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Xavier Sal's Skeleton Crew
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Est deck cost: $175.58
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Commander

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Xavier Sal, Infested Captain

{T}, Remove a counter from another permanent you control: Populate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.) {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Proliferate. Activate only as a sorcery. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Xavier Sal, Infested Captain (lcc) 14

Commander

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Anthem

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Corpses of the Lost

Skeletons you control get +1/+0 and have haste. When this enchantment enters, create a 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate creature token. At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, you may pay 1 life. If you do, return this enchantment to its owner's hand. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

Enchantment
Corpses of the Lost (lci) 98
Death-Priest of Myrkul

Skeletons, Vampires, and Zombies you control get +1/+1. At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 black Skeleton creature token.

Creature
Death-Priest of Myrkul (afr) 95
Skeleton Crew

Each other creature you control that's a Skeleton or Pirate gets +1/+1. Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate creature token. (This ability triggers only from the battlefield.) {5}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Skeleton Crew (lcc) 85

Anthem

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Burn

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Temporal Mastery

Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Mastery. Miracle {1}{U} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Temporal Mastery (inr) 90

Burn

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Copy

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Cackling Counterpart

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Cackling Counterpart (inr) 55
Helm of the Host

At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a token that's a copy of equipped creature, except the token isn't legendary. That token gains haste. Equip {5}

Artifact
Helm of the Host (blc) 276
Progenitor Mimic

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature isn't a token, create a token that's a copy of this creature."

Creature
Progenitor Mimic (2xm) 212
Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.) Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Sorcery
Rite of Replication (c15) 105
Theoretical Duplication

Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls enters this turn, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Instant
Theoretical Duplication (woc) 112

Copy

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Counters

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Simic Ascendancy

{1}{G}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, put that many growth counters on this enchantment. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.

Enchantment
Simic Ascendancy (blc) 260
Skeleton Ship

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Skeleton Ship. {T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Skeleton Ship (ice) 301
Vorel of the Hull Clade

{G}{U}, {T}: Double the number of each kind of counter on target artifact, creature, or land.

Creature
Vorel of the Hull Clade (lcc) 294

Counters

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Drain

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Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 421

Drain

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Draw

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 87
Kiora, the Crashing Wave

+1: Until your next turn, prevent all damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target permanent an opponent controls. −1: Draw a card. You may play an additional land this turn. −5: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token."

Planeswalker
Kiora, the Crashing Wave (bng) 149
Ravenous Amulet

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card and put a soul counter on this artifact. Activate only as a sorcery. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of soul counters on this artifact.

Artifact
Ravenous Amulet (fdn) 131
Tezzeret's Gambit

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Tezzeret's Gambit (otc) 117
Urban Evolution

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

Sorcery
Urban Evolution (ncc) 355

Draw

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Evasion

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Shadow Rift

Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (It can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Draw a card.

Instant
Shadow Rift (plst) TMP-86

Evasion

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Finisher

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The Millennium Calendar

Whenever you untap one or more permanents during your untap step, put that many time counters on The Millennium Calendar. {2}, {T}: Double the number of time counters on The Millennium Calendar. When there are 1,000 or more time counters on The Millennium Calendar, sacrifice it and each opponent loses 1,000 life.

Artifact
The Millennium Calendar (lci) 257

Finisher

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Land

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Blast Zone

This land enters with a charge counter on it. {T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on this land. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this land.

Land
Blast Zone (cmm) 987
Choked Estuary

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

Land
Choked Estuary (mkc) 254
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (tdc) 107
Crystal Grotto

When this land enters, scry 1. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Crystal Grotto (woe) 254
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 (dmr) 244
Flooded Grove

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

Land
Flooded Grove (tdc) 364
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (tdm) 285
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (tdm) 280
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (lcc) 339
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 (dsc) 298
Sunken Citadel

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color. {T}: Add two mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to activate abilities of land sources.

Land
Sunken Citadel (lci) 285
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (tdm) 281
The Monumental Facade

This land enters with two oil counters on it. {T}: Add {C}. {T}, Remove an oil counter from this land: Put an oil counter on target artifact or creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
The Monumental Facade (one) 255
Vesuva

You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land on the battlefield.

Land
Vesuva (tsr) 289
Vivid Creek

This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it. {T}: Add {U}. {T}, Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Vivid Creek (ncc) 444
Vivid Grove

This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it. {T}: Add {G}. {T}, Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Vivid Grove (ncc) 445
Vivid Marsh

This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it. {T}: Add {B}. {T}, Remove a charge counter from this land: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Vivid Marsh (c17) 292
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (mkc) 310

Land

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Mill

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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

Mill

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Proliferate

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Contentious Plan

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Draw a card.

Sorcery
Contentious Plan (war) 46
Dreamtide Whale

Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Dreamtide Whale (mh3) 59
Evolution Sage

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Evolution Sage (lcc) 240

Proliferate

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Protection

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Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Siren's Ruse

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If a Pirate was exiled this way, draw a card.

