Gate keeping • (Bant Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $4.99

Arcades, the Strategist

Flying, vigilance
Whenever a creature you control with defender enters, draw a card.
Each creature you control with defender assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

Color tag templates(None)

$4.99 $2.60 $1.39

Commander

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Anthem

Qty: 2 Price: $2.14

Hold the Gates

Creatures you control get +0/+1 for each Gate you control and have vigilance.

Enchantment

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Stalwart Shield-Bearers

Defender
Other creatures you control with defender get +0/+2.

Creature - Human Soldier

Color tag templates(None)

$1.79 $1.39 $1.03

Anthem

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Clones

Qty: 1 Price: $6.49

Wall of Stolen Identity

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's a Wall in addition to its other types and has defender. When you do, tap the copied creature and it doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature.

Creature - Shapeshifter Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$6.49 $3.58 $2.60

Clones

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Creature

Qty: 2 Price: $0.70

Guardians of Oboro

Defender
Modified creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Creature - Samurai Moonfolk

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Sea Gate Colossus

This spell costs

less to cast for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)

Creature Artifact - Warrior Golem

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.06 $0.15

Creature

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Draw

Qty: 10 Price: $7.56

Academy Wall

Defender
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Gate to the Afterlife

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Artifact

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Gateway Sneak

Whenever a Gate you control enters, this creature can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature - Rogue Vedalken

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Jungle Barrier

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.39 $0.32 $0.15

Opal Lake Gatekeepers

When this creature enters, if you control two or more Gates, you may draw a card.

Creature - Soldier Vedalken

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Rune-Sealed Wall

Defender

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

Creature Artifact - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

The Pride of Hull Clade

This spell costs

less to cast, where X is the total toughness of creatures you control.
Defender

: Until end of turn, target creature you control gets +1/+0, gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its toughness," and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Legendary Creature - Turtle Crocodile Elk

Color tag templates(None)

$3.99 $1.70 $1.23

Wall of Blossoms

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Plant Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Wall of Junk

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
When this creature blocks, return it to its owner's hand at end of combat. (Return it only if it's on the battlefield.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Wall of Omens

Defender
When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.39 $0.32 $0.17

Draw

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Enchantment

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Guardian Zendikon

Enchant land
Enchanted land is a 2/6 white Wall creature with defender. It's still a land.
When enchanted land dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

Enchantment - Aura

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Enchantment

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Evasion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Legendary Creature - Human Rogue

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $2.29

Colossus of Akros

Defender, indestructible

: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as this creature is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature Artifact - Golem

Color tag templates(None)

$2.29 $1.61 $0.31

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 25 Price: $58.35

Access Tunnel

: Add

: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$1.29 $0.39 $0.44

Azorius Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Baldur's Gate

: Add

: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Legendary Land - Gate

Color tag templates(None)

$4.99 $3.94 $2.59

Basilisk Gate

: Add

: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land - Gate

Color tag templates(None)

$0.69 $0.33 $0.15

Breeding Pool

(

: Add

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

Land - Island Forest

Color tag templates(None)

$---- $---- $----

Canopy Vista

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Forest

Color tag templates(None)

$0.49 $0.29 $0.16

Citadel Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than white.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land - Gate

Color tag templates(None)

$4.99 $2.21 $1.97

Forest

(

: Add

Basic Land - Forest

Color tag templates(None)

$---- $0.39 $0.15

Gateway Plaza

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay

: Add one mana of any color.

Land - Gate

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.29 $0.18

Gond Gate

Gates you control enter untapped.

: Add

: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.

Land - Gate

Color tag templates(None)

$2.79 $1.52 $1.26

Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Town

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Hallowed Fountain

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: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

Color tag templates(None)

$---- $---- $----

Heap Gate

: Add

: Add one mana of any color.

, Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Land - Gate

Color tag templates(None)

$1.29 $0.37 $0.35

Hinterland Harbor

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

: Add

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$0.69 $0.29 $0.25

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

Color tag templates(None)

$---- $0.31 $0.15

Manor Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than green.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land - Gate

Color tag templates(None)

$2.29 $1.29 $1.27

Maze's End

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$0.99 $0.37 $0.15

Plains

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: Add

Basic Land - Plains

Color tag templates(None)

$---- $0.38 $0.15

Prairie Stream

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: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

Color tag templates(None)

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Sea Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than blue.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land - Gate

Color tag templates(None)

$1.99 $1.53 $0.78

Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

Color tag templates(None)

$0.59 $0.36 $0.21

Selesnya Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Gate

Color tag templates(None)

$0.39 $0.10 $0.15

Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out.

