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Santa Jonny - Gifts on the House! (Primer, EDH, Jon Irenicus) - Retired
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Commander

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Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

At the beginning of your end step, target opponent gains control of up to one target creature you control. Put two +1/+1 counters on it and tap it. It's goaded for the rest of the game and it gains "This creature can't be sacrificed." (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever a creature you own but don't control attacks, you draw a card.

Creature
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One (clb) 536

Commander

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Instant

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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 (cmm) 485
Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 695
Entomb

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

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 426
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (cmm) 631
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 694
Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 50
Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 50
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (cmm) 632
Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 421
Reins of Power

Untap all creatures you control and all creatures target opponent controls. You and that opponent each gain control of all creatures the other controls until end of turn. Those creatures gain haste until end of turn.

Instant
Reins of Power (clb) 734
Run Away Together

Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Run Away Together (cmr) 87
Sudden Substitution

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Exchange control of target noncreature spell and target creature. Then the spell's controller may choose new targets for it.

Instant
Sudden Substitution (c19) 11
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 314
Wrong Turn

Target opponent gains control of target creature. (If an attacking or blocking creature changes controllers, it's removed from combat.)

Instant
Wrong Turn (cmr) 107

Instant

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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 (sld) 1492
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (scd) 263
Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Artifact
Jeweled Lotus (cmm) 702
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (sld) 1493
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (sld) 1494
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (40k) 255
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (sld) 1495

Artifact

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Land

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Barren Moor

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Barren Moor (ons) 312
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dmc) 199
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (eld) 241
Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (moc) 394
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 260
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (cmr) 349
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (sld) 1496
Darkslick Shores

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

Land
Darkslick Shores (one) 250
Drowned Catacomb

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

Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (who) 276
Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Land
Forbidden Orchard (2x2) 405
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (ltc) 365
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (one) 268
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (dmr) 398
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 603
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 414
Polluted Delta

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

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 663
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (rtr) 245
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (moc) 428
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (one) 269
Tainted Isle

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

Land
Tainted Isle (mic) 183
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 416
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 (thb) 245
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (bro) 300
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (ltc) 375
Watery Grave

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

Land
Watery Grave (rvr) 301

Land

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Creature

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Abyssal Persecutor

Flying, trample You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

Creature
Abyssal Persecutor (ima) 78
Archfiend of the Dross

Flying This creature enters with four oil counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an oil counter from this creature. Then if it has no oil counters on it, you lose the game. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, its controller loses 2 life.

Creature
Archfiend of the Dross (one) 304
Deadeye Navigator

Soulbond (You may pair this creature with another unpaired creature when either enters. They remain paired for as long as you control both of them.) As long as Deadeye Navigator is paired with another creature, each of those creatures has "{1}{U}: Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield under your control."

Creature
Deadeye Navigator (mm3) 36
Demonic Taskmaster

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature.

Creature
Demonic Taskmaster (avr) 95
Desecration Elemental

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever a player casts a spell, sacrifice a creature.

Creature
Desecration Elemental (5dn) 45
Dimir Infiltrator

This creature can't be blocked. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, 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.)

Creature
Dimir Infiltrator (pca) 86
Drinker of Sorrow

This creature can't block. Whenever this creature deals combat damage, sacrifice a permanent.

Creature
Drinker of Sorrow (lgn) 66
Ebon Drake

Flying Whenever a player casts a spell, you lose 1 life.

Creature
Ebon Drake (5dn) 48
Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore

Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack. This creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Creature
Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore (dmr) 83
Flesh Reaver

Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature or opponent, this creature deals that much damage to you.

Creature
Flesh Reaver (usg) 136
Greater Harvester

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a permanent. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.

Creature
Greater Harvester (dst) 44
Hellcarver Demon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice all other permanents you control and discard your hand. Exile the top six cards of your library. You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Hellcarver Demon (roe) 113
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
Master of the Feast

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card.

Creature Enchantment
Master of the Feast (jou) 75
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (znc) 96
Peregrine Drake

Flying When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.

Creature
Peregrine Drake (dmr) 292
Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

Creature
Phyrexian Obliterator (one) 308
Phyrexian Vatmother

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you get a poison counter.

