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Paleontologists Discovering Second Sun (871)
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $388.95
Salt sum: 30.93
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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

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (blc) 127
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (blc) 269
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (who) 243
Oketra's Monument

White creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 1/1 white Warrior creature token with vigilance.

Artifact
Oketra's Monument (plst) AKH-233
Patriar's Seal

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

Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
Rings of Brighthearth

Whenever you activate an ability, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {2}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Artifact
Rings of Brighthearth (cmr) 335
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129
Talisman of Curiosity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. Talisman of Curiosity deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (mkc) 241
Talisman of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. Talisman of Progress deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (mkc) 243
Talisman of Unity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. Talisman of Unity deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Unity (mkc) 244
Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. {1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (c13) 266

Artifact

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Creature

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Adric, Mathematical Genius

{2}{U}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. Ultimate Sacrifice — {1}{U}, Sacrifice Adric: Counter target activated or triggered ability. Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Creature
Adric, Mathematical Genius (who) 33
Angel of the Ruins

Flying When Angel of the Ruins enters, exile up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments. Plainscycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature Artifact
Angel of the Ruins (brc) 68
Argentum Masticore

First strike, protection from multicolored At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Argentum Masticore unless you discard a card. When you discard a card this way, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value less than or equal to the mana value of the discarded card.

Creature Artifact
Argentum Masticore (one) 222
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle enters tapped with five slumber counters on it. As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. (It's not a creature.) Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Creature
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle (mul) 32
Bramble Familiar

Creature
Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest (woe) 283
Chulane, Teller of Tales

Vigilance Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Return target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Chulane, Teller of Tales (eld) 326
Colossal Skyturtle

Flying, ward {2} Channel — {2}{G}, Discard Colossal Skyturtle: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Channel — {1}{U}, Discard Colossal Skyturtle: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature Enchantment
Colossal Skyturtle (neo) 216
Curator of Mysteries

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Curator of Mysteries (afc) 81
Drowner of Truth

Creature
Drowner of Truth // Drowned Jungle (mh3) 253Drowner of Truth // Drowned Jungle (mh3) 253
Drownyard Lurker

Vigilance When you cast or cycle Drownyard Lurker, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}." Cycling {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Drownyard Lurker (mh3) 3
Eagles of the North

Flying When Eagles of the North enters, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain first strike until end of turn. Plainscycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Eagles of the North (ltr) 7
Etherium Spinner

Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 4 or greater, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Creature Artifact
Etherium Spinner (mh2) 40
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
Foundation Breaker

When Foundation Breaker enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment. Evoke {1}{G} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Foundation Breaker (mh2) 160
Generous Ent

Reach When Generous Ent enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.") Forestcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Generous Ent (ltr) 169
God-Eternal Oketra

Double strike Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 4/4 black Zombie Warrior creature token with vigilance. When God-Eternal Oketra dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Creature
God-Eternal Oketra (war) 16
Greater Tanuki

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

Creature Enchantment
Greater Tanuki (cmm) 897
Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creature sources. Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea and untap it.

Creature
Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea (bro) 185
Helga, Skittish Seer

Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 4 or greater, you draw a card, gain 1 life, and put a +1/+1 counter on Helga, Skittish Seer. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Helga, Skittish Seer's power. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells with mana value 4 or greater or creature spells with {X} in their mana costs.

Creature
Helga, Skittish Seer (blb) 217
Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (woc) 95
Imposing Vantasaur

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

Creature
Imposing Vantasaur (iko) 17
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
Kellan, the Kid

Flying, lifelink Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, you may cast a permanent spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Kellan, the Kid (otj) 213
Kiora's Follower

{T}: Untap another target permanent.

Creature
Kiora's Follower (plst) DDO-52
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, Ledger Shredder 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
Managorger Hydra

Trample Whenever a player casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Managorger Hydra.

Creature
Managorger Hydra (clb) 828
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 Mirrorshell Crab: Counter target spell or ability unless its controller pays {3}.

Creature Artifact
Mirrorshell Crab (neo) 63
Monstrosity of the Lake

When Monstrosity of the Lake enters, you may pay {5}. If you do, tap all creatures your opponents control, then put a stun counter on each of those creatures. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Islandcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Monstrosity of the Lake (ltc) 22
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, Primal Tide. 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
Nimble Obstructionist

Flash Flying Cycling {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Nimble Obstructionist, counter target activated or triggered ability you don't control.

