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Commander

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Azlask, the Swelling Scourge

Whenever Azlask or another colorless creature you control dies, you get an experience counter. {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of experience counters you have. Scions and Spawns you control gain indestructible and annihilator 1 until end of turn.

Creature
Azlask, the Swelling Scourge (m3c) 9

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Draw

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Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (p30a) 26
Duskana, the Rage Mother

When Duskana enters, draw a card for each creature you control with base power and toughness 2/2. Whenever a creature you control with base power and toughness 2/2 attacks, it gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Creature
Duskana, the Rage Mother (mkc) 5
Glitch Interpreter

When this creature enters, if you control no face-down permanents, return this creature to its owner's hand and manifest dread. Whenever one or more colorless creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Glitch Interpreter (dsc) 13
Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Creature
Grim Haruspex (c19) 118
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

The first face-down creature spell you cast each turn costs {3} less to cast. Whenever a face-down creature you control enters, draw a card.

Creature
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer (c19) 45
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade

Whenever a creature you control that was turned face up this turn deals combat damage to a player, draw a card. {T}: Turn target face-down attacking creature you control face up.

Creature
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade (mkc) 1
Missy

Whenever another nonartifact creature dies, return it to the battlefield under your control face down and tapped. It's a 2/2 Cyberman artifact creature. At the beginning of your end step, each opponent faces a villainous choice — Each artifact creature you control deals 1 damage to that opponent, or you draw a card and chaos ensues.

Creature
Missy (who) 8
Primordial Mist

At the beginning of your end step, you may manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Exile a face-down permanent you control face up: You may play that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Enchantment
Primordial Mist (dsc) 123
Roshan, Hidden Magister

Other creatures you control are Assassins 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. Face-down creatures you control have menace. Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Roshan, Hidden Magister (acr) 32
Secret Plans

Face-down creatures you control get +0/+1. Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, draw a card.

Enchantment
Secret Plans (c19) 201
True Identity

Whenever this enchantment or another permanent you control is turned face up, scry 1, then draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. Disguise {W} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.)

Enchantment
True Identity (mkc) 16
Ugin's Mastery

Whenever you cast a colorless creature spell, manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Whenever you attack with creatures with total power 6 or greater, you may turn a face-down creature you control face up.

Enchantment
Ugin's Mastery (mkc) 53
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods

Other creatures you control have haste. Whenever one or more face-down creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card. Whenever a face-down creature you control dies, return it to the battlefield face down under its owner's control if it's a permanent card, then turn it face up.

Creature
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods (mkm) 245

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Recursion

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Deathmist Raptor

Deathtouch Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield face up or face down. Megamorph {4}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Deathmist Raptor (dsc) 176
Den Protector

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it. Megamorph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Den Protector (mkc) 169
Ghastly Conscription

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard in a face-down pile, shuffle that pile, then manifest those cards. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Sorcery
Ghastly Conscription (c19) 115
Luminous Broodmoth

Flying Whenever a creature you control without flying dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a flying counter on it.

Creature
Luminous Broodmoth (blc) 144

Recursion

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Anthem

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Minthara, Merciless Soul

Minthara has ward {X}, where X is the number of experience counters you have. At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn, you get an experience counter. Creatures you control get +1/+0 for each experience counter you have.

Creature
Minthara, Merciless Soul (clb) 286
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

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Land

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Branch of Vitu-Ghazi

{T}: Add {C}. Disguise {3} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When this land is turned face up, add two mana of any one color. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end.

Land
Branch of Vitu-Ghazi (mkm) 258
Canopy Vista

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

Land
Canopy Vista (blc) 296
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Concealed Courtyard

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

Land
Concealed Courtyard (otj) 268
Copperline Gorge

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

Land
Copperline Gorge (blc) 301
Darkslick Shores

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

Land
Darkslick Shores (otc) 281
Deceptive Landscape

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

Land
Deceptive Landscape (mh3) 219
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (fdn) 280
Hedge Maze

({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Hedge Maze (mkm) 262
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (j25) 85
Krosan Verge

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest card and a Plains card, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Krosan Verge (otc) 304
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (j25) 92
Mystic Monastery

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}, {R}, or {W}.

Land
Mystic Monastery (blc) 318
Nomad Outpost

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.

Land
Nomad Outpost (otc) 306
Opulent Palace

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.

Land
Opulent Palace (otc) 307
Perilous Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Island, Mountain, or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {U}{R}{W} ({U}{R}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Perilous Landscape (mh3) 223
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (fdn) 272
Prairie Stream

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

Land
Prairie Stream (drc) 167
Radiant Grove

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Radiant Grove (dmu) 253
Razorverge Thicket

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Razorverge Thicket (blc) 325
Seaside Citadel

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.

Land
Seaside Citadel (blc) 329
Sheltering Landscape

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

Land
Sheltering Landscape (mh3) 227
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (dsc) 299
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (mkc) 299
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh3) 502
Temple of Deceit

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 {U} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Deceit (fdn) 697

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Removal

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Ainok Survivalist

Megamorph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.

Creature
Ainok Survivalist (mkc) 165
Bane of the Living

Morph {X}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, all creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Creature
Bane of the Living (c19) 104
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 (dsc) 162
Chromeshell Crab

Morph {4}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, you may exchange control of target creature you control and target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Chromeshell Crab (c19) 81
Demon of Loathing

Flying, trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Demon of Loathing (gn3) 45
Ixidron

As this creature enters, turn all other nontoken creatures face down. (They're 2/2 creatures.) Ixidron's power and toughness are each equal to the number of face-down creatures on the battlefield.

