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Basilisk Nest (Aveline de Grandpré)
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Commander

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Aveline de Grandpré

Deathtouch Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on that creature. Disguise {B}{G} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)

Creature
Aveline de Grandpré (acr) 40

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 (m3c) 283
Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Basilisk Collar (clb) 300
Golgari Keyrune

{T}: Add {B} or {G}. {B}{G}: This artifact becomes a 2/2 black and green Insect artifact creature with deathtouch until end of turn.

Artifact
Golgari Keyrune (rtr) 229
Golgari Signet

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

Artifact
Golgari Signet (clu) 222
Power Fist

Equipped creature has trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it." Equip {2}

Artifact
Power Fist (pip) 81
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (m3c) 305

Artifact

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Basilisk

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Daggerback Basilisk

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Daggerback Basilisk (plst) M19-174
Greater Basilisk

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Greater Basilisk (plst) IMA-165
Ichorspit Basilisk

Deathtouch Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)

Creature
Ichorspit Basilisk (one) 170
Turntimber Basilisk

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target creature block this creature this turn if able.

Creature
Turntimber Basilisk (j22) 736
Underdark Basilisk

Deathtouch

Creature
Underdark Basilisk (afr) 208

Basilisk

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Counters

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Duskshell Crawler

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Duskshell Crawler (mh2) 156
Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Enchantment
Hardened Scales (40k) 215
Winding Constrictor

If one or more counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead. If you would get one or more counters, you get that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters instead.

Creature
Winding Constrictor (pip) 223

Counters

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Creature

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Kami of Whispered Hopes

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.

Creature
Kami of Whispered Hopes (mom) 196
Kodama of the West Tree

Reach Modified creatures you control have trample. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) Whenever a modified creature you control deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Kodama of the West Tree (neo) 199
Sakura-Tribe Elder

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

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (m3c) 243

Creature

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Deathtouch

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Ambush Viper

Flash Deathtouch

Creature
Ambush Viper (cmr) 213
Archpriest of Shadows

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Archpriest of Shadows (mom) 89
Barrowgoyf

Deathtouch, lifelink Barrowgoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may mill that many cards. If you do, you may put a creature card from among them into your hand.

Creature
Barrowgoyf (m3c) 50
Body Launderer

Deathtouch Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, this creature connives. When this creature dies, return another target non-Rogue creature card with equal or lesser power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Body Launderer (snc) 68
Chevill, Bane of Monsters

Deathtouch At the beginning of your upkeep, if your opponents control no permanents with bounty counters on them, put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls. Whenever a permanent an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it dies, you gain 3 life and draw a card.

Creature
Chevill, Bane of Monsters (iko) 181
Deathbloom Gardener

Deathtouch {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Deathbloom Gardener (dmu) 159
Dire Fleet Poisoner

Flash Deathtouch When this creature enters, target attacking Pirate you control gets +1/+1 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Dire Fleet Poisoner (rix) 68
Fell Stinger

Deathtouch Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Creature
Fell Stinger (vow) 112
Glissa Sunslayer

First strike, deathtouch Whenever Glissa Sunslayer deals combat damage to a player, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • Destroy target enchantment. • Remove up to three counters from target permanent.

Creature
Glissa Sunslayer (one) 202
Grist, Voracious Larva

Creature
Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 251Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm (mh3) 251
Hooded Blightfang

Deathtouch Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker.

Creature
Hooded Blightfang (m21) 104
Isareth the Awakener

Deathtouch Whenever Isareth attacks, you may pay {X}. When you do, return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield with a corpse counter on it. If that creature would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.

Creature
Isareth the Awakener (cmm) 168
Mwonvuli Beast Tracker

When this creature enters, search your library for a creature card with deathtouch, hexproof, reach, or trample and reveal it. Shuffle and put that card on top.

