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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Flying, vigilance
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirko.
At the beginning of your end step, you may return target creature card with power less than Mirko's from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If it would die, exile it instead.)
Legendary Creature - Vampire Detective
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist (mkc) 2

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Artifact

Qty: 8 Price: $69.28
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (mkc) 223
Candlestick
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, 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.)
, Sacrifice this Equipment: Draw a card.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment Clue
Candlestick (mkm) 43
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (clu) 221
Sensei's Divining Top
: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.
Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237
Strionic Resonator
,
: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")
Artifact
Strionic Resonator (moc) 384
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
no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Swiftfoot Boots (lcc) 314
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mkc) 242

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Good Stuff

Qty: 14 Price: $86.12
Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch
When this creature enters, draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Bird
Baleful Strix (mkc) 200
Criminal Past
Commander creatures you own have menace and "This creature gets +X/+0, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard." (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Legendary Enchantment - Background
Criminal Past (clb) 122
Cyclonic Rift
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Instant
Cyclonic Rift (rvr) 40
Fact or Fiction
Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Instant
Fact or Fiction (woc) 90
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 (lcc) 198
Massacre Wurm
When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.
Creature - Wurm Phyrexian
Massacre Wurm (mkc) 130
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (mkc) 133
Ravenous Chupacabra
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Creature - Beast Horror
Ravenous Chupacabra (mkc) 136
Rise of the Dark Realms
Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.
Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (mkc) 138
Solemn Simulacrum
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Solemn Simulacrum (mkc) 238
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Syr Konrad, the Grim (mkc) 141
The Ancient One
Descend 8 — The Ancient One can't attack or block unless there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard.
: Draw a card, then discard a card. When you discard a card this way, target player mills cards equal to its mana value.
Legendary Creature - Spirit God
The Ancient One (lci) 222
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 (mkc) 142
Windfall
Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.
Sorcery
Windfall (lcc) 180

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Grave Tutor

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Buried Alive
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Buried Alive (uma) 88
Entomb
Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Instant
Entomb (dmr) 304
Unmarked Grave
Search your library for a nonlegendary card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Unmarked Grave (mh2) 106
Vile Entomber
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Creature - Zombie Warlock
Vile Entomber (mh2) 108

Grave Tutor

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Land

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Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (mkc) 250
Choked Estuary
As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Choked Estuary (mkc) 254
Clearwater Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
Dimir Aqueduct
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Dimir Aqueduct (mkc) 258
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (xln) 253
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (lcc) 328
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (lci) 288
Morphic Pool
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, 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 (mkc) 276
Port of Karfell
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Land
Port of Karfell (mkc) 280
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (mkc) 282
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (mkc) 284
Shipwreck Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (mkc) 299
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (lci) 289
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.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Deceit (woc) 170
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Terramorphic Expanse (lcc) 360
Undercity Sewers
(
: Add
or
.)
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 - Island Swamp
Undercity Sewers (mkm) 270
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (bro) 267
Watery Grave
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Watery Grave (rvr) 291

Land

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NO

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Arcane Denial
Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Instant
Arcane Denial (woc) 84
Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Drown in the Loch
Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
• Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
Instant
Drown in the Loch (clb) 842
Fierce Guardianship
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Force of Will
You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.
Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 50
Sinister Sabotage
Counter target spell.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Instant
Sinister Sabotage (rvr) 61

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Reanimate

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Animate Dead
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Enchantment - Aura
Animate Dead (mkc) 125
Necromancy
You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchantment
Necromancy (mkc) 131
Reanimate
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Sorcery
Reanimate (mkc) 137

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Remove the Counters

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Aether Snap
Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.
Sorcery
Aether Snap (ncc) 241
Fain, the Broker
, Sacrifice a creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
, Remove a counter from a creature you control: Create a Treasure token.
, Sacrifice an artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.
: Untap Fain.
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Fain, the Broker (brc) 105
Hex Parasite
: Remove up to X counters from target permanent. For each counter removed this way, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. (
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Creature Artifact - Insect Phyrexian
Hex Parasite (nph) 137
Power Conduit
, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Choose one —
• Put a charge counter on target artifact.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Artifact
Power Conduit (ncc) 376
Soul Diviner
, Remove a counter from an artifact, creature, land, or planeswalker you control: Draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Soul Diviner (war) 218
Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature.
At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
: Tap another target creature.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Thassa, Deep-Dwelling (thb) 71
Thrull Parasite
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.
Creature - Thrull
Thrull Parasite (gtc) 81

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Surveil

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Case of the Shifting Visage
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1.
To solve — There are fifteen or more cards in your graveyard. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved — Whenever you cast a nonlegendary creature spell, copy that spell. (The copy becomes a token.)
Enchantment - Case
Case of the Shifting Visage (mkc) 19
Charnel Serenade
Surveil 3, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Exile Charnel Serenade with three time counters on it.
Suspend 3—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay
and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Charnel Serenade (mkc) 26
Consider
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Consider (clu) 84
Dogged Detective
When this creature enters, 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.)
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Rogue
Dogged Detective (mkc) 127
Doom Whisperer
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: 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.)
Creature - Demon Nightmare
Doom Whisperer (mkc) 128
Ephara's Dispersal
This spell costs
less to cast if it targets an attacking creature.
Return target creature to its owner's hand. 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
Ephara's Dispersal (mkc) 103
Eye of Duskmantle
Flying, lifelink
You may play lands and cast spells from among cards in your graveyard you've surveilled this turn. If you cast a spell this way, you pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.
Creature - Eye
Eye of Duskmantle (mkc) 27
Master of Death
When this creature enters, 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.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard, you may pay 1 life. If you do, return it to your hand.
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Master of Death (mkc) 216
Mission Briefing
Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To 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
Mission Briefing (mkc) 110
Nightveil Sprite
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Nightveil Sprite (mkc) 113
Notion Rain
Surveil 2, then draw two cards. Notion Rain deals 2 damage to you. (To 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.)
Sorcery
Notion Rain (mkc) 217
Otherworldly Gaze
Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Otherworldly Gaze (mkc) 115
Search for Azcanta
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Legendary Enchantment
Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (plst) XLN-74Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin (plst) XLN-74
Sinister Starfish
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Starfish
Sinister Starfish (mkc) 140
Taigam's Scheming
Surveil 5. (Look at the top five cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Sorcery
Taigam's Scheming (ktk) 57
Thought Erasure
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Sorcery
Thought Erasure (plst) GRN-206
Unauthorized Exit
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Instant
Unauthorized Exit (mkm) 74
Unshakable Tail
When this creature enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1.
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
, Sacrifice a Clue: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Zombie Detective
Unshakable Tail (mkc) 29

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Surveil Payoffs

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Dimir Spybug
Flying
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Insect
Dimir Spybug (mkc) 206
Enhanced Surveillance
You may look at an additional two cards each time you surveil.
Exile this enchantment: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.
Enchantment
Enhanced Surveillance (mkc) 102
Thoughtbound Phantasm
Defender
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
As long as this creature has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Creature - Spirit
Thoughtbound Phantasm (mkc) 122
Whispering Snitch
Whenever you surveil for the first time each turn, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Rogue
Whispering Snitch (mkc) 144

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