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Cephalid
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Commander

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Kamiz, Obscura Oculus

Whenever you attack, target attacking creature can't be blocked this turn. It connives. Then choose another attacking creature with lesser power. That creature gains double strike until end of turn. (To have a creature connive, draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Creature
Kamiz, Obscura Oculus (ncc) 3

Commander

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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
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (dmu) 244
Choked Estuary

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Choked Estuary (mkc) 254
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 (clb) 888
Esper Panorama

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Esper Panorama (ncc) 399
Fetid Heath

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

Land
Fetid Heath (moc) 399
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
Hallowed Fountain

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

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 280
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (clu) 261
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
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
Port Town

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

Land
Port Town (cmm) 1019
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (mkc) 281
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (mkc) 282
Shipwreck Marsh

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

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Skycloud Expanse

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

Land
Skycloud Expanse (mkc) 294
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (clu) 264
Temple of Silence

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Silence (lcc) 358
Thriving Heath

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than white. {T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Heath (clu) 251
Thriving Isle

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than blue. {T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Isle (clu) 252
Thriving Moor

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Moor (clu) 253

Land

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Artifact

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Altar of Bhaal

Artifact
Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering (clb) 109
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (mkc) 223
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (rvr) 253
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (lcc) 301
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221
Mask of Riddles

Equipped creature has fear. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. Equip {2}

Artifact
Mask of Riddles (ncc) 347
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (mkc) 245

Artifact

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Planeswalker

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Ashiok, Sculptor of Fears

+2: Draw a card. Each player mills two cards. −5: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. −11: Gain control of all creatures target opponent controls.

Planeswalker
Ashiok, Sculptor of Fears (thb) 274

Planeswalker

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Creature

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Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor

Tap an untapped Octopus you control: Tap target permanent. {U}{U}{U}: Tap all creatures without flying.

Creature
Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor (plst) ODY-58
Acquisition Octopus

Whenever this creature or equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. Reconfigure {2} ({2}: 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
Acquisition Octopus (neo) 44
Callous Oppressor

You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step. As this creature enters, an opponent chooses a creature type. {T}: Gain control of target creature that isn't of the chosen type for as long as this creature remains tapped.

Creature
Callous Oppressor (ons) 72
Cephalid Broker

{T}: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards.

Creature
Cephalid Broker (ima) 44
Cephalid Constable

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, return up to that many target permanents that player controls to their owner's hand.

Creature
Cephalid Constable (10e) 72
Cephalid Facetaker

This creature can't be blocked. At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have this creature become a copy of another target creature until end of turn, except it's 1/4 and has "This creature can't be blocked."

Creature
Cephalid Facetaker (ncc) 23
Cephalid Illusionist

Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, mill three cards. {2}{U}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by target creature you control this turn.

Creature
Cephalid Illusionist (tor) 28
Cephalid Inkshrouder

Discard a card: This creature gains shroud until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn. (A creature with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Cephalid Inkshrouder (jud) 36
Cephalid Looter

{T}: Target player draws a card, then discards a card.

Creature
Cephalid Looter (ody) 72
Cephalid Pathmage

This creature can't be blocked. {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Cephalid Pathmage (lgn) 31
Cephalid Retainer

{U}{U}: Tap target creature without flying.

Creature
Cephalid Retainer (ody) 73
Cephalid Sage

Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, this creature has "When this creature enters, draw three cards, then discard two cards."

Creature
Cephalid Sage (ema) 41
Cephalid Vandal

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a shred counter on this creature. Then mill a card for each shred counter on this creature.

Creature
Cephalid Vandal (tor) 31
Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature
Chasm Skulker (moc) 218
Elder Deep-Fiend

Flash Emerge {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.) When you cast this spell, tap up to four target permanents.

Creature
Elder Deep-Fiend (cmr) 368
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar

Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, you may return it to its owner's hand. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar (clb) 723
Lorthos, the Tidemaker

Whenever Lorthos attacks, you may pay {8}. If you do, tap up to eight target permanents. Those permanents don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.

