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Nekusar — Drawn to Despair
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $1240.17
Salt sum: 61.94
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Commander

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Nekusar, the Mindrazer

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, Nekusar deals 1 damage to that player.

Creature
Nekusar, the Mindrazer (cmm) 349

Commander

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Finisher

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Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (cmm) 139
Curiosity

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Curiosity (jmp) 147
Glistening Oil

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has infect. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature. When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Glistening Oil (nph) 62
Hive Mind

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, each other player copies that spell. Each of those players may choose new targets for their copy.

Enchantment
Hive Mind (m10) 54
Mind Over Matter

Discard a card: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Enchantment
Mind Over Matter (exo) 40
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (ima) 220
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 (ddj) 1
Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (m21) 117
Temple Bell

{T}: Each player draws a card.

Artifact
Temple Bell (c16) 277

Finisher

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Protection

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Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact
Crawlspace (dmr) 217
Glacial Chasm

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (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.) When this land enters, sacrifice a land. Creatures you control can't attack. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Land
Glacial Chasm (ice) 353
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (dsc) 93
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85
Silent Arbiter

No more than one creature can attack each combat. No more than one creature can block each combat.

Creature Artifact
Silent Arbiter (cmm) 972
Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Instant
Sudden Spoiling (c14) 164

Protection

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Sweepers

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Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277

Sweepers

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Burn

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Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Psychosis Crawler (mbs) 126

Burn

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Interaction

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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 (c13) 28
Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (otc) 126
Dispel

Counter target instant spell.

Instant
Dispel (bfz) 76
Drown in the Loch

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant
Drown in the Loch (eld) 188
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (sld) 1823
Long River's Pull

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.

Instant
Long River's Pull (blb) 58
Orcish Bowmasters

Flash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 103

Interaction

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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 (khc) 96
Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Instant
Cabal Ritual (tor) 51
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (m3c) 285
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (5ed) 153
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (drc) 129
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (c16) 254
Gilded Lotus

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

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (brr) 17
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (blc) 278
Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Creature
Nightscape Familiar (e01) 35
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (rvr) 265
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (khc) 104
Talisman of Creativity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (c21) 269
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (woc) 150
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (e01) 91
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmr) 346

Ramp

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 421
Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 430

Tutor

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Discard

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Tergrid, God of Fright

Creature
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112
Waste Not

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Enchantment
Waste Not (wot) 38

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Land

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Blackcleave Cliffs

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

Land
Blackcleave Cliffs (one) 370
Blazemire Verge

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Land
Blazemire Verge (dsk) 256
Blood Crypt

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

Land
Blood Crypt (rna) 245
Bloodstained Mire

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

Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 216
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (mb2) 105
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (khc) 108
Crumbling Necropolis

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

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (e01) 92
Darkslick Shores

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

Land
Darkslick Shores (one) 250
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (e01) 93
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 (c21) 288
Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (dmc) 213
Gloomlake Verge

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

Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 331
Haunted Ridge

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

Land
Haunted Ridge (inr) 280
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (hou) 186
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

Land
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea (dmc) 217
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (hou) 188
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 (mh3) 224
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (c21) 311
Riverpyre Verge

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

Land
Riverpyre Verge (dft) 260
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
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (inr) 284
Shivan Reef

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

Land
Shivan Reef (dmu) 255
Spirebluff Canal

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

Land
Spirebluff Canal (otj) 270
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 (rvr) 288
Stormcarved Coast

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

Land
Stormcarved Coast (inr) 285
Sulfur Falls

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

Land
Sulfur Falls (dmr) 258
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dmu) 256
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (hou) 187
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (bro) 267
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
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 (rvr) 291
Xander's Lounge

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

Land
Xander's Lounge (snc) 260

Land

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Recursion

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Kess, Dissident Mage

Flying Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Kess, Dissident Mage (mh1) 206

Recursion

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Wheels

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Burning Inquiry

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

Sorcery
Burning Inquiry (plst) M10-128
Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery
Dark Deal (frf) 66
Echo of Eons

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Echo of Eons (mh1) 46
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 (c15) 27
Molten Psyche

Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards. Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, Molten Psyche deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of cards that player has drawn this turn.

Sorcery
Molten Psyche (som) 98
Reforge the Soul

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards. Miracle {1}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Reforge the Soul (inr) 167
Teferi's Puzzle Box

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

Artifact
Teferi's Puzzle Box (j22) 801
Wheel and Deal

Any number of target opponents each discard their hands, then draw seven cards. Draw a card.

Instant
Wheel and Deal (sld) 1262
Wheel of Fate

Suspend 4—{1}{R} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{R} and exile it with four 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.) Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery
Wheel of Fate (tsr) 198
Whispering Madness

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Whispering Madness (gtc) 207
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
Winds of Change

Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.

Sorcery
Winds of Change (mb2) 201

Wheels

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Draw

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Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (e01) 80
Consecrated Sphinx

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

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
Forced Fruition

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player draws seven cards.

Enchantment
Forced Fruition (wot) 18

Draw

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Lifegain

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Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (sld) 206
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107

Lifegain

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Shuffler

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Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

When you cast this spell, draw four cards. Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Kozilek is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Creature
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth (puma) U3

Shuffler

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Maybeboard

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Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Archfiend of Ifnir (drc) 86
Commit

Instant
Commit // Memory (lcc) 147
Conqueror's Flail

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each color among permanents you control. As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, your opponents can't cast spells during your turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Conqueror's Flail (2x2) 302
Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 81
Doomsday

Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Sorcery
Doomsday (mb2) 182
Incendiary Command

Choose two — • Incendiary Command deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Incendiary Command deals 2 damage to each creature. • Destroy target nonbasic land. • Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.

Sorcery
Incendiary Command (c13) 113
Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (inr) 71
Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery. Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mizzix's Mastery (otc) 175
Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn. −2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Planeswalker
Narset, Parter of Veils (war) 61
Niv-Mizzet, Parun

This spell can't be countered. Flying Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.

Creature
Niv-Mizzet, Parun (grn) 192
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (znc) 96
Opposition Agent

Flash You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries. While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature
Opposition Agent (cmr) 141
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (dsc) 155
Runehorn Hellkite

Flying {5}{R}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Creature
Runehorn Hellkite (c16) 20
Thassa's Oracle

When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Creature
Thassa's Oracle (mb2) 175
Time Reversal

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. Exile Time Reversal.

Sorcery
Time Reversal (m12) 77
Underworld Breach

Each nonland card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment
Underworld Breach (mb2) 200
Whirlpool Warrior

When this creature enters, shuffle the cards from your hand into your library, then draw that many cards. {R}, Sacrifice this creature: Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.

Creature
Whirlpool Warrior (plst) APC-36

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