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a Portent of Grave Beginnings
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The Wise Mothman

Flying Whenever The Wise Mothman enters or attacks, each player gets a rad counter. Whenever one or more nonland cards are milled, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures, where X is the number of nonland cards milled this way.

Creature
The Wise Mothman (pip) 4

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Cryptids that wear counters

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Bloatfly Swarm

Flying This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it. If damage would be dealt to this creature while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage, remove that many +1/+1 counters from it, then give each player a rad counter for each +1/+1 counter removed this way.

Creature
Bloatfly Swarm (pip) 42
Drelnoch

Whenever this creature becomes blocked, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Drelnoch (csp) 32
Elusive Krasis

This creature can't be blocked. Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Elusive Krasis (gtc) 160
Hornet Queen

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Creature
Hornet Queen (clb) 825
Indominus Rex, Alpha

As Indominus Rex enters, discard any number of creature cards. It enters with a flying counter on it if a card discarded this way has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, hexproof, haste, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. When Indominus Rex enters, draw a card for each counter on it.

Creature
Indominus Rex, Alpha (rex) 14
Sauroform Hybrid

{4}{G}{G}: Adapt 4. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put four +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Sauroform Hybrid (rna) 140
Vashta Nerada

Indestructible Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Vashta Nerada (who) 376
Watchful Radstag

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever this creature evolves, create a token that's a copy of it.

Creature
Watchful Radstag (pip) 87
Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Hive Mind — Whenever a player mills one or more creature cards, you create a 1/1 black Horror creature token. {1}, {T}: Target player mills three cards. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Zellix, Sanity Flayer (clb) 652

Cryptids that wear counters

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Land

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Argoth, Sanctum of Nature

This land enters tapped unless you control a legendary green creature. {T}: Add {G}. {2}{G}{G}, {T}: Create a 2/2 green Bear creature token, then mill three cards. Activate only as a sorcery. (Melds with Titania, Voice of Gaea.)

Land
Argoth, Sanctum of Nature (bro) 256a
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
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
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (woe) 276
Hinterland Harbor

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

Land
Hinterland Harbor (dmr) 248
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (woe) 269
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Opulent Palace

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

Land
Opulent Palace (pip) 278
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
Rejuvenating Springs

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

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (woe) 272
Undergrowth Stadium

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

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 435
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 (dmr) 261
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) 259

Land

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Mill+Utility

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Glowing One

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they get four rad counters. Whenever a player mills a nonland card, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Glowing One (pip) 76
Monster Manual

Artifact
Monster Manual // Zoological Study (clb) 242
Titania, Voice of Gaea

Reach Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, you gain 2 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are four or more land cards in your graveyard and you both own and control Titania, Voice of Gaea and a land named Argoth, Sanctum of Nature, exile them, then meld them into Titania, Gaea Incarnate.

Creature
Titania, Voice of Gaea (bro) 193

Mill+Utility

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Returns from the Yard

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Brokkos, Apex of Forever

Mutate {2}{U/B}{G}{G} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Trample You may cast this card from your graveyard using its mutate ability.

Creature
Brokkos, Apex of Forever (iko) 378
Muldrotha, the Gravetide

During each of your turns, you may play a land and cast a permanent spell of each permanent type from your graveyard. (If a card has multiple permanent types, choose one as you play it.)

Creature
Muldrotha, the Gravetide (2x2) 384

Returns from the Yard

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Card Draw

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Chemister's Insight

Draw two cards. Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Instant
Chemister's Insight (plst) GRN-32
Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Deep Analysis (ltc) 188
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
Forbidden Alchemy

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Flashback {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Forbidden Alchemy (2x2) 49
Inspiring Call

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Instant
Inspiring Call (pip) 203
Mirelurk Queen

Vigilance When this creature enters, target player gets two rad counters. Whenever one or more nonland cards are milled, draw a card, then put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Mirelurk Queen (pip) 33

Card Draw

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Evasion

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Keeper of Keys

When this creature enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you're the monarch, creatures you control can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Keeper of Keys (cn2) 34
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

Evasion

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Mill+Board Stuff

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Crawling Infestation

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere during your turn, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Crawling Infestation (cmm) 281
Old Rutstein

When Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If a noncreature, nonland card is milled this way, create a Blood token.

Creature
Old Rutstein (vow) 244
Screeching Scorchbeast

Flying, menace Whenever this creature attacks, each player gets two rad counters. Whenever one or more nonland cards are milled, you may create that many 2/2 black Zombie Mutant creature tokens. Do this only once each turn.

Creature
Screeching Scorchbeast (pip) 49
Vilespawn Spider

Reach At the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) {2}{G}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Create a 1/1 green Insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Vilespawn Spider (vow) 250

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Noncreature 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
Gemrazer

Mutate {1}{G}{G} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Reach, trample Whenever this creature mutates, destroy target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.

Creature
Gemrazer (iko) 155
Rampaging Yao Guai

Vigilance, trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature enters, destroy any number of target artifacts and/or enchantments with total mana value X or less.

