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I Would Advise Against That
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Commander

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The Archimandrite

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4. Whenever you gain life, each Advisor, Artificer, and Monk you control gains vigilance and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained. Tap three untapped Advisors, Artificers, and/or Monks you control: Draw a card.

Creature
The Archimandrite (brc) 26

Commander

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Land

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Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (tdm) 280
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (tdm) 284
Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Nesting Grounds (mh3) 302
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (tdm) 278
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (tdc) 386

Land

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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 (tdc) 105
Charitable Levy

Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast. Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, put a collection counter on this enchantment. Then if there are three or more collection counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, draw a card, then you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Charitable Levy (mh3) 21
Council of the Absolute

As this creature enters, choose a noncreature, nonland card name. Your opponents can't cast spells with the chosen name. Spells with the chosen name you cast cost {2} less to cast.

Creature
Council of the Absolute (dgm) 62
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (tdc) 106

Ramp

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.Wincon

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Azor's Elocutors

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a filibuster counter on this creature. Then if this creature has five or more filibuster counters on it, you win the game. Whenever a source deals damage to you, remove a filibuster counter from this creature.

Creature
Azor's Elocutors (rtr) 210
Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor

When Ertha Jo enters, create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with "{T}: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery." Whenever you activate an ability that targets a creature or player, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor (otj) 203
Persistent Petitioners

{1}, {T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.) Tap four untapped Advisors you control: Target player mills twelve cards. A deck can have any number of cards named Persistent Petitioners.

Creature
Persistent Petitioners (rvr) 53

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Lifegain

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Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn. Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (plst) KLD-192
Angel's Feather

Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.

Artifact
Angel's Feather (dvd) 23
Blessed Reversal

You gain 3 life for each creature attacking you.

Instant
Blessed Reversal (plst) ULG-2
Congregate

Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.

Instant
Congregate (dmr) 4
Dazzling Reflection

You gain life equal to target creature's power. The next time that creature would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.

Instant
Dazzling Reflection (ogw) 17
Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Artifact
Ivory Tower (4ed) 328
Lightning Helix

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Instant
Lightning Helix (mkm) 218
Revitalize

You gain 3 life. Draw a card.

Instant
Revitalize (j25) 244
Riot Control

You gain 1 life for each creature your opponents control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Instant
Riot Control (blc) 151
Sphinx's Revelation

You gain X life and draw X cards.

Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (rvr) 228
Take Heart

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You gain 1 life for each attacking creature you control.

Instant
Take Heart (jmp) 134
True Conviction

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Enchantment
True Conviction (scd) 38
Union of the Third Path

Draw a card, then you gain life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Instant
Union of the Third Path (bro) 31

Lifegain

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Recursion

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Loyal Retainers

Sacrifice this creature: Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Creature
Loyal Retainers (cmm) 39

Recursion

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Card Adv/Hand Size

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Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature
Body of Knowledge (dsc) 112
Bulwark

At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals X damage to target opponent, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus the number of cards in that player's hand.

Enchantment
Bulwark (usg) 178
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Duelist of the Mind

Flying, vigilance Duelist of the Mind's power is equal to the number of cards you've drawn this turn. Whenever you commit a crime, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Duelist of the Mind (otj) 45
Gregor, Shrewd Magistrate

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Whenever Gregor, Shrewd Magistrate deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its power.

Creature
Gregor, Shrewd Magistrate (slx) 21
Hurkyl, Master Wizard

At the beginning of your end step, if you've cast a noncreature spell this turn, reveal the top five cards of your library. For each card type among noncreature spells you've cast this turn, you may put a card of that type from among the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Hurkyl, Master Wizard (bro) 51
Imperial Recruiter

When this creature enters, search your library for a creature card with power 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Imperial Recruiter (mh2) 281
Jacob Hauken, Inspector

Creature
Jacob Hauken, Inspector // Hauken's Insight (vow) 65Jacob Hauken, Inspector // Hauken's Insight (vow) 65
Knowledge Is Power

Creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn.

Enchantment
Knowledge Is Power (mkc) 42
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
Nerd Rage

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw two cards. Enchanted creature has "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever this creature attacks, if you have ten or more cards in hand, it gets +10/+10 until end of turn."

Enchantment
Nerd Rage (pip) 34
Proft's Eidetic Memory

When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters, draw a card. You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.

Enchantment
Proft's Eidetic Memory (mkm) 67
Roaring Furnace

Enchantment
Roaring Furnace // Steaming Sauna (dsk) 230
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher

Defender Sokrates has hexproof as long as it's untapped. Sokratic Dialogue — {T}: Until end of turn, target creature gains "If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, prevent that damage. This creature's controller and that player each draw half that many cards, rounded down."

