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Malding over Mill is Mid Behavior; BATTLE OF WITS!
Deck Size: 264
Modern
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Est deck cost: $709.94
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Counters

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Lose Focus

Replicate {U} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Lose Focus (mh2) 49
Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Mana Leak (2x2) 58
Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Spell Pierce (dft) 64

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Land

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Abraded Bluffs

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Abraded Bluffs (otj) 251
Abstergo Entertainment

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {3}, {T}, Exile Abstergo Entertainment: Return up to one target historic card from your graveyard to your hand, then exile all graveyards. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Land
Abstergo Entertainment (acr) 79
Aether Hub

When this land enters, you get {E} (an energy counter). {T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay {E}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Aether Hub (drc) 145
Bristling Backwoods

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Bristling Backwoods (otj) 253
Canopy Vista

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

Land
Canopy Vista (blc) 296
Creosote Heath

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Creosote Heath (otj) 255
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (drc) 155
Fomori Vault

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Discard a card: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of artifacts you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Land
Fomori Vault (big) 29
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 291
Hedge Maze

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Hedge Maze (mkm) 262
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 280
Mage-Ring Network

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {C} for each storage counter removed this way.

Land
Mage-Ring Network (cmm) 1009
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dft) 288
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 277
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (drc) 167
Spara's Headquarters

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 257
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (mh2) 261

Land

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Removal

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Chandra's Ignition

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.

Sorcery
Chandra's Ignition (lcc) 220
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Endless Detour

The owner of target spell, nonland permanent, or card in a graveyard puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Instant
Endless Detour (snc) 183
Ill-Timed Explosion

Draw two cards. Then you may discard two cards. When you do, Ill-Timed Explosion deals X damage to each creature, where X is the greatest mana value among cards discarded this way.

Sorcery
Ill-Timed Explosion (mkm) 207
No Witnesses

Each player who controls the most creatures investigates. Then destroy all creatures. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
No Witnesses (mkm) 27

Removal

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Draw

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Chromatic Sphere

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. Draw a card.

Artifact
Chromatic Sphere (plst) INV-299
Chromatic Star

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Artifact
Chromatic Star (tsr) 263
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
Prophetic Prism

When this artifact enters, draw a card. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Prophetic Prism (j25) 758
Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied

Reach, trample, indestructible Sab-Sunen can't attack or block unless it has an even number of counters on it. (Zero is even.) At the beginning of your first main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on Sab-Sunen. Then if it has an odd number of counters on it, draw two cards.

Creature
Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied (dft) 221
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
The Raven's Warning

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying. You gain 2 life. II — Whenever one or more creatures you control with flying deal combat damage to a player this turn, look at that player's hand and draw a card. III — You may put a card you own from outside the game on top of your library.

Enchantment
The Raven's Warning (khm) 227

Draw

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Protection

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Blazing Archon

Flying Creatures can't attack you.

Creature
Blazing Archon (rvr) 8
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
Hydroelectric Specimen

Creature
Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85

Protection

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Tokens

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Thragtusk

When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Creature
Thragtusk (ncc) 316
Zimone, All-Questioning

At the beginning of your end step, if a land entered the battlefield under your control this turn and you control a prime number of lands, create Primo, the Indivisible, a legendary 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token, then put that many +1/+1 counters on it. (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, and 31 are prime numbers.)

Creature
Zimone, All-Questioning (dsk) 241

Tokens

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Enchantment

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Battle of Wits

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 200 or more cards in your library, you win the game.

Enchantment
Battle of Wits (plst) M13-44

Enchantment

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Ramp

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Abundant Growth

Enchant land When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted land has "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Enchantment
Abundant Growth (inr) 184
Attune with Aether

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You get {E}{E} (two energy counters).

Sorcery
Attune with Aether (drc) 109
Azusa, Lost but Seeking

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

Creature
Azusa, Lost but Seeking (cmm) 274
Bramble Familiar

Creature
Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest (woe) 164
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (drc) 53
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
Fountainport Bell

When this artifact enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Fountainport Bell (blb) 245
Kodama's Reach

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
Kodama's Reach (otc) 196
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (j25) 149
Loot, Exuberant Explorer

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. {4}{G}{G}, {T}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control from among them and put it onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.

Creature
Loot, Exuberant Explorer (fdn) 106
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (scd) 151
Solar Transformer

This artifact enters tapped. When this artifact enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). {T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay {E}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Solar Transformer (drc) 137

Ramp

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Tutor

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Bring to Light

Converge — Search your library for a creature, instant, or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell, exile that card, then shuffle. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Bring to Light (2x2) 188
Fae of Wishes

Creature
Fae of Wishes // Granted (eld) 44
Gifts Ungiven

Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.

Instant
Gifts Ungiven (2x2) 51
Moon-Blessed Cleric

Divine Intervention — When this creature enters, you may search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Creature
Moon-Blessed Cleric (dsc) 69
Traverse the Ulvenwald

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for a creature or land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Traverse the Ulvenwald (inr) 221
Wish

You may play a card you own from outside the game this turn.

Sorcery
Wish (mb2) 64

Tutor

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Finisher

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Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery
Approach of the Second Sun (plst) AKH-4

Finisher

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Recursion

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
Campus Renovation

Return up to one target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Sorcery
Campus Renovation (mat) 27
Eternal Witness

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

Creature
Eternal Witness (cmm) 286

Recursion

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Sideboard

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Battle of Wits

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 200 or more cards in your library, you win the game.

Enchantment
Battle of Wits (plst) M13-44
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Chandra's Ignition

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.

Sorcery
Chandra's Ignition (lcc) 220
Genku, Future Shaper

Whenever another nontoken permanent you control leaves the battlefield, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn. Create a creature token with those characteristics. • 2/2 white Fox with vigilance. • 1/2 blue Moonfolk with flying. • 1/1 black Rat with lifelink. {3}{W}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Genku, Future Shaper (mh3) 186
No Witnesses

Each player who controls the most creatures investigates. Then destroy all creatures. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
No Witnesses (mkm) 27

Sideboard

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66 mana - 62 cards
82 pips - 67 cards
71 mana - 67 cards
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40 mana - 36 cards
26 pips - 19 cards
57 mana - 53 cards
76 pips - 64 cards
84 mana - 80 cards
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