Prelude to Destruction • (Grixis Commander deck) • Archidekt

6/11/2025

Prelude to Destruction

Deck Size: 100

Commander

Legal

Est deck cost: $845.47

Salt sum: 43.42

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6/11/2025

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $42.99

Kefka, Court Mage

Whenever Kefka enters or attacks, each player discards a card. Then you draw a card for each card type among cards discarded this way.

: Each opponent sacrifices a permanent of their choice. Transform Kefka. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin (fin) 322

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$42.99 $27.18

Commander

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Burn

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Angrath's Marauders

If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Creature - Human Pirate

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$0.49 $0.29

Dire Fleet Ravager

Menace, deathtouch
When this creature enters, each player loses a third of their life, rounded up.

Creature - Wizard Orc Pirate

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$0.99 $0.19

Gratuitous Violence

If a creature you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage instead.

Enchantment

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$1.49 $0.79

Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Creature - Goblin Shaman

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$0.69 $0.19

Manabarbs

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment

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$5.99 $4.81

Razorkin Needlehead

This creature has first strike during your turn.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to them.

Creature - Human Assassin

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$10.99 $6.76

Repercussion

Whenever a creature is dealt damage, this enchantment deals that much damage to that creature's controller.

Enchantment

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$9.49 $7.16

Rug of Smothering

Flying
Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 1 life for each spell they've cast this turn.

Creature Artifact - Construct

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$0.99 $0.47

Screaming Nemesis

Haste
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to any other target. If a player is dealt damage this way, they can't gain life for the rest of the game.

Creature - Spirit

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$9.99 $9.71

The Lord of Pain

Menace
Your opponents can't gain life.
Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, choose another target player. The Lord of Pain deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to the chosen player.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

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$8.99 $5.27

Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment

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$3.99 $1.87

Burn

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Copy

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Harmonic Prodigy

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
If an ability of a Shaman or another Wizard you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature - Human Wizard

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$11.99 $10.17

Copy

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Counters

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Uncivil Unrest

Nontoken creatures you control have riot. (They enter with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)
If a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage instead.

Enchantment

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$22.99 $17.94

Counters

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Creature

Qty: 3 Price: $5.13

Black Waltz No. 3

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Black Waltz No. 3 deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Legendary Creature - Wizard

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$0.35 $0.19

Kefka, Dancing Mad

During your turn, Kefka has indestructible.
At the beginning of your end step, exile a card at random from each opponent's graveyard. You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. Then each player who owns a spell you cast this way loses life equal to its mana value.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

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$1.29 $0.40

Kuja, Genome Sorcerer

At the beginning of your end step, create a tapped 0/1 black Wizard creature token with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this token deals 1 damage to each opponent." Then if you control four or more Wizards, transform Kuja.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard Mutant

Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied (fin) 497

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$3.49 $3.25

Creature

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Drain

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.

: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

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$0.79 $0.38

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 19 Price: $108.19

Brainstorm

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

Instant

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$2.49 $1.24

Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.

Instant

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$0.79 $0.45

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant

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$0.69 $0.35

Enter the Enigma

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

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$0.39 $0.20

Howling Mine

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Artifact

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$6.49 $6.70

Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Flying
Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target.

: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Dragon

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$0.99 $0.94

Opt

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

Instant

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$0.35 $0.09

Otherworldly Gaze

Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

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$0.35 $0.14

Ponder

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

Sorcery

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$2.99 $1.41

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

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$1.79 $0.43

Quick Study

Draw two cards.

Instant

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$0.49 $0.15

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

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$64.99 $52.38

Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery

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$1.49 $1.65

Spiteful Visions

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Whenever a player draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment

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$1.29 $0.55

Think Twice

Draw a card.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

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$0.35 $0.08

Village Rites

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

Instant

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$0.79 $0.23

Visions of Beyond

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

Instant

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$6.99 $5.75

Wheel of Misfortune

Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery

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$9.49 $5.21

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery

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$4.99 $3.59

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 3 Price: $1.78

Artful Dodge

Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

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$0.99 $0.69

Distortion Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery

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$0.79 $0.55

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

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Evasion

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Finisher

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Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature - Human Wizard

