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Smeagol's Guide to the Dead Marshes
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $533.80
Salt sum: 40.47
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Commander

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Sméagol, Helpful Guide

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, the Ring tempts you. Whenever the Ring tempts you, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest into their graveyard.

Creature
Sméagol, Helpful Guide (ltr) 231

Commander

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
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 (drc) 153
Field of the Dead

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land
Field of the Dead (m20) 247
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 291
Golgari Rot Farm

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

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (dsc) 279
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (afc) 246
Llanowar Wastes

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

Land
Llanowar Wastes (dsc) 287
Snow-Covered Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Forest (mb2) 120
Snow-Covered Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Swamp (mb2) 118
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 285
Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Wood (dsc) 305
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 (drc) 179
Undergrowth Stadium

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 435
Verdant Catacombs

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

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Woodland Cemetery

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

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dsc) 326
Woodland Chasm

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

Land
Woodland Chasm (khm) 274
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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Artifact

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (blc) 283
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 57

Artifact

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Sorcery

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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
Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 94
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (j25) 471
Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery
Pest Infestation (c21) 65
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (dsc) 155
Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fdn) 183
Rise of the Witch-king

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you sacrificed a creature this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Rise of the Witch-king (ltr) 221
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277

Sorcery

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Creature

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Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
Avenger of Zendikar

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

Creature
Avenger of Zendikar (otc) 187
Bloodghast

This creature can't block. This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Bloodghast (dft) 77
Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dsc) 133
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) 161
Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (plst) MH1-81
Dawntreader Elk

{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Dawntreader Elk (plst) DKA-111
Disciple of Freyalise

Creature
Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250
Dreadhound

When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.) Whenever a creature dies or a creature card is put into a graveyard from a library, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Dreadhound (j25) 427
Dúnedain Rangers

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, if you don't control a Ring-bearer, the Ring tempts you.

Creature
Dúnedain Rangers (ltr) 159
Fell Stinger

Deathtouch Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Creature
Fell Stinger (vow) 112
Forsaken Miner

This creature can't block. Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay {B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Forsaken Miner (otj) 88
Gollum, Patient Plotter

When Gollum leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you. {B}, Sacrifice a creature: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Gollum, Patient Plotter (ltr) 84
Haywire Mite

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life. {G}, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Creature Artifact
Haywire Mite (dsc) 247
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 108
Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

Creature
Lotus Cobra (j25) 685
Mosswood Dreadknight

Creature
Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers (woe) 231
Nazgûl

Deathtouch When this creature enters, the Ring tempts you. Whenever the Ring tempts you, put a +1/+1 counter on each Wraith you control. A deck can have up to nine cards named Nazgûl.

Creature
Nazgûl (ltr) 334
Neverwinter Dryad

{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Neverwinter Dryad (afr) 195
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target player lose 3 life. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on Ob Nixilis.

Creature
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen (plst) IMA-101
Outland Liberator

Creature
Outland Liberator // Frenzied Trapbreaker (mid) 190Outland Liberator // Frenzied Trapbreaker (mid) 190
Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature
Plaguecrafter (blc) 187
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
Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Reassembling Skeleton (j25) 481
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (dsc) 194
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 (dsc) 197
Springheart Nantuko

Bestow {1}{G} Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay {1}{G} if this permanent is attached to a creature you control. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature. If you didn't create a token this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Creature Enchantment
Springheart Nantuko (mh3) 171
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (dsc) 158
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
Tireless Tracker

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Tireless Tracker (inr) 219
Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Viscera Seer (lcc) 213
Wight of the Reliquary

Vigilance This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Wight of the Reliquary (mh3) 207
Woe Strider

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Woe Strider (blc) 189

Creature

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Enchantment

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Awakening Zone

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Enchantment
Awakening Zone (ncc) 281
Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (cmm) 139
Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you. Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Enchantment
Call of the Ring (ltr) 79
Chthonian Nightmare

When this enchantment enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Chthonian Nightmare (mh3) 83
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (blc) 255
One Ring to Rule Them All

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — The Ring tempts you, then each player mills cards equal to your Ring-bearer's power. II — Destroy all nonlegendary creatures. III — Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature card in that player's graveyard.

Enchantment
One Ring to Rule Them All (ltr) 102
Zendikar's Roil

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 2/2 green Elemental creature token.

Enchantment
Zendikar's Roil (j22) 747

Enchantment

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Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (acr) 95
Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (dsc) 80
Bombadil's Song

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. The Ring tempts you. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Bombadil's Song (ltr) 154
Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (j25) 115
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Nasty End

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Instant
Nasty End (ltr) 99
Revitalizing Repast

Instant
Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137

Instant

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