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Gale Reanimator Control cEDH
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Commander

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Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy (clb) 72
Scion of Halaster

Commander creatures you own have "The first time you would draw a card each turn, instead look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard and the other back on top of your library. Then draw a card."

Enchantment
Scion of Halaster (clb) 145

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Creature

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Boggart Trawler

Creature
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Burning-Rune Demon

Flying When this creature enters, you may search your library for exactly two cards not named Burning-Rune Demon that have different names. If you do, reveal those cards. An opponent chooses one of them. Put the chosen card into your hand and the other into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature
Burning-Rune Demon (khm) 81
Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature
Doom Whisperer (mkc) 128
Hydroelectric Specimen

Creature
Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240
Malevolent Hermit

Creature
Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist (mid) 61Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist (mid) 61
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (ltc) 270
Thunderclap Drake

Flying Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{U}, Sacrifice this creature: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Creature
Thunderclap Drake (otc) 17
Wandering Archaic

Creature
Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6

Creature

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Disruption

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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
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) 40
Deadly Rollick

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

Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Instant
Dismember (plst) MM2-79
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
Flusterstorm

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Instant
Flusterstorm (plst) CMD-46
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
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
Mental Misstep

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with mana value 1.

Instant
Mental Misstep (nph) 38
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 (zen) 57
Opposition Agent

Flash You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries. While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature
Opposition Agent (cmr) 141
Orcish Bowmasters

Flash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 554
Pact of Negation

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Pact of Negation (tsr) 77
Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Snuff Out (gvl) 53
Submerge

If an opponent controls a Forest and you control an Island, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Put target creature on top of its owner's library.

Instant
Submerge (nem) 48
Swan Song

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

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (cmm) 191
Valley Floodcaller

Flash You may cast noncreature spells as though they had flash. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Birds, Frogs, Otters, and Rats you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Untap them.

Creature
Valley Floodcaller (blb) 79
Void Snare

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Sorcery
Void Snare (m15) 82

Disruption

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Draw

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Brain Freeze

Target player mills three cards. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Instant
Brain Freeze (plst) SCG-29
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (afc) 79
Careful Study

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Sorcery
Careful Study (ody) 70
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
Demonic Consultation

Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

Instant
Demonic Consultation (ice) 121
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 82
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
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (woc) 93
Gitaxian Probe

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Gitaxian Probe (plst) NPH-35
Gush

You may return two Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Draw two cards.

Instant
Gush (plst) DD2-27
Imperial Seal

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

Sorcery
Imperial Seal (2x2) 79
Intuition

Search your library for three cards and reveal them. Target opponent chooses one. Put that card into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Instant
Intuition (tmp) 70
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
Mnemonic Betrayal

Exile all opponents' graveyards. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them. At the beginning of the next end step, if any of those cards remain exiled, return them to their owners' graveyards. Exile Mnemonic Betrayal.

Sorcery
Mnemonic Betrayal (grn) 189
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) 59
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
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (moc) 259
Personal Tutor

Search your library for a sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Sorcery
Personal Tutor (cmm) 110
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (ncc) 229
Praetor's Grasp

Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

Sorcery
Praetor's Grasp (nph) 71
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 (j22) 63
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
Serum Visions

Draw a card. Scry 2.

Sorcery
Serum Visions (j22) 345
Tainted Pact

Exile the top card of your library. You may put that card into your hand unless it has the same name as another card exiled this way. Repeat this process until you put a card into your hand or you exile two cards with the same name, whichever comes first.

Instant
Tainted Pact (ody) 164
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) 697
Unmarked Grave

Search your library for a nonlegendary card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Unmarked Grave (mh2) 106
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
Yawgmoth's Will

Until end of turn, you may play lands and cast spells from your graveyard. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, exile that card instead.

Sorcery
Yawgmoth's Will (usg) 171

Draw

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Instant

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Banishing Knack

Until end of turn, target creature gains "{T}: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Instant
Banishing Knack (eve) 17
Sink into Stupor

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

Instant

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Land

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Agadeem's Awakening

Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
Ancient Tomb

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

Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ktk) 230
Cabal Pit

{T}: Add {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Land
Cabal Pit (ody) 315
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (lcc) 325
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (ktk) 233
Gemstone Caverns

If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand. {T}: Add {C}. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

Land
Gemstone Caverns (tsr) 280
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (lci) 395
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
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
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
Sea Gate Restoration

Sorcery
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76
Snow-Covered Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Island (j22) 833
Snow-Covered Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Swamp (khm) 281
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (lci) 398
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
Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (bro) 267
Underground Sea

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)

Land
Underground Sea (3ed) 290
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
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) 291

Land

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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 (lcc) 299
Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Instant
Cabal Ritual (tor) 51
Chrome Mox

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Artifact
Chrome Mox (2xm) 240
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) DDE-18
Energy Tap

Tap target untapped creature you control. If you do, add an amount of {C} equal to that creature's mana value.

