183
2/22/2025
I'm Something of a Scientist Myself
Deck Size: 120
Commander
Est deck cost: $556.56
Salt sum: 54.4
183
2/22/2025
Compare
Deck filters

Choose your preferred layout. You can change this at any time using the Deck filters / View as options above.

Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99
Rukarumel, Biologist

As Rukarumel enters, choose a creature type. Slivers you control and nontoken creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other creature types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Sliver creature token.

Creature
Rukarumel, Biologist (cmm) 711

Commander

(CTRL to add secondary)

Cost Reduction

Qty: 3 Price: $24.27
Cryptic Gateway

Tap two untapped creatures you control: You may put a creature card from your hand that shares a creature type with each creature tapped this way onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Cryptic Gateway (dmr) 218
Training Grounds

Activated abilities of creatures you control cost {2} less to activate. This effect can't reduce the mana in that cost to less than one mana.

Enchantment
Training Grounds (mat) 9
Urza's Incubator

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells of the chosen type cost {2} less to cast.

Artifact
Urza's Incubator (mh3) 297

Cost Reduction

(CTRL to add secondary)

Draw

Qty: 1 Price: $9.99
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

Draw

(CTRL to add secondary)

Land

Qty: 38 Price: $151.34
Ancient Ziggurat

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Land
Ancient Ziggurat (plst) CON-141
Cactus Preserve

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. {3}: Until end of turn, this land becomes an X/X green Plant creature with reach, where X is the greatest mana value among your commanders. It's still a land.

Land
Cactus Preserve (otc) 40
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Crystal Quarry

{T}: Add {C}. {5}, {T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}.

Land
Crystal Quarry (dmc) 206
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (dsc) 275
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 (blb) 252
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (woe) 266
Inkmoth Nexus

{T}: Add {C}. {1}: This land becomes a 1/1 Phyrexian Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying and infect until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Land
Inkmoth Nexus (mbs) 145
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (woe) 263
Meteor Crater

{T}: Choose a color of a permanent you control. Add one mana of that color.

Land
Meteor Crater (pls) 140
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (woe) 265
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (blc) 322
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (woe) 262
Reflecting Pool

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

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Secluded Courtyard

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Land
Secluded Courtyard (lcc) 350
Sliver Hive

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Sliver spell. {5}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Sliver creature token. Activate only if you control a Sliver.

Land
Sliver Hive (m15) 247
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (woe) 264
The World Tree

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
The World Tree (khm) 275
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 260
Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Land
Unclaimed Territory (lcc) 366

Land

(CTRL to add secondary)

Ramp

Qty: 6 Price: $8.74
Broken Bond

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Broken Bond (dom) 157
Growth Spiral

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

Instant
Growth Spiral (rna) 178
Rampant Rejuvenator

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is this creature's power, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Rampant Rejuvenator (nec) 28
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (clb) 832
Tower Winder

Reach, deathtouch When this creature enters, search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Command Tower, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Creature
Tower Winder (otc) 34
Wood Elves

When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Wood Elves (c15) 212

Ramp

(CTRL to add secondary)

Rocks

Qty: 8 Price: $46.14
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dsc) 92
Bloom Tender

{T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Creature
Bloom Tender (plst) EVE-66
Commander's Sphere

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

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (dsc) 244
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Talisman of Curiosity

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

Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (mkc) 241
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 Resilience

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

Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (dsc) 255
Timeless Lotus

Timeless Lotus enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}.

Artifact
Timeless Lotus (dmu) 239

Rocks

(CTRL to add secondary)

Science

Qty: 8 Price: $33.02
Arcane Adaptation

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Enchantment
Arcane Adaptation (xln) 46
Conspiracy

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control are the chosen type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Enchantment
Conspiracy (acr) 88
Hivestone

Creatures you control are Slivers in addition to their other creature types.

Artifact
Hivestone (tsr) 268
Leyline of Transformation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other types. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield.

