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Commander
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Evasion
Ramp
Ramp
Sac Outlet
Sac Outlet
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Draw
Land
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Land
Reanimate Payoffs
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Reanimate Payoffs
Enablers
Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)
As this creature enters, choose Believe or Doubt. • Believe — Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Horror enchantment creature token. • Doubt — At the beginning of your end step, you may return a nonland permanent you own to your hand. If you do, draw a card.
Enablers
Mill
Mill
Recursion
{1}, {T}, Discard a card: Put a study counter on Grimoire of the Dead. {T}, Remove three study counters from Grimoire of the Dead and sacrifice it: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They're black Zombies in addition to their other colors and types.
This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard. Whenever a creature you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library. {2}{B}, {T}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Recursion
Enchantment Payoffs
Flying Eerie — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, tap up to one target creature and put a stun counter on it. Stun counters can't be removed from permanents your opponents control. (They won't untap if they have stun counters.)
Enchantment Payoffs
Pump
Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." When enchanted creature dies, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is its power. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, defending player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card. The creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each card revealed this way. That player puts the revealed cards into their graveyard. Equip {2}
Pump
Removal
Flash When this creature enters, counter target spell. Its controller manifests dread. (That player looks at the top two cards of their library, then puts one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into their graveyard. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)
Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) {1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.
Removal
Crab Angle?
Emerge from artifact {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing an artifact and paying the emerge cost reduced by that artifact's mana value.) When this creature enters, target opponent exiles the top card of their library, a card at random from their graveyard, and a card at random from their hand. You may cast a spell from among cards exiled this way without paying its mana cost.
Crab Angle?
Cutboard
Flying Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, reveal the top card of your library. If it's an artifact, creature, or land card, you may put it onto the battlefield with a manifestation counter on it. That permanent is an enchantment in addition to its other types.
Callaphe's power is equal to your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.) Creatures and enchantments you control have "Spells your opponents cast that target this permanent cost {1} more to cast."
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. To solve — There are fifteen or more cards in your graveyard. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell, copy that spell. (The copy becomes a token.)
Flying, trample Once during each of your turns, you may cast an enchantment spell by paying life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost. {2}{B}, Sacrifice another enchantment: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed enchantment's mana value.
Indestructible As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card. {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.
Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I — You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 1 or 2 from your hand without paying its mana cost. II — Target player mills four cards. III — Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy.
Whenever Golden Argosy attacks, exile each creature that crewed it this turn. Return them to the battlefield tapped under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
When this enchantment enters, each opponent loses 1 life, you gain 1 life, and you draw a card. Whenever you commit a crime, you may return this enchantment to its owner's hand. (It returns only from the battlefield. Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
When Marina Vendrell's Grimoire enters, if you cast it, draw five cards. You have no maximum hand size and don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards. Whenever you lose life, discard that many cards. Then if you have no cards in hand, you lose the game.
Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) This creature and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
Flash When this enchantment enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn. Creatures your opponents control can be the targets of spells and abilities as though they didn't have hexproof. Ward abilities of those creatures don't trigger.
+2: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. −2: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. You lose 2 life. −8: You get an emblem with "{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the sacrificed creature's power." Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath can be your commander.
Lifelink Delirium — At the beginning of your end step, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, each opponent may sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card. Then this creature deals damage equal to its power to each opponent who didn't sacrifice a permanent or discard a card this way.
When Proft's Eidetic Memory enters, draw a card. You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've drawn more than one card this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the number of cards you've drawn this turn minus one.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a quest counter on this enchantment. {5}{B}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each quest counter on this enchantment. Activate only as a sorcery.
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever one or more creatures you control die, create a Food token. This ability triggers only once each turn. {1}{B}: Level 2 Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, target player mills two cards. {2}{B}: Level 3 At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice three other nonland permanents. If you do, return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it.
Enchant creature As long as enchanted creature is attacking alone, it can't be blocked. Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, it connives." (Its controller draws a card, then discards a card. If they discarded a nonland card, they put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, mill a card. When you do, if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control and it gains deathtouch until end of turn. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
This creature can't be blocked. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose one that hasn't been chosen — • Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. • Draw a card. • This creature becomes a copy of another target creature you control.
{T}, Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: For each opponent, you mill a card, then return that card from your graveyard to your hand unless that player pays 3 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I, II, III — Mill two cards. If two cards that share a card type were milled this way, draw a card and repeat this process. IV — Exile any number of target instant, sorcery, and/or Tamiyo planeswalker cards from your graveyard. Copy them. You may cast any number of the copies.
Cutboard
Explosive Mill?
Myojin of Grim Betrayal enters with an indestructible counter on it if you cast it from your hand. Remove an indestructible counter from Myojin of Grim Betrayal: Put onto the battlefield under your control all creature cards in all graveyards that were put there from anywhere this turn.
Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills half their library, rounded up. Unearth {1}{U}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}{U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Explosive Mill?
Full Mill with Mindskinner?
Whenever Marvo attacks, clash with defending player. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.) Whenever you win a clash, draw a card. Then you may cast a spell from your hand with mana value 8 or less without paying its mana cost.
