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College Student Food Insecurity
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $105.88
Salt Sum: 36
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $2.99
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger

When Kroxa enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless it escaped. Whenever Kroxa enters the battlefield or attacks, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent who didn't discard a nonland card this way loses 3 life. Escape—{B}{B}{R}{R}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Creature
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger (thb) 221
1

Cognitive Effects

Quantity: 8Price: $4.02
Distress

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Distress (m12) 94
1
Flunk

Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is 7 minus the number of cards in that creature's controller's hand.

Instant
Flunk (stx) 71
1
Go Blank

Target player discards two cards. Then exile that player's graveyard.

Sorcery
Go Blank (stx) 72
1
Intellect Devourer

Devour Intellect — When Intellect Devourer enters the battlefield, each opponent exiles a card from their hand until Intellect Devourer leaves the battlefield. Body Thief — You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with Intellect Devourer. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Creature
Intellect Devourer (clb) 132
1
Mind Drain

Target opponent discards two cards, mills a card, and loses 1 life. You gain 1 life. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Sorcery
Mind Drain (znr) 114
1
Mind Sludge

Target player discards a card for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery
Mind Sludge (zen) 102
1
Stupor

Target opponent discards a card at random, then discards a card.

Sorcery
Stupor (tsb) 48
1
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (clb) 772
1

Food Deserts & Food Swamps

Quantity: 36Price: $17.20
Desert

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Desert deals 1 damage to target attacking creature. Activate only during the end of combat step.

Land
Desert (afc) 233
1
Dunes of the Dead

{T}: Add {C}. When Dunes of the Dead is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land
Dunes of the Dead (hou) 175
1
Endless Sands

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Exile target creature you control. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Endless Sands: Return each creature card exiled with Endless Sands to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Land
Endless Sands (c20) 272
1
Grasping Dunes

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Grasping Dunes: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Grasping Dunes (akh) 244
1
Hostile Desert

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, Exile a land card from your graveyard: Hostile Desert becomes a 3/4 Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Hostile Desert (c20) 281
1
Ifnir Deadlands

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}. {2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Ifnir Deadlands (hou) 179
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (akh) 266
8
Ramunap Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {R}. {2}{R}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Ramunap Ruins deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Land
Ramunap Ruins (hou) 181
1
Scavenger Grounds

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

Land
Scavenger Grounds (c21) 314
1
Sunscorched Desert

When Sunscorched Desert enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Sunscorched Desert (akh) 249
1
Survivors' Encampment

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Survivors' Encampment (hou) 184
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (akh) 252
18

Hunger

Quantity: 13Price: $36.65
Curse of Thirst

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, Curse of Thirst deals damage to that player equal to the number of Curses attached to them.

Enchantment
Curse of Thirst (dka) 57
1
Famine

Famine deals 3 damage to each creature and each player.

Sorcery
Famine (c13) 77
1
Famished Ghoul

{1}{B}, Sacrifice Famished Ghoul: Exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard.

Creature
Famished Ghoul (ody) 135
1
Feast or Famine

Choose one — • Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. • Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Feast or Famine (ddj) 72
1
He Who Hungers

Flying {1}, Sacrifice a Spirit: Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery. Soulshift 4 (When this creature dies, you may return target Spirit card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
He Who Hungers (chk) 114
1
Scrounge

Target opponent chooses an artifact card in their graveyard. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Scrounge (dst) 53
1
Thirsting Shade

Lifelink {2}{B}: Thirsting Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Thirsting Shade (rna) 87
1
Torgaar, Famine Incarnate

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way. When Torgaar, Famine Incarnate enters the battlefield, up to one target player's life total becomes half their starting life total, rounded down.

Creature
Torgaar, Famine Incarnate (dom) 108
1
Tribute to Hunger

Target opponent sacrifices a creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Instant
Tribute to Hunger (ddq) 65
1
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

When you cast this spell, exile two target permanents. Indestructible Whenever Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library.

Creature
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger (bfz) 15
1
Unnatural Hunger

Enchant creature At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, Unnatural Hunger deals damage equal to that creature's power to that player unless they sacrifice another creature.

Enchantment
Unnatural Hunger (mmq) 169
1
Vicious Hunger

Vicious Hunger deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Sorcery
Vicious Hunger (ddd) 50
1
Vona's Hunger

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Each opponent sacrifices a creature. If you have the city's blessing, instead each opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control, rounded up.

Instant
Vona's Hunger (rix) 90
1

Physical Effects

Quantity: 6Price: $2.10
Crippling Fatigue

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Flashback—{1}{B}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Crippling Fatigue (tor) 58
1
Enfeeblement

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters the battlefield attached to that creature.) Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.

Enchantment
Enfeeblement (9ed) 127
1
Feebleness

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-1.

Enchantment
Feebleness (tsp) 110
1
Human Frailty

Destroy target Human creature.

