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Nine Gates
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Est deck cost: $20128.84
Salt sum: 51.74
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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) 289

Commander

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Mill

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Aftermath Analyst

When this creature enters, mill three cards. {3}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Aftermath Analyst (mkm) 148

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Stax

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Collector Ouphe

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

Creature
Collector Ouphe (mb2) 66
Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 397

Stax

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Counters

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Flusterstorm

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Instant
Flusterstorm (mh3) 496
Mental Misstep

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with mana value 1.

Instant
Mental Misstep (pewk) 2023a
Pact of Negation

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Pact of Negation (mb2) 169

Counters

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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
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (brc) 132
Azusa, Lost but Seeking

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

Creature
Azusa, Lost but Seeking (cmm) 274
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
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 (pewk) 2024b
Cultivator Colossus

Trample Cultivator Colossus's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. When this creature enters, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, draw a card and repeat this process.

Creature
Cultivator Colossus (inr) 190
Deathrite Shaman

{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color. {B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life. {G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.

Creature
Deathrite Shaman (rvr) 363
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
Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Enchantment
Exploration (dmr) 339
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
Freestrider Lookout

Reach Whenever you commit a crime, look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Freestrider Lookout (otj) 163
Hedge Shredder

Whenever this Vehicle attacks, you may mill two cards. Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from your library, put them onto the battlefield tapped. Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact
Hedge Shredder (dsk) 183
Llanowar Scout

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

Creature
Llanowar Scout (dom) 170
Lotus Cobra

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

Creature
Lotus Cobra (j25) 685
Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Lotus Petal (plst) TMP-294
Manabond

At the beginning of your end step, you may reveal your hand and put all land cards from it onto the battlefield. If you do, discard your hand.

Enchantment
Manabond (exo) 113
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
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
Sage of the Maze

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. {T}: Until end of turn, target land you control becomes an X/X Citizen creature with haste in addition to its other types, where X is twice the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery. Tap an untapped Gate you control: Untap this creature.

Creature
Sage of the Maze (m3c) 119
Sakura-Tribe Scout

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

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Scout (sok) 144
Scapeshift

Sacrifice any number of lands. Search your library for up to that many land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Scapeshift (m19) 201
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (30a) 563
Sowing Mycospawn

Devoid (This card has no color.) Kicker {1}{C} (You may pay an additional {1}{C} as you cast this spell.) When you cast this spell, search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, exile target land.

Creature
Sowing Mycospawn (mh3) 170
Spelunking

When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put a Cave onto the battlefield this way, you gain 4 life. Lands you control enter untapped.

Enchantment
Spelunking (lci) 213
Sylvan Scrying

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

Sorcery
Sylvan Scrying (tsr) 367
Tiller Engine

Whenever a land you control enters tapped, choose one — • Untap that land. • Tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Creature Artifact
Tiller Engine (dmc) 20
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 (h2r) 15
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

Ramp

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Tokens

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Titania, Protector of Argoth

When Titania enters, return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Whenever a land you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 5/3 green Elemental creature token.

Creature
Titania, Protector of Argoth (mh2) 416

Tokens

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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
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
Sylvan Library

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Enchantment
Sylvan Library (dmr) 350
Tatyova, Benthic Druid

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

Creature
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (dmr) 371

Draw

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Recursion

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Crucible of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (j13) 4
Life from the Loam

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sorcery
Life from the Loam (rvr) 350z
Noxious Revival

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) Put target card from a graveyard on top of its owner's library.

Instant
Noxious Revival (mb2) 70
Ramunap Excavator

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Creature
Ramunap Excavator (otc) 202
Splendid Reclamation

Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Splendid Reclamation (vow) 221

Recursion

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Tutor

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Elvish Reclaimer

This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are three or more land cards in your graveyard. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Elvish Reclaimer (mb2) 205
Green Sun's Zenith

Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Green Sun's Zenith (2x2) 150

Tutor

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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
Bayou

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)

Land
Bayou (leb) 279
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
Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 266
Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Breeding Pool (rvr) 399
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (brc) 178
Dimir Guildgate

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

Land
Dimir Guildgate (rvr) 400
Echoing Deeps

You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land card in a graveyard, except it's a Cave in addition to its other types. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Echoing Deeps (lci) 271
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 (ugl) 88
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 (rvr) 402
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 (2x2) 324
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
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 (rvr) 465
Misty Rainforest

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

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 438
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (rvr) 407
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) 132
Rejuvenating Springs

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

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
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
Shifting Woodland

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}: Add {G}. Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Land
Shifting Woodland (mh3) 228
Simic Growth Chamber

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

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (2x2) 331
Simic Guildgate

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

Land
Simic Guildgate (rvr) 411
Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.

Land
Strip Mine (atq) 82c
Sunken Citadel

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color. {T}: Add two mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to activate abilities of land sources.

Land
Sunken Citadel (lci) 285
Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Land
Talon Gates of Madara (m3c) 134
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) 80
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 (rvr) 466
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
Tropical Island

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)

Land
Tropical Island (leb) 284
Underground Sea

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)

Land
Underground Sea (leb) 286
Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}." II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'" III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land Enchantment
Urza's Saga (mh2) 380
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) 440
Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Land
Wasteland (tmp) 330
Windswept Heath

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

Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 440
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

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

Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (mh2) 441

Land

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Removal

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Abrupt Decay

This spell can't be countered. Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.

Instant
Abrupt Decay (tsr) 370
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
Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Culling Ritual (dsc) 85
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (leg) 65
Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant
Nature's Claim (tsr) 364
Orcish Bowmasters

Flash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 103
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (ltc) 197
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (inr) 387
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) 412
Witherbloom Command

Choose two — • Target player mills three cards, then you return a land card from your graveyard to your hand. • Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. • Target creature gets -3/-1 until end of turn. • Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Sorcery
Witherbloom Command (stx) 248

Removal

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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

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Landfall

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Retreat to Coralhelm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • You may tap or untap target creature. • Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Enchantment
Retreat to Coralhelm (dsc) 126

Landfall

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Sac Outlet

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Zuran Orb

Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.

Artifact
Zuran Orb (ice) 350

Sac Outlet

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27 mana - 23 cards
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