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Mardu Life and Taxes not Staxes
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Est deck cost: $699.62
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Commander

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Queen Marchesa

Deathtouch, haste When Queen Marchesa enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent is the monarch, create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with deathtouch and haste.

Creature
Queen Marchesa (cn2) 78

Commander

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Artifact

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Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Basilisk Collar (2xm) 233
Key to the City

{T}, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn. Whenever this artifact becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Key to the City (c21) 248

Artifact

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Creature

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Boros Reckoner

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to any target. {R/W}: This creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Creature
Boros Reckoner (plst) GK1-85
Brash Taunter

Indestructible Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent. {2}{R}, {T}: This creature fights another target creature.

Creature
Brash Taunter (m21) 363
Breena, the Demagogue

Flying Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, if that opponent has more life than another of your opponents, that attacking player draws a card and you put two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control.

Creature
Breena, the Demagogue (c21) 1
Chandra's Incinerator

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total amount of noncombat damage dealt to your opponents this turn. Trample Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, this creature deals that much damage to target creature or planeswalker that player controls.

Creature
Chandra's Incinerator (m21) 136
Toralf, God of Fury

Creature
Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer (khm) 154Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer (khm) 154
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. {3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (m21) 362

Creature

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Drain

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Vizkopa Guildmage

{1}{W}{B}: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn. {1}{W}{B}: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Creature
Vizkopa Guildmage (gk2) 47

Drain

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Draw

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Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (war) 79
Greven, Predator Captain

Menace Greven gets +X/+0, where X is the amount of life you've lost this turn. Whenever Greven attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, you draw cards equal to that creature's power and you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Creature
Greven, Predator Captain (c19) 43
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98

Draw

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Enchantment

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Cunning Rhetoric

Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Enchantment
Cunning Rhetoric (c21) 365
Guilty Conscience

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, this Aura deals that much damage to that creature.

Enchantment
Guilty Conscience (scg) 17
Mortuary

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put that card on top of your library.

Enchantment
Mortuary (sth) 66
Pariah

Enchant creature All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to enchanted creature instead.

Enchantment
Pariah (cn2) 95
Repercussion

Whenever a creature is dealt damage, this enchantment deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

Enchantment
Repercussion (uds) 95
Soul Link

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life. Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Soul Link (apc) 120
Spirit Link

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Spirit Link (10e) 45
Vampiric Link

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Vampiric Link (plc) 92

Enchantment

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Instant

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Fracture

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

Instant
Fracture (stx) 188
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 (dgm) 6
Samite Ministration

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn by a source of your choice. Whenever damage from a black or red source is prevented this way this turn, you gain that much life.

Instant
Samite Ministration (inv) 36
Shriveling Rot

Choose one — • Until end of turn, whenever a creature is dealt damage, destroy it. • Until end of turn, whenever a creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness. Entwine {2}{B} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Shriveling Rot (dst) 54
Simulacrum

You gain life equal to the damage dealt to you this turn. Simulacrum deals damage to target creature you control equal to the damage dealt to you this turn.

Instant
Simulacrum (4bb) 161

Instant

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $237.04
Battlefield Forge

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

Land
Battlefield Forge (ori) 244
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (c16) 285
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (eld) 333
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (pxln) 252p
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (c19) 242
Glacial Chasm

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When this land enters, sacrifice a land. Creatures you control can't attack. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Land
Glacial Chasm (ice) 353
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (gk1) 49
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (pal03) 1
Snow-Covered Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Swamp (mh1) 252
Sunbaked Canyon

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {R} or {W}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Sunbaked Canyon (mh1) 247
Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{R}{W}, {T}: Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Land
Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion (gk1) 99

Land

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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 (kld) 192
Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (kld) 5
Children of Korlis

Sacrifice this creature: You gain life equal to the life you've lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Children of Korlis (tsp) 8
Evra, Halcyon Witness

Lifelink {4}: Exchange your life total with Evra's power.

Creature
Evra, Halcyon Witness (dom) 16
Oketra's Last Mercy

Your life total becomes equal to your starting life total. Lands you control don't untap during your next untap step.

Sorcery
Oketra's Last Mercy (hou) 18
Tainted Sigil

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain life equal to the total life lost by all players this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Tainted Sigil (arb) 83

Lifegain

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Protection

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Dawn Charm

Choose one — • Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. • Regenerate target creature. • Counter target spell that targets you.

Instant
Dawn Charm (uma) 13
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 (ktk) 173
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

Flying, first strike If a source would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, that source deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead. If a source would deal damage to you or a permanent you control, prevent half that damage, rounded up.

Creature
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight (a25) 204
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (c19) 217

Protection

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Pump

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Hatred

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Instant
Hatred (exo) 64

Pump

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Ramp

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Bog Initiate

{1}: Add {B}.

Creature
Bog Initiate (inv) 95
Chromatic Lantern

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

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (pgrn) 233p
Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (c14) 139
Dockside Extortionist

When this creature enters, create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Dockside Extortionist (c19) 24
Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Land Tax (bbd) 94
Orzhov Signet

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

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (gk2) 48
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (gk2) 76
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (rna) 22
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c18) 222
Talisman of Conviction

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

Artifact
Talisman of Conviction (mh1) 230
Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (mh1) 233
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (e01) 91
Treasonous Ogre

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Pay 3 life: Add {R}.

