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Volrath's Shifting Swarm
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Est deck cost: $112.62
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Commander

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Volrath, the Shapestealer

At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature. {1}: Until your next turn, Volrath becomes a copy of target creature with a counter on it, except it's 7/5 and it has this ability.

Creature
Volrath, the Shapestealer (c19) 51

Commander

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Anthem

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Mirror Box

The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control. Each legendary creature you control gets +1/+1. Each nontoken creature you control gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with the same name as that creature.

Artifact
Mirror Box (pneo) 250p

Anthem

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Clones

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Altered Ego

This spell can't be countered. You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with X additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Altered Ego (soi) 241
Cryptoplasm

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have this creature become a copy of another target creature, except it has this ability.

Creature
Cryptoplasm (mbs) 23
Dimir Doppelganger

{1}{U}{B}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. This creature becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.

Creature
Dimir Doppelganger (cns) 186
Metamorphic Alteration

Enchant creature As this Aura enters, choose a creature. Enchanted creature is a copy of the chosen creature.

Enchantment
Metamorphic Alteration (m19) 60
Mirror Image

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control.

Creature
Mirror Image (plst) M19-61
Mirrorhall Mimic

Creature
Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry (vow) 68Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry (vow) 68
Moritte of the Frost

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) You may have Moritte enter as a copy of a permanent you control, except it's legendary and snow in addition to its other types and, if it's a creature, it enters with two additional +1/+1 counters on it and has changeling.

Creature
Moritte of the Frost (khm) 223
Progenitor Mimic

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature isn't a token, create a token that's a copy of this creature."

Creature
Progenitor Mimic (2xm) 212
Quasiduplicate

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Sorcery
Quasiduplicate (grn) 51
Undercover Operative

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with a shield counter on it if you control that creature. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)

Creature
Undercover Operative (snc) 63
Visage Bandit

You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control, except it's a Shapeshifter Rogue in addition to its other types. Plot {2}{U} (You may pay {2}{U} 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.)

Creature
Visage Bandit (otj) 76

Clones

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Counters

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Agent's Toolkit

This artifact enters with a +1/+1 counter, a flying counter, a deathtouch counter, and a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) Whenever a creature you control enters, you may move a counter from this artifact onto that creature. {2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Agent's Toolkit (ncc) 66
Cazur, Ruthless Stalker

Partner with Ukkima, Stalking Shadow (When this creature enters, target player may put Ukkima into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.

Creature
Cazur, Ruthless Stalker (otc) 188
Combine Guildmage

{1}{G}, {T}: This turn, each creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. {1}{U}, {T}: Move a +1/+1 counter from target creature you control onto another target creature you control.

Creature
Combine Guildmage (rna) 163
Defiler of Vigor

Trample As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {G} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay. Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Defiler of Vigor (dmu) 160
Fight Rigging

Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then if you control a creature with power 7 or greater, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Fight Rigging (snc) 145
Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Creature
Forgotten Ancient (moc) 297
Master Biomancer

Each other creature you control enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to this creature's power and as a Mutant in addition to its other types.

Creature
Master Biomancer (2x2) 250
Renata, Called to the Hunt

Renata's power is equal to your devotion to green. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.) Each other creature you control enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature Enchantment
Renata, Called to the Hunt (mul) 28

Counters

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Draw

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Cold-Eyed Selkie

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw that many cards.

Creature
Cold-Eyed Selkie (otc) 218
Curie, Emergent Intelligence

Whenever Curie deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its base power. {1}{U}, Exile another nontoken artifact creature you control: Curie becomes a copy of the exiled creature, except it has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its base power."

Creature Artifact
Curie, Emergent Intelligence (pip) 30
Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (blc) 219
Greater Good

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

Enchantment
Greater Good (mb2) 207
Likeness Looter

Flying {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {X}: This creature becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except it has flying and this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Likeness Looter (woe) 208
Primal Empathy

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control a creature with the greatest power among creatures on the battlefield. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control.

