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Snake Politicians (Xyris EDH/Political)
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Xyris, the Writhing Storm

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token. Whenever Xyris deals combat damage to a player, you and that player each draw that many cards.

Creature
Xyris, the Writhing Storm (c20) 18

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Interaction

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Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (sld) 323
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 (cmr) 661
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 (sta) 99
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (sta) 15
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 (c20) 50
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (m21) 375
Muddle the Mixture

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant
Muddle the Mixture (plst) RAV-60
Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant
Nature's Claim (plst) IMA-177
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (sta) 18
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (mid) 195
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (plst) C15-170
Wrap in Vigor

Regenerate each creature you control.

Instant
Wrap in Vigor (cns) 183

Interaction

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Creature

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Adrix and Nev, Twincasters

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead.

Creature
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters (c21) 9
Goblin Anarchomancer

Each spell you cast that's red or green costs {1} less to cast.

Creature
Goblin Anarchomancer (mh2) 200
Junk Winder

Affinity for tokens (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each token you control.) Whenever a token you control enters, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Junk Winder (mh2) 48
Ohran Frostfang

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Ohran Frostfang (plst) C19-33
Purphoros, God of the Forge

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control enters, Purphoros deals 2 damage to each opponent. {2}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Purphoros, God of the Forge (sld) 77
Sakashima the Impostor

You may have Sakashima the Impostor enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except its name is Sakashima the Impostor, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has "{2}{U}{U}: Return Sakashima the Impostor to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step."

Creature
Sakashima the Impostor (plst) SOK-53
Siren Stormtamer

Flying {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell or ability that targets you or a creature you control.

Creature
Siren Stormtamer (cmr) 96
Witty Roastmaster

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Witty Roastmaster (snc) 131

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Land

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Barkchannel Pathway

Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 290Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 290
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 (exp) 15
Cascade Bluffs

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

Land
Cascade Bluffs (exp) 32
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (sld) 697
Cragcrown Pathway

Land
Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway (znr) 287Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway (znr) 287
Dreamroot Cascade

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

Land
Dreamroot Cascade (vow) 282
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (mic) 173
Fire-Lit Thicket

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

Land
Fire-Lit Thicket (exp) 29
Flooded Grove

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

Land
Flooded Grove (exp) 35
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dmu) 281
Frontier Bivouac

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

Land
Frontier Bivouac (c20) 275
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dmu) 278
Karplusan Forest

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

Land
Karplusan Forest (c16) 305
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
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dmu) 280
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (sld) 695
Riverglide Pathway

Land
Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (znr) 289Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (znr) 289
Rockfall Vale

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

Land
Rockfall Vale (mid) 284
Shivan Reef

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

Land
Shivan Reef (dmu) 380
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 (exp) 9
Stormcarved Coast

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

Land
Stormcarved Coast (vow) 284
Training Center

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

Land
Training Center (cmr) 713
Yavimaya Coast

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

Land
Yavimaya Coast (dmu) 382

Land

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Draws/Wheel

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Burning Inquiry

Each player draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.

Sorcery
Burning Inquiry (plst) M10-128
Curiosity Crafter

Flying You have no maximum hand size. Whenever a creature token you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Curiosity Crafter (c21) 351
Dictate of Kruphix

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Enchantment
Dictate of Kruphix (c18) 86
Echo of Eons

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Echo of Eons (mh1) 46
Expressive Iteration

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Sorcery
Expressive Iteration (stx) 186
Howling Mine

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

Artifact
Howling Mine (plst) M10-212
Jace's Archivist

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

Creature
Jace's Archivist (c15) 95
Molten Psyche

Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards. Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, Molten Psyche deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of cards that player has drawn this turn.

Sorcery
Molten Psyche (som) 98
Reforge the Soul

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards. Miracle {1}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Reforge the Soul (c16) 132
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (plst) CMD-260
Standstill

When a player casts a spell, sacrifice this enchantment. If you do, each of that player's opponents draws three cards.

Enchantment
Standstill (pidw) 7
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (m21) 76
Teferi's Puzzle Box

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

Artifact
Teferi's Puzzle Box (sld) 368
Time Reversal

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Exile Time Reversal.

Sorcery
Time Reversal (m12) 77
Vision Skeins

Each player draws two cards.

Instant
Vision Skeins (e01) 29
Wheel of Fortune

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery
Wheel of Fortune (vma) 192
Whirlpool Warrior

When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards. {R}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.

Creature
Whirlpool Warrior (pca) 29
Windfall

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

Sorcery
Windfall (khc) 46
Winds of Change

Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.

