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Questioning the ethics of repeatedly blowing up a child
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Commander

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Child of Alara

Trample When Child of Alara dies, destroy all nonland permanents. They can't be regenerated.

Creature
Child of Alara (con) 101

Commander

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Blow up the child

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Bontu the Glorified

Menace, indestructible Bontu can't attack or block unless a creature died under your control this turn. {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Bontu the Glorified (akh) 82
Burnt Offering

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add X mana in any combination of {B} and/or {R}, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant
Burnt Offering (ice) 116
Collateral Damage

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Collateral Damage deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant
Collateral Damage (frf) 95
Dross Hopper

Sacrifice a creature: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Dross Hopper (som) 60
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card. {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted (cmm) 868
Fling

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Fling deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target.

Instant
Fling (dci) 50
Lotus Ring

Indestructible Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has vigilance and "{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Add three mana of any one color." Equip {3}

Artifact
Lotus Ring (big) 24
Viscera Seer

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

Creature
Viscera Seer (m11) 120

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Cheat Death

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Feign Death

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Feign Death (afr) 103
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Supernatural Stamina

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant
Supernatural Stamina (2x2) 93
Undying Evil

Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it 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.)

Instant
Undying Evil (dka) 77
Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Undying Malice (vow) 134

Cheat Death

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Draw

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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
Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
Dredge

Sacrifice a creature or land. Draw a card.

Instant
Dredge (inv) 103
Enduring Curiosity

Flash Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Curiosity (dsk) 51
Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) Your opponents can't gain life. {1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Erebos, God of the Dead (ths) 85
Momentous Fall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. You draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then you gain life equal to its toughness.

Instant
Momentous Fall (roe) 197
Nasty End

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Instant
Nasty End (ltr) 99
Perilous Research

Draw two cards, then sacrifice a permanent.

Instant
Perilous Research (mma) 58
Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied

Reach, trample, indestructible Sab-Sunen can't attack or block unless it has an even number of counters on it. (Zero is even.) At the beginning of your first main phase, put a +1/+1 counter on Sab-Sunen. Then if it has an odd number of counters on it, draw two cards.

Creature
Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied (dft) 221
Sapling of Colfenor

Indestructible Whenever Sapling of Colfenor attacks, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you gain life equal to that card's toughness, lose life equal to its power, then put it into your hand.

Creature
Sapling of Colfenor (eve) 128
Toski, Bearer of Secrets

This spell can't be countered. Indestructible Toski attacks each combat if able. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Toski, Bearer of Secrets (mkc) 191
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137

Draw

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Guys to blow up

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Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace When Junji dies, choose one — • Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life. • Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

Creature
Junji, the Midnight Sky (tdc) 183
Mindslicer

When this creature dies, each player discards their hand.

Creature
Mindslicer (dmr) 91

Guys to blow up

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Indestructible

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Darksteel Colossus

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Indestructible (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.) If Darksteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Darksteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Creature Artifact
Darksteel Colossus (m10) 208
Darksteel Sentinel

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Vigilance Indestructible (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)

Creature Artifact
Darksteel Sentinel (som) 152
Giggling Skitterspike

Indestructible Whenever this creature attacks, blocks, or becomes the target of a spell, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent. {5}: Monstrosity 5. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put five +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

Creature Artifact
Giggling Skitterspike (dsc) 39
Kaldra Compleat

Living weapon Indestructible Equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has first strike, trample, indestructible, haste, and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, exile that creature." Equip {7}

Artifact
Kaldra Compleat (mh2) 227
Kotis, the Fangkeeper

Indestructible Whenever Kotis deals combat damage to a player, exile the top X cards of their library, where X is the amount of damage dealt. You may cast any number of spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Kotis, the Fangkeeper (tdm) 202
Kruphix, God of Horizons

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green and blue is less than seven, Kruphix isn't a creature. You have no maximum hand size. If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes colorless instead.

Creature Enchantment
Kruphix, God of Horizons (jou) 152
Mogis, God of Slaughter

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.