Enchantment
Leyline of Transformation (dsk) 63
Maskwood Nexus

Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)

Artifact
Maskwood Nexus (blc) 279
Mirror Entity

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {X}: Until end of turn, creatures you control have base power and toughness X/X and gain all creature types.

Creature
Mirror Entity (otc) 83
Mystical Tutor

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

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60
Rooftop Storm

You may pay {0} rather than pay the mana cost for Zombie creature spells you cast.

Enchantment
Rooftop Storm (isd) 71

Science

(CTRL to add secondary)

Utility

Qty: 5 Price: $6.67
Realmwalker

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As this creature enters, choose a creature type. You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells of the chosen type from the top of your library.

Creature
Realmwalker (lcc) 250
Reef Worm

When this creature dies, create a 3/3 blue Fish creature token with "When this token dies, create a 6/6 blue Whale creature token with 'When this token dies, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.'"

Creature
Reef Worm (c21) 127
Riptide Shapeshifter

{2}{U}{U}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose a creature type. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card of that type. Put that card onto the battlefield and shuffle the rest into your library.

Creature
Riptide Shapeshifter (ons) 109
Warping Wail

({C} represents colorless mana.) Choose one — • Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less. • Counter target sorcery spell. • Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Instant
Warping Wail (ogw) 12
Whalebone Glider

{2}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less gains flying until end of turn.

Artifact
Whalebone Glider (ice) 349

Utility

(CTRL to add secondary)

Whale Powers

Qty: 33 Price: $220.47
Basal Sliver

All Slivers have "Sacrifice this permanent: Add {B}{B}."

Creature
Basal Sliver (tsp) 96
Blur Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and {T} as soon as they come under your control.)

Creature
Blur Sliver (cmm) 873
Brood Sliver

Whenever a Sliver deals combat damage to a player, its controller may create a 1/1 colorless Sliver creature token.

Creature
Brood Sliver (cmm) 887
Darkheart Sliver

All Slivers have "Sacrifice this permanent: You gain 3 life."

Creature
Darkheart Sliver (tsr) 249
Diffusion Sliver

Whenever a Sliver creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {2}.

Creature
Diffusion Sliver (cmm) 845
Galerider Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have flying.

Creature
Galerider Sliver (cmm) 849
Gemhide Sliver

All Slivers have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Creature
Gemhide Sliver (cmm) 896
Groundshaker Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have trample. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Groundshaker Sliver (m14) 177
Hatchery Sliver

Replicate {1}{G} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost.) Each Sliver spell you cast has replicate. The replicate cost is equal to its mana cost. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Creature
Hatchery Sliver (cmm) 741
Heart Sliver

All Sliver creatures have haste.

Creature
Heart Sliver (tmp) 182
Hibernation Sliver

All Slivers have "Pay 2 life: Return this permanent to its owner's hand."

Creature
Hibernation Sliver (cmm) 925
Homing Sliver

Each Sliver card in each player's hand has slivercycling {3}. Slivercycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Sliver card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Homing Sliver (tsr) 171
Horned Sliver

All Sliver creatures have trample.

Creature
Horned Sliver (plst) TMP-234
Manaweft Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Creature
Manaweft Sliver (cmm) 900
Megantic Sliver

Sliver creatures you control get +3/+3.

Creature
Megantic Sliver (cmm) 901
Might Sliver

All Sliver creatures get +2/+2.

Creature
Might Sliver (cmm) 903
Mistform Sliver

All Slivers have "{1}: This permanent becomes the creature type of your choice in addition to its other types until end of turn."

Creature
Mistform Sliver (lgn) 46
Mnemonic Sliver

All Slivers have "{2}, Sacrifice this permanent: Draw a card."

Creature
Mnemonic Sliver (tmp) 77
Muscle Sliver

All Sliver creatures get +1/+1.

