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Animated War Crimes
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Est deck cost: $635.66
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Commander

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Bello, Bard of the Brambles

During your turn, each non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment you control with mana value 4 or greater is a 4/4 Elemental creature in addition to its other types and has indestructible, haste, and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

Creature
Bello, Bard of the Brambles (blc) 1

Commander

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Anthem

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Banner of Kinship

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. This artifact enters with a fellowship counter on it for each creature you control of the chosen type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each fellowship counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Banner of Kinship (fdn) 484
Berserkers' Onslaught

Attacking creatures you control have double strike.

Enchantment
Berserkers' Onslaught (blc) 192
Gruul War Chant

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0 and have menace.

Enchantment
Gruul War Chant (mm3) 170

Anthem

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Artifact

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Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 394
Worldslayer

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy all permanents other than this Equipment. Equip {5} ({5}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Worldslayer (m12) 222

Artifact

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Burn

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Fiery Emancipation

If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Enchantment
Fiery Emancipation (wot) 42
Teapot Slinger

Menace Whenever you expend 4, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent. (You expend 4 as you spend your fourth total mana to cast spells during a turn.)

Creature
Teapot Slinger (blb) 157

Burn

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Draw

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Evercoat Ursine

Trample Hideaway 3, hideaway 3 (When this creature enters, look at the top three cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if there are cards exiled with it, you may play one of them without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Evercoat Ursine (blc) 64
Garruk's Packleader

Whenever another creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, you may draw a card.

Creature
Garruk's Packleader (blc) 218
Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (blc) 219
Glorious Sunrise

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one — • Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn. • Target land gains "{T}: Add {G}{G}{G}" until end of turn. • Draw a card if you control a creature with power 3 or greater. • You gain 3 life.

Enchantment
Glorious Sunrise (vow) 388
Mystic Forge

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast artifact spells and colorless spells from the top of your library. {T}, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.

Artifact
Mystic Forge (pip) 484
Spellbook

You have no maximum hand size.

Artifact
Spellbook (m10) 220
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 451
Thickest in the Thicket

When this enchantment enters, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power. At the beginning of your end step, draw two cards if you control the creature with the greatest power or tied for the greatest power.

Enchantment
Thickest in the Thicket (blc) 67
Weatherlight

Flying Whenever Weatherlight deals combat damage to a player, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a historic card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) Crew 3

Artifact
Weatherlight (nec) 165
Wildsear, Scouring Maw

Trample Enchantment spells you cast from your hand have cascade. (Whenever you cast an enchantment spell from your hand, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Creature
Wildsear, Scouring Maw (blc) 44

Draw

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Evasion

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Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control. Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Ghalta, Primal Hunger (fdn) 335

Evasion

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Finisher

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Aggravated Assault

{3}{R}{R}: Untap all creatures you control. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Aggravated Assault (wot) 76

Finisher

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Instant

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Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (m21) 375

Instant

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Land

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Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (pip) 254
Cinder Glade

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

Land
Cinder Glade (blc) 299
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (blc) 130
Copperline Gorge

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

Land
Copperline Gorge (blc) 301
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 (blc) 302
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
Fire-Lit Thicket

{T}: Add {C}. {R/G}, {T}: Add {R}{R}, {R}{G}, or {G}{G}.

Land
Fire-Lit Thicket (2xm) 317
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (2xm) 381
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (snc) 280
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (woe) 266
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (pip) 326
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (blb) 278
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (blb) 279
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (blb) 280
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (blb) 281
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (fdn) 290
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (fdn) 291
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 (blc) 306
Gruul Turf

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

Land
Gruul Turf (blc) 310
Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Land
Inventors' Fair (kld) 247
Karplusan Forest

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

Land
Karplusan Forest (blc) 314
Mossfire Valley

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

Land
Mossfire Valley (blc) 316
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (blc) 317
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (fdn) 288
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (fdn) 289
Mountain Valley

This land enters tapped. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Mountain Valley (cmm) 1012
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (woc) 164
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 (blc) 322
Promising Vein

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Promising Vein (lci) 279
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 663
Rootbound Crag

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

Land
Rootbound Crag (blc) 326
Shire Terrace

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Shire Terrace (ltr) 261
Study Hall

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. When you spend this mana to cast your commander, scry X, where X is the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Land
Study Hall (c21) 80
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 (blc) 338
Terminal Moraine

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terminal Moraine (dmr) 259
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 (blc) 345
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
Wooded Ridgeline

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

Land
Wooded Ridgeline (blc) 353

Land

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Landfall

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Rampaging Baloths

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

Creature
Rampaging Baloths (blc) 233

Landfall

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Protection

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Asceticism

Creatures you control have hexproof. {1}{G}: Regenerate target creature. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Enchantment
Asceticism (ltc) 233
Darksteel Forge

Artifacts you control have indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them. Artifact creatures with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Artifact
Darksteel Forge (2xm) 248
Darksteel Plate

Indestructible Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {2}

Artifact
Darksteel Plate (2x2) 304
Mycosynth Lattice

All permanents are artifacts in addition to their other types. All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are colorless. Players may spend mana as though it were mana of any color.

