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Zedruu, Mavericks New GM-May DBC
Deck Size: 100
Commander
Est deck cost: $648.32
Salt sum: 48.44
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Commander

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Zedruu the Greathearted

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the number of permanents you own that your opponents control. {U}{R}{W}: Target opponent gains control of target permanent you control.

Creature
Zedruu the Greathearted (cmd) 240

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Burn

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Goldnight Castigator

Flying, haste If a source would deal damage to you, it deals double that damage to you instead. If a source would deal damage to this creature, it deals double that damage to this creature instead.

Creature
Goldnight Castigator (soi) 162
Jinxed Ring

Whenever a nontoken permanent is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 1 damage to you. Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent gains control of this artifact. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Artifact
Jinxed Ring (plst) STH-137

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Creature

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Goblin Cadets

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, target opponent gains control of it. (This removes this creature from combat.)

Creature
Goblin Cadets (cmd) 125
Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant

Lifelink {2}, {T}: Target opponent gains control of another target permanent you control. If they do, you draw a card.

Creature
Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant (fin) 327

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Draw

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Contested Game Ball

Whenever you're dealt combat damage, the attacking player gains control of this artifact and untaps it. {2}, {T}: Draw a card and put a point counter on this artifact. Then if it has five or more point counters on it, sacrifice it and create a Treasure token.

Artifact
Contested Game Ball (lci) 251
Coveted Falcon

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, gain control of target permanent you own but don't control. Disguise {1}{U} When this creature is turned face up, target opponent gains control of any number of target permanents you control. Draw a card for each one they gained control of this way.

Creature Artifact
Coveted Falcon (mkm) 48
Humble Defector

{T}: Draw two cards. Target opponent gains control of this creature. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Humble Defector (otc) 170
Khârn the Betrayer

Berzerker — Khârn the Betrayer attacks or blocks each combat if able. Sigil of Corruption — When you lose control of Khârn the Betrayer, draw two cards. The Betrayer — If damage would be dealt to Khârn the Betrayer, prevent that damage and an opponent of your choice gains control of it.

Creature
Khârn the Betrayer (40k) 79
Modify Memory

Exchange control of two target creatures controlled by different players. If you control neither creature, draw three cards.

Sorcery
Modify Memory (clb) 83
Yes Man, Personal Securitron

{T}: Target opponent gains control of Yes Man. When they do, you draw two cards and put a quest counter on Yes Man. Activate only during your turn. Wild Card — When Yes Man leaves the battlefield, its owner creates a tapped 1/1 white Soldier creature token for each quest counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Yes Man, Personal Securitron (pip) 29

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Finisher

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Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos

Trample Alexios attacks each combat if able, can't be sacrificed, and can't attack its owner. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains control of Alexios, untaps it, and puts a +1/+1 counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos (acr) 134
Bronze Bombshell

When a player other than this creature's owner controls it, that player sacrifices it. If the player does, this creature deals 7 damage to the player.

Creature Artifact
Bronze Bombshell (dis) 160
Slicer, Hired Muscle

Creature Artifact
Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist (bot) 6Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist (bot) 6

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes

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

Land
Adarkar Wastes (ice) 351
Arid Mesa

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

Land
Arid Mesa (zen) 211
Azorius Chancery

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

Land
Azorius Chancery (cmd) 265
Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Battlefield Forge (10e) 348
Boros Garrison

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

Land
Boros Garrison (hop) 131
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 (mb2) 240
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (dka) 155
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (blb) 252
Flooded Strand

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

Land
Flooded Strand (ktk) 233
Hallowed Fountain

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

Land
Hallowed Fountain (dis) 174
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (30a) 585
Izzet Boilerworks

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

Land
Izzet Boilerworks (cmd) 278
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (cmm) 447
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (znc) 135
Perilous Landscape

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

Land
Perilous Landscape (tdc) 383
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (cmm) 439
Sacred Foundry

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

Land
Sacred Foundry (rav) 280
Scalding Tarn

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

Land
Scalding Tarn (zen) 223
Shivan Reef

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

Land
Shivan Reef (10e) 357
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 (gpt) 164
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (m11) 229

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Protection

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Dawn's Truce

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.) You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Dawn's Truce (blb) 295
Perch Protection

Gift an extra turn (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they take an extra turn after this one.) Create four 2/2 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. If the gift was promised, all permanents you control phase out, and until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. Exile Perch Protection.

