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Instigate
Deck Size: 101
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $627.99
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Commander

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Marisi, Breaker of the Coil

Your opponents can't cast spells during combat. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, goad each creature that player controls. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Creature
Marisi, Breaker of the Coil (c19) 46
1

Capitalize Spells

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Dragonlair Spider

Reach Whenever an opponent casts a spell, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token.

Creature
Dragonlair Spider (pca) 87
1
Lurking Predators

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, you may put that card on the bottom of your library.

Enchantment
Lurking Predators (jmp) 410
1
Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

Vigilance, reach Ruric Thar, the Unbowed attacks each combat if able. Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, Ruric Thar deals 6 damage to that player.

Creature
Ruric Thar, the Unbowed (2x2) 271
1

Combat Tools

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Beastmaster Ascension

Whenever a creature you control attacks, you may put a quest counter on Beastmaster Ascension. As long as Beastmaster Ascension has seven or more quest counters on it, creatures you control get +5/+5.

Enchantment
Beastmaster Ascension (ncc) 283
1
Champion of Lambholt

Creatures with power less than Champion of Lambholt's power can't block creatures you control. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of Lambholt.

Creature
Champion of Lambholt (c16) 144
1
Frontier Warmonger

Whenever one or more creatures attack one of your opponents or a planeswalker they control, those creatures gain menace until end of turn.

Creature
Frontier Warmonger (cmm) 224
1
Prowler's Helm

Equipped creature can't be blocked except by Walls. Equip {2}

Artifact
Prowler's Helm (ths) 219
1
Psychic Paper

As Psychic Paper becomes attached to a creature, choose a creature card name and a creature type. Equipped creature has ward {1}, it can't be blocked, and its name and creature type are the last chosen name and creature type. Equip {2}

Artifact
Psychic Paper (who) 181
1
Spirit en-Dal

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Forecast — {1}{W}, Reveal Spirit en-Dal from your hand: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)

Creature
Spirit en-Dal (fut) 17
1
Trailblazer's Boots

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Trailblazer's Boots (zen) 208
1
Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Whispersilk Cloak (10e) 345
1

Creature

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Augur of Autumn

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands from the top of your library. Coven — As long as you control three or more creatures with different powers, you may cast creature spells from the top of your library.

Creature
Augur of Autumn (mid) 168
1

Draw/Cantrip

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Aurelia, the Law Above

Flying, vigilance, haste Whenever a player attacks with three or more creatures, you draw a card. Whenever a player attacks with five or more creatures, Aurelia, the Law Above deals 3 damage to each of your opponents and you gain 3 life.

Creature
Aurelia, the Law Above (mkm) 188
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
Forgotten Cave

Forgotten Cave enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R}. Cycling {R} ({R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Forgotten Cave (ons) 317
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
Heartwood Storyteller

Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, each of that player's opponents may draw a card.

Creature
Heartwood Storyteller (tsr) 209
1
Secluded Steppe

Secluded Steppe enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Secluded Steppe (ons) 324
1
Toski, Bearer of Secrets

This spell can't be countered. Indestructible Toski, Bearer of Secrets attacks each combat if able. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Toski, Bearer of Secrets (khm) 197
1
Tranquil Thicket

Tranquil Thicket enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Tranquil Thicket (ons) 326
1
Vizier of the Menagerie

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells from the top of your library. You can spend mana of any type to cast creature spells.

Creature
Vizier of the Menagerie (akh) 192
1

Instigate!

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Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer

Creatures your opponents control with power less than Baeloth Barrityl's power are goaded. (They attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.) Whenever a goaded attacking or blocking creature dies, you create a Treasure token. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer (clb) 627
1
Disrupt Decorum

Goad all creatures you don't control. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Sorcery
Disrupt Decorum (afc) 122
1
Grenzo, Havoc Raiser

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, choose one — • Goad target creature that player controls. • Exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Creature
Grenzo, Havoc Raiser (cmm) 228
1
Hot Pursuit

When Hot Pursuit enters the battlefield, suspect target creature an opponent controls. As long as Hot Pursuit remains on the battlefield, that creature is also goaded. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if two or more players have lost the game, gain control of all goaded and/or suspected creatures until end of turn. Untap them. They gain haste until end of turn.

Enchantment
Hot Pursuit (mkc) 32
1
Insurrection

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery
Insurrection (cmd) 126
1
Komainu Battle Armor

Menace Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has menace. Whenever Komainu Battle Armor or equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, goad each creature that player controls. Reconfigure {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Komainu Battle Armor (nec) 21
1
Taunt from the Rampart

Goad all creatures your opponents control. Until your next turn, those creatures can't block. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Sorcery
Taunt from the Rampart (ltc) 71
1

Land

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Access Tunnel

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Access Tunnel (stx) 262
1
Arid Mesa

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

Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 244
1
Bountiful Promenade

Bountiful Promenade enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Bountiful Promenade (clb) 348
1
Clifftop Retreat

Clifftop Retreat enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Clifftop Retreat (dmr) 241
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmr) 350
1
Commercial District

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) Commercial District enters the battlefield tapped. When Commercial District enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Commercial District (mkm) 259
1
Elegant Parlor

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) Elegant Parlor enters the battlefield tapped. When Elegant Parlor enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Elegant Parlor (mkm) 260
1
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (c16) 295
1
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (stx) 374
2
Jetmir's Garden

({T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.) Jetmir's Garden enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Jetmir's Garden (snc) 250
1
Jungle Shrine

Jungle Shrine enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.

