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A Fish Story - A Bar Deck
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Est deck cost: $58.63
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Commander

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Durnan of the Yawning Portal

Whenever Durnan attacks, look at the top four cards of your library. You may exile a creature card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may cast it. That spell has undaunted. (It costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Durnan of the Yawning Portal (clb) 657
Sword Coast Sailor

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, this creature can't be blocked this turn."

Enchantment
Sword Coast Sailor (clb) 98

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Beefy Boiz

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Bookwurm

Trample When this creature enters, you gain 3 life and draw a card. {2}{G}: Put this card from your graveyard into your library third from the top.

Creature
Bookwurm (stx) 123
Inkwell Leviathan

Trample Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature Artifact
Inkwell Leviathan (ema) 56
The Foretold Soldier

This creature must be blocked if able. This creature can't be blocked by more than one creature. Whenever this creature deals damage, exile it face down. It becomes foretold. Foretell {1}{G} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
The Foretold Soldier (who) 102
Ulamog's Crusher

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.) This creature attacks each combat if able.

Creature
Ulamog's Crusher (cmm) 6

Beefy Boiz

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Board Buffs

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Archetype of Imagination

Creatures you control have flying. Creatures your opponents control lose flying and can't have or gain flying.

Creature Enchantment
Archetype of Imagination (dsc) 111
Demolisher Spawn

Trample, haste Delirium — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, other attacking creatures get +4/+4 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Demolisher Spawn (dsc) 31
Sphinx of the Second Sun

Flying At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The beginning phase includes the untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)

Creature
Sphinx of the Second Sun (mkc) 118
Stormtide Leviathan

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) All lands are Islands in addition to their other types. Creatures without flying or islandwalk can't attack.

Creature
Stormtide Leviathan (m15) 80

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Card Advantage

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Defiler of Dreams

Flying As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {U} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay. Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.

Creature
Defiler of Dreams (dmu) 46
Extraordinary Journey

When this enchantment enters, exile up to X target creatures. For each of those cards, its owner may play it for as long as it remains exiled. Whenever one or more nontoken creatures enter, if one or more of them entered from exile or was cast from exile, you draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Extraordinary Journey (woe) 48
Garruk's Packleader

Whenever another creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, you may draw a card.

Creature
Garruk's Packleader (j25) 660
Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (blc) 219
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (m3c) 265
Hunter's Insight

Choose target creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker this turn, draw that many cards.

Instant
Hunter's Insight (scd) 191
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty

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.) Spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater have cascade.

Creature
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty (mul) 43
Lore Weaver

Partner with Ley Weaver (When this creature enters, target player may put Ley Weaver into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) {5}{U}{U}: Target player draws two cards.

Creature
Lore Weaver (bbd) 22
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) 427
Mulldrifter

Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards. Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Mulldrifter (mkc) 111
Planar Genesis

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't, put a card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant
Planar Genesis (mh3) 198
Stormsurge Kraken

Hexproof Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."

Creature
Stormsurge Kraken (cmm) 122
Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (fdn) 247
The Key to the Vault

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that many cards from the top of your library. You may exile a nonland card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost. Equip {2}{U}

Artifact
The Key to the Vault (otj) 373

Card Advantage

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Graveyard Recursion

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Artisan of Kozilek

When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)

Creature
Artisan of Kozilek (plst) CM2-14
Long Rest

Return X target cards with different mana values from your graveyard to your hand. If eight or more cards were returned to your hand this way, your life total becomes equal to your starting life total. Exile Long Rest.

