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Est deck cost: $186.55
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Commander

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Skeleton Ship

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Skeleton Ship. {T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Skeleton Ship (ice) 301

Commander

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Creature

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Cinderbones

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) {1}{B}: Regenerate this creature.

Creature
Cinderbones (shm) 59
Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Menace Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

Creature
Massacre Girl, Known Killer (mkm) 94
Spitting Dilophosaurus

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature. Creatures your opponents control with -1/-1 counters on them can't block.

Creature
Spitting Dilophosaurus (rex) 3
Vedalken Anatomist

{2}{U}, {T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. You may tap or untap that creature.

Creature
Vedalken Anatomist (mbs) 36

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Land

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Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (otc) 280
Dreadship Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {U} and/or {B}.

Land
Dreadship Reef (tsr) 276
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (otj) 279
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (otc) 325
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (otj) 281

Land

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Recursion

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Grave Betrayal

Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Enchantment
Grave Betrayal (rtr) 67

Recursion

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Untap

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Ioreth of the Healing House

{T}: Untap another target permanent. {T}: Untap two other target legendary creatures.

Creature
Ioreth of the Healing House (ltr) 56
Second Wind

Enchant creature {T}: Tap enchanted creature. {T}: Untap enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Second Wind (fut) 57
Sting, the Glinting Dagger

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has haste. At the beginning of each combat, untap equipped creature. Equipped creature has first strike as long as it's blocking or blocked by a Goblin or Orc. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sting, the Glinting Dagger (ltr) 701
Thornbite Staff

Equipped creature has "{2}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target" and "Whenever a creature dies, untap this creature." Whenever a Shaman creature enters, you may attach this Equipment to it. Equip {4}

Artifact Kindred
Thornbite Staff (mor) 145
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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Artifact

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Bandit's Haul

Whenever you commit a crime, put a loot counter on this artifact. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) {T}: Add one mana of any color. {2}, {T}, Remove two loot counters from this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Bandit's Haul (otj) 240
Bounty Board

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Put a bounty counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery. Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, each of its controller's opponents draws a card and gains 2 life.

Artifact
Bounty Board (otc) 37

Artifact

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Draw

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Instill Infection

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Draw a card.

Instant
Instill Infection (plst) MM2-85
Tezzeret's Gambit

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Tezzeret's Gambit (otc) 117
Vivisurgeon's Insight

Draw three cards. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Vivisurgeon's Insight (one) 77

Draw

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Proliferate

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Contagion Clasp

When Contagion Clasp enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Artifact
Contagion Clasp (onc) 129
Contagion Engine

When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls. {4}, {T}: Proliferate twice. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)

Artifact
Contagion Engine (plst) SOM-145
Contentious Plan

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Draw a card.

Sorcery
Contentious Plan (war) 46
Experimental Augury

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Experimental Augury (one) 49
Flux Channeler

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Flux Channeler (cmm) 847
Fuel for the Cause

Counter target spell, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Fuel for the Cause (mbs) 25
Grim Affliction

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Grim Affliction (plst) MM2-84
Inexorable Tide

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Enchantment
Inexorable Tide (mm2) 49
Steady Progress

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Draw a card.

Instant
Steady Progress (plst) MM2-58
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Flying If you would proliferate, proliferate twice instead. {1}{U/P}{U/P}, Remove three counters from among other artifacts, creatures, and planeswalkers you control: Put an indestructible counter on Tekuthal. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Creature
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus (one) 71
Thrummingbird

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Thrummingbird (cmm) 858

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Removal

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (lcc) 142
Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (mkc) 126
Cowardice

Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, return that creature to its owner's hand. (It won't be affected by the spell or ability.)

Enchantment
Cowardice (9ed) 70
Crumbling Ashes

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy target creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Enchantment
Crumbling Ashes (eve) 35
Dismiss into Dream

Each creature your opponents control is an Illusion in addition to its other types and has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Enchantment
Dismiss into Dream (m14) 50
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (otc) 134
Giant Oyster

You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step. {T}: For as long as this creature remains tapped, target tapped creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step, and at the beginning of each of your draw steps, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, remove all -1/-1 counters from the creature.

Creature
Giant Oyster (hml) 28
Horobi, Death's Wail

Flying Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy that creature.

Creature
Horobi, Death's Wail (chk) 117
Incremental Blight

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, two -1/-1 counters on another target creature, and three -1/-1 counters on a third target creature.

Sorcery
Incremental Blight (arc) 17
Lux Cannon

{T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove three charge counters from this artifact: Destroy target permanent.

Artifact
Lux Cannon (2xm) 268
Mass Diminish

Until your next turn, creatures target player controls have base power and toughness 1/1. Flashback {3}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Mass Diminish (c19) 10
Midnight Banshee

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.

Creature
Midnight Banshee (mm2) 86
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Polymorphist's Jest

Until end of turn, each creature target player controls loses all abilities and becomes a blue Frog with base power and toughness 1/1.

Instant
Polymorphist's Jest (c17) 90
Reject Imperfection

Counter target spell. If that spell's mana value was 3 or less, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Reject Imperfection (one) 67
Serrated Arrows

This artifact enters with three arrowhead counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no arrowhead counters on this artifact, sacrifice it. {T}, Remove an arrowhead counter from this artifact: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Artifact
Serrated Arrows (plst) DDD-20
Serum Snare

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If that permanent had mana value 3 or less, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Serum Snare (one) 68
Trigon of Corruption

This artifact enters with three charge counters on it. {B}{B}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {2}, {T}, Remove a charge counter from this artifact: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Artifact
Trigon of Corruption (som) 213
Willbreaker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes the target of a spell or ability you control, gain control of that creature for as long as you control this creature.

Creature
Willbreaker (ori) 84

Removal

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Copy

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Illusionist's Bracers

Whenever an ability of equipped creature is activated, if it isn't a mana ability, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. Equip {3}

Artifact
Illusionist's Bracers (rvr) 260

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Enchantment

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Blink

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I, III — Choose target creature. Its owner shuffles it into their library, then investigates. (They create a Clue token.) II, IV — Create a 2/2 black Alien Angel artifact creature token with first strike, vigilance, and "Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, this token isn't a creature until end of turn."

Enchantment
Blink (who) 116

Enchantment

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Protection

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Haunted One

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it and other creatures you control that share a creature type with it each get +2/+0 and gain undying until end of turn." (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Enchantment
Haunted One (clb) 654
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (otc) 108

Protection

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Tokens

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Army of the Damned

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Army of the Damned (scd) 68
Nest of Scarabs

Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, create that many 1/1 black Insect creature tokens.

Enchantment
Nest of Scarabs (akh) 101

Tokens

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Counters

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Blowfly Infestation

Whenever a creature dies, if it had a -1/-1 counter on it, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Enchantment
Blowfly Infestation (shm) 58

Counters

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Infect

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Viral Drake

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) {3}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Viral Drake (nph) 49

Infect

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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 (otc) 252
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (scd) 263
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (moc) 356
Hedron Archive

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

Artifact
Hedron Archive (moc) 359
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (moc) 364
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (scd) 280

Ramp

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Tutor

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Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 97

Tutor

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Sideboard

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Tourach's Chant

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay {B}. Whenever a player puts a Forest onto the battlefield, this enchantment deals 3 damage to that player unless they put a -1/-1 counter on a creature they control.

Enchantment
Tourach's Chant (fem) 47

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