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Sergeant John Benton
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $154.00
Salt sum: 30.13
Playgroup dot gg logoPower level:N/A
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Commander

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Sergeant John Benton

Trample, haste Share Intelligence — Whenever Sergeant John Benton deals combat damage to a player, you and that player each draw that many cards.

Creature
Sergeant John Benton (who) 157

Commander

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Protection

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Adamant Will

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Adamant Will (dom) 2
Beaming Defiance

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Beaming Defiance (stx) 9
Blacksmith's Skill

Target permanent gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. If it's an artifact creature, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Instant
Blacksmith's Skill (mh2) 381
Blossoming Defense

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn.

Instant
Blossoming Defense (scd) 173
Fight as One

Choose one or both — • Target Human creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains indestructible until end of turn. • Target non-Human creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Fight as One (iko) 12
Flare of Faith

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If it's a Human, instead it gets +3/+3 and gains indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Flare of Faith (mid) 19
Gaea's Gift

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains reach, trample, hexproof, and indestructible until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Gaea's Gift (bro) 182
Loran's Escape

Target artifact or creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Scry 1.

Instant
Loran's Escape (bro) 14
Overprotect

Target creature you control gets +3/+3 and gains trample, hexproof, and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Overprotect (blb) 185
Royal Treatment

Target creature you control gains hexproof until end of turn. Create a Royal Role token attached to that creature. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}.)

Instant
Royal Treatment (woe) 183
Snakeskin Veil

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Snakeskin Veil (j25) 713
Take Up the Shield

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Take Up the Shield (otj) 34
Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211
Tyvar's Stand

Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (A creature with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tyvar's Stand (plst) ONE-190
Valorous Stance

Choose one — • Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.) • Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

Instant
Valorous Stance (plst) CMR-390
Vines of Vastwood

Kicker {G} (You may pay an additional {G} as you cast this spell.) Target creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control this turn. If this spell was kicked, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Instant
Vines of Vastwood (mm2) 168

Protection

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Enhancers

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Ace's Baseball Bat

Equipped creature gets +3/+0. As long as equipped creature is attacking, it has first strike and must be blocked by a Dalek if able. Equip legendary creature {1} Equip {3}

Artifact
Ace's Baseball Bat (who) 170
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 (mm3) 216
Gryff's Boon

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has flying. {3}{W}: Return Gryff's Boon from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Gryff's Boon (soi) 20

Enhancers

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Recursion

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Nostalgic Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Return X target cards from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Nostalgic Dreams.

Sorcery
Nostalgic Dreams (tor) 135
Regrowth

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Regrowth (mh1) 175

Recursion

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Land + Ramp

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Avacyn's Pilgrim

{T}: Add {W}.

Creature
Avacyn's Pilgrim (isd) 170
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (10e) 252
Brushland

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. Brushland deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Brushland (plst) BRO-259
Burgeoning

Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Enchantment
Burgeoning (c16) 143
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (lcc) 325
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (m14) 169
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (m13) 249
Hashep Oasis

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G}. {1}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Hashep Oasis (m3c) 347
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (fdn) 227
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (otj) 277
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (lcc) 348
Sejiri Shelter

Instant
Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37
Skyshroud Ranger

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Skyshroud Ranger (tmp) 256
Summer Bloom

You may play up to three additional lands this turn.

Sorcery
Summer Bloom (6ed) 255
Sungrass Prairie

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

Land
Sungrass Prairie (pip) 295
Sunpetal Grove

Sunpetal Grove enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Sunpetal Grove (pip) 297
Temple Garden

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

Land
Temple Garden (rtr) 248
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (3ed) 230

Land + Ramp

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Removal + Sweepers

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Abolish

You may discard a Plains card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Abolish (plst) PCY-1
Broken Bond

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Broken Bond (dom) 157
Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Enchantment
Darksteel Mutation (plst) CMA-9
Force of Vigor

If it's not your turn, you may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.

Instant
Force of Vigor (otp) 29
Hour of Revelation

This spell costs {3} less to cast if there are ten or more nonland permanents on the battlefield. Destroy all nonland permanents.

Sorcery
Hour of Revelation (znc) 17
Primal Might

Target creature you control gets +X/+X until end of turn. Then it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Sorcery
Primal Might (otp) 32
Promise of Loyalty

Each player puts a vow counter on a creature they control and sacrifices the rest. Each of those creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control for as long as it has a vow counter on it.

Sorcery
Promise of Loyalty (mkc) 79
Savage Swipe

Target creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn if its power is 2. Then it fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Sorcery
Savage Swipe (mh1) 178
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 (pip) 172

Removal + Sweepers

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Misc

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Blessed Respite

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Blessed Respite (mh2) 150
Obscuring Haze

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures your opponents control.

Instant
Obscuring Haze (c20) 61
Solitary Confinement

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Solitary Confinement unless you discard a card. Skip your draw step. You have shroud. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Enchantment
Solitary Confinement (mh2) 265

Misc

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Power Boosters

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Arrester's Zeal

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, that creature gains flying until end of turn.

Instant
Arrester's Zeal (rvr) 4
Become Immense

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Target creature gets +6/+6 until end of turn.

Instant
Become Immense (uma) 157
Duelist's Heritage

Whenever one or more creatures attack, you may have target attacking creature gain double strike until end of turn.

Enchantment
Duelist's Heritage (mkc) 60
Embiggen

Until end of turn, target non-Brushwagg creature gets +1/+1 for each supertype, card type, and subtype it has.

Instant
Embiggen (unf) 137
Flaming Fist

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks, it gains double strike until end of turn."

Enchantment
Flaming Fist (clb) 18
Groundswell

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

Instant
Groundswell (j25) 667
Inner Calm, Outer Strength

Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Instant
Inner Calm, Outer Strength (sok) 133
Invigorate

If you control a Forest, rather than pay this spell's mana cost, you may have an opponent gain 3 life. Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Instant
Invigorate (plst) MMQ-254
Kaya's Onslaught

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains double strike until end of turn. Foretell {W} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Kaya's Onslaught (khm) 18
Larger Than Life

Target creature gets +4/+4 and gains trample until end of turn.

Sorcery
Larger Than Life (kld) 160
Mammoth Growth

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. Foretell {G} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Mammoth Growth (khm) 183
Might of Old Krosa

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If you cast this spell during your main phase, that creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn instead.

Instant
Might of Old Krosa (2x2) 153
Might of the Nephilim

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each of its colors.

Instant
Might of the Nephilim (dis) 88
Moment of Heroism

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Instant
Moment of Heroism (jmp) 124
Phytoburst

Target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Phytoburst (dgm) 46
Regent's Authority

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If it's an enchantment creature or legendary creature, instead put a +1/+1 counter on it and it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Instant
Regent's Authority (neo) 32
Rustler Rampage

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Untap all creatures target player controls. + {1} — Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Rustler Rampage (otj) 27
Swell of Growth

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Swell of Growth (bfz) 191
Titanic Growth

Target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

Instant
Titanic Growth (one) 187
Wild Defiance

Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of an instant or sorcery spell, that creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Wild Defiance (avr) 203

Power Boosters

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Deck Info

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28 pips - 24 cards
23 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 2 cards
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0 mana - 2 cards
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40 pips - 38 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
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3 mana - 3 cards
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{"ops":[{"insert":"A deranged voltron deck that turns Giant Growths into Ancestral Recalls. Just make sure you leave up protection at all times!\n"}]}
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