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Arixmethes, Always a Bigger Fish
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Est deck cost: $379.00
Salt sum: 39.18
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Commander

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Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Arixmethes enters tapped with five slumber counters on it. As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. (It's not a creature.) Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Creature
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle (c18) 38

Commander

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Draw

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Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may draw a card.

Creature
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait (cmr) 365
Gretchen Titchwillow

{2}{G}{U}: Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Gretchen Titchwillow (afr) 223
Hydroid Krasis

When you cast this spell, you gain half X life and draw half X cards. Round down each time. Flying, trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Hydroid Krasis (rna) 183
Prime Speaker Zegana

Prime Speaker Zegana enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control. When Prime Speaker Zegana enters, draw cards equal to its power.

Creature
Prime Speaker Zegana (rvr) 439
Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (aer) 123
Stormsurge Kraken

Hexproof Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."

Creature
Stormsurge Kraken (c14) 18

Draw

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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 (who) 228
Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Krosan Grip (sta) 53
Naturalize

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Naturalize (m15) 185
Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant
Nature's Claim (cns) 171
Rapid Hybridization

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Instant
Rapid Hybridization (gtc) 44
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (frf) 46
Resculpt

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.

Instant
Resculpt (cmm) 115

Removal

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Cheap Anti-Slumber Counter Spells

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Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (sta) 13
Coiling Oracle

When this creature enters, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.

Creature
Coiling Oracle (dis) 107
Elvish Visionary

When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Elvish Visionary (ori) 175
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (ddo) 45
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (prna) 178
Omen

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

Sorcery
Omen (por) 62
Pond Prophet

When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Pond Prophet (blb) 229
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 (sld) 245
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 (j22) 63
Serum Visionary

When this creature enters, draw a card, then scry 2.

Creature
Serum Visionary (mh3) 69
Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery
Serum Visions (5dn) 36
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

When Uro enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped. Whenever Uro enters or attacks, you gain 3 life and draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. Escape—{G}{G}{U}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Creature
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath (thb) 229
Wall of Blossoms

Defender When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature
Wall of Blossoms (jmp) 442

Cheap Anti-Slumber Counter Spells

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Land

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Alchemist's Refuge

{T}: Add {C}. {G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Alchemist's Refuge (avr) 225
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 (gtc) 240
Bridgeworks Battle

Sorcery
Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c15) 281
Dreamroot Cascade

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

Land
Dreamroot Cascade (who) 273
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (bfz) 270
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 (c15) 285
Hinterland Harbor

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

Land
Hinterland Harbor (dom) 240
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (znr) 271
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (ddr) 29
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (afc) 254
Rejuvenating Springs

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

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmr) 354
Rimewood Falls

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Rimewood Falls (khm) 266
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (ori) 250
Tangled Islet

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Tangled Islet (dmu) 258
Temple of Mystery

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 {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (ths) 226
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (lcc) 359
Thornwood Falls

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Thornwood Falls (ktk) 244
Vineglimmer Snarl

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

Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (moc) 444
Willowrush Verge

{T}: Add {U}. {T}: Add {G}. Activate only if you control a Forest or an Island.

Land
Willowrush Verge (dft) 270
Yavimaya Coast

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

Land
Yavimaya Coast (dmu) 382

Land

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Combo

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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

Combo

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Make way for Arixmethes

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Breaching Leviathan

When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, tap all nonblue creatures. Those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

Creature
Breaching Leviathan (c14) 12
Kiora Bests the Sea God

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token with hexproof. II — Tap all nonland permanents target opponent controls. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step. III — Gain control of target permanent an opponent controls. Untap it.

Enchantment
Kiora Bests the Sea God (thb) 52
Reservoir Kraken

Trample, ward {2} At the beginning of each combat, if this creature is untapped, any opponent may tap an untapped creature they control. If they do, tap this creature and create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token with "This token can't be blocked."

Creature
Reservoir Kraken (snc) 413
Serpent of Yawning Depths

Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents you control can't be blocked except by Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Creature Enchantment
Serpent of Yawning Depths (thb) 291
Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) When Slinn Voda enters, if it was kicked, return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Merfolk, Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Creature
Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep (dom) 66
Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Sorcery
Whelming Wave (bng) 57

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Counterspell

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (ltc) 184
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (sta) 15
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 (ima) 65
Swan Song

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

Instant
Swan Song (sld) 1591

Counterspell

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Mana Acceleration

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 367
Birds of Paradise

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

Creature
Birds of Paradise (m10) 168
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (m21) 317
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (m13) 170
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (bng) 150
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card. −1: Untap target permanent.

Planeswalker
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner (war) 232
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (cmm) 300
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (dmr) 170
Quandrix Cultivator

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Quandrix Cultivator (stx) 218
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (2x2) 371
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (cma) 142
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cm2) 217
Talisman of Curiosity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (drc) 140
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (clb) 837

Mana Acceleration

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Creature

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Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (woc) 95
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep

Vigilance, ward {3} Whenever you cast a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent spell from your hand, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value less than X from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep (mat) 170
Koma, Cosmos Serpent

This spell can't be countered. At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 3/3 blue Serpent creature token named Koma's Coil. Sacrifice another Serpent: Choose one — • Tap target permanent. Its activated abilities can't be activated this turn. • Koma gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Koma, Cosmos Serpent (khm) 221
Koma, World-Eater

This spell can't be countered. Trample, ward {4} Whenever Koma deals combat damage to a player, create four 3/3 blue Serpent creature tokens named Koma's Coil.

Creature
Koma, World-Eater (fdn) 480
Unruly Krasis

Trample Whenever this creature attacks, you may have the base power and toughness of another target creature you control become X/X until end of turn, where X is this creature's power. {3}{G}{U}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Unruly Krasis (clu) 50

Creature

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Protection

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Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (aer) 109
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (2xm) 267
Slip Out the Back

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

Instant
Slip Out the Back (snc) 62
Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211

Protection

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