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Marchesa, dealer of death
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Marchesa, Dealer of Death

Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay {1}. If you do, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Marchesa, Dealer of Death (otj) 357

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Draw

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Artist's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. {2}{R}: Level 2 Noncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {2}{R}: Level 3 If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus 2 instead.

Enchantment
Artist's Talent (blb) 124
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (plst) SS1-3
Consecrated Sphinx

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

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (sld) 165
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (sld) 1779
Frantic Search

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.

Instant
Frantic Search (woc) 93
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Flash At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards. Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur (ima) 62
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 (dmr) 59
Nezahal, Primal Tide

This spell can't be countered. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card. Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Nezahal, Primal Tide (cmr) 401
Niv-Mizzet, Parun

This spell can't be countered. Flying Whenever you draw a card, Niv-Mizzet deals 1 damage to any target. Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, you draw a card.

Creature
Niv-Mizzet, Parun (rvr) 438
Psychic Frog

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, draw a card. Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Exile three cards from your graveyard: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Psychic Frog (mh3) 344
Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Vilis, Broker of Blood (j25) 70

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Mill

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Brain Freeze

Target player mills three cards. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Instant
Brain Freeze (plst) SCG-29

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Removal

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Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (fdn) 327
Amphibian Downpour

Flash Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies. Copies become tokens.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1.

Enchantment
Amphibian Downpour (mh3) 449
An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (mm3) 35
Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Instant
Delay (tsr) 61
Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Instant
Dismember (spg) 41
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
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
Hullbreaker Horror

Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Hullbreaker Horror (vow) 359
Into the Flood Maw

Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, instead return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Instant
Into the Flood Maw (blb) 52
Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant
Lightning Bolt (clu) 141
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Orcish Bowmasters

Flash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 433
Saw in Half

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

Instant
Saw in Half (blc) 113
Sink into Stupor

Instant
Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241
Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Instant
Snap (plst) DDS-10
Strix Serenade

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Strix Serenade (mh3) 71
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (ltc) 197
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277
Toxrill, the Corrosive

At the beginning of each end step, put a slime counter on each creature you don't control. Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 for each slime counter on them. Whenever a creature you don't control with a slime counter on it dies, create a 1/1 black Slug creature token. {U}{B}, Sacrifice a Slug: Draw a card.

Creature
Toxrill, the Corrosive (vow) 132

Removal

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Clones

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Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Metamorph (mkc) 116

Clones

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Finisher

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Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77

Finisher

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Protection

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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 (cmm) 214
Spellskite

{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Spellskite (clb) 873

Protection

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Theft

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Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Flying, lifelink Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents. If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead. During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

Creature
Valgavoth, Terror Eater (dsk) 120

Theft

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Copy

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Dualcaster Mage

Flash When this creature enters, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Dualcaster Mage (c21) 165

Copy

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Land

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Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (ltc) 357
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
City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (2x2) 403
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (scd) 297
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (c20) 273
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
Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Land
Forbidden Orchard (2x2) 405
Hammerheim

{T}: Add {R}. {T}: Target creature loses all landwalk abilities until end of turn.

Land
Hammerheim (ltc) 518
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mh3) 305
Luxury Suite

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

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (cmr) 721
Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}. {U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Land
Minamo, School at Water's Edge (ltc) 369
Misty Rainforest

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

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
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) 343
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 414
Polluted Delta

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

Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (ltc) 373
Scalding Tarn

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

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
Shivan Reef

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

Land
Shivan Reef (blc) 331
Steam Vents

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

Land
Steam Vents (rvr) 288
Training Center

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

Land
Training Center (cmm) 434
Undercity Sewers

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) 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
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Urborg

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

Land
Urborg (ltc) 519
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (ltc) 375
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
Watery Grave

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

Land
Watery Grave (pgrn) 259p

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (blc) 127
Birgi, God of Storytelling

Creature
Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty (khm) 123Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty (khm) 123
Chrome Mox

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Artifact
Chrome Mox (spg) 92
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (sta) 26
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dsc) 245
Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Lotus Petal (tpr) 225
Magda, the Hoardmaster

Whenever you commit a crime, create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) Sacrifice three Treasures: Create a 4/4 red Scorpion Dragon creature token with flying and haste. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Magda, the Hoardmaster (otj) 133
Mox Amber

{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (ltc) 284
Storm-Kiln Artist

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Storm-Kiln Artist (cmm) 644
Talisman of Creativity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (m3c) 308
Talisman of Dominance

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

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mkc) 242
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (afc) 219
Urabrask

Creature
Urabrask // The Great Work (mom) 169Urabrask // The Great Work (mom) 169

Ramp

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Tutor

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Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (uma) 88
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (sta) 27
Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 426
Imperial Seal

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Imperial Seal (2x2) 354
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (plst) SS1-6
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

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Counters

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Dispel

Counter target instant spell.

