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Nine-Fingers Keene (Hold the Gates)
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Commander

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Nine-Fingers Keene

Menace Ward—Pay 9 life. Whenever Nine-Fingers Keene deals combat damage to a player, look at the top nine cards of your library. You may put a Gate card from among them onto the battlefield. Then if you control nine or more Gates, put the rest into your hand. Otherwise, put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Nine-Fingers Keene (clb) 435

Commander

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Landfall

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Scute Swarm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of this creature instead.

Creature
Scute Swarm (znr) 308

Landfall

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Recursion

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Gate Colossus

Affinity for Gates (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Gate you control.) This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. Whenever a Gate you control enters, you may put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Creature Artifact
Gate Colossus (rvr) 257

Recursion

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Counters

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Bow of Nylea

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. {1}{G}, {T}: Choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Bow of Nylea deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. • You gain 3 life. • Put up to four target cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library in any order.

Artifact Enchantment
Bow of Nylea (plst) THS-153

Counters

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Mill

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Krydle of Baldur's Gate

Whenever Krydle deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 1 life and mills a card, then you gain 1 life and scry 1. Whenever you attack, you may pay {2}. If you do, target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Krydle of Baldur's Gate (afr) 343

Mill

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Removal

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False Floor

This artifact enters tapped. Creatures enter tapped. {2}, {T}, Exile this artifact: Exile all untapped creatures. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
False Floor (ncc) 82
Gaze of Granite

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less.

Sorcery
Gaze of Granite (c21) 217
Rags

Sorcery
Rags // Riches (akh) 222
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (moc) 309

Removal

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Draw

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Abundance

If you would draw a card, you may instead choose land or nonland and reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Enchantment
Abundance (cmm) 884
Drawn from Dreams

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Drawn from Dreams (ncc) 220
Gretchen Titchwillow

{2}{G}{U}: Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Gretchen Titchwillow (afr) 340
Guild Summit

When this enchantment enters, you may tap any number of untapped Gates you control. Draw a card for each Gate tapped this way. Whenever a Gate you control enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Guild Summit (grn) 41
Once Upon a Time

If this spell is the first spell you've cast this game, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature or land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant
Once Upon a Time (eld) 169
Seer's Sundial

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Seer's Sundial (cmr) 470
Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (dsc) 235
The Deck of Many Things

{2}, {T}: Roll a d20 and subtract the number of cards in your hand. If the result is 0 or less, discard your hand. 1—9 | Return a card at random from your graveyard to your hand. 10—19 | Draw two cards. 20 | Put a creature card from any graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When that creature dies, its owner loses the game.

Artifact
The Deck of Many Things (afr) 241

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Protection

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Protective Bubble

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Enchantment
Protective Bubble (lrw) 80
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
Way of the Thief

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2. Enchanted creature can't be blocked as long as you control a Gate.

Enchantment
Way of the Thief (gtc) 56

Protection

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Theft

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Rogue Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library face down. You may look at it for as long as it remains exiled. {1}{U}{B}: Level 2 Creatures you control have menace. {2}{U}{B}: Level 3 You may play cards exiled with this Class, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Enchantment
Rogue Class (afr) 230

Theft

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Evasion

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Aether Tunnel

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked.

Enchantment
Aether Tunnel (m19) 43
Aqueous Form

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked. Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Enchantment
Aqueous Form (cmr) 56
Distortion Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Distortion Strike (plst) IMA-52
Favor of the Overbeing

Enchant creature As long as enchanted creature is green, it gets +1/+1 and has vigilance. As long as enchanted creature is blue, it gets +1/+1 and has flying.

Enchantment
Favor of the Overbeing (eve) 151
Invisibility

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Enchantment
Invisibility (plst) M15-61
Prowler's Helm

Equipped creature can't be blocked except by Walls. Equip {2}

Artifact
Prowler's Helm (ths) 219
Stealth Mission

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. That creature can't be blocked this turn.

Sorcery
Stealth Mission (war) 70
Suspicious Bookcase

Defender {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Suspicious Bookcase (m19) 246

Evasion

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Pump

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Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

Artifact
Blackblade Reforged (dmc) 178
Gatebreaker Ram

This creature gets +1/+1 for each Gate you control. As long as you control two or more Gates, this creature has vigilance and trample.