Creature
Muscle Sliver (plst) TMP-238
Predatory Sliver

Sliver creatures you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Predatory Sliver (m14) 189
Quick Sliver

Flash Any player may cast Sliver spells as though they had flash.

Creature
Quick Sliver (cmm) 907
Sentinel Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have vigilance. (Attacking doesn't cause them to tap.)

Creature
Sentinel Sliver (cmm) 835
Shadow Sliver

All Sliver creatures have shadow. (They can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Creature
Shadow Sliver (tsp) 76
Shifting Sliver

Slivers can't be blocked except by Slivers.

Creature
Shifting Sliver (cmm) 855
Sliver Hivelord

Sliver creatures you control have indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Creature
Sliver Hivelord (cmm) 937
Sliver Legion

All Sliver creatures get +1/+1 for each other Sliver on the battlefield.

Creature
Sliver Legion (tsr) 261
Sliver Overlord

{3}: Search your library for a Sliver card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {3}: Gain control of target Sliver. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Creature
Sliver Overlord (scg) 139
Syphon Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have lifelink. (Damage dealt by a Sliver creature you control also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Syphon Sliver (cmm) 870
Taunting Sliver

Sliver creatures you control have "When this creature enters, goad target creature an opponent controls." (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Taunting Sliver (cmm) 727
Telekinetic Sliver

All Slivers have "{T}: Tap target permanent."

Creature
Telekinetic Sliver (plst) TSP-84
The First Sliver

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Sliver spells you cast have cascade.

Creature
The First Sliver (mh1) 200
Virulent Sliver

All Sliver creatures have poisonous 1. (Whenever a Sliver deals combat damage to a player, that player gets a poison counter. A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Creature
Virulent Sliver (tsr) 246
Winged Sliver

All Sliver creatures have flying.

Creature
Winged Sliver (cmm) 860

Whale Powers

(CTRL to add secondary)

Whales

Qty: 15 Price: $30.95
Aethertide Whale

Flying When this creature enters, you get six {E} (energy counters). Pay {E}{E}{E}{E}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Aethertide Whale (aer) 27
Colossal Whale

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Whenever this creature attacks, you may exile target creature defending player controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)

Creature
Colossal Whale (m14) 48
Dreamtide Whale

Vanishing 2 (This creature enters with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Dreamtide Whale (mh3) 450
Ethereal Forager

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Flying Whenever this creature attacks, you may return an instant or sorcery card exiled with this creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Ethereal Forager (c20) 34
Great Whale

When this creature enters, untap up to seven lands.

Creature
Great Whale (usg) 77
Horned Loch-Whale

Creature
Horned Loch-Whale // Lagoon Breach (woe) 53
Killer Whale

{U}: This creature gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Killer Whale (exo) 37
Long-Finned Skywhale

Flying This creature can block only creatures with flying.

Creature
Long-Finned Skywhale (kld) 54
Narwhal

First strike, protection from red

Creature
Narwhal (hml) 35
Phase Dolphin

Whenever this creature attacks, another target attacking creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Phase Dolphin (iko) 62
Pursued Whale

When this creature enters, each opponent creates a 1/1 red Pirate creature token with "This token can't block" and "Creatures you control attack each combat if able." Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost {3} more to cast.

Creature
Pursued Whale (m21) 60
Star Whale

Flying, vigilance Other creatures you control have ward {2}. Suspend 6—{1}{U} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{U} and exile it with six 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. It has haste.)

Creature
Star Whale (who) 55
Steelfin Whale

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.) Whenever an artifact you control enters, untap this creature.

Creature
Steelfin Whale (mh2) 65
Ukkima, Stalking Shadow

Partner with Cazur, Ruthless Stalker (When this creature enters, target player may put Cazur into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Ukkima can't be blocked. When Ukkima leaves the battlefield, it deals X damage to target player and you gain X life, where X is its power.