Creature Enchantment
Mogis, God of Slaughter (bng) 151
Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature. Other creatures you control have haste. {2}{R}: You may put a red creature card or an artifact creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature Enchantment
Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded (thb) 150
Rhonas the Indomitable

Deathtouch, indestructible Rhonas can't attack or block unless you control another creature with power 4 or greater. {2}{G}: Another target creature gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Rhonas the Indomitable (akh) 182
Stonehoof Chieftain

Trample, indestructible Whenever another creature you control attacks, it gains trample and indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Stonehoof Chieftain (cmm) 325
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

When you cast this spell, exile two target permanents. Indestructible Whenever Ulamog attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library.

Creature
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger (bfz) 15
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 (bng) 156

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Land

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Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (rtr) 238
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ktk) 230
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (wwk) 132
Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (pneo) 266p
Breeding Pool

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Breeding Pool (gtc) 240
City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (md1) 15
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 659
Dark Depths

Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it. {3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths. When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.

Land
Dark Depths (csp) 145
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (con) 142
Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Land
Forbidden Orchard (chk) 276
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (ala) 246
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (c15) 289
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (ala) 235
Ketria Triome

({T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Ketria Triome (iko) 250
Llanowar Wastes

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

Land
Llanowar Wastes (10e) 355
Luxury Suite

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

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Mistrise Village

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest. {T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.

Land
Mistrise Village (tdm) 261
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (zen) 220
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (ala) 242
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (rtr) 243
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (p30a) 25
Plaza of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell. {T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary permanents you control. {3}, {T}, Exile this land: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Land
Plaza of Heroes (dmu) 252
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
Reflecting Pool

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

Land
Reflecting Pool (cns) 210
Rejuvenating Springs

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

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Steam Vents (rtr) 247
Stomping Ground

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Stomping Ground (gtc) 247
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ala) 238
Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Land
Thespian's Stage (gtc) 248
Undergrowth Stadium

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

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 435
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (zen) 229
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (gtc) 249
Xander's Lounge

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Xander's Lounge (snc) 260
Zagoth Triome

({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Zagoth Triome (iko) 259
Ziatora's Proving Ground

({T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Ziatora's Proving Ground (snc) 261

Land

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Ramp

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Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (8ed) 233
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 (2xm) 161
Darksteel Ingot

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.) {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Darksteel Ingot (c13) 241
Delighted Halfling

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.

Creature
Delighted Halfling (ltr) 158
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (zen) 201
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (m13) 170
Nylea, Keen-Eyed

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{G}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it into your graveyard.

Creature Enchantment
Nylea, Keen-Eyed (thb) 185
Scapeshift

Sacrifice any number of lands. Search your library for up to that many land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Scapeshift (mor) 136
Seedguide Ash

When this creature dies, you may search your library for up to three Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Seedguide Ash (lrw) 235
Skyclave Relic

Kicker {3} Indestructible When this artifact enters, if it was kicked, create two tapped tokens that are copies of this artifact. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Skyclave Relic (znr) 252
Spoils of Victory

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle.

Sorcery
Spoils of Victory (c13) 172
Sylvan Scrying

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

Sorcery
Sylvan Scrying (mrd) 130
Wood Elves

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

Creature
Wood Elves (dci) 1

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Stop people from messing with your plans

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Abjure

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent. Counter target spell.

Instant
Abjure (wth) 31
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
Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant
Deflecting Swat (cmm) 214
Fierce Guardianship

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

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (c20) 35
Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Mana Leak (m12) 63
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (dtk) 65
Slip Out the Back

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

Instant
Slip Out the Back (snc) 62
Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Spell Pierce (zen) 67
Stubborn Denial

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

Instant
Stubborn Denial (ktk) 56
Swan Song

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

Instant
Swan Song (ths) 65

Stop people from messing with your plans

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Deck Info

Deck stats

1 pip - 1 card
17 mana - 14 cards
16 pips - 15 cards
27 mana - 24 cards
25 pips - 22 cards
31 mana - 28 cards
7 pips - 7 cards
26 mana - 23 cards
23 pips - 20 cards
28 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Step 1: Ramp\nStep 2: Play your favourite indestructible threats\nStep 3: Cast The Child\nStep 4: Blow up The Child so that only you have a board\n\nYour opponents will suffer and you won't have fun. But at least it was fun to build!\n"}]}
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