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Sneaky Rogue Initiative
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $133.88
Salt sum: 29.95
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Commander

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Dungeon Delver

Commander creatures you own have "Room abilities of dungeons you own trigger an additional time."

Enchantment
Dungeon Delver (clb) 483
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat

Menace At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, create a Treasure token. Create three of those tokens instead if you've completed a dungeon. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat (clb) 496

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (clb) 298
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (akh) 225
Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
Cloak and Dagger

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Whenever a Rogue creature enters, you may attach Cloak and Dagger to it. Equip {3}

Artifact Kindred
Cloak and Dagger (mor) 141
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (clb) 857
Dungeon Map

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Venture into the dungeon. Activate only as a sorcery. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Artifact
Dungeon Map (afr) 242
Dungeoneer's Pack

Dungeoneer's Pack enters tapped. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Dungeoneer's Pack: You take the initiative, gain 3 life, draw a card, and create a Treasure token. Activate only as a sorcery. (A Treasure token is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact
Dungeoneer's Pack (clb) 312
Seal of the Guildpact

As Seal of the Guildpact enters, choose two colors. Each spell you cast costs {1} less to cast for each of the chosen colors it is.

Artifact
Seal of the Guildpact (c15) 54
Sky Diamond

Sky Diamond enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (clb) 337
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (clb) 871
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
Trailblazer's Torch

When Trailblazer's Torch enters, you take the initiative. Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked, it deals 2 damage to each creature blocking it. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Trailblazer's Torch (clb) 340
Treasure Map

Artifact
Treasure Map // Treasure Cove (xln) 250Treasure Map // Treasure Cove (xln) 250

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Creature

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Aarakocra Sneak

Flying When Aarakocra Sneak enters, you take the initiative.

Creature
Aarakocra Sneak (clb) 54
Acererak the Archlich

When Acererak the Archlich enters, if you haven't completed Tomb of Annihilation, return Acererak the Archlich to its owner's hand and venture into the dungeon. Whenever Acererak the Archlich attacks, for each opponent, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token unless that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Acererak the Archlich (afr) 87
Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Other Rogues you control get +1/+1. Whenever one or more Rogues you control deal combat damage to a player, that player mills a card for each 1 damage dealt to them. If the player mills at least one creature card this way, you draw a card. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Anowon, the Ruin Thief (znc) 7
Archon of Cruelty

Flying Whenever Archon of Cruelty enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature
Archon of Cruelty (mh2) 342
Audacious Thief

Whenever Audacious Thief attacks, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Audacious Thief (m20) 84
Cephalid Facetaker

Cephalid Facetaker can't be blocked. At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have Cephalid Facetaker become a copy of another target creature until end of turn, except it's 1/4 and has "This creature can't be blocked."

Creature
Cephalid Facetaker (ncc) 23
Eccentric Apprentice

Flying When Eccentric Apprentice enters, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've completed a dungeon, up to one target creature becomes a Bird with base power and toughness 1/1 and flying until end of turn.

Creature
Eccentric Apprentice (afr) 57
Etrata, the Silencer

Etrata, the Silencer can't be blocked. Whenever Etrata deals combat damage to a player, exile target creature that player controls and put a hit counter on that card. That player loses the game if they own three or more exiled cards with hit counters on them. Etrata's owner shuffles Etrata into their library.

Creature
Etrata, the Silencer (grn) 170
Feywild Caretaker

When Feywild Caretaker enters, you take the initiative. At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, create a 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature token with flying.

Creature
Feywild Caretaker (clb) 69
Frogtosser Banneret

Haste Goblin spells and Rogue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Frogtosser Banneret (mor) 64
Imoen, Mystic Trickster

Ward {2} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}.) At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, draw a card. Draw another card if you've completed a dungeon. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Imoen, Mystic Trickster (clb) 486
Inkfathom Infiltrator

Inkfathom Infiltrator can't block and can't be blocked.

Creature
Inkfathom Infiltrator (shm) 167
Mari, the Killing Quill

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it with a hit counter on it. Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile. If you do, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens."

Creature
Mari, the Killing Quill (ncc) 89
Oona's Blackguard

Flying Each other Rogue creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature
Oona's Blackguard (znc) 51
Oona, Queen of the Fae

Flying {X}{U/B}: Choose a color. Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. For each card of the chosen color exiled this way, create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Creature
Oona, Queen of the Fae (znc) 98
Passageway Seer

Lifelink When Passageway Seer enters, you take the initiative. At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, put a +1/+1 counter on Passageway Seer.

Creature
Passageway Seer (clb) 141
Prosperous Thief

Ninjutsu {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever one or more Ninja or Rogue creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Prosperous Thief (neo) 336
Ravenloft Adventurer

When Ravenloft Adventurer enters, you take the initiative. If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it. Whenever Ravenloft Adventurer attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.