: Add

: Add one mana of any color.

: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Land - Gate

Color tag templates(None)

$32.99 $27.42 $24.86

Temple Garden

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Forest

Color tag templates(None)

$---- $---- $----

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 6 Price: $12.40

Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Enchantment

Color tag templates(None)

$7.99 $7.53 $5.41

Huatli, the Sun's Heart

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
−3: You gain life equal to the greatest toughness among creatures you control.

Legendary Planeswalker - Huatli

Color tag templates(None)

$0.59 $0.38 $0.15

Perimeter Captain

Defender
Whenever a creature you control with defender blocks, you may gain 2 life.

Creature - Human Soldier

Color tag templates(None)

$1.49 $0.74 $0.17

Saruli Gatekeepers

When this creature enters, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 7 life.

Creature - Warrior Elf

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Tree of Redemption

Defender

: Exchange your life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature - Plant

Color tag templates(None)

$0.99 $0.52 $0.34

Wall of Reverence

Defender, flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

Creature - Spirit Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.99 $0.36 $0.18

Lifegain

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Mill

Qty: 1 Price: $4.49

Charix, the Raging Isle

Spells your opponents cast that target Charix cost

more to cast.

: Charix gets +X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Islands you control.

Legendary Creature - Crab Leviathan

Color tag templates(None)

$4.49 $0.50 $0.25

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 28 Price: $110.00

Amaranthine Wall

Defender

: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Brave the Sands

Creatures you control have vigilance.
Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Enchantment

Color tag templates(None)

$7.49 $6.37 $5.23

Consulate Skygate

Defender
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender

: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$1.79 $0.78 $0.67

Crystal Barricade

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control.

Creature Artifact - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$3.49 $2.10 $0.45

Dazzling Ramparts

Defender

: Tap target creature.

Creature - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Dolmen Gate

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

Artifact

Color tag templates(None)

$27.99 $26.72 $23.92

Fortified Rampart

Defender

Creature - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Glacial Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Grappling Sundew

Defender, reach

: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)

Creature - Plant

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Guardians of Meletis

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact - Golem

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Heroic Intervention

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

Instant

Color tag templates(None)

$15.99 $15.25 $12.49

Hover Barrier

Defender, flying

Creature - Illusion Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.79 $0.44 $0.20

Monastery Flock

Defender, flying
Morph

(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for

. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature - Bird

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Murmuring Phantasm

Defender

Creature - Spirit

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Resolute Watchdog

Defender

, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature - Dog

Color tag templates(None)

$0.59 $0.32 $0.15

Riptide Turtle

Flash
Defender

Creature - Turtle

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Slagwurm Armor

Equipped creature gets +0/+6.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. This card enters unattached and stays on the battlefield if the creature leaves.)

Artifact - Equipment

Color tag templates(None)

$0.49 $0.77 $0.33

Steel Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$1.99 $0.40 $0.31

Stoneskin

Flash
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +0/+10.

Enchantment - Aura

Color tag templates(None)

$3.49 $1.65 $0.95

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$37.99 $24.04 $21.30

Wall of Air

Defender, flying (This creature can't attack, and it can block creatures with flying.)

Creature - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.39 $0.25 $0.15

Wall of Denial

Defender, flying
Shroud (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.59 $0.48 $0.38

Wall of Frost

Defender
Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.39 $0.32 $0.17

Wall of Mist

Defender

Creature - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Wall of Tanglecord

Defender

: This creature gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Creature Artifact - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Wall of Vines

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)

Creature - Plant Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Weathered Sentinels

Defender, reach, vigilance, trample
This creature can attack players who attacked you during their last turn as though it didn't have defender.
Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +3/+3 and gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$1.99 $0.88 $0.82

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 9 Price: $8.81

Assault Formation

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

: Target creature with defender can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender.

: Creatures you control get +0/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment

Color tag templates(None)

$0.59 $0.37 $0.30

Bar the Door

Creatures you control get +0/+4 until end of turn.

