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Ruby and the Monstrous Vortex
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Ruby, Daring Tracker

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) Whenever Ruby attacks while you control a creature with power 4 or greater, Ruby gets +2/+2 until end of turn. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Creature
Ruby, Daring Tracker (pwcs) 2024-02

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Removal

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Call Forth the Tempest

Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order. Then do it again.) Call Forth the Tempest deals damage to each creature your opponents control equal to the total mana value of other spells you've cast this turn.

Sorcery
Call Forth the Tempest (ltc) 509
Ezuri's Predation

For each creature your opponents control, create a 4/4 green Phyrexian Beast creature token. Each of those tokens fights a different one of those creatures.

Sorcery
Ezuri's Predation (dsc) 178
Gruul Ragebeast

Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, that creature fights target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Gruul Ragebeast (gtc) 170
Kogla and Yidaro

When Kogla and Yidaro enters, choose one — • It gains trample and haste until end of turn. • It fights target creature you don't control. {2}{R}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. Shuffle this card into your library from your graveyard, then draw a card.

Creature
Kogla and Yidaro (mom) 244
Kogla, the Titan Ape

When Kogla enters, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. Whenever Kogla attacks, destroy target artifact or enchantment defending player controls. {1}{G}: Return target Human you control to its owner's hand. Kogla gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Kogla, the Titan Ape (iko) 162
Let the Galaxy Burn

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Let the Galaxy Burn deals X plus 2 damage to each creature that didn't enter this turn.

Sorcery
Let the Galaxy Burn (40k) 81
Sarkhan's Unsealing

Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 4, 5, or 6, this enchantment deals 4 damage to any target. Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 7 or greater, this enchantment deals 4 damage to each opponent and each creature and planeswalker they control.

Enchantment
Sarkhan's Unsealing (jmp) 361
Thorn Mammoth

Trample Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, this creature fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Creature
Thorn Mammoth (eld) 323
Tyrant's Familiar

Flying, haste Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 7 damage to target creature defending player controls."

Creature
Tyrant's Familiar (cm2) 125
Volcanic Torrent

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Volcanic Torrent deals X damage to each creature and planeswalker your opponents control, where X is the number of spells you've cast this turn.

Sorcery
Volcanic Torrent (otc) 184

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Annoyed Altisaur

Reach, trample Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Creature
Annoyed Altisaur (cmr) 216
Aurora Phoenix

Flying Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Whenever you cast a spell with cascade, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Aurora Phoenix (clb) 778
Bloodbraid Challenger

Cascade Haste Escape—{3}{R}{G}, Exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Creature
Bloodbraid Challenger (m3c) 122
Boarding Party

Haste Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Creature
Boarding Party (cmr) 163
Creative Technique

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it.) Shuffle your library, then reveal cards from the top of it until you reveal a nonland card. Exile that card and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Creative Technique (c21) 49
Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest

Flying Whenever Dragonhawk enters or attacks, exile the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of creatures you control with power 4 or greater. You may play those cards until your next end step. At the beginning of your next end step, Dragonhawk deals 2 damage to each opponent for each of those cards that are still exiled.

Creature
Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest (pblb) 132p
Emergent Woodwurm

Backup 3 (When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.) Whenever this creature attacks, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is its power. You may put a permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Emergent Woodwurm (moc) 37
Etali, Primal Conqueror

Creature
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness (mom) 137Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness (mom) 137
Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Etali, Primal Storm (fdn) 194
Hit the Mother Lode

Discover 10. If the discovered card's mana value is less than 10, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the difference. (To discover 10, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 10 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.)

Sorcery
Hit the Mother Lode (lci) 153
Monstrous Vortex

Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, discover X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value 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.)

Enchantment
Monstrous Vortex (mh3) 162
Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (m3c) 411
Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control. Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Shamanic Revelation (c16) 167
Soul of the Harvest

Trample Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may draw a card.

Creature
Soul of the Harvest (jmp) 432
Trumpeting Carnosaur

Trample When this creature enters, discover 5. {2}{R}, Discard this card: It deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Creature
Trumpeting Carnosaur (lci) 171
Turntimber Symbiosis

Sorcery
Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood (znr) 215Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood (znr) 215

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Apex Devastator

Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)

Creature
Apex Devastator (cmr) 217
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 (tdc) 247
Bloodthirster

Flying, trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, untap it. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. This creature can't attack a player it has already attacked this turn.