Instant
Perch Protection (blc) 11
Reins of Power

Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Instant
Reins of Power (sth) 41
Statecraft

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by creatures you control.

Enchantment
Statecraft (mmq) 106

Protection

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Ramp

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Bucknard's Everfull Purse

{1}, {T}: Roll a d4 and create a number of Treasure tokens equal to the result. The player to your right gains control of this artifact.

Artifact
Bucknard's Everfull Purse (afc) 57
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (sld) 203
Coveted Jewel

When this artifact enters, draw three cards. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

Artifact
Coveted Jewel (blc) 268
Hithlain Rope

This artifact can't be sacrificed. {1}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. The player to your right gains control of this artifact. {2}, {T}: Draw a card. The player to your right gains control of this artifact.

Artifact
Hithlain Rope (ltc) 76
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (10e) 335
Pendant of Prosperity

This artifact enters under the control of an opponent of your choice. {2}, {T}: Draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. This artifact's owner draws a card, then that player may put a land card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Pendant of Prosperity (c21) 256

Ramp

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Removal

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Avarice Totem

{5}: Exchange control of this artifact and target nonland permanent.

Artifact
Avarice Totem (5dn) 104
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (pip) 189
Cinder Giant

At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 2 damage to each other creature you control.

Creature
Cinder Giant (wth) 93
Cultural Exchange

Choose any number of creatures target player controls. Choose the same number of creatures another target player controls. Those players exchange control of those creatures. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Sorcery
Cultural Exchange (ody) 79
Daring Thief

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may exchange control of target nonland permanent you control and target permanent an opponent controls that shares a card type with it.

Creature
Daring Thief (jou) 36
Exchange of Words

When this enchantment enters, choose two target creatures. For as long as this enchantment remains on the battlefield, exchange the text boxes of those creatures.

Enchantment
Exchange of Words (unf) 45
Gilded Drake

Flying When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't or can't make an exchange, sacrifice this creature. This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal.

Creature
Gilded Drake (usg) 76
Guff Rewrites History

For each player, choose target nonenchantment, nonland permanent that player controls. Those permanents' owners shuffle them into their libraries. Each player who controlled one of those permanents exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. Each player may cast the nonland card they exiled without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Guff Rewrites History (cmm) 737
Into the Flood Maw

Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, instead return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Instant
Into the Flood Maw (blb) 52
Kitnap

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, when it enters, they draw a card.) Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature. If the gift wasn't promised, put three stun counters on it. You control enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Kitnap (blb) 53
Legerdemain

Exchange control of target artifact or creature and another target permanent that shares one of those types with it. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Sorcery
Legerdemain (plst) TMP-72
Parting Gust

Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) Exile target nontoken creature. If the gift wasn't promised, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Parting Gust (blb) 24
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (ddi) 23
Perplexing Chimera

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may exchange control of this creature and that spell. If you do, you may choose new targets for the spell. (If the spell becomes a permanent, you control that permanent.)

Creature Enchantment
Perplexing Chimera (bng) 48
Role Reversal

Exchange control of two target permanents that share a permanent type.

Sorcery
Role Reversal (war) 214
Rust Elemental

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice another artifact. If you can't, tap this creature and you lose 4 life.

Creature Artifact
Rust Elemental (mrd) 234
Shifting Grift

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Exchange control of two target creatures. + {1} — Exchange control of two target artifacts. + {1} — Exchange control of two target enchantments.

Sorcery
Shifting Grift (otj) 66
Spawnbroker

When this creature enters, you may exchange control of target creature you control and target creature with power less than or equal to that creature's power an opponent controls.

Creature
Spawnbroker (rav) 65
Sudden Substitution

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Exchange control of target noncreature spell and target creature. Then the spell's controller may choose new targets for it.

Instant
Sudden Substitution (c19) 11
Switcheroo

Exchange control of two target creatures.

Sorcery
Switcheroo (m13) 71
Volatile Stormdrake

Flying, hexproof from activated and triggered abilities When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and target creature an opponent controls. If you do, you get {E}{E}{E}{E}, then sacrifice that creature unless you pay an amount of {E} equal to its mana value.

