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Kinnan Goes To College
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
Legal
Est deck cost: $1239.10
Salt Sum: 61.89
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Commander

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Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy

Whenever you tap a nonland permanent for mana, add one mana of any type that permanent produced. {5}{G}{U}: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a non-Human creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy (iko) 192
1

Clones

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Clever Impersonator

You may have Clever Impersonator enter the battlefield as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield.

Creature
Clever Impersonator (c19) 82
1
Hulking Metamorph

Prototype {2}{U}{U} — 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) You may have Hulking Metamorph enter the battlefield as a copy of an artifact or creature you control, except it's an artifact creature in addition to its other types, and its power and toughness are equal to Hulking Metamorph's power and toughness.

Creature Artifact
Hulking Metamorph (bro) 79
1
Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have Phyrexian Metamorph enter the battlefield as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Metamorph (2xm) 61
1
Replication Specialist

Flying Whenever a nontoken artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {1}{U}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that artifact.

Creature
Replication Specialist (neo) 76
1

Countermagic

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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 (voc) 102
1
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (plst) CMR-395
1
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (c20) 35
1
Pact of Negation

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Pact of Negation (tsr) 77
1

Draw

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Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Instant
Blue Sun's Zenith (a25) 44
1
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
1
Finale of Revelation

Draw X cards. If X is 10 or more, instead shuffle your graveyard into your library, draw X cards, untap up to five lands, and you have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game. Exile Finale of Revelation.

Sorcery
Finale of Revelation (war) 51
1
Mind Spring

Draw X cards.

Sorcery
Mind Spring (c20) 116
1
Nezahal, Primal Tide

This spell can't be countered. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card. Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal, Primal Tide. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Nezahal, Primal Tide (cmr) 401
1
Pull from Tomorrow

Draw X cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Pull from Tomorrow (2x2) 62
1
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (jmp) 169
1
Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (ncc) 306
1
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
1

Fatties

Quantity: 5Price: $66.95
Blightsteel Colossus

Trample, infect, indestructible If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Creature Artifact
Blightsteel Colossus (2xm) 235
1
Cityscape Leveler

Trample When you cast this spell and whenever Cityscape Leveler attacks, destroy up to one target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a tapped Powerstone token. Unearth {8}

Creature Artifact
Cityscape Leveler (bro) 233
1
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant (neo) 59
1
Myr Battlesphere

When Myr Battlesphere enters the battlefield, create four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens. Whenever Myr Battlesphere attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, Myr Battlesphere gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.

Creature Artifact
Myr Battlesphere (c21) 253
1
Sharding Sphinx

Flying Whenever an artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may create a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying.

Creature Artifact
Sharding Sphinx (jmp) 176
1

Land

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Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Academy Ruins (plst) 2XM-309
1
Barkchannel Pathway

Land
Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway (khm) 251
1
Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard Boseiju, Who Endures: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 266
1
Breeding Pool

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

Land
Breeding Pool (rna) 246
1
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (plst) 2XM-312
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dmc) 204
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (bro) 276
2
Hinterland Harbor

Hinterland Harbor enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Hinterland Harbor (dom) 240
1
Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Land
Inventors' Fair (plst) KLD-247
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (bro) 270
14
Misty Rainforest

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

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
1
Rejuvenating Springs

Rejuvenating Springs enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Rejuvenating Springs (cmr) 354
1
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dmc) 227
1
Scavenger Grounds

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

Land
Scavenger Grounds (c21) 314
1
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (c18) 278
1
Spire of Industry

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control an artifact.

Land
Spire of Industry (nec) 178
1
Treasure Vault

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}, Sacrifice Treasure Vault: Create X Treasure tokens.

Artifact Land
Treasure Vault (afr) 261
1
Tree of Tales

{T}: Add {G}.