Creature
Bloodthirster (40k) 73
Elder Gargaroth

Vigilance, reach, trample Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, choose one — • Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. • You gain 3 life. • Draw a card.

Creature
Elder Gargaroth (drc) 111
Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control. Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Ghalta, Primal Hunger (fdn) 222
Halana and Alena, Partners

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control, where X is Halana and Alena's power. That creature gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Halana and Alena, Partners (fdn) 659
Hugs, Grisly Guardian

Trample When Hugs enters, exile the top X cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Creature
Hugs, Grisly Guardian (blb) 218
Insurrection

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Insurrection (hop) 57
Moraug, Fury of Akoum

Each creature you control gets +1/+0 for each time it has attacked this turn. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, if it's your main phase, there's an additional combat phase after this phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all creatures you control.

Creature
Moraug, Fury of Akoum (znr) 150
Omnath, Locus of Rage

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 5/5 red and green Elemental creature token. Whenever Omnath or another Elemental you control dies, Omnath deals 3 damage to any target.

Creature
Omnath, Locus of Rage (otc) 236
Pyrewood Gearhulk

Vigilance, menace When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and menace until end of turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn.

Creature Artifact
Pyrewood Gearhulk (dft) 216
Quartzwood Crasher

Trample Whenever one or more creatures you control with trample deal combat damage to a player, create an X/X green Dinosaur Beast creature token with trample, where X is the amount of damage those creatures dealt to that player.

Creature
Quartzwood Crasher (lcc) 281
Sarkhan Vol

+1: Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain haste until end of turn. −2: Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. −6: Create five 4/4 red Dragon creature tokens with flying.

Planeswalker
Sarkhan Vol (mma) 183
Sweet-Gum Recluse

Flash Cascade Reach When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on each of any number of target creatures that entered this turn.

Creature
Sweet-Gum Recluse (clb) 835
Xenagos, God of Revels

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red and green is less than seven, Xenagos isn't a creature. At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target creature you control gains haste and gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is that creature's power.

Creature Enchantment
Xenagos, God of Revels (lcc) 295
Zariel, Archduke of Avernus

+1: Creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain haste until end of turn. 0: Create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "When this token dies, it deals 1 damage to any target." −6: You get an emblem with "At the end of the first combat phase on your turn, untap target creature you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase."

Planeswalker
Zariel, Archduke of Avernus (afr) 285

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Land

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Arena of Glory

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}, Exert this land: Add {R}{R}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (An exerted permanent won't untap during your next untap step.)

Land
Arena of Glory (mh3) 215
Castle Garenbrig

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}: Add {G}. {2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.

Land
Castle Garenbrig (plst) ELD-240
Cinder Glade

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

Land
Cinder Glade (blc) 299
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 59
Copperline Gorge

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

Land
Copperline Gorge (blc) 301
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (2xm) 381
Game Trail

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

Land
Game Trail (blc) 306
Karplusan Forest

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

Land
Karplusan Forest (drc) 163
Mossfire Valley

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

Land
Mossfire Valley (blc) 316
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (2xm) 379
Rockfall Vale

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

Land
Rockfall Vale (inr) 282
Rootbound Crag

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

Land
Rootbound Crag (drc) 168
Sheltered Thicket

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

Land
Sheltered Thicket (drc) 169
Temple of Abandon

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 {R} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Abandon (fdn) 696

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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 (fdn) 635
Explosive Vegetation

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Explosive Vegetation (drc) 112
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Goreclaw attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma (blc) 222
Hulking Raptor

Ward {2} At the beginning of your first main phase, add {G}{G}.

Creature
Hulking Raptor (lci) 191
Hunting Wilds

Kicker {3}{G} (You may pay an additional {3}{G} as you cast this spell.) Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, untap all Forests put onto the battlefield this way. They become 3/3 green creatures with haste that are still lands.

Sorcery
Hunting Wilds (c18) 152
Invasion of Zendikar

Battle
Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave (mom) 194Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave (mom) 194
Lukka, Bound to Ruin

Compleated ({R/G/P} can be paid with {R}, {G}, or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.) +1: Add {R}{G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures. −1: Create a 3/3 green Phyrexian Beast creature token with toxic 1. −4: Lukka deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control as you activate this ability.

