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The American Dream
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Commander

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Migloz, Maze Crusher

Migloz enters with five oil counters on it. {1}, Remove an oil counter from Migloz: It gains vigilance and menace until end of turn. {2}, Remove two oil counters from Migloz: It gets +2/+2 until end of turn. {3}, Remove three oil counters from Migloz: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Migloz, Maze Crusher (one) 210

Commander

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This Land is My Land

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Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmr) 350
Copperline Gorge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Copperline Gorge (blc) 301
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (m21) 274
Game Trail

As this land enters, you may reveal a Mountain or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Game Trail (afc) 240
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (lcc) 339
Karplusan Forest

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

Land
Karplusan Forest (drc) 163
Mossfire Valley

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Land
Mossfire Valley (m3c) 357
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (lci) 400
Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Nesting Grounds (mh3) 437
Rockfall Vale

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rockfall Vale (inr) 282
Rootbound Crag

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rootbound Crag (drc) 168
Temple of Abandon

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 {R} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Abandon (m3c) 385
The Monumental Facade

This land enters with two oil counters on it. {T}: Add {C}. {T}, Remove an oil counter from this land: Put an oil counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
The Monumental Facade (one) 255

This Land is My Land

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Oil

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Armored Scrapgorger

This creature gets +3/+0 as long as it has three or more oil counters on it. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever this creature becomes tapped, exile target card from a graveyard and put an oil counter on this creature.

Creature
Armored Scrapgorger (one) 158
Axiom Engraver

This creature enters with two oil counters on it. {T}, Remove an oil counter from this creature, Discard a card: Draw a card.

Creature
Axiom Engraver (one) 120
Bloom Hulk

When this creature enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Bloom Hulk (war) 154
Cankerbloom

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Cankerbloom (one) 294
Churning Reservoir

At the beginning of your upkeep, put an oil counter on another target nontoken artifact or creature you control. {2}, {T}: Create a 1/1 red Phyrexian Goblin creature token. Activate only if an oil counter was removed from a permanent you controlled this turn or a permanent with an oil counter on it was put into a graveyard this turn.

Artifact
Churning Reservoir (one) 127
Cinderslash Ravager

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each permanent you control with oil counters on it. Vigilance When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control.

Creature
Cinderslash Ravager (one) 200
Contagious Vorrac

When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a land card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If you didn't put a card into your hand this way, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Contagious Vorrac (one) 164
Copper Longlegs

Reach {1}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Copper Longlegs (one) 165
Expand the Sphere

Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If you put fewer than two lands onto the battlefield this way, proliferate a number of times equal to the difference. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Expand the Sphere (one) 168
Exuberant Fuseling

Trample This creature gets +1/+0 for each oil counter on it. When this creature enters and whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this creature.

Creature
Exuberant Fuseling (one) 129
Furnace Skullbomb

{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card. {1}{R}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put two oil counters on target artifact or creature you control. Draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Furnace Skullbomb (one) 228
Ichorplate Golem

Whenever a creature you control enters, if it has one or more oil counters on it, put an oil counter on it. Creatures you control with oil counters on them get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact
Ichorplate Golem (one) 230
Oil-Gorger Troll

When this creature enters, you gain 3 life. Then if you control a permanent with an oil counter on it, draw a card.

Creature
Oil-Gorger Troll (one) 177
Pollenbright Druid

When this creature enters, choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Pollenbright Druid (plst) WAR-173
Rustvine Cultivator

{T}: Put an oil counter on this creature. {T}, Remove an oil counter from this creature: Untap target land.

Creature
Rustvine Cultivator (one) 181
Tablet of Compleation

{T}: Put an oil counter on this artifact. {T}: Add {C}. Activate only if this artifact has two or more oil counters on it. {1}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if this artifact has five or more oil counters on it.

Artifact
Tablet of Compleation (one) 245
The Filigree Sylex

{T}: Put an oil counter on The Filigree Sylex. {T}, Sacrifice The Filigree Sylex: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of oil counters on The Filigree Sylex. {T}, Remove ten oil counters from among permanents you control and sacrifice The Filigree Sylex: It deals 10 damage to any target.

Artifact
The Filigree Sylex (one) 227
Thirsting Roots

Choose one — • Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Thirsting Roots (one) 185
Unnatural Restoration

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Unnatural Restoration (one) 191
Urabrask's Anointer

When this creature enters, it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of permanents you control with oil counters on them.

Creature Artifact
Urabrask's Anointer (one) 152
Urabrask's Forge

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put an oil counter on this artifact, then create an X/1 red Phyrexian Horror creature token with trample and haste, where X is the number of oil counters on this artifact. Sacrifice that token at the beginning of the next end step.

