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Big scary scarab
Deck Size: 74
Commander / EDH
Est deck cost: $210.24
Salt sum: 44.76
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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 (cmm) 353

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Conundrum Sphinx

Flying Whenever Conundrum Sphinx attacks, each player chooses a card name. Then each player reveals the top card of their library. If the card a player revealed has the name they chose, that player puts it into their hand. If it doesn't, that player puts it on the bottom of their library.

Creature
Conundrum Sphinx (c18) 84
Drunau Corpse Trawler

When Drunau Corpse Trawler enters, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. {2}{B}: Target Zombie gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Drunau Corpse Trawler (soi) 57

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Mill

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Archive Trap

If an opponent searched their library this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target opponent mills thirteen cards.

Instant
Archive Trap (plst) ZEN-41
Codex Shredder

{T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.) {5}, {T}, Sacrifice Codex Shredder: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Artifact
Codex Shredder (cmr) 304
Consuming Aberration

Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards. Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Consuming Aberration (clb) 840
Drownyard Amalgam

When Drownyard Amalgam enters, target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.) {2}{U}: Drownyard Amalgam can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Drownyard Amalgam (mid) 50
Duskmantle Guildmage

{1}{U}{B}: Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere this turn, that player loses 1 life. {2}{U}{B}: Target player mills two cards.

Creature
Duskmantle Guildmage (gtc) 158
Maddening Cacophony

Kicker {3}{U} Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.

Sorcery
Maddening Cacophony (znr) 67
Mind Grind

Each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal X land cards, then puts all cards revealed this way into their graveyard. X can't be 0.

Sorcery
Mind Grind (gtc) 178
Ruin Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Ruin Crab (znr) 75
Sphinx's Tutelage

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. If two nonland cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process. {5}{U}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Enchantment
Sphinx's Tutelage (plst) ORI-76
Tunnel Vision

Choose a card name. Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until a card with that name is revealed. If it is, that player puts the rest of the revealed cards into their graveyard and puts the card with the chosen name on top of their library. Otherwise, the player shuffles.

Sorcery
Tunnel Vision (rav) 72
Undercity Informer

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Undercity Informer (gtc) 82

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Removal

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Grimgrin, Corpse-Born

Grimgrin, Corpse-Born enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step. Sacrifice another creature: Untap Grimgrin and put a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever Grimgrin attacks, destroy target creature defending player controls, then put a +1/+1 counter on Grimgrin.

Creature
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born (isd) 214
Life's Finale

Destroy all creatures, then search target opponent's library for up to three creature cards and put them into their graveyard. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery
Life's Finale (nph) 65
Plaguebearer

{X}{X}{B}: Destroy target nonblack creature with mana value X.

Creature
Plaguebearer (exo) 71

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Tutor

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Corpse Harvester

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a Zombie card and a Swamp card, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Corpse Harvester (hop) 22
Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Fabricate (plst) M10-52

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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
Lord of the Accursed

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1. {1}{B}, {T}: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

Creature
Lord of the Accursed (j22) 69

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Drain

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Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (scd) 80

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Protection

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Boneknitter

{1}{B}: Regenerate target Zombie. Morph {2}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Boneknitter (ons) 128

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Sorcery

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Deadly Cover-Up

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. Destroy all creatures. If evidence was collected, exile a card from an opponent's graveyard. Then search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

Sorcery
Deadly Cover-Up (mkm) 83
Mana Severance

Search your library for any number of land cards, exile them, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Mana Severance (tmp) 73
Telemin Performance

Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. That player puts all noncreature cards revealed this way into their graveyard, then you put the creature card onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Telemin Performance (con) 35

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Artifact

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Rings of Brighthearth

Whenever you activate an ability, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {2}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Artifact
Rings of Brighthearth (ltc) 352
The Enigma Jewel

Artifact
The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment (lci) 55The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment (lci) 55

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Draw

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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) 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
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

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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 (moc) 348
Commander's Sphere

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

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (plst) C14-54
Crowded Crypt

{T}: Add {B}. Whenever a creature you control dies, put a corpse counter on Crowded Crypt. {4}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Crowded Crypt: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed for each corpse counter on Crowded Crypt. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Artifact
Crowded Crypt (mic) 17
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (scd) 263
Heartstone

Activated abilities of creatures cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Artifact
Heartstone (plst) STH-134
Midnight Clock

{T}: Add {U}. {2}{U}: Put an hour counter on Midnight Clock. At the beginning of each upkeep, put an hour counter on Midnight Clock. When the twelfth hour counter is put on Midnight Clock, shuffle your hand and graveyard into your library, then draw seven cards. Exile Midnight Clock.

Artifact
Midnight Clock (clb) 727
Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree

{2}, {T}: Target opponent mills three cards. Put a land card from their graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control. It gains "If this land would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else." {10}, {T}, Sacrifice Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree: Search your library for any number of Praetor cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Artifact
Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree (mom) 263
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (plst) CMD-261
Training Grounds

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Enchantment
Training Grounds (mat) 9

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Theft

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Thada Adel, Acquisitor

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Whenever Thada Adel, Acquisitor deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for an artifact card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until end of turn, you may play that card.

Creature
Thada Adel, Acquisitor (wwk) 40

Theft

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Copy

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Illusionist's Bracers

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. Equip {3}

Artifact
Illusionist's Bracers (rvr) 260

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Land

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Choked Estuary

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

Land
Choked Estuary (moc) 394
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Duskmantle, House of Shadow

{T}: Add {C}. {U}{B}, {T}: Target player mills a card.

Land
Duskmantle, House of Shadow (plst) RAV-277
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (scd) 337
Nephalia Drownyard

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}{B}, {T}: Target player mills three cards.

