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Persistent Pests v3
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Est deck cost: $301.50
Salt sum: 31.79
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Commander

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Gev, Scaled Scorch

Ward—Pay 2 life. Other creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them for each opponent who lost life this turn. Whenever you cast a Lizard spell, Gev deals 1 damage to target opponent.

Creature
Gev, Scaled Scorch (blb) 214

Commander

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Artifact

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218
Animation Module

Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a permanent you control, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. {3}, {T}: Choose a counter on target permanent or player. Give that permanent or player another counter of that kind.

Artifact
Animation Module (kld) 194
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Blade of the Bloodchief

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead. Equip {1}

Artifact
Blade of the Bloodchief (lcc) 300
Blasting Station

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a creature enters, you may untap this artifact.

Artifact
Blasting Station (5dn) 107
Noble's Purse

This artifact enters tapped and with three coin counters on it. {T}, Remove a coin counter from this artifact: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact
Noble's Purse (clb) 331
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mb2) 233
Soul Net

Whenever a creature dies, you may pay {1}. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Soul Net (7ed) 317
Spawning Pit

Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Spawning Pit. {1}, Remove two charge counters from Spawning Pit: Create a 2/2 colorless Spawn artifact creature token.

Artifact
Spawning Pit (j22) 136
Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Journal (j22) 800
Tarrian's Soulcleaver

Equipped creature has vigilance. Whenever another artifact or creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. Equip {2}

Artifact
Tarrian's Soulcleaver (lci) 264

Artifact

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Creature

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Agate Instigator

Offspring {1}{R} (You may pay an additional {1}{R} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Agate Instigator (blc) 21
Anax, Hardened in the Forge

Anax's power is equal to your devotion to red. (Each {R} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to red.) Whenever Anax or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 red Satyr creature token with "This token can't block." If the creature had power 4 or greater, create two of those tokens instead.

Creature Enchantment
Anax, Hardened in the Forge (cmm) 204
Bloodflow Connoisseur

Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Bloodflow Connoisseur (2x2) 71
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
Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (plst) MH1-81
Deathbringer Thoctar

Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Deathbringer Thoctar (c13) 184
Falkenrath Noble

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

Creature
Falkenrath Noble (lcc) 196
Feral Ghoul

Menace Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, each opponent gets a number of rad counters equal to its power.

Creature
Feral Ghoul (pip) 44
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
Furystoke Giant

When this creature enters, other creatures you control gain "{T}: This creature deals 2 damage to any target" until end of turn. Persist (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.)

Creature
Furystoke Giant (shm) 93
Hex Parasite

{X}{B/P}: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Hex Parasite (nph) 137
Hexavus

Flying This creature enters with six +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a flying counter on another target creature. {1}, Remove a counter from another creature you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Hexavus (brc) 14
Homicide Investigator

Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, investigate. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Creature
Homicide Investigator (mkm) 86
Immersturm Predator

Flying Whenever this creature becomes tapped, exile up to one target card from a graveyard and put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Sacrifice another creature: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Creature
Immersturm Predator (khm) 214
Judith, the Scourge Diva

Other creatures you control get +1/+0. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, Judith deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Judith, the Scourge Diva (cmm) 341
Lesser Masticore

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. {4}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature. Persist (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.)

Creature Artifact
Lesser Masticore (mh1) 225
Lingering Tormentor

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Persist (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.)

Creature
Lingering Tormentor (eve) 36
Mayhem Devil

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Mayhem Devil (rvr) 199
Metallic Mimic

As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Metallic Mimic (lcc) 308
Murderous Redcap

When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target. Persist (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.)

Creature
Murderous Redcap (plst) SHM-192
Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Pitiless Plunderer (pip) 187
Puppeteer Clique

Flying When this creature enters, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it. Persist (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.)

Creature
Puppeteer Clique (woc) 115
Putrid Goblin

Persist (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.)

Creature
Putrid Goblin (mh1) 101
Rattleblaze Scarecrow

This creature has persist as long as you control a black creature. (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.) This creature has haste as long as you control a red creature.

Creature Artifact
Rattleblaze Scarecrow (shm) 259
Thrull Parasite

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) {T}, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

Creature
Thrull Parasite (gtc) 81
Thunderblust

Haste This creature has trample as long as it has a -1/-1 counter on it. Persist (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.)

Creature
Thunderblust (mm2) 131
Unshakable Tail

When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {2}, Sacrifice a Clue: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Unshakable Tail (mkc) 29
Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Viscera Seer (lcc) 213
Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 110
Wingrattle Scarecrow

This creature has flying as long as you control a blue creature. This creature has persist as long as you control a black creature. (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.)

