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Esper Initiative
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Commander

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Zur the Enchanter

Flying Whenever Zur attacks, you may search your library for an enchantment card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Zur the Enchanter (2x2) 297

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Creature

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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

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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
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (woc) 90
Imoen, Mystic Trickster

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, draw a card. Draw another card if you've completed a dungeon. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Imoen, Mystic Trickster (clb) 77
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step. As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Draw X cards.

Instant
Necrologia (plst) 7ED-149
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (j25) 471
Notion Rain

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. Notion Rain deals 2 damage to you. (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
Notion Rain (mkc) 217
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
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (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
Read the Bones (j25) 479
Scattered Thoughts

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Instant
Scattered Thoughts (vow) 74
Thaumatic Compass

Artifact
Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (plst) XLN-249Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (plst) XLN-249

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Dungeon Enhancers

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Acererak the Archlich

When Acererak enters, if you haven't completed Tomb of Annihilation, return Acererak to its owner's hand and venture into the dungeon. Whenever Acererak attacks, for each opponent, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token unless that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Acererak the Archlich (afr) 87
Dungeon Delver

Commander creatures you own have "Room abilities of dungeons you own trigger an additional time."

Enchantment
Dungeon Delver (clb) 67
Midnight Pathlighter

Creatures you control can't be blocked except by legendary creatures. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Midnight Pathlighter (afc) 52
Nadaar, Selfless Paladin

Vigilance Whenever Nadaar enters or attacks, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.) Other creatures you control get +1/+1 as long as you've completed a dungeon.

Creature
Nadaar, Selfless Paladin (afr) 27
Paradox Haze

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's first upkeep each turn, that player gets an additional upkeep step after this step.

Enchantment
Paradox Haze (plst) TSP-71
Radiant Solar

Flying, lifelink Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control enters, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.) {W}, Discard this card: Venture into the dungeon and you gain 3 life.

Creature
Radiant Solar (afc) 9
Shadow of the Second Sun

Enchant player At the beginning of each of enchanted player's postcombat main phases, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The end step happens after the added untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)

Enchantment
Shadow of the Second Sun (mh3) 70
Thorough Investigation

Whenever you attack, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Enchantment
Thorough Investigation (afc) 12

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Initiative

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Aarakocra Sneak

Flying When this creature enters, you take the initiative.

Creature
Aarakocra Sneak (clb) 54
Dungeoneer's Pack

This artifact enters tapped. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You take the initiative, gain 3 life, draw a card, and create a Treasure token. Activate only as a sorcery. (A Treasure token is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact
Dungeoneer's Pack (clb) 312
Feywild Caretaker

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, create a 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature token with flying.

Creature
Feywild Caretaker (clb) 69
From the Catacombs

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control with a corpse counter on it. You take the initiative. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Sorcery
From the Catacombs (clb) 671
Goliath Paladin

Vigilance When this creature enters, you take the initiative.

Creature
Goliath Paladin (clb) 21
Passageway Seer

Lifelink When this creature enters, you take the initiative. At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Passageway Seer (clb) 141
Ravenloft Adventurer

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it. Whenever this creature attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.

Creature
Ravenloft Adventurer (clb) 142
Rilsa Rael, Kingpin

Deathtouch When Rilsa Rael enters, you take the initiative. Whenever you attack, target attacking creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. If you've completed a dungeon, that creature also gets +5/+0 and gains first strike and menace until end of turn.

Creature
Rilsa Rael, Kingpin (clb) 293
Sarevok's Tome

When this artifact enters, you take the initiative. {T}: Add {C}. If you have the initiative, add {C}{C} instead. {3}, {T}: Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if you've completed a dungeon.

Artifact
Sarevok's Tome (clb) 685
Seasoned Dungeoneer

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. Whenever you attack, target attacking Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, or Wizard gains protection from creatures until end of turn. It explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on the creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Seasoned Dungeoneer (clb) 660
Tomb of Horrors Adventurer

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, copy it. If you've completed a dungeon, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Creature
Tomb of Horrors Adventurer (clb) 100
Trailblazer's Torch

When this Equipment enters, you take the initiative. Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked, it deals 2 damage to each creature blocking it. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Trailblazer's Torch (clb) 340
Undercellar Sweep

When this enchantment enters, you take the initiative. Whenever you attack, if you or a player you're attacking has the initiative, you create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens that are tapped and attacking.