Creature
Rampaging Yao Guai (pip) 610
World Breaker

Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell, exile target artifact, enchantment, or land. Reach {2}{C}, Sacrifice a land: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Creature
World Breaker (j22) 93

Noncreature Removal

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gotta make up for all the radiation

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Gnaw to the Bone

You gain 2 life for each creature card in your graveyard. Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Gnaw to the Bone (isd) 183

gotta make up for all the radiation

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Counterplay

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Duskshell Crawler

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Duskshell Crawler (j22) 650
Simic Manipulator

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) {T}, Remove one or more +1/+1 counters from this creature: Gain control of target creature with power less than or equal to the number of +1/+1 counters removed this way.

Creature
Simic Manipulator (gtc) 50
Skatewing Spy

{5}{U}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has flying.

Creature
Skatewing Spy (rna) 52
Vexing Radgull

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two rad counters if they don't have any rad counters. Otherwise, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Vexing Radgull (pip) 41

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Flavor

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As Foretold

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a time counter on this enchantment. Once each turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for a spell you cast with mana value X or less, where X is the number of time counters on this enchantment.

Enchantment
As Foretold (2x2) 38
Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, investigate. {T}, Sacrifice X Clues: Target opponent reveals the top X cards of their library. You may put a nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield under your control. That player puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Creature
Lonis, Cryptozoologist (mh2) 204
Recon Craft Theta

Flying When this Vehicle enters, create a 0/0 blue Alien creature token. Put a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever this Vehicle attacks, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Crew 2

Artifact
Recon Craft Theta (pip) 964
Renegade Silent

At the beginning of your end step, goad up to one target creature you don't control and put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This creature phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until your next turn.)

Creature
Renegade Silent (who) 53

Flavor

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Mill+Ramp

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Aftermath Analyst

When this creature enters, mill three cards. {3}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Aftermath Analyst (mkm) 148
Eccentric Farmer

When this creature enters, mill three cards, then you may return a land card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Eccentric Farmer (mid) 185

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Reanimation

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
Diregraf Rebirth

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature that died this turn. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback {5}{B}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Diregraf Rebirth (mid) 220
Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Dread Return (cmm) 153
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
Reanimate

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

Sorcery
Reanimate (jmp) 270
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (cmm) 195

Reanimation

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Critter Removal

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Alpha Deathclaw

Menace, trample When this creature enters or becomes monstrous, destroy target permanent. {5}{B}{G}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

Creature
Alpha Deathclaw (pip) 91
Chupacabra Echo

Fathomless descent — When this creature enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Chupacabra Echo (lci) 97
Dirge Bat

Mutate {4}{B}{B} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Flash Flying Whenever this creature mutates, destroy target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.

Creature
Dirge Bat (iko) 84
Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (clb) 770
Skyfisher Spider

Reach When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target nonland permanent. When this creature dies, you may gain 1 life for each creature card in your graveyard. If you do, exile this creature from your graveyard.

Creature
Skyfisher Spider (bro) 221

Critter Removal

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Graveyard size matters

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Emrakul, the Promised End

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard. When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn. Flying, trample, protection from instants

Creature
Emrakul, the Promised End (emn) 6
Lord of Extinction

Lord of Extinction's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in all graveyards.

Creature
Lord of Extinction (puma) U23
Spider Spawning

Create a 1/2 green Spider creature token with reach for each creature card in your graveyard. Flashback {6}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Spider Spawning (2x2) 158

Graveyard size matters

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Mill+Recursion

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Crop Sigil

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill a card. Delirium — {2}{G}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Return up to one target creature card and up to one target land card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Enchantment
Crop Sigil (emn) 153
Infesting Radroach

Flying This creature can't block. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they get that many rad counters. Whenever an opponent mills a nonland card, if this creature is in your graveyard, you may return it to your hand.

Creature
Infesting Radroach (pip) 574
Kagha, Shadow Archdruid

Whenever Kagha attacks, it gains deathtouch until end of turn. Mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) Once during each of your turns, you may play a land or cast a permanent spell from among cards in your graveyard that were put there from your library this turn.

Creature
Kagha, Shadow Archdruid (clb) 279

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Recursion

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Conduit of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard. {T}: Choose target nonland permanent card in your graveyard. If you haven't cast a spell this turn, you may cast that card. If you do, you can't cast additional spells this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Conduit of Worlds (one) 163
Dryad's Revival

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Flashback {4}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Dryad's Revival (mid) 183
Erinis, Gloom Stalker

Deathtouch Whenever Erinis attacks, return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Erinis, Gloom Stalker (clb) 230
Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (cmm) 286
Timeless Witness

When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Eternalize {5}{G}{G} ({5}{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 Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Timeless Witness (mh2) 179

Recursion

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Maybeboard

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Lumbering Megasloth

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each counter among players and permanents. Trample This creature enters tapped.

Creature
Lumbering Megasloth (pip) 80
Nezahal, Primal Tide

This spell can't be countered. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card. Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Nezahal, Primal Tide (cmr) 401
Young Deathclaws

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Young Deathclaws (pip) 125

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