Enchantment
Primal Empathy (ncc) 348
Return of the Wildspeaker

Choose one — • Draw cards equal to the greatest power among non-Human creatures you control. • Non-Human creatures you control get +3/+3 until end of turn.

Instant
Return of the Wildspeaker (clb) 831

Draw

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Evasion

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Ukkima, Stalking Shadow

Partner with Cazur, Ruthless Stalker (When this creature enters, target player may put Cazur into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Ukkima can't be blocked. When Ukkima leaves the battlefield, it deals X damage to target player and you gain X life, where X is its power.

Creature
Ukkima, Stalking Shadow (otc) 247

Evasion

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Finisher

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Biovisionary

At the beginning of the end step, if you control four or more creatures named Biovisionary, you win the game.

Creature
Biovisionary (gtc) 146

Finisher

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Land

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Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Dimir Aqueduct

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

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (dsc) 270
Dismal Backwater

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

Land
Dismal Backwater (mom) 269
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 (dsc) 274
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (dsc) 275
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mh3) 506
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mh3) 500
Jungle Hollow

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

Land
Jungle Hollow (dsc) 285
Littjara Mirrorlake

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}. {2}{G}{G}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Littjara Mirrorlake (ncc) 412
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 (ncc) 416
Opulent Palace

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

Land
Opulent Palace (pip) 278
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 (blc) 322
Simic Growth Chamber

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

Land
Simic Growth Chamber (dsc) 298
Sunken Hollow

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

Land
Sunken Hollow (woc) 168
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 277
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 (dsc) 307
Temple of Malady

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 {G}.

Land
Temple of Malady (dsc) 309
Temple of Mystery

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 {G} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Mystery (dsc) 311
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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Protection

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Collective Resistance

Escalate {G} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Target creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Collective Resistance (mh3) 147
Gaea's Gift

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains reach, trample, hexproof, and indestructible until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Gaea's Gift (bro) 182
Slip Out the Back

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

Instant
Slip Out the Back (clu) 99
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (blc) 286

Protection

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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
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 (dsc) 174
Dimir Signet

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

Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (who) 232
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (m3c) 265
Heronblade Elite

Vigilance Whenever another Human you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.

Creature
Heronblade Elite (mic) 26
Kami of Whispered Hopes

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.

Creature
Kami of Whispered Hopes (mom) 196
Kodama's Reach

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
Kodama's Reach (moc) 306
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (dsc) 193
Simic Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{U}.

Artifact
Simic Signet (mkc) 236
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Viridian Joiner

{T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to this creature's power.

Creature
Viridian Joiner (mrd) 138

Ramp

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Recursion

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Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (cmm) 286
The Mimeoplasm

As The Mimeoplasm enters, you may exile two creature cards from graveyards. If you do, it enters as a copy of one of those cards with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the power of the other card.

Creature
The Mimeoplasm (otc) 234

Recursion

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Removal

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Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (cn2) 174
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
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 (dsc) 78
Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Putrefy (dsc) 90
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (plst) NEC-95
Repudiate

Instant
Repudiate // Replicate (rvr) 249
Sultai Charm

Choose one — • Destroy target monocolored creature. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Sultai Charm (dmc) 168

Removal

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Tokens

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Biowaste Blob

Oozes you control get +1/+1. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a commander, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Biowaste Blob (cmr) 219
Compy Swarm

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, create a tapped token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Compy Swarm (rex) 9
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
Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons

Whenever Hapatra deals combat damage to a player, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, create a 1/1 green Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature
Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons (akh) 199
Mist-Syndicate Naga

Ninjutsu {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Mist-Syndicate Naga (mh1) 58
Nest of Scarabs

Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, create that many 1/1 black Insect creature tokens.

Enchantment
Nest of Scarabs (akh) 101
Scute Swarm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of this creature instead.

Creature
Scute Swarm (dsc) 197
Spawnwrithe

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

Creature
Spawnwrithe (ddm) 55
Watchful Radstag

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) Whenever this creature evolves, create a token that's a copy of it.

Creature
Watchful Radstag (pip) 87

Tokens

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