Artifact Land
Tree of Tales (hop) 140
1
Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Urza's Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}." II — Urza's Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This creature gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'" III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land Enchantment
Urza's Saga (mh2) 259
1
Yavimaya Coast

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {U}. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Yavimaya Coast (dmu) 261
1

Mana Filters

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Prismite

{2}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Prismite (m21) 235
1
Voltaic Construct

{2}: Untap target artifact creature.

Creature Artifact
Voltaic Construct (dst) 156
1

Protection

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Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (clb) 864
1
Padeem, Consul of Innovation

Artifacts you control have hexproof. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control the artifact with the highest mana value or tied for the highest mana value, draw a card.

Creature
Padeem, Consul of Innovation (kld) 59
1
Soul of New Phyrexia

Trample {5}: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. {5}, Exile Soul of New Phyrexia from your graveyard: Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Soul of New Phyrexia (c18) 223
1
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (clb) 339
1

Recursion

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Emry, Lurker of the Loch

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control. When Emry, Lurker of the Loch enters the battlefield, mill four cards. {T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.)

Creature
Emry, Lurker of the Loch (nec) 91
1

Removal

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (dmc) 129
1
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 47
1
Duplicant

Imprint — When Duplicant enters the battlefield, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with Duplicant is a creature card, Duplicant has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with Duplicant. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Creature Artifact
Duplicant (c21) 242
1
Foundation Breaker

When Foundation Breaker enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment. Evoke {1}{G} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Creature
Foundation Breaker (mh2) 160
1
Meteor Golem

When Meteor Golem enters the battlefield, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Creature Artifact
Meteor Golem (clb) 323
1
Phyrexian Revoker

As Phyrexian Revoker enters the battlefield, choose a nonland card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Revoker (clb) 868
1
Ravenform

Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying. Foretell {U} (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
Ravenform (khm) 72
1
Unstable Obelisk

{T}: Add {C}. {7}, {T}, Sacrifice Unstable Obelisk: Destroy target permanent.

Artifact
Unstable Obelisk (voc) 170
1

Rocks and Such

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Astral Cornucopia

Astral Cornucopia enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it. {T}: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each charge counter on Astral Cornucopia.

Artifact
Astral Cornucopia (cm2) 172
1
Birds of Paradise

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

Creature
Birds of Paradise (dmr) 151
1
Chrome Mox

Imprint — When Chrome Mox enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Artifact
Chrome Mox (2xm) 240
1
Copper Myr

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature Artifact
Copper Myr (som) 146
1
Cradle Clearcutter

Prototype {2}{G} — 1/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) {T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to Cradle Clearcutter's power.

Creature Artifact
Cradle Clearcutter (bro) 198
1
Geology Enthusiast

At the beginning of your end step, create a tapped Powerstone token. (It's an artifact with "{T}: Add {C}. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.") {6}: Draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Geology Enthusiast.

Creature
Geology Enthusiast (bro) 289
1
Mana Crypt

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Crypt (2xm) 270
1
Mox Amber

{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
1
Mox Opal

Metalcraft — {T}: Add one mana of any color. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Artifact
Mox Opal (2xm) 275
1
Ornithopter of Paradise

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

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (mh2) 232
1
Palladium Myr

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

Creature Artifact
Palladium Myr (m21) 234
1
Silver Myr

{T}: Add {U}.

Creature Artifact
Silver Myr (nec) 158
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dmc) 190
1
Springleaf Drum

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

Artifact
Springleaf Drum (2xm) 291
1

Tutors

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Chord of Calling

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Chord of Calling (2xm) 158
1
Fabricate

Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Fabricate (plst) M10-52
1
Finale of Devastation

Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Finale of Devastation (war) 160
1
Trinket Mage

When Trinket Mage enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 1 or less, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Trinket Mage (ddu) 41
1
Trophy Mage

When Trophy Mage enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card with mana value 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Trophy Mage (ddu) 42
1
Whir of Invention

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Search your library for an artifact card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Whir of Invention (plst) AER-49
1
Worldly Tutor

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

Instant
Worldly Tutor (cc1) 6
1

Wincon

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Basalt Monolith

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. {3}: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Artifact
Basalt Monolith (2xm) 232
1
Craterhoof Behemoth

Haste When Craterhoof Behemoth enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Creature
Craterhoof Behemoth (jmp) 385
1
Mechanized Production

Enchant artifact you control At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted artifact. Then if you control eight or more artifacts with the same name as one another, you win the game.