Planeswalker
Lukka, Bound to Ruin (one) 207
Map the Frontier

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Desert cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Map the Frontier (otj) 170
Migration Path

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Migration Path (lcc) 246
Path of the Animist

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Will of the Planeswalkers — Starting with you, each player votes for planeswalk or chaos. If planeswalk gets more votes, planeswalk. If chaos gets more votes or the vote is tied, chaos ensues.

Sorcery
Path of the Animist (moc) 38
Peregrination

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand. Shuffle, then scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Sorcery
Peregrination (bng) 132
Ranger's Path

Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Ranger's Path (m13) 186
Skyshroud Claim

Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Skyshroud Claim (cmm) 321
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (tdc) 106
Tempt with Discovery

Tempting offer — Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Each opponent may search their library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. For each opponent who searches a library this way, search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched a library this way shuffles.

Sorcery
Tempt with Discovery (blc) 124
Vastwood Surge

Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If this spell was kicked, put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Sorcery
Vastwood Surge (nec) 133
Verdant Mastery

You may pay {3}{G} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Search your library for up to four basic land cards and reveal them. Put one of them onto the battlefield tapped under an opponent's control if the {3}{G} cost was paid. Put two of them onto the battlefield tapped under your control and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.

Sorcery
Verdant Mastery (stx) 146
Xenagos, the Reveler

+1: Add X mana in any combination of {R} and/or {G}, where X is the number of creatures you control. 0: Create a 2/2 red and green Satyr creature token with haste. −6: Exile the top seven cards of your library. You may put any number of creature and/or land cards from among them onto the battlefield.

Planeswalker
Xenagos, the Reveler (ths) 209

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Agonasaur Rex

Trample Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature or Vehicle. It gains trample and indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Agonasaur Rex (dft) 151
Blighted Woodland

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Blighted Woodland (clb) 881
Drakuseth, Maw of Flames

Flying Whenever Drakuseth attacks, it deals 4 damage to any target and 3 damage to each of up to two other targets.

Creature
Drakuseth, Maw of Flames (fdn) 193
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (plst) CM2-253
Hellkite Charger

Flying, haste Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay {5}{R}{R}. If you do, untap all attacking creatures and after this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Creature
Hellkite Charger (cmm) 232
Mina and Denn, Wildborn

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. {R}{G}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Mina and Denn, Wildborn (znc) 94
Natural Reclamation

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Natural Reclamation (clb) 829
Noise Marine

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Sonic Blaster — When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to the number of spells you've cast this turn to any target.

Creature
Noise Marine (40k) 82
Omenpath Journey

When this enchantment enters, search your library for up to five land cards that have different names, exile them, then shuffle. At the beginning of your end step, choose a card at random exiled with this enchantment and put it onto the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Omenpath Journey (big) 18
Questing Beast

Vigilance, deathtouch, haste Questing Beast can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. Combat damage that would be dealt by creatures you control can't be prevented. Whenever Questing Beast deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to target planeswalker that player controls.

Creature
Questing Beast (plst) ELD-171
Radha, Heir to Keld

Whenever Radha attacks, you may add {R}{R}. {T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Radha, Heir to Keld (dmr) 446
Rampaging War Mammoth

Trample Cycling {X}{2}{R} ({X}{2}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, destroy up to X target artifacts.

Creature
Rampaging War Mammoth (ltc) 34
Screamer-Killer

Trample Bio-Plasmic Scream — Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 5 or greater, this creature deals 5 damage to any target.

Creature
Screamer-Killer (40k) 84
Soulfire Eruption

Choose any number of target creatures, planeswalkers, and/or players. For each of them, exile the top card of your library, then Soulfire Eruption deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player. You may play the exiled cards until the end of your next turn.

Sorcery
Soulfire Eruption (cmr) 201
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (blc) 290

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{"ops":[{"insert":"Far from the first high cost tribal Ruby/Radha deck out there, but quite the machine. If you're not familiar with the formula:\n\nT1: No plays unless Sol Ring\nT2: Commander, or 4-cost ramp if Sol Ring\nT3: 4 cost ramp, or start building the board if Sol Ring start\nT4+: Play out huge threats and cascade/discover into only high value cards. \n\n\n"}]}
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