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Esper midrange
Deck Size: 57
Standard
Est deck cost: $447.06
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Artifact

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Subterranean Schooner

Whenever this Vehicle attacks, target creature that crewed it this turn explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.) Crew 1

Artifact
Subterranean Schooner (lci) 80

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Battle

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Invasion of Amonkhet

Battle
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert (mom) 231Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert (mom) 231

Battle

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Creature

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Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal

Creature
Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead (lci) 88Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead (lci) 88
Deep-Cavern Bat

Flying, lifelink When this creature enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it until this creature leaves the battlefield.

Creature
Deep-Cavern Bat (lci) 102
Dennick, Pious Apprentice

Creature
Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition (mid) 217Dennick, Pious Apprentice // Dennick, Pious Apparition (mid) 217
Faerie Mastermind

Flash Flying Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card. {3}{U}: Each player draws a card.

Creature
Faerie Mastermind (mom) 58
Kitesail Larcenist

Flying, ward {1} When this creature enters, for each player, choose up to one other target artifact or creature that player controls. For as long as this creature remains on the battlefield, the chosen permanents become Treasure artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color" and lose all other abilities.

Creature
Kitesail Larcenist (lci) 61
Raffine, Scheming Seer

Flying, ward {1} Whenever you attack, target attacking creature connives X, where X is the number of attacking creatures. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Creature
Raffine, Scheming Seer (snc) 213
Spyglass Siren

Flying When this creature enters, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Creature
Spyglass Siren (lci) 78

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Instant

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Cut Down

Destroy target creature with total power and toughness 5 or less.

Instant
Cut Down (dmu) 89
Virtue of Loyalty

Enchantment
Virtue of Loyalty // Ardenvale Fealty (woe) 38

Instant

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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
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (dmu) 244
Darkslick Shores

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

Land
Darkslick Shores (one) 250
Deserted Beach

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

Land
Deserted Beach (mid) 260
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

{T}: Add {W}. Channel — {2}{W}, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
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
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (woe) 262
Plaza of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell. {T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary permanents you control. {3}, {T}, Exile this land: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Land
Plaza of Heroes (dmu) 252
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) 254
Restless Reef

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {2}{U}{B}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 4/4 blue and black Shark creature with deathtouch. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, target player mills four cards.

Land
Restless Reef (lci) 282
Seachrome Coast

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

Land
Seachrome Coast (one) 258
Shattered Sanctum

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

Land
Shattered Sanctum (vow) 264
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
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

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Planeswalker

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Kaito Shizuki

At the beginning of your end step, if Kaito entered this turn, he phases out. +1: Draw a card. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn. −2: Create a 1/1 blue Ninja creature token with "This token can't be blocked." −7: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a blue or black creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."

Planeswalker
Kaito Shizuki (neo) 226

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Sorcery

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Gix's Command

Choose two — • Put two +1/+1 counters on up to one creature. It gains lifelink until end of turn. • Destroy each creature with power 2 or less. • Return up to two creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. • Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the highest power among creatures they control.

Sorcery
Gix's Command (bro) 97

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Sideboard

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Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Disdainful Stroke (snc) 39
Get Lost

Destroy target creature, enchantment, or planeswalker. Its controller creates two Map tokens. (They're artifacts with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Instant
Get Lost (lci) 14
Graveyard Trespasser

Creature
Graveyard Trespasser // Graveyard Glutton (mid) 104Graveyard Trespasser // Graveyard Glutton (mid) 104
Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Loran of the Third Path (bro) 12
Parasitic Grasp

Cleave {1}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Parasitic Grasp deals 3 damage to target [Human] creature. You gain 3 life.

Instant
Parasitic Grasp (vow) 123
Preacher of the Schism

Deathtouch Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink. Whenever this creature attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Preacher of the Schism (lci) 113
Shrouded Shepherd

Creature
Shrouded Shepherd // Cleave Shadows (woe) 236
The Wandering Emperor

Flash As long as The Wandering Emperor entered this turn, you may activate her loyalty abilities any time you could cast an instant. +1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. It gains first strike until end of turn. −1: Create a 2/2 white Samurai creature token with vigilance. −2: Exile target tapped creature. You gain 2 life.