Land
Nephalia Drownyard (lcc) 344
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (moc) 428
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (scd) 343
Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) Undercity Sewers enters tapped. When Undercity Sewers enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270

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Recursion

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Animate Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
Dance of the Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Dance of the Dead enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Dance of the Dead." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach Dance of the Dead to it. When Dance of the Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.

Enchantment
Dance of the Dead (ice) 118
Havengul Lich

{1}: You may cast target creature card in a graveyard this turn. When you cast it this turn, Havengul Lich gains all activated abilities of that card until end of turn.

Creature
Havengul Lich (scd) 231

Recursion

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Tokens

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Cellar Door

{3}, {T}: Target player puts the bottom card of their library into their graveyard. If it's a creature card, you create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Artifact
Cellar Door (j22) 759
Cleaver Skaab

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice another Zombie: Create two tokens that are copies of the sacrificed creature.

Creature
Cleaver Skaab (mic) 11
Diregraf Colossus

Diregraf Colossus 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 (mic) 112
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
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 108
Lich Lord of Unx

{U}{B}, {T}: Create a 1/1 blue and black Zombie Wizard creature token. {U}{U}{B}{B}: Target player loses X life and mills X cards, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Creature
Lich Lord of Unx (plst) ARB-24

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Sideboard

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Acquire

Search target opponent's library for an artifact card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery
Acquire (5dn) 21
Apprentice Wizard

{U}, {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Creature
Apprentice Wizard (2xm) 40
Balshan Beguiler

Whenever Balshan Beguiler deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals the top two cards of their library. You choose one of those cards and put it into their graveyard.

Creature
Balshan Beguiler (ody) 66
Balustrade Spy

Flying When Balustrade Spy enters, target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Balustrade Spy (rvr) 66
Bitter Ordeal

Search target player's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Gravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Bitter Ordeal (fut) 80
Bladestitched Skaab

Other Zombies you control get +1/+0.

Creature
Bladestitched Skaab (mid) 212
Bruvac the Grandiloquent

If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill twice that many cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Bruvac the Grandiloquent (rvr) 35
Clutch of the Undercity

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 3 life. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant
Clutch of the Undercity (plst) RAV-197
Crypt Ghast

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 you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (c14) 139
Deadly Tempest

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Deadly Tempest (scd) 75
Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth

Whenever another creature you control dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a token, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Creature
Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth (mic) 3
Embalmer's Tools

Activated abilities of creature cards in your graveyard cost {1} less to activate. Tap an untapped Zombie you control: Target player mills a card.

Artifact
Embalmer's Tools (akh) 227
Eternal Dominion

Search target opponent's library for an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles. Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)

Sorcery
Eternal Dominion (plst) SOK-36
Extract

Search target player's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery
Extract (ody) 85
Grinning Totem

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Grinning Totem: Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card. At the beginning of your next upkeep, if you haven't played it, put it into its owner's graveyard.

Artifact
Grinning Totem (6ed) 288
Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Hedron Archive (cmm) 952
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (vma) 73
Inaction Injunction

Detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.) Draw a card.

Sorcery
Inaction Injunction (rtr) 41
Inevitable Betrayal

Suspend 3—{1}{U}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{U}{U} and exile it with three 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.) Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery
Inevitable Betrayal (mh2) 47
Jester's Cap

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Jester's Cap: Search target player's library for three cards and exile them. Then that player shuffles.

Artifact
Jester's Cap (dmr) 227
Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker

Flying Whenever Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal four land cards, then puts those cards into their graveyard.

Creature
Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker (dgm) 85
Phylactery Lich

Indestructible As Phylactery Lich enters, put a phylactery counter on an artifact you control. When you control no permanents with phylactery counters on them, sacrifice Phylactery Lich.

Creature
Phylactery Lich (m19) 113
Plaguebearer

{X}{X}{B}: Destroy target nonblack creature with mana value X.

Creature
Plaguebearer (exo) 71
Psychotic Episode

Target player reveals their hand and the top card of their library. You choose a card revealed this way. That player puts the chosen card on the bottom of their library. Madness {1}{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.)

Sorcery
Psychotic Episode (tsr) 132
Relic Golem

Relic Golem can't attack or block unless an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard. {2}, {T}: Target player mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature Artifact
Relic Golem (znr) 249
Run Ashore

Choose one or both — • The owner of target nonland permanent puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant
Run Ashore (khm) 74
Sphinx Ambassador

Flying Whenever Sphinx Ambassador deals combat damage to a player, search that player's library for a card, then that player chooses a card name. If you searched for a creature card that doesn't have that name, you may put it onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Creature
Sphinx Ambassador (m10) 73
Struggle for Sanity

Target opponent reveals their hand. That player exiles a card from it, then you exile a card from it. Repeat this process until all cards in that hand have been exiled. That player returns the cards they exiled this way to their hand and puts the rest into their graveyard.

Sorcery
Struggle for Sanity (chk) 145
Talent of the Telepath

Target opponent reveals the top seven cards of their library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Then that player puts the rest into their graveyard. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, you may cast up to two instant and/or sorcery spells from among the revealed cards instead of one.

Sorcery
Talent of the Telepath (ori) 78
Teferi's Tutelage

When Teferi's Tutelage enters, draw a card, then discard a card. Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Enchantment
Teferi's Tutelage (m21) 78
Unmoored Ego

Choose a card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for up to four cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

Sorcery
Unmoored Ego (grn) 212
Vexing Arcanix

{3}, {T}: Target player chooses a card name, then reveals the top card of their library. If that card has the chosen name, that player puts it into their hand. Otherwise, they put it into their graveyard and Vexing Arcanix deals 2 damage to them.

Artifact
Vexing Arcanix (8ed) 319

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