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Gates of the Swarm
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Azlask, the Swelling Scourge

Whenever Azlask or another colorless creature you control dies, you get an experience counter. {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of experience counters you have. Scions and Spawns you control gain indestructible and annihilator 1 until end of turn.

Creature
Azlask, the Swelling Scourge (m3c) 5

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Land

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Alchemist's Refuge

{T}: Add {C}. {G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Alchemist's Refuge (lcc) 318
Arcane Sanctum

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.

Land
Arcane Sanctum (mm3) 228
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
Cascading Cataracts

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}. {5}, {T}: Add five mana in any combination of colors.

Land
Cascading Cataracts (dmc) 202
Citadel Gate

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

Land
Citadel Gate (clb) 349
Cliffgate

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

Land
Cliffgate (clb) 350
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (m3c) 331
Crumbling Necropolis

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

Land
Crumbling Necropolis (who) 268
Eldrazi Temple

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.

Land
Eldrazi Temple (cmm) 992
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (otc) 293
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (otj) 285
Frontier Bivouac

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

Land
Frontier Bivouac (who) 281
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (otj) 279
Jungle Shrine

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

Land
Jungle Shrine (pip) 270
Karn's Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Land
Karn's Bastion (lcc) 339
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
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (otj) 284
Mystic Monastery

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

Land
Mystic Monastery (pip) 275
Nomad Outpost

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.

Land
Nomad Outpost (pip) 277
Opulent Palace

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

Land
Opulent Palace (pip) 278
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 (otc) 310
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (otj) 277
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (otc) 312
Sandsteppe Citadel

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.

Land
Sandsteppe Citadel (ktk) 241
Savage Lands

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

Land
Savage Lands (mm3) 243
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
Seaside Citadel

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

Land
Seaside Citadel (who) 302
Secluded Courtyard

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Land
Secluded Courtyard (lcc) 350
Shrine of the Forsaken Gods

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless spells. Activate only if you control seven or more lands.

Land
Shrine of the Forsaken Gods (mkc) 292
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (otj) 282

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Scions

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Brood Butcher

Devoid (This card has no color.) When this creature enters, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." {B}{G}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Brood Butcher (bfz) 199
Brood Monitor

Devoid (This card has no color.) When this creature enters, create three 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Brood Monitor (j22) 637
Cayth, Famed Mechanist

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Other nontoken creatures you control have fabricate 1. {2}, {T}: Choose one — • Populate. • Proliferate.

Creature
Cayth, Famed Mechanist (m3c) 6
Eldrazi Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Target creature gets +3/-3 until end of turn. • Exile target nonland permanent, then return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control. • Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Instant
Eldrazi Confluence (m3c) 32
Sifter of Skulls

Devoid (This card has no color.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Creature
Sifter of Skulls (m3c) 203
Spawnbed Protector

At the beginning of your end step, return up to one target Eldrazi creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Create two 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Spawnbed Protector (m3c) 36
Warping Wail

({C} represents colorless mana.) Choose one — • Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less. • Counter target sorcery spell. • Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Instant
Warping Wail (m3c) 162

Scions

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Counters

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Dreamtide Whale

Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Dreamtide Whale (mh3) 59
Ezuri, Claw of Progress

Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control, where X is the number of experience counters you have.

Creature
Ezuri, Claw of Progress (pj21) 4
Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas

Double strike, vigilance Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 5 or greater, you get an experience counter. Kalemne gets +1/+1 for each experience counter you have.

Creature
Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas (cm2) 7
Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Creature
Meren of Clan Nel Toth (cmm) 584

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Multiplication

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Echoes of Eternity

If a triggered ability of a colorless spell you control or another colorless permanent you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Enchantment Kindred
Echoes of Eternity (mh3) 4
Mondrak, Glory Dominus

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead. {1}{W/P}{W/P}, Sacrifice two other artifacts and/or creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Mondrak. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Creature
Mondrak, Glory Dominus (one) 23
Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation

Creature
Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization (lci) 26Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization (lci) 26
Reflections of Littjara

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, copy that spell. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Enchantment
Reflections of Littjara (lcc) 168
Roaming Throne

Ward {2} As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Creature Artifact
Roaming Throne (lci) 258

Multiplication

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Spawns

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Awakening Zone

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Enchantment
Awakening Zone (m3c) 222
Eldrazi Repurposer

Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell and when this creature dies, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Eldrazi Repurposer (mh3) 150
Emrakul's Hatcher

When this creature enters, create three 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Emrakul's Hatcher (plst) DDP-59
Emrakul's Messenger

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Emrakul's Messenger (mh3) 61
Glaring Fleshraker

Whenever you cast a colorless spell, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." Whenever another colorless creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Glaring Fleshraker (mh3) 7
Glimpse the Impossible

Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn. At the beginning of the next end step, if any of those cards remain exiled, put them into your graveyard, then create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token for each card put into your graveyard this way. Those tokens have "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Sorcery
Glimpse the Impossible (mh3) 124
Growth Spasm

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Sorcery
Growth Spasm (mic) 139
Idol of False Gods

{1}{C}, {T}: Create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." Whenever another Eldrazi you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this artifact. As long as this artifact has eight or more +1/+1 counters on it, it's a 0/0 creature in addition to its other types and it has annihilator 2.