Planeswalker
The Wandering Emperor (neo) 42
Tishana's Tidebinder

Flash When this creature enters, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Creature
Tishana's Tidebinder (lci) 81

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Maybeboard

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Case of the Gateway Express

When this Case enters, choose target creature you don't control. Each creature you control deals 1 damage to that creature. To solve — Three or more creatures attacked this turn. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — Creatures you control get +1/+0.

Enchantment
Case of the Gateway Express (mkm) 8
Case of the Stashed Skeleton

When this Case enters, create a 2/1 black Skeleton creature token and suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.) To solve — You control no suspected Skeletons. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — {1}{B}, Sacrifice this Case: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Case of the Stashed Skeleton (mkm) 80
Concealed Courtyard

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

Land
Concealed Courtyard (otj) 268
Destroy Evil

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater. • Destroy target enchantment.

Instant
Destroy Evil (dmu) 17
Doorkeeper Thrull

Flash Flying Artifacts and creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.

Creature
Doorkeeper Thrull (mkm) 13
Dreams of Steel and Oil

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an artifact or creature card from it, then choose an artifact or creature card from their graveyard. Exile the chosen cards.

Sorcery
Dreams of Steel and Oil (bro) 92
Duelist of the Mind

Flying, vigilance Duelist of the Mind's power is equal to the number of cards you've drawn this turn. Whenever you commit a crime, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Duelist of the Mind (otj) 45
Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Duress (mid) 98
Ertai Resurrected

Flash When Ertai Resurrected enters, choose up to one — • Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller draws a card. • Destroy another target creature or planeswalker. Its controller draws a card.

Creature
Ertai Resurrected (dmu) 199
Faerie Dreamthief

Flying When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Faerie Dreamthief (woe) 89
Fblthp, Lost on the Range

Ward {2} You may look at the top card of your library any time. The top card of your library has plot. The plot cost is equal to its mana cost. You may plot nonland cards from the top of your library.

Creature
Fblthp, Lost on the Range (otj) 48
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card. {4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (bro) 95
Horned Loch-Whale

Creature
Horned Loch-Whale // Lagoon Breach (woe) 53
Invasion of Gobakhan

Battle
Invasion of Gobakhan // Lightshield Array (mom) 22Invasion of Gobakhan // Lightshield Array (mom) 22
Jace Reawakened

You can't cast Jace Reawakened during your first, second, or third turns of the game. +1: Draw a card, then discard a card. +1: You may exile a nonland card with mana value 3 or less from your hand. If you do, it becomes plotted. −6: Until end of turn, whenever you cast a spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Planeswalker
Jace Reawakened (otj) 271
Kutzil's Flanker

Flash When this creature enters, choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each creature that left the battlefield under your control this turn. • You gain 2 life and scry 2. • Exile target player's graveyard.

Creature
Kutzil's Flanker (lci) 20
Lazav, Familiar Stranger

Whenever you commit a crime, put a +1/+1 counter on Lazav. Then you may exile a card from a graveyard. If a creature card was exiled this way, you may have Lazav become a copy of that card until end of turn. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Lazav, Familiar Stranger (otj) 216
Lazav, Wearer of Faces

Whenever Lazav attacks, exile target card from a graveyard, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, you may have Lazav become a copy of a creature card exiled with it until end of turn.

Creature
Lazav, Wearer of Faces (mkm) 216
Legions to Ashes

Exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls and all tokens that player controls with the same name as that permanent.

Sorcery
Legions to Ashes (bro) 215
Liliana of the Veil

+1: Each player discards a card. −2: Target player sacrifices a creature. −6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of their choice.

Planeswalker
Liliana of the Veil (dmu) 97
Long Goodbye

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 3 or less.

Instant
Long Goodbye (mkm) 92
Lord Skitter, Sewer King

Whenever another Rat you control enters, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard. At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."

Creature
Lord Skitter, Sewer King (woe) 97
Malevolent Hermit

Creature
Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist (mid) 61Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist (mid) 61
March of Otherworldly Light

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of white cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Exile target artifact, creature, or enchantment with mana value X or less.

Instant
March of Otherworldly Light (neo) 28
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
Mirrex

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if this land entered this turn. {3}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This token can't block." (Players dealt combat damage by it also get a poison counter.)

