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Kros, Lord of War
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $817.60
Salt sum: 33.74
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Commander

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Kros, Defense Contractor

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a shield counter on target creature an opponent controls. Whenever you put one or more counters on a creature you don't control, tap that creature and goad it. It gains trample until your next turn. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Kros, Defense Contractor (ncc) 105

Commander

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ETB Counters

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Backup Agent

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Backup Agent (snc) 2
Captured by Lagacs

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. When this Aura enters, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures.)

Enchantment
Captured by Lagacs (mh2) 188
Deepglow Skate

When this creature enters, double the number of each kind of counter on any number of target permanents.

Creature
Deepglow Skate (2xm) 48
Enduring Bondwarden

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.) When this creature dies, put its counters on target creature you control.

Creature
Enduring Bondwarden (mom) 14
Filigree Vector

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of any number of target creatures and a charge counter on each of any number of target artifacts. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice another artifact: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature Artifact
Filigree Vector (moc) 15
Ironpaw Aspirant

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Ironpaw Aspirant (lci) 18
Obsessive Skinner

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Delirium — At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Obsessive Skinner (soi) 220
Pollenbright Druid

When this creature enters, choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Pollenbright Druid (cmm) 312
Relief Captain

When this creature enters, support 3. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to three other target creatures.)

Creature
Relief Captain (2x2) 24
Rishkar, Peema Renegade

When Rishkar enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. Each creature you control with a counter on it has "{T}: Add {G}."

Creature
Rishkar, Peema Renegade (2x2) 157
Saddleback Lagac

When this creature enters, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two other target creatures.)

Creature
Saddleback Lagac (bbd) 211
Saiba Cryptomancer

Flash Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.) Hexproof

Creature
Saiba Cryptomancer (mom) 76
Skyboon Evangelist

Flying When this creature enters, support 6. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to six other target creatures.) Whenever a creature with a counter on it attacks one of your opponents, that creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Skyboon Evangelist (ncc) 20
Streetwise Negotiator

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.) This creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.

Creature
Streetwise Negotiator (mom) 207
Tolarian Contempt

When this enchantment enters, put a rejection counter on each creature your opponents control. At the beginning of your end step, for each opponent, choose up to one target creature they control with a rejection counter on it. That creature's owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Enchantment
Tolarian Contempt (mat) 192

ETB Counters

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Removal

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (nph) 103
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (h1r) 2
Song of the Dryads

Enchant permanent Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land.

Enchantment
Song of the Dryads (cma) 147
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (ath) 16

Removal

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Anti-Interaction

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Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (mrd) 199
Shielding Plax

({G/U} can be paid with either {G} or {U}.) Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.

Enchantment
Shielding Plax (dis) 147
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 (scd) 279

Anti-Interaction

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Graft

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Aquastrand Spider

Graft 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {G}: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains reach until end of turn. (It can block creatures with flying.)

Creature
Aquastrand Spider (dis) 80
Plaxcaster Frogling

Graft 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {2}: Target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Plaxcaster Frogling (c21) 226
Simic Initiate

Graft 1 (This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.)

Creature
Simic Initiate (mm2) 162
Vigean Graftmage

Graft 2 (This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {1}{U}: Untap target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Vigean Graftmage (mm2) 68
Vigean Hydropon

Graft 5 (This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) This creature can't attack or block.

Creature
Vigean Hydropon (dis) 135

Graft

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Repeatable

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Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. −2: Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. −7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, create three 1/1 white Cat creature tokens with lifelink."

Planeswalker
Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants (pm19) 3s
Ajani, Caller of the Pride

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. −3: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn. −8: Create X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens, where X is your life total.

Planeswalker
Ajani, Caller of the Pride (scd) 6
Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter

Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has "{T}: Add one mana of any color." −1: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Planeswalker
Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter (sld) 517
Nils, Discipline Enforcer

At the beginning of your end step, for each player, put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature that player controls. Each creature with one or more counters on it can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless its controller pays {X}, where X is the number of counters on that creature.

Creature
Nils, Discipline Enforcer (c21) 347
Simic Guildmage

({G/U} can be paid with either {G} or {U}.) {1}{G}: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature onto another target creature with the same controller. {1}{U}: Attach target Aura attached to a permanent to another permanent with the same controller.

