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Under the Knife
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Commander

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Teval, Arbiter of Virtue

Flying, lifelink Spells you cast have delve. (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting those spells pays for {1}.) Whenever you cast a spell, you lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Teval, Arbiter of Virtue (tdm) 230

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Copy

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Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (ema) 223

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Death Prevention

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Elfhame Sanctuary

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. If you do, you skip your draw step this turn.

Enchantment
Elfhame Sanctuary (inv) 185
Pact Weapon

As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value. Equip—Discard a card.

Artifact
Pact Weapon (clb) 139
Platinum Angel

Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

Creature Artifact
Platinum Angel (plst) CN2-214
Repay in Kind

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

Sorcery
Repay in Kind (plst) ROE-125
Silent Arbiter

No more than one creature can attack each combat. No more than one creature can block each combat.

Creature Artifact
Silent Arbiter (cmm) 972
Soul Conduit

{6}, {T}: Two target players exchange life totals.

Artifact
Soul Conduit (nph) 158

Death Prevention

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Draw

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Dredger's Insight

Whenever one or more artifact and/or creature cards leave your graveyard, you gain 1 life. When this enchantment enters, mill four cards. You may put an artifact, creature, or land card from among the milled cards into your hand. (To mill four cards, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Dredger's Insight (dft) 159
Fathom Feeder

Devoid (This card has no color.) Deathtouch Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.) {3}{U}{B}: Draw a card. Each opponent exiles the top card of their library.

Creature
Fathom Feeder (bfz) 203
Jace, the Mind Sculptor

+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. −1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. −12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.

Planeswalker
Jace, the Mind Sculptor (blc) 75
Kishla Skimmer

Flying Whenever a card leaves your graveyard during your turn, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Kishla Skimmer (tdm) 201
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
Teval's Judgment

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn — • Draw a card. • Create a Treasure token. • Create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.

Enchantment
Teval's Judgment (tdc) 28
The Speed Demon

Flying, trample Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) At the beginning of your end step, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is your speed.

Creature
The Speed Demon (dft) 105

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Flex Slot

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Mortarion, Daemon Primarch

Flying Primarch of the Death Guard — At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {X}. If you do, create X 2/2 black Astartes Warrior creature tokens with menace. X can't be greater than the amount of life you lost this turn.

Creature
Mortarion, Daemon Primarch (40k) 41
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
Willowdusk, Essence Seer

{1}, {T}: Choose another target creature. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of life you gained this turn or the amount of life you lost this turn, whichever is greater. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Willowdusk, Essence Seer (c21) 6

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Land

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Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Academy Ruins (drc) 58
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (tdc) 341
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (onc) 147
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (tdc) 107
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (otc) 283
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (drc) 152
Duskmantle, House of Shadow

{T}: Add {C}. {U}{B}, {T}: Target player mills a card.

Land
Duskmantle, House of Shadow (plst) RAV-277
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land
Field of Ruin (moc) 400
Foreboding Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Forest, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {B}{G}{U} ({B}{G}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Foreboding Landscape (mh3) 221
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (tdm) 286
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
Hinterland Harbor

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (tdc) 371
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (tdm) 279
Moonring Island

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped. {U}, {T}: Look at the top card of target player's library. Activate only if you control two or more blue permanents.

Land
Moonring Island (shm) 276
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Nephalia Drownyard

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}{B}, {T}: Target player mills three cards.

Land
Nephalia Drownyard (lcc) 344
Nurturing Peatland

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

Land
Nurturing Peatland (mh1) 243
Opulent Palace

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.

Land
Opulent Palace (tdm) 264
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (tdm) 281
Volatile Fault

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You create a Treasure token.

Land
Volatile Fault (lci) 286
Waterlogged Grove

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

Land
Waterlogged Grove (mh1) 249
Woodland Cemetery

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

Land
Woodland Cemetery (tdc) 412

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Ramp

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Ancient Cellarspawn

Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.

Creature Enchantment
Ancient Cellarspawn (dsc) 16
Ancient Cornucopia

Whenever you cast a spell that's one or more colors, you may gain 1 life for each of that spell's colors. Do this only once each turn. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Ancient Cornucopia (big) 16
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (tdc) 105
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (drc) 129
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (tdc) 318
Freestrider Lookout

Reach Whenever you commit a crime, look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Freestrider Lookout (otj) 163
Golgari Signet

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

Artifact
Golgari Signet (dsc) 246
Insidious Roots

Creature tokens you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.

Enchantment
Insidious Roots (mkm) 208
Kheru Goldkeeper

Flying Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard during your turn, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Renew — {2}{B}{G}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters and a flying counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Kheru Goldkeeper (tdm) 199
Simic Signet

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

Artifact
Simic Signet (dsc) 252
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (tdc) 106

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Recursion

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Auroral Procession

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Auroral Procession (tdm) 169
Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (cmm) 286
Glissa, the Traitor

First strike, deathtouch Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Glissa, the Traitor (mbs) 96
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (tdc) 194
Timeless Witness

When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Eternalize {5}{G}{G} ({5}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Timeless Witness (mh2) 179

Recursion

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Removal

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Ashiok, Dream Render

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library. −1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.

Planeswalker
Ashiok, Dream Render (war) 228
Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (mkm) 187
Boggart Trawler

Creature
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (mm3) 35
Dimir Charm

Choose one — • Counter target sorcery spell. • Destroy target creature with power 2 or less. • Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Put one back and the rest into that player's graveyard.