Creature
Ravenloft Adventurer (clb) 142
Rilsa Rael, Kingpin

Deathtouch When Rilsa Rael, Kingpin enters, you take the initiative. Whenever you attack, target attacking creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. If you've completed a dungeon, that creature also gets +5/+0 and gains first strike and menace until end of turn.

Creature
Rilsa Rael, Kingpin (clb) 550
Sage of Lat-Nam

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Creature
Sage of Lat-Nam (dom) 64
Shortcut Seeker

Whenever Shortcut Seeker deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Shortcut Seeker (afr) 73
Slither Blade

Slither Blade can't be blocked.

Creature
Slither Blade (znc) 36
Vicious Battlerager

When Vicious Battlerager enters, you take the initiative. Spiked Retribution — Whenever Vicious Battlerager becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller loses 5 life.

Creature
Vicious Battlerager (clb) 155
Yuan-Ti Fang-Blade

Deathtouch Whenever Yuan-Ti Fang-Blade deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Yuan-Ti Fang-Blade (afr) 128

Creature

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Enchantment

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Fly

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, venture into the dungeon." (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Enchantment
Fly (afr) 59
Kumena's Awakening

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. If you have the city's blessing, instead only you draw a card.

Enchantment
Kumena's Awakening (rix) 42
Precipitous Drop

Enchant creature When Precipitous Drop enters, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.) Enchanted creature gets -2/-2. It gets -5/-5 instead as long as you've completed a dungeon.

Enchantment
Precipitous Drop (afr) 115
Underhanded Designs

Whenever an artifact you control enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {1}{B}, Sacrifice Underhanded Designs: Destroy target creature. Activate only if you control two or more artifacts.

Enchantment
Underhanded Designs (kld) 104

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Instant

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Bane's Contingency

Counter target spell. If that spell targets a commander you control, instead counter that spell, scry 2, then draw a card.

Instant
Bane's Contingency (clb) 57
Bar the Gate

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Instant
Bar the Gate (afr) 47
Condescend

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. 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.)

Instant
Condescend (ima) 46
Consign

Instant
Consign // Oblivion (hou) 149
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 "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (afr) 94
Dismiss

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

Instant
Dismiss (c14) 106
Hagra Mauling

Instant
Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Memory Plunder

You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Memory Plunder (clb) 849
Recoil

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Then that player discards a card.

Instant
Recoil (inv) 264
Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Instant
Resculpt (stx) 51
Silumgar's Command

Choose two — • Counter target noncreature spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. • Destroy target planeswalker.

Instant
Silumgar's Command (znc) 99
Soul Manipulation

Choose one or both — • Counter target creature spell. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Soul Manipulation (mm3) 185
Spinal Embrace

Cast this spell only during combat. Untap target creature you don't control and gain control of it. It gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it. If you do, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Instant
Spinal Embrace (znc) 101
Tyrant's Scorn

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with mana value 3 or less. • Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Tyrant's Scorn (war) 225

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (wwk) 132
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (clb) 351
Creeping Tar Pit

Creeping Tar Pit enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {1}{U}{B}: Creeping Tar Pit becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. It's still a land.

Land
Creeping Tar Pit (ncc) 396
Dimir Aqueduct

Dimir Aqueduct enters tapped. When Dimir Aqueduct enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (clb) 891
Drowned Catacomb

Drowned Catacomb enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: 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 (mid) 262
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (clb) 458
Maestros Theater

When Maestros Theater enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Maestros Theater (snc) 251
Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: 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 (clb) 904
Obscura Storefront

When Obscura Storefront enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Obscura Storefront (snc) 252
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (c21) 312
Shipwreck Marsh

Shipwreck Marsh enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Sunken Hollow enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (afc) 265
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (clb) 462
Tainted Isle

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

Land
Tainted Isle (clb) 920
Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Tectonic Edge: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Land
Tectonic Edge (plst) C14-313
Temple of Deceit

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 {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (clb) 922

Land

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Sorcery

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Cone of Cold

Roll a d20. 1—9 | Tap all creatures your opponents control. 10—19 | Tap all creatures your opponents control. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps. 20 | Tap all creatures your opponents control. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps. Until your next turn, creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Sorcery
Cone of Cold (clb) 61
Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (khc) 37
Fates' Reversal

Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Sorcery
Fates' Reversal (afr) 102
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (clb) 752
From the Catacombs

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control with a corpse counter on it. You take the initiative. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Sorcery
From the Catacombs (clb) 623
In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (clb) 759
Irenicus's Vile Duplication

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token has flying and it isn't legendary.

Sorcery
Irenicus's Vile Duplication (clb) 78

Sorcery

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Description

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