Artifact
Urabrask's Forge (one) 153
Venomous Brutalizer

Toxic 3 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get three poison counters.) When this creature enters, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Venomous Brutalizer (one) 193
Vindictive Flamestoker

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on this creature. {6}{R}, Sacrifice this creature: Discard your hand, then draw four cards. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each oil counter on this creature.

Creature
Vindictive Flamestoker (one) 154

Oil

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Violence

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Akki Battle Squad

Whenever one or more modified creatures you control attack, untap all modified creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Creature
Akki Battle Squad (nec) 18
Ankh of Mishra

Whenever a land enters, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Artifact
Ankh of Mishra (3ed) 233
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (blc) 206
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (drc) 101
Bouncer's Beatdown

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a black permanent. Bouncer's Beatdown deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. If that creature or planeswalker would die this turn, exile it instead.

Instant
Bouncer's Beatdown (snc) 135
Decimate

Destroy target artifact, target creature, target enchantment, and target land. (You can't cast this spell unless you have legal choices for all its targets.)

Sorcery
Decimate (nec) 137
Infectious Bite

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. Each opponent gets a poison counter.

Instant
Infectious Bite (one) 172
Paladin of Predation

Toxic 6 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get six poison counters.) This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.

Creature
Paladin of Predation (one) 178
Prizefight

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Prizefight (plst) SNC-154
Tunnel Ignus

Whenever a land enters under an opponent's control, if that player had another land enter the battlefield under their control this turn, this creature deals 3 damage to that player.

Creature
Tunnel Ignus (som) 105
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (cmm) 646

Violence

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Political Dissidence

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Act of Aggression

({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.) Gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Instant
Act of Aggression (nph) 78
Akroan Horse

Defender When this creature enters, an opponent gains control of it. At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent creates a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Creature Artifact
Akroan Horse (c16) 241
Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos

Trample Alexios attacks each combat if able, can't be sacrificed, and can't attack its owner. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains control of Alexios, untaps it, and puts a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos (acr) 134
Awaken the Sleeper

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. If it's equipped, you may destroy all Equipment attached to that creature.

Sorcery
Awaken the Sleeper (one) 119
Besmirch

Until end of turn, gain control of target creature and it gains haste. Untap and goad that creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Sorcery
Besmirch (plst) CN2-49
Bloody Betrayal

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Bloody Betrayal (vow) 147
Cement Shoes

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has "At the beginning of your end step, tap this creature." Equipped creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Cement Shoes (snc) 235
Claim the Firstborn

Gain control of target creature with mana value 3 or less until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Claim the Firstborn (eld) 118
Crown of Doom

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn. {2}: Target player other than this artifact's owner gains control of it. Activate only during your turn.

Artifact
Crown of Doom (c14) 55
Curse of Bounty

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, untap all nonland permanents you control. Each opponent attacking that player untaps all nonland permanents they control.

Enchantment
Curse of Bounty (c17) 30
Curse of Chaos

Enchant player Whenever a player attacks enchanted player with one or more creatures, that attacking player may discard a card. If the player does, they draw a card.

Enchantment
Curse of Chaos (c13) 105
Curse of Hospitality

Enchant player Creatures attacking enchanted player have trample. Whenever a creature deals combat damage to enchanted player, that player exiles the top card of their library. Until end of turn, that creature's controller may play that card and they may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Enchantment
Curse of Hospitality (vow) 152
Curse of Obsession

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's draw step, that player draws two additional cards. At the beginning of enchanted player's end step, that player discards their hand.

Enchantment
Curse of Obsession (mic) 73
Curse of Opulence

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, create a Gold token. Each opponent attacking that player does the same. (A Gold token is an artifact with "Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Curse of Opulence (moc) 274
Curse of the Nightly Hunt

Enchant player Creatures enchanted player controls attack each combat if able.

Enchantment
Curse of the Nightly Hunt (isd) 137
Fumiko the Lowblood

Fumiko has bushido X, where X is the number of attacking creatures. (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +X/+X until end of turn.) Creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able.

Creature
Fumiko the Lowblood (c20) 152
Insurrection

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Insurrection (hop) 57
Kari Zev's Expertise

Gain control of target creature or Vehicle until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn. You may cast a spell with mana value 2 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Kari Zev's Expertise (aer) 88
Mass Mutiny

For each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Mass Mutiny (otc) 174

Political Dissidence

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Strip Mining

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Aggressive Mining

You can't play lands. Sacrifice a land: Draw two cards. Activate only once each turn.

