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Criminal Mastermind
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Xira, the Golden Sting

Flying, haste Whenever Xira, the Golden Sting attacks, put an egg counter on another target creature without an egg counter on it. When that creature dies, if it has an egg counter on it, draw a card and create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying.

Creature
Xira, the Golden Sting (dmc) 48

Commander

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Token Creation

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Arachnogenesis

Create X 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach, where X is the number of creatures attacking you. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by non-Spider creatures.

Instant
Arachnogenesis (dsc) 169
At Knifepoint

During your turn, outlaws you control have first strike. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.) Whenever you commit a crime, 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." This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
At Knifepoint (otj) 193
Beledros Witherbloom

Flying At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life." Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Beledros Witherbloom (blc) 247
Broodmate Tyrant

Flying When Broodmate Tyrant enters, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying. Encore {5}{B}{R}{G}

Creature
Broodmate Tyrant (m3c) 71
Dragonlair Spider

Reach Whenever an opponent casts a spell, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Creature
Dragonlair Spider (pca) 87
Hornet Queen

Flying, deathtouch When Hornet Queen enters, create four 1/1 green Insect creature tokens with flying and deathtouch.

Creature
Hornet Queen (ltc) 250
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
Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery
Pest Infestation (otp) 30
Rite of the Raging Storm

Creatures named Lightning Rager can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player creates a 5/1 red Elemental creature token named Lightning Rager. It has trample, haste, and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this creature."

Enchantment
Rite of the Raging Storm (mkc) 159

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Card Draw

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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) 87
Brazen Cannonade

Whenever an attacking creature you control dies, Brazen Cannonade deals 2 damage to each opponent. Raid — At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, if you attacked this turn, exile the top card of your library. Until end of combat on your next turn, you may play that card.

Enchantment
Brazen Cannonade (j22) 31
Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
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 artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (otc) 131
Deathreap Ritual

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Deathreap Ritual (dsc) 86
Growing Rites of Itlimoc

Enchantment
Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (lci) 188Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (lci) 188
Idol of Oblivion

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

Artifact
Idol of Oblivion (otc) 258
Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card. +1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. −4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice. −9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Dreadhorde General (rvr) 80
Morbid Opportunist

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

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (dsc) 148
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (dsc) 79
Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control. Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Shamanic Revelation (afc) 171
Skullclamp

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

Artifact
Skullclamp (sld) 1663

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Utility

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Golgari Charm

Choose one — • All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn. • Destroy target enchantment. • Regenerate each creature you control.

Instant
Golgari Charm (rtr) 164
Radiant Performer

Flash When Radiant Performer enters, if you cast it from your hand, choose target spell or ability that targets only a single permanent or player. Copy that spell or ability for each other permanent or player the spell or ability could target. Each copy targets a different one of those permanents and players.

Creature
Radiant Performer (c21) 54
Rakdos Charm

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

Instant
Rakdos Charm (rtr) 184
Riveteers Charm

Choose one — • Target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker they control with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control. • Exile the top three cards of your library. Until your next end step, you may play those cards. • Exile target player's graveyard.

Instant
Riveteers Charm (snc) 331

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Land

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Arena of Glory

Arena of Glory enters tapped unless you control a Mountain. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}, Exert Arena of Glory: Add {R}{R}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (An exerted permanent won't untap during your next untap step.)

Land
Arena of Glory (mh3) 215
Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
Bloodsoaked Insight

Sorcery
Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass (mh3) 252Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass (mh3) 252
Boggart Trawler

Creature
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (otc) 273
Bridgeworks Battle

Sorcery
Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249
Cinder Glade

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) Cinder Glade enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Cinder Glade (clb) 887
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 659
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (otc) 289
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (blc) 131
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you tap Forbidden Orchard for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Land
Forbidden Orchard (2x2) 323
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (2xm) 381
Fountainport

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a token: Draw a card. {3}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token. {4}, {T}: Create a Treasure token.

Land
Fountainport (blb) 253
Golgari Rot Farm

Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped. When Golgari Rot Farm enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (clu) 236
Gruul Turf

Gruul Turf enters tapped. When Gruul Turf enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Land
Gruul Turf (clu) 238
Karplusan Forest

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. Karplusan Forest deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Karplusan Forest (m3c) 351
Kessig Wolf Run

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.

