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John "Before Damage" Benton
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Sergeant John Benton

Trample, haste Share Intelligence — Whenever Sergeant John Benton deals combat damage to a player, you and that player each draw that many cards.

Creature
Sergeant John Benton (who) 1032

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interaction

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Bridgeworks Battle

Sorcery
Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249
Collective Resistance

Escalate {G} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Target creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Collective Resistance (mh3) 147
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (ss2) 3
Ram Through

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. If the creature you control has trample, excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead.

Instant
Ram Through (iko) 170
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (40k) 190

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Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Canopy Vista (who) 258
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (who) 264
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (m21) 274
Fortified Village

As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Fortified Village (woc) 161
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mh3) 311
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (plg20) 1
Riftstone Portal

{T}: Add {C}. As long as this card is in your graveyard, lands you control have "{T}: Add {G} or {W}."

Land
Riftstone Portal (jud) 143
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (ltc) 326
Sungrass Prairie

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

Land
Sungrass Prairie (woc) 167

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Blossoming Defense

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn.

Instant
Blossoming Defense (kld) 146
Guardian Augmenter

Flash Commander creatures you control get +2/+2. Commanders you control have hexproof.

Creature
Guardian Augmenter (c21) 62
Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar

Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn. Whenever one or more creatures you control each with power greater than its base power deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar (lci) 232
Loran's Escape

Target artifact or creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Scry 1.

Instant
Loran's Escape (bro) 14
Overprotect

Target creature you control gets +3/+3 and gains trample, hexproof, and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Overprotect (blb) 185
Ranger's Guile

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Ranger's Guile (isd) 201
Royal Treatment

Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. Create a Royal Role token attached to that creature. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}.)

Instant
Royal Treatment (woe) 183
Snakeskin Veil

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Snakeskin Veil (sta) 57
Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211
Tyvar's Stand

Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (A creature with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tyvar's Stand (one) 190
Vines of Vastwood

Kicker {G} (You may pay an additional {G} as you cast this spell.) Target creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Instant
Vines of Vastwood (zen) 193

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Become Immense

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Target creature gets +6/+6 until end of turn.

Instant
Become Immense (ktk) 130
Berserk

Cast this spell only before the combat damage step. Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Instant
Berserk (sld) 1738
Bounty of the Hunt

You may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures. For each +1/+1 counter you put on a creature this way, remove a +1/+1 counter from that creature at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Instant
Bounty of the Hunt (all) 85
Choose Your Weapon

Choose one — • Two-Weapon Fighting — Double target creature's power and toughness until end of turn. • Archery — This spell deals 5 damage to target creature with flying.

Instant
Choose Your Weapon (afr) 175
Embiggen

Until end of turn, target non-Brushwagg creature gets +1/+1 for each supertype, card type, and subtype it has.

Instant
Embiggen (unf) 137
Giant Growth

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Instant
Giant Growth (bbd) 200
Gift of the Viper

Put a +1/+1 counter, a reach counter, and a deathtouch counter on target creature. Untap it.

Instant
Gift of the Viper (mh3) 156
Groundswell

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

Instant
Groundswell (wwk) 104
Indomitable Might

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. Enchanted creature's controller may have it assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.

Enchantment
Indomitable Might (woc) 127
Inner Calm, Outer Strength

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Instant
Inner Calm, Outer Strength (sok) 133
Invigorate

If you control a Forest, rather than pay this spell's mana cost, you may have an opponent gain 3 life. Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Instant
Invigorate (a25) 173
Might of Old Krosa

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If you cast this spell during your main phase, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

Instant
Might of Old Krosa (tsp) 204
Might of the Nephilim

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each of its colors.

Instant
Might of the Nephilim (dis) 88
Mutagenic Growth

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Instant
Mutagenic Growth (nph) 116
Prey's Vengeance

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Instant
Prey's Vengeance (ima) 182
Primal Bellow

Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each Forest you control.

Instant
Primal Bellow (zen) 176
Scent of Ivy

Reveal any number of green cards in your hand. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards revealed this way.

Instant
Scent of Ivy (uds) 120
Swell of Growth

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Swell of Growth (bfz) 191
Titanic Growth

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Instant
Titanic Growth (one) 187
Wasteland Viper

Deathtouch Bloodrush — {G}, Discard this creature: Target attacking creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Wasteland Viper (gtc) 139

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Arbor Elf

{T}: Untap target Forest.

Creature
Arbor Elf (pw21) 1
Avacyn's Pilgrim

{T}: Add {W}.

Creature
Avacyn's Pilgrim (mm3) 119
Azusa, Lost but Seeking

You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.

Creature
Azusa, Lost but Seeking (m21) 173
Bear Umbra

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, untap all lands you control." Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Bear Umbra (c18) 131
Birds of Paradise

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

Creature
Birds of Paradise (dmr) 336
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (m15) 173
Elvish Spirit Guide

Exile this creature from your hand: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Spirit Guide (dmr) 157
Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Enchantment
Exploration (dmr) 339
Fyndhorn Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Fyndhorn Elves (p30a) 3
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (7ed) 253
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (who) 245
Summer Bloom

You may play up to three additional lands this turn.

Sorcery
Summer Bloom (2x2) 160
Utopia Sprawl

Enchant Forest As this Aura enters, choose a color. Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of the chosen color.

Enchantment
Utopia Sprawl (wot) 63
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (ice) 277

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Empyrial Armor

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand.

Enchantment
Empyrial Armor (wth) 13
Empyrial Plate

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each card in your hand. Equip {2}

Artifact
Empyrial Plate (c16) 251
Hand of Vecna

At the beginning of combat on your turn, equipped creature or a creature you control named Vecna gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Equip—Pay 1 life for each card in your hand. Equip {2}

Artifact
Hand of Vecna (afr) 394
Phytoburst

Target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Phytoburst (dgm) 46
Scale Up

Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a green Wurm with base power and toughness 6/4. Overload {4}{G}{G} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Scale Up (mh1) 179

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Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Crop Rotation (dmr) 154
Regrowth

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Regrowth (sta) 56
Revive

Return target green card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Revive (mmq) 262
Spellbook

You have no maximum hand size.

Artifact
Spellbook (9ed) 309
Wild Defiance

Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of an instant or sorcery spell, that creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Wild Defiance (avr) 203

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Duelist's Heritage

Whenever one or more creatures attack, you may have target attacking creature gain double strike until end of turn.

Enchantment
Duelist's Heritage (ncc) 197
Flaming Fist

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks, it gains double strike until end of turn."

Enchantment
Flaming Fist (clb) 18
Kaya's Onslaught

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains double strike until end of turn. Foretell {W} (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.)

Instant
Kaya's Onslaught (khm) 18
Rustler Rampage

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Untap all creatures target player controls. + {1} — Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Rustler Rampage (otj) 27

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Deck Info

Deck stats

11 pips - 10 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 2 cards
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0 mana - 2 cards
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0 mana - 2 cards
55 pips - 53 cards
27 mana - 27 cards
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5 mana - 4 cards
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