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Old Rutstein Digging Graves Up
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $82.46
Salt sum: 28.07
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Commander

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Old Rutstein

When Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If a noncreature, nonland card is milled this way, create a Blood token.

Creature
Old Rutstein (vow) 326

Commander

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Drain

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Dina, Soul Steeper

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life. {1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Creature
Dina, Soul Steeper (stx) 178
Dreadhound

When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.) Whenever a creature dies or a creature card is put into a graveyard from a library, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Dreadhound (j25) 427
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 95
Nadier's Nightblade

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Nadier's Nightblade (blc) 184
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (dsc) 158
Vindictive Vampire

Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Vindictive Vampire (clu) 126

Drain

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Draw

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Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (j25) 115
God-Eternal Bontu

Menace When God-Eternal Bontu enters, sacrifice any number of other permanents, then draw that many cards. When God-Eternal Bontu dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Creature
God-Eternal Bontu (war) 92
Keeper of Fables

Whenever one or more non-Human creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Keeper of Fables (plst) ELD-163
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (blc) 255
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way. You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (blc) 188
Skullport Merchant

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature or a Treasure: Draw a card.

Creature
Skullport Merchant (clb) 149
Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (scd) 116
Wardens of the Cycle

Morbid — At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, choose one — • You gain 2 life. • You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Wardens of the Cycle (fdn) 125

Draw

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Finisher

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Lotleth Giant

Undergrowth — When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent for each creature card in your graveyard.

Creature
Lotleth Giant (cmm) 171

Finisher

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Land

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Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Darkmoss Bridge

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

Artifact Land
Darkmoss Bridge (dsc) 269
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (drc) 153
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 290
Golgari Guildgate

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

Land
Golgari Guildgate (clu) 235
Golgari Rot Farm

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

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (dsc) 279
Haunted Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Haunted Mire (blc) 311
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (dsc) 287
Polluted Mire

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

Land
Polluted Mire (dmr) 253
Slippery Karst

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

Land
Slippery Karst (dmr) 256
Svogthos, the Restless Tomb

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{B}{G}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a black and green Plant Zombie creature with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard." It's still a land.

Land
Svogthos, the Restless Tomb (cm2) 270
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 285
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 (drc) 179

Land

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Lifegain

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Witherbloom Apprentice

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Witherbloom Apprentice (stx) 247

Lifegain

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Mill

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Crawling Infestation

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere during your turn, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Crawling Infestation (cmm) 281

Mill

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Protection

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Blessed Respite

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Blessed Respite (mh2) 150
Gnaw to the Bone

You gain 2 life for each creature card in your graveyard. Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Gnaw to the Bone (plst) ISD-183
Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (ltc) 207

Protection

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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
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
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (cmm) 284
Ilysian Caryatid

{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add two mana of any one color instead.

Creature
Ilysian Caryatid (cmm) 297
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (j25) 149
Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

Creature
Lotus Cobra (znr) 307
Skull Prophet

{T}: Add {B} or {G}. {T}: Mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Skull Prophet (iko) 206
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
Tangled Florahedron

Creature
Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale (znr) 211Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale (znr) 211
Wilderness Reclamation

At the beginning of your end step, untap all lands you control.

Enchantment
Wilderness Reclamation (dsc) 205
World Shaper

Whenever this creature attacks, you may mill three cards. When this creature dies, return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
World Shaper (otc) 214

Ramp

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Recursion

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Back for Seconds

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. If this spell was bargained, you may put one of those cards with mana value 4 or less onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand.

Sorcery
Back for Seconds (woe) 80
Body Snatcher

When this creature enters, exile it unless you discard a creature card. When this creature dies, exile it and return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Body Snatcher (dmr) 75
Call of the Death-Dweller

Return up to two target creature cards with total mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a deathtouch counter on either of them. Then put a menace counter on either of them.

Sorcery
Call of the Death-Dweller (iko) 78
Diregraf Rebirth

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature that died this turn. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback {5}{B}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Diregraf Rebirth (mid) 220
Forever Young

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Forever Young (eld) 89
Gaea's Blessing

Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library. Draw a card. When this card is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Sorcery
Gaea's Blessing (plst) DOM-161
Gloomshrieker

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If this creature would die, exile it instead.

Creature Enchantment
Gloomshrieker (neo) 219
Golgari Findbroker

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

Creature
Golgari Findbroker (rvr) 187
Honest Rutstein

When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Honest Rutstein (otj) 207
Loaming Shaman

When this creature enters, target player shuffles any number of target cards from their graveyard into their library.

Creature
Loaming Shaman (rvr) 149
No One Left Behind

This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a creature card with mana value 3 or less. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
No One Left Behind (bro) 109
Nullpriest of Oblivion

Kicker {3}{B} (You may pay an additional {3}{B} as you cast this spell.) Lifelink Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Nullpriest of Oblivion (j25) 472
Perennial Behemoth

You may play lands from your graveyard. Unearth {G}{G} ({G}{G}: 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 Artifact
Perennial Behemoth (otc) 262
Pharika's Mender

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

Creature
Pharika's Mender (cn2) 205
Quest for the Necropolis

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a quest counter on this enchantment. {5}{B}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each quest counter on this enchantment. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Quest for the Necropolis (mh3) 104
Splendid Reclamation

Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Splendid Reclamation (vow) 221
Squirming Emergence

Fathomless descent — Return to the battlefield target nonland permanent card in your graveyard with mana value less than or equal to the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Squirming Emergence (lci) 241
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
Unbreakable Bond

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it.

Sorcery
Unbreakable Bond (iko) 101
Undergrowth Recon

At the beginning of your upkeep, return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Undergrowth Recon (mkm) 181
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96
Urborg Repossession

Kicker {1}{G} (You may pay an additional {1}{G} as you cast this spell.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain 2 life. If this spell was kicked, return another target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Urborg Repossession (dmu) 114

Recursion

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Removal

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Casualties of War

Choose one or more — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target creature. • Destroy target enchantment. • Destroy target land. • Destroy target planeswalker.

Sorcery
Casualties of War (blc) 125
Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Culling Ritual (dsc) 85
Deathsprout

Destroy target creature. Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Deathsprout (plst) WAR-189
Mortality Spear

This spell costs {2} less to cast if you gained life this turn. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Mortality Spear (stx) 207
Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Putrefy (dsc) 90
Urgent Necropsy

As an additional cost to cast this spell, collect evidence X, where X is the total mana value of the permanents this spell targets. Destroy up to one target artifact, up to one target creature, up to one target enchantment, and up to one target planeswalker.

Instant
Urgent Necropsy (mkm) 240

Removal

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Sac Outlet

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Dreadfeast Demon

Flying At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice a non-Demon creature. If you do, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Dreadfeast Demon (vow) 108

Sac Outlet

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Tokens

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Aatchik, Emerald Radian

When Aatchik enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token for each artifact and/or creature card in your graveyard. Whenever another Insect you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Aatchik. Each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Aatchik, Emerald Radian (dft) 187
Ghoulcaller's Harvest

Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens with decayed, where X is half the number of creature cards in your graveyard, rounded up. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.) Flashback {3}{B}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Ghoulcaller's Harvest (mid) 225
Rise of the Varmints

Create X 2/1 green Varmint creature tokens, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. Plot {2}{G} (You may pay {2}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Sorcery
Rise of the Varmints (otj) 179

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