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Flickering Elves
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $765.46
Salt Sum: 32.62
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Commander

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Kethis, the Hidden Hand

Legendary spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Exile two legendary cards from your graveyard: Until end of turn, each legendary card in your graveyard gains "You may play this card from your graveyard."

Creature
Kethis, the Hidden Hand (m20) 211
1

Artifact

Quantity: 3Price: $16.97
Lifecrafter's Bestiary

At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may pay {G}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Lifecrafter's Bestiary (aer) 162
1
Lithoform Engine

{2}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {3}, {T}: Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. {4}, {T}: Copy target permanent spell you control. (The copy becomes a token.)

Artifact
Lithoform Engine (znr) 245
1
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (dst) 140
1

Creature

Quantity: 29Price: $85.99
Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (grn) 123
1
Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (avr) 86
1
Bloom Tender

{T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Creature
Bloom Tender (eve) 66
1
Cruel Celebrant

Whenever Cruel Celebrant or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Cruel Celebrant (war) 188
1
Deathrite Shaman

{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color. {B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life. {G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.

Creature
Deathrite Shaman (rtr) 213
1
Elves of Deep Shadow

{T}: Add {B}. Elves of Deep Shadow deals 1 damage to you.

Creature
Elves of Deep Shadow (rav) 161
1
Elvish Harbinger

When Elvish Harbinger enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Elf card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Elvish Harbinger (lrw) 207
1
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (m15) 173
1
Elvish Warmaster

Whenever one or more other Elves enter the battlefield under your control, create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn. {5}{G}{G}: Elves you control get +2/+2 and gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Elvish Warmaster (khm) 167
1
Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Essence Warden (plc) 145
1
Fauna Shaman

{G}, {T}, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Fauna Shaman (m11) 172
1
Gaea's Herald

Creature spells can't be countered.

Creature
Gaea's Herald (10e) 265
1
Gilt-Leaf Archdruid

Whenever you cast a Druid spell, you may draw a card. Tap seven untapped Druids you control: Gain control of all lands target player controls.

Creature
Gilt-Leaf Archdruid (mor) 124
1
Golgari Findbroker

When Golgari Findbroker enters the battlefield, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Golgari Findbroker (grn) 175
1
Heritage Druid

Tap three untapped Elves you control: Add {G}{G}{G}.

Creature
Heritage Druid (mor) 126
1
Incubation Druid

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. If Incubation Druid has a +1/+1 counter on it, add three mana of that type instead. {3}{G}{G}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Incubation Druid (rna) 131
1
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed

Undergrowth — When Izoni, Thousand-Eyed enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. {B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed (grn) 180
1
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (plst) M19-314
1
Lys Alana Huntmaster

Whenever you cast an Elf spell, you may create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

Creature
Lys Alana Huntmaster (lrw) 229
1
Poison-Tip Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Poison-Tip Archer (m19) 220
1
Prowling Serpopard

This spell can't be countered. Creature spells you control can't be countered.

Creature
Prowling Serpopard (akh) 180
1
Reclamation Sage

When Reclamation Sage enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (m19) 196
1
Rhys the Redeemed

{2}{G/W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 green and white Elf Warrior creature token. {4}{G/W}{G/W}, {T}: For each creature token you control, create a token that's a copy of that creature.

Creature
Rhys the Redeemed (shm) 237
1
Shaman of the Pack

When Shaman of the Pack enters the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to the number of Elves you control.

Creature
Shaman of the Pack (ori) 217
1
Skemfar Shadowsage

When Skemfar Shadowsage enters the battlefield, choose one — • Each opponent loses X life, where X is the greatest number of creatures you control that have a creature type in common. • You gain X life, where X is the greatest number of creatures you control that have a creature type in common.

Creature
Skemfar Shadowsage (khm) 110
1
Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever Sun Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Sun Titan (m12) 39
1
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, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (eld) 107
1
Wood Elves

When Wood Elves enters the battlefield, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Wood Elves (9ed) 283
1
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (bfz) 126
1

Enchantment

Quantity: 11Price: $198.49
Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Enchantment
Anointed Procession (akh) 2
1
Bastion of Remembrance

When Bastion of Remembrance enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (iko) 73
1
Dictate of Erebos

Flash Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

Enchantment
Dictate of Erebos (plst) JOU-65
1
Growing Rites of Itlimoc

Enchantment
Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (xln) 191Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (xln) 191
1
Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, 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 (rna) 130
1
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (m20) 214
1
Parallel Lives

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Enchantment
Parallel Lives (isd) 199
1
Prowess of the Fair

Whenever another nontoken Elf is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.

