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The Art of War (Umezawa's Combat Control) [Active]
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Commander

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Tetsuo Umezawa

Tetsuo Umezawa can't be the target of Aura spells. {U}{B}{B}{R}, {T}: Destroy target tapped or blocking creature.

Creature
Tetsuo Umezawa (leg) 262

Commander

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Advantage

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Blade of the Oni

Menace Equipped creature has base power and toughness 5/5, has menace, and is a black Demon in addition to its other colors and types. Reconfigure {2}{B}{B} ({2}{B}{B}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Blade of the Oni (neo) 89
Ensnaring Bridge

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

Artifact
Ensnaring Bridge (sth) 133
Insolence

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature becomes tapped, this Aura deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.

Enchantment
Insolence (pls) 63
Komainu Battle Armor

Menace Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has menace. Whenever this creature or equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, goad each creature that player controls. Reconfigure {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Komainu Battle Armor (nec) 21
Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Shadowspear (thb) 236

Advantage

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Basic

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Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (pal01) 3
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (pal99) 5
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (pal99) 9

Basic

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Blink/ Copy

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Clever Impersonator

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.

Creature
Clever Impersonator (c19) 82
Conjurer's Closet

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Artifact
Conjurer's Closet (pw21) 6
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities. The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces (cmr) 89
Thassa, Deep-Dwelling

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control. {3}{U}: Tap another target creature.

Creature Enchantment
Thassa, Deep-Dwelling (thb) 261

Blink/ Copy

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Draw/ Scry

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Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (brc) 120
Borrowing 100,000 Arrows

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

Sorcery
Borrowing 100,000 Arrows (a25) 45
Drawn from Dreams

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Drawn from Dreams (m20) 56
Grenzo, Havoc Raiser

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, choose one — • Goad target creature that player controls. • Exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Creature
Grenzo, Havoc Raiser (cn2) 54
Lim-Dûl's Vault

Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.

Instant
Lim-Dûl's Vault (all) 107
Monastery Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card, then discard a card. • Dragons — Spells your opponents cast that target you or a permanent you control cost {2} more to cast.

Enchantment
Monastery Siege (frf) 43★
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 (ice) 87
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (ema) 232
Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (vis) 72
Verity Circle

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes tapped, if it isn't being declared as an attacker, you may draw a card. {4}{U}: Tap target creature without flying.

Enchantment
Verity Circle (rna) 58

Draw/ Scry

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Evasion

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Winged Boots

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

Artifact
Winged Boots (afc) 20

Evasion

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Goad

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Agitator Ant

At the beginning of your end step, each player may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. Goad each creature that had counters put on it this way. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Agitator Ant (nec) 102
Bothersome Quasit

Menace Goaded creatures your opponents control can't block. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, goad target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Bothersome Quasit (clb) 674
Disrupt Decorum

Goad all creatures you don't control. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Sorcery
Disrupt Decorum (afc) 122
Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (khm) 216
Vengeful Ancestor

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, goad target creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever a goaded creature attacks, it deals 1 damage to its controller.

Creature
Vengeful Ancestor (clb) 812

Goad

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Non-basic

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Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Land
Arcane Lighthouse (c14) 59
Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (brc) 174
Blood Crypt

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

Land
Blood Crypt (rna) 245
Bloodstained Mire

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

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ons) 313
Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Canyon Slough (akh) 239
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (brc) 178
Crumbling Necropolis

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

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (brc) 179
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (brc) 185
Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Fetid Pools (akh) 243
Field of the Dead

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land
Field of the Dead (m20) 247
Forgotten Cave

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

Land
Forgotten Cave (ons) 317
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (c14) 298
Izzet Boilerworks

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

Land
Izzet Boilerworks (brc) 188
Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (plst) CHK-279
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 (ons) 321
Scalding Tarn

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

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 439
Skyline Cascade

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, target creature an opponent controls doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. {T}: Add {U}.

Land
Skyline Cascade (bfz) 246
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (brc) 202
Steam Vents

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

Land
Steam Vents (rtr) 247
Stormcarved Coast

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

Land
Stormcarved Coast (vow) 265
Sulfur Falls

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

Land
Sulfur Falls (dmr) 400
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (brc) 204
Tower of the Magistrate

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Target creature gains protection from artifacts until end of turn.

