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Best Dad Deck
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Est deck cost: $341.02
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Commander

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James, Wandering Dad

Creature
James, Wandering Dad // Follow Him (pip) 375

Commander

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Artifact

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Five Hundred Year Diary

Five Hundred Year Diary enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} for each Clue you control. {2}, Sacrifice Five Hundred Year Diary: Draw a card.

Artifact
Five Hundred Year Diary (who) 357
Tarrian's Soulcleaver

Equipped creature has vigilance. Whenever another artifact or creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. Equip {2}

Artifact
Tarrian's Soulcleaver (lci) 264

Artifact

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Copy

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Mechanized Production

Enchant artifact you control At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted artifact. Then if you control eight or more artifacts with the same name as one another, you win the game.

Enchantment
Mechanized Production (mkc) 109

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Creature

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Detective of the Month

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) As long as you have the city's blessing, Detectives you control can't be blocked. Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token.

Creature
Detective of the Month (mkc) 21
Forensic Gadgeteer

Whenever you cast an artifact spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Activated abilities of artifacts you control cost {1} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Creature
Forensic Gadgeteer (mkm) 57
Martha Jones

Woman Who Walked the Earth — When Martha Jones enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, Martha Jones and up to one other target creature can't be blocked this turn. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Creature
Martha Jones (who) 363
Nyssa of Traken

You have no maximum hand size. Sonic Booster — Whenever Nyssa of Traken attacks, sacrifice any number of artifacts. When you sacrifice one or more artifacts this way, tap up to that many target creatures and draw that many cards. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Creature
Nyssa of Traken (who) 366
Piper Wright, Publick Reporter

Whenever Piper Wright deals combat damage to a player, investigate that many times. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Piper Wright, Publick Reporter (pip) 379
Senator Peacock

Artifacts you control are Clues in addition to their other types and have "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card." Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Senator Peacock (clu) 2
Tangletrove Kelp

Ward {2} At the beginning of each combat, other Clues you control become 6/6 Plant creatures in addition to their other types until end of turn. {2}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Tangletrove Kelp (mkc) 24

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Draw

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Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (mkc) 96
Clan Crafter

Commander creatures you own have "{2}, Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and draw a card."

Enchantment
Clan Crafter (clb) 651
Finale of Revelation

Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game. Exile Finale of Revelation.

Sorcery
Finale of Revelation (mkc) 106
Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Artifact
Idol of Oblivion (mkc) 229
Investigator's Journal

This artifact enters with a number of suspect counters on it equal to the greatest number of creatures a player controls. {2}, {T}, Remove a suspect counter from this artifact: Draw a card. {2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Investigator's Journal (cmm) 956
Reverse Engineer

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Reverse Engineer (cmm) 116
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
Secrets of the Key

Investigate. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, investigate twice instead. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Flashback {3}{U}

Instant
Secrets of the Key (mid) 73
Shimmer Dragon

Flying As long as you control four or more artifacts, this creature has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Shimmer Dragon (mkc) 117
Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Journal (j22) 800
Tamiyo's Logbook

{5}{U}, {T}: Draw a card. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each other artifact you control.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Logbook (one) 70
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
Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh

The first activated ability of an artifact you activate each turn costs {2} less to activate. +1: Draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card. −2: Target artifact becomes an artifact creature. If it isn't a Vehicle, it has base power and toughness 4/4. −6: You get an emblem with "Whenever an artifact you control becomes tapped, draw a card."

Planeswalker
Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh (mkc) 120
Thought Monitor

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards.

Creature Artifact
Thought Monitor (mkc) 121
Thoughtcast

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Thoughtcast (moc) 242
Trail of Evidence

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Enchantment
Trail of Evidence (plst) SOI-93
Triskaidekaphile

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game. {3}{U}: Draw a card.

