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10/21/2023
Synthetic Men of Mars
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
Legal
Est deck cost: $1300.82
Salt Sum: 90.8
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Commander

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Belisarius Cawl

Ultima Founding — {T}, Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Create a 2/2 white Astartes Warrior creature token with vigilance. Master of Machines — {T}, Tap X untapped creatures you control: Look at the top X cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature Artifact
Belisarius Cawl (40k) 106
1

Artifact

Quantity: 23Price: $687.37
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dmc) 177
1
Azorius Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Artifact
Azorius Signet (sld) 286
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 (slc) 2003
1
Coldsteel Heart

Coldsteel Heart enters the battlefield tapped. As Coldsteel Heart enters the battlefield, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Coldsteel Heart (j22) 94
1
Crystal Shard

{3}, {T} or {U}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

Artifact
Crystal Shard (mrd) 159
1
Damping Matrix

Activated abilities of artifacts and creatures can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Artifact
Damping Matrix (mm3) 218
1
Damping Sphere

If a land is tapped for two or more mana, it produces {C} instead of any other type and amount. Each spell a player casts costs {1} more to cast for each other spell that player has cast this turn.

Artifact
Damping Sphere (dom) 213
1
Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When Isochron Scepter enters the battlefield, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand. {2}, {T}: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact
Isochron Scepter (2xm) 264
1
Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact
Liquimetal Torque (mh2) 228
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 (phpr) 5
1
Mana Vault

Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap Mana Vault. At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 308
1
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (clb) 325
1
Possessed Portal

If a player would draw a card, that player skips that draw instead. At the beginning of each end step, each player sacrifices a permanent unless they discard a card.

Artifact
Possessed Portal (5dn) 144
1
Prismatic Lens

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Prismatic Lens (tsr) 272
1
Smokestack

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a soot counter on Smokestack. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a permanent for each soot counter on Smokestack.

Artifact
Smokestack (slc) 1998
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dmc) 190
1
Sphere of Resistance

Spells cost {1} more to cast.

Artifact
Sphere of Resistance (exo) 139
1
Static Orb

As long as Static Orb is untapped, players can't untap more than two permanents during their untap steps.

Artifact
Static Orb (tmp) 310
1
Talisman of Progress

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. Talisman of Progress deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Progress (sld) 1052
1
Tangle Wire

Fading 4 (This artifact enters the battlefield with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an untapped artifact, creature, or land they control for each fade counter on Tangle Wire.

Artifact
Tangle Wire (nem) 139
1
Torpor Orb

Creatures entering the battlefield don't cause abilities to trigger.

Artifact
Torpor Orb (nph) 162
1
Trinisphere

As long as Trinisphere is untapped, each spell that would cost less than three mana to cast costs three mana to cast. (Additional mana in the cost may be paid with any color of mana or colorless mana. For example, a spell that would cost {1}{B} to cast costs {2}{B} to cast instead.)

Artifact
Trinisphere (2xm) 303
1
Winter Orb

As long as Winter Orb is untapped, players can't untap more than one land during their untap steps.

Artifact
Winter Orb (5ed) 408
1

Creature

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Archon of Emeria

Flying Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn. Nonbasic lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Archon of Emeria (znr) 4
1
Drannith Magistrate

Your opponents can't cast spells from anywhere other than their hands.

Creature
Drannith Magistrate (iko) 11
1
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is Esper Sentinel's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
1
Ethersworn Canonist

Each player who has cast a nonartifact spell this turn can't cast additional nonartifact spells.

Creature Artifact
Ethersworn Canonist (2xm) 14
1
Gold Myr

{T}: Add {W}.

Creature Artifact
Gold Myr (nec) 153
1
Hanna, Ship's Navigator

{1}{W}{U}, {T}: Return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Hanna, Ship's Navigator (a25) 206
1
Hokori, Dust Drinker

Lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player untaps a land they control.

Creature
Hokori, Dust Drinker (bok) 7
1
Imposing Sovereign

Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Imposing Sovereign (m14) 22
1
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

Each opponent can't cast noncreature spells with mana value greater than the number of lands that player controls. Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.

Creature
Lavinia, Azorius Renegade (rna) 189
1
Linvala, Keeper of Silence

Flying Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.

Creature
Linvala, Keeper of Silence (jmp) 119
1
Lodestone Golem

Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.

Creature Artifact
Lodestone Golem (mm2) 219
1
Magus of the Tabernacle

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {1}."

