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Animated Army (Slight Upgrades)
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Commander

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Bello, Bard of the Brambles

During your turn, each non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment you control with mana value 4 or greater is a 4/4 Elemental creature in addition to its other types and has indestructible, haste, and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card."

Creature
Bello, Bard of the Brambles (blc) 1

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Anthem

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Berserkers' Onslaught

Attacking creatures you control have double strike.

Enchantment
Berserkers' Onslaught (blc) 192

Anthem

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Burn

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Gratuitous Violence

If a creature you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage instead.

Enchantment
Gratuitous Violence (blc) 197
Hired Claw

Whenever you attack with one or more Lizards, this creature deals 1 damage to target opponent. {1}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only if an opponent lost life this turn and only once each turn.

Creature
Hired Claw (blb) 317
Teapot Slinger

Menace Whenever you expend 4, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent. (You expend 4 as you spend your fourth total mana to cast spells during a turn.)

Creature
Teapot Slinger (blb) 157

Burn

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Creature

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Junkblade Bruiser

Trample Whenever you expend 4, this creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn. (You expend 4 as you spend your fourth total mana to cast spells during a turn.)

Creature
Junkblade Bruiser (blb) 220
Loot, Exuberant Explorer

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. {4}{G}{G}, {T}: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control from among them and put it onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.

Creature
Loot, Exuberant Explorer (fdn) 106

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Draw

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Enchantress's Presence

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, draw a card.

Enchantment
Enchantress's Presence (woc) 125
Garruk's Packleader

Whenever another creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, you may draw a card.

Creature
Garruk's Packleader (blc) 218
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
Glorious Sunrise

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose one — • Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn. • Target land gains "{T}: Add {G}{G}{G}" until end of turn. • Draw a card if you control a creature with power 3 or greater. • You gain 3 life.

Enchantment
Glorious Sunrise (vow) 200
Greater Good

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

Enchantment
Greater Good (blc) 223
Grothama, All-Devouring

Other creatures have "Whenever this creature attacks, you may have it fight Grothama, All-Devouring." When Grothama leaves the battlefield, each player draws cards equal to the amount of damage dealt to Grothama this turn by sources they controlled.

Creature
Grothama, All-Devouring (blc) 224
Harmonize

Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Harmonize (blc) 120
Outpost Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. • Dragons — Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

Enchantment
Outpost Siege (blc) 199
Path of Discovery

Whenever a creature you control enters, it explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on the creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Path of Discovery (blc) 231
Smuggler's Buggy

Hideaway 4 (When this artifact 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.) Whenever this Vehicle deals combat damage to a player, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost. If you do, return this Vehicle to its owner's hand. Crew 2

Artifact
Smuggler's Buggy (ncc) 84
Sunbird's Invocation

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Enchantment
Sunbird's Invocation (blc) 116
Thickest in the Thicket

When this enchantment enters, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is that creature's power. At the beginning of your end step, draw two cards if you control the creature with the greatest power or tied for the greatest power.

Enchantment
Thickest in the Thicket (blc) 34
Wildsear, Scouring Maw

Trample Enchantment spells you cast from your hand have cascade. (Whenever you cast an enchantment spell from your hand, 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.)

Creature
Wildsear, Scouring Maw (blc) 8

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Evasion

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Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control. Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Ghalta, Primal Hunger (blc) 220

Evasion

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Land

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Cinder Glade

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

Land
Cinder Glade (blc) 299
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (blc) 130
Copperline Gorge

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

Land
Copperline Gorge (blc) 301
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 (blc) 302
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (blc) 131
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (blb) 378
Forgotten Cave

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

Land
Forgotten Cave (blc) 305
Game Trail

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

Land
Game Trail (blc) 306
Gruul Turf

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

Land
Gruul Turf (blc) 310
Karplusan Forest

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Karplusan Forest (blc) 314
Mossfire Valley

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

Land
Mossfire Valley (blc) 316
Mosswort Bridge

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 {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (blc) 317
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (blb) 376
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
Raging Ravine

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. {2}{R}{G}: Until end of turn, this land becomes a 3/3 red and green Elemental creature with "Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it." It's still a land.