Sorcery
Energy Tap (4ed) 69
Lotus Petal

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

Artifact
Lotus Petal (plst) TMP-294
Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 308
Mox Amber

{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Mox Diamond

If this artifact would enter, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put this artifact onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Mox Diamond (sth) 138
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (lcc) 313

Ramp

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Reanimation

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Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Sorcery
Persist (mh2) 96
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
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96

Reanimation

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win-cons

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Thassa's Oracle

When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Creature
Thassa's Oracle (thb) 73

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Maybeboard

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Ad Nauseam

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Instant
Ad Nauseam (2xm) 76
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
Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (cmm) 419
Beseech the Mirror

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.

Sorcery
Beseech the Mirror (woe) 82
Borne Upon a Wind

You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash. Draw a card.

Instant
Borne Upon a Wind (ltr) 495
Capture of Jingzhou

Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Capture of Jingzhou (cmm) 79
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
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260
Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Culling the Weak (exo) 55
Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Intent (bro) 89
Displacer Kitten

Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature
Displacer Kitten (clb) 63
Doomsday

Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Sorcery
Doomsday (plst) WTH-66
Eldritch Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of cards in their graveyard.

Sorcery
Eldritch Pact (clb) 126
Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
Fabricate

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

Sorcery
Fabricate (plst) M10-52
Far Traveler

Commander creatures you own have "At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target tapped creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control."

Enchantment
Far Traveler (clb) 17
Fetid Pools

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Fetid Pools (akh) 243
Flesh Duplicate

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has vanishing 3 if that creature doesn't have vanishing. (A permanent with vanishing 3 enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)

Creature
Flesh Duplicate (who) 359
Gilded Drake

Flying When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't or can't make an exchange, sacrifice this creature. This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal.

Creature
Gilded Drake (usg) 76
Guild Artisan

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, you create two Treasure tokens." (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Guild Artisan (clb) 179
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (afc) 246
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
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 (woc) 95
Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Land
Inventors' Fair (plst) KLD-247
Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Artifact
Jeweled Lotus (cmm) 396
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant (neo) 59
Lim-Dûl's Vault

Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.

Instant
Lim-Dûl's Vault (c13) 197
Lion's Eye Diamond

Discard your hand, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant.

Artifact
Lion's Eye Diamond (mir) 307
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
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 (2xm) 270
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
Merchant Scroll

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

Sorcery
Merchant Scroll (8ed) 91
Mists of Lórien

Replicate {U} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Return target nonland permanent and each other nonland permanent with the same mana value as that permanent to their owners' hands.

Sorcery
Mists of Lórien (ltc) 501
Mox Opal

Metalcraft — {T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Artifact
Mox Opal (2xm) 275
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 (rvr) 315
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
Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step. As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Draw X cards.

Instant
Necrologia (7ed) 149
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
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
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (znc) 96
Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (m21) 117
Phantasmal Image

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Creature
Phantasmal Image (afc) 89
Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Metamorph (2xm) 61
Phyrexian Tower

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

Land
Phyrexian Tower (plst) USG-322
Rain of Filth

Until end of turn, lands you control gain "Sacrifice this land: Add {B}."

Instant
Rain of Filth (usg) 151
Razaketh, the Foulblooded

Flying, trample Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Razaketh, the Foulblooded (cmm) 181
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 (plst) 2XM-64
Scheming Symmetry

Choose two target players. Each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.

Sorcery
Scheming Symmetry (m20) 113
Shallow Grave

Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Shallow Grave (mir) 141
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107
Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Solve the Equation (stx) 54
Street Urchin

Commander creatures you own have "{1}, Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."

Enchantment
Street Urchin (clb) 197
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (lcc) 355
Sunken Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {U/B}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Land
Sunken Ruins (2xm) 326
Talion, the Kindly Lord

Flying As Talion enters, choose a number between 1 and 10. Whenever an opponent casts a spell with mana value, power, or toughness equal to the chosen number, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Talion, the Kindly Lord (woe) 215
Tavern Brawler

Commander creatures you own have "At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's mana value. You may play that card this turn."

Enchantment
Tavern Brawler (clb) 200
Temporal Manipulation

Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Temporal Manipulation (plst) UMA-77
Time Warp

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Time Warp (m10) 75
Timetwister

Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards. (Then put Timetwister into its owner's graveyard.)