Creature
Nimble Obstructionist (hou) 40
Nulldrifter

When you cast this spell, draw two cards. Flying Annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.) Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Nulldrifter (mh3) 388
Radagast, Wizard of Wilds

Ward {1} Beasts and Birds you control have ward {1}. Whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, choose one — • Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. • Create a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Creature
Radagast, Wizard of Wilds (ltc) 66
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (c16) 164
Saryth, the Viper's Fang

Other tapped creatures you control have deathtouch. Other untapped creatures you control have hexproof. {1}, {T}: Untap another target creature or land you control.

Creature
Saryth, the Viper's Fang (mid) 304
Shaun & Rebecca, Agents

Vigilance When Shaun & Rebecca, Agents enters, search your graveyard, hand, and library for a card named The Animus and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. {T}: Add {C}. When you do, mill two cards.

Creature
Shaun & Rebecca, Agents (acr) 64
Silverback Elder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • You gain 4 life.

Creature
Silverback Elder (dmu) 177
Striped Riverwinder

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Striped Riverwinder (hou) 48
Surrak, the Hunt Caller

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, target creature you control gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)

Creature
Surrak, the Hunt Caller (cmm) 326
Tempest Hart

Creature
Tempest Hart // Scan the Clouds (woe) 238
Tidespout Tyrant

Flying Whenever you cast a spell, return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Tidespout Tyrant (bbd) 134
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
Torens, Fist of the Angels

Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 1/1 green and white Human Soldier creature token with training.

Creature
Torens, Fist of the Angels (vow) 328
Troyan, Gutsy Explorer

{T}: Add {G}{U}. Spend this mana only to cast spells with mana value 5 or greater or spells with {X} in their mana costs. {U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Troyan, Gutsy Explorer (woe) 217
Vega, the Watcher

Flying Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, draw a card.

Creature
Vega, the Watcher (khm) 233
Vizier of Tumbling Sands

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

Creature
Vizier of Tumbling Sands (cmm) 131
Warped Tusker

Reach When you cast or cycle Warped Tusker, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}." Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Warped Tusker (mh3) 16

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Enchantment

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Extraordinary Journey

When Extraordinary Journey enters, exile up to X target creatures. For each of those cards, its owner may play it for as long as it remains exiled. Whenever one or more nontoken creatures enter, if one or more of them entered from exile or was cast from exile, you draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Extraordinary Journey (woe) 48
Kozilek's Unsealing

Devoid (This card has no color.) Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 4, 5, or 6, create two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens with "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}." Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 7 or greater, draw three cards.

Enchantment
Kozilek's Unsealing (mh3) 65
Monstrous Vortex

Whenever you cast a creature spell with power 5 or greater, discover X, where X is that spell's mana value. (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.)

Enchantment
Monstrous Vortex (mh3) 162
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 (bfz) 82
Up the Beanstalk

When Up the Beanstalk enters and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater, draw a card.

Enchantment
Up the Beanstalk (woe) 195

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Instant

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Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (mb2) 155

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Land

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Breeding Pool

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

Land
Breeding Pool (rvr) 275
Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) Canopy Vista enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Canopy Vista (mkc) 252
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (otc) 280
Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Flooded Grove (otc) 297
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (otj) 285
Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
Hallowed Fountain

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

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 280
Hedge Maze

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

Land
Hedge Maze (mkm) 262
Hidden Grotto

When Hidden Grotto 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
Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (otc) 300
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (otj) 280
Lush Portico

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) Lush Portico enters tapped. When Lush Portico 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}.) Meticulous Archive enters tapped. When Meticulous Archive 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
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Misty Rainforest: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Mystic Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {W/U}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Mystic Gate (cmm) 1013
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (otj) 278
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Prairie Stream enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (mkc) 281
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Rejuvenating Springs

Rejuvenating Springs enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmm) 424
Spara's Headquarters

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.) Spara's Headquarters enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 257
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 (rvr) 290
Tranquil Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Tranquil Landscape: 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
Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Windswept Heath: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235
Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Yavimaya Coast (blc) 355

Land

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Planeswalker

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Jace, the Mind Sculptor

+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. −1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. −12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles their hand into their library.

Planeswalker
Jace, the Mind Sculptor (2xm) 56
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

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Sorcery

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Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery
Approach of the Second Sun (plst) AKH-4

Sorcery

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Deck Info

Deck stats

14 pips - 12 cards
25 mana - 22 cards
42 pips - 33 cards
35 mana - 30 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 8 cards
37 pips - 27 cards
30 mana - 27 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
15 mana - 14 cards
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