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Maelstrom's Surge
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $4262.12
Salt sum: 50.74
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Commander

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Maelstrom Wanderer

Creatures you control have haste. Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)

Creature
Maelstrom Wanderer (sld) 1319

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Land

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Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (zne) 21
Arid Archway

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. If another Desert was returned this way, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Land
Arid Archway (otj) 252
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 Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Island, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {G}{U}{R} ({G}{U}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Bountiful Landscape (mh3) 217
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
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (rex) 26
Commercial District

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Commercial District (mkm) 259
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (otc) 283
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (ust) 216
Gaea's Cradle

{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Land
Gaea's Cradle (usg) 321
Gruul Turf

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

Land
Gruul Turf (2x2) 407
Hedge Maze

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Hedge Maze (mkm) 262
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (ust) 213
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) 408
Ketria Triome

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

Land
Ketria Triome (iko) 310
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
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) 271
Prismatic Vista

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

Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
Rejuvenating Springs

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

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 663
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) 254
Scavenger Grounds

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

Land
Scavenger Grounds (otc) 316
Simic Growth Chamber

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

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (2x2) 412
Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

{T}: Add {R}. Channel — {3}{R}, Discard this card: Create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance (neo) 276
Spire Garden

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

Land
Spire Garden (clb) 361
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 (grn) 257
Stomping Ground

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

Land
Stomping Ground (rna) 259
Taiga

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)

Land
Taiga (3ed) 287
Training Center

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

Land
Training Center (cmm) 434
Tropical Island

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)

Land
Tropical Island (3ed) 288
Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Urza's Cave (mh3) 234
Volcanic Island

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)

Land
Volcanic Island (3ed) 291
Wooded Foothills

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

Land
Wooded Foothills (ktk) 249
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (mh2) 261

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Burn

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Flaming Tyrannosaurus

Menace Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, this creature deals 3 damage to any target. Then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.

Creature
Flaming Tyrannosaurus (who) 85
Purphoros, God of the Forge

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control enters, Purphoros deals 2 damage to each opponent. {2}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Purphoros, God of the Forge (sld) 77
Terror of the Peaks

Flying Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost an additional 3 life to cast. Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target.

Creature
Terror of the Peaks (m21) 164

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Landcycler

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Generous Ent

Reach When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Forestcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Generous Ent (ltr) 169
Monstrosity of the Lake

When Monstrosity of the Lake enters, you may pay {5}. If you do, tap all creatures your opponents control, then put a stun counter on each of those creatures. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Islandcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Monstrosity of the Lake (ltc) 22
Oliphaunt

Trample Whenever this creature attacks, another target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. Mountaincycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Oliphaunt (ltr) 426

Landcycler

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Draw

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Abundance

If you would draw a card, you may instead choose land or nonland and reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Enchantment
Abundance (cmm) 884
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
Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (tsr) 356
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
Enduring Curiosity

Flash Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Curiosity (dsk) 371
Etali, Primal Conqueror

Creature
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness (mom) 298Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness (mom) 298
Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Etali, Primal Storm (fdn) 329
Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (scd) 185
Growing Rites of Itlimoc

Enchantment
Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (lci) 188Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (lci) 188
Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment
Guardian Project (rna) 130
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Spells you cast with mana value 6 or greater have cascade.

Creature
Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty (cmr) 280
Keruga, the Macrosage

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with mana value 3 or greater and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.

Creature
Keruga, the Macrosage (mul) 48
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 (sld) 1700
Kozilek's Unsealing

Devoid (This card has no color.) Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 4, 5, or 6, create two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 7 or greater, draw three cards.

Enchantment
Kozilek's Unsealing (mh3) 65
Monstrous Vortex

Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, discover X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Enchantment
Monstrous Vortex (mh3) 162
Ohran Frostfang

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Ohran Frostfang (cmm) 309
Outcaster Trailblazer

When this creature enters, add one mana of any color. Whenever another creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card. Plot {2}{G} (You may pay {2}{G} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Outcaster Trailblazer (otj) 173
Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (cmm) 687
Temur Ascendancy

Creatures you control have haste. Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Temur Ascendancy (tsr) 387
Toski, Bearer of Secrets

This spell can't be countered. Indestructible Toski attacks each combat if able. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Toski, Bearer of Secrets (khm) 319
Tribute to the World Tree

Whenever a creature you control enters, draw a card if its power is 3 or greater. Otherwise, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Enchantment
Tribute to the World Tree (mom) 373
Up the Beanstalk

When this enchantment enters and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.