Enchantment
Aggressive Mining (m15) 127
Arcane Spyglass

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card and put a charge counter on this artifact. Remove three charge counters from this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Arcane Spyglass (dst) 93
Frenzied Tilling

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

Sorcery
Frenzied Tilling (gtc) 166
Gruul Guildmage

({R/G} can be paid with either {R} or {G}.) {3}{R}, Sacrifice a land: This creature deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker. {3}{G}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Gruul Guildmage (rvr) 189
Hammer of Purphoros

Creatures you control have haste. {2}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Create a 3/3 colorless Golem enchantment artifact creature token.

Artifact Enchantment
Hammer of Purphoros (ths) 124
Lithatog

Sacrifice an artifact: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Sacrifice a land: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Lithatog (ody) 289
Redcap Melee

Redcap Melee deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If a nonred permanent is dealt damage this way, you sacrifice a land.

Instant
Redcap Melee (eld) 135
Ripchain Razorkin

Reach {2}{R}, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card.

Creature
Ripchain Razorkin (dsk) 154
Ruinous Minotaur

Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, sacrifice a land.

Creature
Ruinous Minotaur (zen) 145
Zuran Orb

Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.

Artifact
Zuran Orb (mh2) 300

Strip Mining

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Thematic

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Black Market Tycoon

At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 2 damage to you for each Treasure you control. {T}: Create a Treasure token.

Creature
Black Market Tycoon (snc) 167
Bootleggers' Stash

Lands you control have "{T}: Create a Treasure token."

Artifact
Bootleggers' Stash (drc) 110
Brutal Suppression

Activated abilities of nontoken Rebels cost an additional "Sacrifice a land" to activate.

Enchantment
Brutal Suppression (pcy) 85
Hidden Guerrillas

When an opponent casts an artifact spell, if this permanent is an enchantment, it becomes a 5/3 Soldier creature with trample.

Enchantment
Hidden Guerrillas (usg) 261
Luxurious Libation

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn. Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token.

Instant
Luxurious Libation (snc) 152
Stimulus Package

When this enchantment enters, create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Sacrifice a Treasure: Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token.

Enchantment
Stimulus Package (snc) 225

Thematic

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck follows the core tenets of the American system (SKREEEE, and other eagle noises) on a $50 budget, which is the only non-American aspect of the deck. (A proper American deck would cost about 1.5x your current savings, but be available on a payment plan with 30% interest)\nOil is the most valuable resource you can find, and therefore the commander for this deck was a shoe in. The only commander who can make or consume oil, Migloz is perfect as a representative of the American lifestyle. Along with Migloz, somewhere around 25% of the deck works to churn through oil, just like a good planeswalker should."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Your opponents (Everyone else in the world) are out to get you, and the only way to stop them is to spread Political dissidence. To do this, use threaten effects and curses to make creatures move, one player's massive threat being sent another way, creating a chaotic melee which leaves you suspiciously untouched."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"There is, in fact, gold in them thar hills, so its your job to make the most of your lands. The only way to do this, of course, is by strip mining. Tragically, \"Strip Mine\" is outside of the budget for this deck, but other premier ways of converting your useless tapped lands into precious resources are here for you."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Violence, at the end of the day, is the only way to ensure you're safe, so use this deck's premier suite of violent cards to keep your opponents from arming themselves. A sort of preemptive retaliatory strike."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The American system is complex enough that it can't be described by just five categories, so a few have been placed in a miscellaneous \"Thematic\" section. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Luxurious Libation"},{"insert":": Engage in excess, providing value to your good creatures as the citizens watch on. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Stimulus Package"},{"insert":": An essential part of America's response to Covid, this card also represents a certain proliferation involved in that time. Brutal Suppression: Is this card not perfect!? Stop those pesky rebels from fighting back by making anything they do destroy the environment!"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":" Black Market Tycoon"},{"insert":": Slowly build wealth, and ignore the damaging effects of hoarding it. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Hidden Guerrillas"},{"insert":": Jump out and assault anyone developing weapons systems, keeping any nuclear inclined enemy in check. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Bootleggers' Stash"},{"insert":": Bootlegging is one of America's most integral and storied traditions, representing the spirit of doing whatever it takes to get drunk."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Finally we look at lands. As we've been taught for years, this land is my land! Some claim there's a second half to that sentence, but those people don't have land. The mana base of this deck may be questionable, as the popular number of lands recommended is 37, but who cares! We don't need to worry about the land we use! We're strip mining all we have anyway, so why run more? At the end of the day, any problems encountered regarding the so called \"low land count\" are problems for future you, so no need to worry at all!"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"}]}
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