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Karlach [Absolute Cultist] - X Combats
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Commander

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Cultist of the Absolute

Commander creatures you own get +3/+3 and have flying, deathtouch, "Ward—Pay 3 life," and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature."

Enchantment
Cultist of the Absolute (clb) 123
Karlach, Fury of Avernus

Whenever you attack, if it's the first combat phase of the turn, untap all attacking creatures. They gain first strike until end of turn. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Karlach, Fury of Avernus (sld) 1802

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Finisher

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Full Throttle

After this main phase, there are two additional combat phases. At the beginning of each combat this turn, untap all creatures that attacked this turn.

Sorcery
Full Throttle (dft) 127

Finisher

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Removal

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Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (c19) 136
Mayhem Devil

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Mayhem Devil (rvr) 374
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

Removal

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Anthem

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Rising of the Day

Creatures you control have haste. Legendary creatures you control get +1/+0.

Enchantment
Rising of the Day (ltr) 427
Urabrask the Hidden

Creatures you control have haste. Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Creature
Urabrask the Hidden (clb) 811

Anthem

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Land

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Blazemire Verge

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Land
Blazemire Verge (dsk) 256
Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Canyon Slough (dsc) 266
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Conduit Pylons

When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Conduit Pylons (otj) 254
Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dsc) 271
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land
Field of Ruin (moc) 400
Foreboding Ruins

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Foreboding Ruins (dsc) 277
Haunted Ridge

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

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 263
Mirage Mesa

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Mirage Mesa (otj) 262
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dsk) 284
Restless Vents

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. {1}{B}{R}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 2/3 black and red Insect creature with menace. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Land
Restless Vents (lci) 284
Shadowblood Ridge

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (dsc) 296
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (dsc) 299
Sundering Eruption

Sorcery
Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure (mh3) 248Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure (mh3) 248
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dsk) 282
Temple of Malice

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Malice (dsc) 310
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (dsc) 313
Valakut Awakening

Instant
Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (plst) ZNR-174Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (plst) ZNR-174

Land

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Tokens

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Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (j25) 403
Brimstone Roundup

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with "{T}: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery." Plot {2}{R} (You may pay {2}{R} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Enchantment
Brimstone Roundup (otj) 115
Charforger

When this creature enters, create a 1/1 red Phyrexian Goblin creature token. Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this creature. Remove three oil counters from this creature: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.

Creature
Charforger (one) 199
Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Enchantment
Dreadhorde Invasion (mic) 114
Nine-Lives Familiar

This creature enters with eight revival counters on it if you cast it. When this creature dies, if it had a revival counter on it, return it to the battlefield with one fewer revival counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Nine-Lives Familiar (fdn) 462
Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature
Ophiomancer (mh3) 276
Ozox, the Clattering King

Ozox can't block. When Ozox dies, create Jumblebones, a legendary 2/1 black Skeleton creature token with "Jumblebones can't block" and "When Jumblebones leaves the battlefield, return target card named Ozox, the Clattering King from your graveyard to your hand."

Creature
Ozox, the Clattering King (j25) 44
Raphael, Fiendish Savior

Flying Other Demons, Devils, Imps, and Tieflings you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink. At the beginning of each end step, if a creature card was put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "When this token dies, it deals 1 damage to any target."

Creature
Raphael, Fiendish Savior (clb) 549
Totentanz, Swarm Piper

Whenever Totentanz or another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block." {1}{B}: Target attacking Rat you control gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Totentanz, Swarm Piper (woe) 216

Tokens

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Burn

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City on Fire

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage instead.

Enchantment
City on Fire (sld) 1803
Perforating Artist

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Creature
Perforating Artist (fdn) 124

Burn

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Protection

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Chariot of Victory

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste. Equip {1}

Artifact
Chariot of Victory (jou) 159
Dolmen Gate

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to attacking creatures you control.