Instant

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Crenellated Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)

: Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.

Creature Artifact - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.35 $0.16

Gatebreaker Ram

This creature gets +1/+1 for each Gate you control.
As long as you control two or more Gates, this creature has vigilance and trample.

Creature - Sheep

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Gatekeeper Gargoyle

Flying
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Gate you control.

Creature Artifact - Gargoyle

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Rolling Stones

Wall creatures can attack as though they didn't have defender.

Enchantment

Color tag templates(None)

$1.49 $1.82 $0.97

Tower Defense

Creatures you control get +0/+5 and gain reach until end of turn.

Instant

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Unnatural Growth

At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.

Enchantment

Color tag templates(None)

$4.49 $3.56 $3.29

Wakestone Gargoyle

Defender, flying

: Creatures you control with defender can attack this turn as though they didn't have defender.

Creature - Gargoyle

Color tag templates(None)

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Pump

(CTRL to add secondary)

Ramp

Qty: 11 Price: $9.89

Axebane Guardian

Defender

: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the number of creatures you control with defender.

Creature - Human Druid

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Circuitous Route

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery

Color tag templates(None)

$0.69 $0.14 $0.15

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

Color tag templates(None)

$1.29 $0.38 $0.28

Gatecreeper Vine

Defender
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Plant

Color tag templates(None)

$0.39 $0.25 $0.22

Omo, Queen of Vesuva

Whenever Omo enters or attacks, put an everything counter on each of up to one target land and up to one target creature.
Each land with an everything counter on it is every land type in addition to its other types.
Each nonland creature with an everything counter on it is every creature type.

Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter Noble

Color tag templates(None)

$0.99 $0.34 $0.15

Open the Gates

Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Overgrown Battlement

Defender

: Add

for each creature you control with defender.

Creature - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.29 $0.21

Pit Automaton

Defender

: Add

. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.

: When you next activate an exhaust ability that isn't a mana ability this turn, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature Artifact - Construct

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

Color tag templates(None)

$2.79 $1.46 $1.56

Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof

: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Plant

Color tag templates(None)

$1.99 $1.00 $0.75

Wild-Field Scarecrow

Defender

, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact - Scarecrow

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Ramp

(CTRL to add secondary)

Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $0.70

Gate Colossus

Affinity for Gates (This spell costs

less to cast for each Gate you control.)
This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
Whenever a Gate you control enters, you may put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Creature Artifact - Construct

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Mnemonic Wall

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

Creature - Wall

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.29 $0.18

Recursion

(CTRL to add secondary)

Removal

Qty: 6 Price: $8.96

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

Color tag templates(None)

$3.99 $3.90 $2.65

Fell the Mighty

Destroy all creatures with power greater than target creature's power.

Sorcery

Color tag templates(None)

$0.69 $0.34 $0.16

Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Slaughter the Strong

Each player chooses any number of creatures they control with total power 4 or less, then sacrifices all other creatures they control.

Sorcery

Color tag templates(None)

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

Color tag templates(None)

$2.99 $1.35 $1.44

Wave of Reckoning

Each creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Sorcery

Color tag templates(None)

$0.59 $0.41 $0.15

Removal

(CTRL to add secondary)

Sorcery

Qty: 1 Price: $1.49

Through the Forest Gate

Look at the top twenty cards of your library, put any number of land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. You gain 8 life.

Sorcery

Color tag templates(None)

$1.49 $1.15 $0.31

Sorcery

(CTRL to add secondary)

Untap

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

High Alert

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender.

: Untap target creature.

Enchantment

Color tag templates(None)

$0.99 $0.49 $0.35

Untap

(CTRL to add secondary)

Deck Info

Deck size: 109Est cost: $240.95

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.20Total Mana Value: 269.00

Quantity of

Anthem

Clones

Commander

Creature

Draw

Enchantment

Evasion

Finisher

Land

Lifegain

Mill

Protection

Pump

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Sorcery

Untap

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Cost

26 pips - 24 cards

Production

17 mana - 16 cards

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28 pips - 24 cards

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18 mana - 17 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 7 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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0 mana - 7 cards

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27 pips - 23 cards

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19 mana - 18 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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11 mana - 9 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.20Total Mana Value: 269.00

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