Creature
Gatebreaker Ram (rna) 126

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Untap

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Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

As long as Archelos is tapped, other permanents enter tapped. As long as Archelos is untapped, other permanents enter untapped.

Creature
Archelos, Lagoon Mystic (dmc) 140
Manifold Key

{1}, {T}: Untap another target artifact. {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Manifold Key (clb) 319

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Land

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Baldur's Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Land
Baldur's Gate (clb) 345
Basilisk Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Basilisk Gate (clb) 346
Black Dragon Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Black Dragon Gate (clb) 347
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Deserted Temple

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Untap target land.

Land
Deserted Temple (mh3) 301
Dimir Guildgate

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

Land
Dimir Guildgate (clu) 234
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (who) 276
Foreboding Landscape

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

Land
Foreboding Landscape (mh3) 221
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 290
Gateway Plaza

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Gateway Plaza (plst) GRN-247
Golgari Guildgate

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

Land
Golgari Guildgate (clu) 235
Gond Gate

Gates you control enter untapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Gond Gate (clb) 353
Heap Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}, Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Land
Heap Gate (clb) 354
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 282
Manor Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than green. {T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Manor Gate (clb) 356
Maze's End

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Land
Maze's End (pdgm) 152★
Planar Nexus

This land is every nonbasic land type. (Nonbasic land types include Cave, Desert, Gate, Lair, Locus, Mine, Power-Plant, Sphere, Tower, and Urza's.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Planar Nexus (m3c) 80
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
Sea Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than blue. {T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Sea Gate (clb) 359
Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Land
Shizo, Death's Storehouse (dmc) 233
Simic Guildgate

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

Land
Simic Guildgate (clu) 248
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 285
The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Land
The Black Gate (ltc) 160
Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Land
Thespian's Stage (mb2) 113
Thran Portal

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. As this land enters, choose a basic land type. This land is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Mana abilities of this land cost an additional 1 life to activate.

Land
Thran Portal (dmu) 259
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

Land

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Ramp

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Amulet of Vigor

Whenever a permanent you control enters tapped, untap it.

Artifact
Amulet of Vigor (plst) WWK-121
Animist's Awakening

Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.

Sorcery
Animist's Awakening (c20) 166
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 51
Azusa, Lost but Seeking

You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.

Creature
Azusa, Lost but Seeking (cmm) 274
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (pm11) 165★
Blossom Dryad

{T}: Untap target land.

Creature
Blossom Dryad (plst) XLN-178
Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
Circuitous Route

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Circuitous Route (plst) GRN-125
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
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
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (dsc) 174
District Guide

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
District Guide (grn) 128
Druid Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life. {2}{G}: Level 2 You may play an additional land on each of your turns. {4}{G}: Level 3 When this Class becomes level 3, target land you control becomes a creature with haste and "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." It's still a land.

Enchantment
Druid Class (afr) 180
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (j25) 146
Explore the Underdark

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. You take the initiative.

Sorcery
Explore the Underdark (clb) 232
Gatecreeper Vine

Defender When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Gatecreeper Vine (ddm) 48
Greenside Watcher

{T}: Untap target Gate.

Creature
Greenside Watcher (gtc) 122
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (dsc) 88
Hour of Promise

Search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control three or more Deserts, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Sorcery
Hour of Promise (otc) 195
Moss Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}.

Artifact
Moss Diamond (clb) 327
Navigation Orb

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Navigation Orb (clb) 329
Open the Gates

Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Open the Gates (rvr) 151
Oracle of Mul Daya

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands from the top of your library.

Creature
Oracle of Mul Daya (otc) 200
Prismatic Lens

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Prismatic Lens (otc) 264
Reshape the Earth

Search your library for up to ten land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Reshape the Earth (cmr) 249
Sakura-Tribe Scout

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Scout (plst) SOK-144
Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (scd) 273
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
Sword of Forge and Frontier

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from green. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn. You may play an additional land this turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Forge and Frontier (one) 244
Sylvan Scrying

Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Sylvan Scrying (plst) BFZ-192
Tireless Provisioner

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Tireless Provisioner (j25) 728

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