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6. Bad Santa
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Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

At the beginning of your end step, target opponent gains control of up to one target creature you control. Put two +1/+1 counters on it and tap it. It's goaded for the rest of the game and it gains "This creature can't be sacrificed." (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever a creature you own but don't control attacks, you draw a card.

Creature
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One (clb) 536

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Animate

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Ancient Brass Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. When you do, put any number of target creature cards with total mana value X or less from graveyards onto the battlefield under your control, where X is the result.

Creature
Ancient Brass Dragon (clb) 111
Arvinox, the Mind Flail

Arvinox isn't a creature unless you control three or more permanents you don't own. At the beginning of your end step, exile the bottom card of each opponent's library face down. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may cast permanent spells from among them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Creature Enchantment
Arvinox, the Mind Flail (dsc) 130
Brainstealer Dragon

Flying At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of each opponent's library. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it. Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent owns enters the battlefield under your control, they lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Brainstealer Dragon (clb) 621
Gyruda, Doom of Depths

Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with even mana values. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) When Gyruda enters, each player mills four cards. Put a creature card with an even mana value from among the milled cards onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Gyruda, Doom of Depths (iko) 221
Lord of the Void

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top seven cards of that player's library, then put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Lord of the Void (rvr) 424
Metamorphosis Fanatic

Lifelink When this creature enters, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it. Miracle {1}{B} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Creature
Metamorphosis Fanatic (dsc) 21
Nurgle's Conscription

Put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under your control, then exile that player's graveyard.

Instant
Nurgle's Conscription (40k) 44
Proteus Staff

{2}{U}, {T}: Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. That creature's controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of their library in any order. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Proteus Staff (mrd) 230
Rakshasa Debaser

Whenever this creature attacks, put target creature card from defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Encore {6}{B}{B} ({6}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Rakshasa Debaser (scd) 100
The Eldest Reborn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. II — Each opponent discards a card. III — Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
The Eldest Reborn (dsc) 139
Zareth San, the Trickster

Flash {2}{U}{B}, Return an unblocked attacking Rogue you control to its owner's hand: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Whenever Zareth San deals combat damage to a player, you may put target permanent card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Zareth San, the Trickster (znr) 242

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Interaction

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Instant
Dismember (spg) 41
Dispel

Counter target instant spell.

Instant
Dispel (bfz) 76
Drown in the Loch

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Instant
Drown in the Loch (clb) 842
Frightful Delusion

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. That player discards a card.

Instant
Frightful Delusion (isd) 57
Join the Dead

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. Descend 4 — That creature gets -10/-10 until end of turn instead if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard.

Instant
Join the Dead (lci) 110
Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Mana Leak (mm2) 50
Perplex

Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand. 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
Perplex (rav) 217
Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Spell Pierce (2x2) 350
Unwind

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Unwind (dom) 72

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Acceleration

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (clb) 298
Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (clb) 739
Decanter of Endless Water

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

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 444
Dimir Cluestone

{T}: Add {U} or {B}. {U}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Dimir Cluestone (dgm) 138
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (clb) 857
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Lifelink For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana. Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Creature
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (clb) 871
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (clb) 877
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (clb) 879

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Bomb

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Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Flying If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Bloodletter of Aclazotz (lci) 92
Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up. When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

Creature
Unstoppable Slasher (dsk) 312

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Land

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Black Dragon Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Black Dragon Gate (clb) 347
Choked Estuary

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

Land
Choked Estuary (clb) 886
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (clb) 351
Conduit Pylons

When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Conduit Pylons (otj) 254
Darkwater Catacombs

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

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (clb) 889
Dimir Aqueduct

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

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (clb) 891
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (rix) 186
Hidden Grotto

When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Hidden Grotto (blb) 254
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (sld) 1467
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (lci) 288
Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (cmm) 661
Promising Vein

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Promising Vein (lci) 279
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 663
Restless Reef

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {2}{U}{B}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 4/4 blue and black Shark creature with deathtouch. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, target player mills four cards.

Land
Restless Reef (lci) 282
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (clb) 918
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (lci) 289
Tainted Isle

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Isle (dsc) 303
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (10e) 360
Thriving Isle

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than blue. {T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Isle (dsc) 316
Thriving Moor

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Moor (dsc) 317
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (dsc) 321

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Advantage

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (clb) 620
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (40k) 192
Frantic Search

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

Instant
Frantic Search (plst) UMA-57
Search for Azcanta

Enchantment
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (sld) 1502Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (sld) 1502
Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.

Instant
Opt (dom) 60
Scion of Halaster

Commander creatures you own have "The first time you would draw a card each turn, instead look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard and the other back on top of your library. Then draw a card."

