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Be the Balrog at your Table (The Balrog, Durin's Bane)
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Commander

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The Balrog, Durin's Bane

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this turn. Haste The Balrog can't be blocked except by legendary creatures. When The Balrog dies, destroy target artifact or creature an opponent controls.

Creature
The Balrog, Durin's Bane (ltr) 195

Commander

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (lcc) 320
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (who) 265
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (m13) 224
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (who) 276
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 (dmc) 211
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mh3) 317
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (dsc) 289
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 (cmr) 353
Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (c19) 266
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) 351
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (who) 299
Shadowblood Ridge

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

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (pip) 288
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (who) 307
Spinerock Knoll

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if an opponent was dealt 7 or more damage this turn.

Land
Spinerock Knoll (c20) 316
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (j25) 88
Tainted Peak

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

Land
Tainted Peak (otc) 327
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 (otc) 331
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (dsk) 269

Land

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Sacrifice Synergy

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Crime Novelist

Whenever you sacrifice an artifact, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and add {R}.

Creature
Crime Novelist (mkm) 121
Mayhem Devil

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

Creature
Mayhem Devil (plst) WAR-204
Oni-Cult Anvil

Whenever one or more artifacts you control leave the battlefield during your turn, create a 1/1 colorless Construct artifact creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn. {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: This artifact deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Oni-Cult Anvil (brc) 127

Sacrifice Synergy

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Voltron Enabler

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Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar

Whenever a commander you control deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other opponent. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar (cmr) 188
Psychotic Fury

Target multicolored creature gains double strike until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Psychotic Fury (dis) 68
Raking Claws

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Raking Claws (iko) 131
Spectacular Showdown

Put a double strike counter on target creature, then goad each creature that had a double strike counter put on it this way. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.) Overload {4}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Spectacular Showdown (mkc) 162
Swashbuckler Extraordinaire

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever you attack, you may sacrifice one or more Treasures. When you do, up to that many target creatures gain double strike until end of turn.

Creature
Swashbuckler Extraordinaire (clb) 198
Temur Battle Rage

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. Ferocious — That creature also gains trample until end of turn if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Instant
Temur Battle Rage (cmm) 264
Twinferno

Choose one — • When you cast your next instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. • Target creature you control gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Instant
Twinferno (j25) 606
Two-Handed Axe

Artifact
Two-Handed Axe // Sweeping Cleave (clb) 203

Voltron Enabler

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Board Wipe

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (drc) 101
Blood Money

Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token.

Sorcery
Blood Money (lcc) 183
Megaton's Fate

Choose one — • Disarm — Destroy target artifact. Create four Treasure tokens. • Detonate — Megaton's Fate deals 8 damage to each creature. Each player gets four rad counters.

Sorcery
Megaton's Fate (pip) 61

Board Wipe

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Protection

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Fake Your Own Death

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Fake Your Own Death (j25) 440

Protection

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Sacrifice/Edicts

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Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
Burnt Offering

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add X mana in any combination of {B} and/or {R}, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant
Burnt Offering (ice) 116
Crack the Earth

Each player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.

Sorcery
Crack the Earth (bok) 98
Demon's Disciple

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.

Creature
Demon's Disciple (j22) 399
Fleshbag Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Fleshbag Marauder (ddn) 8
Infernal Offering

Choose an opponent. You and that player each sacrifice a creature. Each player who sacrificed a creature this way draws two cards. Choose an opponent. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then that player returns a creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Infernal Offering (c21) 146
Merciless Executioner

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Merciless Executioner (ltc) 204
Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature
Plaguecrafter (blc) 187
Visions of Ruin

Each opponent sacrifices an artifact. For each artifact sacrificed this way, you create a Treasure token. Flashback {8}{R}{R}. This spell costs {X} less to cast this way, where X is the greatest mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Visions of Ruin (mic) 36

Sacrifice/Edicts

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Draw

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Big Score

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Big Score (blc) 193
Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (clb) 124
Decadent Dragon

Creature
Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste (pwoe) 223p
Inspired Tinkering

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. Create three Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Inspired Tinkering (clb) 183
Mastermind Plum

Whenever Mastermind Plum attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. If an artifact card was exiled this way, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever you cast a spell, if mana from a Treasure was spent to cast it, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Mastermind Plum (clu) 3
Painful Truths

Converge — You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Sorcery
Painful Truths (dmc) 116
Seize the Spotlight

Each opponent chooses fame or fortune. For each player who chose fame, gain control of a creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures and they gain haste until end of turn. For each player who chose fortune, you draw a card and create a Treasure token.

Sorcery
Seize the Spotlight (otc) 179
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar (clb) 392
Stormclaw Rager

{1}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and draw a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Stormclaw Rager (mom) 254
Unexpected Windfall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Unexpected Windfall (plst) AFR-164

Draw

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Recursion

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Vat of Rebirth

Whenever another artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this artifact. {2}{B}, {T}, Remove four oil counters from this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Vat of Rebirth (one) 113

Recursion

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Treasure Generators

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Breeches, Eager Pillager

First strike Whenever a Pirate you control attacks, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn — • Create a Treasure token. • Target creature can't block this turn. • Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn.