Creature
Sokrates, Athenian Teacher (acr) 67
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Whirlwind of Thought

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, draw a card.

Enchantment
Whirlwind of Thought (tdc) 311
Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You have no maximum hand size. {2}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards. {4}{U}: Level 3 Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Wizard Class (blc) 112

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Overrun

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Crash Through

Creatures you control gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Draw a card.

Sorcery
Crash Through (plst) M19-133
Great Train Heist

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2}{R} — Untap all creatures you control. If it's your combat phase, there is an additional combat phase after this phase. + {2} — Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn. + {R} — Choose target opponent. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to that player this turn, create a tapped Treasure token.

Instant
Great Train Heist (otj) 125
Savage Alliance

Escalate {1} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Creatures target player controls gain trample until end of turn. • Savage Alliance deals 2 damage to target creature. • Savage Alliance deals 1 damage to each creature target opponent controls.

Instant
Savage Alliance (inr) 169
Waves of Aggression

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Sorcery
Waves of Aggression (eve) 148

Overrun

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Removal

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Council of Echoes

Flying Descend 4 — When this creature enters, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, return up to one target nonland permanent other than this creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Council of Echoes (lci) 51
Excise the Imperfect

Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller incubates X, where X is its mana value. (They create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Instant
Excise the Imperfect (moc) 14
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (blc) 106
Heliod's Intervention

Choose one — • Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments. • Target player gains twice X life.

Instant
Heliod's Intervention (otc) 81
Invoke the Divine

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.

Instant
Invoke the Divine (khm) 16
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (mb2) 15

Removal

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Counters

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Denry Klin, Editor in Chief

Denry Klin enters with your choice of a +1/+1, first strike, or vigilance counter on it. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if Denry Klin has counters on it, put the same number of each kind of counter on that creature.

Creature
Denry Klin, Editor in Chief (ncc) 71
Novijen Sages

Graft 4 (This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {1}, Remove two +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Novijen Sages (mm2) 53
Orzhov Advokist

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. If a player does, creatures that player controls can't attack you or planeswalkers you control until your next turn.

Creature
Orzhov Advokist (mkc) 77
Skyboon Evangelist

Flying When this creature enters, support 6. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to six other target creatures.) Whenever a creature with a counter on it attacks one of your opponents, that creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Skyboon Evangelist (ncc) 20

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Protection

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Absorb

Counter target spell. You gain 3 life.

Instant
Absorb (dmr) 186
Boros Charm

Choose one — • Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Boros Charm (otc) 216
Charmed Clothier

Flying When this creature enters, create a Royal Role token attached to another target creature you control. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}.)

Creature
Charmed Clothier (woe) 6
Dazzling Theater

Enchantment
Dazzling Theater // Prop Room (dsk) 3
Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Droning Bureaucrats

{X}, {T}: Each creature with mana value X can't attack or block this turn.

Creature
Droning Bureaucrats (gpt) 4
Illusionist's Gambit

Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step on an opponent's turn. Remove all attacking creatures from combat and untap them. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Each of those creatures attacks that combat if able. They can't attack you or planeswalkers you control that combat.

Instant
Illusionist's Gambit (blc) 166
Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker

Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.

Creature
Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker (j22) 215
Minister of Impediments

({W/U} can be paid with either {W} or {U}.) {T}: Tap target creature.

Creature
Minister of Impediments (dis) 144
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85
Unstoppable Plan

At the beginning of your end step, untap all nonland permanents you control.

Enchantment
Unstoppable Plan (dft) 72

Protection

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Maybeboard

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Deflecting Palm

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. If damage is prevented this way, Deflecting Palm deals that much damage to that source's controller.

Instant
Deflecting Palm (mkc) 205
Full Throttle

After this main phase, there are two additional combat phases. At the beginning of each combat this turn, untap all creatures that attacked this turn.

Sorcery
Full Throttle (dft) 127
Hallow

Prevent all damage target spell would deal this turn. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.

Instant
Hallow (dst) 4
Heartwarming Redemption

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards plus one. You gain life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Instant
Heartwarming Redemption (war) 199
Heroic Charge

Kicker {1}{R} (You may pay an additional {1}{R} as you cast this spell.) Creatures you control get +2/+1 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, those creatures also gain trample until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Charge (dmu) 20
Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Artifact
Venser's Journal (c21) 273

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck stats

44 pips - 37 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
36 pips - 27 cards
14 mana - 14 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 2 cards
14 pips - 12 cards
8 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 2 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
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