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Zirda's Tricycle ($100 Budget Contest Second Place)
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Est deck cost: $157.95
Salt sum: 30.17
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Commander

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Brallin, Skyshark Rider

Partner with Shabraz, the Skyshark (When this creature enters, target player may put Shabraz into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever you discard a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Brallin and it deals 1 damage to each opponent. {R}: Target Shark gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Brallin, Skyshark Rider (c20) 4
Shabraz, the Skyshark

Partner with Brallin, Skyshark Rider Flying Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Shabraz and you gain 1 life. {W/U}: Target Human gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Shabraz, the Skyshark (c20) 14

Commander

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Instant

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Boros Charm

Choose one — • Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Boros Charm (cmr) 442
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (mkc) 96
Channeled Force

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Target player draws X cards. Channeled Force deals X damage to up to one target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Channeled Force (iko) 180
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 (otc) 160
Countervailing Winds

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Countervailing Winds (hou) 32
Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Forsake the Worldly

Exile target artifact or enchantment. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Forsake the Worldly (akh) 13
Frantic Search

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

Instant
Frantic Search (woc) 93
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (lcc) 128
Heartwarming Redemption

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards plus one. You gain life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Instant
Heartwarming Redemption (war) 199
Izzet Charm

Choose one — • Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}. • Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature. • Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Instant
Izzet Charm (2x2) 230
Raking Claws

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Raking Claws (iko) 131
Sejiri Shelter

Instant
Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37
Starstorm

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Starstorm (j22) 607
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (ltc) 178
Tolarian Winds

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.

Instant
Tolarian Winds (usg) 104
Zenith Flare

Zenith Flare deals X damage to any target and you gain X life, where X is the number of cards with a cycling ability in your graveyard.

Instant
Zenith Flare (iko) 217

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Artifact

Qty: 15 Price: $19.77
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (who) 239
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (clu) 219
Bag of Holding

Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. {2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return all cards exiled with this artifact to their owner's hand.

Artifact
Bag of Holding (clb) 299
Boros Signet

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

Artifact
Boros Signet (c20) 239
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (moc) 356
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (clu) 224
Mask of Avacyn

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {3}

Artifact
Mask of Avacyn (isd) 229
Mask of the Schemer

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, it connives X, where X is the amount of damage it dealt to that player. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Mask of the Schemer (ncc) 28
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on this artifact. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact. When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (woc) 99
Raugrin Crystal

{T}: Add {U}, {R}, or {W}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Artifact
Raugrin Crystal (iko) 238
Robe of the Archmagi

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you draw that many cards. Equip {4} Equip Shaman, Warlock, or Wizard {1}

Artifact
Robe of the Archmagi (clb) 91
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (m3c) 305
Sunforger

Equipped creature gets +4/+0. {R}{W}, Unattach this Equipment: Search your library for a red or white instant card with mana value 4 or less and cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then shuffle. Equip {3}

Artifact
Sunforger (cmr) 473
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 (fdn) 258
Talisman of Creativity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (cmm) 979

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Land

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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 (c20) 255
Azorius Chancery

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

Land
Azorius Chancery (m3c) 319
Blasted Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Blasted Landscape (plst) CM2-238
Boros Garrison

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

Land
Boros Garrison (onc) 146
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (lcc) 325
Desert of the Fervent

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. Cycling {1}{R} ({1}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Fervent (c20) 266
Desert of the Mindful

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Mindful (j22) 812
Desert of the True

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the True (c20) 268
Drifting Meadow

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

Land
Drifting Meadow (dmr) 245
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (dsc) 274
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (who) 276
Forgotten Cave

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

Land
Forgotten Cave (j22) 814
Irrigated Farmland

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

Land
Irrigated Farmland (who) 288
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (lci) 396
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 (2x2) 326
Lonely Sandbar

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

Land
Lonely Sandbar (ltc) 319
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (one) 275
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: 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 (onc) 159
Mystic Monastery

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

Land
Mystic Monastery (pip) 275
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (j25) 81
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (blc) 323
Remote Isle

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

Land
Remote Isle (dmr) 254
Secluded Steppe

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

Land
Secluded Steppe (c18) 279
Smoldering Crater

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

Land
Smoldering Crater (dmr) 257
Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{R}{W}, {T}: Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Land
Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion (mkc) 298

Land

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Creature

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Ghostly Pilferer

Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card. Discard a card: This creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Ghostly Pilferer (otc) 98
Glint-Horn Buccaneer

Haste Whenever you discard a card, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{R}, Discard a card: Draw a card. Activate only if this creature is attacking.

