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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.
: 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.
Legendary Creature - Shapeshifter Phyrexian
Volrath, the Shapestealer (c19) 51

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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 - Shapeshifter
Altered Ego (soc) 292
Clever Impersonator
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Clever Impersonator (plst) KTK-34
Dimir Doppelganger
: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. This creature becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Dimir Doppelganger (cns) 186
Gigantoplasm
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has "
: This creature has base power and toughness X/X."
Creature - Shapeshifter
Gigantoplasm (rvr) 450
Mimeoplasm, Revered One
As Mimeoplasm enters, exile up to X creature cards from your graveyard. It enters with three +1/+1 counters on it for each creature card exiled this way.
: Mimeoplasm becomes a copy of target creature card exiled with it, except it's 0/0 and has this ability.
Legendary Creature - Ooze
Mimeoplasm, Revered One (dft) 214
Nascent Metamorph
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. This creature becomes a copy of that card until end of turn. Then that player puts all cards revealed this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Nascent Metamorph (c20) 36
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 - Shapeshifter
Progenitor Mimic (2xm) 212
Shadow Kin
Flash
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player mills three cards. You may exile a creature card from among the cards milled this way. If you do, this creature becomes a copy of that card, except it has this ability.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Shadow Kin (mic) 16
Spark Double
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.
Creature - Illusion
Spark Double (rvr) 319
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
Creature - Shapeshifter
Vesuvan Shapeshifter (tsr) 97

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Draw

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Chevill, Bane of Monsters
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your upkeep, if your opponents control no permanents with bounty counters on them, put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.
Whenever a permanent an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it dies, you gain 3 life and draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Chevill, Bane of Monsters (iko) 181
Generous Patron
When this creature enters, support 2. (Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two other target creatures.)
Whenever you put one or more counters on a creature you don't control, draw a card.
Creature - Elf Advisor
Generous Patron (fic) 305
Loch Mare
This creature enters with three -1/-1 counters on it.
, Remove a counter from this creature: Draw a card.
, Remove two counters from this creature: Tap target creature. Put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)
Creature - Horse Serpent
Loch Mare (ecl) 57
Silent Hallcreeper
This creature can't be blocked.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature.
• Draw a card.
• This creature becomes a copy of another target creature you control.
Creature Enchantment - Horror
Silent Hallcreeper (dsk) 72

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Establishing Volrath Targets

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Contagion Clasp
When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
,
: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Artifact
Contagion Clasp (ecc) 140
Contagion Engine
When this artifact enters, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls.
,
: Proliferate twice. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)
Artifact
Contagion Engine (plst) SOM-145
Experiment Kraj
Experiment Kraj has all activated abilities of each other creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.
: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Legendary Creature - Ooze Mutant
Experiment Kraj (cmm) 337
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 - Elemental
Forgotten Ancient (soc) 267
Innkeeper's Talent
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
: Level 2
Permanents you control with counters on them have ward
.
: Level 3
If you would put one or more counters on a permanent or player, put twice that many of each of those kinds of counters on that permanent or player instead.
Enchantment - Class
Innkeeper's Talent (blb) 180
Loyal Guardian
Trample
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Creature - Rhino
Loyal Guardian (cmm) 304
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 - Wizard Elf
Master Biomancer (clu) 200
Sludge Monster
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, put a slime counter on up to one other target creature.
Non-Horror creatures with slime counters on them lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 2/2.
Creature - Horror
Sludge Monster (clb) 735
The Ozolith
Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.
Legendary Artifact
The Ozolith (iko) 237
Toxrill, the Corrosive
At the beginning of each end step, put a slime counter on each creature you don't control.
Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 for each slime counter on them.
Whenever a creature you don't control with a slime counter on it dies, create a 1/1 black Slug creature token.
, Sacrifice a Slug: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Horror Slug
Toxrill, the Corrosive (vow) 132

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Evasive Volrath Opportunities

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Elusive Krasis
This creature can't be blocked.
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.)
Creature - Mutant Fish
Elusive Krasis (gtc) 160
Elusive Tormentor
, Discard a card: Transform this creature.
Creature - Wizard Vampire
Elusive Tormentor // Insidious Mist (soi) 108Elusive Tormentor // Insidious Mist (soi) 108
Gudul Lurker
This creature can't be blocked.
Megamorph
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for
. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Creature - Salamander
Gudul Lurker (plst) DTK-56
Hunted Phantasm
This creature can't be blocked.
When this creature enters, target opponent creates five 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.
Creature - Spirit
Hunted Phantasm (rav) 55
Ravenous Slime
This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
If a creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to that creature's power on this creature.
Creature - Ooze
Ravenous Slime (c18) 34
Slippery Scoundrel
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
As long as you have the city's blessing, this creature has hexproof and can't be blocked.
Creature - Human Pirate
Slippery Scoundrel (rix) 55
True-Name Nemesis
As this creature enters, choose a player.
This creature has protection from the chosen player.
Creature - Merfolk Rogue
True-Name Nemesis (plst) C13-63
Trygon Predator
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.
Creature - Beast
Trygon Predator (fdn) 667