Enchantment
Undercellar Sweep (clb) 47
Underdark Explorer

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, you take the initiative.

Creature
Underdark Explorer (clb) 154
Vicious Battlerager

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. Spiked Retribution — Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller loses 5 life.

Creature
Vicious Battlerager (clb) 155
White Plume Adventurer

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, untap a creature you control. If you've completed a dungeon, untap all creatures you control instead.

Creature
White Plume Adventurer (clb) 49

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Interaction

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Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (pip) 156
Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (rvr) 9
Chains of Custody

Enchant creature you control When this Aura enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this Aura leaves the battlefield. Enchanted creature has ward {2}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.)

Enchantment
Chains of Custody (j25) 180
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
Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Enchantment
Darksteel Mutation (cmm) 21
Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (mkc) 67
Grasp of Fate

When this enchantment enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (Those permanents return under their owners' control.)

Enchantment
Grasp of Fate (who) 208
Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "{T}: Add {C}" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment
Imprisoned in the Moon (inr) 69
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (mb2) 15
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (drc) 37
Windborn Muse

Flying Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Creature
Windborn Muse (mkc) 92

Interaction

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Land

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Arcane Sanctum

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

Land
Arcane Sanctum (moc) 390
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (dmu) 244
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Contaminated Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {W}{U}{B} ({W}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Contaminated Landscape (mh3) 218
Dungeon Descent

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Land
Dungeon Descent (afr) 255
Escape Tunnel

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Escape Tunnel (mkm) 261
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 (moc) 397
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (moc) 398
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 (pblb) 252p
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (wc03) dz316
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 280
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mm3) 239
Obscura Storefront

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Obscura Storefront (dsc) 291
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) 166
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mom) 277
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (moc) 420
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
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (moc) 428
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (who) 201
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 (moc) 439

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Protection

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Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (drc) 70
Dovin's Veto

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

Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68

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 (moc) 348
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (scd) 259
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (scd) 263
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (moc) 356
Orzhov Signet

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

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (moc) 369
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat

Menace At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, create a Treasure token. Create three of those tokens instead if you've completed a dungeon. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat (clb) 143
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (plst) CMD-261
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (scd) 280
Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (moc) 385
Talisman of Progress

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

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (scd) 283

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Maybeboard

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Bane, Lord of Darkness

As long as your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, Bane has indestructible. Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, target opponent may have you draw a card. If they don't, you may put a creature card with equal or lesser toughness from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Bane, Lord of Darkness (clb) 267
Delver's Torch

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.) Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Delver's Torch (afr) 10
Dungeon Map

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Artifact
Dungeon Map (afr) 242
Fifty Feet of Rope

Climb Over — {T}: Target Wall can't block this turn. Tie Up — {3}, {T}: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Rappel Down — {4}, {T}: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Artifact
Fifty Feet of Rope (afr) 244
Fly

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon." (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Enchantment
Fly (afr) 59
Hama Pashar, Ruin Seeker

Room abilities of dungeons you own trigger an additional time.

Creature
Hama Pashar, Ruin Seeker (afr) 224
Immovable Rod

You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step. Whenever this artifact becomes untapped, venture into the dungeon. {3}{W}, {T}: For as long as this artifact remains tapped, another target permanent loses all abilities and can't attack or block.

Artifact
Immovable Rod (afc) 7
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (drc) 55
Planar Ally

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Planar Ally (afr) 31
Ranger's Hawk

Flying {3}, {T}, Tap another untapped creature you control: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Ranger's Hawk (afr) 37
Rasaad yn Bashir

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Whenever Rasaad yn Bashir attacks, if you have the initiative, double the toughness of each creature you control until end of turn. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Rasaad yn Bashir (clb) 37
Sefris of the Hidden Ways

Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, venture into the dungeon. This ability triggers only once each turn. (To venture into the dungeon, enter the first room or advance to the next room.) Create Undead — Whenever you complete a dungeon, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sefris of the Hidden Ways (afc) 3
Sphinx of the Second Sun

Flying At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The beginning phase includes the untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)

Creature
Sphinx of the Second Sun (mkc) 118
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
Triumphant Adventurer

Deathtouch During your turn, this creature has first strike. Whenever this creature attacks, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Triumphant Adventurer (afr) 237
Yuan-Ti Malison

This creature can't be blocked as long as it's attacking alone. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Yuan-Ti Malison (afr) 86
Zombie Ogre

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Zombie Ogre (afr) 129

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