Sorcery
Timetwister (2ed) 85
Transmute Artifact

Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, search your library for an artifact card. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value, put it onto the battlefield. If it's greater, you may pay {X}, where X is the difference. If you do, put it onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. Then shuffle.

Sorcery
Transmute Artifact (me4) 69
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
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (lcc) 180

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{"ops":[{"insert":"PRIMER"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nGale, Waterdeep Prodigy allows you to play an extra instant whenever you play a sorcery from your hand, and vice versa. This gives you two benefits:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Card Advantage: "},{"insert":"Put simply, you're getting an extra card every time you successfully use Gale's ability. This is the primary reason for playing him, in any capacity. It also goes double whenever the card you play for \"free\" draws cards."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Playing Sorceries at Instant Speed: "},{"insert":"The main reason I went with a control build for the deck. Playing instants at sorcery speed feels bad, even if it is card advantage. Playing sorceries at instant speed, though? That feels amazing, and allows you to play the majority of the deck during your opponents turns, including your win cons, a fair amount of the time."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nAs for how you win the game? Well, start by not rushing into it. In testing, I've had much more success when I use the tutor in my opening hand to go find a Mana Drain than I have when I've used it to go find a win condition. With the amount of card draw in the deck, it's much easier to sit back and interact and grab the win after the table has exhausted itself than it is to try and brute force through a Thoracle-Consult on turn 2.\n\nIn short, Gale wants you to ramp a little, then sit back and have lands untapped and interaction available for when someone else tries to win the game. Once you've gotten through the crucial early turns and no one has Turbo-Naused out the table, you can then play down Gale and a few cantrip sorceries to make sure you don't run out of counter magic at an inopportune time, which you can then replay when you play your interaction.\n\nReanimator"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nAlong the way, you'll notice that there is a small reanimator package in the deck, which I implore you to keep in mind you can play at instant speed with Gale's ability:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Hullbreaker Horror: "},{"insert":"Put simply, your control win-con before your win-con. Horror will take any instant you have and make it into a counterspell or a boomerang, and can also provide ramp if you have a mana positive rock available to bounce, which can get you into a nice loop of playing every spell in your hand and graveyard. Just don't go too crazy and run out of ways to interact!"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Consecrated Sphinx: "},{"insert":"No control deck is complete without card draw, and while you'll be tutoring up The One Ring quite a bit as well, there's no better card draw engine than Consecrated Sphinx."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Entomb: "},{"insert":"Note that Entomb does not say \"creature\" anywhere on it, so you can use it to put crucial spells in your graveyard, as well as reanimator targets. Shockingly, I find myself using this for the former rather than the latter more often. With Gale in play, it's not uncommon to cast an Entomb, tack a Ponder onto it, then grab a removal spell to deal with a problem, or go grab an extra turn spell to start trying to win the game."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Unmarked Grave: "},{"insert":"Grave can unfortunately only get creatures, but does grab every creature in the deck with the exception of Talion. It also has the \"benefit\" of being a sorcery, meaning that it will be much easier to tack on to a counter at instant speed than Entomb will be when you're playing at sorcery speed and trying to keep mana open."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Reanimate: "},{"insert":"The best card in your deck if you have creatures in the graveyard, you'll find yourself tutoring for this often in the mid-game to get a Horror or a Sphinx down, then to have it available at instant speed to finish the game off with a Thassa's Oracle out of the graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Persist: "},{"insert":"Bad Reanimate is still Reanimate, and it hits every creature in the deck with the exception of Talion."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Unearth: "},{"insert":"While it can't get down the heavy hitters, Unearth does hit five targets in the deck, including two card draw creatures (Faerie Mastermind/Ledger Shredder), two Stax creatures (Orcish Bowmasters/Opposition Agent), and your primary win-con (Thassa's Oracle). Combine all that with getting to do it at instant speed from the graveyard, and I implore you not to underestimate how good this card can be."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nExtra Turns"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nOutside of the acres of interaction, card draw, ramp, and the above reanimator package, the other thing that takes a lot of players by surprise is the two five-mana extra turn spells, "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Capture of Jinzhou"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Temporal Manipulation"},{"insert":". While normally these sorts of things just aren't good enough to cut it at a cEDH table, when you can cast them repeatedly with Gale, the result often means that you can take two extra turns to find your second extra turn spell, then take two more to set up your win condition. I highly suggest using this tactic, rather than going straight into a Thassa's Oracle-Demonic Consultation attempt, especially since you'll often be doing so with Consult or Tainted Pact being cast at sorcery speed from the graveyard, opening you up to getting your entire library exiled and then getting your Thassa's Oracle countered. \n\nIn short, if you can take extra turns instead of doing something risky, I would suggest it. It's just as likely to bait out the counterspell, and will leave you with options (like that extra turn spell in your graveyard).