Creature
Breeches, Eager Pillager (lci) 294
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 (otc) 158
Diamond Pick-Axe

Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this artifact.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Equip {2}

Artifact
Diamond Pick-Axe (lci) 143
Guild Artisan

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, you create two Treasure tokens." (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Guild Artisan (clb) 179
Magda, Brazen Outlaw

Other Dwarves you control get +1/+0. Whenever a Dwarf you control becomes tapped, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice five Treasures: Search your library for an artifact or Dragon card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Magda, Brazen Outlaw (khm) 142
Magda, the Hoardmaster

Whenever you commit a crime, create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) Sacrifice three Treasures: Create a 4/4 red Scorpion Dragon creature token with flying and haste. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Magda, the Hoardmaster (otj) 374
Noble's Purse

This artifact enters tapped and with three coin counters on it. {T}, Remove a coin counter from this artifact: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact
Noble's Purse (clb) 331
Rain of Riches

When this enchantment enters, create two Treasure tokens. The first spell you cast each turn that mana from a Treasure was spent to cast has cascade. (When you cast the 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.)

Enchantment
Rain of Riches (blc) 200
RMS Titanic

Flying, trample When RMS Titanic deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice it and create that many Treasure tokens. Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Artifact
RMS Titanic (who) 93
Season of the Bold

Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. {P} — Create a tapped Treasure token. {P}{P} — Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play them. {P}{P}{P} — Until the end of your next turn, whenever you cast a spell, Season of the Bold deals 2 damage to up to one target creature.

Sorcery
Season of the Bold (blb) 152
Shiny Impetus

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Shiny Impetus (ltc) 227
Spiteful Repossession

Spiteful Repossession deals damage to each opponent who controls more lands than you equal to the difference. Then create a number of Treasure tokens equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery
Spiteful Repossession (ncc) 98
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
Strike It Rich

Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Strike It Rich (mh2) 143
Treasure Map

Artifact
Treasure Map // Treasure Cove (lci) 391Treasure Map // Treasure Cove (lci) 391

Treasure Generators

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Finisher

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Ingenious Artillerist

Whenever one or more artifacts you control enter, this creature deals that much damage to each opponent.

Creature
Ingenious Artillerist (clb) 182
Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marionette Apprentice (mh3) 100
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 421
Nadier's Nightblade

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Nadier's Nightblade (blc) 184
Reckless Fireweaver

Whenever an artifact you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Reckless Fireweaver (drc) 106

Finisher

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Removal

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Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (lcc) 198
Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (lcc) 284
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (c20) 231
Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant
Tragic Slip (inr) 134

Removal

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Treasure Synergy

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Academy Manufactor

If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.

Creature Artifact
Academy Manufactor (blc) 264
Kalain, Reclusive Painter

When Kalain enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Other creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them for each mana from a Treasure spent to cast them.

Creature
Kalain, Reclusive Painter (afr) 342
Xorn

If you would create one or more Treasure tokens, instead create those tokens plus an additional Treasure token.

Creature
Xorn (afr) 322

Treasure Synergy

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Expensive Upgrades

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Alchemist's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) When this Class enters, create two tapped Treasure tokens. {1}{R}: Level 2 Treasures you control have "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add two mana of any one color." {4}{R}: Level 3 Whenever you cast a spell, if mana from a Treasure was spent to cast it, this Class deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to each opponent.

Enchantment
Alchemist's Talent (blc) 22
Atsushi, the Blazing Sky

Flying, trample When Atsushi dies, choose one — • Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. • Create three Treasure tokens.

Creature
Atsushi, the Blazing Sky (pneo) 134p
Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 161
Descent into Avernus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on this enchantment. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and this enchantment deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Descent into Avernus (clb) 169
Generous Plunderer

Menace At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a Treasure token. When you do, target opponent creates a tapped Treasure token. Whenever this creature attacks, it deals damage to defending player equal to the number of artifacts they control.

Creature
Generous Plunderer (big) 11
Goldspan Dragon

Flying, haste Whenever this creature attacks or becomes the target of a spell, create a Treasure token. Treasures you control have "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add two mana of any one color."

Creature
Goldspan Dragon (plst) KHM-139
Grim Hireling

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create two Treasure tokens. {B}, Sacrifice X Treasures: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Grim Hireling (plst) AFC-25
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) 116
Prosper, Tome-Bound

Deathtouch Mystic Arcanum — At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card. Pact Boon — Whenever you play a card from exile, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Prosper, Tome-Bound (oafc) 2
Spiteful Banditry

When this enchantment enters, it deals X damage to each creature. Whenever one or more creatures your opponents control die, you create a Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Spiteful Banditry (ltr) 439
The Reaver Cleaver

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, create that many Treasure tokens." Equip {3}

Artifact
The Reaver Cleaver (m3c) 217
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
Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 414

Expensive Upgrades

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Maybeboard

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Kellogg, Dangerous Mind

First strike, haste Whenever Kellogg attacks, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice five Treasures: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Kellogg. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Kellogg, Dangerous Mind (pip) 106
Make an Example

Each opponent separates the creatures they control into two piles. For each opponent, you choose one of their piles. Each opponent sacrifices the creatures in their chosen pile. (Piles can be empty.)

Sorcery
Make an Example (ncc) 37

Maybeboard

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