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4/9/2025
Recursion deck
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Est deck cost: $410.42
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Commander

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Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

Flying, vigilance Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirko. At the beginning of your end step, you may return target creature card with power less than Mirko's from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If it would die, exile it instead.)

Creature
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist (mkc) 2

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 (dsc) 260
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (mkc) 250
Conduit Pylons

When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Conduit Pylons (otj) 254
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 (who) 858
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (sld) 792
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (mkc) 257
Dimir Aqueduct

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

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (clu) 233
Drownyard Temple

{T}: Add {C}. {3}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Land
Drownyard Temple (mkc) 259
Hall of Storm Giants

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {5}{U}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 7/7 blue Giant creature with ward {3}. It's still a land. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.)

Land
Hall of Storm Giants (afr) 257
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (clu) 260
Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Academy Ruins (sld) 1506
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 (mkc) 276
Restless Reef

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

Land
Restless Reef (lci) 349
River of Tears

{T}: Add {U}. If you played a land this turn, add {B} instead.

Land
River of Tears (mkc) 283
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (mkc) 284
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (who) 305
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (clu) 265
Tainted Isle

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

Land
Tainted Isle (mkc) 300
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (mkc) 305
The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Land
The Black Gate (ltc) 80
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 (who) 1122
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (ltc) 342

Land

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Removal

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Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Basilisk Collar (dsc) 241
Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (mkc) 126
Cyber Conversion

Turn target creature face down. It's a 2/2 Cyberman artifact creature.

Instant
Cyber Conversion (who) 38
Don't Make a Sound

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. If they do, 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.)

Instant
Don't Make a Sound (dsk) 49
Final Vengeance

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment. Exile target creature.

Sorcery
Final Vengeance (dsk) 99
Pile On

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker. 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.)

Instant
Pile On (mkc) 134
Price of Fame

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a legendary creature. Destroy target creature. 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.)

Instant
Price of Fame (mkc) 135
Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (mkc) 136
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (cmm) 634
Shriekmaw

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Shriekmaw (mkc) 139
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 (mkc) 142
Twist Reality

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Instant
Twist Reality (dsk) 77
Unauthorized Exit

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Unauthorized Exit (mkm) 298

Removal

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A Plan

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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 (mkc) 125
Blade of the Bloodchief

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead. Equip {1}

Artifact
Blade of the Bloodchief (lcc) 300
Case of the Shifting Visage

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. To solve — There are fifteen or more cards in your graveyard. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell, copy that spell. (The copy becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Case of the Shifting Visage (mkc) 19
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
Enhanced Surveillance

You may look at an additional two cards each time you surveil. Exile this enchantment: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Enchantment
Enhanced Surveillance (mkc) 102
Eye of Duskmantle

Flying, lifelink You may play lands and cast spells from among cards in your graveyard you've surveilled this turn. If you cast a spell this way, you pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Creature
Eye of Duskmantle (mkc) 27
Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink. Equip {3}

Artifact
Loxodon Warhammer (sld) 1034
Gríma, Saruman's Footman

Gríma can't be blocked. Whenever Gríma deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Creature
Gríma, Saruman's Footman (ltc) 57
Search for Azcanta

Enchantment
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (sld) 1502Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (sld) 1502
Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment
Necromancy (mkc) 131
Obsessive Stitcher

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {2}{U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Obsessive Stitcher (afc) 189
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 (mkc) 116
Power Conduit

{T}, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Choose one — • Put a charge counter on target artifact. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Artifact
Power Conduit (ncc) 376
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (mkc) 137
Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (mkc) 138
Rona, Herald of Invasion

Creature
Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator (mom) 75Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator (mom) 75
Satoru, the Infiltrator

Menace Whenever Satoru and/or one or more other nontoken creatures you control enter, if none of them were cast or no mana was spent to cast them, draw a card.

Creature
Satoru, the Infiltrator (otj) 230
Sinister Starfish

{T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Sinister Starfish (mkc) 140
Snarling Gorehound

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

Creature
Snarling Gorehound (mkm) 105
Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Shadowspear (sld) 1505
Unshakable Tail

When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {2}, Sacrifice a Clue: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Unshakable Tail (mkc) 29
Valgavoth's Faithful

{3}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Valgavoth's Faithful (dsk) 121
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 (mkc) 123

A Plan

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Mill

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Angel of Suffering

Flying If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.

Creature
Angel of Suffering (snc) 67

Mill

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Tokens

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Grave Titan

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

Creature
Grave Titan (mkc) 129

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Draw

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Ancestral Memories

Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Ancestral Memories (7ed) 59
Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (mkc) 200
Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) Draw a card.

Instant
Consider (clu) 84
Curate

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.) Draw a card.

Instant
Curate (mkc) 99
Diresight

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To 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.)

Sorcery
Diresight (blb) 91
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (cmm) 631
Frantic Search

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

Instant
Frantic Search (cmm) 632
Mulldrifter

Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards. Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Mulldrifter (mkc) 111
Scattered Thoughts

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Instant
Scattered Thoughts (vow) 74
Soul Diviner

{T}, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Soul Diviner (war) 218
Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (scd) 116

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Protection

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Mithril Coat

Flash Indestructible When Mithril Coat enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control. Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mithril Coat (ltr) 245
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (brr) 58

Protection

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Tutor

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Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Lively Dirge

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. + {2} — Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Lively Dirge (otj) 93

Tutor

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Infect

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Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) {B}: Skithiryx gains haste until end of turn. {B}{B}: Regenerate Skithiryx.

Creature
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon (mul) 17

Infect

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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 (sld) 1492
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (lcc) 302
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (mkc) 232
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (sld) 1494
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (sld) 791
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mkc) 242

Ramp

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Maybeboard

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Dimir Spybug

Flying Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Dimir Spybug (mkc) 206
Lord of the Nazgûl

Flying Wraiths you control have protection from Ring-bearers. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 3/3 black Wraith creature token with menace. Then if you control nine or more Wraiths, Wraiths you control have base power and toughness 9/9 until end of turn.

Creature
Lord of the Nazgûl (ltc) 60
Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Nesting Grounds (c20) 71
Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 96
Rune-Sealed Wall

Defender {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature Artifact
Rune-Sealed Wall (fdn) 49
The Reality Chip

You may look at the top card of your library any time. As long as The Reality Chip is attached to a creature, you may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. Reconfigure {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
The Reality Chip (neo) 74

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