Enchantment
Scion of Halaster (clb) 498
Sygg, River Cutthroat

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Sygg, River Cutthroat (znc) 103
Teferi, Master of Time

You may activate loyalty abilities of Teferi on any player's turn any time you could cast an instant. +1: Draw a card, then discard a card. −3: Target creature you don't control phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.) −10: Take two extra turns after this one.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Master of Time (m21) 290

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Gift

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Abyssal Persecutor

Flying, trample You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

Creature
Abyssal Persecutor (c14) 132
Asmodeus the Archfiend

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead. {B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards. {B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

Creature
Asmodeus the Archfiend (afr) 373
Demonic Taskmaster

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature.

Creature
Demonic Taskmaster (avr) 95
Ebon Drake

Flying Whenever a player casts a spell, you lose 1 life.

Creature
Ebon Drake (5dn) 48
Ebonblade Reaper

Whenever this creature attacks, you lose half your life, rounded up. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up. Morph {3}{B}{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
Ebonblade Reaper (ons) 141
Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore

Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack. This creature can't be blocked except by Walls.

Creature
Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore (tsb) 42
Flesh Reaver

Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature or opponent, this creature deals that much damage to you.

Creature
Flesh Reaver (dmr) 86
Graf Reaver

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, destroy target planeswalker. At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to you.

Creature
Graf Reaver (dbl) 382
Gutwrencher Oni

Trample At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card if you don't control an Ogre.

Creature
Gutwrencher Oni (chk) 113
Hasran Ogress

Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 3 damage to you unless you pay {2}.

Creature
Hasran Ogress (arn) 27
Lord of the Pit

Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature. If you can't, this creature deals 7 damage to you.

Creature
Lord of the Pit (ima) 96
Master of the Feast

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card.

Creature Enchantment
Master of the Feast (jou) 75
Morkrut Necropod

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice another creature or land.

Creature
Morkrut Necropod (soi) 125
Priest of the Blood Rite

When this creature enters, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 2 life.

Creature
Priest of the Blood Rite (cmm) 179
Rust Elemental

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice another artifact. If you can't, tap this creature and you lose 4 life.

Creature Artifact
Rust Elemental (mrd) 234
Wretched Anurid

Whenever another creature enters, you lose 1 life.

Creature
Wretched Anurid (dmr) 109

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Protection

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Diplomatic Immunity

Enchant creature Shroud (A permanent with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Enchanted creature has shroud.

Enchantment
Diplomatic Immunity (mmq) 75
Dissipation Field

Whenever a permanent deals damage to you, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Dissipation Field (clb) 718
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (clb) 864
Neurok Stealthsuit

Equipped creature has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {U}{U}: Attach Neurok Stealthsuit to target creature you control. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Neurok Stealthsuit (5dn) 140
Run Away Together

Choose two target creatures controlled by different players. Return those creatures to their owners' hands.

Instant
Run Away Together (blb) 67
The Watcher in the Water

The Watcher in the Water enters tapped with nine stun counters on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Whenever you draw a card during an opponent's turn, create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token. Whenever a Tentacle you control dies, untap up to one target Kraken and put a stun counter on up to one target nonland permanent.

Creature
The Watcher in the Water (ltr) 75
Unsummon

Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Unsummon (m20) 78
Vapor Snag

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life.

Instant
Vapor Snag (mm2) 66

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Amass

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Nadir Kraken

Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.

Creature
Nadir Kraken (thb) 55

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Goad

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Curse of Disturbance

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Enchantment
Curse of Disturbance (c21) 138
Curse of Verbosity

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you draw a card. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Enchantment
Curse of Verbosity (c17) 9
Vow of Torment

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has menace, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Enchantment
Vow of Torment (cmr) 159

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (lcc) 142
Assault Suit

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has haste, can't attack you or planeswalkers you control, and can't be sacrificed. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of equipped creature until end of turn. If you do, untap it. Equip {3}

Artifact
Assault Suit (40k) 230
Evil Eye of Urborg

Non-Eye creatures you control can't attack. Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature.

Creature
Evil Eye of Urborg (tsp) 107
Feign Death

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Feign Death (afr) 103
Grid Monitor

You can't cast creature spells.

Creature Artifact
Grid Monitor (mrd) 183
Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

Creature
Phyrexian Obliterator (one) 440
Planar Incision

Exile target artifact or creature, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Instant
Planar Incision (neo) 72
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85
Steel Golem

You can't cast creature spells.

Creature Artifact
Steel Golem (10e) 344
Tergrid, God of Fright

Creature
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112
Thrashing Mudspawn

Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you lose that much life. Morph {1}{B}{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
Thrashing Mudspawn (ons) 177
Vow of Malice

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Enchantment
Vow of Malice (cm2) 82

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