Sorcery
Long Rest (afr) 193
Tlincalli Hunter

Creature
Tlincalli Hunter // Retrieve Prey (clb) 682

Graveyard Recursion

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Land

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Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (mkc) 248
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 (m3c) 335
Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Flooded Grove (m3c) 342
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (clu) 271
Hinterland Harbor

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

Land
Hinterland Harbor (drc) 160
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dom) 256
Kitchen

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. {4}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Land
Kitchen (clu) 17
Manor Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than green. {T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Manor Gate (clb) 356
Overflowing Basin

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

Land
Overflowing Basin (m3c) 362
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (mkc) 287
Sea Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than blue. {T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Sea Gate (clb) 359
Simic Growth Chamber

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (mkc) 293
Simic Guildgate

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

Land
Simic Guildgate (rna) 257
Tangled Islet

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Tangled Islet (dsc) 306
Vineglimmer Snarl

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

Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (drc) 183
Yavimaya Coast

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

Land
Yavimaya Coast (drc) 184

Land

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Ramp

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Beanstalk Giant

Creature
Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps (eld) 149
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
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (pw23) 6
Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius

Spells you cast from your graveyard or from exile cost {2} less to cast. Plotting cards from your hand costs {2} less.

Creature
Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius (otj) 201
Farhaven Elf

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Farhaven Elf (ltc) 243
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 (cmm) 293
Ley Weaver

Partner with Lore Weaver (When this creature enters, target player may put Lore Weaver into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) {T}: Untap two target lands.

Creature
Ley Weaver (bbd) 21
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 (iko) 164
Oblivion Sower

When you cast this spell, target opponent exiles the top four cards of their library, then you may put any number of land cards that player owns from exile onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Oblivion Sower (m3c) 158
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (blc) 234
Sage of the Beyond

Flying Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost {2} less to cast. Foretell {4}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
Sage of the Beyond (otc) 111
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (tdc) 266
Sonic Screwdriver

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Untap another target artifact. {2}, {T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Sonic Screwdriver (who) 186
Thryx, the Sudden Storm

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.

Creature
Thryx, the Sudden Storm (j25) 65
Topiary Stomper

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. This creature can't attack or block unless you control seven or more lands.

Creature
Topiary Stomper (j25) 730
Troyan, Gutsy Explorer

{T}: Add {G}{U}. Spend this mana only to cast spells with mana value 5 or greater or spells with {X} in their mana costs. {U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Troyan, Gutsy Explorer (woe) 217
Wood Elves

When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Wood Elves (ltc) 263

Ramp

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Single Target

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Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When this creature enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Creature
Acidic Slime (znc) 59
Brinelin, the Moon Kraken

When Brinelin enters and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 6 or greater, you may return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Brinelin, the Moon Kraken (cmr) 60
Decisive Denial

Choose one — • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) • Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Decisive Denial (otp) 42
Long River's Pull

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.

Instant
Long River's Pull (blb) 58
Meteor Golem

When this creature enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Creature Artifact
Meteor Golem (cmr) 325
Monstrous Emergence

As an additional cost to cast this spell, choose a creature you control or reveal a creature card from your hand. Monstrous Emergence deals damage equal to the power of the creature you chose or the card you revealed to target creature.

Sorcery
Monstrous Emergence (dsk) 191
Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (cmr) 434
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (war) 175
Wear Down

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If the gift was promised, instead destroy two target artifacts and/or enchantments.

Sorcery
Wear Down (blb) 203
Witness Protection

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Enchantment
Witness Protection (fdn) 168

Single Target

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Sneaky Barman

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Aqueous Form

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked. Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Enchantment
Aqueous Form (cmr) 56

Sneaky Barman

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Wipes

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (blc) 161
Scourge of Fleets

When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Creature
Scourge of Fleets (jou) 51
Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) When Slinn Voda enters, if it was kicked, return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Merfolk, Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Creature
Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep (dom) 66
Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Sorcery
Whelming Wave (ddo) 44

Wipes

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Maybeboard

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Naga Fleshcrafter

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield. Renew — {2}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a +1/+1 counter on target nonlegendary creature you control. Each other creature you control becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Naga Fleshcrafter (tdm) 52
You Meet in a Tavern

Choose one — • Form a Party — Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of creature cards from among them and put them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • Start a Brawl — Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
You Meet in a Tavern (clb) 263

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Description

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