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Use Your Illusion I & II
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $123.26
Salt sum: 32.49
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Commander

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Minn, Wily Illusionist

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with "This creature gets +1/+0 for each other Illusion you control." Whenever an Illusion you control dies, you may put a permanent card with mana value less than or equal to that creature's power from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Minn, Wily Illusionist (afc) 285

Commander

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Artifact

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Aether Spellbomb

{U}, Sacrifice Aether Spellbomb: Return target creature to its owner's hand. {1}, Sacrifice Aether Spellbomb: Draw a card.

Artifact
Aether Spellbomb (mrd) 141
Boompile

{T}: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy all nonland permanents.

Artifact
Boompile (cmm) 371
Brainstone

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Brainstone: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Artifact
Brainstone (mh2) 426
Claws of Gix

{1}, Sacrifice a permanent: You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Claws of Gix (usg) 290
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 (cmr) 306
Explorer's Scope

Whenever equipped creature attacks, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Explorer's Scope (cns) 198
Giant's Amulet

When Giant's Amulet enters, you may pay {3}{U}. If you do, create a 4/4 blue Giant Wizard creature token, then attach Giant's Amulet to it. Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and has "This creature has hexproof as long as it's untapped." (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Giant's Amulet (khm) 59
Goggles of Night

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, scry 1, then draw a card. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Goggles of Night (clb) 384
Hylda's Crown of Winter

{1}, {T}: Tap target creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate during your turn. {3}, Sacrifice Hylda's Crown of Winter: Draw a card for each tapped creature your opponents control.

Artifact
Hylda's Crown of Winter (woe) 247
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (wth) 153
Mnemonic Sphere

{1}{U}, Sacrifice Mnemonic Sphere: Draw two cards. Channel — {U}, Discard Mnemonic Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mnemonic Sphere (brc) 88
Oblivion Stone

{4}, {T}: Put a fate counter on target permanent. {5}, {T}, Sacrifice Oblivion Stone: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.

Artifact
Oblivion Stone (mrd) 222
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (dst) 140
Skyclave Relic

Kicker {3} Indestructible When Skyclave Relic enters, if it was kicked, create two tapped tokens that are copies of Skyclave Relic. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Skyclave Relic (znr) 252
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c13) 259
Soul-Guide Lantern

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Soul-Guide Lantern (brr) 117
Surveyor's Scope

{T}, Exile Surveyor's Scope: Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of players who control at least two more lands than you. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Artifact
Surveyor's Scope (c13) 262
The Everflowing Well

Artifact
The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools (lci) 56The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools (lci) 56
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (brc) 171

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Battle

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Invasion of Vryn

Battle
Invasion of Vryn // Overloaded Mage-Ring (mom) 64Invasion of Vryn // Overloaded Mage-Ring (mom) 64

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Creature

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Aether Channeler

When Aether Channeler enters, choose one — • Create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying. • Return another target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Creature
Aether Channeler (sch) 11
Archetype of Imagination

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

Creature Enchantment
Archetype of Imagination (bng) 32
Azami, Lady of Scrolls

Tap an untapped Wizard you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Azami, Lady of Scrolls (chk) 52
Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever Body of Knowledge is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature
Body of Knowledge (cmr) 59
Cephalid Broker

{T}: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards.

Creature
Cephalid Broker (ody) 71
Chameleon Spirit

As Chameleon Spirit enters, choose a color. Chameleon Spirit's power and toughness are each equal to the number of permanents of the chosen color your opponents control.

Creature
Chameleon Spirit (mmq) 65
Chasm Skulker

Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Chasm Skulker. When Chasm Skulker dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Chasm Skulker. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)

Creature
Chasm Skulker (plst) M15-46
Defiler of Dreams

Flying As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {U} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay. Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.

Creature
Defiler of Dreams (dmu) 393
Diluvian Primordial

Flying When Diluvian Primordial enters, for each opponent, you may cast up to one target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If a spell cast this way would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Diluvian Primordial (gtc) 33
Drowned Rusalka

{U}, Sacrifice a creature: Discard a card, then draw a card.

Creature
Drowned Rusalka (gpt) 24
Fblthp, the Lost

When Fblthp, the Lost enters, draw a card. If it entered from your library or was cast from your library, draw two cards instead. When Fblthp becomes the target of a spell, shuffle Fblthp into its owner's library.

Creature
Fblthp, the Lost (tsr) 308
Fear of Impostors

Flash When Fear of Impostors enters, counter target spell. Its controller manifests dread. (That player looks at the top two cards of their library, then puts one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into their graveyard. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Creature Enchantment
Fear of Impostors (dsk) 57
Hydroelectric Specimen

Creature
Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240
Krovikan Mist

Flying Krovikan Mist's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Illusions on the battlefield.

