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Rogue Cipher
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Est deck cost: $97.64
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Commander

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Krydle of Baldur's Gate

Whenever Krydle deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 1 life and mills a card, then you gain 1 life and scry 1. Whenever you attack, you may pay {2}. If you do, target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Krydle of Baldur's Gate (afr) 226

Commander

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Evasion

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Ferropede

This creature can't be blocked. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a counter from target permanent.

Creature Artifact
Ferropede (5dn) 122
Manifold Key

{1}, {T}: Untap another target artifact. {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Manifold Key (clb) 319
Sonic Screwdriver

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Untap another target artifact. {2}, {T}: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Artifact
Sonic Screwdriver (who) 185
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Creature
Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive (blc) 177
Vela the Night-Clad

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Other creatures you control have intimidate. Whenever Vela or another creature you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Vela the Night-Clad (scd) 256

Evasion

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Protection

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Teferi's Veil

Whenever a creature you control attacks, it phases out at end of combat. (While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It phases in before you untap during your next untap step.)

Enchantment
Teferi's Veil (wth) 53

Protection

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Tokens

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Alela, Cunning Conqueror

Flying Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying. Whenever one or more Faeries you control deal combat damage to a player, goad target creature that player controls.

Creature
Alela, Cunning Conqueror (woc) 3
Chrome Host Seedshark

Flying Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Creature
Chrome Host Seedshark (mom) 51
Murmuring Mystic

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.

Creature
Murmuring Mystic (otc) 102
Oona, Queen of the Fae

Flying {X}{U/B}: Choose a color. Target opponent exiles the top X cards of their library. For each card of the chosen color exiled this way, create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Creature
Oona, Queen of the Fae (woc) 142
Shark Typhoon

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value. Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Shark Typhoon (dsc) 127
Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Creature
Talrand, Sky Summoner (otc) 116

Tokens

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Cipher

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Arcane Heist

You may cast target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into their graveyard, exile it instead. 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.)

Sorcery
Arcane Heist (otc) 49
Call of the Nightwing

Create a 1/1 blue and black Horror creature token with flying. 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.)

Sorcery
Call of the Nightwing (gtc) 149
Hands of Binding

Tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. 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.)

Sorcery
Hands of Binding (gtc) 37
Hidden Strings

You may tap or untap target permanent, then you may tap or untap another target permanent. 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.)

Sorcery
Hidden Strings (dgm) 12
Last Thoughts

Draw a card. 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.)

Sorcery
Last Thoughts (gtc) 40
Midnight Recovery

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. 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.)

Sorcery
Midnight Recovery (gtc) 73
Paranoid Delusions

Target player mills three cards. 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.)

Sorcery
Paranoid Delusions (gtc) 186
Shadow Slice

Target opponent loses 3 life. 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.)

Sorcery
Shadow Slice (gtc) 77
Stolen Identity

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.)

Sorcery
Stolen Identity (ncc) 233
Trait Doctoring

Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another until end of turn. 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.)

Sorcery
Trait Doctoring (dgm) 18
Voidwalk

Exile target creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. 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.)

Sorcery
Voidwalk (gtc) 55
Whispering Madness

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way. 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.)

Sorcery
Whispering Madness (c16) 229
Writ of Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. 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.)

Sorcery
Writ of Return (ncc) 42

Cipher

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Finisher

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Elbrus, the Binding Blade

Artifact
Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound (dka) 147Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound (dka) 147
Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch. {5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, this Equipment gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game." Equip {B}{B}

Artifact
Vorpal Sword (afr) 377

Finisher

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Pump

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Bloodforged Battle-Axe

Equipped creature gets +2/+0. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this Equipment. Equip {2}

Artifact
Bloodforged Battle-Axe (pip) 1009
Brass Knuckles

When you cast this spell, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.) Equipped creature has double strike as long as two or more Equipment are attached to it. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Brass Knuckles (cmm) 372

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Tutor

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Clutch of the Undercity

Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 3 life. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant
Clutch of the Undercity (rav) 197
Dimir Infiltrator

This creature can't be blocked. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Dimir Infiltrator (pc2) 86
Disciple of Deceit

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you may discard a nonland card. If you do, search your library for a card with the same mana value as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Disciple of Deceit (jou) 148
Muddle the Mixture

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant
Muddle the Mixture (rvr) 50
Night Dealings

Whenever a source you control deals damage to another player, put that many theft counters on this enchantment. {2}{B}{B}, Remove X theft counters from this enchantment: Search your library for a nonland card with mana value X, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Night Dealings (chk) 132
Perplex

Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant
Perplex (rav) 217
Waterlogged Teachings

Instant
Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261

Tutor

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Copy

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Mercurial Spelldancer

This creature can't be blocked. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put an oil counter on this creature. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove two oil counters from it. If you do, when you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Mercurial Spelldancer (one) 61

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Hit Counters

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Etrata, the Silencer

Etrata can't be blocked. Whenever Etrata deals combat damage to a player, exile target creature that player controls and put a hit counter on that card. That player loses the game if they own three or more exiled cards with hit counters on them. Etrata's owner shuffles Etrata into their library.