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Finishing Volrath Shapes

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Giggling Skitterspike
Indestructible
Whenever this creature attacks, blocks, or becomes the target of a spell, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.
: Monstrosity 5. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put five +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
Creature Artifact - Toy
Giggling Skitterspike (dsc) 39
Primeval Protector
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature your opponents control.
When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control.
Creature - Avatar
Primeval Protector (nec) 124
Railway Brawler
Reach, trample
Whenever another creature you control enters, put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is its power.
Plot
(You may pay
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 - Warrior Rhino
Railway Brawler (otj) 175
Vigor
Trample
If damage would be dealt to another creature you control, prevent that damage. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each 1 damage prevented this way.
When Vigor is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
Creature - Elemental Incarnation
Vigor (bbd) 215
Westgate Regent
Flying
Ward—Discard a card. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player discards a card.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Vampire
Westgate Regent (afr) 126

Finishing Volrath Shapes

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Land

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Barren Moor
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Barren Moor (dsc) 262
Blooming Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Blooming Marsh (otj) 266
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (soc) 363
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (soc) 129
Darkwater Catacombs
,
: Add
.
Land
Darkwater Catacombs (fic) 384
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (soc) 369
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (hob) 198
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (hob) 195
Llanowar Reborn
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Graft 1 (This land enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this land onto it.)
Land
Llanowar Reborn (lcc) 341
Llanowar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Llanowar Wastes (soc) 383
Lonely Sandbar
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Lonely Sandbar (eoc) 166
Nesting Grounds
: Add
.
,
: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto a second target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land
Nesting Grounds (ecc) 155
Nurturing Peatland
, Pay 1 life: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
Nurturing Peatland (mh1) 243
Opulent Palace
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Opulent Palace (ecc) 157
Overgrown Tomb
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Forest
Overgrown Tomb (ecl) 266
Remote Isle
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Remote Isle (dmr) 254
Slippery Karst
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Slippery Karst (dmr) 256
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (hob) 196
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (hob) 196
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.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Malady (soc) 413
Tranquil Thicket
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Tranquil Thicket (dsc) 318
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (fic) 439
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (soc) 425
Zagoth Triome
(
: Add
,
, or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Island Swamp Forest
Zagoth Triome (iko) 259

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Protection

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Cauldron of Souls
: Choose any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures gains persist until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Artifact
Cauldron of Souls (plst) CM2-180
Slippery Bogbonder
Flash
Hexproof
When this creature enters, put a hexproof counter on target creature. Then move any number of counters from among creatures you control onto that creature.
Creature - Human Druid
Slippery Bogbonder (ncc) 312
Tam, Mindful First-Year
Each other creature you control has hexproof from each of its colors.
: Target creature you control becomes all colors until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Gorgon
Tam, Mindful First-Year (ecl) 245

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Ramp

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Birds of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Bird
Birds of Paradise (rvr) 133
Devoted Druid
: Add
.
Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature: Untap this creature.
Creature - Elf Druid
Devoted Druid (ecc) 104
Gyre Sage
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.)
: Add
for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Elf Druid
Gyre Sage (fic) 306
Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter
Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has "
: Add one mana of any color."
−1: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Legendary Planeswalker - Yanggu
Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter (j25) 677
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.
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.
Creature - Spirit
Kami of Whispered Hopes (soc) 273
Lotus Cobra
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.
Creature - Snake
Lotus Cobra (j25) 685
Poison Dart Frog
Reach
: Add one mana of any color.
: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Creature - Frog
Poison Dart Frog (m3c) 238
Simic Keyrune
: Add
or
.
: This artifact becomes a 2/3 green and blue Crab artifact creature with hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Artifact
Simic Keyrune (c15) 265
Skyserpent Seeker
Flying, deathtouch
Exhaust —
: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal two land cards. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Creature - Snake
Skyserpent Seeker (dft) 224
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (soc) 128
Song of Freyalise
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I, II — Until your next turn, creatures you control gain "
: Add one mana of any color."
III — Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance, trample, and indestructible until end of turn.
Enchantment - Saga
Song of Freyalise (plst) DOM-179
Sylvan Caryatid
Defender, hexproof
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Plant
Sylvan Caryatid (tdc) 272

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Archpriest of Shadows
Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.)
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or battle, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Human Warlock
Archpriest of Shadows (mom) 89
Beacon of Unrest
Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.
Sorcery
Beacon of Unrest (40k) 194
Hour of Eternity
Exile X target creature cards from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie.
Sorcery
Hour of Eternity (mic) 102
Persist
Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
Sorcery
Persist (ecc) 83

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Removal

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Black Sun's Zenith
Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Sorcery
Black Sun's Zenith (ecc) 71
Gaze of Granite
Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less.
Sorcery
Gaze of Granite (eoc) 116
Inscription of Abundance
Kicker

Choose one. If this spell was kicked, choose any number instead.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
• Target player gains X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures they control.
• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.
Instant
Inscription of Abundance (dsc) 186
Karn's Sylex
Karn's Sylex enters tapped.
Players can't pay life to cast spells or to activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.
,
, Exile Karn's Sylex: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact
Karn's Sylex (dmu) 234
Pernicious Deed
, Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with mana value X or less.
Enchantment
Pernicious Deed (plst) A25-212

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9 mana - 9 cards
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23 mana - 23 cards
20 pips - 13 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
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9 mana - 9 cards
36 pips - 32 cards
31 mana - 31 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 5 cards
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