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Stax and Sacs
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Est deck cost: $599.60
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Commander

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Teysa, Orzhov Scion

Sacrifice three white creatures: Exile target creature. Whenever another black creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Creature
Teysa, Orzhov Scion (rvr) 441

Commander

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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 (lcc) 104
Orzhov Signet

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

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (brc) 154
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410

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Creature

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Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Dark Confidant (rvr) 323

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Enchantment

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Chthonian Nightmare

When this enchantment enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Chthonian Nightmare (mh3) 83

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Interaction

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Flare of Fortitude

You may sacrifice a nontoken white creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Until end of turn, your life total can't change, and permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible.

Instant
Flare of Fortitude (mh3) 26
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 (tsr) 299
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (brc) 75

Interaction

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (blc) 294
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (dmu) 378
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 659
Concealed Courtyard

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Concealed Courtyard (otj) 302
Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
Fetid Heath

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

Land
Fetid Heath (2xm) 316
Godless Shrine

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

Land
Godless Shrine (rvr) 294
Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (otc) 301
Marsh Flats

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

Land
Marsh Flats (zne) 6
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: 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 (cmm) 660
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 355
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mid) 269
Shadowy Backstreet

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 268
Shattered Sanctum

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Shattered Sanctum (inr) 283
Snowfield Sinkhole

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Snowfield Sinkhole (khm) 269
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (lci) 289
Tainted Field

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

Land
Tainted Field (dsc) 302
Vault of Champions

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

Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 436

Land

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Pay Off

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Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (inr) 326
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Deathtouch Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim (dmu) 297
Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marionette Apprentice (mh3) 100
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 421
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (mid) 113
Nadier's Nightblade

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Nadier's Nightblade (cmm) 641
Vengeful Bloodwitch

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Vengeful Bloodwitch (fdn) 76
Vraan, Executioner Thane

Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Vraan, Executioner Thane (one) 309

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Sacs

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Acolyte of Aclazotz

{T}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Acolyte of Aclazotz (lci) 89
Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dmu) 84
Dreg Recycler

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Dreg Recycler (mom) 100
Gríma Wormtongue

Your opponents can't gain life. {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Target player loses 1 life. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, amass Orcs 2.

Creature
Gríma Wormtongue (ltr) 88
Into the Pit

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast spells from the top of your library by sacrificing a nonland permanent in addition to paying their other costs.

Enchantment
Into the Pit (dsc) 20
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 396
Vermin Gorger

{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Vermin Gorger (mh2) 107

Sacs

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Setup

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"Lifetime" Pass Holder

This creature enters tapped. When this creature dies, open an Attraction. Whenever you roll to visit your Attractions, if you roll a 6, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
"Lifetime" Pass Holder (unf) 79
Forsaken Miner

This creature can't block. Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay {B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Forsaken Miner (otj) 88
Haunt of the Dead Marshes

When this creature enters, scry 1. {2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Creature
Haunt of the Dead Marshes (ltr) 541
Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature
Ophiomancer (mh3) 276
Persistent Specimen

{2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Persistent Specimen (vow) 125
Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Reassembling Skeleton (cmm) 183

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Stax

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Aven Mindcensor

Flash Flying If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.

Creature
Aven Mindcensor (fut) 18
Boromir, Warden of the Tower

Vigilance Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell. Sacrifice Boromir: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Creature
Boromir, Warden of the Tower (ltr) 302
Charitable Levy

Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast. Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, put a collection counter on this enchantment. Then if there are three or more collection counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, draw a card, then you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Charitable Levy (mh3) 390
Contamination

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you sacrifice a creature. If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount.

Enchantment
Contamination (plst) USG-123
Damping Sphere

If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount. Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.

Artifact
Damping Sphere (dmr) 377
Dauntless Dismantler

Artifacts your opponents control enter tapped. {X}{X}{W}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy each artifact with mana value X.

Creature
Dauntless Dismantler (lci) 8
Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Dauthi Voidwalker (sld) 1760
Deafening Silence

Each player can't cast more than one noncreature spell each turn.

Enchantment
Deafening Silence (eld) 10
Doorkeeper Thrull

Flash Flying Artifacts and creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.

Creature
Doorkeeper Thrull (mkm) 338
Drana and Linvala

Flying, vigilance Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated. Drana and Linvala has all activated abilities of all creatures your opponents control. You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate those abilities.

Creature
Drana and Linvala (mom) 305
Eidolon of Rhetoric

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Creature Enchantment
Eidolon of Rhetoric (jou) 10
Ensnaring Bridge

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

Artifact
Ensnaring Bridge (sth) 133
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature
Grand Abolisher (cmm) 625
Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment
Grave Pact (wot) 29
Leonin Arbiter

Players can't search libraries. Any player may pay {2} for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.

Creature
Leonin Arbiter (plst) C17-64
Lethal Vapors

Whenever a creature enters, destroy it. {0}: Destroy this enchantment. You skip your next turn. Any player may activate this ability.

Enchantment
Lethal Vapors (scg) 68
Magus of the Moat

Creatures without flying can't attack.

Creature
Magus of the Moat (plst) FUT-12
Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact
Meekstone (mb2) 227
Oppression

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards a card.

Enchantment
Oppression (wot) 32
Orim's Chant

Kicker {W} (You may pay an additional {W} as you cast this spell.) Target player can't cast spells this turn. If this spell was kicked, creatures can't attack this turn.

