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Kelsien Budget EDH
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Est deck cost: $120.88
Salt sum: 27.79
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Commander

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Kelsien, the Plague

Vigilance, haste Kelsien gets +1/+1 for each experience counter you have. {T}: Kelsien deals 1 damage to target creature you don't control. When that creature dies this turn, you get an experience counter.

Creature
Kelsien, the Plague (c20) 11

Commander

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Enablers

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Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion

If you would put one or more counters on a creature or planeswalker you control or on yourself, put that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion (clb) 378
Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink. Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mask of Griselbrand (mid) 111
Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
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
Tor Wauki the Younger

Reach, lifelink If another source you control would deal noncombat damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 1 to that permanent or player instead. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Tor Wauki deals 2 damage to any target.

Creature
Tor Wauki the Younger (dmc) 46

Enablers

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Pinger

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Blood Cultist

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Blood Cultist (ala) 157
Cunning Sparkmage

Haste {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Cunning Sparkmage (wwk) 79
Rakdos Ickspitter

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature and that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Creature
Rakdos Ickspitter (dis) 128
Robaran Mercenaries

Vigilance This creature has all activated abilities of all legendary creatures you control.

Creature
Robaran Mercenaries (dmc) 72
Vulshok Sorcerer

Haste {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Vulshok Sorcerer (5dn) 80

Pinger

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Board Wipes

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Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (mkc) 56
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (c21) 159
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (c15) 170

Board Wipes

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Land

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Axgard Armory

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{R}{R}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Aura card and/or an Equipment card, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Land
Axgard Armory (khm) 250
Battlefield Forge

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

Land
Battlefield Forge (dmc) 198
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (mkc) 250
Boros Garrison

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

Land
Boros Garrison (mkc) 251
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (brc) 177
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (ori) 245
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (who) 264
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 (mid) 261
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (cmm) 993
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (woe) 274
Nomad Outpost

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

Land
Nomad Outpost (c17) 265
Orzhov Basilica

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

Land
Orzhov Basilica (cmm) 1018
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mkm) 277
Rakdos Carnarium

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

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (brc) 194
Shadowblood Ridge

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

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (brc) 199
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (ltc) 334
Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{R}{W}, {T}: Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Land
Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion (mkc) 298
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (itp) 61
Tainted Field

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

Land
Tainted Field (cmm) 1039
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

Land

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Protection

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Gift of Doom

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has deathtouch and indestructible. Morph—Sacrifice another creature. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) As this Aura is turned face up, you may attach it to a creature.

Enchantment
Gift of Doom (c19) 17
Jirina, Dauntless General

When Jirina enters, exile target player's graveyard. Sacrifice Jirina: Humans you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Jirina, Dauntless General (mat) 167
Open the Armory

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

Sorcery
Open the Armory (soi) 32
Recommission

Return target artifact or creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If a creature enters this way, it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Sorcery
Recommission (bro) 22
Reconstruct History

Return up to one target artifact card, up to one target enchantment card, up to one target instant card, up to one target sorcery card, and up to one target planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Reconstruct History.

Sorcery
Reconstruct History (stx) 222
Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy. Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (mkc) 83
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 (mic) 163
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 (mh1) 113

Protection

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Card Advantage

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Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (clb) 110
Demand Answers

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Demand Answers (mkm) 306
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Humble Defector

{T}: Draw two cards. Target opponent gains control of this creature. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Humble Defector (ltc) 222
Mari, the Killing Quill

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it with a hit counter on it. Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile. If you do, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens."

Creature
Mari, the Killing Quill (ncc) 97
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (mid) 113
Painful Truths

Converge — You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Sorcery
Painful Truths (dmc) 116
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (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
Read the Bones (scd) 101
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (m15) 114
Sram, Senior Edificer

Whenever you cast an Aura, Equipment, or Vehicle spell, draw a card.