Creature
Phyrexian Vatmother (mbs) 52
Rotting Regisaur

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card.

Creature
Rotting Regisaur (m20) 111
Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (mul) 16
Steel Golem

You can't cast creature spells.

Creature Artifact
Steel Golem (10e) 344
Tergrid, God of Fright

Creature
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112
The Master, Mesmerist

{T}: Target creature an opponent controls with power less than or equal to The Master's power gains skulk until end of turn. Goad it. (A creature with skulk can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Whenever a creature with skulk deals combat damage to one of your opponents, put a +1/+1 counter on The Master and draw a card.

Creature
The Master, Mesmerist (who) 145
Thought Eater

Flying Your maximum hand size is reduced by three.

Creature
Thought Eater (ody) 106
Toxrill, the Corrosive

At the beginning of each end step, put a slime counter on each creature you don't control. Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 for each slime counter on them. Whenever a creature you don't control with a slime counter on it dies, create a 1/1 black Slug creature token. {U}{B}, Sacrifice a Slug: Draw a card.

Creature
Toxrill, the Corrosive (dbl) 399

Creature

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Planeswalker

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Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn. −2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Planeswalker
Narset, Parter of Veils (war) 61

Planeswalker

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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 (plst) EMA-78
Dance of the 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." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped 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/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

Enchantment
Dance of the Dead (ice) 118
Exchange of Words

When this enchantment enters, choose two target creatures. For as long as this enchantment remains on the battlefield, exchange the text boxes of those creatures.

Enchantment
Exchange of Words (unf) 45
Heartless Summoning

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Creatures you control get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Heartless Summoning (isd) 104
Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment
Necromancy (plst) VIS-64
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (wot) 25
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

Enchantment

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Sorcery

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Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery
Dark Deal (frf) 66
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
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 (znr) 102
Modify Memory

Exchange control of two target creatures controlled by different players. If you control neither creature, draw three cards.

Sorcery
Modify Memory (clb) 83
Reanimate

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

Sorcery
Reanimate (cc2) 5
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77
Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (cc2) 6
Windfall

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

Sorcery
Windfall (cmm) 859

Sorcery

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Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (plst) ZEN-82
Combat Research

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card." As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)

Enchantment
Combat Research (dmu) 44
Endless Whispers

Each creature has "When this creature dies, choose target opponent. That player puts this card from its owner's graveyard onto the battlefield under their control at the beginning of the next end step."

Enchantment
Endless Whispers (5dn) 49
Ertai Resurrected

Flash When Ertai Resurrected enters, choose up to one — • Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller draws a card. • Destroy another target creature or planeswalker. Its controller draws a card.

Creature
Ertai Resurrected (dmu) 298
Evil Eye of Urborg

Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack. Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature.

Creature
Evil Eye of Urborg (tsp) 107
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector (mid) 103
Mana Crypt

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, this artifact deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Crypt (2xm) 270
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 (otp) 67
March of Swirling Mist

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Instant
March of Swirling Mist (neo) 61
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dmr) 385
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (ima) 220
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 288
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 427
Opposition Agent

Flash You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries. While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature
Opposition Agent (cmr) 651
Phage the Untouchable

When Phage enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, you lose the game. Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated. Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game.

Creature
Phage the Untouchable (sld) 1195
Plague Reaver

At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice each other creature you control. Discard two cards, Sacrifice this creature: Choose target opponent. Return this creature to the battlefield under that player's control at the beginning of their next upkeep.

Creature
Plague Reaver (cmr) 143
Puca's Mischief

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exchange control of target nonland permanent you control and target nonland permanent an opponent controls with equal or lesser mana value.