Enchantment
Mechanized Production (aer) 38
1
Memnarch

{1}{U}{U}: Target permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) {3}{U}: Gain control of target artifact. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Creature Artifact
Memnarch (arc) 112
1
Steel Hellkite

Flying {2}: Steel Hellkite gets +1/+0 until end of turn. {X}: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X whose controller was dealt combat damage by Steel Hellkite this turn. Activate only once each turn.

Creature Artifact
Steel Hellkite (clb) 874
1
Walking Ballista

Walking Ballista enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Ballista. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Walking Ballista: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (2xm) 306
1

Wipes

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Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Sorcery
Whelming Wave (cmr) 409
1

Maybeboard

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Argivian Restoration

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Argivian Restoration (2xm) 42
1
Skyswimmer Koi

Flying Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Skyswimmer Koi (neo) 79
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"a kinnan list designed around artifacts and such as opposed to the usual elfball build. this deck (with the exception of the mana base) is tuned for high-power tables, with lots of fast mana and silly shit to win on turn 4 with. once you get kinnan and a few rocks out, it's rather resistant to countermagic thanks to kinnan's activated ability, and resistant to staxy anti-land effects since you're relying on rocks and dorks. it doesn't run many of its own counterspells, though, so you REALLY gotta keep those around. also, save your "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Beast Within"}},{"insert":" for "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Stony Silence"}},{"insert":" effects.\n\ni plan to make a lower-power affinity list that just throws fatties around instead of winning via combo so quickly, because it kinda plays like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Braids, Conjurer Adept"}},{"insert":" with less cheese. pretty fun!\n\nhow2win:\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fabricate"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Trophy Mage"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Whir of Invention"}},{"insert":" fetch "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Basalt Monolith"}},{"insert":", which makes infinite colorless with kinnan. from there, either:\nping everyone to death with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Walking Ballista"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"stop your opponents from having nonland permanents forever with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Steel Hellkite"}},{"insert":" + clones"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"draw your deck with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Geology Enthusiast"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Blue Sun's Zenith"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Finale of Revelation"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mind Spring"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pull from Tomorrow"}},{"insert":". if you have enough U open, you can deck at least one player with blue sun's "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"convert it to infinite colored mana via "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Prismite"}},{"insert":" / casting "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Astral Cornucopia"}},{"insert":" or make infinite treasures with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Treasure Vault"}},{"insert":" to pull off the aforementioned blue sun's line, play every creature in your deck with kinnan's activated ability, steal the table's permanents forever with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Memnarch"}},{"insert":", or cast an infinite "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Finale of Devastation"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nbackup wincons:\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Craterhoof Behemoth"}},{"insert":" / non-infinite "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Finale of Devastation"}},{"insert":" to swing with the boys"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Blightsteel Colossus"}},{"insert":". nuff said"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mechanized Production"}},{"insert":". since it's so slow, production is usually better played early so as to copy mana rocks or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hulking Metamorph"}},{"insert":", though it can win on its own terms surprisingly fast with judicious use of clones and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Replication Specialist"}},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Voltaic Construct"}},{"insert":" also acts to enable infinite colorless mana with kinnan + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Palladium Myr"}},{"insert":" or kinnan + "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Sol Ring"}},{"insert":" / "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mana Crypt"}},{"insert":" cloned with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hulking Metamorph"}},{"insert":". it also makes infinite green with non-prototyped "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cradle Clearcutter"}},{"insert":" -- no kinnan required"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nthe deck would probably be better with a thoracle line, but i'm too old-school for that. \n"}]}
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