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10/21/2020
How not to abuse ability counters - with Kelsien the Plague
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Commander

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Kelsien, the Plague

Vigilance, haste Kelsien gets +1/+1 for each experience counter you have. {T}: Kelsien deals 1 damage to target creature you don't control. When that creature dies this turn, you get an experience counter.

Creature
Kelsien, the Plague (c20) 11

Commander

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Counters

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Avenging Huntbonder

Double strike Whenever this creature attacks, put a double strike counter on another target attacking creature.

Creature
Avenging Huntbonder (c20) 22
Boot Nipper

This creature enters with your choice of a deathtouch counter or a lifelink counter on it.

Creature
Boot Nipper (iko) 76
Crystalline Giant

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose a kind of counter at random that this creature doesn't have on it from among flying, first strike, deathtouch, hexproof, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, vigilance, and +1/+1. Put a counter of that kind on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Crystalline Giant (iko) 234
Daring Fiendbonder

Haste This creature attacks each combat if able. {1}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Daring Fiendbonder (c20) 41
Ferocious Tigorilla

This creature enters with your choice of a trample counter or a menace counter on it. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Ferocious Tigorilla (iko) 115
Frillscare Mentor

When this creature enters, put a menace counter on target non-Human creature you control. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) {2}{R}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with menace.

Creature
Frillscare Mentor (iko) 121
Grimdancer

This creature enters with your choice of two different counters on it from among menace, deathtouch, and lifelink.

Creature
Grimdancer (iko) 90
Helica Glider

This creature enters with your choice of a flying counter or a first strike counter on it.

Creature
Helica Glider (iko) 15
Sanctuary Smasher

First strike Cycling {2}{R} ({2}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put a first strike counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Sanctuary Smasher (iko) 135
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
Void Beckoner

Deathtouch Cycling {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put a deathtouch counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Void Beckoner (iko) 104

Counters

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Deathtouch

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Bladebrand

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Bladebrand (rna) 64
Foulmire Knight

Creature
Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight (eld) 90
Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Deathtouch When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Gonti, Lord of Luxury (jmp) 240
Hackrobat

Spectacle {B}{R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) {B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. {R}: This creature gets +2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Hackrobat (rna) 181
Hired Poisoner

Deathtouch

Creature
Hired Poisoner (grn) 72
Lash of Thorns

Target creature gets +2/+1 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Instant
Lash of Thorns (eld) 92
Mire Triton

Deathtouch When this creature enters, mill two cards and you gain 2 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Mire Triton (thb) 105
Ogre Slumlord

Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token. Rats you control have deathtouch.

Creature
Ogre Slumlord (jmp) 260
Orzhov Enforcer

Deathtouch Afterlife 1 (When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.)

Creature
Orzhov Enforcer (rna) 79
Vampire Nighthawk

Flying Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Vampire Nighthawk (c20) 140
Venomous Hierophant

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Venomous Hierophant (thb) 122

Deathtouch

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Equipment

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Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (c20) 245
Skullclamp

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

Artifact
Skullclamp (c20) 251
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (c20) 254

Equipment

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First strike

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Fervent Champion

First strike, haste Whenever this creature attacks, another target attacking Knight you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Equip abilities you activate that target this creature cost {3} less to activate.

Creature
Fervent Champion (eld) 124
Heightened Reflexes

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Put a first strike counter on it.

Instant
Heightened Reflexes (iko) 123
Momentum Rumbler

Whenever this creature attacks, if it doesn't have first strike, put a first strike counter on it. Whenever this creature attacks, if it has first strike, it gains double strike until end of turn.

Creature
Momentum Rumbler (iko) 126

First strike

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Land

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Akoum Refuge

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Akoum Refuge (c19) 226
Bloodfell Caves

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Bloodfell Caves (iko) 243
Boros Garrison

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{W}.

Land
Boros Garrison (c20) 260
Boros Guildgate

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

Land
Boros Guildgate (c19) 234
Cinder Barrens

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

Land
Cinder Barrens (c19) 235
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c20) 264
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (znc) 129
Gargoyle Castle

{T}: Add {C}. {5}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create a 3/4 colorless Gargoyle artifact creature token with flying.

Land
Gargoyle Castle (c19) 245
Geier Reach Sanitarium

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

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (c19) 246
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 (rna) 248
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
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (iko) 269
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 (c20) 292
Needle Spires

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. {2}{R}{W}: This land becomes a 2/1 red and white Elemental creature with double strike until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Needle Spires (ogw) 175
Nomad Outpost

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

Land
Nomad Outpost (c20) 294
Orzhov Basilica

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Land
Orzhov Basilica (c20) 297
Orzhov Guildgate

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

Land
Orzhov Guildgate (rna) 253
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (iko) 262
Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (c20) 300
Rakdos Guildgate

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

Land
Rakdos Guildgate (c19) 267
Scoured Barrens

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Scoured Barrens (iko) 254
Shadowblood Ridge

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

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (c20) 309
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (c20) 314
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (iko) 268
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (c20) 319
Wind-Scarred Crag

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Wind-Scarred Crag (iko) 258

Land

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Manarocks

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Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (c20) 240
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (c18) 210
Orzhov Signet

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

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (c20) 247
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (c20) 249
Savai Crystal

{T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Artifact
Savai Crystal (iko) 239
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c20) 252

Manarocks

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Menace

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Frontier Warmonger

Whenever one or more creatures attack one of your opponents or a planeswalker they control, those creatures gain menace until end of turn.