Creature
Ixidron (c19) 87
Kadena's Silencer

When this creature is turned face up, counter all abilities your opponents control. Megamorph {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Kadena's Silencer (c19) 8
Kheru Spellsnatcher

Morph {4}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled.

Creature
Kheru Spellsnatcher (dsc) 119
Nantuko Vigilante

Morph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Nantuko Vigilante (mkc) 177
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (mb2) 15
Showstopping Surprise

Choose target creature you control. Turn it face up if it's face down. Then it deals damage equal to its power to each other creature.

Instant
Showstopping Surprise (mkc) 35
Silumgar Assassin

Creatures with power greater than this creature's power can't block it. Megamorph {2}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, destroy target creature with power 3 or less an opponent controls.

Creature
Silumgar Assassin (c19) 128
Stratus Dancer

Flying Megamorph {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When this creature is turned face up, counter target instant or sorcery spell.

Creature
Stratus Dancer (c19) 96
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (dsc) 106
Thousand Winds

Flying Morph {5}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, return all other tapped creatures to their owners' hands.

Creature
Thousand Winds (c19) 100
Unexplained Absence

For each player, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls. For each permanent exiled this way, its controller cloaks the top card of their library. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Instant
Unexplained Absence (mkc) 17
Unyielding Gatekeeper

Disguise {1}{W} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When this creature is turned face up, exile another target nonland permanent. If you controlled it, return it to the battlefield tapped. Otherwise, its controller creates a 2/2 white and blue Detective creature token.

Creature
Unyielding Gatekeeper (mkm) 35
Voidmage Apprentice

Morph {2}{U}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, counter target spell.

Creature
Voidmage Apprentice (jvc) 4

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Burn

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Pyrotechnic Performer

Disguise {R} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) Whenever this creature or another creature you control is turned face up, that creature deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.

Creature
Pyrotechnic Performer (mkm) 140

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Landfall

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Evolution Sage

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Evolution Sage (lcc) 240
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, manifest dread if this is the first time this ability has resolved this turn. Otherwise, you may turn a permanent you control face up. (To manifest dread, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Creature
Zimone, Mystery Unraveler (dsc) 8

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Theft

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Etrata, Deadly Fugitive

Deathtouch Face-down creatures you control have "{2}{U}{B}: Turn this creature face up. If you can't, exile it, then you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost." Whenever an Assassin you control deals combat damage to an opponent, cloak the top card of that player's library.

Creature
Etrata, Deadly Fugitive (mkm) 359
Thieving Amalgam

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Whenever a creature you control but don't own dies, its owner loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Thieving Amalgam (otc) 150

Theft

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Clones

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Vesuvan Shapeshifter

As this creature enters or is turned face up, you may choose another creature on the battlefield. If you do, until this creature is turned face down, it becomes a copy of that creature, except it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may turn this creature face down." Morph {1}{U}

Creature
Vesuvan Shapeshifter (c19) 101

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Protection

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Boltbender

Disguise {1}{R} (You may cast this card face down for {3} as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its disguise cost.) When this creature is turned face up, you may choose new targets for any number of other spells and/or abilities.

Creature
Boltbender (mkc) 30
Gift of Doom

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has deathtouch and indestructible. Morph—Sacrifice another creature. (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) As this Aura is turned face up, you may attach it to a creature.

Enchantment
Gift of Doom (c19) 17
Smuggler's Surprise

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Mill four cards. You may put up to two creature and/or land cards from among the milled cards into your hand. + {4}{G} — You may put up to two creature cards from your hand onto the battlefield. + {1} — Creatures you control with power 4 or greater gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Smuggler's Surprise (otj) 180
Willbender

Morph {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Creature
Willbender (c19) 102

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Tokens

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Giant Adephage

Trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Giant Adephage (dsc) 179
Glaring Fleshraker

Whenever you cast a colorless spell, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." Whenever another colorless creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Glaring Fleshraker (mh3) 7
Hooded Hydra

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token for each +1/+1 counter on it. Morph {3}{G}{G} As this creature is turned face up, put five +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Hooded Hydra (mkc) 171
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 (drc) 132

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Counters

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Ezuri, Claw of Progress

Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of combat on your turn, put X +1/+1 counters on another target creature you control, where X is the number of experience counters you have.

Creature
Ezuri, Claw of Progress (2x2) 211
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one — • Cloak a card from your hand. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) • Put a +1/+1 counter on each colorless creature you control.

Creature
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma (mkm) 241

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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 (m3c) 283
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (cmm) 889
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (lcc) 242
Panoptic Projektor

{T}: The next face-down creature spell you cast this turn costs {3} less to cast. If turning a face-down permanent face up causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact
Panoptic Projektor (mkc) 44
Scroll of Fate

{T}: Manifest a card from your hand. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Artifact
Scroll of Fate (dsc) 251
Tempt with Discovery

Tempting offer — Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Each opponent may search their library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. For each opponent who searches a library this way, search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched a library this way shuffles.

Sorcery
Tempt with Discovery (c19) 183
Threats Around Every Corner

When this enchantment enters, manifest dread. Whenever a face-down permanent you control enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Threats Around Every Corner (dsk) 200
Trail of Mystery

Whenever a face-down creature you control enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, if it's a creature, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Enchantment
Trail of Mystery (dsc) 203
Wilderness Reclamation

At the beginning of your end step, untap all lands you control.

Enchantment
Wilderness Reclamation (dsc) 205

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Deck stats

11 pips - 10 cards
14 mana - 13 cards
21 pips - 18 cards
16 mana - 15 cards
16 pips - 12 cards
14 mana - 13 cards
9 pips - 8 cards
10 mana - 9 cards
27 pips - 23 cards
16 mana - 15 cards
1 pip - 1 card0
6 mana - 6 cards
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