Land
Kessig Wolf Run (ncc) 411
Khalni Garden

Khalni Garden enters tapped. When Khalni Garden enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token. {T}: Add {G}.

Land
Khalni Garden (ddr) 28
Kher Keep

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{R}, {T}: Create a 0/1 red Kobold creature token named Kobolds of Kher Keep.

Land
Kher Keep (tsr) 281
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (dsc) 287
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (2xm) 379
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry 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 (otc) 310
Pinnacle Monk

Creature
Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246
Rakdos Carnarium

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

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (clu) 243
Revitalizing Repast

Instant
Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256
Rockfall Vale

Rockfall Vale enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rockfall Vale (mid) 266
Rootbound Crag

Rootbound Crag enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rootbound Crag (plst) M10-227
Savage Lands

Savage Lands enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Land
Savage Lands (cmm) 1025
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (otc) 321
Stump Stomp

Sorcery
Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing (mh3) 259Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing (mh3) 259
Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dsc) 301
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (2xm) 377
Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Land
Swarmyard (tsr) 284
Twisted Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Twisted Landscape: Search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {B}{R}{G} ({B}{R}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Twisted Landscape (mh3) 232
Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dsc) 326
Ziatora's Proving Ground

({T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.) Ziatora's Proving Ground enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Ziatora's Proving Ground (snc) 359

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Win Cons

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Beastmaster Ascension

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on Beastmaster Ascension. As long as Beastmaster Ascension has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Enchantment
Beastmaster Ascension (cma) 92
Goblin Bombardment

Sacrifice a creature: Goblin Bombardment deals 1 damage to any target.

Enchantment
Goblin Bombardment (mh2) 279
Impact Tremors

Whenever a creature you control enters, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Impact Tremors (wot) 44
Purphoros, God of the Forge

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control enters, Purphoros deals 2 damage to each opponent. {2}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Purphoros, God of the Forge (p22) 8
Ziatora, the Incinerator

Flying At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, Ziatora, the Incinerator deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target and you create three Treasure tokens.

Creature
Ziatora, the Incinerator (snc) 339

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Ramp

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Awakening Zone

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Enchantment
Awakening Zone (2xm) 153
Bandit's Haul

Whenever you commit a crime, put a loot counter on Bandit's Haul. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) {T}: Add one mana of any color. {2}, {T}, Remove two loot counters from Bandit's Haul: Draw a card.

Artifact
Bandit's Haul (otj) 240
Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Culling Ritual (dsc) 85
Elven Chorus

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells from the top of your library. Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Enchantment
Elven Chorus (ltr) 160
Enduring Vitality

Vigilance Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." When Enduring Vitality dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Vitality (pdsk) 176p
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (rvr) 138
Freestrider Lookout

Reach Whenever you commit a crime, look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Freestrider Lookout (otj) 163
Growth Spasm

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Sorcery
Growth Spasm (roe) 186
Harrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Harrow (otc) 194
Ignoble Hierarch

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {B}, {R}, or {G}.

Creature
Ignoble Hierarch (m3c) 234
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) 133
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (afc) 164
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (tmp) 245
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (dsc) 194
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c19) 221
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (cmr) 261

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Removal

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Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (mkm) 187
Binding the Old Gods

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls. II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Enchantment
Binding the Old Gods (dsc) 213
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 (dsc) 160
Ezuri's Predation

For each creature your opponents control, create a 4/4 green Phyrexian Beast creature token. Each of those tokens fights a different one of those creatures.

Sorcery
Ezuri's Predation (dsc) 178
Gluttonous Hellkite

When you cast this spell, each player sacrifices X creatures. Gluttonous Hellkite enters with two +1/+1 counters on it for each creature sacrificed this way. Flying, trample

Creature
Gluttonous Hellkite (m3c) 125
Lavalanche

Lavalanche deals X damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls.

Sorcery
Lavalanche (2x2) 240
Lethal Scheme

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.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked Lethal Scheme connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Instant
Lethal Scheme (lcc) 201
Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant
Nature's Claim (ema) 178
Pile On

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.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant
Pile On (mkc) 134
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (2xm) 110

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