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Varina, Lich Queen
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $811.78
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Commander

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Varina, Lich Queen

Whenever you attack with one or more Zombies, draw that many cards, then discard that many cards. You gain that much life. {2}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Varina, Lich Queen (c18) 48

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Discard

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Bone Miser

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever you discard a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Creature
Bone Miser (plst) C19-15

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Land

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Arcane Sanctum

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Land
Arcane Sanctum (moc) 390
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (puma) U32
Celestial Colonnade

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. {3}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.

Land
Celestial Colonnade (puma) U33
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
Creeping Tar Pit

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {1}{U}{B}: This land becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. It's still a land.

Land
Creeping Tar Pit (uma) 239
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 (mkc) 260
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rvr) 277
Hidden Cataract

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Land
Hidden Cataract (lci) 273
Hidden Courtyard

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {4}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Land
Hidden Courtyard (lci) 274
Hidden Necropolis

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {4}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Land
Hidden Necropolis (lci) 275
Irrigated Farmland

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

Land
Irrigated Farmland (mkc) 267
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mkm) 279
Mystic Gate

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

Land
Mystic Gate (cmm) 1013
Obscura Storefront

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Obscura Storefront (snc) 252
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (mkc) 279
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mkm) 278
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 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
Secluded Courtyard

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Land
Secluded Courtyard (lcc) 350
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (mkc) 299
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mkm) 282
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
Thespian's Stage

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.

Land
Thespian's Stage (uma) 253
Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Land
Unclaimed Territory (lcc) 366
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Vault of the Archangel (lcc) 367
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

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Tokens

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Acererak the Archlich

When Acererak enters, if you haven't completed Tomb of Annihilation, return Acererak to its owner's hand and venture into the dungeon. Whenever Acererak attacks, for each opponent, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token unless that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Acererak the Archlich (afr) 87
Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Enchantment
Anointed Procession (plst) AKH-2
Army of the Damned

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Army of the Damned (scd) 68
Aven Wind Guide

Flying, vigilance Creature tokens you control have flying and vigilance. Embalm {4}{W}{U} ({4}{W}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Bird Warrior with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Aven Wind Guide (akh) 195
Champion of the Perished

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Champion of the Perished (scd) 71
Curse of the Restless Dead

Enchant player Whenever a land enchanted player controls enters, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Enchantment
Curse of the Restless Dead (mic) 18
Diregraf Colossus

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Zombie card in your graveyard. Whenever you cast a Zombie spell, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Diregraf Colossus (soi) 107
Endless Ranks of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is half the number of Zombies you control, rounded down.

Enchantment
Endless Ranks of the Dead (j22) 410
From Under the Floorboards

Madness {X}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.) Create three tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens and you gain 3 life. If this spell's madness cost was paid, instead create X of those tokens and you gain X life.

Sorcery
From Under the Floorboards (c19) 113
Ghoulcaller Gisa

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Creature
Ghoulcaller Gisa (cc2) 2
Grave Titan

Deathtouch Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Creature
Grave Titan (sld) 223
Kaya, Geist Hunter

+1: Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature token you control. −2: Until end of turn, if one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead. −6: Exile all cards from all graveyards, then create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying for each card exiled this way.

Planeswalker
Kaya, Geist Hunter (vow) 240
Liliana's Mastery

Zombies you control get +1/+1. When this enchantment enters, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Enchantment
Liliana's Mastery (scd) 86
Mondrak, Glory Dominus

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead. {1}{W/P}{W/P}, Sacrifice two other artifacts and/or creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Mondrak. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Creature
Mondrak, Glory Dominus (one) 23
Necroduality

Whenever a nontoken Zombie you control enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Enchantment
Necroduality (vow) 362
Necromancer's Covenant

When this enchantment enters, exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard, then create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each card exiled this way. Zombies you control have lifelink.

Enchantment
Necromancer's Covenant (c15) 229
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun

At the beginning of combat on your turn, target creature token you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. Embalm {3}{W}{U} ({3}{W}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Human Cleric with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun (akh) 207

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Anthem

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Death Baron

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Death Baron (mic) 111
Diregraf Captain

Deathtouch Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever another Zombie you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Diregraf Captain (scd) 224

Anthem

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Drain

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Wayward Servant

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Wayward Servant (akh) 208

Drain

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Lifegain

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Anointer Priest

Whenever a creature token you control enters, you gain 1 life. Embalm {3}{W} ({3}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Human Cleric with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Anointer Priest (plst) AKH-3

Lifegain

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Tutor

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Mausoleum Secrets

Undergrowth — Search your library for a black card with mana value less than or equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant
Mausoleum Secrets (grn) 75
Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Deathtouch Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When Sidisi exploits a creature, you may search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Sidisi, Undead Vizier (dtk) 120