Sorcery
Winds of Change (por) 156

Draws/Wheel

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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 (p30m) 1F★
Birds of Paradise

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

Creature
Birds of Paradise (plst) CN2-176
Cryptolith Rite

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

Enchantment
Cryptolith Rite (soi) 200
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (m21) 317
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
Descent into Avernus (clb) 580
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (f13) 3
Fertile Ground

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Enchantment
Fertile Ground (afc) 158
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (cmr) 668
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (sld) 371
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (2x2) 371
Sakura-Tribe Elder

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

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (sld) 192
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (pf19) 7
Talisman of Creativity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (mh1) 231
Talisman of Curiosity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (mh1) 232
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmr) 703
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (clb) 837

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Everything Else

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Hammer of Nazahn

Whenever Hammer of Nazahn or another Equipment you control enters, you may attach that Equipment to target creature you control. Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has indestructible. Equip {4}

Artifact
Hammer of Nazahn (2xm) 260
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (2xm) 360
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (clb) 339
Winged Boots

Equipped creature has flying and ward {4}. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {4}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Winged Boots (afc) 289

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Win Conditions

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Beastmaster Ascension

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. As long as this enchantment has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Enchantment
Beastmaster Ascension (plst) CMA-92
Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

Artifact
Coat of Arms (plst) DDS-58
Goblin Bombardment

Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

Enchantment
Goblin Bombardment (mh2) 279
Impact Tremors

Whenever a creature you control enters, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Impact Tremors (plst) DTK-140
Seshiro the Anointed

Other Snake creatures you control get +2/+2. Whenever a Snake you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Creature
Seshiro the Anointed (chk) 241
Shared Animosity

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking creature that shares a creature type with it.

Enchantment
Shared Animosity (c20) 158

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Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (vow) 139
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (cmr) 393
Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature
Chasm Skulker (plst) M15-46
Craterhoof Behemoth

Haste When this creature enters, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Creature
Craterhoof Behemoth (jmp) 385
Curator's Ward

Enchant permanent Enchanted permanent has hexproof. When enchanted permanent leaves the battlefield, if it was historic, draw two cards. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Enchantment
Curator's Ward (dom) 49
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Dig Through Time (ncc) 219
Eldrazi Monument

Creatures you control get +1/+1 and have flying and indestructible. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. If you can't, sacrifice this artifact.

Artifact
Eldrazi Monument (plst) CMA-216
Ezuri, Claw of Progress

Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control, where X is the number of experience counters you have.

Creature
Ezuri, Claw of Progress (plst) C15-44
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dmc) 182
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
Guided Passage

Reveal the cards in your library. An opponent chooses from among them a creature card, a land card, and a noncreature, nonland card. You put the chosen cards into your hand. Then shuffle.

Sorcery
Guided Passage (plst) APC-105
Humble Defector

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

Creature
Humble Defector (c21) 174
Kindred Discovery

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature you control of the chosen type enters or attacks, draw a card.

Enchantment
Kindred Discovery (plst) C17-11
Lorescale Coatl

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Lorescale Coatl (m21) 221
Magus of the Wheel

{1}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Creature
Magus of the Wheel (c20) 156
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (cmr) 80
Manifold Insights

Reveal the top ten cards of your library. Starting with the next opponent in turn order, each opponent chooses a different nonland card from among them. Put the chosen cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Manifold Insights (cm2) 44
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (clb) 244
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (tsr) 79
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (c21) 126
Rites of Flourishing

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns.

Enchantment
Rites of Flourishing (znc) 80
Second Harvest

For each token you control, create a token that's a copy of that permanent.

Instant
Second Harvest (c19) 178
Share the Spoils

When this enchantment enters and whenever an opponent loses the game, exile the top card of each player's library. During each player's turn, that player may play a land or cast a spell from among cards exiled with this enchantment, and they may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. When they do, exile the top card of their library.

Enchantment
Share the Spoils (afc) 34
Swan Song

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

Instant
Swan Song (sld) 91
The Locust God

Flying Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste. {2}{U}{R}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Locust God (c20) 219
Toothy, Imaginary Friend

Partner with Pir, Imaginative Rascal (When this creature enters, target player may put Pir into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Toothy. When Toothy leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Toothy, Imaginary Friend (bbd) 12
Treasure Cruise

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

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (ncc) 237
Warstorm Surge

Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Enchantment
Warstorm Surge (afc) 149
Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Whispersilk Cloak (plst) PCA-115
Wild Magic Surge

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a permanent card that shares a card type with that permanent. They put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Instant
Wild Magic Surge (clb) 206
Yusri, Fortune's Flame

Flying Whenever Yusri attacks, choose a number between 1 and 5. Flip that many coins. For each flip you win, draw a card. For each flip you lose, Yusri deals 2 damage to you. If you won five flips this way, you may cast spells from your hand this turn without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Yusri, Fortune's Flame (plst) MH2-218

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{"ops":[{"insert":"The primary playstyle is get out the Commander as soon as you can, protect it, and start building a board of tokens. Wheel and draw cards all contribute towards expediting the process. This deck is primarily a Political deck to garner goodwill to keep the card on the field to give others card draw. A variety of win conditions exist in the form of general combat through the use of anthems to buff up the tokens or burn cards such as Goblin Bombardment or Purphoros to tank everybody's life.\n"}]}
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