Creature
Magus of the Tabernacle (plc) 8
1
Ornithopter of Paradise

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

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

{T}: Add {U}.

Creature Artifact
Silver Myr (nec) 158
1
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben (a25) 36
1
Thalia, Heretic Cathar

First strike Creatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Thalia, Heretic Cathar (emn) 46
1
Time Elemental

When Time Elemental attacks or blocks, at end of combat, sacrifice it and it deals 5 damage to you. {2}{U}{U}, {T}: Return target permanent that isn't enchanted to its owner's hand.

Creature
Time Elemental (leg) 81
1
Vedalken Mastermind

{U}, {T}: Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand.

Creature
Vedalken Mastermind (10e) 123
1

Enchantment

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Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped. Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (kld) 5
1
Back to Basics

Nonbasic lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Enchantment
Back to Basics (usg) 62
1
Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (c17) 57
1
Frozen Aether

Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Frozen Aether (plc) 54
1
Humility

All creatures lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 1/1.

Enchantment
Humility (tmp) 24
1
Imprisoned in the Moon

Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "{T}: Add {C}" and loses all other card types and abilities.

Enchantment
Imprisoned in the Moon (voc) 106
1
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (ice) 87
1
Opalescence

Each other non-Aura enchantment is a creature in addition to its other types and has base power and base toughness each equal to its mana value.

Enchantment
Opalescence (uds) 13
1
Pendrell Mists

All creatures have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay {1}."

Enchantment
Pendrell Mists (wth) 47
1
Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45
1
Rising Waters

Lands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player untaps a land they control.

Enchantment
Rising Waters (nem) 38
1
Skrelv's Hive

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This creature can't block." Corrupted — As long as an opponent has three or more poison counters, creatures you control with toxic have lifelink.

Enchantment
Skrelv's Hive (one) 34
1
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (2x2) 342
1
Stasis

Players skip their untap steps. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Stasis unless you pay {U}.

Enchantment
Stasis (sld) 1103
1

Instant

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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 (all) 22a
1
Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Instant
Dramatic Reversal (kld) 44
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
Force Spike

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Instant
Force Spike (leg) 58
1
Mental Misstep

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with mana value 1.

Instant
Mental Misstep (nph) 38
1
Sunder

Return all lands to their owners' hands.

Instant
Sunder (usg) 101
1
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
1
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (sta) 73
1

Land

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Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. Adarkar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Adarkar Wastes (dmu) 243
1
Ancient Den

{T}: Add {W}.

Artifact Land
Ancient Den (c21) 276
1
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Demolition Field: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (bro) 260
1
Dust Bowl

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Land
Dust Bowl (mmq) 316
1
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land
Field of Ruin (tsr) 407
1
Hallowed Fountain

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

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (one) 273
9
Nimbus Maze

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains.

Land
Nimbus Maze (afc) 252
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (one) 272
12
Sea of Clouds

Sea of Clouds enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
1
Seat of the Synod

{T}: Add {U}.

Artifact Land
Seat of the Synod (c18) 278
1
Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land.

Land
Strip Mine (4ed) 363
1
Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Tectonic Edge: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Land
Tectonic Edge (c14) 313
1
Treasure Vault

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

Artifact Land
Treasure Vault (afr) 261
1
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (clb) 929
1
Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Wasteland: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Land
Wasteland (ema) 248
1

Sorcery

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Armageddon

Destroy all lands.

Sorcery
Armageddon (s99) 6
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Boasting a horrifying salt score of over 90, Belisarius Cawl here is all primed to make sure the table has a Bad Time, while not actually being a bad deck. Cawl, you see, does a few things. He taps artifacts to make tokens which is handy on two scales, and he taps tokens to draw cards. For tapping artifacts, this means breaking parity on things like Winter Orb. For making tokens, that gives us more meat for the grinder when Smokestack comes knocking. His tokens even handily have vigilance, letting them beat down (for a definition of beating down, they're lousy 2/2s) under untap denial. Taxes, Tapdown, random bounce, it's a hellscape of a game experience.\n\nAnd the best part is? Cawl wins not by suddenly declaring a combo victory, but by grinding. Because he's a multitool who can do something while his opponents do nothing other than suffer and die under a setup like stasis-smothering tithe. Cawl doesn't care how long it takes to kill you, the steady plink-plink-plink of the astartes will get there eventually\n"}]}
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