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Artifact

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Cursecloth Wrappings

Zombies you control get +1/+1. {T}: Target creature card in your graveyard gains embalm until end of turn. The embalm cost is equal to its mana cost. (Exile that card and pay its embalm cost: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie in addition to its other types and has no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Cursecloth Wrappings (dft) 81
Matzalantli, the Great Door

Artifact
Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core (lci) 256

Artifact

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Draw

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Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
Champion of Wits

When this creature enters, you may draw cards equal to its power. If you do, discard two cards. Eternalize {5}{U}{U} ({5}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Wizard with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Champion of Wits (ncc) 213
Empty the Laboratory

Sacrifice X Zombies, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a number of Zombie creature cards equal to the number of Zombies sacrificed this way. Put those cards onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Sorcery
Empty the Laboratory (mic) 52
Forgotten Creation

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may discard all the cards in your hand. If you do, draw that many cards.

Creature
Forgotten Creation (soi) 63
Graveborn Muse

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Creature
Graveborn Muse (plst) 10E-145
Hordewing Skaab

Flying Other Zombies you control have flying. Whenever one or more Zombies you control deal combat damage to one or more of your opponents, you may draw cards equal to the number of opponents dealt damage this way. If you do, discard that many cards.

Creature
Hordewing Skaab (mic) 53
Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Creature
Midnight Reaper (rvr) 86
Undead Augur

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Undead Augur (h1r) 15
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Whenever another Zombie you control dies, if it didn't have decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.) At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice a Zombie. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver (mic) 2

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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 (mkc) 223
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (mkc) 224
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
Rooftop Storm

You may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for Zombie creature spells you cast.

Enchantment
Rooftop Storm (plst) ISD-71
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237

Ramp

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Clones

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Vizier of Many Faces

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except if this creature was embalmed, the token has no mana cost, it's white, and it's a Zombie in addition to its other types. Embalm {3}{U}{U}

Creature
Vizier of Many Faces (akh) 74

Clones

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Enchantment

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On Wings of Gold

Creatures you control that are Zombies and/or tokens get +1/+1 and have flying. Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 white Zombie creature token.

Enchantment
On Wings of Gold (drc) 5
Renewed Solidarity

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+0. At the beginning of your end step, for each token you control of the chosen type that entered this turn, create a token that's a copy of it.

Enchantment
Renewed Solidarity (drc) 7

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Recursion

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Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Dread Return (40k) 200
Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Exhume (usg) 134
Gisa and Geralf

When Gisa and Geralf enters, mill four cards. Once during each of your turns, you may cast a Zombie creature spell from your graveyard.

Creature
Gisa and Geralf (emn) 183
Gravecrawler

This creature can't block. You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Creature
Gravecrawler (2x2) 78
Liliana, Death's Majesty

+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards. −3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. −7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Death's Majesty (akh) 97
Liliana, Untouched by Death

+1: Mill three cards. If at least one Zombie card is milled this way, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. −2: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Zombies you control. −3: You may cast Zombie spells from your graveyard this turn.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Untouched by Death (scd) 84
Priest of Fell Rites

{T}, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery. Unearth {3}{W}{B} ({3}{W}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Priest of Fell Rites (mh2) 372
Ratadrabik of Urborg

Vigilance, ward {2} Other Zombies you control have vigilance. Whenever another legendary creature you control dies, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's not legendary and it's a 2/2 black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Creature
Ratadrabik of Urborg (dmu) 353
The Scarab God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control. {2}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
The Scarab God (2xm) 216
Unburial Rites

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback {3}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Unburial Rites (2x2) 95

Recursion

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Angel of Sanctions

Flying When this creature enters, you may exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. Embalm {5}{W} ({5}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Angel with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Angel of Sanctions (akh) 1
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay {2}{U}. If you do, create a tapped token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.

Creature
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist (drc) 1
Lost Monarch of Ifnir

Afflict 3 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 3 life.) Other Zombies you control have afflict 3. At the beginning of your second main phase, if a player was dealt combat damage by a Zombie this turn, mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Lost Monarch of Ifnir (drc) 11
Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation

Creature
Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization (lci) 26Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization (lci) 26
Roaming Throne

Ward {2} As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Creature Artifact
Roaming Throne (lci) 258
Temmet, Naktamun's Will

Vigilance, menace Whenever you attack, draw a card, then discard a card. Whenever you draw a card, Zombies you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Temmet, Naktamun's Will (drc) 4

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Evasion

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Geralf, Visionary Stitcher

Zombies you control have flying. {U}, {T}, Sacrifice another nontoken creature: Create an X/X blue Zombie creature token, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Creature
Geralf, Visionary Stitcher (dbl) 328

Evasion

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Removal

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Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Archfiend of Ifnir (akh) 78
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (sta) 122
Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Wrath of God (cmm) 70

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Deck Info

Deck stats

23 pips - 19 cards
23 mana - 21 cards
18 pips - 16 cards
25 mana - 23 cards
56 pips - 39 cards
24 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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