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The Apex of *Counter*play (Budget)
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Commander

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Skullbriar, the Walking Grave

Haste Whenever Skullbriar deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Counters remain on Skullbriar as it moves to any zone other than a player's hand or library.

Creature
Skullbriar, the Walking Grave (2x2) 277

Commander

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Land

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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
Blighted Woodland

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Blighted Woodland (clb) 881
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (lcc) 325
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (lcc) 328
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (lcc) 329
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (lci) 402
Forge of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Choose target commander that entered this turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and a loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Land
Forge of Heroes (cmm) 995
Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (cmm) 1001
Llanowar Reborn

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Graft 1 (This land enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this land onto it.)

Land
Llanowar Reborn (lcc) 341
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 (lcc) 343
Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Land
Opal Palace (cmm) 422
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (lcc) 349
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (lci) 397
Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Wood (cmm) 1040
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (lcc) 360
Tyrite Sanctum

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target legendary creature becomes a God in addition to its other types. Put a +1/+1 counter on it. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put an indestructible counter on target God.

Land
Tyrite Sanctum (cmm) 1049

Land

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Artifact

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Belt of Giant Strength

Equipped creature has base power and toughness 10/10. Equip {10}. This ability costs {X} less to activate, where X is the power of the creature it targets.

Artifact
Belt of Giant Strength (afc) 38
Fractal Harness

When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it and attach this Equipment to it. Whenever equipped creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on it. Equip {2}

Artifact
Fractal Harness (c21) 61
Key to the City

{T}, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn. Whenever this artifact becomes untapped, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Key to the City (c21) 248
Tarrian's Soulcleaver

Equipped creature has vigilance. Whenever another artifact or creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. Equip {2}

Artifact
Tarrian's Soulcleaver (lci) 264

Artifact

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Ramp

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Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (lcc) 235
Deathsprout

Destroy target creature. Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Deathsprout (plst) WAR-189
Entish Restoration

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Entish Restoration (ltr) 163
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (lcc) 241
Fertilid

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {1}{G}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Target player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.

Creature
Fertilid (moc) 296
Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Harrow (znc) 69
Incubation Druid

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. If this creature has a +1/+1 counter on it, add three mana of that type instead. {3}{G}{G}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Incubation Druid (moc) 302
Kami of Whispered Hopes

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.

Creature
Kami of Whispered Hopes (mom) 196
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (lcc) 245
Ordeal of Nylea

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice this Aura. When you sacrifice this Aura, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Ordeal of Nylea (j22) 699
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (lcc) 248
Rishkar, Peema Renegade

When Rishkar enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two target creatures. Each creature you control with a counter on it has "{T}: Add {G}."

Creature
Rishkar, Peema Renegade (cmm) 317
Search for Tomorrow

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Search for Tomorrow (dmc) 137

Ramp

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Creature

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Corpsejack Menace

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Creature
Corpsejack Menace (plst) IMA-197
Daring Fiendbonder

Haste This creature attacks each combat if able. {1}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Daring Fiendbonder (c20) 41
Disciple of Bolas

When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (ncc) 247
Duskfang Mentor

When this creature enters, put a lifelink counter on target non-Human creature you control. {1}{B}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with lifelink.

Creature
Duskfang Mentor (iko) 86
Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Creature
Forgotten Ancient (moc) 297
Hexavus

Flying This creature enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a flying counter on another target creature. {1}, Remove a counter from another creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Hexavus (brc) 14
Hornbash Mentor

When this creature enters, put a trample counter on target non-Human creature you control. {2}{G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with trample.

Creature
Hornbash Mentor (iko) 159
Managorger Hydra

Trample Whenever a player casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Managorger Hydra (moc) 307
Pridemalkin

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

Creature
Pridemalkin (moc) 308
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (c15) 200
Scavenged Brawler

Flying, vigilance, trample, lifelink {5}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Choose target creature. Put four +1/+1 counters, a flying counter, a vigilance counter, a trample counter, and a lifelink counter on that creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature Artifact
Scavenged Brawler (brc) 17
Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Scavenging Ooze (onc) 112
Slippery Bogbonder

Flash Hexproof When this creature enters, put a hexproof counter on target creature. Then move any number of counters from among creatures you control onto that creature.

Creature
Slippery Bogbonder (ncc) 312
Titanoth Rex

Trample Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put a trample counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Titanoth Rex (plst) IKO-174
Tuskguard Captain

Outlast {G} ({G}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.) Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample.

