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The Council of Four, Scheming Masterminds
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $798.30
Salt sum: 57.45
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Commander

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The Council of Four

Whenever a player draws their second card during their turn, you draw a card. Whenever a player casts their second spell during their turn, you create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.

Creature
The Council of Four (clb) 419

Commander

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Instant

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Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (gtc) 29
Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (plst) CMA-30
Desertion

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Desertion (cn2) 107
Dovin's Veto

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

Instant
Dovin's Veto (p30a) 27
Final Showdown

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — All creatures lose all abilities until end of turn. + {1} — Choose a creature you control. It gains indestructible until end of turn. + {3}{W}{W} — Destroy all creatures.

Instant
Final Showdown (otj) 11
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (cmr) 620
Heliod's Intervention

Choose one — • Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments. • Target player gains twice X life.

Instant
Heliod's Intervention (pthb) 19p
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (sta) 18
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 (sld) 477
Spell Swindle

Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Spell Swindle (pxln) 82p
Sphinx's Revelation

You gain X life and draw X cards.

Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (brc) 130
Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Instant
Stroke of Midnight (woe) 33
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (mic) 94
Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}{U} — Counter target spell. + {3} — Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control. + {2} — Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Three Steps Ahead (otj) 75

Instant

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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 (onc) 125
Archaeomancer's Map

When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Archaeomancer's Map (lcc) 101
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (voc) 161
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (2xm) 255
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (onc) 130
God-Pharaoh's Statue

Spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life.

Artifact
God-Pharaoh's Statue (war) 238
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
Talisman of Progress

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

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (mrd) 256
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmr) 703
Vedalken Orrery

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Artifact
Vedalken Orrery (2x2) 399

Artifact

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes

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

Land
Adarkar Wastes (7ed) 325
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (onc) 147
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (sld) 744
Deserted Beach

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

Land
Deserted Beach (mid) 281
Emeria, the Sky Ruin

This land enters tapped. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. {T}: Add {W}.

Land
Emeria, the Sky Ruin (c14) 293
Flooded Strand

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

Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Glacial Fortress

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

Land
Glacial Fortress (sld) 456
Hall of Heliod's Generosity

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{W}, {T}: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Hall of Heliod's Generosity (mh1) 241
Hallowed Fountain

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

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rvr) 295
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dmr) 404
Meticulous Archive

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) 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
Meticulous Archive (mkm) 328
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

Land
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea (dmc) 217
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 (dmr) 403
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (c19) 265
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dmc) 227
Sea of Clouds

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

Land
Sea of Clouds (bbd) 84
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Skycloud Expanse

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

Land
Skycloud Expanse (nec) 177

Land

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Creature

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Archivist of Oghma

Flash Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Archivist of Oghma (clb) 4
Claim Jumper

Vigilance When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then if an opponent controls more lands than you, repeat this process once. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Creature
Claim Jumper (otj) 8
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (sld) 165
Deep Gnome Terramancer

Flash Mold Earth — Whenever one or more lands enter under an opponent's control without being played, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Do this only once each turn.

Creature
Deep Gnome Terramancer (clb) 658
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
Faerie Mastermind

Flash Flying Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card. {3}{U}: Each player draws a card.

Creature
Faerie Mastermind (mom) 352
Flumph

Defender, flying Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Flumph (afr) 15
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV (2x2) 501
Kami of the Crescent Moon

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Creature
Kami of the Crescent Moon (voc) 107
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

Each opponent can't cast noncreature spells with mana value greater than the number of lands that player controls. Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.

Creature
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade (rna) 189
Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Loran of the Third Path (mkc) 71
Mangara, the Diplomat

Lifelink Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Creature
Mangara, the Diplomat (cmm) 42
Triskaidekaphile

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game. {3}{U}: Draw a card.

Creature
Triskaidekaphile (mid) 342
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

Creature

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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 (sta) 1
Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (cmr) 618
Bribery

Search target opponent's library for a creature card and put that card onto the battlefield under your control. Then that player shuffles.

Sorcery
Bribery (sld) 411
Expropriate

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.

Sorcery
Expropriate (plst) CN2-30
Farewell

Choose one or more — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery
Farewell (neo) 436
Ondu Inversion

Sorcery
Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins (plst) ZNR-30Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins (plst) ZNR-30
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 (slc) 2007
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 (otc) 107
Promise of Loyalty

Each player puts a vow counter on a creature they control and sacrifices the rest. Each of those creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control for as long as it has a vow counter on it.

Sorcery
Promise of Loyalty (mkc) 79
Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (prtr) 201★

Sorcery

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Enchantment

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Dictate of Kruphix

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Enchantment
Dictate of Kruphix (jou) 37
Ghostly Prison

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

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (onc) 71
Insight

Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, you draw a card.

Enchantment
Insight (tmp) 68
Knowledge Is Power

Creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn.

Enchantment
Knowledge Is Power (mkc) 42
Monologue Tax

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.

Enchantment
Monologue Tax (c21) 19
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (ice) 87
Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment. Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Ominous Seas (iko) 61
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (sld) 381
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (sld) 478
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 693
Smuggler's Share

At the beginning of each end step, draw a card for each opponent who drew two or more cards this turn, then create a Treasure token for each opponent who had two or more lands enter the battlefield under their control this turn.

Enchantment
Smuggler's Share (ncc) 21
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (mkc) 119
Tenuous Truce

Enchant opponent At the beginning of enchanted opponent's end step, you and that player each draw a card. When you attack enchanted opponent or a planeswalker they control or when they attack you or a planeswalker you control, sacrifice this Aura.

Enchantment
Tenuous Truce (ncc) 95
Tocasia's Welcome

Whenever one or more creatures you control with mana value 3 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Tocasia's Welcome (bro) 30
Trouble in Pairs

If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead. Whenever an opponent attacks you with two or more creatures, draws their second card each turn, or casts their second spell each turn, you draw a card.

Enchantment
Trouble in Pairs (mkc) 15

Enchantment

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Struggle for Project Purity

As this enchantment enters, choose Brotherhood or Enclave. • Brotherhood — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card. You draw a card for each card drawn this way. • Enclave — Whenever a player attacks you with one or more creatures, that player gets twice that many rad counters.

Enchantment
Struggle for Project Purity (pip) 39

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Deck Info

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40 pips - 34 cards
32 mana - 30 cards
39 pips - 29 cards
27 mana - 25 cards
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0 mana - 6 cards
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10 mana - 9 cards
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