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Zaxara, Infinite Excellence
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Commander

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Zaxara, the Exemplary

Deathtouch {T}: Add two mana of any one color. Whenever you cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, create a 0/0 green Hydra creature token, then put X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Zaxara, the Exemplary (c20) 20

Commander

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Removal

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Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (grn) 152
Battle at the Bridge

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.

Sorcery
Battle at the Bridge (aer) 53
Black Sun's Twilight

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Instant
Black Sun's Twilight (one) 84
Curse of the Swine

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

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (clb) 716
Death Wind

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Instant
Death Wind (cn2) 131
Erebos's Intervention

Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Instant
Erebos's Intervention (thb) 94
Slice from the Shadows

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.) Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Instant
Slice from the Shadows (mkm) 103

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Draw

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (lcc) 181
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (dsc) 113
Finale of Revelation

Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game. Exile Finale of Revelation.

Sorcery
Finale of Revelation (war) 51
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (moc) 259
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (otc) 104
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (mkc) 133
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (otc) 105
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Preordain (otc) 107
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (cmm) 182
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45
Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery
Serum Visions (otc) 112
Skeletal Scrying

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard. You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Instant
Skeletal Scrying (plst) C14-162

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Tutor

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Beseech the Mirror

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.

Sorcery
Beseech the Mirror (woe) 82
Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.) Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Beseech the Queen (v16) 1
Cruel Tutor

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

Sorcery
Cruel Tutor (por) 87
Demonic Bargain

Exile the top thirteen cards of your library, then search your library for a card. Put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Bargain (vow) 103
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (dvd) 49
Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (cma) 54
Dimir Machinations

Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Exile any number of those cards, then put the rest back in any order. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{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.)

Sorcery
Dimir Machinations (rav) 84
Drift of Phantasms

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, 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
Drift of Phantasms (rav) 46
Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 103
Imperial Seal

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

Sorcery
Imperial Seal (2x2) 79
Mastermind's Acquisition

Choose one — • Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • Put a card you own from outside the game into your hand.

Sorcery
Mastermind's Acquisition (rix) 77
Perplex

Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand. 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.)

Instant
Perplex (rav) 217
Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 97
Rhystic Tutor

Unless any player pays {2}, search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rhystic Tutor (pcy) 77
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

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Infinite Mana

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Freed from the Real

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

Enchantment
Freed from the Real (sld) 425
Pemmin's Aura

Enchant creature {U}: Untap enchanted creature. {U}: Enchanted creature gains flying until end of turn. {U}: Enchanted creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {1}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 or -1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Pemmin's Aura (scg) 45

Infinite Mana

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Win Cons

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Bloodrite Invoker

{8}: Target player loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Creature
Bloodrite Invoker (ddp) 45
Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (a25) 44
Braingeyser

Target player draws X cards.

Sorcery
Braingeyser (3ed) 50
Commander's Insight

Target player draws X cards plus an additional card for each time they've cast a commander from the command zone this game.

Instant
Commander's Insight (c21) 23
Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Sorcery
Damnable Pact (ncc) 245
Drown in Dreams

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Target player draws X cards. • Target player mills twice X cards.

Instant
Drown in Dreams (mic) 13
Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (plst) SOM-61
Helix Pinnacle

Shroud (This enchantment can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {X}: Put X tower counters on this enchantment. At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are 100 or more tower counters on this enchantment, you win the game.

Enchantment
Helix Pinnacle (eve) 68
Mind Grind

Each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard. X can't be 0.

Sorcery
Mind Grind (gtc) 178
Outrageous Robbery

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library face down. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast it.

Instant
Outrageous Robbery (mkm) 97
Profane Command

Choose two — • Target player loses X life. • Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. • Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Sorcery
Profane Command (scd) 99
Psychic Drain

Target player mills X cards and you gain X life.

Sorcery
Psychic Drain (rav) 220
Simic Ascendancy

{1}{G}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, put that many growth counters on this enchantment. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.

Enchantment
Simic Ascendancy (rna) 207
Stroke of Genius

Target player draws X cards.

Instant
Stroke of Genius (moc) 238
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
Villainous Wealth

Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. You may cast any number of spells with mana value X or less from among them without paying their mana costs.

Sorcery
Villainous Wealth (c20) 233
Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (j22) 806

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Land

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Blooming Marsh

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

Land
Blooming Marsh (kld) 243
Botanical Sanctum

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

Land
Botanical Sanctum (kld) 244
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 (rna) 246
Clearwater Pathway

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

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

Land
Command Tower (c19) 237
Darkslick Shores

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

Land
Darkslick Shores (som) 226
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (otc) 282
Deathcap Glade

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

Land
Deathcap Glade (vow) 261
Dreamroot Cascade

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

Land
Dreamroot Cascade (vow) 262
Drowned Catacomb

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

Land
Drowned Catacomb (e01) 94
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (c20) 273
Flooded Grove

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

Land
Flooded Grove (blc) 304
Hinterland Harbor

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

Land
Hinterland Harbor (dom) 240
Llanowar Wastes

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

Land
Llanowar Wastes (blc) 315
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
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (zne) 17
Nurturing Peatland

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

Land
Nurturing Peatland (mh1) 243
Opulent Palace

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

Land
Opulent Palace (c20) 295
Overflowing Basin

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

Land
Overflowing Basin (blc) 321
Overgrown Tomb

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

Land
Overgrown Tomb (grn) 253
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
Rejuvenating Springs

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

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmr) 354
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Sunken Ruins

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

Land
Sunken Ruins (2xm) 326
Twilight Mire

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

Land
Twilight Mire (blc) 351
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (otc) 338
Undergrowth Stadium

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

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmr) 359
Verdant Catacombs

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

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Viridescent Bog

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

Land
Viridescent Bog (blc) 352
Waterlogged Grove

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

Land
Waterlogged Grove (mh1) 249
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 (grn) 259
Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dom) 248
Yavimaya Coast

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

Land
Yavimaya Coast (blc) 355
Zagoth Triome

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

Land
Zagoth Triome (iko) 313

Land

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (c20) 237
Birds of Paradise

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

Creature
Birds of Paradise (cn2) 176
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (c18) 203
Elves of Deep Shadow

{T}: Add {B}. This creature deals 1 damage to you.

Creature
Elves of Deep Shadow (rav) 161
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (m14) 169
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (c19) 165
Golgari Signet

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

Artifact
Golgari Signet (cma) 218
Ilysian Caryatid

{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add two mana of any one color instead.

Creature
Ilysian Caryatid (thb) 174
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (m19) 314
Simic Signet

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

Artifact
Simic Signet (c13) 258
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c20) 252

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Deck Info

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0 mana - 6 cards
30 pips - 22 cards
35 mana - 28 cards
48 pips - 35 cards
36 mana - 29 cards
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0 mana - 6 cards
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37 mana - 30 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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