Land
Jungle Shrine (ncc) 409
1
Lush Portico

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) Lush Portico enters the battlefield tapped. When Lush Portico enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Lush Portico (mkm) 263
1
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters the battlefield, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) Mosswort Bridge enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (ncc) 415
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (eld) 262
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
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (plst) C17-56
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (vow) 398
1
Rockfall Vale

Rockfall Vale enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rockfall Vale (mid) 266
1
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (ncc) 422
1
Rootbound Crag

Rootbound Crag enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rootbound Crag (c16) 317
1
Sacred Foundry

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

Land
Sacred Foundry (grn) 254
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
Sheltered Thicket

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) Sheltered Thicket enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Sheltered Thicket (akh) 248
1
Spectator Seating

Spectator Seating enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Spectator Seating (cmm) 427
1
Spire Garden

Spire Garden enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Spire Garden (clb) 361
1
Stomping Ground

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

Land
Stomping Ground (rna) 259
1
Sundown Pass

Sundown Pass enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Sundown Pass (vow) 266
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
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
Temple of Abandon

Temple of Abandon enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Abandon enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Abandon (thb) 244
1
Temple of Plenty

Temple of Plenty enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Plenty enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Temple of Plenty (mic) 185
1
Temple of Triumph

Temple of Triumph enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Triumph enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Temple of Triumph (dmc) 238
1

Other

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Battle Angels of Tyr

Flying, myriad Whenever Battle Angels of Tyr deals combat damage to a player, draw a card if that player has more cards in hand than each other player. Then you create a Treasure token if that player controls more lands than each other player. Then you gain 3 life if that player has more life than each other player.

Creature
Battle Angels of Tyr (clb) 9
1
Conclave Evangelist

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token that's a copy of this creature that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Whenever Conclave Evangelist deals combat damage to a player, create a token that's a copy of Conclave Evangelist.

Creature
Conclave Evangelist (clu) 27
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
Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature
Grand Abolisher (cmm) 27
1
Mirror March

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, flip a coin until you lose a flip. For each flip you won, create a token that's a copy of that creature. Those tokens gain haste. Exile them at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Mirror March (rna) 108
1
Moonshaker Cavalry

Flying When Moonshaker Cavalry enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain flying and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Creature
Moonshaker Cavalry (woe) 21
1
Triumph of the Hordes

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain trample and infect. (Creatures with infect deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Sorcery
Triumph of the Hordes (nph) 123
1
Windborn Muse

Flying Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Creature
Windborn Muse (voc) 101
1

Protection

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Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from all colors until end of turn.

Instant
Akroma's Will (lcc) 125
1
Boros Charm

Choose one — • Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Boros Charm (c21) 210
1
Dauntless Escort

Sacrifice Dauntless Escort: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Dauntless Escort (scd) 223
1
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (afc) 161
1
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (scd) 269
1
Selfless Spirit

Flying Sacrifice Selfless Spirit: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Selfless Spirit (clb) 706
1

Ramp

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Avacyn's Pilgrim

{T}: Add {W}.

Creature
Avacyn's Pilgrim (mic) 132
1
Birds of Paradise

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

Creature
Birds of Paradise (dmr) 151
1
Bloom Tender

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

Creature
Bloom Tender (2x2) 138
1
Cryptolith Rite

Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Enchantment
Cryptolith Rite (soi) 200
1
Curse of Opulence

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, create a Gold token. Each opponent attacking that player does the same. (A Gold token is an artifact with "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Curse of Opulence (mkc) 150
1
Druids' Repository

Whenever a creature you control attacks, put a charge counter on Druids' Repository. Remove a charge counter from Druids' Repository: Add one mana of any color.

Enchantment
Druids' Repository (avr) 176
1
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (khc) 58
1
Faeburrow Elder

Vigilance Faeburrow Elder gets +1/+1 for each color among permanents you control. {T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Creature
Faeburrow Elder (eld) 190
1
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (plst) RAV-163
1
Fyndhorn Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Fyndhorn Elves (cmr) 228
1
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (plst) M19-314
1
Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, add one mana of any color.

Creature
Lotus Cobra (znr) 193
1
Nature's Will

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, tap all lands that player controls and untap all lands you control.

Enchantment
Nature's Will (chk) 230
1
Oracle of Mul Daya

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands from the top of your library.

Creature
Oracle of Mul Daya (2x2) 154
1
Professional Face-Breaker

Menace Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice a Treasure: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.

Creature
Professional Face-Breaker (snc) 116
1
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (c18) 160
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (lcc) 313
1
Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of the Animist (plst) ORI-240
1
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (mkc) 195
1

Removal

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Aura Shards

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment
Aura Shards (cmd) 182
1
Haywire Mite

When Haywire Mite dies, you gain 2 life. {G}, Sacrifice Haywire Mite: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Creature Artifact
Haywire Mite (bro) 199
1
Nature's Claim

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.

Instant
Nature's Claim (plst) IMA-177
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 (moc) 198
1
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (nec) 89
1

Maybeboard

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Retaliator Griffin

Flying Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on Retaliator Griffin.

Creature
Retaliator Griffin (arb) 123
1
Scion of Calamity

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token that's a copy of this creature that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Whenever Scion of Calamity deals combat damage to a player, destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.

Creature
Scion of Calamity (lcc) 93
1

Wishlist

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Dockside Extortionist

When Dockside Extortionist enters the battlefield, create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Dockside Extortionist (c19) 24
1
Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Prismatic Vista: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Prismatic Vista (mh1) 244
1

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Description

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