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Umbris Control
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Est deck cost: $432.42
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Commander

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Umbris, Fear Manifest

Umbris gets +1/+1 for each card your opponents own in exile. Whenever Umbris or another Nightmare or Horror you control enters, target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a land card.

Creature
Umbris, Fear Manifest (voc) 76

Commander

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Evasion

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Clammy Prowler

Whenever this creature attacks, another target attacking creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Enchantment
Clammy Prowler (dsk) 45

Evasion

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Protection

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Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment
Leyline of Anticipation (wot) 23
Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Whispersilk Cloak (dsc) 257

Protection

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Stax

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Back to Basics

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Enchantment
Back to Basics (sld) 1718
Leyline of the Void

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Enchantment
Leyline of the Void (dsk) 106

Stax

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Copy

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Endless Evil

Enchant creature you control At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted creature, except the token is 1/1. When enchanted creature dies, if that creature was a Horror, return this card to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Endless Evil (clb) 665

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (dsc) 270
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (blb) 252
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dsk) 273
Mistvault Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Mistvault Bridge (brc) 189
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (fdn) 264
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 (dsk) 274
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 (fdn) 697
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (dsk) 269
Witch's Clinic

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

Land
Witch's Clinic (dsc) 325

Land

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Ramp

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Ancient Cellarspawn

Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.

Creature Enchantment
Ancient Cellarspawn (dsc) 16
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dsc) 92
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (a25) 82
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dsc) 245
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mic) 162
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mkc) 242
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256

Ramp

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Theft

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Bribery

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery
Bribery (sld) 1786
Siphon Insight

Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library. Exile one of them face down and put the other on the bottom of that library. You may play the exiled card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. Flashback {1}{U}{B}

Instant
Siphon Insight (otc) 242
Xanathar, Guild Kingpin

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose target opponent. Until end of turn, that player can't cast spells, you may look at the top card of their library any time, you may play the top card of their library, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast spells this way.

Creature
Xanathar, Guild Kingpin (sld) 1785

Theft

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Counters

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 311
Censor

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Censor (akh) 46
Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Instant
Delay (sld) 1788
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
Refute

Counter target spell. Draw a card, then discard a card.

Instant
Refute (fdn) 48
Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Spell Pierce (dft) 64
Stifle

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

Instant
Stifle (sld) 1787
Syncopate

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Syncopate (inr) 89
Wash Away

Cleave {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].

Instant
Wash Away (vow) 87

Counters

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Lifegain

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Essence Harvest

Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery
Essence Harvest (avr) 100

Lifegain

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Recursion

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Nightmare Shepherd

Flying Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types.

Creature Enchantment
Nightmare Shepherd (dsc) 149
Patchwork Crawler

{2}{U}: Exile target creature card from your graveyard and put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This creature has all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with it.

Creature
Patchwork Crawler (vow) 72
Soul Salvage

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Soul Salvage (jmp) 280

Recursion

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Tokens

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Uchuulon

Uchuulon's power is equal to the number of Crabs, Oozes, and/or Horrors you control. Horrific Symbiosis — At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target creature card from an opponent's graveyard. If you do, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Uchuulon (clb) 673

Tokens

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Draw

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Dreadwing Scavenger

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, draw a card, then discard a card. Threshold — This creature gets +1/+1 and has deathtouch as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Dreadwing Scavenger (fdn) 118
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar (clb) 723
Overlord of the Floodpits

Impending 4—{1}{U}{U} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Flying Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, draw two cards, then discard a card.

Creature Enchantment
Overlord of the Floodpits (dsk) 68
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (sld) 1719
Silent Hallcreeper

This creature can't be blocked. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose one that hasn't been chosen — • Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. • Draw a card. • This creature becomes a copy of another target creature you control.

Creature Enchantment
Silent Hallcreeper (dsk) 72
Sleight of Hand

Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

Sorcery
Sleight of Hand (slp) 25
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 (sld) 1721
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (mb2) 37
Visions of Beyond

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

Instant
Visions of Beyond (uma) 81
Wharf Infiltrator

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token.

Creature
Wharf Infiltrator (clb) 737
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (otc) 123

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Mill

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Ashiok, Dream Render

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library. −1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.

Planeswalker
Ashiok, Dream Render (war) 228
Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

+2: Exile the top three cards of target opponent's library. −X: Put a creature card with mana value X exiled with Ashiok onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a Nightmare in addition to its other types. −10: Exile all cards from all opponents' hands and graveyards.