Artifact
Dolmen Gate (sld) 1806
Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Kaya's Ghostform (plst) WAR-94
Lavaspur Boots

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste and ward {1}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Lavaspur Boots (otj) 243
Orcish Medicine

Target creature gains your choice of lifelink or indestructible until end of turn. Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Instant
Orcish Medicine (ltr) 104

Protection

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Drain

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Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (dsc) 132
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (ths) 89
Rottenmouth Viper

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of nonland permanents. This spell costs {1} less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this way. Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a blight counter on it. Then for each blight counter on it, each opponent loses 4 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Creature
Rottenmouth Viper (blb) 107

Drain

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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 (ltc) 273
Captain Lannery Storm

Haste Whenever Captain Lannery Storm attacks, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever you sacrifice a Treasure, Captain Lannery Storm gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Captain Lannery Storm (j22) 509
Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
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 (ltc) 276
Curse of Opulence

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, create a Gold token. Each opponent attacking that player does the same. (A Gold token is an artifact with "Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Curse of Opulence (mkc) 150
Cursed Mirror

{T}: Add {R}. As this artifact enters, you may have it become a copy of any creature on the battlefield until end of turn, except it has haste.

Artifact
Cursed Mirror (otc) 161
Fire Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}.

Artifact
Fire Diamond (clb) 313
Mahadi, Emporium Master

At the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token for each creature that died this turn. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Mahadi, Emporium Master (clb) 282
Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Pawn of Ulamog (plst) ROE-122
Professional Face-Breaker

Menace Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice a Treasure: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.

Creature
Professional Face-Breaker (snc) 426
Rakdos, Lord of Riots

You can't cast Rakdos unless an opponent lost life this turn. Flying, trample Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Creature
Rakdos, Lord of Riots (rvr) 379
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (m3c) 305
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (ddu) 62
Sticky Fingers

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has menace and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token." (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures. The token is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") When enchanted creature dies, draw a card.

Enchantment
Sticky Fingers (snc) 124
Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of the Animist (ltc) 355
There and Back Again

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Up to one target creature can't block for as long as you control this Saga. The Ring tempts you. II — Search your library for a Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. III — Create Smaug, a legendary 6/6 red Dragon creature token with flying, haste, and "When Smaug dies, create fourteen Treasure tokens."

Enchantment
There and Back Again (ltr) 151
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (ltc) 287
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (cmm) 658

Ramp

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Draw

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Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Etali, Primal Storm (sld) 1389
Eviscerator's Insight

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards. Flashback {4}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Instant
Eviscerator's Insight (mh3) 93
Grenzo, Havoc Raiser

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, choose one — • Goad target creature that player controls. • Exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Creature
Grenzo, Havoc Raiser (cmm) 677
Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Artifact
Idol of Oblivion (m3c) 297
Laelia, the Blade Reforged

Haste Whenever Laelia attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your library and/or your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Laelia.

Creature
Laelia, the Blade Reforged (mh3) 281
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (mid) 113
Nexus of Becoming

At the beginning of combat on your turn, draw a card. Then you may exile an artifact or creature card from your hand. If you do, create a token that's a copy of the exiled card, except it's a 3/3 Golem artifact creature in addition to its other types.

Artifact
Nexus of Becoming (big) 25
Pitiless Carnage

Sacrifice any number of permanents you control, then draw that many cards. Plot {1}{B}{B} (You may pay {1}{B}{B} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Sorcery
Pitiless Carnage (otj) 98
Powerbalance

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost if the two spells have the same mana value.

Enchantment
Powerbalance (mh3) 131
Rakdos, the Muscle

Flying, trample Whenever you sacrifice another creature, exile cards equal to its mana value from the top of target player's library. Until your next end step, you may play those cards, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells. Sacrifice another creature: Rakdos gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Rakdos, the Muscle (otj) 226
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (dst) 140
Stargaze

Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.

Sorcery
Stargaze (blb) 114
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (sld) 1805
Trading Post

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life. {1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Trading Post (cm2) 225
Witch-king, Sky Scourge

Flying Whenever you attack with one or more Wraiths, exile the top X cards of your library, where X is their total power. You may play those cards this turn. Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Witch-king, Sky Scourge (ltc) 511

Draw

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Recursion

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Archpriest of Shadows

Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.) Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Archpriest of Shadows (mom) 356
Necromancy

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

Enchantment
Necromancy (plst) VIS-64
Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Reassembling Skeleton (j25) 481

Recursion

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