Creature
Ukkima, Stalking Shadow (otc) 247
Waker of Waves

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0. {1}{U}, Discard this creature: Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Creature
Waker of Waves (m21) 84

Whales

(CTRL to add secondary)

Wumbology

Qty: 2 Price: $23.98
Artificial Evolution

Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one creature type with another. The new creature type can't be Wall. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Instant
Artificial Evolution (ons) 67
Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (plst) MRD-188

Wumbology

(CTRL to add secondary)

Maybeboard

Qty: 8 Price: $35.04
Demon of Wailing Agonies

Flying Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice."

Creature
Demon of Wailing Agonies (c14) 21
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Creature Enchantment
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove (thb) 169
Dying Wail

Enchant creature When enchanted creature dies, target player discards two cards.

Enchantment
Dying Wail (uds) 58
Esika, God of the Tree

Creature
Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge back (khm) 168Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge back (khm) 168
Horobi, Death's Wail

Flying Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy that creature.

Creature
Horobi, Death's Wail (chk) 117
Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch

Whenever you cast a Myr spell, create a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token. At the beginning of combat on your turn, untap each Myr you control. {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, {T}: Put three +1/+1 counters on each Myr you control. Activate only during your turn.

Creature Artifact
Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch (onc) 28
Wail of the Forgotten

Descend 8 — Choose one. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard as you cast this spell, choose one or more instead. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. • Target opponent discards a card. • Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Sorcery
Wail of the Forgotten (lci) 244
Wail of the Nim

Choose one — • Regenerate each creature you control. • Wail of the Nim deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. Entwine {B} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Wail of the Nim (mrd) 81

Maybeboard

(CTRL to add secondary)

Deck Info

Deck stats

7 pips - 7 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
55 pips - 40 cards
29 mana - 29 cards
12 pips - 11 cards
28 mana - 27 cards
8 pips - 8 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
26 pips - 26 cards
27 mana - 26 cards
1 pip - 1 card0
12 mana - 11 cards
CategoriesQtyOdds
Click charts to focus on cards
Deck extras (0)
 avatar
NaN secs
 avatar
NaN secs
 avatar
NaN secs
 avatar
NaN secs
 avatar
NaN secs

Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"**Work In Progress**\n\nI have several whale tribal deck brews I'm working on and I can't choose which fairly niche direction I want to go with:\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Satoru Umezawa"}},{"insert":" - Ninjutsu whales to cheat out expensive whales. I can include every single whale in MTG with only dimir colors."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Círdan the Shipwright"}},{"insert":" - Cheat out expensive whales using Cirdan's voting or with elvish piper, monster manual, etc."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Rukarumel, Biologist"}},{"insert":" - Make whales \"good\" by giving them sliver powers"},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nThe dumb point of this deck idea is to make the whale deck I've always wanted. This one has no color restrictions, though I feel like I can make it mostly Sultai and be happy. Whales have no general synergy or common effect, so I'll make whales good by giving them a large amount of static abilities using slivers.\n\nWhen casting Rukarumel, the idea with this brew is to name 'sliver' as the noted creature type for her ETB effect, so now nontoken whales are slivers and get the benefits of other sliver creatures. This should be fine enough in order to grant whales several abilities using slivers. \n\nGo one step farther and cast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Artificial Evolution"}},{"insert":" to change the text on Rukarumel such that wherever the card says 'Sliver', it now reads 'Whale' and therefore her tap ability makes whales instead of slivers -- but because the noted creature type is still 'Sliver', those whales are still slivers and still get the benefits of slivers. This step is completely optional, but I want to be able to make more whales and win with them since there are only like 15 whales total. The less-cool way to do this is to also have something like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Maskwood Nexus"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Arcane Adaptation"}},{"insert":" and just name whales in addition to Rukarumel, but honestly I can't complain too much -- there are only so many options I have. \n"}]}
Unable to load comments
AutoNew CategoryMaybeboardSideboard