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Persistent Lizards
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $240.56
Salt sum: 26.79
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Commander

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Gev, Scaled Scorch

Ward—Pay 2 life. Other creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them for each opponent who lost life this turn. Whenever you cast a Lizard spell, Gev deals 1 damage to target opponent.

Creature
Gev, Scaled Scorch (blb) 214

Commander

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Damage (Any)

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Havoc Jester

Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Havoc Jester (cmm) 230

Damage (Any)

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Damage (Each Opponent)

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Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (blc) 179
Sinister Monolith

At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Sinister Monolith (blb) 113

Damage (Each Opponent)

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Damage (Each Player)

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Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (lcc) 284

Damage (Each Player)

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Draw

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Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (ths) 101

Draw

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Equipment

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Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (drc) 55
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (clb) 339

Equipment

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Friend of Lizard

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Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Dimir House Guard (rvr) 73
Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. {B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Creature
Drivnod, Carnage Dominus (one) 90
Dross Hopper

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Dross Hopper (som) 60
Falkenrath Aristocrat

Flying, haste Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. If the sacrificed creature was a Human, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Falkenrath Aristocrat (mm3) 163
Falkenrath Noble

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Falkenrath Noble (isd) 100
Flesh-Eater Imp

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Sacrifice a creature: Flesh-Eater Imp gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Flesh-Eater Imp (mbs) 42
Furystoke Giant

When this creature enters, other creatures you control gain "{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target" until end of turn. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Furystoke Giant (shm) 93
Grim Servant

Menace When this creature enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Grim Servant (mh3) 97
Immersturm Predator

Flying Whenever this creature becomes tapped, exile up to one target card from a graveyard and put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Sacrifice another creature: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Creature
Immersturm Predator (khm) 214
Judith, the Scourge Diva

Other creatures you control get +1/+0. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, Judith deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Judith, the Scourge Diva (2x2) 510
Juri, Master of the Revue

Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Juri. When Juri dies, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Creature
Juri, Master of the Revue (cmr) 602
Lesser Masticore

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. {4}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature Artifact
Lesser Masticore (mh1) 225
Lingering Tormentor

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Lingering Tormentor (eve) 36
Lyzolda, the Blood Witch

{2}, Sacrifice a creature: Lyzolda deals 2 damage to any target if the sacrificed creature was red. Draw a card if the sacrificed creature was black.

Creature
Lyzolda, the Blood Witch (dis) 117
Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marionette Apprentice (mh3) 410
Mayhem Devil

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Mayhem Devil (war) 204
Murderous Redcap

When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Murderous Redcap (mma) 192
Netherborn Phalanx

When this creature enters, each opponent loses 1 life for each creature they control. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Netherborn Phalanx (gk1) 6
Phyrexian Plaguelord

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Phyrexian Plaguelord (c15) 131
Puppeteer Clique

Flying When this creature enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Puppeteer Clique (clb) 769
Putrid Goblin

Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Putrid Goblin (plst) MH1-101
Rattleblaze Scarecrow

This creature has persist as long as you control a black creature. (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.) This creature has haste as long as you control a red creature.

Creature Artifact
Rattleblaze Scarecrow (shm) 259
Thunderblust

Haste This creature has trample as long as it has a -1/-1 counter on it. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Thunderblust (mm2) 131
Vindictive Vampire

Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Vindictive Vampire (rna) 90
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 (m11) 120
Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 332
Wingrattle Scarecrow

This creature has flying as long as you control a blue creature. This creature has persist as long as you control a black creature. (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature Artifact
Wingrattle Scarecrow (shm) 270
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
Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni. Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Yahenni, Undying Partisan (2x2) 99

Friend of Lizard

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Land

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Blackcleave Cliffs

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

Land
Blackcleave Cliffs (one) 248
Blightstep Pathway

Land
Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 291Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 291
Blood Crypt

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

Land
Blood Crypt (rvr) 273
Bloodsoaked Insight

Sorcery
Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass (mh3) 252Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass (mh3) 252
Bloodstained Mire

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

Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 463
Boggart Trawler

Creature
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (blc) 294
Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Canyon Slough (m3c) 325
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (scd) 297
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (m13) 222
Foreboding Ruins

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

Land
Foreboding Ruins (lcc) 330
Haunted Ridge

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

Land
Haunted Ridge (inr) 280
Hidden Necropolis

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {4}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Land
Hidden Necropolis (lci) 275
Hidden Volcano

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {4}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Land
Hidden Volcano (lci) 277
Lavaclaw Reaches

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. {1}{B}{R}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/2 black and red Elemental creature with "{X}: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn." It's still a land.

Land
Lavaclaw Reaches (who) 289
Luxury Suite

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

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (afc) 249
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (blb) 274
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (blb) 275
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (blb) 276
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (blb) 277
Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Land
Opal Palace (cmr) 352
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 (drc) 61
Pinnacle Monk

Creature
Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246
Raucous Theater

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) 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
Raucous Theater (mkm) 329
Restless Vents

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. {1}{B}{R}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 black and red Insect creature with menace. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Land
Restless Vents (lci) 284
Shadowblood Ridge

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

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (afc) 259
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (lcc) 353
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
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dmu) 256
Sundering Eruption

Sorcery
Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure (mh3) 248Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure (mh3) 248
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 270
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 271
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 272
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 273
Tainted Peak

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

Land
Tainted Peak (afc) 266
Temple of Malice

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 {B} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Malice (thb) 247
Zhalfirin Void

When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Zhalfirin Void (afc) 273

Land

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Lizard

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Agate Instigator

Offspring {1}{R} (You may pay an additional {1}{R} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Agate Instigator (blc) 56
Hearthborn Battler

Haste Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature deals 2 damage to target opponent.

Creature
Hearthborn Battler (blb) 361
Iridescent Vinelasher

Offspring {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to target opponent.

Creature
Iridescent Vinelasher (blb) 359
Spitfire Lagac

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Spitfire Lagac (fdn) 208

Lizard

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Protection

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Armor of Shadows

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Armor of Shadows (clb) 112
Fake Your Own Death

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Fake Your Own Death (fdn) 174
Maximum Overdrive

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Maximum Overdrive (dft) 96
Scales of Shale

Affinity for Lizards (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Lizard you control.) Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Scales of Shale (blb) 110

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (blc) 127
Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (c17) 98
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (lcc) 311
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (afc) 219

Ramp

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Recursion

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Coiling Rebirth

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Then if the gift was promised and that creature isn't legendary, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1.

Sorcery
Coiling Rebirth (blb) 309
Hazel's Nocturne

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Instant
Hazel's Nocturne (blb) 97

Recursion

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Removal

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Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (afc) 179
Diabolic Edict

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Instant
Diabolic Edict (tmp) 128
Fell

Destroy target creature.

Sorcery
Fell (blb) 95
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (afc) 193
Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant
Tragic Slip (cns) 128

Removal

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Sac Outlet

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Ashnod's Altar

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

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (chr) 92

Sac Outlet

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Scry

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Shadows of the Past

Whenever a creature dies, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {4}{B}: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Activate only if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Enchantment
Shadows of the Past (ori) 118

Scry

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Tutor

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Illicit Shipment

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Illicit Shipment (snc) 83
Razaketh's Rite

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Razaketh's Rite (hou) 74
The Creation of Avacyn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. II — Turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, you lose life equal to its mana value. III — You may put the exiled card onto the battlefield if it's a creature card. If you don't put it onto the battlefield, put it into its owner's hand.

Enchantment
The Creation of Avacyn (mh3) 86

Tutor

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