Creature
Krovikan Mist (csp) 38
Meloku the Clouded Mirror

Flying {1}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token with flying.

Creature
Meloku the Clouded Mirror (chk) 74
Merfolk Looter

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Merfolk Looter (exo) 39
Mesmerizing Benthid

When Mesmerizing Benthid enters, create two 0/2 blue Illusion creature tokens with "Whenever this creature blocks a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step." Mesmerizing Benthid has hexproof as long as you control an Illusion.

Creature
Mesmerizing Benthid (rna) 43
Oneirophage

Flying Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Oneirophage.

Creature
Oneirophage (mh1) 60
Phantom Steed

Flash When Phantom Steed enters, exile another target creature you control until Phantom Steed leaves the battlefield. Whenever Phantom Steed attacks, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of the exiled card, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types. Sacrifice that token at end of combat.

Creature
Phantom Steed (afc) 287
Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Psychosis Crawler (brr) 107
Scampering Surveyor

When Scampering Surveyor 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
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 (cmd) 262
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (cmm) 126
Thought Courier

{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Thought Courier (5dn) 38
Trinket Mage

When Trinket Mage enters, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Trinket Mage (5dn) 39
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) 386
Unctus, Grand Metatect

Other blue creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, draw a card, then discard a card." Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1. {U/P}: Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a blue artifact in addition to its other colors and types. Activate only as a sorcery. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Unctus, Grand Metatect (one) 75
Wonder

Flying As long as Wonder is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature
Wonder (jud) 54

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Enchantment

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Font of Fortunes

{1}{U}, Sacrifice Font of Fortunes: Draw two cards.

Enchantment
Font of Fortunes (jou) 38
Reconnaissance Mission

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Reconnaissance Mission (iko) 65
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 (m21) 76
The Bath Song

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Draw two cards, then discard a card. III — Shuffle any number of target cards from your graveyard into your library. Add {U}{U}.

Enchantment
The Bath Song (ltr) 491
The Phasing of Zhalfir

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Another target nonland permanent phases out. It can't phase in for as long as you control The Phasing of Zhalfir. III — Destroy all creatures. For each creature destroyed this way, its controller creates a 2/2 black Phyrexian creature token.

Enchantment
The Phasing of Zhalfir (dmu) 59

Enchantment

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Instant

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Abjure

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent. Counter target spell.

Instant
Abjure (wth) 31
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (5ed) 76
Capsize

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant
Capsize (tmp) 55
Into the Roil

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Instant
Into the Roil (zen) 48
Jwari Disruption

Instant
Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins (znr) 64Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins (znr) 64
Lat-Nam's Legacy

Shuffle a card from your hand into your library. If you do, draw two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Lat-Nam's Legacy (all) 30b
Perilous Research

Draw two cards, then sacrifice a permanent.

Instant
Perilous Research (csp) 41
Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (2x2) 62
Read the Runes

Draw X cards. For each card drawn this way, discard a card unless you sacrifice a permanent.

Instant
Read the Runes (ons) 104
You Find the Villains' Lair

Choose one — • Foil Their Scheme — Counter target spell. • Learn Their Secrets — Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Instant
You Find the Villains' Lair (afr) 84

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Land

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Arch of Orazca

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) {T}: Add {C}. {5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Land
Arch of Orazca (tsr) 404
Arid Archway

Arid Archway enters tapped. When Arid Archway enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. If another Desert was returned this way, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Land
Arid Archway (otj) 252
Blighted Cataract

{T}: Add {C}. {5}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Blighted Cataract: Draw two cards.

Land
Blighted Cataract (bfz) 229
Coral Atoll

Coral Atoll enters tapped. When Coral Atoll enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Island you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{U}.

Land
Coral Atoll (vis) 160
Cryptic Caves

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Cryptic Caves (m20) 244
Desert of the Mindful

Desert of the Mindful enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Mindful (hou) 173
Guildless Commons

Guildless Commons enters tapped. When Guildless Commons enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Land
Guildless Commons (cmr) 351
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dmu) 267
Lonely Sandbar

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

Land
Lonely Sandbar (ons) 320
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (who) 290
Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.) Mystic Sanctuary enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When Mystic Sanctuary enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Mystic Sanctuary (eld) 247
Remote Isle

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

Land
Remote Isle (usg) 324
Sunken Palace

Sunken Palace enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {1}{U}, {T}, Exile seven cards from your graveyard: Add {U}. When you spend this mana to cast a spell or activate an ability, copy that spell or ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be copied.)

Land
Sunken Palace (m3c) 81

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Sorcery

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Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (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
Preordain (m11) 70
Secrets of the Golden City

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Draw two cards. If you have the city's blessing, draw three cards instead.

Sorcery
Secrets of the Golden City (rix) 52

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