Creature
Volatile Stormdrake (mh3) 79
Warp World

Each player shuffles all permanents they own into their library, then reveals that many cards from the top of their library. Each player puts all artifact, creature, and land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield, then does the same for enchantment cards, then puts all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield on the bottom of their library.

Sorcery
Warp World (rav) 150
Wrong Turn

Target opponent gains control of target creature. (If an attacking or blocking creature changes controllers, it's removed from combat.)

Instant
Wrong Turn (cmr) 107

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Sac Outlet

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Jinxed Idol

At the beginning of your upkeep, this artifact deals 2 damage to you. Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent gains control of this artifact.

Artifact
Jinxed Idol (m11) 208

Sac Outlet

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Stax

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Grid Monitor

You can't cast creature spells.

Creature Artifact
Grid Monitor (mrd) 183
Steel Golem

You can't cast creature spells.

Creature Artifact
Steel Golem (10e) 344

Stax

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Theft

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Bazaar Trader

{T}: Target player gains control of target artifact, creature, or land you control.

Creature
Bazaar Trader (wwk) 72
Confusion in the Ranks

Whenever an artifact, creature, or enchantment enters, its controller chooses target permanent another player controls that shares a card type with it. Exchange control of those permanents.

Enchantment
Confusion in the Ranks (mrd) 87
Conjured Currency

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exchange control of this enchantment and target permanent you neither own nor control.

Enchantment
Conjured Currency (rtr) 33
Djinn of Infinite Deceits

Flying {T}: Exchange control of two target nonlegendary creatures. You can't activate this ability during combat.

Creature
Djinn of Infinite Deceits (c13) 41
Donate

Target player gains control of target permanent you control.

Sorcery
Donate (uds) 31
Harmless Offering

Target opponent gains control of target permanent you control.

Sorcery
Harmless Offering (emn) 131
Insurrection

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Insurrection (cmd) 126
Puca's Mischief

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exchange control of target nonland permanent you control and target nonland permanent an opponent controls with equal or lesser mana value.

Enchantment
Puca's Mischief (shm) 47
Scrambleverse

For each nonland permanent, choose a player at random. Then each player gains control of each permanent for which they were chosen. Untap those permanents.

Sorcery
Scrambleverse (m12) 153
Thieves' Auction

Exile all nontoken permanents. Starting with you, each player chooses one of the exiled cards and puts it onto the battlefield tapped under their control. Repeat this process until all cards exiled this way have been chosen.

Sorcery
Thieves' Auction (plst) MMQ-218
Vedalken Plotter

When this creature enters, exchange control of target land you control and target land an opponent controls.

Creature
Vedalken Plotter (cmd) 66

Theft

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Tokens

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Akroan Horse

Defender When this creature enters, an opponent gains control of it. At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent creates a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Creature Artifact
Akroan Horse (ths) 210

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Deck Info

Deck stats

9 pips - 7 cards
17 mana - 15 cards
35 pips - 25 cards
18 mana - 16 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
27 pips - 18 cards
18 mana - 16 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"When I first saw the name Maverick, first thing that came to mind was the Dallas Mavericks. And when you think of the Dallas Mavericks, you think of that horrendous Luca trade. With that in mind, I decided to build a theft, I mean trade, deck with Zedruu the Greathearted as the commander. The whole deck revolves around \"trading\" one card for another between all players at the table. Cards like Switcheroo, Reins of Power and Bazaar Trader allow you to trade permanents between players and get value out of Zedruu on your upkeep. Mind stone and Commander's Sphere are your only ramp cards but they also allow you to trade them in to draw a card. Even your mana base forces you to trade a life (fetch lands, pain lands, shock lands) or trade a land (bounce lands) to play them. Cards like Guff Rewrites History and Chaos Warp force you opponents to \"trade\" a card on their field for a card in their deck. I even made sure to put cards where you must use the Gift mechanic because that is what the Mavericks gave the Lakers. This deck allows you to control everybody's board, cause some chaos and politic with other players to reach the end game. And just like the Mavericks, in the end you probably just lose to all the gifts and \"trades\" you gave out. \n"}]}
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