Planeswalker
Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver (ths) 188
Consuming Aberration

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards. Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Consuming Aberration (fdn) 238
Drown in Dreams

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Target player draws X cards. • Target player mills twice X cards.

Instant
Drown in Dreams (mic) 13
Duskmantle Guildmage

{1}{U}{B}: Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere this turn, that player loses 1 life. {2}{U}{B}: Target player mills two cards.

Creature
Duskmantle Guildmage (gtc) 158
Fractured Sanity

Each opponent mills fourteen cards. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, each opponent mills four cards.

Sorcery
Fractured Sanity (clb) 722
Fraying Sanity

Enchant player At the beginning of each end step, enchanted player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards put into their graveyard from anywhere this turn.

Enchantment
Fraying Sanity (pip) 175
Maddening Cacophony

Kicker {3}{U} Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.

Sorcery
Maddening Cacophony (znr) 67
Mind Grind

Each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard. X can't be 0.

Sorcery
Mind Grind (gtc) 178
Mind Sculpt

Target opponent mills seven cards.

Sorcery
Mind Sculpt (plst) M15-70
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (clb) 866
Nemesis of Reason

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills ten cards.

Creature
Nemesis of Reason (clb) 850
Nihil Spellbomb

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Nihil Spellbomb (scd) 270
Overlord of the Balemurk

Impending 5—{1}{B} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with five time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, mill four cards, then you may return a non-Avatar creature card or a planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Enchantment
Overlord of the Balemurk (dsk) 113
Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (plst) M19-68
Tasha's Hideous Laughter

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until that player has exiled cards with total mana value 20 or more.

Sorcery
Tasha's Hideous Laughter (afr) 78
The Mindskinner

The Mindskinner can't be blocked. If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent, prevent that damage and each opponent mills that many cards.

Creature Enchantment
The Mindskinner (dsk) 357
Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

Artifact
Tormod's Crypt (mb2) 235
Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Hive Mind — Whenever a player mills one or more creature cards, you create a 1/1 black Horror creature token. {1}, {T}: Target player mills three cards. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Zellix, Sanity Flayer (clb) 652

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Removal

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Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (otc) 126
Feed the Cycle

As an additional cost to cast this spell, forage or pay {B}. (To forage, exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Feed the Cycle (blb) 94
Ravenous Chupacabra

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

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (mkc) 136
Tyrant's Scorn

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or less. • Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Tyrant's Scorn (war) 225
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60
Waterlogged Teachings

Instant
Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261

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Maybeboard

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Archetype of Imagination

Creatures you control have flying. Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.

Creature Enchantment
Archetype of Imagination (dsc) 111
Ashiok, Nightmare Muse

+1: Create a 2/3 blue and black Nightmare creature token with "Whenever this token attacks or blocks, each opponent exiles the top two cards of their library." −3: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand, then that player exiles a card from their hand. −7: You may cast up to three spells from among face-up cards your opponents own from exile without paying their mana costs.

Planeswalker
Ashiok, Nightmare Muse (thb) 208
Borne Upon a Wind

You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash. Draw a card.

Instant
Borne Upon a Wind (ltr) 44
Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dmu) 84
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 (grn) 69
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 (grn) 38
Enter the Enigma

Target creature can't be blocked this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Enter the Enigma (dsk) 52
Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437
Fear of Isolation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a permanent you control to its owner's hand. Flying

Creature Enchantment
Fear of Isolation (dsk) 58
Fear of Sleep Paralysis

Flying Eerie — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, tap up to one target creature and put a stun counter on it. Stun counters can't be removed from permanents your opponents control. (They won't untap if they have stun counters.)

Creature Enchantment
Fear of Sleep Paralysis (dsc) 12
Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment. {1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.

Enchantment
Font of Agonies (rna) 74
Lembas

When this artifact enters, scry 1, then draw a card. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, its owner shuffles it into their library.

Artifact
Lembas (ltr) 243
Mesmeric Orb

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (2xm) 272
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
Opposition Agent

Flash You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries. While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature
Opposition Agent (cmr) 141
Planar Void

Whenever another card is put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile that card.

Enchantment
Planar Void (usg) 149
Time Sieve

{T}, Sacrifice five artifacts: Take an extra turn after this one.

Artifact
Time Sieve (plst) ARB-31
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77
Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

Sorcery
Traumatize (m14) 77
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

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{"ops":[{"insert":"New to deck building gave it a try. The way i see this deck plays is, control with mill. I kept cheaper counters because too expensive and im poor lol. Horror and nightmare synergy with few combos to help shut games out if needed. LMK if anything you would chamge like i said b4 im new to deck building.\n"}]}
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