Creature
Glint-Horn Buccaneer (j22) 539
Jace's Archivist

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

Creature
Jace's Archivist (c13) 48
Magus of the Wheel

{1}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Creature
Magus of the Wheel (ncc) 271
Nimble Obstructionist

Flash Flying Cycling {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, counter target activated or triggered ability you don't control.

Creature
Nimble Obstructionist (c20) 121
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Flying Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target. {T}: Draw a card.

Creature
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind (rvr) 467
Soulbright Flamekin

{2}: Target creature gains trample until end of turn. If this is the third time this ability has resolved this turn, you may add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

Creature
Soulbright Flamekin (a25) 151
Splendor Mare

Lifelink Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put a lifelink counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Splendor Mare (iko) 32
The Locust God

Flying Whenever you draw a card, create a 1/1 blue and red Insect creature token with flying and haste. {2}{U}{R}: Draw a card, then discard a card. When The Locust God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Locust God (moc) 335
Vizier of Tumbling Sands

{T}: Untap another target permanent. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, untap target permanent.

Creature
Vizier of Tumbling Sands (c20) 126

Creature

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Planeswalker

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Chandra, Flamecaller

+1: Create two 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step. 0: Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards plus one. −X: Chandra deals X damage to each creature.

Planeswalker
Chandra, Flamecaller (c20) 145
Teferi, Master of Time

You may activate loyalty abilities of Teferi on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant. +1: Draw a card, then discard a card. −3: Target creature you don't control phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.) −10: Take two extra turns after this one.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Master of Time (m21) 276

Planeswalker

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Enchantment

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Astral Drift

Whenever you cycle this card or cycle another card while this enchantment is on the battlefield, you may exile target creature. If you do, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Cycling {2}{W} ({2}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Astral Drift (c20) 76
Cast Out

Flash When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Cast Out (c20) 79
Dawn of Hope

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. {3}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

Enchantment
Dawn of Hope (wot) 2
Hoofprints of the Stag

Whenever you draw a card, you may put a hoofprint counter on this enchantment. {2}{W}, Remove four hoofprint counters from this enchantment: Create a 4/4 white Elemental creature token with flying. Activate only during your turn.

Enchantment Kindred
Hoofprints of the Stag (ncc) 203
Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment. Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Ominous Seas (iko) 61
Unpredictable Cyclone

If a cycling ability of another nonland card would cause you to draw a card, instead exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a card that shares a card type with the cycled card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then put the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Unpredictable Cyclone (iko) 139
Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You have no maximum hand size. {2}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards. {4}{U}: Level 3 Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Wizard Class (blc) 112

Enchantment

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Sorcery

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Akroma's Vengeance

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Akroma's Vengeance (a25) 3
Burning Inquiry

Each player draws three cards, then discards three cards at random.

Sorcery
Burning Inquiry (m10) 128
Cathartic Reunion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards. Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Cathartic Reunion (iko) 110
Dismantling Wave

For each opponent, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment that player controls. Cycling {6}{W}{W} ({6}{W}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery
Dismantling Wave (plst) C20-25
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (c19) 140
Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Gitaxian Probe (mb2) 28
Open the Armory

Search your library for an Aura or Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Open the Armory (cmr) 34
Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy. Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (cmm) 55
Slice and Dice

Slice and Dice deals 4 damage to each creature. Cycling {2}{R} ({2}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may have it deal 1 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Slice and Dice (dmr) 138
Sweltering Suns

Sweltering Suns deals 3 damage to each creature. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Sweltering Suns (scd) 160
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (m3c) 195
Wheel of Misfortune

Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery
Wheel of Misfortune (cmr) 211
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

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Sideboard

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Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has an activated ability. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Abilities you activate that aren't mana abilities cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana. {1}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn.

Creature
Zirda, the Dawnwaker (iko) 233

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Post contest addition

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Artist's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. {2}{R}: Level 2 Noncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{R}: Level 3 If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.

Enchantment
Artist's Talent (blb) 124
Shark Typhoon

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value. Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Shark Typhoon (otc) 113
The Enigma Jewel

Artifact
The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment (lci) 55The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment (lci) 55

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Upgrades

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Currency Converter

Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard. {2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {T}: Put a card exiled with this artifact into your graveyard. If it's a land card, create a Treasure token. If it's a nonland card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token.

Artifact
Currency Converter (ncc) 81
Faerie Mastermind

Flash Flying Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card. {3}{U}: Each player draws a card.

Creature
Faerie Mastermind (mom) 58
Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature. Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control. {1}{W}: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Heliod, Sun-Crowned (pthb) 18p

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Deck Info

Deck stats

19 pips - 18 cards
20 mana - 20 cards
26 pips - 23 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
29 pips - 22 cards
26 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 6 cards
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Description

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