Land
Mirrex (one) 254
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (dmu) 58
Path of Peril

Cleave {4}{W}{B} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Destroy all creatures [with mana value 2 or less].

Sorcery
Path of Peril (vow) 124
Pest Control

Destroy all nonland permanents with mana value 1 or less. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Pest Control (big) 22
Phyrexian Fleshgorger

Prototype {1}{B}{B} — 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) Menace, lifelink Ward—Pay life equal to this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Fleshgorger (bro) 121
Restless Fortress

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. {2}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 1/4 white and black Nightmare creature until end of turn. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Land
Restless Fortress (woe) 259
Rona, Herald of Invasion

Creature
Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator (mom) 75Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator (mom) 75
Ruin-Lurker Bat

Flying, lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, scry 1. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

Creature
Ruin-Lurker Bat (lci) 33
Sheoldred

Creature
Sheoldred // The True Scriptures (mom) 125Sheoldred // The True Scriptures (mom) 125
Skrelv, Defector Mite

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.) Skrelv can't block. {W/P}, {T}: Choose a color. Another target creature you control gains toxic 1 and hexproof from that color until end of turn. It can't be blocked by creatures of that color this turn. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Skrelv, Defector Mite (one) 33
Slip Out the Back

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

Instant
Slip Out the Back (snc) 62
Snarling Gorehound

Menace Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Snarling Gorehound (mkm) 105
Sorin the Mirthless

+1: Look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card and put it into your hand. If you do, you lose life equal to its mana value. −2: Create a 2/3 black Vampire creature token with flying and lifelink. −7: Sorin deals 13 damage to any target. You gain 13 life.

Planeswalker
Sorin the Mirthless (vow) 131
Sunset Revelry

If an opponent has more life than you, you gain 4 life. If an opponent controls more creatures than you, create two 1/1 white Human creature tokens. If an opponent has more cards in hand than you, draw a card.

Sorcery
Sunset Revelry (ltc) 177
Surge Engine

Defender {U}: This creature loses defender and gains "This creature can't be blocked." {2}{U}: This creature becomes blue and has base power and toughness 5/4. Activate only if this creature doesn't have defender. {4}{U}{U}: Draw three cards. Activate only if this creature is blue and only once.

Creature Artifact
Surge Engine (bro) 81
Tenacious Underdog

Blitz—{2}{B}{B}, Pay 2 life. (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.) You may cast this card from your graveyard using its blitz ability.

Creature
Tenacious Underdog (snc) 97
Tenth District Hero

{1}{W}, Collect evidence 2: This creature becomes a Human Detective with base power and toughness 4/4 and gains vigilance. {2}{W}, Collect evidence 4: If this creature is a Detective, it becomes a legendary creature named Mileva, the Stalwart, it has base power and toughness 5/5, and it gains "Other creatures you control have indestructible."

Creature
Tenth District Hero (mkm) 391
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben (vow) 38
Tinybones Joins Up

When Tinybones Joins Up enters, any number of target players each discard a card. Whenever a legendary creature you control enters, any number of target players each mill a card and lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Tinybones Joins Up (otj) 108
Tinybones, the Pickpocket

Deathtouch Whenever Tinybones deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target nonland permanent card from that player's graveyard, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Tinybones, the Pickpocket (otj) 109
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (bro) 267
Unlicensed Hearse

{T}: Exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. Unlicensed Hearse's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards exiled with it. Crew 2

Artifact
Unlicensed Hearse (snc) 246
Vadmir, New Blood

Whenever you commit a crime, put a +1/+1 counter on Vadmir. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) As long as Vadmir has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has menace and lifelink.

Creature
Vadmir, New Blood (otj) 113
Void Rend

This spell can't be countered. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Void Rend (snc) 230
Werefox Bodyguard

Flash When this creature enters, exile up to one other target non-Fox creature until this creature leaves the battlefield. {1}{W}, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 2 life.

Creature
Werefox Bodyguard (woe) 39

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Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (2x2) 76
Restless Anchorage

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. {1}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 white and blue Bird creature with flying. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, create a Map token.

Land
Restless Anchorage (lci) 280
Wedding Announcement

Enchantment
Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity (vow) 45Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivity (vow) 45

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16 pips - 10 cards
21 mana - 19 cards
19 pips - 19 cards
22 mana - 20 cards
20 pips - 17 cards
24 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
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