Land
Raging Ravine (blc) 324
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (blc) 132
Rootbound Crag

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

Land
Rootbound Crag (blc) 326
Sheltered Thicket

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

Land
Sheltered Thicket (blc) 330
Temple of Abandon

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 {R} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Abandon (blc) 338
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 (blc) 345
Tranquil Thicket

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Tranquil Thicket (blc) 350
Wooded Ridgeline

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

Land
Wooded Ridgeline (blc) 353

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Landfall

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Rampaging Baloths

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

Creature
Rampaging Baloths (blc) 233

Landfall

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Protection

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Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211

Protection

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Pump

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Unnatural Growth

At the beginning of each combat, double the power and toughness of each creature you control until end of turn.

Enchantment
Unnatural Growth (wot) 62

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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 (blc) 127
Clifftop Lookout

Reach When this creature enters, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a land card. Put that card onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Clifftop Lookout (blb) 168
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 (blc) 212
Entish Restoration

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, instead search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Entish Restoration (ltr) 163
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (blc) 216
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (blc) 119
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (blc) 269
Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (blc) 271
Goblin Anarchomancer

Each spell you cast that's red or green costs {1} less to cast.

Creature
Goblin Anarchomancer (mh2) 200
Gruul Signet

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

Artifact
Gruul Signet (blc) 273
Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Hedron Archive (blc) 275
Hoard Hauler

Trample Whenever this Vehicle deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token for each artifact they control. Crew 3

Artifact
Hoard Hauler (snc) 109
Kodama of the East Tree

Reach Whenever another permanent you control enters, if it wasn't put onto the battlefield with this ability, you may put a permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your hand onto the battlefield. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Kodama of the East Tree (blc) 227
Llanowar Loamspeaker

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Target land you control becomes a 3/3 Elemental creature with haste until end of turn. It's still a land. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Llanowar Loamspeaker (blc) 228
Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

Creature
Lotus Cobra (blc) 229
Prosperous Bandit

Offspring {1} (You may pay an additional {1} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) First strike Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many tapped Treasure tokens.

Creature
Prosperous Bandit (blc) 25
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (blc) 234
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129
Talisman of Impulse

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {G}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Impulse (blc) 287
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (blc) 289
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (blc) 290
Trailtracker Scout

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you expend 8, return up to one target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. (You expend 8 as you spend your eighth total mana to cast spells during a turn.)

Creature
Trailtracker Scout (blc) 35
Wandertale Mentor

Whenever you expend 4, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (You expend 4 as you spend your fourth total mana to cast spells during a turn.) {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Creature
Wandertale Mentor (blb) 240

Ramp

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Removal

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Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (blc) 191
Aligned Hedron Network

When this artifact enters, exile all creatures with power 5 or greater until this artifact leaves the battlefield. (Those creatures return under their owners' control.)

Artifact
Aligned Hedron Network (bfz) 222
Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (blc) 206
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 (blc) 114
Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Sorcery
Chain Reaction (onc) 97
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 (blc) 115
Decimate

Destroy target artifact, target creature, target enchantment, and target land. (You can't cast this spell unless you have legal choices for all its targets.)

Sorcery
Decimate (blc) 251
Gimli's Reckless Might

Creatures you control have haste. Formidable — Whenever you attack, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, target attacking creature you control fights up to one target creature you don't control.

Enchantment
Gimli's Reckless Might (ltc) 494
Nautiloid Ship

Flying When this Vehicle enters, exile target player's graveyard. Whenever this Vehicle deals combat damage to a player, you may put a creature card exiled with this Vehicle onto the battlefield under your control. Crew 3

Artifact
Nautiloid Ship (clb) 328
Pyreswipe Hawk

Flying, haste Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the greatest mana value among artifacts you control. Whenever you expend 6, gain control of up to one target artifact for as long as you control this creature. (You expend 6 as you spend your sixth total mana to cast spells during a turn.)