Instant
Dispel (plst) BFZ-76
Flusterstorm

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Instant
Flusterstorm (mh3) 496
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant (neo) 445
Pact of Negation

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Pact of Negation (ltc) 523

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Lifegain

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Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107

Lifegain

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Recursion

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (mkc) 125
Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Dread Return (cmm) 637
Exhume

Each player puts a creature card from their graveyard onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Exhume (jmp) 230
Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment
Necromancy (mkc) 131
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (arc) 21
Stitch Together

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Stitch Together (plst) JUD-72
Underworld Breach

Each nonland card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment
Underworld Breach (spg) 9

Recursion

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Maybeboard

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Borne Upon a Wind

You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash. Draw a card.

Instant
Borne Upon a Wind (ltr) 350
Brotherhood's End

Choose one — • Brotherhood's End deals 3 damage to each creature and each planeswalker. • Destroy all artifacts with mana value 3 or less.

Sorcery
Brotherhood's End (bro) 335
Clever Impersonator

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.

Creature
Clever Impersonator (plst) KTK-34
Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 450
Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch

Sorcerous Inspiration — At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand. Fire of Tzeentch — Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch (40k) 119
Gamble

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Gamble (dmr) 433
Glasses of Urza

{T}: Look at target player's hand.

Artifact
Glasses of Urza (30a) 241
Gut Shot

({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.) Gut Shot deals 1 damage to any target.

Instant
Gut Shot (mm2) 117
Hoarding Broodlord

Convoke Flying When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it. Spells you cast from exile have convoke.

Creature
Hoarding Broodlord (mom) 360
Hydroelectric Specimen

Creature
Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240
Kess, Dissident Mage

Flying Once during each of your turns, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Kess, Dissident Mage (ncc) 344
Ledger Shredder

Flying Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Ledger Shredder (snc) 46
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (plst) A25-96
Miscast

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Miscast (m21) 57
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (ltc) 270
Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (plst) M21-117
Return the Favor

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. + {1} — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant
Return the Favor (otj) 142
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (wot) 25
Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant
Sacrifice (spg) 69
Sire of Insanity

At the beginning of each end step, each player discards their hand.

Creature
Sire of Insanity (dgm) 104
Slaughter Pact

Destroy target nonblack creature. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{B}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Slaughter Pact (tsr) 138
Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Instant
Spell Pierce (sch) 4
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 287
Tale's End

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Instant
Tale's End (m20) 77
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 451
Tidal Barracuda

Any player may cast spells as though they had flash. Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.

Creature
Tidal Barracuda (c20) 39
Underground River

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

Land
Underground River (dsc) 321
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (cmm) 195
Volrath's Stronghold

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

Land
Volrath's Stronghold (sth) 143
Whirlwind Denial

For each spell and ability your opponents control, counter it unless its controller pays {4}.

Instant
Whirlwind Denial (j25) 388
Worldgorger Dragon

Flying, trample When this creature enters, exile all other permanents you control. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owners' control.