\n\nWin Conditions"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Thassa's Oracle"},{"insert":": As with any Dimir deck ever, Thassa's Oracle paired with either Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact is in the deck. Unlike most decks, Gale and a reanimator package gives you a much more resilient pairing of these cards, allowing any piece of them to be countered only to come back later (provided they don't get exiled in the process). Even better, your usually sorcery-speed Reanimator options allow for an instant speed attempt at a win with a Thoracle out of the graveyard, tacking on an Unearth or a Reanimate to an instant from the graveyard, putting Thoracle's trigger on the stack, and casting Consult or Pact from hand to exile it. Unfortunately, your second tries with Pact and Consult from the graveyard are much riskier, making you have to exile your entire library at sorcery speed before then playing a Thoracle and hoping no one has the counterspell. Do keep in mind before doing so, however, that either a Hullbreaker Horror or a Displacer Kitten can give your Thoracle's trigger a second lease on life!"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Borrow Target Storm Deck: "},{"insert":"As you'll note, Brain Freeze is in the list, aiding us in milling out our whole deck for a Thoracle, or simply filling the graveyard with things to reanimate and/or cast with Gale/Yawgmoth's Will. In addition to those strategies, there is also Praetor's Grasp, Opposition Agent, and Mnemonic Deluge, all of which could put you in a situation where you can grab a win-con from another deck. The primary target for this is Underworld Breach. While you do not have a Lion's Eye Diamond to pursue a full loop, you do have a deck already dedicated to milling yourself, and can often value yourself to a win with a full graveyard, full hand, and full battlefield even if your Thoracle has been exiled. If it hasn't, though? Then stealing a Breach from another deck is going to make this child's play."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Extra Turns & Aggro: "},{"insert":"Being real, there are no other win conditions you really want to pursue in the deck other than Thassa's Oracle. There are of course other win conditions that you could steal from opponents decks, but many of those will be commander-dependent and won't help you much. What will help out? Is a plethora of large creatures like Consecrated Sphinx, Hullbreacher Horror, and Ledger Shredder that can help you keep control of the board and swing in for large chunks of life total. It's not sexy, but when you've got nothing else, it'll do!"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Other Considerations/Odd Cards"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Scion of Halaster:"},{"insert":" Your secondary commander is, like all backgrounds, easily interruptable and not very good in general. With that said, if you find yourself in need of extra cards and with some extra mana and/or time on your hands, don't forget Scion is right there in the command zone! With instant speed card draw, it will often put 3-4 cards a turn in the yard and let you look at double that while making those decisions."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Personal Tutor"},{"insert":": Most cEDH decks would scoff at the limited flexibility of a tutor that only gets you a sorcery at sorcery speed (and on top of the library to boot), but remember, you can play it again at instant speed, same goes for whatever you grab with it! Once this deck gets Gale down, it relies on sorceries to keep its hand full, whether that be with cantrips like Ponder, actual card advantage like Night's Whisper, or with extra turn spells that do indeed draw a card. Especially keep in mind how good free spells can be with Gale, as well, and don't be afraid to tutor up a Gitaxian Probe. Lastly, also keep in mind with both this and Mystical Tutor, you can go grab a \"land\" in the form of either Agadeem's Awakening or Sea Gate Restoration."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Energy Tap:"},{"insert":" I know, I know, it's bad! It's also the only Sorcery ritual in Dimir, so if you're in a hard spot mana-wise but have some free instants in the form of Snuff Out, Submerge, Forces, Mindbreak Trap, Deadly Rollick, Fierce Guardianship, or Mental Misstep, this can be a crucial extra 2, 3, or 7 mana out of the graveyard to help get you where you need to be to be able to afford that extra turn spell or Yawgmoth's Will win."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Necropotence: "},{"insert":"Not an odd card at all, I only bring it up to mention that it's a large non-bo with everything our deck usually wants to do, taking all the cards you discard and exiliing them so you can't continue to cast/reanimate them. Just something to keep in mind before you plop it down and start drawing 15 cards a turn."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Intuition: "},{"insert":"Yet another not-weird card, I would just mention that there is not really a determined \"best pile\" to get in this deck, as there is in most decks playing Intuition. Instead, it's often a cat and mouse game of grabbing the best three cards for the situation, and knowing that two of them will end up in your graveyard to be cast out of it with the third. As such, I highly suggest if you have a Gale in play, to grab a mix of instants and sorceries no matter what you're trying to do, that way you can easily cast the other two cards. Alternatively, there is always grabbing Thoracle, Reanimate, and Unearth!"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"}]}
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