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Gyrus God Pod
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Est deck cost: $312.96
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Gyrus, Waker of Corpses

Gyrus enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of mana spent to cast it. Whenever Gyrus attacks, you may exile target creature card with lesser power from your graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that card and that's tapped and attacking. Exile the token at end of combat.

Creature
Gyrus, Waker of Corpses (c18) 41

Commander

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Engine: Mana Elves

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Atalan Jackal

Trample, haste Skilled Outrider — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Atalan Jackal (40k) 105
Clifftop Lookout

Reach When this creature enters, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Clifftop Lookout (blb) 168
Elvish Rejuvenator

When this creature enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Elvish Rejuvenator (otc) 191
Farhaven Elf

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Farhaven Elf (ltc) 243
Llanowar Visionary

When this creature enters, draw a card. {T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Visionary (j25) 684
Springbloom Druid

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Springbloom Druid (otc) 208
Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru

When Sutina enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Whenever Sutina attacks, you may return a land you control to its owner's hand. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Sutina, Speaker of the Tajuru (j25) 56
Topiary Stomper

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. This creature can't attack or block unless you control seven or more lands.

Creature
Topiary Stomper (j25) 730
Wood Elves

When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Wood Elves (ltc) 263
Yavimaya Dryad

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.) When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped under target player's control, then shuffle.

Creature
Yavimaya Dryad (tsr) 247

Engine: Mana Elves

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Interaction: Removal Creatures

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Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When this creature enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Creature
Acidic Slime (cmm) 270
Alpha Deathclaw

Menace, trample When this creature enters or becomes monstrous, destroy target permanent. {5}{B}{G}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

Creature
Alpha Deathclaw (pip) 91
Foundation Breaker

When this creature 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
Necron Deathmark

Flash Synaptic Disintegrator — When this creature enters, destroy up to one target creature and target player mills three cards.

Creature Artifact
Necron Deathmark (40k) 42
Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature
Plaguecrafter (blc) 187
Primaris Eliminator

When this creature enters, choose one — • Executioner Round — Destroy target creature. • Hyperfrag Round — Creatures target player controls get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Primaris Eliminator (40k) 50
Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (mkc) 136
Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (fdn) 231
Sheoldred

Creature
Sheoldred // The True Scriptures (mom) 125Sheoldred // The True Scriptures (mom) 125
Tranquil Frillback

When this creature enters, you may pay {G} up to three times. When you pay this cost one or more times, choose up to that many — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Exile target player's graveyard. • You gain 4 life.

Creature
Tranquil Frillback (mat) 24

Interaction: Removal Creatures

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Core: Pod Gods

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Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card. {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted (cmm) 868
Klothys, God of Destiny

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red and green is less than seven, Klothys isn't a creature. At the beginning of your first main phase, exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a land card, add {R} or {G}. Otherwise, you gain 2 life and Klothys deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Creature Enchantment
Klothys, God of Destiny (plst) THB-220
Purphoros, God of the Forge

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control enters, Purphoros deals 2 damage to each opponent. {2}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Purphoros, God of the Forge (cmm) 246
Toski, Bearer of Secrets

This spell can't be countered. Indestructible Toski attacks each combat if able. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Toski, Bearer of Secrets (blc) 244
Xenagos, God of Revels

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red and green is less than seven, Xenagos isn't a creature. At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target creature you control gains haste and gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is that creature's power.

Creature Enchantment
Xenagos, God of Revels (lcc) 295

Core: Pod Gods

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Engine: Other Tutors

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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
Scampering Surveyor

When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card or Cave card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Scampering Surveyor (lci) 260
Woodland Bellower

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a nonlegendary green creature card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Woodland Bellower (ori) 207

Engine: Other Tutors

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Land

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Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 290

Land

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Core: Pods

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Beseech the Mirror

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.

Sorcery
Beseech the Mirror (woe) 82
Birthing Pod

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) {1}{G/P}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Birthing Pod (nph) 104
Birthing Ritual

At the beginning of your end step, if you control a creature, look at the top seven cards of your library. Then you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, you may put a creature card with mana value X or less from among those cards onto the battlefield, where X is 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Enchantment
Birthing Ritual (mh3) 146
Eldritch Evolution

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, where X is 2 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Exile Eldritch Evolution.