Creature
Frontier Warmonger (c20) 52
Moodmark Painter

Undergrowth — When this creature enters, target creature gains menace and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Moodmark Painter (grn) 78
Sonorous Howlbonder

Menace Each creature you control with menace can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Creature
Sonorous Howlbonder (iko) 230

Menace

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Ramp

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Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (c19) 211
Dockside Extortionist

When this creature enters, create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Dockside Extortionist (c19) 24
Knight of the White Orchid

First strike When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Knight of the White Orchid (c20) 93
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 (rna) 22
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (c20) 253

Ramp

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Recursion

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Alesha, Who Smiles at Death

First strike Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay {W/B}{W/B}. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

Creature
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (c20) 143
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
Doomed Necromancer

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Doomed Necromancer (c19) 111
Feldon of the Third Path

{2}{R}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of target creature card in your graveyard, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Feldon of the Third Path (c19) 141
Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy. Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (c19) 5
Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sun Titan (c20) 101
Unbreakable Bond

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it.

Sorcery
Unbreakable Bond (iko) 101
Unburial Rites

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback {3}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Unburial Rites (c20) 139

Recursion

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Removal

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Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (rna) 157
Blood Curdle

Destroy target creature. Put a menace counter on a creature you control. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Instant
Blood Curdle (iko) 75
Crackling Doom

Crackling Doom deals 2 damage to each opponent. Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.

Instant
Crackling Doom (c20) 205
Dire Tactics

Exile target creature. If you don't control a Human, you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Instant
Dire Tactics (iko) 183
In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (c19) 121
Mortify

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Instant
Mortify (rna) 192
Mythos of Snapdax

Each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest. If {B}{R} was spent to cast this spell, you choose the permanents for each player instead.

Sorcery
Mythos of Snapdax (iko) 24
Overseer of the Damned

Flying When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature. Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Overseer of the Damned (c19) 125

Removal

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Support

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Cairn Wanderer

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As long as a creature card with flying is in a graveyard, this creature has flying. The same is true for fear, first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, landwalk, lifelink, protection, reach, trample, shroud, and vigilance.

Creature
Cairn Wanderer (c20) 130
Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant
Deflecting Swat (c20) 50
Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Flawless Maneuver (c20) 26
Odric, Lunarch Marshal

At the beginning of each combat, creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn if a creature you control has first strike. The same is true for flying, deathtouch, double strike, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, skulk, trample, and vigilance.

Creature
Odric, Lunarch Marshal (c20) 95
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

Support

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Maybeboard

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Alseid of Life's Bounty

Lifelink {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature or enchantment you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Alseid of Life's Bounty (thb) 1
Armillary Sphere

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Armillary Sphere (c19) 209
Asylum Visitor

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player has no cards in hand, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Asylum Visitor (soi) 99
Big Game Hunter

When this creature enters, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated. Madness {B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Big Game Hunter (c19) 106
Boros Signet

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

Artifact
Boros Signet (c20) 239
Bounty Agent

Vigilance {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target legendary permanent that's an artifact, creature, or enchantment.

Creature
Bounty Agent (c20) 78
Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Creature
Chainer, Nightmare Adept (c19) 39
Clackbridge Troll

Trample, haste When this creature enters, target opponent creates three 0/1 white Goat creature tokens. At the beginning of combat on your turn, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature, you gain 3 life, and you draw a card.

Creature
Clackbridge Troll (eld) 84
Dragonmaster Outcast

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control six or more lands, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Creature
Dragonmaster Outcast (c19) 139
Empowered Autogenerator

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of charge counters on this artifact.

Artifact
Empowered Autogenerator (c19) 54
Ever After

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Each of those creatures is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Put Ever After on the bottom of its owner's library.

Sorcery
Ever After (c20) 133
Flayer of the Hatebound

Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.) Whenever this creature or another creature enters from your graveyard, that creature deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Creature
Flayer of the Hatebound (c19) 144
Footlight Fiend

When this creature dies, it deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Footlight Fiend (rna) 216
Kaya's Wrath

Destroy all creatures. You gain life equal to the number of creatures you controlled that were destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Kaya's Wrath (rna) 187
Lurrus of the Dream-Den

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Lifelink Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.

Creature
Lurrus of the Dream-Den (iko) 226
Mimic Vat

Imprint — Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you may exile that card. If you do, return each other card exiled with this artifact to its owner's graveyard. {3}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of a card exiled with this artifact. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Artifact
Mimic Vat (c20) 246
Noxious Groodion

Deathtouch

Creature
Noxious Groodion (rna) 78
Odric, Master Tactician

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Whenever Odric and at least three other creatures attack, you choose which creatures block this combat and how those creatures block.

Creature
Odric, Master Tactician (c20) 96
Ornery Goblin

Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, this creature deals 1 damage to that creature.

Creature
Ornery Goblin (grn) 112
Pitiless Pontiff

{1}, Sacrifice another creature: This creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature
Pitiless Pontiff (rna) 194
Rakdos Trumpeter

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) {3}{R}: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Rakdos Trumpeter (rna) 84
Shriekmaw

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Shriekmaw (c20) 136
Stonecoil Serpent

Reach, trample, protection from multicolored This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature Artifact
Stonecoil Serpent (eld) 235
Tournament Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}. Spend this mana only to cast a Knight or Equipment spell.

Land
Tournament Grounds (eld) 248
Undercity Necrolisk

{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains menace until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Undercity Necrolisk (grn) 87

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18 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
43 pips - 31 cards
27 mana - 27 cards
19 pips - 16 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
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0 mana - 4 cards
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8 mana - 6 cards
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