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$1.49 $0.98

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $316.94

Blackcleave Cliffs

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

: Add

Land

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$2.29 $1.08

Blightstep Pathway

: Add

Land

Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252

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$6.49 $4.19

Blood Crypt

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Swamp Mountain

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$23.99 $18.22

Bloodstained Mire

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

Land

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$18.99 $14.14

Cascade Bluffs

: Add

, or

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$1.29 $0.52

Clearwater Pathway

: Add

Land

Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260

Color tag templates(None)

$5.49 $4.14

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

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$0.69 $0.25

Darkslick Shores

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

: Add

Land

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$2.49 $2.18

Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

: Add

Land

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$2.49 $1.26

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

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$3.49 $1.82

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

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$0.69 $0.30

Graven Cairns

: Add

, or

Land

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$4.99 $4.42

Haunted Ridge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

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$9.49 $4.92

Island

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: Add

Basic Land - Island

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$0.49 $0.06

Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

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$29.99 $18.18

Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

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$29.99 $16.62

Mountain

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: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

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$0.49 $0.06

Polluted Delta

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

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$20.99 $16.29

Riverglide Pathway

: Add

Land

Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (plst) ZNR-264

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$4.99 $4.89

Scalding Tarn

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

Land

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$32.99 $24.90

Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

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$7.49 $4.48

Shivan Reef

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

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$0.69 $0.30

Spirebluff Canal

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.

: Add

Land

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$4.49 $1.94

Steam Vents

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.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Mountain

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$29.99 $16.76

Stormcarved Coast

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

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$5.99 $3.77

Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain.

: Add

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$0.79 $0.31

Sulfurous Springs

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$1.79 $1.95

Sunken Ruins

: Add

, or

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$8.49 $8.30

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

Color tag templates(None)

$0.49 $0.12

Training Center

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$15.99 $11.22

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$2.49 $1.46

Watery Grave

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Swamp

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$12.99 $8.34

Xander's Lounge

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: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Island Swamp Mountain

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$20.99 $13.93

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $122.98

Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Enchantment

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$37.99 $38.97

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

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$84.99 $72.62

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

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

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$0.35 $0.11

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 1 Price: $6.49

Crown of Doom

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

: Target player other than this artifact's owner gains control of it. Activate only during your turn.

Artifact

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$6.49 $4.19

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 11 Price: $81.39

Black Market

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

for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment

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$5.99 $3.26

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "

: Add one mana of any color."

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

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$4.49 $2.27

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

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$5.49 $3.09

Descent into Avernus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on this enchantment. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and this enchantment deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on this enchantment.

Enchantment

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$13.99 $8.72

Lotus Petal

, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

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$32.99 $24.86

Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact - Thopter

Color tag templates(None)

$0.99 $0.43

Pain Distributor

Menace
Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, they create a Treasure token.
Whenever an artifact an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.

Creature - Devil Citizen

Color tag templates(None)

$5.99 $7.42

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

Color tag templates(None)

$2.49 $1.36

Talisman of Creativity

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

Color tag templates(None)

$3.49 $1.55

Talisman of Dominance

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

Color tag templates(None)

$1.99 $0.92

Talisman of Indulgence

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

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$3.49 $1.30

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $10.99

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery

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$10.99 $5.69

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 7 Price: $56.89

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant

Color tag templates(None)

$2.79 $1.67

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant

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$2.29 $1.16

Rakdos Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant

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$0.99 $0.37

Strix Serenade

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

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$5.49 $5.44

Swan Song

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

Instant

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$14.99 $11.44

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery

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$29.99 $22.40

Virulent Swipe

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Instant

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$0.35 $0.06

Removal

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $845.47

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.61

Quantity of

Burn

Copy

Counters

Creature

Drain

Draw

Evasion

Finisher

Land

Lifegain

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

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Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 7 cards

Cost

24 pips - 23 cards

Production

33 mana - 28 cards

Cost

26 pips - 19 cards

Production

37 mana - 30 cards

Cost

28 pips - 21 cards

Production

33 mana - 28 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

0 mana - 7 cards

Cost

0 pips - 0 cards

Production

11 mana - 10 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.61

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