Sorcery
Eldritch Evolution (inr) 195
Evolutionary Leap

{G}, Sacrifice a creature: 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.

Enchantment
Evolutionary Leap (ncc) 288
Vivien on the Hunt

+2: You may sacrifice a creature. If you do, search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. +1: Mill five cards, then put any number of creature cards milled this way into your hand. −1: Create a 4/4 green Rhino Warrior creature token.

Planeswalker
Vivien on the Hunt (snc) 162

Core: Pods

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Engine: Recursion

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Archpriest of Shadows

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Archpriest of Shadows (mom) 89
Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (cmm) 286
Phyrexian Delver

When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Creature
Phyrexian Delver (moc) 263
Timeless Witness

When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Eternalize {5}{G}{G} ({5}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Timeless Witness (mh2) 179

Engine: Recursion

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Lands: Haste

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Flamekin Village

As this land enters, you may reveal an Elemental card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Land
Flamekin Village (plst) CM2-251
Hall of the Bandit Lord

Hall of the Bandit Lord enters tapped. {T}, Pay 3 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.

Land
Hall of the Bandit Lord (plst) CHK-277
Hanweir Battlements

{T}: Add {C}. {R}, {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn. {3}{R}{R}, {T}: If you both own and control this land and a creature named Hanweir Garrison, exile them, then meld them into Hanweir, the Writhing Township.

Land
Hanweir Battlements (inr) 279

Lands: Haste

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Engine: Draw

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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
Elemental Bond

Whenever a creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Elemental Bond (scd) 180
Ohran Frostfang

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Ohran Frostfang (otc) 199
Painful Truths

Converge — You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Sorcery
Painful Truths (otc) 146
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
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
Tribute to the World Tree

Whenever a creature you control enters, draw a card if its power is 3 or greater. Otherwise, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Enchantment
Tribute to the World Tree (mom) 211

Engine: Draw

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Interaction: Board Wipes

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Bane of Progress

When this creature enters, destroy all artifacts and enchantments. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each permanent destroyed this way.

Creature
Bane of Progress (plst) C15-175
Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (dsc) 223
Massacre Girl

Menace When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Massacre Girl (dsc) 146
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
Night Incarnate

Deathtouch When this creature leaves the battlefield, all creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn. Evoke {3}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Night Incarnate (c18) 17

Interaction: Board Wipes

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Lands: Utility

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Disciple of Freyalise

Creature
Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250
Kessig Wolf Run

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Land
Kessig Wolf Run (mkc) 269
Turntimber Symbiosis

Sorcery
Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood (znr) 215Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood (znr) 215
Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Urza's Cave (mh3) 234
Valakut Awakening

Instant
Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (plst) ZNR-174Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (plst) ZNR-174
Witch's Clinic

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Witch's Clinic (dsc) 325

Lands: Utility

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Engine: Looting

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Bitter Reunion

When this enchantment enters, you may discard a card. If you do, draw two cards. {1}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Enchantment
Bitter Reunion (otc) 156
Cathartic Reunion

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

Sorcery
Cathartic Reunion (acr) 94
Demand Answers

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

Instant
Demand Answers (mkm) 122
Sazacap's Brew

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.) As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Target player draws two cards. If the gift was promised, target creature you control gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Instant
Sazacap's Brew (blb) 151
Thrill of Possibility

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

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (ltc) 229
Tormenting Voice

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

Sorcery
Tormenting Voice (j22) 615

Engine: Looting

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Interaction: Protection Charms

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Collective Resistance

Escalate {G} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Target creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Collective Resistance (mh3) 147
Return the Favor

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. + {1} — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant
Return the Favor (otj) 142
Smuggler's Surprise

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Mill four cards. You may put up to two creature and/or land cards from among the milled cards into your hand. + {4}{G} — You may put up to two creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield. + {1} — Creatures you control with power 4 or greater gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Smuggler's Surprise (otj) 180

Interaction: Protection Charms

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