Artifact Kindred
Idol of False Gods (mh3) 210
Kozilek's Command

Choose two — • Target player creates X 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens with "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}." • Target player scries X, then draws a card. • Exile target creature with mana value X or less. • Exile up to X target cards from graveyards.

Instant Kindred
Kozilek's Command (mh3) 11
Kozilek's Predator

When this creature enters, create two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Kozilek's Predator (cmm) 301
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 token: Add {C}." Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 7 or greater, draw three cards.

Enchantment
Kozilek's Unsealing (mh3) 65
Malevolent Rumble

Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a permanent card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard. Create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Sorcery
Malevolent Rumble (mh3) 161
Path of Annihilation

Devoid (This card has no color.) When this enchantment enters, create two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." Eldrazi you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." Whenever you cast a creature spell with mana value 7 or greater, you gain 4 life.

Enchantment
Path of Annihilation (mh3) 165
Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Pawn of Ulamog (plst) ROE-122
Spawn-Gang Commander

Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell, create three 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." {1}{C}, Sacrifice an Eldrazi: This creature deals 2 damage to any target.

Creature
Spawn-Gang Commander (mh3) 140
Unfathomable Truths

Devoid (This card has no color.) Draw three cards and create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Instant
Unfathomable Truths (mh3) 77
Writhing Chrysalis

Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell, create two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." Reach Whenever you sacrifice another Eldrazi, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Writhing Chrysalis (mh3) 208

Spawns

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Wishmonger

{2}: Target creature gains protection from the color of its controller's choice until end of turn. Any player may activate this ability.

Creature
Wishmonger (mmq) 57

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Protection

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Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Eldritch Immunity

Target creature you control gains protection from each color until end of turn. Overload {4}{C} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant Kindred
Eldritch Immunity (m3c) 33
Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment
Leyline of Anticipation (clb) 726
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

Protection

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Draw

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Caretaker's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. {W}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, create a token that's a copy of target token you control. {3}{W}: Level 3 Creature tokens you control get +2/+2.

Enchantment
Caretaker's Talent (blb) 6
Endbringer

Untap this creature during each other player's untap step. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. {C}, {T}: Target creature can't attack or block this turn. {C}{C}, {T}: Draw a card.

Creature
Endbringer (m3c) 156
Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Artifact
Idol of Oblivion (cmm) 392
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (onc) 121
Sire of Stagnation

Devoid (This card has no color.) Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player exiles the top two cards of their library and you draw two cards.

Creature
Sire of Stagnation (bfz) 206
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (blc) 283
Smothering Abomination

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card.

Creature
Smothering Abomination (bfz) 99
Species Specialist

As this creature enters, choose a creature type. Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.

Creature
Species Specialist (c20) 47
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

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Ramp

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Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (otc) 255
Skyclave Relic

Kicker {3} Indestructible When this artifact enters, if it was kicked, create two tapped tokens that are copies of this artifact. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Skyclave Relic (moc) 380
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c20) 252
Thirsting Roots

Choose one — • Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Thirsting Roots (one) 185
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (cmm) 415
Timeless Lotus

Timeless Lotus enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}.

Artifact
Timeless Lotus (dmu) 239
Ugin, the Ineffable

Colorless spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. +1: Exile the top card of your library face down and look at it. Create a 2/2 colorless Spirit creature token. When that token leaves the battlefield, put the exiled card into your hand. −3: Destroy target permanent that's one or more colors.

Planeswalker
Ugin, the Ineffable (cmm) 811

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Finisher

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Banner of Kinship

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. This artifact enters with a fellowship counter on it for each creature you control of the chosen type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each fellowship counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Banner of Kinship (fdn) 127
Shared Animosity

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking creature that shares a creature type with it.

Enchantment
Shared Animosity (lcc) 231

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Removal

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Abstruse Appropriation

Devoid (This card has no color.) Exile target nonland permanent. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend colorless mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Instant
Abstruse Appropriation (mh3) 177
All Is Dust

Each player sacrifices all permanents they control that are one or more colors.

Sorcery Kindred
All Is Dust (m3c) 152
Atomize

Destroy target nonland permanent. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Atomize (pip) 94
Hour of Reckoning

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Destroy all nontoken creatures.

Sorcery
Hour of Reckoning (moc) 190
Kindred Dominance

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (woc) 113
Mesmerizing Dose

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, tap enchanted creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.

Enchantment
Mesmerizing Dose (one) 62

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Deck Info

Deck stats

13 pips - 9 cards
24 mana - 19 cards
18 pips - 14 cards
23 mana - 18 cards
15 pips - 11 cards
24 mana - 19 cards
8 pips - 7 cards
23 mana - 18 cards
15 pips - 14 cards
24 mana - 19 cards
11 pips - 7 cards
39 mana - 32 cards
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