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Enigmatic Summons - Vannifar EDH
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Est deck cost: $406.61
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Commander

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Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one — • Cloak a card from your hand. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) • Put a +1/+1 counter on each colorless creature you control.

Creature
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma (mkm) 323

Commander

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Big Boss

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Blightsteel Colossus

Trample, infect, indestructible If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Creature Artifact
Blightsteel Colossus (plst) 2XM-235
It That Betrays

Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.) Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
It That Betrays (cmm) 805
Kozilek, the Broken Reality

When you cast this spell, up to two target players each manifest two cards from their hands. For each card manifested this way, you draw a card. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Other colorless creatures you control get +3/+2.

Creature
Kozilek, the Broken Reality (mh3) 10
Pathrazer of Ulamog

Annihilator 3 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices three permanents of their choice.) This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Creature
Pathrazer of Ulamog (cmm) 4

Big Boss

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Counters

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Branching Evolution

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

Enchantment
Branching Evolution (jmp) 29
Court of Garenbrig

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, distribute two +1/+1 counters among up to two target creatures. Then if you're the monarch, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Enchantment
Court of Garenbrig (woc) 25
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 (wot) 55

Counters

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Draw

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Brainstorm

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

Instant
Brainstorm (mkc) 96
Dour Port-Mage

Whenever one or more other creatures you control leave the battlefield without dying, draw a card. {1}{U}, {T}: Return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Dour Port-Mage (blb) 303
Glitch Interpreter

When this creature enters, if you control no face-down permanents, return this creature to its owner's hand and manifest dread. Whenever one or more colorless creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Glitch Interpreter (dsc) 44
Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment
Guardian Project (pip) 199
Inspiring Call

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Instant
Inspiring Call (fdn) 226
Oblivious Bookworm

At the beginning of your end step, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card unless a permanent entered the battlefield face down under your control this turn or you turned a permanent face up this turn.

Creature
Oblivious Bookworm (dsk) 225
One with the Multiverse

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. Once during each of your turns, you may cast a spell from your hand or the top of your library without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
One with the Multiverse (dsc) 121
Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Ponder (dsc) 73
Prime Speaker Zegana

Prime Speaker Zegana enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the greatest power among other creatures you control. When Prime Speaker Zegana enters, draw cards equal to its power.

Creature
Prime Speaker Zegana (fdn) 664
Season of Growth

Whenever a creature you control enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Whenever you cast a spell that targets a creature you control, draw a card.

Enchantment
Season of Growth (wot) 61
Spinner of Souls

Reach Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Spinner of Souls (fdn) 112
Stocking the Pantry

Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on a creature you control, put a supply counter on this enchantment. {2}, Remove a supply counter from this enchantment: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Stocking the Pantry (blb) 194
They Came from the Pipes

When this enchantment enters, manifest dread twice. (To manifest dread, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Whenever a face-down creature you control enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
They Came from the Pipes (dsc) 45
Tribute to the World Tree

Whenever a creature you control enters, draw a card if its power is 3 or greater. Otherwise, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Enchantment
Tribute to the World Tree (mom) 211

Draw

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Face-Down Generation

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Abhorrent Oculus

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile six cards from your graveyard. Flying At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Creature
Abhorrent Oculus (pdsk) 42p
Become Anonymous

Exile target nontoken creature you own and the top two cards of your library in a face-down pile, shuffle that pile, then cloak those cards. They enter tapped. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Instant
Become Anonymous (acr) 14
Curator Beastie

Reach Colorless creatures you control enter with two additional +1/+1 counters on them. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Creature
Curator Beastie (dsc) 30
Hauntwoods Shrieker

Whenever this creature attacks, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) {1}{G}: Reveal target face-down permanent. If it's a creature card, you may turn it face up.

Creature
Hauntwoods Shrieker (dsk) 182
Hide in Plain Sight

Look at the top five cards of your library, cloak two of them, and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Sorcery
Hide in Plain Sight (mkm) 166
Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate

Omarthis enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on another colorless creature, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Omarthis. When Omarthis dies, manifest a number of cards from the top of your library equal to the number of counters on it.