Creature
Pyreswipe Hawk (blc) 26
Questing Beast

Vigilance, deathtouch, haste Questing Beast can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. Combat damage that would be dealt by creatures you control can't be prevented. Whenever Questing Beast deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to target planeswalker that player controls.

Creature
Questing Beast (plst) ELD-171
Starstorm

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Starstorm (blc) 203
Warstorm Surge

Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Enchantment
Warstorm Surge (blc) 117

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Tokens

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Esika's Chariot

When Esika's Chariot enters, create two 2/2 green Cat creature tokens. Whenever Esika's Chariot attacks, create a token that's a copy of target token you control. Crew 4

Artifact
Esika's Chariot (blc) 215
Primeval Bounty

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 3 life.

Enchantment
Primeval Bounty (blc) 232
Rolling Hamsphere

This Vehicle gets +1/+1 for each Hamster you control. Whenever this Vehicle attacks, create three 1/1 red Hamster creature tokens, then it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of Hamsters you control. Crew 3

Artifact
Rolling Hamsphere (blc) 39
Tendershoot Dryad

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Saprolings you control get +2/+2 as long as you have the city's blessing.

Creature
Tendershoot Dryad (blc) 242

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Bramble Wurm

Reach, trample When this creature enters, you gain 5 life. {2}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You gain 5 life.

Creature
Bramble Wurm (inr) 187
Cait, Cage Brawler

During your turn, Cait has indestructible. Whenever Cait attacks, you and defending player each draw a card, then discard a card. Put two +1/+1 counters on Cait if you discarded the card with the highest mana value among those cards or tied for highest.

Creature
Cait, Cage Brawler (pip) 96
Case of the Locked Hothouse

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. To solve — You control seven or more lands. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — You may look at the top card of your library any time, and you may play lands and cast creature and enchantment spells from the top of your library.

Enchantment
Case of the Locked Hothouse (mkm) 155
Cindervines

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player. {1}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment. This enchantment deals 2 damage to that permanent's controller.

Enchantment
Cindervines (rvr) 171
Colossal Growth

Kicker {R} (You may pay an additional {R} as you cast this spell.) Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, instead that creature gets +4/+4 and gains trample and haste until end of turn.

Instant
Colossal Growth (dmu) 158
Eidolon of Blossoms

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Eidolon of Blossoms (woc) 124
Fanatic of Rhonas

{T}: Add {G}. Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Fanatic of Rhonas (mh3) 152
Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment
Guardian Project (pip) 199
Mass Hysteria

All creatures have haste.

Enchantment
Mass Hysteria (inr) 164
Molten Echoes

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever a nontoken creature you control of the chosen type enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Molten Echoes (voc) 148
Nylea, God of the Hunt

Indestructible As long as your devotion to green is less than five, Nylea isn't a creature. (Each {G} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to green.) Other creatures you control have trample. {3}{G}: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Nylea, God of the Hunt (plst) THS-166
Rising of the Day

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

Enchantment
Rising of the Day (ltr) 145
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power. {G}, {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Creature
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds (cmm) 320
Silverback Elder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • 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. • You gain 4 life.

Creature
Silverback Elder (dmu) 177
Skitterbeam Battalion

Prototype {3}{R}{R} — 2/2 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) Trample, haste When this creature enters, if you cast it, create two tokens that are copies of it.

Creature Artifact
Skitterbeam Battalion (bro) 165
Springbloom Druid

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Springbloom Druid (otc) 208
Tribute to the World Tree

Whenever a creature you control enters, draw a card if its power is 3 or greater. Otherwise, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Enchantment
Tribute to the World Tree (mom) 211
Twinflame Tyrant

Flying If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage instead.

Creature
Twinflame Tyrant (fdn) 97

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