Enchantment Tribal
Prowess of the Fair (lrw) 136
1
Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Enchantment
Revel in Riches (xln) 117
1
Teleportation Circle

At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target artifact or creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Enchantment
Teleportation Circle (afr) 39
1
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters the battlefield, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (mid) 112
1

Instant

Quantity: 12Price: $27.46
Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (nph) 103
1
Cloudshift

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Instant
Cloudshift (avr) 12
1
Death Denied

Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Death Denied (sok) 63
1
Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Eerie Interlude (soi) 16
1
Elven Ambush

Create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token for each Elf you control.

Instant
Elven Ambush (khm) 391
1
Ephemerate

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Instant
Ephemerate (plst) MH1-7
1
Flicker of Fate

Exile target creature or enchantment, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Instant
Flicker of Fate (thb) 16
1
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (mh1) 11
1
Ghostway

Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Ghostway (gpt) 6
1
Justiciar's Portal

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. It gains first strike until end of turn.

Instant
Justiciar's Portal (rna) 13
1
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 (con) 15
1
Veil of Summer

Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Veil of Summer (plst) M20-198
1

Land

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Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (wwk) 132
1
Branchloft Pathway

Land
Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (znr) 258Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway (znr) 258
1
Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 259Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 259
1
Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) Canopy Vista enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Canopy Vista (bfz) 234
1
Castle Garenbrig

Castle Garenbrig enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}: Add {G}. {2}{G}{G}, {T}: Add six {G}. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.

Land
Castle Garenbrig (eld) 240
1
Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (eld) 241
1
Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (avr) 226
1
Darkbore Pathway

Land
Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 254Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 254
1
Deathcap Glade

Deathcap Glade enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Deathcap Glade (vow) 261
1
Fetid Heath

{T}: Add {C}. {W/B}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Land
Fetid Heath (eve) 176
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (vow) 402
1
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rna) 248
1
Horizon Canopy

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G} or {W}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Horizon Canopy: Draw a card.

Land
Horizon Canopy (fut) 177
1
Indatha Triome

({T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.) Indatha Triome enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Indatha Triome (iko) 248
1
Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (dom) 241
1
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Marsh Flats: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
1
Nurturing Peatland

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {G}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Nurturing Peatland: Draw a card.

Land
Nurturing Peatland (mh1) 243
1
Overgrown Farmland

Overgrown Farmland enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Overgrown Farmland (mid) 265
1
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As Overgrown Tomb enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (grn) 253
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (vow) 398
1
Scattered Groves

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) Scattered Groves enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Scattered Groves (akh) 247
1
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (hou) 182
1
Shattered Sanctum

Shattered Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Shattered Sanctum (vow) 264
1
Silent Clearing

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {W} or {B}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Silent Clearing: Draw a card.

Land
Silent Clearing (mh1) 246
1
Sunpetal Grove

Sunpetal Grove enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Sunpetal Grove (xln) 257
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (vow) 400
2
Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) As Temple Garden enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Temple Garden (grn) 258
1
Twilight Mire

{T}: Add {C}. {B/G}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{G}, or {G}{G}.

Land
Twilight Mire (eve) 180
1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (m15) 248
1
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Verdant Catacombs: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
1
Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Windswept Heath: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Windswept Heath (ktk) 248
1
Wooded Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {G/W}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{W}, or {W}{W}.

Land
Wooded Bastion (shm) 281
1
Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dom) 248
1
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (mh2) 261
1

Sorcery

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Agadeem's Awakening

Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
1
Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (znr) 180
1
Cleansing Nova

Choose one — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery
Cleansing Nova (m19) 9
1
Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Damn (mh2) 80
1
Elvish Promenade

Create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token for each Elf you control.

Sorcery Tribal
Elvish Promenade (lrw) 208
1
Haunting Voyage

Choose a creature type. Return up to two creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was foretold, return all creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield instead. Foretell {5}{B}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Haunting Voyage (khm) 98
1
Long Rest

Return X target cards with different mana values from your graveyard to your hand. If eight or more cards were returned to your hand this way, your life total becomes equal to your starting life total. Exile Long Rest.

Sorcery
Long Rest (afr) 193
1
Ondu Inversion

Sorcery
Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins (znr) 30Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins (znr) 30
1
Retrieve

Return up to one target creature card and up to one target noncreature permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Retrieve.

Sorcery
Retrieve (vow) 215
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"A bit of a twist on the Modern Elves archetype, the goal of this deck is to flood the battlefield with Elves & then knock out opponents by flickering Shaman of the Pack & Skemfar Shadowsage. For grindier games, the deck is loaded with Aristocrat effects to whittle down life totals over time as well as plenty of recursion to keep key pieces, like Poison-Tip Archer, on the battlefield.\n"}]}
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