Creature Artifact
Wingrattle Scarecrow (shm) 270
Woe Strider

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Woe Strider (blc) 189
Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni. Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Yahenni, Undying Partisan (lcc) 214

Creature

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Enchantment

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Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (blc) 179
Case of the Stashed Skeleton

When this Case enters, create a 2/1 black Skeleton creature token and suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.) To solve — You control no suspected Skeletons. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — {1}{B}, Sacrifice this Case: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Case of the Stashed Skeleton (mkm) 80
Goblin Bombardment

Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

Enchantment
Goblin Bombardment (mh2) 279
Impact Tremors

Whenever a creature you control enters, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Impact Tremors (moc) 285
Thran Vigil

Whenever one or more artifact and/or creature cards leave your graveyard during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Thran Vigil (bro) 114
Underworld Connections

Enchant land Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

Enchantment
Underworld Connections (voc) 138

Enchantment

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Instant

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Bottle-Cap Blast

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Bottle-Cap Blast deals 5 damage to any target. If excess damage was dealt to a permanent this way, create that many tapped Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Bottle-Cap Blast (pip) 55
Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Culling the Weak (mb2) 40
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
First Day of Class

Whenever a creature you control enters this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it gains haste until end of turn. Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Instant
First Day of Class (stx) 102
Kazuul's Fury

Instant
Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146
Null Elemental Blast

Choose one — • Counter target multicolored spell. • Destroy target multicolored permanent.

Instant
Null Elemental Blast (mh3) 12
Spikefield Hazard

Instant
Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave (znr) 166Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave (znr) 166
Tibalt's Trickery

Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Instant
Tibalt's Trickery (khm) 153
Toxin Analysis

Target creature gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Instant
Toxin Analysis (mkm) 107

Instant

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Land

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Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Access Tunnel (otc) 270
Badlands

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

Land
Badlands (3ed) 282
Barad-dûr

Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {B}. {X}{X}{B}, {T}: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Land
Barad-dûr (ltr) 340
Billiard Room

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. {4}, {T}: Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Land
Billiard Room (clu) 13
Blighted Gorge

{T}: Add {C}. {4}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: It deals 2 damage to any target.

Land
Blighted Gorge (ddt) 58
Blightstep Pathway

Land
Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252
Blinkmoth Nexus

{T}: Add {C}. {1}: This land becomes a 1/1 Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land. {1}, {T}: Target Blinkmoth creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Land
Blinkmoth Nexus (2xm) 311
Blood Crypt

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

Land
Blood Crypt (rvr) 273
Bloodstained Mire

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

Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 216
Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (mb2) 256
Drannith Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Put two +1/+1 counters on target non-Human creature that entered this turn.

Land
Drannith Ruins (mat) 50
Haunted Ridge

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

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 263
Havengul Laboratory

Land
Havengul Laboratory // Havengul Mystery (slx) 9Havengul Laboratory // Havengul Mystery (slx) 9
Immersturm Skullcairn

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{R}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: It deals 3 damage to target player. That player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Immersturm Skullcairn (khm) 263
Jagged Barrens

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Jagged Barrens (otj) 259
Luxury Suite

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

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (bfz) 240
Mount Doom

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {R}. {1}{B}{R}, {T}: Mount Doom deals 1 damage to each opponent. {5}{B}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Mount Doom and a legendary artifact: Choose up to two creatures, then destroy the rest. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Mount Doom (ltr) 709
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (blb) 375
Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Nesting Grounds (mh3) 302
Phyrexian Tower

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

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
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 (clu) 243
Ramunap Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {R}. {2}{R}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: This land deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Land
Ramunap Ruins (otc) 311
Rath's Edge

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Rath's Edge deals 1 damage to any target.

Land
Rath's Edge (nem) 142
Shivan Gorge

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{R}, {T}: Shivan Gorge deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Land
Shivan Gorge (dmc) 232
Stensia Bloodhall

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{B}{R}, {T}: This land deals 2 damage to target player or planeswalker.

Land
Stensia Bloodhall (scd) 320
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (otc) 323
Sunscorched Desert

When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Sunscorched Desert (akh) 249
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 374

Land

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Sorcery

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Agadeem's Awakening

Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
Beseech the Mirror

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.

Sorcery
Beseech the Mirror (woe) 82
Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.) Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Beseech the Queen (plst) SHM-57
Foul Play

Destroy target creature with power 2 or less. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Foul Play (mid) 101
Hell to Pay

Hell to Pay deals X damage to target creature. Create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the amount of excess damage dealt to that creature this way.

Sorcery
Hell to Pay (otj) 126
Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Sorcery
Persist (mh2) 96
Shatterskull Smashing

Sorcery
Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass (znr) 161Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass (znr) 161
Torch the Witness

Torch the Witness deals twice X damage to target creature. If excess damage was dealt to that creature this way, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Torch the Witness (mkm) 146†
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96

Sorcery

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{"ops":[{"insert":"Win with rakdos combos. Sacrifice persistent creatures in infinite loops to gain value such as life, damage, or +1/+1 counters. They just keep coming back!!\n"}]}
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