Artifact
Mycosynth Lattice (sld) 1434
Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Artifact
Vedalken Orrery (2x2) 399

Protection

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Pump

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Sight of the Scalelords

At the beginning of combat on your turn, creatures you control with toughness 4 or greater get +2/+2 and gain vigilance until end of turn.

Enchantment
Sight of the Scalelords (dtk) 207
Unnatural Growth

At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.

Enchantment
Unnatural Growth (wot) 62

Pump

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Ramp

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Alchemist's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) When this Class enters, create two tapped Treasure tokens. {1}{R}: Level 2 Treasures you control have "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add two mana of any one color." {4}{R}: Level 3 Whenever you cast a spell, if mana from a Treasure was spent to cast it, this Class deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to each opponent.

Enchantment
Alchemist's Talent (blc) 22
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (blc) 127
Bootleggers' Stash

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

Artifact
Bootleggers' Stash (snc) 288
Brightcap Badger

Creature
Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic (blc) 62
Domri, Anarch of Bolas

Creatures you control get +1/+0. +1: Add {R} or {G}. Creature spells you cast this turn can't be countered. −2: Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.

Planeswalker
Domri, Anarch of Bolas (blc) 98
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Goreclaw attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma (blc) 222
Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Hedron Archive (blc) 275
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (cmr) 668
Kodama of the East Tree

Reach Whenever another permanent you control enters, if it wasn't put onto the battlefield with this ability, you may put a permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your hand onto the battlefield. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Kodama of the East Tree (blc) 227
Nature's Will

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, tap all lands that player controls and untap all lands you control.

Enchantment
Nature's Will (wot) 57
Prosperous Bandit

Offspring {1} (You may pay an additional {1} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) First strike Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many tapped Treasure tokens.

Creature
Prosperous Bandit (blc) 25
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmr) 703
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (cmm) 658
Trailtracker Scout

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you expend 8, return up to one target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. (You expend 8 as you spend your eighth total mana to cast spells during a turn.)

Creature
Trailtracker Scout (blc) 35
Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Trample Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced. Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, that land doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger (mul) 29
Wandertale Mentor

Whenever you expend 4, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (You expend 4 as you spend your fourth total mana to cast spells during a turn.) {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Creature
Wandertale Mentor (blb) 240

Ramp

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Recursion

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Crucible of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (2x2) 303
Road of Return

Choose one — • Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. • Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Entwine {2} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Road of Return (c19) 34

Recursion

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Removal

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (ltc) 234
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 (blc) 114
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (blc) 115
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 (dmr) 444
Klauth's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Breathe Flame — Klauth's Will deals X damage to each creature without flying. • Smash Relics — Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments.

Instant
Klauth's Will (afc) 321
Nevinyrral's Disk

This artifact enters tapped. {1}, {T}: Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments.

Artifact
Nevinyrral's Disk (cmr) 696
Pyreswipe Hawk

Flying, haste Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the greatest mana value among artifacts you control. Whenever you expend 6, gain control of up to one target artifact for as long as you control this creature. (You expend 6 as you spend your sixth total mana to cast spells during a turn.)

Creature
Pyreswipe Hawk (blc) 60

Removal

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Tokens

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Primeval Bounty

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 3 life.

Enchantment
Primeval Bounty (blc) 232
Rolling Hamsphere

This Vehicle gets +1/+1 for each Hamster you control. Whenever this Vehicle attacks, create three 1/1 red Hamster creature tokens, then it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of Hamsters you control. Crew 3

Artifact
Rolling Hamsphere (blc) 71
Thopter Assembly

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control no Thopters other than this creature, return this creature to its owner's hand and create five 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying.

Creature Artifact
Thopter Assembly (c18) 226
Thunderhawk Gunship

Flying When this Vehicle enters, create two 2/2 white Astartes Warrior creature tokens with vigilance. Whenever this Vehicle attacks, attacking creatures you control gain flying until end of turn. Crew 2

Artifact
Thunderhawk Gunship (40k) 167

Tokens

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Tutor

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Ring of Three Wishes

This artifact enters with three wish counters on it. {5}, {T}, Remove a wish counter from this artifact: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Ring of Three Wishes (m14) 216

Tutor

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Untap

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Unwinding Clock

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

Artifact
Unwinding Clock (c18) 228

Untap

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Description

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