Instant
Dimir Charm (gtc) 154
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Hydroelectric Specimen

Creature
Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240
Leyline of the Void

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Enchantment
Leyline of the Void (dsk) 106
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277
Vendilion Clique

Flash Flying When Vendilion Clique enters, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of their library, then draws a card.

Creature
Vendilion Clique (j22) 368

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Topdeck Control

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Circu, Dimir Lobotomist

Whenever you cast a blue spell, exile the top card of target player's library. Whenever you cast a black spell, exile the top card of target player's library. Your opponents can't cast spells with the same name as a card exiled with Circu.

Creature
Circu, Dimir Lobotomist (rav) 196
Codex Shredder

{T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.) {5}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Artifact
Codex Shredder (cmr) 304
Ghoulcaller's Bell

{T}: Each player mills a card.

Artifact
Ghoulcaller's Bell (isd) 224
Glacierwood Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Temur or Sultai. • Temur — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, target player mills four cards. • Sultai — You may play lands from your graveyard.

Enchantment
Glacierwood Siege (tdm) 189
Lantern of Insight

Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target player shuffles.

Artifact
Lantern of Insight (plst) 5DN-135
Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, investigate. {T}, Sacrifice X Clues: Target opponent reveals the top X cards of their library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield under your control. That player puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Creature
Lonis, Cryptozoologist (mkc) 215
Mindshrieker

Flying {2}: Target player mills a card. This creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the milled card's mana value.

Creature
Mindshrieker (isd) 67
Psychic Surgery

Whenever an opponent shuffles their library, you may look at the top two cards of that library. You may exile one of those cards. Then put the rest on top of that library in any order.

Enchantment
Psychic Surgery (nph) 44
Pyxis of Pandemonium

{T}: Each player exiles the top card of their library face down. {7}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Each player turns face up all cards they own exiled with this artifact, then puts all permanent cards among them onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Pyxis of Pandemonium (ths) 220
Riverchurn Monument

{1}, {T}: Any number of target players each mill two cards. (Each of them puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.) Exhaust — {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Any number of target players each mill cards equal to the number of cards in their graveyard. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)

Artifact
Riverchurn Monument (dft) 57
Scrib Nibblers

{T}: Exile the top card of target player's library. If it's a land card, you gain 1 life. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may untap this creature.

Creature
Scrib Nibblers (wwk) 66
Vantress Gargoyle

Flying This creature can't attack unless defending player has seven or more cards in their graveyard. This creature can't block unless you have four or more cards in hand. {T}: Each player mills a card.

Creature Artifact
Vantress Gargoyle (eld) 71
Wizened Snitches

Flying Players play with the top card of their libraries revealed.

Creature
Wizened Snitches (rav) 75

Topdeck Control

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Tutor

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Clutch of the Undercity

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 3 life. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{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.)

Instant
Clutch of the Undercity (plst) RAV-197
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (3ed) 105
Dimir Machinations

Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Exile any number of those cards, then put the rest back in any order. 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.)

Sorcery
Dimir Machinations (rav) 84
Dizzy Spell

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, 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.)

Instant
Dizzy Spell (rav) 43
Muddle the Mixture

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, 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.)

Instant
Muddle the Mixture (rvr) 50
Prime Speaker Vannifar

{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Prime Speaker Vannifar (rna) 195
Trinket Mage

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Trinket Mage (plst) DDU-41
Waterlogged Teachings

Instant
Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261

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Untap

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Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant
Dramatic Reversal (kld) 44
Seedborn Muse

Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.

Creature
Seedborn Muse (mkc) 186
Unstoppable Plan

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

Enchantment
Unstoppable Plan (dft) 72

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"\"There is an important distinction that must be draw between the words dissection and vivisection. A distinction that would appear to be lost on you.\" - Kitty Horrorshow, Anatomy\n\nThis deck came about after discovering several videos about Lantern control, some from 60-card formats, some from commander, and I wanted to give my own spin utilizing the new "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Teval, Arbiter of Virtue"}},{"insert":" , given their synergies with mill rocks. They can be cost reduced to (almost) free with Teval, but also fuel their ability if the mill is symmetrical. We can also search for all our relevant pieces with all the Transmute tutors, which can be delved away later, and will not cost life due to them being activated abilities.\n\nWhile traditional Lantern control does not possess a win-con beyond your opponents conceding after explaining the situation is statistically hopeless once you get the lock in play, we have a few options in case that does not work out. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Willowdusk, Essence Seer"}},{"insert":" can make our commander huge enough to make it a lethal threat, "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Riverchurn Monument"}},{"insert":" can end the game prematurely if enough cards have been milled, and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Repay in Kind"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Soul Conduit"}},{"insert":" can swap most players into the danger zone, especially with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Platinum Angel"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pact Weapon"}},{"insert":" in play to make our life total negative. \n\nAs the quote from the beginning suggests, the overall goal of the deck is to pick apart your opponents deck like a surgeon, removing anything nasty from the top of their deck, leaving lands or synergy creatures that have nothing else to synergize with on top. With the addition of all the new \"leaves the graveyard\" support, we can gain slight incremental value to put ourselves ahead of the table. \n\n"}]}
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