Creature
Etrata, the Silencer (grn) 170
Mari, the Killing Quill

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it with a hit counter on it. Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues you control have deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a hit counter from a card that player owns in exile. If you do, draw a card and create two Treasure tokens."

Creature
Mari, the Killing Quill (otc) 138
Ravenloft Adventurer

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a hit counter on it. Whenever this creature attacks, if you've completed a dungeon, defending player loses 1 life for each card they own in exile with a hit counter on it.

Creature
Ravenloft Adventurer (clb) 142

Hit Counters

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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 (dsc) 92
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dsc) 245
High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Instant
High Tide (dmr) 54
Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Torque (brc) 145
Mindsplice Apparatus

Flash At the beginning of your upkeep, put an oil counter on this artifact. Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each oil counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Mindsplice Apparatus (one) 63
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94

Ramp

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Draw

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Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. {1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (m3c) 177
Blightwing Bandit

Flying, deathtouch Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, look at the top card of that player's library, then exile it face down. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it.

Creature
Blightwing Bandit (woc) 49
Coastal Piracy

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Coastal Piracy (acr) 84
Horn of the Mark

Whenever two or more creatures you control attack a player, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Artifact
Horn of the Mark (ltr) 241
Kaito Shizuki

At the beginning of your end step, if Kaito entered this turn, he phases out. +1: Draw a card. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn. −2: Create a 1/1 blue Ninja creature token with "This token can't be blocked." −7: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a blue or black creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."

Planeswalker
Kaito Shizuki (neo) 226
Kaito, Dancing Shadow

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you may return one of them to its owner's hand. If you do, you may activate loyalty abilities of Kaito twice this turn rather than only once. +1: Up to one target creature can't attack or block until your next turn. 0: Draw a card. −2: Create a 2/2 colorless Drone artifact creature token with deathtouch and "When this token leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life."

Planeswalker
Kaito, Dancing Shadow (pone) 204p
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
Reconnaissance Mission

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Reconnaissance Mission (40k) 193
Shoreline Looter

This creature can't be blocked. Threshold — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. Then discard a card unless seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Creature
Shoreline Looter (blb) 70

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Land

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Access Tunnel

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

Land
Access Tunnel (otc) 270
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (scd) 298
Escape Tunnel

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Escape Tunnel (mkm) 261
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dsk) 279
Mortuary Mire

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

Land
Mortuary Mire (afc) 249
Nesting Grounds

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

Land
Nesting Grounds (mh3) 302
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (acr) 304
The Mycosynth Gardens

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {X}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target nontoken artifact you control with mana value X.

Land
The Mycosynth Gardens (one) 256
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

Land

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Removal

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Abjure

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent. Counter target spell.

Instant
Abjure (wth) 31
Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant
Aetherize (gtc) 29
Didn't Say Please

Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.

Instant
Didn't Say Please (eld) 42
Quietus Spike

Equipped creature has deathtouch. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up. Equip {3}

Artifact
Quietus Spike (ncc) 377
Shoot the Sheriff

Destroy target non-outlaw creature. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws. Everyone else is fair game.)

Instant
Shoot the Sheriff (otj) 106
Slice from the Shadows

This spell can't be countered. (This includes by the ward ability.) Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Instant
Slice from the Shadows (mkm) 103
The Elderspell

Destroy any number of target planeswalkers. Choose a planeswalker you control. Put two loyalty counters on it for each planeswalker destroyed this way.

Sorcery
The Elderspell (war) 89

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Maybeboard

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Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Other Rogues you control get +1/+1. Whenever one or more Rogues you control deal combat damage to a player, that player mills a card for each 1 damage dealt to them. If the player mills at least one creature card this way, you draw a card. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Anowon, the Ruin Thief (znc) 7
Blood Reckoning

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Blood Reckoning (m13) 81
Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact
Crawlspace (dmr) 217
Dizzy Spell

Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Instant
Dizzy Spell (rav) 43
Emrakul's Messenger

Devoid (This card has no color.) Flying Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Emrakul's Messenger (mh3) 61
Hissing Miasma

Whenever a creature attacks you, its controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Hissing Miasma (gpt) 51
Lithoform Engine

{2}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {3}, {T}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {4}, {T}: Copy target permanent spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

Artifact
Lithoform Engine (brc) 146
Marchesa's Decree

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Marchesa's Decree (cn2) 44
Mental Vapors

Target player discards a card. 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.)

Sorcery
Mental Vapors (gtc) 72
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85
Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (ltc) 207
Sphere of Annihilation

This artifact enters with X void counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, exile this artifact, all creatures and planeswalkers with mana value less than or equal to the number of void counters on it, and all creature and planeswalker cards in graveyards with mana value less than or equal to the number of void counters on it.

Artifact
Sphere of Annihilation (afr) 121
Sphinx-Bone Wand

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may put a charge counter on this artifact. If you do, this artifact deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to any target.

Artifact
Sphinx-Bone Wand (ddj) 29
Undercity Plague

Target player loses 1 life, discards a card, then sacrifices a permanent of their choice. 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.)

Sorcery
Undercity Plague (gtc) 83
War Tax

{X}{U}: This turn, creatures can't attack unless their controller pays {X} for each attacking creature they control.

Enchantment
War Tax (mmq) 113

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