Creature
Worldgorger Dragon (dmr) 148

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Deck Info

Deck stats

0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 12 cards
36 pips - 27 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
34 pips - 24 cards
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Heavy control/stax grixis deck that aim to interact and lock the board through counterspell and creatures while using cheap spell or recurring abilities on various piece to commit crime and filter our deck using the commander's ability.\nThe plan is to control the game by reanimating big threats that can heavily influence the game through stax elements or by giving us a huge advantage in the form of board-control or card draw while we counter threats played by the opponents (only when necessary since we cannot constantly control 3 other players without depleting our resources really fast) and dig through our deck to close the game out by using a big finisher like Torment of Hailfire or comboing out using Saw in half + Dualcaster mage.\nThe deck has a lot of tools at it's disposal and a lot of cards synergize with other elements in the deck but indeed the hardest part is to pilot the deck, understand which hand is keepable and which one is not and how and when to respond to a threat or deploy one and control the game while creating a path to win against the other 3 players.\n\nHere are some combo that can end or give us a huge advantage in the game if we have the right pieces on the battlefield/hand :\n\n"},{"attributes":{"background":"var(--light-background)","color":"var(--color)"},"insert":"-Hullbreaker + sol ring that bounce mox amber = infinite colored grixis mana(based on the legendary creature that you have on the field when comboing)"},{"insert":"\n\n-Hullbreaker + sol ring that bounce any 0/1 mcm artifact = infinite colorless mana (you can transform infinite colorless mana into colored mana using hullbreaker and a signet)\n\n-Hullbreaker + Phyrexian metamorph copying Hullbreaker(same using saw in half) + 0 mcm artifact bounce loop = infnite mana using first hullbreaker AND all nonland permanents bounced to oppo's hand using the 2nd one\n\n-Hullbreaker payoff for having infinite mana:\n\n[Hullbreaker Horror Loop] + "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://www.moxfield.com/cards/kX5mr-animate-dead"},"insert":"Animate Dead"},{"insert":" = Infinite ETB & LTB of an opponent's creature in graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"[Hullbreaker Horror Loop] + Torment of Hailfire = win the game"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"[Hullbreaker Horror Loop] + "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://www.moxfield.com/cards/ennMm-kess-dissident-mage"},"insert":"Kess, Dissident Mage"},{"insert":" = Cast all spells from your graveyard (no more in the deck)."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"[Hullbreaker Horror Loop] +"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"underline":true,"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Archon of Cruelty"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":" "},{"insert":"= Drain up to 270 life and draw your library. ( no more in the deck)"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n-Underworld breach + lotus petal combo:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Requirements"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" in hand"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Lotus Petal"},{"insert":" in hand"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Underworld Breach"},{"insert":" in hand"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"assuming no other cards in the graveyard"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mana:  2 colorless/1 red"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Sequencing"},{"insert":"\nPay 1 colorless/ 1 red  to cast "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/Yv9OZ-underworld-breach"},"insert":"Underworld Breach"},{"insert":" and 0 for "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Lotus Petal"},{"insert":". (SC-2)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Crack "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Lotus Petal"},{"insert":" for 1 blue."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Pay 1 colorless/1 blue  to cast "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/KPv4m-brain-freeze"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" (SC-3) and mill 9 cards. (GY-9)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Pay  0 and exile 6 cards to escape "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Lotus Petal"},{"insert":" 2 times (SC-5) and crack it each time to float 2 blue in toal. (GY-3)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Pay  2 blue to escape "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/KPv4m-brain-freeze"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" (SC-6), targeting yourself to mill 24 cards. (GY-24)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Repeat steps 4 - 5 to fill your graveyard, generate a huge storm count, generate mana and finally mill your opponents libraries."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Tips & Tricks"},{"insert":"\nIf you run out of cards to use "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/Yv9OZ-underworld-breach"},"insert":"Underworld Breach"},{"insert":", just retarget some copies of "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" onto yourself."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n\n\n-Underworld breach + An offer you can't refuse combo:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Requirements"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/KPv4m-brain-freeze"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" in hand"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/q4Jr2-an-offer-you-can-t-refuse"},"insert":"An Offer you can't Refuse"},{"insert":" in hand"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/Yv9OZ-underworld-breach"},"insert":"Underworld Breach"},{"insert":" in hand"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"assuming an empty graveyard and 0 storm count"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mana: 3 colorless/1 red/3 blue"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Sequencing"},{"insert":"\nPay  1 colorless/ 1 red to cast "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/Yv9OZ-underworld-breach"},"insert":"Underworld Breach"},{"insert":" (ST-1)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Pay 1 colorless/1 blue to cast "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/KPv4m-brain-freeze"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" (ST-2) to mill 6 cards from your library. (GY-6)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Pay 1 colorless/1 blue to escape "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/KPv4m-brain-freeze"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" (ST-3) and hold priority with all copies on the stack. (GY-3)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Pay 1 blue  to cast "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/q4Jr2-an-offer-you-can-t-refuse"},"insert":"An Offer you can't Refuse"},{"insert":" (ST-4) targeting the original "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" and counter it to create 2 Treasure tokens. (GY-3 / TR-2)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"With 2 copies of "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/KPv4m-brain-freeze"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" on the stack, crack 1 Treasure to escape "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/q4Jr2-an-offer-you-can-t-refuse"},"insert":"An Offer you can't Refuse"},{"insert":" (ST-5) targeting one copy of "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" to create 2 Treasure tokens. (GY-0 / TR-3)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Let the last copy of "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/KPv4m-brain-freeze"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" resolve to mill 3 cards (GY-3 / TR-3 / + "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"An Offer you can't Refuse"},{"insert":" & "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":")."