Instant
Human Frailty (ddq) 61
1
Syphon Life

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Sorcery
Syphon Life (mma) 100
1
Waste Away

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Instant
Waste Away (tor) 88
1

Psychological Effects

Quantity: 26Price: $30.92
Bottomless Pit

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random.

Enchantment
Bottomless Pit (sth) 51
1
Breaking Point

Any player may have Breaking Point deal 6 damage to them. If no one does, destroy all creatures. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Breaking Point (ddk) 67
1
Consume Spirit

Spend only black mana on X. Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

Sorcery
Consume Spirit (m12) 88
1
Creeping Dread

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card. Each opponent who discarded a card that shares a card type with the card you discarded loses 3 life. (Players reveal the discarded cards simultaneously.)

Enchantment
Creeping Dread (soi) 104
1
Crushing Disappointment

Each player loses 2 life. You draw two cards.

Instant
Crushing Disappointment (stx) 68
1
Dash Hopes

When you cast this spell, any player may pay 5 life. If a player does, counter Dash Hopes. Counter target spell.

Instant
Dash Hopes (plc) 68
1
Descent into Madness

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a despair counter on Descent into Madness, then each player exiles X permanents they control and/or cards from their hand, where X is the number of despair counters on Descent into Madness.

Enchantment
Descent into Madness (avr) 97
1
Despondency

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-0. When Despondency is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Despondency to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Despondency (usg) 129
1
Dread

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it. When Dread is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Creature
Dread (lrw) 107
1
Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Dread Presence (m20) 96
1
Dream Devourer

Each nonland card in your hand without foretell has foretell. Its foretell cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by {2}. (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile it from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.) Whenever you foretell a card, Dream Devourer gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Dream Devourer (khm) 90
1
Dregs of Sorrow

Destroy X target nonblack creatures. Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Dregs of Sorrow (c14) 143
1
Drown in Sorrow

All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Sorcery
Drown in Sorrow (2xm) 91
1
Extinguish All Hope

Destroy all nonenchantment creatures.

Sorcery
Extinguish All Hope (jou) 68
1
Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy all creatures that entered the battlefield this turn.

Instant
Force of Despair (mh1) 92
1
Guiltfeeder

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Whenever Guiltfeeder attacks and isn't blocked, defending player loses 1 life for each card in their graveyard.

Creature
Guiltfeeder (clb) 756
1
Invoke Despair

Target opponent sacrifices a creature. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

Sorcery
Invoke Despair (neo) 101
1
Languish

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Languish (jmp) 246
1
Melancholy

Enchant creature When Melancholy enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature. Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Melancholy unless you pay {B}.

Enchantment
Melancholy (plc) 88
1
Mire in Misery

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or enchantment.

Sorcery
Mire in Misery (c19) 19
1
Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (som) 73
1
Shattered Dreams

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an artifact card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Shattered Dreams (5dn) 59
1
Thought Distortion

This spell can't be countered. Target opponent reveals their hand. Exile all noncreature, nonland cards from that player's hand and graveyard.

Sorcery
Thought Distortion (m20) 117
1
Thought Prison

Imprint — When Thought Prison enters the battlefield, you may have target player reveal their hand. If you do, choose a nonland card from it and exile that card. Whenever a player casts a spell that shares a color or mana value with the exiled card, Thought Prison deals 2 damage to that player.

Artifact
Thought Prison (mrd) 261
1
Wit's End

Target player discards their hand.

Sorcery
Wit's End (m13) 117
1
Worst Fears

You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)

Sorcery
Worst Fears (jou) 87
1

Social Effects

Quantity: 8Price: $11.30
Bad Deal

You draw two cards and each opponent discards two cards. Each player loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Bad Deal (m21) 89
1
Cruel Reality

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. If the player can't, they lose 5 life.

Enchantment
Cruel Reality (akh) 84
1
Curse of Misfortunes

Enchant player At the beginning of your upkeep, you may search your library for a Curse card that doesn't have the same name as a Curse attached to enchanted player, put it onto the battlefield attached to that player, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Curse of Misfortunes (dka) 56
1
Curse of Shaken Faith

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player casts a spell other than the first spell they cast each turn or copies a spell, Curse of Shaken Faith deals 2 damage to them.

Enchantment
Curse of Shaken Faith (mid) 134
1
Oppression

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards a card.

Enchantment
Oppression (7ed) 152
1
Ostracize

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Ostracize (7ed) 153
1
Paupers' Cage

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has two or fewer cards in hand, Paupers' Cage deals 2 damage to that player.

Artifact
Paupers' Cage (mir) 314
1
Shatter Assumptions

Choose one — • Target opponent reveals their hand and discards all colorless nonland cards. • Target opponent reveals their hand and discards all multicolored cards.

Sorcery
Shatter Assumptions (mh1) 106
1

The Ivory Tower

Quantity: 2Price: $0.70
Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Artifact
Ivory Tower (brr) 86
1
Study Hall

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. When you spend this mana to cast your commander, scry X, where X is the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Land
Study Hall (c21) 80
1

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