Instant
Siren's Ruse (xln) 80
Skeleton Scavengers

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Pay {1} for each +1/+1 counter on this creature: Regenerate this creature. When it regenerates this way, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Skeleton Scavengers (sth) 70

Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (tdc) 105
Bandit's Haul

Whenever you commit a crime, put a loot counter on this artifact. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) {T}: Add one mana of any color. {2}, {T}, Remove two loot counters from this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Bandit's Haul (otj) 240
Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (pip) 183
Cryptolith Rite

Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Enchantment
Cryptolith Rite (inr) 316
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (pip) 230
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (tdc) 318
Fertilid

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {1}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Target player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

Creature
Fertilid (moc) 296
Grafted Growth

Enchant land When this Aura enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or Vehicle you control. Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."

Enchantment
Grafted Growth (neo) 188
Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has "{T}: Add one mana of any color." −1: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Planeswalker
Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter (j25) 677
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (tdc) 265
Replicating Ring

{T}: Add one mana of any color. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a night counter on this artifact. Then if it has eight or more night counters on it, remove all of them and create eight colorless snow artifact tokens named Replicated Ring with "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Artifact
Replicating Ring (moc) 372
Simic Locket

{T}: Add {G} or {U}. {G/U}{G/U}{G/U}{G/U}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Simic Locket (plst) RNA-240
Simic Signet

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

Artifact
Simic Signet (dsc) 252
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (m3c) 305

Ramp

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Recursion

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Confront the Past

Choose one — • Return target planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Remove twice X loyalty counters from target planeswalker an opponent controls.

Sorcery
Confront the Past (stx) 67
Evolution Witness

{1}{G}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Evolution Witness (mh3) 151
Mortus Strider

When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Creature
Mortus Strider (rvr) 203
Moss-Pit Skeleton

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, if this card is in your graveyard, you may put this card on top of your library.

Creature
Moss-Pit Skeleton (znr) 228
Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Reassembling Skeleton (tdc) 195
Sanitarium Skeleton

{2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Sanitarium Skeleton (inr) 129
Tenacious Dead

When this creature dies, you may pay {1}{B}. If you do, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.

Creature
Tenacious Dead (bbd) 163
Unnatural Restoration

Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Unnatural Restoration (one) 191

Recursion

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Removal

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Binding the Old Gods

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls. II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Enchantment
Binding the Old Gods (dsc) 213
Eaten by Piranhas

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a black Skeleton creature with base power and toughness 1/1. (It loses all other colors, card types, and creature types.)

Enchantment
Eaten by Piranhas (lci) 54
Extinction

Destroy all creatures of the creature type of your choice.

Sorcery
Extinction (plst) TMP-135
Walk the Plank

Destroy target non-Merfolk creature.

Sorcery
Walk the Plank (plst) XLN-130

Removal

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Tokens

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Chronozoa

Flying Vanishing 3 (This creature enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) When this creature dies, if it had no time counters on it, create two tokens that are copies of it.

Creature
Chronozoa (plc) 37
Diamond Kaleidoscope

{3}, {T}: Create a 0/1 colorless Prism artifact creature token. Sacrifice a Prism token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Diamond Kaleidoscope (vis) 143
Grismold, the Dreadsower

Trample At the beginning of your end step, each player creates a 1/1 green Plant creature token. Whenever a creature token dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Grismold.

Creature
Grismold, the Dreadsower (c19) 44
Skeletal Swarming

Each Skeleton you control has trample, attacks each combat if able, and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of other Skeletons you control. At the beginning of your end step, create a tapped 1/1 black Skeleton creature token. If a creature died this turn, create two of those tokens instead.

Enchantment
Skeletal Swarming (afr) 232

Tokens

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Tutor

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Case of the Stashed Skeleton

When this Case enters, create a 2/1 black Skeleton creature token and suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.) To solve — You control no suspected Skeletons. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — {1}{B}, Sacrifice this Case: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Case of the Stashed Skeleton (mkm) 80
Jace, Architect of Thought

+1: Until your next turn, whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn. −2: Reveal the top three cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library in any order. −8: For each player, search that player's library for a nonland card and exile it, then that player shuffles. You may cast those cards without paying their mana costs.

Planeswalker
Jace, Architect of Thought (cmm) 851

Tutor

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Untap

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Intruder Alarm

Creatures don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. Whenever a creature enters, untap all creatures.

Enchantment
Intruder Alarm (plst) 8ED-86
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (lcc) 273
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card. −1: Untap target permanent.

Planeswalker
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner (plst) WAR-232
Sting, the Glinting Dagger

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has haste. At the beginning of each combat, untap equipped creature. Equipped creature has first strike as long as it's blocking or blocked by a Goblin or Orc. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sting, the Glinting Dagger (ltr) 250
Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. +1: Untap up to one target creature. −2: Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Planeswalker
Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler (one) 344

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