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Talrand - I am a puppet boss
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Est deck cost: $947.18
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Commander

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Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Creature
Talrand, Sky Summoner (cmm) 499

Commander

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Finisher

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Capture of Jingzhou

Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Capture of Jingzhou (cmm) 79
Nexus of Fate

Take an extra turn after this one. If Nexus of Fate would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Nexus of Fate and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Instant
Nexus of Fate (m19) 306

Finisher

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Removal

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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 (snc) 51
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
Archmage's Charm

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Target player draws two cards. • Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Instant
Archmage's Charm (h1r) 7
Confounding Riddle

Choose one — • Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.

Instant
Confounding Riddle (lci) 50
Cryptic Command

Choose two — • Counter target spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures your opponents control. • Draw a card.

Instant
Cryptic Command (ppro) 2020-1
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 (cmm) 84
Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Instant
Delay (tsr) 61
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
Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 50
Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 50
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 (pip) 344
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 (2x2) 57
Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Return target creature to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Instant
Mystic Confluence (cmm) 492
Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Narset's Reversal (war) 62
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (2xm) 62
Proteus Staff

{2}{U}, {T}: Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. That creature's controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of their library in any order. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Proteus Staff (mrd) 230
Resculpt

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

Instant
Resculpt (stx) 51
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Strix Serenade

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Strix Serenade (mh3) 327
Sublime Epiphany

Choose one or more — • Counter target spell. • Counter target activated or triggered ability. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. • Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. • Target player draws a card.

Instant
Sublime Epiphany (m21) 355
Sudden Substitution

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Exchange control of target noncreature spell and target creature. Then the spell's controller may choose new targets for it.

Instant
Sudden Substitution (c19) 11
Supreme Will

Choose one — • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Supreme Will (hou) 49
Swan Song

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

Instant
Swan Song (ltc) 197
Thassa's Intervention

Choose one — • Look at the top X cards of your library. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays twice {X}.

Instant
Thassa's Intervention (thb) 307
Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}{U} — Counter target spell. + {3} — Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control. + {2} — Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Three Steps Ahead (otj) 323
Wash Away

Cleave {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].

Instant
Wash Away (vow) 87

Removal

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cantrip

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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 (m11) 70

cantrip

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Copy

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Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (ema) 223

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Land

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Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (cmm) 440
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (moc) 416
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
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (who) 296
Scavenger Grounds

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

Land
Scavenger Grounds (hou) 182
Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.

Land
Strip Mine (ath) 77

Land

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Stax

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Back to Basics

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Enchantment
Back to Basics (uma) 46

Stax

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Counters

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Mindbreak Trap

If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Exile any number of target spells.

Instant
Mindbreak Trap (otp) 12

Counters

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Proliferate

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Experimental Augury

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Experimental Augury (one) 49

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Tutor

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Fabricate

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

Sorcery
Fabricate (m10) 52
Merchant Scroll

Search your library for a blue instant card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Merchant Scroll (hml) 33
Muddle the Mixture

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant
Muddle the Mixture (rav) 60
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) 60
Reshape

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Reshape (2xm) 64

Tutor

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Draw

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Anticipate

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Anticipate (m20) 45
Farsight Ritual

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Look at the top four cards of your library. If this spell was bargained, look at the top eight cards of your library instead. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant
Farsight Ritual (woe) 332
Flow of Knowledge

Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard two cards.

Instant
Flow of Knowledge (bro) 381
Impulse

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Impulse (dmu) 55
Memory Deluge

Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast this spell. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Flashback {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Memory Deluge (sch) 8
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (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.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 420
Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (moc) 230
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (wot) 25
Sea Gate Restoration

Sorcery
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 246

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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 (ltc) 273
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (40k) 238
Extraplanar Lens

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile target land you control. Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Artifact
Extraplanar Lens (cmm) 656
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (brc) 141
Gilded Lotus

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

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (v13) 12
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 54
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on this artifact. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on this artifact. When the twelfth hour counter is put on this artifact, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile this artifact.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (otc) 100
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (40k) 244
Mindsplice Apparatus

Flash At the beginning of your upkeep, put an oil counter on this artifact. Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each oil counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Mindsplice Apparatus (one) 382
Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Sapphire Medallion (plst) TMP-306
Sceptre of Eternal Glory

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Artifact
Sceptre of Eternal Glory (40k) 166
Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (clb) 337
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (plg22) 2
Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color. {T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color. {3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Artifact
Throne of Eldraine (woc) 40
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (clb) 344

Ramp

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Untap

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Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant
Dramatic Reversal (p30a) 24

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Maybeboard

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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
Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Land
Cephalid Coliseum (mh3) 300
Chain of Vapor

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that permanent's controller may sacrifice a land of their choice. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Instant
Chain of Vapor (c16) 84
Cyber Conversion

Turn target creature face down. It's a 2/2 Cyberman artifact creature.

Instant
Cyber Conversion (who) 355
Day's Undoing

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. If it's your turn, end the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. Discard down to your maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Sorcery
Day's Undoing (cmm) 85
Desertion

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Desertion (cn2) 107
Discontinuity

During your turn, this spell costs {2}{U}{U} less to cast. End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Instant
Discontinuity (m21) 48
Dress Down

Flash When this enchantment enters, draw a card. Creatures lose all abilities. At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment
Dress Down (mh2) 334
Grafdigger's Cage

Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.

Artifact
Grafdigger's Cage (m20) 227
Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Torque (brc) 145
Mana Crypt

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, this artifact deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Crypt (ema) 225
March of Swirling Mist

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of blue cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Up to X target creatures phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. Each one phases in before its controller untaps during their next untap step.)

Instant
March of Swirling Mist (neo) 61
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
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 (clu) 93
Ravenform

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying. Foretell {U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Ravenform (lcc) 167
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 (woc) 104
Reconstruction

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Reconstruction (3ed) 77
Silver Scrutiny

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if X is 3 or less. Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Silver Scrutiny (dmu) 65
Spell Swindle

Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Spell Swindle (moc) 237
Tale's End

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Instant
Tale's End (m20) 77
Time Stop

End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities, including this spell. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage heals and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Instant
Time Stop (10e) 117
Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}." II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'" III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land Enchantment
Urza's Saga (mh2) 259
Vexing Bauble

Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Vexing Bauble (mh3) 212

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