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Crack 2 Treasures to escape "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/KPv4m-brain-freeze"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" (ST-6 / GY-0 / TR-1)."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Let 3 copies of "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" resolve to mill 9 cards (GY-9 / TR-1)."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"With 3 copies of "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" on the stack, crack 1 Treasure to escape "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"An Offer you can't Refuse"},{"insert":" (ST-7) targeting the original "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" to create 2 Treasure tokens. (GY-6 / TR-2)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"With 2 copies of "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" on the stack, crack 1 Treasure to escape "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"An Offer you can't Refuse"},{"insert":" (ST-8) targeting a copy of "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" to create 2 Treasure tokens. (GY-3 / TR-3)"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Let the last copy of "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" resolve to net 3 cards in your graveyard."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Repeat step 7 - 11 to net more cards and make treasures until a) your storm count is high enough to mill your opponents out or b) you have enough Treasures and cards in your graveyard to escape your combo pieces or your finisher (Torment of hailfire for us) and win ."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Tips & Tricks"},{"insert":"\nIf you run out of cards to use "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"https://moxfield.com/cards/Yv9OZ-underworld-breach"},"insert":"Underworld Breach"},{"insert":", just retarget some copies of "},{"attributes":{"color":"var(--bs-primary)","link":"about:blank"},"insert":"Brain Freeze"},{"insert":" onto yourself."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"If you have a higher storm count when beginning this line, more mana open or more cards in your graveyard, the combo gets even more explosive, harder to interact with or just cheaper"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n\n\n\n-Jin Gitaxias Core Augur/Consecrated Sphynx + Niv Mizzet = a lot of ping damage to face or creatures and correspondig trigger on Marchesa (since Niv Mizzet targets with ping, we commit crime)\n\nI don't really like the Thassa's oracle + demonic consultation/tainted pact combo since it doesn't really have a synergy with the deck but you could always want a more combo oriented plan in a reanimator shell and use those 2 pieces as one of the safest and hard to interact combo to close out the game faster even tho there are other combo in grixis.\n More free counterspell like Force of Will and more fast mana can be added to make the deck faster, more consistent and resilient while still maintaining a reanimator/control shell.\n \n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"UPDATE DECK February 2025"},{"insert":" \n\nOne problem that i encountered while playing the deck as it was before was that i was able to control the game but i needed a more clear direction on how to end the game: winning through combat damage for a control deck it's just incredibily hard and a complete slog for the table considering that the only way for the deck to accomplish this would be to stax out the table completely; moreover the time it takes for the deck to win through combat damage gives the other players enough time to eventually find the right answers to the deck's threat pieces and defeat you (indeed you will be the archenemy at some point).\nI tried to solve the issues mentioned above switching out pieces that i found out not that impactful in most games or that have some kind of not needed redundancy in favor of clear finisher cards (Torment of Hailfire) and combo pieces that have sinergy with the deck even on their own (saw in half can give us some nice value when used on our creatures and dualcaster mage can do the same but for instants or sorceries).\n\n"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":"UPDATE DECK February 2025"},{"insert":" part 2 \n\n While testing the deck more there were some cards that were not that impactful and/or more of a niche cases (or in the case of \"Brotherhood's end\" a meta call ) so i decided to swap them out for Breach + brain freeze combo. What does that combo do for us? Well, first it give us another way to close out the game beside Dualcaster combo or Torment of hailfire by milling out everyone else at the table BUT it can also be used outside of that combo since breach it's just amazing at giving us more gas by recycling everything that we could need from the graveyard and it also synergize amazingly with Marchesa; talking about brain freeze, the card also can be used to disrupt someone else topdeck manipulation and still be recycled from the graveyard to combo out.\nOne interesting interaction is the one reguarding brain freeze and Storm-kiln artist : since brain freeze has storm and Storm-kiln make treasure from each instant or sorcery that we cast or COPY, when he's out and we're storming off with brain freeze, we will start making positive mana from SC 3(storm count) onward and we'll be able to :\n1) not use lotus petal for breach loop anymore hence having more card at our disposal for the combo;\n2) if needed use all that mana to go in a different direction and close out the game by casting a huge Torment of Hailfire from the hand or the graveyard.\nThere's another valuable line (but a bit more complicated maybe) for a breach + brain freeze combo and it's one using An offer you can't refuse.\nAnother change that i made was swapping out Ledger Shredder with Orcish Bowmasters : being forced to discard was something more harmful than not in many occasions plus our plan is to control the board so we don't get overwhelmed by creatures and Bowmasters can slow down decks that wants to ramp by pinging dorks, give us a body on cast that can grows too and punish draws, moreover it's an ability that targets so we commmit crime hence we can draw with Marchesa.\n\nWIP and slowly moving on Moxfield too (profile is still private until i'll be decently satisfied with the primer) : D\n"}]}
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