Creature
Treasonous Ogre (cns) 36

Ramp

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Recursion

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Haunted Crossroads

{B}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Enchantment
Haunted Crossroads (mmq) 138
Revival

Sorcery
Revival // Revenge (rna) 228

Recursion

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soi) 242
Crypt Rats

{X}: This creature deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

Creature
Crypt Rats (phuk) 28
Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.

Instant
Force of Despair (mh1) 92
Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Fumigate (kld) 15
Orzhov Charm

Choose one — • Return target creature you control and all Auras you control attached to it to their owner's hand. • Destroy target creature and you lose life equal to its toughness. • Return target creature card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Instant
Orzhov Charm (gk2) 42
Pestilence

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment. {B}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Enchantment
Pestilence (brb) 49
Pestilence Demon

Flying {B}: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Creature
Pestilence Demon (ddr) 56
Rakdos Charm

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

Instant
Rakdos Charm (gk2) 68
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (cst) 54
The Wanderer

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to you and other permanents you control. −2: Exile target creature with power 4 or greater.

Planeswalker
The Wanderer (war) 37

Removal

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Sorcery

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (c18) 120
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (sta) 27

Sorcery

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Tutor

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Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero

{X}, {T}: Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. {3}: Put target Rebel card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library.

Creature
Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero (nem) 12

Tutor

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Maybeboard

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Alms Collector

Flash If an opponent would draw two or more cards, instead you and that player each draw a card.

Creature
Alms Collector (c17) 1
Bond of Agony

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Each other player loses X life.

Sorcery
Bond of Agony (dis) 38
Boros Signet

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

Artifact
Boros Signet (gk1) 97
Brought Back

Choose up to two target permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn. Return them to the battlefield tapped.

Instant
Brought Back (m20) 9
By Force

Destroy X target artifacts.

Sorcery
By Force (akh) 123
Chainer's Torment

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — This Saga deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life. III — Create an X/X black Nightmare Horror creature token, where X is half your life total, rounded up. It deals X damage to you.

Enchantment
Chainer's Torment (dom) 82
Chandra's Ignition

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

Sorcery
Chandra's Ignition (ori) 137
Cliffhaven Vampire

Flying Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Cliffhaven Vampire (ogw) 153
Command the Dreadhorde

Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Command the Dreadhorde (war) 82
Dauthi Embrace

{B}{B}: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Enchantment
Dauthi Embrace (tmp) 120
Dawn of Hope

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. {3}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

Enchantment
Dawn of Hope (grn) 8
Debt to the Deathless

Each opponent loses two times X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Debt to the Deathless (dgm) 64
Defiant Bloodlord

Flying Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Creature
Defiant Bloodlord (bfz) 107
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (war) 190
Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Intent (bbd) 141
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 (rav) 83
Drana's Emissary

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Drana's Emissary (bfz) 210
Giver of Runes

{T}: Another target creature you control gains protection from colorless or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Creature
Giver of Runes (mh1) 13
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (c13) 79
Hammer of Purphoros

Creatures you control have haste. {2}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Create a 3/3 colorless Golem enchantment artifact creature token.

Artifact Enchantment
Hammer of Purphoros (ths) 124
Hex Parasite

{X}{B/P}: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Hex Parasite (nph) 137
Ill-Gotten Inheritance

At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life. {5}{B}, Sacrifice this enchantment: It deals 4 damage to target opponent and you gain 4 life.

Enchantment
Ill-Gotten Inheritance (rna) 77
Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Kambal, Consul of Allocation (kld) 183
Lightmine Field

Whenever one or more creatures attack, this enchantment deals damage to each of those creatures equal to the number of attacking creatures.

Enchantment
Lightmine Field (roe) 32
Mortuary

Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, put that card on top of your library.

Enchantment
Mortuary (sth) 66
Necrotic Ooze

As long as this creature is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all creature cards in all graveyards.

Creature
Necrotic Ooze (som) 72
Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Enchantment
Revel in Riches (xln) 117
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (c19) 270
Sanguine Bond

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ima) 107
Shenanigans

Destroy target artifact. Dredge 1 (If you would draw a card, you may mill a card instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sorcery
Shenanigans (mh1) 146
Soulgorger Orgg

Trample When this creature enters, you lose all but 1 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, you gain life equal to the life you lost when it entered.

Creature
Soulgorger Orgg (jud) 99
Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Instant
Sudden Spoiling (c14) 164
Syndic of Tithes

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Creature
Syndic of Tithes (gtc) 26
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (uma) 254
Vesperlark

Flying When this creature leaves the battlefield, return target creature card with power 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Evoke {1}{W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Vesperlark (mh1) 35
Wall of Hope

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

Creature
Wall of Hope (lgn) 24

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37 pips - 28 cards
20 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
40 pips - 28 cards
32 mana - 31 cards
18 pips - 13 cards
17 mana - 16 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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