Creature
Sram, Senior Edificer (aer) 23

Card Advantage

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Make Targets

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Akroan Horse

Defender When this creature enters, an opponent gains control of it. At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent creates a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Creature Artifact
Akroan Horse (plst) C16-241
Clackbridge Troll

Trample, haste When this creature enters, target opponent creates three 0/1 white Goat creature tokens. At the beginning of combat on your turn, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature, you gain 3 life, and you draw a card.

Creature
Clackbridge Troll (eld) 84
Slaughter Specialist

When this creature enters, each opponent creates a 1/1 white Human creature token. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Slaughter Specialist (pmid) 122p

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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 (mic) 157
Boros Signet

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

Artifact
Boros Signet (onc) 126
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 (40k) 234
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (mkc) 228
Life Insurance

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token.

Enchantment
Life Insurance (ncc) 74
Orzhov Signet

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

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (brc) 154
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (lcc) 311
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 (mkc) 238
Talisman of Conviction

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Conviction (mkc) 240
Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (moc) 385
Wayfarer's Bauble

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

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (who) 256

Ramp

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Deathtouch

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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
Ankle Shanker

Haste Whenever this creature attacks, creatures you control gain first strike and deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Ankle Shanker (ktk) 164
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 (plst) 2XM-233
Gorgon's Head

Equipped creature has deathtouch. Equip {2}

Artifact
Gorgon's Head (bng) 158
Quietus Spike

Equipped creature has deathtouch. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up. Equip {3}

Artifact
Quietus Spike (brr) 109
Reaper's Talisman

Whenever equipped creature attacks, it gains deathtouch until end of turn. Whenever equipped creature attacks alone, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Reaper's Talisman (afr) 117
Rune of Mortality

Enchant permanent When this Aura enters, draw a card. As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it has deathtouch. As long as enchanted permanent is an Equipment, it has "Equipped creature has deathtouch."

Enchantment
Rune of Mortality (khm) 108
Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch. {5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, this Equipment gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game." Equip {B}{B}

Artifact
Vorpal Sword (afr) 124
Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature in your party. Flying, deathtouch, haste Other creatures you control have deathtouch. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker.

Creature
Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats (znr) 241

Deathtouch

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Pay Offs

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Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

Artifact
Blackblade Reforged (znc) 107
Deathbringer Thoctar

Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Deathbringer Thoctar (c13) 184
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector (mid) 314
Minthara, Merciless Soul

Minthara has ward {X}, where X is the number of experience counters you have. At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn, you get an experience counter. Creatures you control get +1/+0 for each experience counter you have.

Creature
Minthara, Merciless Soul (clb) 432
Otharri, Suns' Glory

Flying, lifelink, haste Whenever Otharri attacks, you get an experience counter. Then create a 2/2 red Rebel creature token that's tapped and attacking for each experience counter you have. {2}{R}{W}, Tap an untapped Rebel you control: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Otharri, Suns' Glory (onc) 3
Sparring Regimen

When this enchantment enters, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.) Whenever you attack, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature and untap it.

Enchantment
Sparring Regimen (stx) 29

Pay Offs

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Removal

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Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (mkc) 149
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (brc) 124
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (ltc) 200
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (woc) 78

Removal

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Maybeboard

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Archetype of Finality

Creatures you control have deathtouch. Creatures your opponents control lose deathtouch and can't have or gain deathtouch.

Creature Enchantment
Archetype of Finality (bng) 58
Divine Reckoning

Each player chooses a creature they control. Destroy the rest. Flashback {5}{W}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Divine Reckoning (c19) 62
Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar

Commanders you control have menace and deathtouch. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar (cmr) 126
Mythos of Snapdax

Each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest. If {B}{R} was spent to cast this spell, you choose the permanents for each player instead.

Sorcery
Mythos of Snapdax (iko) 24
Prodigal Pyromancer

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Prodigal Pyromancer (m11) 152
Single Combat

Each player chooses a creature or planeswalker they control, then sacrifices the rest. Players can't cast creature or planeswalker spells until the end of your next turn.

Sorcery
Single Combat (war) 30

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck stats

18 pips - 17 cards
23 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
35 pips - 30 cards
25 mana - 25 cards
17 pips - 16 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 6 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
9 mana - 9 cards
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