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Ellie and Alan: So You Two Dig Up Dinosaurs?
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $185.28
Salt sum: 19.2
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Commander

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Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists

{T}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Discover X, where X is the mana value of the exiled card. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Creature
Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists (rex) 10

Commander

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Discard

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Rhet-Tomb Mystic

Flying Each creature card in your hand has cycling {1}{U}. ({1}{U}, Discard that card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Rhet-Tomb Mystic (drc) 10

Discard

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Instant

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Unauthorized Exit

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Unauthorized Exit (mkm) 74

Instant

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Protection

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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 (lcc) 314

Protection

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Tokens

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Desecrated Tomb

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

Artifact
Desecrated Tomb (m19) 230

Tokens

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Artifact

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Paleontologist's Pick-Axe

Artifact
Paleontologist's Pick-Axe // Dinosaur Headdress (lcc) 16Paleontologist's Pick-Axe // Dinosaur Headdress (lcc) 16

Artifact

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Draw

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Annoyed Altisaur

Reach, trample Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Creature
Annoyed Altisaur (2x2) 134
Compulsive Research

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

Sorcery
Compulsive Research (rvr) 38
Dig Through Time

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Dig Through Time (otc) 95
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (woc) 90
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (woc) 93
Keruga, the Macrosage

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with mana value 3 or greater and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) When Keruga enters, draw a card for each other permanent you control with mana value 3 or greater.

Creature
Keruga, the Macrosage (iko) 225
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner

Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card. −1: Untap target permanent.

Planeswalker
Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner (war) 232
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
Monastery Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card, then discard a card. • Dragons — Spells your opponents cast that target you or a permanent you control cost {2} more to cast.

Enchantment
Monastery Siege (c17) 88
Mulldrifter

Flying When this creature enters, draw two cards. Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Mulldrifter (mkc) 111
Nezahal, Primal Tide

This spell can't be countered. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card. Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Nezahal, Primal Tide (cmr) 401
Scattered Thoughts

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put two of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Instant
Scattered Thoughts (vow) 74

Draw

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Land

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Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (mkc) 248
Azorius Chancery

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

Land
Azorius Chancery (clu) 229
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (rex) 26
Desert of the Indomitable

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Indomitable (hou) 172
Desert of the Mindful

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Mindful (j22) 812
Desert of the True

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the True (c20) 268
Echoing Deeps

You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land card in a graveyard, except it's a Cave in addition to its other types. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Echoing Deeps (lci) 271
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mh3) 308
Hedge Maze

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

Land
Hedge Maze (mkm) 262
Hidden Cataract

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {4}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Land
Hidden Cataract (lci) 273
Hidden Courtyard

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {4}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Land
Hidden Courtyard (lci) 274
Hidden Nursery

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {4}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Land
Hidden Nursery (lci) 276
Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Irrigated Farmland (mkc) 267
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
Lush Portico

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Lush Portico (mkm) 263
Meticulous Archive

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

Land
Meticulous Archive (mkm) 264
Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (plst) CHK-279
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mh3) 304
Remote Isle

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Remote Isle (dmr) 254
Scattered Groves

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Scattered Groves (mkc) 286
Secluded Steppe

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

Land
Secluded Steppe (mkc) 289
Selesnya Sanctuary

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

Land
Selesnya Sanctuary (clu) 246
Simic Growth Chamber

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

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (clu) 247
Tocasia's Dig Site

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Tocasia's Dig Site (mkc) 308
Tranquil Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {G}{W}{U} ({G}{W}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Tranquil Landscape (mh3) 231
Tranquil Thicket

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

Land
Tranquil Thicket (mkc) 309
Volatile Fault

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You create a Treasure token.

Land
Volatile Fault (lci) 286

Land

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Ramp

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Beneath the Sands

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Beneath the Sands (plst) HOU-111
Cacophodon

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, untap target permanent.

Creature
Cacophodon (rix) 123
Dreamstone Hedron

{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw three cards.

Artifact
Dreamstone Hedron (cmm) 945
Faeburrow Elder

Vigilance This creature gets +1/+1 for each color among permanents you control. {T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Creature
Faeburrow Elder (blc) 252
Greater Tanuki

Trample Channel — {2}{G}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Enchantment
Greater Tanuki (cmm) 897
Hedron Archive

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

Artifact
Hedron Archive (fdn) 726
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (lcc) 273
Migration Path

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Migration Path (lcc) 246
Orazca Relic

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) {T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life and draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Artifact
Orazca Relic (afc) 213
Patriar's Seal

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

Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
Ranging Raptors

Enrage — Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Ranging Raptors (lcc) 249
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
Wayward Swordtooth

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) You may play an additional land on each of your turns. This creature can't attack or block unless you have the city's blessing.

Creature
Wayward Swordtooth (lcc) 263

Ramp

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Untap

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Chakram Retriever

Partner with Chakram Slinger (When this creature enters, target player may put Chakram Slinger into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever you cast a spell during your turn, untap target creature.