Creature
Triskaidekaphile (mid) 81
Universal Surveillance

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Universal Surveillance (nec) 17
Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You have no maximum hand size. {2}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards. {4}{U}: Level 3 Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Wizard Class (afr) 81

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Enchantment

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Case of the Filched Falcon

When this Case enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") To solve — You control three or more artifacts. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — {2}{U}, Sacrifice this Case: Put four +1/+1 counters on target noncreature artifact. It becomes a 0/0 Bird creature with flying in addition to its other types.

Enchantment
Case of the Filched Falcon (mkm) 44
Curious Inquiry

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, investigate." (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Enchantment
Curious Inquiry (mkm) 51
Proft's Eidetic Memory

When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters, draw a card. You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.

Enchantment
Proft's Eidetic Memory (mkm) 67

Enchantment

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Finisher

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Cyberdrive Awakener

Flying Other artifact creatures you control have flying. When this creature enters, until end of turn, each noncreature artifact you control becomes an artifact creature with base power and toughness 4/4.

Creature Artifact
Cyberdrive Awakener (nec) 12
Kappa Cannoneer

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Ward {4} Whenever this creature or another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and it can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Artifact
Kappa Cannoneer (mkc) 108
Laboratory Maniac

If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.

Creature
Laboratory Maniac (plst) UMA-61
Rise and Shine

Target noncreature artifact you control becomes a 0/0 artifact creature. Put four +1/+1 counters on each artifact that became a creature this way. Overload {4}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Rise and Shine (moc) 233

Finisher

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Instant

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Deduce

Draw a card. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Instant
Deduce (mkm) 52

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Land

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Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Land
Inventors' Fair (plst) KLD-247
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mh3) 305
Lonely Sandbar

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

Land
Lonely Sandbar (mkc) 273
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (mkc) 282
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (j22) 820

Land

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Mill

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Fleeting Memories

When this enchantment enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, target player mills three cards.

Enchantment
Fleeting Memories (soi) 62

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Protection

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Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (cmm) 398

Protection

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Pump

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Nettlecyst

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact and/or enchantment you control. Equip {2}

Artifact
Nettlecyst (mkc) 233

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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
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Inspiring Statuary

Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Artifact
Inspiring Statuary (mkc) 230
Krark-Clan Ironworks

Sacrifice an artifact: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Krark-Clan Ironworks (5dn) 134
Magnifying Glass

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Artifact
Magnifying Glass (mkm) 255
Sky Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (scd) 273
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
Urza, Lord High Artificer

When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control." Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}. {5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Urza, Lord High Artificer (cmm) 130
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 (lcc) 317

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Removal

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Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (woc) 84
Confirm Suspicions

Counter target spell. Investigate three times. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Instant
Confirm Suspicions (mkc) 97
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rvr) 40
Gone Missing

Put target permanent on top of its owner's library. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Gone Missing (plst) SOI-67
Hold for Questioning

Enchant creature or planeswalker When this Aura enters, tap enchanted permanent and investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Enchanted permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Enchantment
Hold for Questioning (j22) 11
In Too Deep

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Enchant creature, planeswalker, or Clue Enchanted permanent is a colorless Clue artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card" and loses all other abilities. (It's no longer a creature or planeswalker.)

Enchantment
In Too Deep (ncc) 27
Junk Winder

Affinity for tokens (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each token you control.) Whenever a token you control enters, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Creature
Junk Winder (mkc) 107
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Press for Answers

Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Press for Answers (j22) 337
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 (woc) 104

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Follow the Bodies

Gravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn.) Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Follow the Bodies (mkc) 23

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Tokens

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Academy Manufactor

If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.

Creature Artifact
Academy Manufactor (mkc) 221
Erdwal Illuminator

Flying Whenever you investigate for the first time each turn, investigate an additional time.

Creature
Erdwal Illuminator (mkc) 104
Ethereal Investigator

Flying When this creature enters, investigate X times, where X is the number of opponents you have. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Creature
Ethereal Investigator (mkc) 105
Hard Evidence

Create a 0/3 blue Crab creature token. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Hard Evidence (mh2) 46

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Tutor

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Whir of Invention

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Whir of Invention (plst) AER-49

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