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Kaervek Recursion OP
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $703.00
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Commander

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Kaervek, the Punisher

Whenever you commit a crime, exile up to one target black card from your graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy. If you do, you lose 2 life. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime. Copies of permanent spells become tokens.)

Creature
Kaervek, the Punisher (otj) 92

Commander

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437
Repay in Kind

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

Sorcery
Repay in Kind (roe) 125

Finisher

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Ramp

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Bounty Board

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Put a bounty counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery. Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, each of its controller's opponents draws a card and gains 2 life.

Artifact
Bounty Board (otc) 37
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 (dsc) 368
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Lifelink For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana. Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Creature
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}. {B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Nirkana Revenant (sld) 1316
Sceptre of Eternal Glory

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Artifact
Sceptre of Eternal Glory (40k) 166
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (tdc) 106

Ramp

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Tokens

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Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tormod, the Desecrator (cmr) 155

Tokens

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Burn

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Temporal Extortion

When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion. Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Temporal Extortion (plc) 81

Burn

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Land

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Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mb2) 106
Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Dakmor Salvage

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Land
Dakmor Salvage (uma) 240
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (dmr) 250
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (tdc) 380
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (tdm) 281
Urborg

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

Land
Urborg (ltc) 519

Land

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Recursion

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Abyssal Harvester

{T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard that was put there this turn. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types. Then exile all other Nightmare tokens you control.

Creature
Abyssal Harvester (fdn) 54
Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (mkc) 125
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it. Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying 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
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (plst) UMA-106
Nurgle's Conscription

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control, then exile that player's graveyard.

Instant
Nurgle's Conscription (40k) 44
Poxwalkers

Deathtouch Curse of the Walking Pox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Poxwalkers (40k) 49
Rakshasa Debaser

Whenever this creature attacks, put target creature card from defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Encore {6}{B}{B} ({6}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Rakshasa Debaser (scd) 100
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (dsc) 155
Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fdn) 183
Virtue of Persistence

Enchantment
Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn (woe) 115

Recursion

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Tutor

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Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Entomb

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

Instant
Entomb (wc03) pk132
Servant of the Stinger

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if you've committed a crime this turn, you may sacrifice this creature. If you do, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Servant of the Stinger (otj) 105

Tutor

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Counters

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Blood Hustler

Whenever you commit a crime, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) {3}{B}: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Hustler (otj) 80
Vadmir, New Blood

Whenever you commit a crime, put a +1/+1 counter on Vadmir. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) As long as Vadmir has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has menace and lifelink.

Creature
Vadmir, New Blood (otj) 113

Counters

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Lifegain

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Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Flying, deathtouch Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 58
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (jmp) 231
Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Creature
Magus of the Mirror (cns) 117
Pontiff of Blight

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.) Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)

Creature
Pontiff of Blight (clb) 768
Shard of the Nightbringer

Flying Drain Life — When this creature enters, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Creature
Shard of the Nightbringer (40k) 55
Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Tendrils of Agony (mb2) 50

Lifegain

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Removal

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Bounty Hunter

{T}: Put a bounty counter on target nonblack creature. {T}: Destroy target creature with a bounty counter on it.

Creature
Bounty Hunter (tmp) 110
Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Instant
Crypt Incursion (ltc) 198
Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant
Defile (40k) 199
Drain Life

Spend only black mana on X. Drain Life deals X damage to any target. You gain life equal to the damage dealt, but not more life than the player's life total before the damage was dealt, the planeswalker's loyalty before the damage was dealt, or the creature's toughness.

Sorcery
Drain Life (5ed) 156
Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment
Grave Pact (cmm) 165
Keeper of the Dead

{B}, {T}: Choose target opponent who has at least two fewer creature cards in their graveyard than you do as you activate this ability. Destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.

Creature
Keeper of the Dead (plst) EXO-65
Termination Facilitator

{T}: Put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker. Activate only as a sorcery. Whenever a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it is dealt damage, destroy it.

Creature
Termination Facilitator (j22) 28
V.A.T.S.

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Choose any number of target creatures with equal toughness. Destroy the chosen creatures.

Instant
V.A.T.S. (pip) 50

Removal

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Drain

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Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (inr) 97
Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (cmm) 139
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Tree of Perdition

Defender {T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Perdition (j22) 75
Vein Ripper

Flying Ward—Sacrifice a creature. Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Vein Ripper (mkm) 110

Drain

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Mill

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Angel of Suffering

Flying If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.

Creature
Angel of Suffering (snc) 67
Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 94
Grindstone

{3}, {T}: Target player mills two cards. If two cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process.

Artifact
Grindstone (otp) 62
Mesmeric Orb

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (mrd) 204
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (ima) 220
Shared Trauma

Join forces — Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player mills X cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Sorcery
Shared Trauma (cm2) 76
Undercity Informer

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Undercity Informer (plst) GTC-82

Mill

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Stax

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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 (tdc) 176

Stax

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Draw

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Ad Nauseam

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Instant
Ad Nauseam (2xm) 76
Barbed Servitor

Indestructible When this creature enters, suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Whenever this creature is dealt damage, target opponent loses that much life.

Creature Artifact
Barbed Servitor (mkm) 77
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 (pwar) 79
Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery
Dark Deal (frf) 66
Keen Duelist

At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.

Creature
Keen Duelist (c21) 42
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 451

Draw

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Protection

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Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Darkness (tsb) 40
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 427

Protection

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Theft

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Tinybones, the Pickpocket

Deathtouch Whenever Tinybones deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target nonland permanent card from that player's graveyard, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Tinybones, the Pickpocket (otj) 109

Theft

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{"ops":[{"insert":"Kaervek essentially let's you cast all of your spells twice, he is secrectly op af. most kaervek decks are cringe multi destroy or multi discard, i don't like that side of black, so i filled it with reanimation of opponents graveyards which in turn commits a crime to cast it again and yoink two creatures from graveyards. theres some good mill to get there, but milling yourself is better. the deck is on the more expensive side when it comes to mana but that what all the mana dupers are for.\n\nthe wincon is easily \"post's citadel\" into a \"breach the multiverse\" and use kaervek to \"breach the multiverse\" a second time or you can get the other route of \"mesmeric orb\" into a \"rise of the dark realms\" or if your boardstate is big enough just play grey merchant of alphabet or exsanguinate if you have enough mana's with all the dupers\n\nthe fun (for us) route is to spend all your life and either make everyone's life the same as yours, or exchange life with an opponent or play a land with eternity vessel out lmao\n"}]}
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