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Are Brains on the Menu
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $1908.47
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Commander

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Varina, Lich Queen

Whenever you attack with one or more Zombies, draw that many cards, then discard that many cards. You gain that much life. {2}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Varina, Lich Queen (sld) 1355

Commander

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Life Drain

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Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (ths) 89
Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up. When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

Creature
Unstoppable Slasher (dsk) 119

Life Drain

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (sld) 138
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 (rvr) 419
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (woc) 68
Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment
Grave Pact (cmm) 639
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

Removal

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Zombie Lord

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Cemetery Reaper

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Cemetery Reaper (scd) 70
Death Baron

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Death Baron (pm19) 90
Diregraf Captain

Deathtouch Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Diregraf Captain (scd) 224
Lord of the Accursed

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1. {1}{B}, {T}: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

Creature
Lord of the Accursed (j22) 69
Lord of the Undead

Other Zombie creatures get +1/+1. {1}{B}, {T}: Return target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Lord of the Undead (sld) 1046
Patchwork Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Tomb Tyrant

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1. {2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return a Zombie creature card at random from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn and only if there are at least three Zombie creature cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Tomb Tyrant (mic) 23
Undead Warchief

Zombie spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

Creature
Undead Warchief (scg) 78

Zombie Lord

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Card Draw

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Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (plst) ORI-221
Cryptbreaker

{1}{B}, {T}, Discard a card: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Tap three untapped Zombies you control: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Cryptbreaker (drc) 41
Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Creature
Midnight Reaper (sld) 1171
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (m21) 294
Temmet, Naktamun's Will

Vigilance, menace Whenever you attack, draw a card, then discard a card. Whenever you draw a card, Zombies you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Temmet, Naktamun's Will (drc) 4
Time Reversal

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

Sorcery
Time Reversal (sld) 1499
Undead Augur

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Undead Augur (j22) 482
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Whenever another Zombie you control dies, if it didn't have decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.) At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice a Zombie. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver (mic) 40

Card Draw

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Protection

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Batwing Brume

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if {W} was spent to cast this spell. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature they control if {B} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {W}{B} was spent.)

Instant
Batwing Brume (arc) 80
Dawn's Truce

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.) You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Dawn's Truce (blb) 9
Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (pwar) 193
Fierce Guardianship

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

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Overcharged Amalgam

Flash Flying Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Creature
Overcharged Amalgam (dbl) 338

Protection

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Sac Loop

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Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Corpse Knight

Whenever another creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Corpse Knight (pm20) 206
Gravecrawler

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Creature
Gravecrawler (sld) 231
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it. Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (cmm) 675
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 396
Solemnity

Players can't get counters. Counters can't be put on artifacts, creatures, enchantments, or lands.

Enchantment
Solemnity (hou) 22
Wayward Servant

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Wayward Servant (akh) 208

Sac Loop

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Combat Hoard

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Empty the Laboratory

Sacrifice X Zombies, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a number of Zombie creature cards equal to the number of Zombies sacrificed this way. Put those cards onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Empty the Laboratory (mic) 52
Geralf, Visionary Stitcher

Zombies you control have flying. {U}, {T}, Sacrifice another nontoken creature: Create an X/X blue Zombie creature token, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Creature
Geralf, Visionary Stitcher (vow) 61
On Wings of Gold

Creatures you control that are Zombies and/or tokens get +1/+1 and have flying. Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 white Zombie creature token.

Enchantment
On Wings of Gold (drc) 5
Rooftop Storm

You may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for Zombie creature spells you cast.

Enchantment
Rooftop Storm (inr) 306
Zombie Master

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

Creature
Zombie Master (drc) 46

Combat Hoard

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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 (drc) 51
Chromatic Lantern

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

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (rvr) 442
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (sld) 1011
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 Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (moc) 385
Talisman of Progress

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

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (40k) 258

Ramp

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Token Makers

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Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Enchantment
Anointed Procession (plst) AKH-2
Bone Miser

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

Creature
Bone Miser (plst) C19-15
Diregraf Colossus

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Zombie card in your graveyard. Whenever you cast a Zombie spell, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Diregraf Colossus (mic) 112
Endless Ranks of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is half the number of Zombies you control, rounded down.