Creature
Lorthos, the Tidemaker (cmm) 103
Nadir Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Creature
Nadir Kraken (mkc) 112
Obscura Interceptor

Flash Lifelink When this creature enters, it connives. When it connives this way, return up to one target spell to its owner's hand. (To have a creature connive, draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Creature
Obscura Interceptor (snc) 209
Octavia, Living Thesis

This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard. Ward {8} Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.

Creature
Octavia, Living Thesis (c21) 29
Omen Hawker

{T}: Add {C}{U}. Spend this mana only to activate abilities.

Creature
Omen Hawker (mom) 70
Psychic Pickpocket

When this creature enters, it connives. When it connives this way, return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. (To have a creature connive, draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Creature
Psychic Pickpocket (snc) 54
Queza, Augur of Agonies

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Queza, Augur of Agonies (snc) 212
Revel Ruiner

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Revel Ruiner (snc) 91
Shadowmage Infiltrator

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

Creature
Shadowmage Infiltrator (ncc) 351
Shield Broker

When this creature enters, put a shield counter on target noncommander creature you don't control. You gain control of that creature for as long as it has a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)

Creature
Shield Broker (ncc) 29
Thief of Sanity

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, look at the top three cards of that player's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest into their graveyard. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Thief of Sanity (clu) 212

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Sorcery

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Aid the Fallen

Choose one or both — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return target planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Aid the Fallen (plst) WAR-76
Aphetto Dredging

Return up to three target creature cards of the creature type of your choice from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Aphetto Dredging (ons) 125
Ashen Powder

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Ashen Powder (6ed) 112
Back for Seconds

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. If this spell was bargained, you may put one of those cards with mana value 4 or less onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand.

Sorcery
Back for Seconds (woe) 80
Beacon of Unrest

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Beacon of Unrest (plst) 2XM-77
Blood Beckoning

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.) Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If this spell was kicked, instead return two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Blood Beckoning (znr) 92
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
Terminus

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Terminus (c18) 77
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
Writ of Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Writ of Return (ncc) 42

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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Banewasp Affliction

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, that creature's controller loses life equal to its toughness.

Enchantment
Banewasp Affliction (ala) 65
Blood Reckoning

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Blood Reckoning (m13) 81
Court of Vantress

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, choose up to one other target enchantment or artifact. If you're the monarch, you may create a token that's a copy of it. If you're not the monarch, you may have this enchantment become a copy of it, except it has this ability.

Enchantment
Court of Vantress (woc) 22
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (mkc) 133
Reconnaissance Mission

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Reconnaissance Mission (woc) 105
Teferi's Ageless Insight

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

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (mkc) 119

Enchantment

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Instant

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Another Chance

You may mill two cards. Then return up to two creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant
Another Chance (lci) 90
Betrayal of Flesh

Choose one — • Destroy target creature. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Entwine—Sacrifice three lands. (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Betrayal of Flesh (mrd) 58
Black Sun's Twilight

Up to one target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. If X is 5 or more, return a creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Instant
Black Sun's Twilight (one) 84
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (mkc) 96
Obscura Charm

Choose one — • Return target multicolored permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. • Counter target instant or sorcery spell. • Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 3 or less.

Instant
Obscura Charm (snc) 208
Obscura Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1. • Target creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.) • Target player returns a creature card from their graveyard to their hand.

Instant
Obscura Confluence (ncc) 76
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (woc) 101
Ripples of Potential

Proliferate, then choose any number of permanents you control that had a counter put on them this way. Those permanents phase out. (To proliferate, choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Treat phased-out permanents and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Instant
Ripples of Potential (lcc) 77
Scrollshift

Exile up to one target artifact, creature, or enchantment you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Draw a card.

Instant
Scrollshift (mom) 34
Serum Snare

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If that permanent had mana value 3 or less, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Serum Snare (one) 68
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (mkc) 88
Utter End

Exile target nonland permanent.

Instant
Utter End (lcc) 292

Instant

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Deck Info

Deck stats

10 pips - 9 cards
18 mana - 15 cards
51 pips - 38 cards
24 mana - 23 cards
31 pips - 26 cards
25 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
9 mana - 8 cards
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