Creature
Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate (cmm) 708
Primordial Mist

At the beginning of your end step, you may manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Exile a face-down permanent you control face up: You may play that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Enchantment
Primordial Mist (dsc) 123
Scroll of Fate

{T}: Manifest a card from your hand. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Artifact
Scroll of Fate (mkc) 235
Threats Around Every Corner

When this enchantment enters, manifest dread. Whenever a face-down permanent you control enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Threats Around Every Corner (dsk) 200

Face-Down Generation

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Land

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Alchemist's Refuge

{T}: Add {C}. {G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land
Alchemist's Refuge (plst) AVR-225
Barkchannel Pathway

Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251
Botanical Sanctum

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

Land
Botanical Sanctum (potj) 267p
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmr) 350
Dreamroot Cascade

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

Land
Dreamroot Cascade (m3c) 338
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (c20) 273
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (pblb) 252p
Flooded Grove

{T}: Add {C}. {G/U}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{U}, or {U}{U}.

Land
Flooded Grove (dsc) 276
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dsk) 286
Hinterland Harbor

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

Land
Hinterland Harbor (dsc) 284
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dsk) 280
Overflowing Basin

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

Land
Overflowing Basin (m3c) 362
Rejuvenating Springs

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

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmr) 354
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (pip) 287
Vineglimmer Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Vineglimmer Snarl (m3c) 405
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (cmr) 361
Yavimaya Coast

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

Land
Yavimaya Coast (c21) 409

Land

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Protection

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Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (pm21) 188p
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (scd) 269
Release to the Wind

Exile target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Release to the Wind (rix) 46
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 (fdn) 258

Protection

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Ramp

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Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle

Arixmethes enters tapped with five slumber counters on it. As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it's a land. (It's not a creature.) Whenever you cast a spell, you may remove a slumber counter from Arixmethes. {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Creature
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle (dsc) 211
Awakening Zone

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Enchantment
Awakening Zone (m3c) 222
Eyeless Watcher

Devoid (This card has no color.) When this creature enters, create two 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Eyeless Watcher (bfz) 166
Fyndhorn Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Fyndhorn Elves (cmr) 228
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (dsc) 88
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (fdn) 227
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (mkc) 178
Planar Genesis

Look at the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't, put a card from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant
Planar Genesis (mh3) 198
Trail of Mystery

Whenever a face-down creature you control enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, if it's a creature, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Trail of Mystery (dsc) 203
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

When Uro enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped. Whenever Uro enters or attacks, you gain 3 life and draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. Escape—{G}{G}{U}{U}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Creature
Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath (m3c) 277

Ramp

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Removal

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Aetherspouts

For each attacking creature, its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Instant
Aetherspouts (mic) 97
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 (snc) 51
Arcane Denial

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

Instant
Arcane Denial (otc) 89
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 281
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) 63
Sink into Stupor

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

Removal

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Tokens

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Basking Broodscale

Devoid (This card has no color.) {1}{G}: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Basking Broodscale (mh3) 145
Brood Monitor

Devoid (This card has no color.) When this creature enters, create three 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature tokens. They have "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Brood Monitor (bfz) 164

Tokens

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Tutor

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Defense of the Heart

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls three or more creatures, sacrifice this enchantment, search your library for up to two creature cards, put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Defense of the Heart (wot) 51
Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Fabricate (40k) 181

Tutor

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Maybeboard

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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 (rtr) 35
Danny Pink

Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Creatures you control have "Whenever one or more counters are put on this creature for the first time each turn, draw a card."

Creature
Danny Pink (who) 39
From Beyond

Devoid (This card has no color.) At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." {1}{G}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Search your library for an Eldrazi card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
From Beyond (bfz) 167
Ixidron

As this creature enters, turn all other nontoken creatures face down. (They're 2/2 creatures.) Ixidron's power and toughness are each equal to the number of face-down creatures on the battlefield.

Creature
Ixidron (c19) 87
Old Gnawbone

Flying Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, create that many Treasure tokens.

Creature
Old Gnawbone (pafr) 197p
Phyrexian Dreadnought

Trample When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice any number of creatures with total power 12 or greater.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Dreadnought (mir) 315
Worldly Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

Instant
Worldly Tutor (dmr) 185

Maybeboard

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Tokens & Extras

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Eldrazi Scion

Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.

Creature Token
Eldrazi Scion (tm3c) 3
Eldrazi Spawn

Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.

Creature Token
Eldrazi Spawn (tmh3) 2
Eldrazi Spawn

Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.

Creature Token
Eldrazi Spawn (tmh3) 2

Tokens & Extras

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Description

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