Enchantment
Up the Beanstalk (woe) 195
Vaultborn Tyrant

Trample Whenever this creature or another creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, you gain 3 life and draw a card. When this creature dies, if it's not a token, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature
Vaultborn Tyrant (big) 85

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Ramp

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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 (mul) 32
Averna, the Chaos Bloom

As you cascade, you may put a land card from among the exiled cards onto the battlefield tapped. (Do this after the last card is exiled but before deciding whether to cast a nonland card.)

Creature
Averna, the Chaos Bloom (cmr) 269
Beanstalk Giant

Creature
Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps (eld) 295
Bloom Tender

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

Creature
Bloom Tender (2x2) 138
Burgeoning

Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Enchantment
Burgeoning (sth) 102
Circle of Dreams Druid

{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Creature
Circle of Dreams Druid (afr) 383
Cultivator Colossus

Trample Cultivator Colossus's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. When this creature enters, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, draw a card and repeat this process.

Creature
Cultivator Colossus (inr) 409
Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Enchantment
Exploration (dmr) 159
Fanatic of Rhonas

{T}: Add {G}. Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Fanatic of Rhonas (mh3) 152
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma

Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost {2} less to cast. Whenever Goreclaw attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma (cmm) 293
Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creature sources. Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Gwenna and untap it.

Creature
Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea (bro) 185
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (pbng) 150
Klothys, God of Destiny

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red and green is less than seven, Klothys isn't a creature. At the beginning of your first main phase, exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a land card, add {R} or {G}. Otherwise, you gain 2 life and Klothys deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Creature Enchantment
Klothys, God of Destiny (thb) 268
Loot, Exuberant Explorer

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. {4}{G}{G}, {T}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control from among them and put it onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.

Creature
Loot, Exuberant Explorer (fdn) 106
Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 308
Nyxbloom Ancient

Trample If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces three times as much of that mana instead.

Creature Enchantment
Nyxbloom Ancient (thb) 190
Overlord of the Hauntwoods

Impending 4—{1}{G}{G} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, create a tapped colorless land token named Everywhere that is every basic land type.

Creature Enchantment
Overlord of the Hauntwoods (dsk) 194
Shaman of Forgotten Ways

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells. Formidable — {9}{G}{G}, {T}: Each player's life total becomes the number of creatures they control. Activate only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.

Creature
Shaman of Forgotten Ways (dtk) 204
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
Somberwald Sage

{T}: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.

Creature
Somberwald Sage (mic) 144
Sowing Mycospawn

Devoid (This card has no color.) Kicker {1}{C} (You may pay an additional {1}{C} as you cast this spell.) When you cast this spell, search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, exile target land.

Creature
Sowing Mycospawn (mh3) 340
Spelunking

When this enchantment enters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put a Cave onto the battlefield this way, you gain 4 life. Lands you control enter untapped.

Enchantment
Spelunking (lci) 213

Ramp

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Finisher

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Pathbreaker Ibex

Whenever this creature attacks, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Creature
Pathbreaker Ibex (c15) 38
Primal Surge

Exile the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you do, repeat this process.

Sorcery
Primal Surge (avr) 189
Pyrewood Gearhulk

Vigilance, menace When this creature enters, other creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain vigilance and menace until end of turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn.

Creature Artifact
Pyrewood Gearhulk (dft) 352

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Removal

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Colossal Skyturtle

Flying, ward {2} Channel — {2}{G}, Discard this card: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Channel — {1}{U}, Discard this card: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature Enchantment
Colossal Skyturtle (neo) 216
Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "{T}: Add {C}" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment
Imprisoned in the Moon (moc) 224
Kenrith's Transformation

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green Elk creature with base power and toughness 3/3. (It loses all other card types and creature types.)

Enchantment
Kenrith's Transformation (afc) 162
Kogla and Yidaro

When Kogla and Yidaro enters, choose one — • It gains trample and haste until end of turn. • It fights target creature you don't control. {2}{R}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. Shuffle this card into your library from your graveyard, then draw a card.

Creature
Kogla and Yidaro (mom) 311
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) 326
Silverback Elder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • You gain 4 life.

Creature
Silverback Elder (dmu) 418
Song of the Dryads

Enchant permanent Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land.

Enchantment
Song of the Dryads (cmm) 324

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Maybeboard

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Ashaya, Soul of the Wild

Ashaya's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. Nontoken creatures you control are Forest lands in addition to their other types. (They're still affected by summoning sickness.)

Creature
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild (dsc) 170
Ley Weaver

Partner with Lore Weaver (When this creature enters, target player may put Lore Weaver into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) {T}: Untap two target lands.

Creature
Ley Weaver (bbd) 21
Prodigal Sorcerer

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Prodigal Sorcerer (sld) 1672

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