Enchantment
Puca's Mischief (plst) SHM-47
Thaumatic Compass

Artifact
Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (xln) 249Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (xln) 249

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Conclude the game either with a lethal combo, a powerful reanimation target, or by using \"Homeward Path\" when only one opponent remains."},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)","bold":true},"insert":"Card Choices with Explanations:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#374151"},"insert":"(Sections still in progress; more to be added)"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Donate Enablers:"},{"insert":"\nJon Irenicus: the man himself is one of our best ways to donate creatures, which is why we want to bring him out as soon as possible."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Wrong Turn"},{"insert":": Useful for transferring your problematic creatures among players."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Sudden Substitution"},{"insert":": Although it requires 4 mana, it acts as a \"Deflecting Swat\" (for spells only) with the added benefit of donating a creature."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Puca's Mischief"},{"insert":": Slightly slow, but offers consistent value through combined theft and donate effects."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Modify Memory: This can either be used to donate creature and steal another, or exchange control of two creatures opponents have for card draw."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Exchange of Words: Similar to Modify Memory this can be used in different ways and is one of my favorite cards in the decks. Get creative!"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Donation Targets:"},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"color":"#374151"},"insert":"("},{"attributes":{"color":"#374151","italic":true},"insert":"Note:"},{"attributes":{"color":"#374151"},"insert":" Jon's ability to prevent opponents from sacrificing the creature is crucial here.)"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Demonic Taskmaster"},{"insert":": Demands creature sacrifice during upkeep."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Archfiend of the Dross: This new guy from Phyrexia All Will Be One can just end the game of a player if done right. It gives opponents time to react, but with some politics you could succeed."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Ebon Drake"},{"insert":": Rapid life drain."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Phyrexian Vatmother"},{"insert":": Big Infect creature that when unblocked can kill a player with poison in two rounds."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Steel Golem"},{"insert":": Blocks artifact and creature casting."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Abyssal Persecutor"},{"insert":": Stops the player from winning; essential against cards like \"Thassa's Oracle\"."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Desecration Elemental"},{"insert":": Forces extensive creature sacrifices."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Greater Harvester"},{"insert":": Makes multiple opponents sacrifice permanents."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Thougt Eater: Cheap CMC, brings down the handsize of opponents"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Drinker of Sorrow: Cheap CMC, early forced permanent sacrifice."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Master of the Feast: Card Draw for everyone except the owner of the creature."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Rotting Regisaur: Big Beater that forces the owner to discard."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Wretched Anurid: Cheap CMC, with life loss. This is most likely to be swapped out."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Discard Outlets/Reamination Enablers:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Entomb"},{"insert":": Premium choice. Deposit any card into the graveyard for one black mana."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Dark Deal/Windfall"},{"insert":": As backup plans, these wheel effects help fill the graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Ledger Shredder"},{"insert":": An outstanding card providing discard outlet, card selection, and a flying attacker for just 2 mana."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Frantic Search"},{"insert":": Assists in card selection and also fills the graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--tw-prose-bold)"},"insert":"Fact or Fiction"},{"insert":": Draws cards and fills the graveyard, a win-win."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Reanimation Targets:"},{"insert":"\nSheoldred, Whispering One - Repeated value every turn, can be a large threat in his own right."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Gisa/Tergrid - Not as good as the other two targets, but can significantly increase in value the longer they are out."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Toxrill, the Corrosive - Lockdown the entire board, a game ending threat on its own."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Game Ending Combos/Moves:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#343541"},"insert":"Peregrine Drake + Deadeye Navigator: Infinite Mana (after use either Torment of Hailfire or Tergrid's Lantern to win), can get infinite etbs using Deadeye Navigator'a ability once infinite mana is achieved - can add cards with good ETB's into the deck too"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#343541"},"insert":"Narset/Tergrid + Windfall/Dark Deal: Wheel but either you steal all permanents from everyone's hand or Narset stops your opponents from fully refilling their hands"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Reins of Power: In a 1v1 situation against an opponent with a huge board, this can easily be used to swipe in for the win in one turn. As a Jon player, your battlefield will most likely be pretty empty most of the time."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nThis version of the deck is heavily inspired by"},{"attributes":{"background":"#000000"},"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"color":"#d299ff","link":"https://www.moxfield.com/users/Zelreth"},"insert":"Z"},{"attributes":{"link":"https://www.moxfield.com/users/Zelreth"},"insert":"elreth"},{"insert":" over on Moxfield. I went through many iterations of Jon Irenicus, one was heavily focused on just gifting heavy hitters, one was with lots of small beaters that could enter the battlefield early, however no deck really was super consistent.\n\n"}]}
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