Creature
Chakram Retriever (bbd) 15
Clever Conjurer

Mage Hand — {T}: Untap target permanent not named Clever Conjurer. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Clever Conjurer (afr) 51
Vizier of Tumbling Sands

{T}: Untap another target permanent. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, untap target permanent.

Creature
Vizier of Tumbling Sands (cmm) 131

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Counters

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Titanoth Rex

Trample Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put a trample counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Titanoth Rex (plst) IKO-174

Counters

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Enchantment

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Chalk Outline

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token, then investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Enchantment
Chalk Outline (mkm) 157

Enchantment

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Landfall

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Retreat to Coralhelm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • You may tap or untap target creature. • Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Enchantment
Retreat to Coralhelm (plst) BFZ-82

Landfall

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Recursion

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Enhanced Surveillance

You may look at an additional two cards each time you surveil. Exile this enchantment: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Enchantment
Enhanced Surveillance (mkc) 102
Timeless Witness

When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Eternalize {5}{G}{G} ({5}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Timeless Witness (mh2) 179

Recursion

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Creature

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Colossal Dreadmaw

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Colossal Dreadmaw (j22) 640
Forensic Researcher

{T}: Untap another target permanent you control. {T}, Collect evidence 3: Tap target creature you don't control. (To collect evidence 3, exile cards with total mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard.)

Creature
Forensic Researcher (mkm) 58
Marauding Brinefang

Ward {3} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.) Islandcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Marauding Brinefang (lci) 64
Migrating Ketradon

Reach When this creature enters, you gain 4 life. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Migrating Ketradon (dft) 170
Nurturing Bristleback

When this creature enters, create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token. Forestcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Nurturing Bristleback (lci) 203
Scampering Surveyor

When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card or Cave card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Scampering Surveyor (lci) 260
Sinuous Benthisaur

When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of Caves you control plus the number of Cave cards in your graveyard. Put two of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Sinuous Benthisaur (lci) 76
Soaring Sandwing

Flying When this creature enters, you gain 3 life. Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Soaring Sandwing (lci) 35
Steamcore Scholar

Flying, vigilance When this creature enters, draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an instant or sorcery card or a creature card with flying.

Creature
Steamcore Scholar (mkm) 71
Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor

Creatures you control have vigilance and "{T}: Surveil 1." (To surveil 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) {2}{G}{G}{W}{W}{U}{U}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Return any number of target artifact cards with total mana value 10 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor (bro) 224
Topiary Panther

Trample Basic landcycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Topiary Panther (mkm) 179

Creature

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Evasion

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Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control. Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Ghalta, Primal Hunger (cmm) 292

Evasion

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Lifegain

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Willow Geist

Trample Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, you gain life equal to its power.

Creature
Willow Geist (mid) 207

Lifegain

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Removal

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Barrier Breach

Exile up to three target enchantments. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Barrier Breach (iko) 145
Cleansing Nova

Choose one — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery
Cleansing Nova (cmm) 817
Dusk

Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (mkc) 61
Endless Detour

The owner of target spell, nonland permanent, or card in a graveyard puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Instant
Endless Detour (snc) 183
Mirrorshell Crab

Ward {3} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {3}.) Channel — {2}{U}, Discard this card: Counter target spell or ability unless its controller pays {3}.

Creature Artifact
Mirrorshell Crab (neo) 63
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (mkc) 88
Thrashing Brontodon

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Thrashing Brontodon (lci) 216
Tranquil Frillback

When this creature enters, you may pay {G} up to three times. When you pay this cost one or more times, choose up to that many — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Exile target player's graveyard. • You gain 4 life.

Creature
Tranquil Frillback (mat) 24
Unexplained Disappearance

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Instant
Unexplained Disappearance (grn) 56
Wilt

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Wilt (iko) 176

Removal

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Cycling

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Crystalline Resonance

Whenever you cycle a card, you may have this enchantment become a copy of another target permanent until your next turn, except it has this ability.

Enchantment
Crystalline Resonance (c20) 31
Daggermaw Megalodon

Vigilance Islandcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Daggermaw Megalodon (dsk) 48
Imposing Vantasaur

Vigilance Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Imposing Vantasaur (iko) 17

Cycling

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Finisher

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Overrun

Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Sorcery
Overrun (scd) 201

Finisher

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Mill

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Wasteful Harvest

Mill five cards. You may put a permanent card from among the cards milled this way into your hand. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant
Wasteful Harvest (bro) 196

Mill

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Sorcery

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Self-Reflection

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Flashback {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Self-Reflection (lci) 74

Sorcery

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Deck Info

Deck stats

14 pips - 9 cards
14 mana - 14 cards
38 pips - 31 cards
15 mana - 15 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
42 pips - 29 cards
14 mana - 14 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
13 mana - 9 cards
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