Enchantment
Endless Ranks of the Dead (j22) 410
From Under the Floorboards

Madness {X}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) Create three tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens and you gain 3 life. If this spell's madness cost was paid, instead create X of those tokens and you gain X life.

Sorcery
From Under the Floorboards (c19) 113
God-Eternal Oketra

Double strike Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 4/4 black Zombie Warrior creature token with vigilance. When God-Eternal Oketra dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Creature
God-Eternal Oketra (war) 16
Necroduality

Whenever a nontoken Zombie you control enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Enchantment
Necroduality (dbl) 337
Renewed Solidarity

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+0. At the beginning of your end step, for each token you control of the chosen type that entered this turn, create a token that's a copy of it.

Enchantment
Renewed Solidarity (drc) 7

Token Makers

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes

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

Land
Adarkar Wastes (dmu) 243
Ancient Tomb

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

Land
Ancient Tomb (ltc) 357
Ancient Ziggurat

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

Land
Ancient Ziggurat (plst) CON-141
Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 285Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 285
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 325
Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (lci) 269
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 286Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 286
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 659
Deserted Beach

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

Land
Deserted Beach (mid) 281
Drowned Catacomb

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

Land
Drowned Catacomb (who) 492
Field of the Dead

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land
Field of the Dead (m20) 247
Glacial Fortress

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

Land
Glacial Fortress (m10) 226
Godless Shrine

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

Land
Godless Shrine (rvr) 294
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) 295
Hengegate Pathway

Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 293Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 293
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mid) 270
Isolated Chapel

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

Land
Isolated Chapel (isd) 242
Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Land
Minas Tirith (ltr) 341
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 603
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (sld) 208
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (vow) 268
Raffine's Tower

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

Land
Raffine's Tower (snc) 292
Sea of Clouds

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

Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 605
Shattered Sanctum

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

Land
Shattered Sanctum (vow) 283
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (who) 515
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 286
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 340
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (bro) 300
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (ltc) 375
Vault of Champions

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

Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 667
Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Vault of the Archangel (sld) 350
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) 301

Land

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Recursion

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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
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (ltc) 203
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (jmp) 267
Zombie Apocalypse

Return all Zombie creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped, then destroy all Humans.

Sorcery
Zombie Apocalypse (dka) 80
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

Ward—Pay 2 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2 life.) {T}: You may cast target Zombie creature card from your graveyard this turn.

Creature
Zul Ashur, Lich Lord (fdn) 326

Recursion

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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) 696
Enlightened Tutor

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

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 6
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
Idyllic Tutor

Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Idyllic Tutor (thb) 24
Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

Tutor

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Maybeboard

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Binding Mummy

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, you may tap target artifact or creature.

Creature
Binding Mummy (akh) 6
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 (acr) 87
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

Artifact
Coat of Arms (lcc) 108
Edgar's Awakening

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. When you discard this card, you may pay {B}. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Edgar's Awakening (inr) 108
Filth

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.

Creature
Filth (jud) 66
Fleshbag Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Fleshbag Marauder (sld) 1175
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay {2}{U}. If you do, create a tapped token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.

Creature
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist (drc) 1
Liliana, Death's Majesty

+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards. −3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. −7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Death's Majesty (sld) 232
Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card. +1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. −4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice. −9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Dreadhorde General (war) 97
Living End

Suspend 3—{2}{B}{B} Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living End (tsr) 121
Mondrak, Glory Dominus

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead. {1}{W/P}{W/P}, Sacrifice two other artifacts and/or creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Mondrak. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Creature
Mondrak, Glory Dominus (one) 299
Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 332
Wonder

Flying As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature
Wonder (mh2) 271

Maybeboard

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Tokens & Extras

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Elephant

Creature Token
Elephant (tblc) 27
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tdsk) 15
Zombie

Creature Token
Zombie (tvow) 8

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck stats

17 pips - 16 cards
24 mana - 23 cards
20 pips - 15 cards
25 mana - 24 cards
53 pips - 35 cards
30 mana - 27 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
16 mana - 13 cards
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