Land
Tower of the Magistrate (mmq) 330
Volrath's Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Volrath's Stronghold (sth) 143
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 (gtc) 249
Xander's Lounge

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Xander's Lounge (snc) 260

Non-basic

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Ramp/ Fixing

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (brc) 132
Chromatic Lantern

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

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (brr) 10
Cursed Mirror

{T}: Add {R}. As this artifact enters, you may have it become a copy of any creature on the battlefield until end of turn, except it has haste.

Artifact
Cursed Mirror (brc) 115
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (brc) 138
Machine God's Effigy

You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact and it has "{T}: Add {U}." (It's not a creature.) {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Machine God's Effigy (brc) 16
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (brc) 156
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (plg22) 1
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 (brc) 161
Talisman of Creativity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (sld) 1058
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (sld) 1054
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (brc) 171

Ramp/ Fixing

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Removal

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Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (brc) 114
Deadshot

Tap target creature. It deals damage equal to its power to another target creature.

Sorcery
Deadshot (tmp) 170
Royal Assassin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature
Royal Assassin (dmr) 310
Soul-Guide Lantern

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Soul-Guide Lantern (brr) 54
Stalking Assassin

{3}{U}, {T}: Tap target creature. {3}{B}, {T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature
Stalking Assassin (inv) 277
Swan Song

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

Instant
Swan Song (ths) 65

Removal

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Sweeper

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (brc) 113

Sweeper

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Tap/ Untap

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Backlash

Tap target untapped creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to its controller.

Instant
Backlash (inv) 234
Deceiver Exarch

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When this creature enters, choose one — • Untap target permanent you control. • Tap target permanent an opponent controls.

Creature
Deceiver Exarch (c13) 37
Fatestitcher

{T}: You may tap or untap another target permanent. Unearth {U} ({U}: 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
Fatestitcher (ala) 43
Freed from the Real

Enchant creature {U}: Tap enchanted creature. {U}: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (sok) 38
Frost Titan

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {2}. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Frost Titan (m12) 55
Frozen Aether

Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment
Frozen Aether (plc) 54
Hidden Strings

You may tap or untap target permanent, then you may tap or untap another target permanent. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Hidden Strings (dgm) 12
Ice Floe

You may choose not to untap this land during your untap step. {T}: Tap target creature without flying that's attacking you. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this land remains tapped.

Land
Ice Floe (ice) 355
Icefall Regent

Flying When this creature enters, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control this creature. Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost {2} more to cast.

Creature
Icefall Regent (dtk) 58
Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant

Whenever you attack a player, tap target creature that player controls and goad it. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever an opponent attacks another one of your opponents, you and the attacking player each draw a card and lose 1 life.

Creature
Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant (afc) 49
Opposition

Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Enchantment
Opposition (uds) 40
Rathi Trapper

{B}, {T}: Tap target creature.

Creature
Rathi Trapper (mma) 94
Reality Spasm

Choose one — • Tap X target permanents. • Untap X target permanents.

Instant
Reality Spasm (roe) 81
Smoke

Players can't untap more than one creature during their untap steps.

Enchantment
Smoke (ced) 176
Somnophore

Flying Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, tap target creature that player controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield.

Creature
Somnophore (usg) 97
Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. {1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (c21) 271
Thundermaw Hellkite

Flying Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to each creature with flying your opponents control. Tap those creatures.

Creature
Thundermaw Hellkite (ima) 149
Urabrask the Hidden

Creatures you control have haste. Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Creature
Urabrask the Hidden (ima) 152
War's Toll

Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, tap all lands that player controls. If a creature an opponent controls attacks, all creatures that opponent controls attack if able.

Enchantment
War's Toll (bbd) 187

Tap/ Untap

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Maybeboard

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Maeve, Insidious Singer

{2}{U}: Goad target creature. Whenever that creature attacks one of your opponents this turn, you draw a card. (A goaded creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able, until your next turn.)

Creature
Maeve, Insidious Singer (gn3) 2
Magewright's Stone

{1}, {T}: Untap target creature that has an activated ability with {T} in its cost.

Artifact
Magewright's Stone (dis) 162
Norritt

{T}: Untap target blue creature. {T}: Choose target non-Wall creature the active player has controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn. That creature attacks this turn if able. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step if it didn't attack this turn. Activate only before attackers are declared.

Creature
Norritt (ice) 155
Puppeteer

{U}, {T}: You may tap or untap target creature.

Creature
Puppeteer (10e) 98
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (c21) 314

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