Instant
Orim's Chant (mh3) 265
Phyrexian Censor

Each player can't cast more than one non-Phyrexian spell each turn. Non-Phyrexian creatures enter tapped.

Creature
Phyrexian Censor (mom) 31
Platinum Angel

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

Creature Artifact
Platinum Angel (brr) 104
Rule of Law

Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.

Enchantment
Rule of Law (m20) 35
Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Instant
Silence (tsr) 302
Smokestack

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on this artifact. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice for each soot counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Smokestack (plst) USG-309
Spirit of the Labyrinth

Each player can't draw more than one card each turn.

Creature Enchantment
Spirit of the Labyrinth (bng) 27
Strict Proctor

Flying Whenever a permanent entering causes a triggered ability to trigger, counter that ability unless its controller pays {2}.

Creature
Strict Proctor (stx) 294
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben (mul) 7
Thalia, Heretic Cathar

First strike Creatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped.

Creature
Thalia, Heretic Cathar (inr) 300
Thorn of Amethyst

Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Artifact
Thorn of Amethyst (brr) 60
Tsabo's Web

When this artifact enters, draw a card. Each land with an activated ability that isn't a mana ability doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Artifact
Tsabo's Web (mb2) 143
Vexing Bauble

Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Vexing Bauble (mh3) 212
Void Mirror

Whenever a player casts a spell, if no colored mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.

Artifact
Void Mirror (mh2) 242
Vryn Wingmare

Flying Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Vryn Wingmare (m21) 43
Wandering Archaic

Creature
Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands (stx) 6
Winter Moon

Players can't untap more than one nonbasic land during their untap steps.

Artifact
Winter Moon (mh3) 462
Winter Orb

As long as this artifact is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Artifact
Winter Orb (ema) 234

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Attraction

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Balloon Stand

Visit — Choose one. • Create a 1/1 red Balloon creature token with flying. • Sacrifice a Balloon. If you do, target creature gains flying until end of turn.

Artifact
Balloon Stand (unf) 200d
Bounce Chamber

Visit — Return a creature you don't control with the lowest toughness among creatures you don't control to its owner's hand. (If multiple creatures are tied, choose any one of them.)

Artifact
Bounce Chamber (unf) 201a
Clown Extruder

Visit — Create a 1/1 white Clown Robot artifact creature token.

Artifact
Clown Extruder (unf) 204c
Concession Stand

Visit — Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Artifact
Concession Stand (unf) 205d
Fortune Teller

Visit — Scry 1.

Artifact
Fortune Teller (unf) 212c
Information Booth

Visit — Draw a card.

Artifact
Information Booth (unf) 218b
Merry-Go-Round

Visit — Creatures you control with power 2 or less gain horsemanship until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)

Artifact
Merry-Go-Round (unf) 222a
Pick-a-Beeble

Visit — Roll a six-sided die. Put a number of luck counters on Pick-a-Beeble equal to the result and create a Treasure token. Then if there are six or more luck counters on Pick-a-Beeble, claim the prize! Prize — Create two Treasure tokens, then sacrifice Pick-a-Beeble and open an Attraction.

Artifact
Pick-a-Beeble (unf) 223a
Spinny Ride

Visit — Tap target creature an opponent controls.

Artifact
Spinny Ride (unf) 227f
Trash Bin

Visit — Mill two cards, then return a card at random from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Artifact
Trash Bin (unf) 232c

Attraction

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Maybeboard

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Annihilating Glare

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay {4} or sacrifice an artifact or creature. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Annihilating Glare (one) 80
Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Enchantment
Anointed Procession (plst) AKH-2
Bone Shards

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or discard a card. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Bone Shards (mh2) 76
Bone Splinters

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Destroy target creature.

Sorcery
Bone Splinters (dmu) 83
Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact
Crawlspace (dmr) 217
Defense Grid

Each spell costs {3} more to cast except during its controller's turn.

Artifact
Defense Grid (brr) 76
Doomed Dissenter

When this creature dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Doomed Dissenter (j22) 402
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr.

Creature
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder (plst) TSP-106
Lash of the Balrog

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {4}. Destroy target creature.

Sorcery
Lash of the Balrog (ltr) 92
Lembas

When this artifact enters, scry 1, then draw a card. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, its owner shuffles it into their library.

Artifact
Lembas (ltr) 243
Ministrant of Obligation

Afterlife 2 (When this creature dies, create two 1/1 white and black Spirit creature tokens with flying.)

Creature
Ministrant of Obligation (cmm) 43
Shadowy Backstreet

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 330
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

Whenever a creature with power 1 or less is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may return that card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step if Shirei is still on the battlefield.

Creature
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker (cmm) 186
Stone of Erech

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Stone of Erech: Exile target player's graveyard. Draw a card.

Artifact
Stone of Erech (ltr) 702
Tortured Existence

{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Tortured Existence (plst) STH-74
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (khm) 117
Vindicate

Destroy target permanent.

Sorcery
Vindicate (mh2) 294
Windborn Muse

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

Creature
Windborn Muse (dmr) 415
Windbrisk Heights

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {W}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if you attacked with three or more creatures this turn.

Land
Windbrisk Heights (c16) 336

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30 pips - 26 cards
24 mana - 22 cards
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0 mana - 3 cards
35 pips - 29 cards
27 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
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8 mana - 7 cards
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