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3/20/2025
Take A Look, It's In A Book... (v.1)
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Est deck cost: $263.80
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Commander

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Codie, Vociferous Codex

You can't cast permanent spells. {4}, {T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}. When you next cast a spell this turn, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an instant or sorcery card with lesser mana value. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put each other card exiled this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature Artifact
Codie, Vociferous Codex (stx) 253

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Finisher

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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

Finisher

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Ramp

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Circuitous Route

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Circuitous Route (plst) GRN-125
Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Crop Rotation (dmr) 154
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (dsc) 174
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
Elvish Spirit Guide

Exile this creature from your hand: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Spirit Guide (mb2) 68
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (j25) 146
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (blc) 119
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (dsc) 88
Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios

Creature
Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle (stx) 151Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle (stx) 151
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (otc) 196
Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Lotus Petal (mb2) 226
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (mkc) 178
Open the Gates

Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Open the Gates (rvr) 151
Planar Genesis

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't, put a card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant
Planar Genesis (mh3) 198
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (j25) 704
Reshape the Earth

Search your library for up to ten land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Reshape the Earth (cmr) 249
Simian Spirit Guide

Exile this card from your hand: Add {R}.

Creature
Simian Spirit Guide (mb2) 61
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (otc) 209

Ramp

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Tokens

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Rise from the Tides

Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Rise from the Tides (inr) 82
Wake the Dragon

Create a 6/6 black and red Dragon creature token with flying, menace, and "Whenever this token deals combat damage to a player, gain control of target artifact that player controls." Flashback {6}{B}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Wake the Dragon (ltc) 74

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Burn

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Manabarbs

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Manabarbs (m12) 150

Burn

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Land

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Baldur's Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Land
Baldur's Gate (clb) 345
Basilisk Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Basilisk Gate (mb2) 104
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
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (tdc) 107
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (tdm) 285
Gond Gate

Gates you control enter untapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Gond Gate (clb) 353
Gruul Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Gruul Guildgate (clu) 237
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (tdm) 280
Izzet Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Izzet Guildgate (clu) 240
Manor Gate

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

Land
Manor Gate (clb) 356
Maze's End

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Land
Maze's End (plst) DGM-152
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (tdm) 284
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (tdm) 277
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (tdc) 386
Sea Gate

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

Land
Sea Gate (clb) 359
Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Simic Guildgate (clu) 248
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (tdm) 282
The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Land
The Black Gate (ltc) 80
Thran Portal

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. As this land enters, choose a basic land type. This land is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Mana abilities of this land cost an additional 1 life to activate.

Land
Thran Portal (dmu) 259

Land

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Recursion

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Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery. Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mizzix's Mastery (otc) 175
Mnemonic Deluge

Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Copy that card three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs. Exile Mnemonic Deluge.

Sorcery
Mnemonic Deluge (cmr) 82
Noxious Revival

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) Put target card from a graveyard on top of its owner's library.

Instant
Noxious Revival (mb2) 70
Reclaim

Put target card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Instant
Reclaim (plst) ORI-195

Recursion

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Tutor

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Bring to Light

Converge — Search your library for a creature, instant, or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell, exile that card, then shuffle. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Bring to Light (2x2) 188
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60
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
Solve the Equation

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Solve the Equation (stx) 54

Tutor

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Copy

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Galvanic Iteration

When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. Flashback {1}{U}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Galvanic Iteration (inr) 236
Increasing Vengeance

Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies. Flashback {3}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Increasing Vengeance (c19) 147
Teach by Example

({U/R} can be paid with either {U} or {R}.) When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Teach by Example (stx) 241
Thousand-Year Storm

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Enchantment
Thousand-Year Storm (fdn) 248

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Mill

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Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 94

Mill

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Removal

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (dsc) 80
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (drc) 101
Call Forth the Tempest

Cascade, 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 of your library in a random order. Then do it again.) Call Forth the Tempest deals damage to each creature your opponents control equal to the total mana value of other spells you've cast this turn.

Sorcery
Call Forth the Tempest (ltc) 509
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Duneblast

Choose up to one creature. Destroy the rest.

Sorcery
Duneblast (dmc) 148
Fireball

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Sorcery
Fireball (clb) 175
Grapeshot

Grapeshot deals 1 damage to any target. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Grapeshot (dmr) 125
Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant
Lightning Bolt (clu) 141
Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant
Nature's Claim (mb2) 69
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (blc) 147
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (tdc) 134
Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Time Wipe (tdc) 308

Removal

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Untap

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Acrobatic Leap

Target creature gets +1/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. Untap it.

Instant
Acrobatic Leap (lci) 2
Arachnoid Adaptation

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains reach until end of turn. Untap it.

Instant
Arachnoid Adaptation (mom) 175
Emerald Charm

Choose one — • Untap target permanent. • Destroy target non-Aura enchantment. • Target creature loses flying until end of turn.

Instant
Emerald Charm (dmr) 158

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Draw

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Ancestral Vision

Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {U} and exile it with four 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.) Target player draws three cards.

Sorcery
Ancestral Vision (tdc) 144
Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature
Archmage Emeritus (tdc) 145
Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (dsc) 113
Cerulean Wisps

Target creature becomes blue until end of turn. Untap that creature. Draw a card.

Instant
Cerulean Wisps (plst) SHM-31
Eureka Moment

Draw two cards. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Eureka Moment (dsc) 216
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (tdc) 213
Frantic Search

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

Instant
Frantic Search (tdc) 153
Manamorphose

Add two mana in any combination of colors. Draw a card.

Instant
Manamorphose (plst) SHM-211
Opt

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

Instant
Opt (tdc) 158
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (tdc) 159
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 (tdc) 161
Urban Evolution

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

Sorcery
Urban Evolution (ncc) 355

Draw

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Protection

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Blessed Respite

Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Blessed Respite (mh2) 150
Shore Up

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains hexproof until end of turn. Untap it. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Shore Up (blb) 69

Protection

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Theft

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Inevitable Betrayal

Suspend 3—{1}{U}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{U}{U} and exile it with three 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 target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery
Inevitable Betrayal (mh2) 47

Theft

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Tokens & Extras

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Beast

Creature Token
Beast (tdrc) 10
Dragon

Flying, menace Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, gain control of target artifact that player controls.

Creature Token
Dragon (tltc) 14
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tdft) 11
Zombie

Creature Token
Zombie (tdft) 3

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck stats

7 pips - 6 cards
9 mana - 8 cards
30 pips - 24 cards
21 mana - 20 cards
5 pips - 4 cards
14 mana - 11 cards
19 pips - 15 cards
12 mana - 11 cards
30 pips - 27 cards
18 mana - 17 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
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