Creature
Simic Guildmage (dis) 148
Spike Colony

This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Spike Colony (brb) 77

Repeatable

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Land

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Barkchannel Pathway

Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 290Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 290
Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 266
Bountiful Promenade

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

Land
Bountiful Promenade (bbd) 81
Branchloft Pathway

Land
Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (slu) 13Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (slu) 13
Breeding Pool

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

Land
Breeding Pool (gtc) 240
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (clb) 351
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

{T}: Add {W}. Channel — {2}{W}, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (who) 276
Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Flooded Grove (ncc) 402
Flooded Strand

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

Land
Flooded Strand (ktk) 233
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (snc) 281
Forge of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Choose target commander that entered this turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and a loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Land
Forge of Heroes (c18) 58
Hallowed Fountain

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

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 404
Hengegate Pathway

Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 293Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 293
Horizon Canopy

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {W}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Horizon Canopy (ltc) 366
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (snc) 274
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (moc) 409
Misty Rainforest

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

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Mystic Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Mystic Gate (2xm) 324
Novijen, Heart of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {G}{U}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that entered this turn.

Land
Novijen, Heart of Progress (c21) 305
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) 503
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (snc) 273
Rejuvenating Springs

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

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmr) 354
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (plg20) 1
Sea of Clouds

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

Land
Sea of Clouds (bbd) 84
Temple Garden

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

Land
Temple Garden (rtr) 248
Waterlogged Grove

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {U}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Waterlogged Grove (who) 1125
Windswept Heath

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

Land
Windswept Heath (ktk) 248
Wooded Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {G/W}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{W}, or {W}{W}.

Land
Wooded Bastion (2xm) 332

Land

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Rocks

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmr) 689
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (sld) 1011
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (plg22) 2

Rocks

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Dorks

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Avacyn's Pilgrim

{T}: Add {W}.

Creature
Avacyn's Pilgrim (f12) 8
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (m12) 165
Bloom Tender

{T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Creature
Bloom Tender (sld) 284
Delighted Halfling

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.

Creature
Delighted Halfling (ltr) 158
Faeburrow Elder

Vigilance This creature gets +1/+1 for each color among permanents you control. {T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Creature
Faeburrow Elder (peld) 190p
Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

Creature
Lotus Cobra (znr) 307
Noble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Creature
Noble Hierarch (ppro) 2018
Sunscape Familiar

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Green spells and blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Sunscape Familiar (pls) 17

Dorks

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Mass Counters

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Collective Effort

Escalate—Tap an untapped creature you control. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. • Destroy target enchantment. • Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls.

Sorcery
Collective Effort (emn) 17
Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Creature
Forgotten Ancient (dmr) 341
Meadowboon

When this creature leaves the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls. Evoke {3}{W} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Meadowboon (mor) 17
Sheltering Ancient

Trample Cumulative upkeep—Put a +1/+1 counter on a creature an opponent controls. (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.)

Creature
Sheltering Ancient (csp) 121
Space Beleren

Space sculptor (Space Beleren divides the battlefield into alpha, beta, and gamma sectors. If a creature isn't assigned to a sector, its controller assigns it to one. Opponents assign first.) +1: Creatures in each sector can be blocked this turn only by creatures in the same sector. −1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature in the sector of your choice. −5: Destroy all creatures in the sector of your choice.

Planeswalker
Space Beleren (unf) 527

Mass Counters

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Draw

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Augur of Autumn

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands from the top of your library. Coven — As long as you control three or more creatures with different powers, you may cast creature spells from the top of your library.

Creature
Augur of Autumn (mid) 168
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Generous Patron

When this creature enters, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two other target creatures.) Whenever you put one or more counters on a creature you don't control, draw a card.

Creature
Generous Patron (bbd) 70
Hylda of the Icy Crown

Whenever you tap an untapped creature an opponent controls, you may pay {1}. When you do, choose one — • Create a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature token. • Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. • Scry 2, then draw a card.

Creature
Hylda of the Icy Crown (woe) 363
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
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45
Rumor Gatherer

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, draw a card instead.

Creature
Rumor Gatherer (snc) 463
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 (voc) 116

Draw

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Proliferate

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Contagion Clasp

When Contagion Clasp enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Artifact
Contagion Clasp (tsr) 391
Grateful Apparition

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Grateful Apparition (war) 17
Thrummingbird

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Thrummingbird (one) 288
Unbounded Potential

Choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Entwine {3}{W} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Unbounded Potential (mh2) 36

Proliferate

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Deck Info

Deck stats

33 pips - 27 cards
27 mana - 23 cards
20 pips - 18 cards
26 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
30 pips - 28 cards
29 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
11 mana - 10 cards
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Description

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