Creature
Mwonvuli Beast Tracker (m13) 177
Nightshade Dryad

Deathtouch {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Nightshade Dryad (mh3) 163
Ohran Frostfang

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Ohran Frostfang (otc) 199
Poison-Tip Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Poison-Tip Archer (khc) 90
Rattleback Apothecary

Deathtouch Whenever you commit a crime, target creature you control gains your choice of menace or lifelink until end of turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Rattleback Apothecary (otj) 100
Servant of the Stinger

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if you've committed a crime this turn, you may sacrifice this creature. If you do, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Servant of the Stinger (otj) 105
Thorn of the Black Rose

Deathtouch When this creature enters, you become the monarch.

Creature
Thorn of the Black Rose (cmm) 190
Tinybones, the Pickpocket

Deathtouch Whenever Tinybones deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target nonland permanent card from that player's graveyard, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Tinybones, the Pickpocket (otj) 109
Vraska, Swarm's Eminence

Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals damage to a player or planeswalker, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. −2: Create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with deathtouch and "Whenever this token deals damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker."

Planeswalker
Vraska, Swarm's Eminence (prm) 72289
Vraska, the Silencer

Deathtouch Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, you may pay {1}. If you do, return that card to the battlefield tapped under your control. It's a Treasure artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color," and it loses all other card types.

Creature
Vraska, the Silencer (otj) 237

Deathtouch

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Enchantment

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Deathreap Ritual

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Deathreap Ritual (m3c) 259
Family's Favor

Whenever you attack, put a shield counter on target attacking creature. Until end of turn, it gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, remove a shield counter from it. If you do, draw a card." (If a creature with a shield counter on it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)

Enchantment
Family's Favor (ncc) 59
Journey to Eternity

Enchantment
Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity (rix) 160Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity (rix) 160

Enchantment

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Fights and Bites

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Ancient Animus

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control if it's legendary. Then it fights target creature an opponent controls. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Instant
Ancient Animus (cmr) 215
Archdruid's Charm

Choose one — • Search your library for a creature or land card and reveal it. Put it onto the battlefield tapped if it's a land card. Otherwise, put it into your hand. Then shuffle. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. • Exile target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Archdruid's Charm (mkm) 151
Bite Down

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

Instant
Bite Down (dmu) 155
Bushwhack

Choose one — • Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Sorcery
Bushwhack (bro) 174
Cosmic Hunger

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to another target creature, planeswalker, or battle.

Instant
Cosmic Hunger (mom) 182
Inscription of Abundance

Kicker {2}{G} Choose one. If this spell was kicked, choose any number instead. • Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. • Target player gains X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures they control. • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.

Instant
Inscription of Abundance (moc) 303
Master's Rebuke

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

Instant
Master's Rebuke (j22) 689
Outmuscle

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then it fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) Adamant — If at least three green mana was spent to cast this spell, the creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn.

Sorcery
Outmuscle (eld) 170
Prizefight

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Prizefight (snc) 154
Signature Slam

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then each modified creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Instant
Signature Slam (mh3) 168
Smell Fear

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) Target creature you control fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Sorcery
Smell Fear (mh2) 173
Ulvenwald Tracker

{1}{G}, {T}: Target creature you control fights another target creature.

Creature
Ulvenwald Tracker (avr) 200
Vivien of the Arkbow

+2: Put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature. −3: Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. −9: Creatures you control get +4/+4 and gain trample until end of turn.

Planeswalker
Vivien of the Arkbow (m19) 301

Fights and Bites

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Instant

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (who) 228
Khalni Ambush

Instant
Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory (znr) 192Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory (znr) 192
Windgrace's Judgment

For any number of opponents, destroy target nonland permanent that player controls.

Instant
Windgrace's Judgment (ncc) 358

Instant

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Land

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Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (otc) 280
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (clu) 272
Hissing Quagmire

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. {1}{B}{G}: This land becomes a 2/2 black and green Elemental creature with deathtouch until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Hissing Quagmire (ogw) 171
Llanowar Wastes

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

Land
Llanowar Wastes (bro) 264
Memorial to Folly

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Memorial to Folly (c20) 288
Overgrown Tomb

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

Land
Overgrown Tomb (grn) 253
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh3) 315
Verdant Catacombs

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

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249
Woodland Cemetery

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

Land
Woodland Cemetery (otc) 341

Land

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Sorcery

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Call of the Death-Dweller

Return up to two target creature cards with total mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a deathtouch counter on either of them. Then put a menace counter on either of them.

