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Karador, Ghost Chieftain: Graveyard Recursion
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Est deck cost: $308.48
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Commander

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Karador, Ghost Chieftain

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Once during each of your turns, you may cast a creature spell from your graveyard.

Creature
Karador, Ghost Chieftain (plst) CMD-207

Commander

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Land

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Blooming Marsh

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

Land
Blooming Marsh (kld) 243
Blossoming Sands

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Blossoming Sands (m21) 244
Branchloft Pathway

Land
Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (znr) 284Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (znr) 284
Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 285Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 285
Brushland

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

Land
Brushland (6ed) 320
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (c21) 283
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c20) 264
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 (iko) 247
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land
Field of Ruin (thb) 242
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (vow) 402
Forsaken Sanctuary

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Forsaken Sanctuary (c18) 247
Golgari Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Golgari Guildgate (c19) 247
Golgari Rot Farm

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

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (c18) 249
Llanowar Wastes

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

Land
Llanowar Wastes (ori) 248
Nurturing Peatland

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {G}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Nurturing Peatland (mh1) 243
Orzhov Basilica

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

Land
Orzhov Basilica (c21) 308
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 (grn) 253
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (vow) 398
Selesnya Sanctuary

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

Land
Selesnya Sanctuary (c18) 281
Silverquill Campus

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. {4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Land
Silverquill Campus (stx) 273
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (vow) 400
Tainted Field

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Field (c21) 320
Temple Garden

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

Land
Temple Garden (rtr) 248
Temple of Malady

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Malady (m20) 254
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 (c19) 281
Tranquil Expanse

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Tranquil Expanse (c18) 289
Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (isd) 249

Land

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Artifact

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (plst) EMA-218
Birthing Pod

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) {1}{G/P}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Birthing Pod (nph) 104
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (2xm) 267
Oblivion Stone

{4}, {T}: Put a fate counter on target permanent. {5}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.

Artifact
Oblivion Stone (cm2) 205
Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact
Panharmonicon (kld) 226
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c20) 252
Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (ths) 110

Artifact

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Planeswalker

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Liliana, Death's Majesty

+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards. −3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. −7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Death's Majesty (plst) AKH-97

Planeswalker

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Creature

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Acidic Slime

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When this creature enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.

Creature
Acidic Slime (c20) 165
Acolyte of Affliction

When this creature enters, mill two cards, then you may return a permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Acolyte of Affliction (thb) 206
Brawn

Trample As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Forest, creatures you control have trample.

Creature
Brawn (uma) 160
Corpse Connoisseur

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle. Unearth {3}{B} ({3}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Corpse Connoisseur (mm3) 61
Duplicant

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Creature Artifact
Duplicant (c18) 205
Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (ddj) 55
Fauna Shaman

{G}, {T}, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Fauna Shaman (uma) 164
Golgari Findbroker

When this creature enters, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Golgari Findbroker (grn) 175
Golgari Grave-Troll

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature. Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, you may mill six cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
Golgari Grave-Troll (uma) 167
Golgari Thug

When this creature dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
Golgari Thug (sld) 7
Grave Titan

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Creature
Grave Titan (plst) C14-145
Gravebreaker Lamia

Lifelink When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. Spells you cast from your graveyard cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Enchantment
Gravebreaker Lamia (thb) 98
Hermit Druid

{G}, {T}: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a basic land card. Put that card into your hand and all other cards revealed this way into your graveyard.

Creature
Hermit Druid (sth) 108
Hornet Queen

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Creature
Hornet Queen (c20) 176
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed

Undergrowth — When Izoni enters, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. {B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed (grn) 180
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Jarad gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard. {1}{B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord (gk1) 65
Karmic Guide

Flying, protection from black Echo {3}{W}{W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Karmic Guide (ema) 17
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (kld) 96
Phyrexian Delver

When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Creature
Phyrexian Delver (c18) 115
Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature
Plaguecrafter (plst) GRN-82
Priest of Fell Rites

{T}, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery. Unearth {3}{W}{B} ({3}{W}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Priest of Fell Rites (mh2) 208
Ramunap Excavator

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Creature
Ramunap Excavator (hou) 129
Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (rix) 82
Renegade Rallier

Revolt — When this creature enters, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn, return target permanent card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Renegade Rallier (aer) 133
Reveillark

Flying When this creature leaves the battlefield, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Evoke {5}{W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Reveillark (c20) 97
Saffi Eriksdotter

Sacrifice Saffi Eriksdotter: When target creature is put into your graveyard this turn, return that card to the battlefield.

Creature
Saffi Eriksdotter (tsr) 260
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 (c18) 160
Skull Prophet

{T}: Add {B} or {G}. {T}: Mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Skull Prophet (iko) 206
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (ddu) 62
Stinkweed Imp

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
Stinkweed Imp (plst) GK1-53
Stitcher's Supplier

When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Stitcher's Supplier (m19) 121
Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sun Titan (afc) 73
Tarmogoyf

Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.

Creature
Tarmogoyf (tsr) 235
Timeless Witness

When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Eternalize {5}{G}{G} ({5}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Timeless Witness (mh2) 179
Underrealm Lich

If you would draw a card, instead look at the top three cards of your library, then put one into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Pay 4 life: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Creature
Underrealm Lich (grn) 211
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 (c13) 99
World Shaper

Whenever this creature attacks, you may mill three cards. When this creature dies, return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
World Shaper (rix) 151

Creature

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Sorcery

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Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (uma) 88
Cleansing Nova

Choose one — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery
Cleansing Nova (c21) 86
Eerie Ultimatum

Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Eerie Ultimatum (iko) 184
Finale of Eternity

Destroy up to three target creatures with toughness X or less. If X is 10 or more, return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Finale of Eternity (war) 91
Jarad's Orders

Search your library for up to two creature cards and reveal them. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Sorcery
Jarad's Orders (rtr) 175
Life from the Loam

Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Sorcery
Life from the Loam (sld) 8
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (plst) A25-96
Necromantic Selection

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

Sorcery
Necromantic Selection (afc) 103
Necrotic Hex

Each player sacrifices six creatures of their choice. You create six tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Sorcery
Necrotic Hex (cmr) 137

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (3ed) 93
Deadbridge Chant

When this enchantment enters, mill ten cards. At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Enchantment
Deadbridge Chant (c20) 207
Greater Good

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

Enchantment
Greater Good (bbd) 201

Enchantment

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Instant

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (bbd) 190
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (afc) 184
Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Instant
Entomb (uma) 94
Grapple with the Past

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant
Grapple with the Past (emn) 160
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 (md1) 3
Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Putrefy (c18) 187
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (plst) C16-78
Utter End

Exile target nonland permanent.

Instant
Utter End (c18) 193

Instant

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Deck Info

Deck stats

17 pips - 13 cards
15 mana - 15 cards
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0 mana - 1 card
49 pips - 34 cards
20 mana - 20 cards
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0 mana - 1 card
40 pips - 30 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
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9 mana - 7 cards
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Description

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