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Commander

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Codie, Vociferous Codex

You can't cast permanent spells. {4}, {T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}. When you next cast a spell this turn, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an instant or sorcery card with lesser mana value. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put each other card exiled this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature Artifact
Codie, Vociferous Codex (stx) 253

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Copy

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Increasing Vengeance

Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies. Flashback {3}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Increasing Vengeance (c19) 147
Teach by Example

({U/R} can be paid with either {U} or {R}.) When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Teach by Example (fdn) 666

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Draw

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Ancestral Vision

Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {U} and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Target player draws three cards.

Sorcery
Ancestral Vision (tdc) 144
Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature
Archmage Emeritus (tdc) 145
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (dsc) 113
Crash Through

Creatures you control gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Draw a card.

Sorcery
Crash Through (plst) M19-133
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (tdc) 213
Genesis Wave

Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Genesis Wave (fdn) 221
Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Gitaxian Probe (nph) 35
Manamorphose

Add two mana in any combination of colors. Draw a card.

Instant
Manamorphose (2xm) 208
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (tdc) 158
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (tdc) 159
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (tdc) 161
Quicken

The next sorcery spell you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. (It can be cast any time you could cast an instant.) Draw a card.

Instant
Quicken (rvr) 57
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (tdc) 169

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Finisher

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Expropriate

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.

Sorcery
Expropriate (plst) CN2-30
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77

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Land

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Azorius Guildgate

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

Land
Azorius Guildgate (fdn) 683
Baldur's Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Land
Baldur's Gate (clb) 345
Black Dragon Gate

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

Land
Black Dragon Gate (clb) 347
Boros Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Boros Guildgate (fdn) 684
Citadel Gate

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

Land
Citadel Gate (clb) 349
Cliffgate

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

Land
Cliffgate (clb) 350
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (tdc) 107
Dimir Guildgate

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

Land
Dimir Guildgate (fdn) 688
Dreamroot Cascade

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

Land
Dreamroot Cascade (inr) 277
Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (tdc) 360
Flooded Grove

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

Land
Flooded Grove (dsc) 276
Gateway Plaza

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Gateway Plaza (war) 246
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
Golgari Guildgate

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

Land
Golgari Guildgate (fdn) 689
Gond Gate

Gates you control enter untapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Gond Gate (clb) 353
Gruul Guildgate

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

Land
Gruul Guildgate (fdn) 690
Heap Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}, Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Land
Heap Gate (clb) 354
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (tdm) 280
Izzet Guildgate

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

Land
Izzet Guildgate (fdn) 691
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
Maze's End

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Land
Maze's End (fdn) 727
Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (chk) 279
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (tdm) 284
Orzhov Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Orzhov Guildgate (fdn) 692
Plaza of Harmony

When this land enters, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 3 life. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any type that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Plaza of Harmony (plst) RNA-254
Rakdos Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Rakdos Guildgate (fdn) 693
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Rejuvenating Springs

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (tdc) 386
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
Selesnya Guildgate

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

Land
Selesnya Guildgate (fdn) 694
Simic Guildgate

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

Land
Simic Guildgate (fdn) 695
Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Land
Talon Gates of Madara (m3c) 82
The World Tree

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
The World Tree (khm) 275
Thran Portal

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. As this land enters, choose a basic land type. This land is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Mana abilities of this land cost an additional 1 life to activate.

Land
Thran Portal (dmu) 259

Land

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Lifegain

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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 (fdn) 137

Lifegain

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Protection

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Autumn's Veil

Spells you control can't be countered by blue or black spells this turn, and creatures you control can't be the targets of blue or black spells this turn.

Instant
Autumn's Veil (m12) 164
Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature
Grand Abolisher (big) 2
Shore Up

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap it. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Shore Up (blb) 69
Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Instant
Silence (m14) 35

Protection

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Ramp

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Biomancer's Familiar

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana. {T}: The next time target creature adapts this turn, it adapts as though it had no +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Biomancer's Familiar (rna) 158
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
Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Crop Rotation (dmr) 154
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (a25) 82
Elvish Spirit Guide

Exile this creature from your hand: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Spirit Guide (dmr) 157
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (otc) 192
Growth Spiral

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

Instant
Growth Spiral (dsc) 88
Hypergenesis

Suspend 3—{1}{G}{G} Starting with you, each player may put an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card from their hand onto the battlefield. Repeat this process until no one puts a card onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Hypergenesis (tsr) 210
Open the Gates

Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Open the Gates (rvr) 151
Simian Spirit Guide

Exile this card from your hand: Add {R}.

Creature
Simian Spirit Guide (tsr) 190
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (tdc) 106
Sylvan Scrying

Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Sylvan Scrying (bfz) 192
Training Grounds

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Enchantment
Training Grounds (mat) 9

Ramp

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Recursion

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Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery. Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mizzix's Mastery (otc) 175
Noxious Revival

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) Put target card from a graveyard on top of its owner's library.

Instant
Noxious Revival (nph) 118

Recursion

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Removal

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
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 (tdc) 207
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
Duneblast

Choose up to one creature. Destroy the rest.

Sorcery
Duneblast (dmc) 148
Ruinous Ultimatum

Destroy all nonland permanents your opponents control.

Sorcery
Ruinous Ultimatum (iko) 204
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (tdc) 134

Removal

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Stax

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Containment Priest

Flash If a nontoken creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.

Creature
Containment Priest (mb2) 7
Hushbringer

Flying, lifelink Creatures entering or dying don't cause abilities to trigger.

Creature
Hushbringer (plst) ELD-18
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

Each opponent can't cast noncreature spells with mana value greater than the number of lands that player controls. Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.

Creature
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade (mb2) 86
Strict Proctor

Flying Whenever a permanent entering causes a triggered ability to trigger, counter that ability unless its controller pays {2}.

Creature
Strict Proctor (stx) 33

Stax

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Theft

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Inevitable Betrayal

Suspend 3—{1}{U}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{U}{U} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery
Inevitable Betrayal (mh2) 47

Theft

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Tokens

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Army of the Damned

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Army of the Damned (ncc) 242
Rise from the Tides

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Rise from the Tides (inr) 82

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Tutor

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Bring to Light

Converge — Search your library for a creature, instant, or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell, exile that card, then shuffle. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Bring to Light (2x2) 188
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60
Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 97
Spellseeker

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Spellseeker (cmm) 120

Tutor

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Untap

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Acrobatic Leap

Target creature gets +1/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. Untap it.

Instant
Acrobatic Leap (lci) 2
Arachnoid Adaptation

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains reach until end of turn. Untap it.

Instant
Arachnoid Adaptation (mom) 175
Emerald Charm

Choose one — • Untap target permanent. • Destroy target non-Aura enchantment. • Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Instant
Emerald Charm (dmr) 158
Freed from the Real

Enchant creature {U}: Tap enchanted creature. {U}: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (plst) SOK-38
Leaping Ambush

Target creature gets +1/+3 and gains reach until end of turn. Untap it.

Instant
Leaping Ambush (woe) 177
Pemmin's Aura

Enchant creature {U}: Untap enchanted creature. {U}: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn. {U}: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {1}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Pemmin's Aura (plst) SCG-45
Vizier of Tumbling Sands

{T}: Untap another target permanent. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, untap target permanent.

Creature
Vizier of Tumbling Sands (cmm) 131

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Deck Info

Deck stats

14 pips - 11 cards
20 mana - 18 cards
28 pips - 24 cards
28 mana - 24 cards
9 pips - 5 cards
23 mana - 19 cards
15 pips - 10 cards
22 mana - 20 cards
19 pips - 17 cards
27 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
11 mana - 10 cards
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