Creature
Tuskguard Captain (cmm) 328
Varolz, the Scar-Striped

Each creature card in your graveyard has scavenge. The scavenge cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile a creature card from your graveyard and pay its mana cost: Put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that card's power on target creature. Scavenge only as a sorcery.) Sacrifice another creature: Regenerate Varolz.

Creature
Varolz, the Scar-Striped (dgm) 112
Verdurous Gearhulk

Trample When this creature enters, distribute four +1/+1 counters among any number of target creatures you control.

Creature Artifact
Verdurous Gearhulk (mic) 145
Winding Constrictor

If one or more counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead. If you would get one or more counters, you get that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters instead.

Creature
Winding Constrictor (plst) AER-140

Creature

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Sorcery

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Call of the Death-Dweller

Return up to two target creature cards with total mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a deathtouch counter on either of them. Then put a menace counter on either of them.

Sorcery
Call of the Death-Dweller (iko) 78
Increasing Savagery

Put five +1/+1 counters on target creature. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, put ten +1/+1 counters on that creature instead. Flashback {5}{G}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Increasing Savagery (dds) 47
Rite of Consumption

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery
Rite of Consumption (shm) 76

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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Agent of the Shadow Thieves

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn."

Enchantment
Agent of the Shadow Thieves (clb) 108
Demonic Embrace

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+1, has flying, and is a Demon in addition to its other types. You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying 3 life and discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs.

Enchantment
Demonic Embrace (m21) 95
Evolutionary Escalation

At the beginning of your upkeep, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control and three +1/+1 counters on target creature an opponent controls.

Enchantment
Evolutionary Escalation (c16) 22
Family's Favor

Whenever you attack, put a shield counter on target attacking creature. Until end of turn, it gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, remove a shield counter from it. If you do, draw a card." (If a creature with a shield counter on it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)

Enchantment
Family's Favor (ncc) 59
Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (m21) 186
Phyresis

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has infect. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Enchantment
Phyresis (mbs) 49
Snake Umbra

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card." Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)

Enchantment
Snake Umbra (woc) 133

Enchantment

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Instant

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Ancient Animus

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control if it's legendary. Then it fights target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Instant
Ancient Animus (cmr) 215
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (lcc) 233
Blood Curdle

Destroy target creature. Put a menace counter on a creature you control. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Instant
Blood Curdle (iko) 75
Fully Grown

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Put a trample counter on it.

Instant
Fully Grown (iko) 154
Golgari Charm

Choose one — • All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn. • Destroy target enchantment. • Regenerate each creature you control.

Instant
Golgari Charm (uma) 201
Hunter's Insight

Choose target creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker this turn, draw that many cards.

Instant
Hunter's Insight (cmm) 296
Infuse with Vitality

Until end of turn, target creature gains deathtouch and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control." You gain 2 life.

Instant
Infuse with Vitality (stx) 194
Inscription of Abundance

Kicker {2}{G} Choose one. If this spell was kicked, choose any number instead. • Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. • Target player gains X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures they control. • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.

Instant
Inscription of Abundance (moc) 303
Invigorating Surge

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then double the number of +1/+1 counters on that creature.

Instant
Invigorating Surge (m21) 190
Khalni Ambush

Instant
Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory (znr) 192Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory (znr) 192
Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Krosan Grip (c21) 198
Momentous Fall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. You draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then you gain life equal to its toughness.

Instant
Momentous Fall (jmp) 411
Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Instant
Not Dead After All (woe) 101
Ruinous Intrusion

Exile target artifact or enchantment. Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the mana value of the permanent exiled this way.

Instant
Ruinous Intrusion (lcc) 255
Sudden Spinnerets

Target creature gets +1/+3 until end of turn. Put a reach counter on it. Untap it.

Instant
Sudden Spinnerets (iko) 171
Tear Asunder

Kicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} as you cast this spell.) Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.

Instant
Tear Asunder (dmu) 183
Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Undying Malice (vow) 134
Unexpected Fangs

Put a +1/+1 counter and a lifelink counter on target creature.

Instant
Unexpected Fangs (iko) 102
Vastwood Fortification

Instant
Vastwood Fortification // Vastwood Thicket (znr) 216Vastwood Fortification // Vastwood Thicket (znr) 216

Instant

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