Full Mill with Mindskinner?
Maybeboard
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I, II, III — Mill three cards. You may put a historic card from among them into your hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.) IV — Historic spells you cast this turn cost {2} less to cast.
Horrors you control have menace. Whenever a Horror you control deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards. At the beginning of your end step, choose target artifact or creature card in an opponent's graveyard that was put there from their library this turn. Put it onto the battlefield under your control.
Surveil 3, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Exile Charnel Serenade with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{2}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {2}{B} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card." As long as enchanted creature is legendary, it gets +1/+1 and has ward {1}. (Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)
Menace As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay. Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.
Whenever one or more Demons you control attack a player, you draw a card and lose 1 life. At the beginning of your end step, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying, then mill two cards. If two cards that share all their card types were milled this way, sacrifice this enchantment.
When this enchantment enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. When the creature put onto the battlefield with this enchantment dies, exile it and return this enchantment to its owner's hand. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, exile the creature put onto the battlefield with this enchantment.
Bestow {5}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) Discard a creature card: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If this permanent is an Aura, enchanted creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn instead. Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
Deathtouch Face-down creatures you control have "{2}{U}{B}: Turn this creature face up. If you can't, exile it, then you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost." Whenever an Assassin you control deals combat damage to an opponent, cloak the top card of that player's library.
Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) {X}{B}: Put target artifact or creature card with mana value X from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped. Then that player mills X cards.
Ghost of Ramirez DePietro can't be blocked by creatures with toughness 3 or greater. Whenever Ghost of Ramirez DePietro deals combat damage to a player, choose up to one target card in a graveyard that was discarded or put there from a library this turn. Put that card into its owner's hand. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Indestructible Whenever this creature attacks, blocks, or becomes the target of a spell, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent. {5}: Monstrosity 5. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put five +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of creature cards from your graveyard. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Deathtouch Whenever Gorex attacks or dies, choose a card at random exiled with Gorex and put that card into its owner's hand.
Enchant creature As long as enchanted creature is blue, it gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card." As long as enchanted creature is black, it gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card."
When Kotose enters, exile target card other than a basic land card from an opponent's graveyard. Search that player's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles. For as long as you control Kotose, you may play one of the exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
Hexproof Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may have Lazav become a copy of that card, except its name is Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has hexproof and this ability.
Whenever you commit a crime, put a +1/+1 counter on Lazav. Then you may exile a card from a graveyard. If a creature card was exiled this way, you may have Lazav become a copy of that card until end of turn. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
When Lazav enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {X}: Lazav becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except its name is Lazav, the Multifarious, it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it has this ability.
Kicker {U} (You may pay an additional {U} as you cast this spell.) As this creature enters, if it was kicked, mill four cards. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) Monstrous War-Leech's power and toughness are each equal to the highest mana value among cards in your graveyard.
Ninjutsu {U} ({U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card unless this creature entered this turn.
Rat offering (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant by sacrificing a Rat and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed Rat. Mana cost includes color.) Whenever a permanent is put into an opponent's graveyard, that player loses 1 life.
Reveal the top X cards of your library. For each card type, you may exile a card of that type from among them. Put the rest into your graveyard. You may cast a spell from among the exiled cards without paying its mana cost if you exiled four or more cards this way. Then put the rest of the exiled cards into your hand.
Whenever you activate a ninjutsu ability, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. This ability triggers only once each turn. Each creature card in your hand has ninjutsu {2}{U}{B}.
When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life. Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape—{3}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, each opponent loses 1 life. {1}{B}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. {6}{B}: Level 3 At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Flying As long as Weatherlight Compleated has four or more phyresis counters on it, it's a Phyrexian creature in addition to its other types. Whenever a creature you control dies, put a phyresis counter on Weatherlight Compleated. Then draw a card if it has seven or more phyresis counters on it. If it doesn't, scry 1.
Islandwalk, swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island or a Swamp.) Whenever Wrexial deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Maybeboard
Recursion(M)
When this enchantment enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Recursion(M)
Surveil Angle?
Whenever another creature you control dies, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a token, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever a creature you control enters, surveil 1. {1}{U}: Level 2 Whenever you attack, target attacking creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn. {3}{U}: Level 3 Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may exile it, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Surveil Angle?
Upgrades
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.
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.
Impending 5—{1}{B} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with five time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, mill four cards, then you may return a non-Avatar creature card or a planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.
Impending 4—{1}{U}{U} (If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with four time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Flying Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, draw two cards, then discard a card.
Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control. {3}{U}: Tap another target creature.
Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.) At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. {1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.
Upgrades
Your worst Nightmare
Arvinox isn't a creature unless you control three or more permanents you don't own. At the beginning of your end step, exile the bottom card of each opponent's library face down. For as long as those cards remain exiled, you may look at them, you may cast permanent spells from among them, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
Flying At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of each opponent's library. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it. Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent owns enters the battlefield under your control, they lose life equal to its mana value.
Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards. Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Each player mills four cards. Then you may exile a creature or planeswalker card from each graveyard. II, III — Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among cards exiled with this Saga, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.