Sorcery
Call of the Death-Dweller (iko) 78
Casualties of War

Choose one or more — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target creature. • Destroy target enchantment. • Destroy target land. • Destroy target planeswalker.

Sorcery
Casualties of War (war) 187
Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Culling Ritual (onc) 117
Deadly Brew

Each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. If you sacrificed a permanent this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Deadly Brew (stx) 176
Gaze of Granite

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less.

Sorcery
Gaze of Granite (c21) 217

Sorcery

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Back for More

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. When you do, it fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Instant
Back for More (iko) 177
Ceremonial Knife

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage, create a Blood token." (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Ceremonial Knife (vow) 254
Deathcap Cultivator

{T}: Add {B} or {G}. Delirium — This creature has deathtouch as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Creature
Deathcap Cultivator (soi) 202
Devouring Tendrils

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control. When the permanent you don't control dies this turn, you gain 2 life.

Sorcery
Devouring Tendrils (stx) 126
Ent's Fury

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control if its power is 4 or greater. Then that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn and fights target creature you don't control.

Sorcery
Ent's Fury (ltr) 164
Foe-Razer Regent

Flying When this creature enters, you may have it fight target creature you don't control. Whenever a creature you control fights, put two +1/+1 counters on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Foe-Razer Regent (scd) 183
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card. {4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (bro) 95
Gorex, the Tombshell

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of creature cards from your graveyard. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Deathtouch Whenever Gorex attacks or dies, choose a card at random exiled with Gorex and put that card into its owner's hand.

Creature
Gorex, the Tombshell (cmm) 164
Leyline Prowler

Deathtouch, lifelink {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Leyline Prowler (war) 202
Liliana's Reaver

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Liliana's Reaver (jmp) 251
Moldervine Reclamation

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

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (c21) 225
Oakhame Adversary

This spell costs {2} less to cast if an opponent controls a green permanent. Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Oakhame Adversary (eld) 167
Serpent-Blade Assailant

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.) Deathtouch

Creature
Serpent-Blade Assailant (mom) 205
Simic Basilisk

Graft 3 (This creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {1}{G}: Until end of turn, target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature at end of combat."

Creature
Simic Basilisk (dis) 91
Stinging Cave Crawler

Deathtouch Descend 4 — Whenever this creature attacks, if there are four or more permanent cards in your graveyard, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Stinging Cave Crawler (lci) 124
Struggle for Skemfar

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights up to one target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) Foretell {G} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Struggle for Skemfar (khm) 196
The Ozolith

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

Artifact
The Ozolith (iko) 237
Titanic Brawl

This spell costs {1} less to cast if it targets a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Instant
Titanic Brawl (rvr) 158
Vengeful Pharaoh

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever combat damage is dealt to you or a planeswalker you control, if this card is in your graveyard, destroy target attacking creature, then put this card on top of your library.

Creature
Vengeful Pharaoh (m12) 116
Vigor Mortis

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If {G} was spent to cast this spell, that creature enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Sorcery
Vigor Mortis (ddj) 74

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"The deck is centered around deathtouch creatures. The goal is to swing them at opponents and either remove their creatures or slip in for combat damage. The deck has plenty of combat damage triggers to reward aggression and punish opponents for letting things through, including the commander's +1/+1 counters ability. You can also use the copious number of fight and bite spells to remove blockers or table threats or defend yourself if you're tapped out of attackers. The deck has a secondary counters theme to help low-power basilisks survive combats and trample over opponents to guarantee combat damage. The deck intentionally does not run Fynn as a win condition.\n"}]}
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