering

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Target player takes an extra turn after this one. Return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Exile Karn's Temporal Sundering.

Sorcery
Karn's Temporal Sundering (dom) 55
Kaya the Inexorable

+1: Put a ghostform counter on up to one target nontoken creature. It gains "When this creature dies or is put into exile, return it to its owner's hand and create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying." −3: Exile target nonland permanent. −7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may cast a legendary spell from your hand, from your graveyard, or from among cards you own in exile without paying its mana cost."

Planeswalker
Kaya the Inexorable (khm) 218
Memory Crystal

Buyback costs cost {2} less.

Artifact
Memory Crystal (exo) 134
Patriar's Seal

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

Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
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
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: 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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Stax

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Fractured Identity

Exile target nonland permanent. Each player other than its controller creates a token that's a copy of it.

Sorcery
Fractured Identity (who) 236

Stax

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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 (plst) SOK-38
High Alert

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender. {2}{W}{U}: Untap target creature.

Enchantment
High Alert (plst) RNA-182
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
Twiddle

You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Instant
Twiddle (lea) 85

Untap

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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 (drc) 58
Arcane Sanctum

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

Land
Arcane Sanctum (drc) 146
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 281
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
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 (drc) 61
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 279
Raffine's Tower

({T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Raffine's Tower (snc) 254
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 283
Volrath's Stronghold

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

Land
Volrath's Stronghold (sth) 143

Land

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Recursion

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Adarkar Valkyrie

Flying, vigilance {T}: When target creature other than this creature dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Adarkar Valkyrie (c18) 60
Disturbed Burial

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Disturbed Burial (plst) TMP-129
Serra Paragon

Flying Once during each of your turns, you may play a land from your graveyard or cast a permanent spell with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. If you do, it gains "When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it and you gain 2 life."

Creature
Serra Paragon (dmu) 32
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

Recursion

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Theft

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Abduction

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, untap enchanted creature. You control enchanted creature. When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Enchantment
Abduction (6ed) 55
Agent of Treachery

When this creature enters, gain control of target permanent. At the beginning of your end step, if you control three or more permanents you don't own, draw three cards.

Creature
Agent of Treachery (m20) 43
Become the Pilot

Enchant noncommander creature You control enchanted creature. Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and can't be blocked unless it's attacking its owner or a permanent its owner controls.

Enchantment
Become the Pilot (who) 37
Blatant Thievery

For each opponent, gain control of target permanent that player controls.

Sorcery
Blatant Thievery (c15) 87
Callous Oppressor

You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step. As this creature enters, an opponent chooses a creature type. {T}: Gain control of target creature that isn't of the chosen type for as long as this creature remains tapped.

Creature
Callous Oppressor (ons) 72
Confiscate

Enchant permanent You control enchanted permanent.

Enchantment
Confiscate (fdn) 709
Control Magic

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Control Magic (cma) 34
Dominating Licid

{1}{U}{U}, {T}: This creature loses this ability and becomes an Aura enchantment with enchant creature. Attach it to target creature. You may pay {U} to end this effect. You control enchanted creature.

Creature
Dominating Licid (exo) 30
Lay Claim

Enchant permanent You control enchanted permanent. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Lay Claim (j22) 312
Merieke Ri Berit

Merieke Ri Berit doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Merieke Ri Berit. When Merieke Ri Berit leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.

Creature
Merieke Ri Berit (ice) 297
Thalakos Deceiver

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever this creature attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, gain control of target creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Creature
Thalakos Deceiver (sth) 45

Theft

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Maybeboard

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218
Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Baral, Chief of Compliance (aer) 28
Beacon of Immortality

Double target player's life total. Shuffle Beacon of Immortality into its owner's library.

Instant
Beacon of Immortality (plst) E02-1
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rvr) 40
Drogskol Reaver

Flying Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Creature
Drogskol Reaver (2x2) 205
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Fatestitcher

{T}: You may tap or untap another target permanent. Unearth {U} ({U}: 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
Fatestitcher (plst) ALA-43
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay {2}{U}. If you do, create a tapped token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.

Creature
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist (drc) 1
Infinite Reflection

Enchant creature When this Aura enters attached to a creature, each other nontoken creature you control becomes a copy of that creature. Nontoken creatures you control enter as a copy of enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Infinite Reflection (c14) 114
Ioreth of the Healing House

{T}: Untap another target permanent. {T}: Untap two other target legendary creatures.

Creature
Ioreth of the Healing House (ltr) 56
Lich's Mastery

Hexproof You can't lose the game. Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards. Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard. When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Enchantment
Lich's Mastery (dom) 98
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Marina Vendrell's Grimoire

When Marina Vendrell's Grimoire enters, if you cast it, draw five cards. You have no maximum hand size and don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards. Whenever you lose life, discard that many cards. Then if you have no cards in hand, you lose the game.

Artifact
Marina Vendrell's Grimoire (dsk) 64
Peregrine Drake

Flying When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.

Creature
Peregrine Drake (dmr) 65
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
Tortured Existence

{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Tortured Existence (plst) STH-74
Void Rend

This spell can't be countered. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Void Rend (snc) 230

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Tokens & Extras

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Construct

This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.

Creature Artifact Token
Construct (tbig) 3
Faerie

Flying

Creature Token
Faerie (tblc) 12
Merfolk

Creature Token
Merfolk (tmkm) 3
Morph

(You can cover a face-down creature with this reminder card. A card with morph can be turned face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Morph (tmkc) 30
Rat

Creature Token
Rat (tfdn) 14
Soldier

Lifelink

Creature Token
Soldier (tltc) 5
Soldier

Creature Token
Soldier (tblc) 8
Thrull

Creature Token
Thrull (tdvd) 7

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Deck Info

Deck stats

24 pips - 20 cards
16 mana - 15 cards
56 pips - 36 cards
21 mana - 20 cards
21 pips - 16 cards
16 mana - 15 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck does not play against the opponent's deck, this deck sets you up to play against the other player. Designed to be used with a \"poker game\" mentality, it is about manipulating your opponent's next moves to your advantage. Very little in the deck is capable of ending the game on its own, but it is VERY capable of turning your opponents' deck(s) against them.\n"}]}
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