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Pharaohs of the Ancient Desert
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $342.98
Salt Sum: 24.75
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $0.69
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand

Desertwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Desert.) You may play Desert lands from your graveyard. Whenever a Desert enters the battlefield under your control, create two 1/1 red, green, and white Sand Warrior creature tokens.

Creature
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand (dmc) 54
1

Artifact

Quantity: 9Price: $48.09
Collector's Vault

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact
Collector's Vault (woe) 244
1
Conduit of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard. {T}: Choose target nonland permanent card in your graveyard. If you haven't cast a spell this turn, you may cast that card. If you do, you can't cast additional spells this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Conduit of Worlds (one) 163
1
Crucible of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (2x2) 303
1
Hammer of Purphoros

Creatures you control have haste. {2}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Create a 3/3 colorless Golem enchantment artifact creature token.

Artifact Enchantment
Hammer of Purphoros (plst) THS-124
1
Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice Idol of Oblivion: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Artifact
Idol of Oblivion (otc) 258
1
Jalum Tome

{2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Artifact
Jalum Tome (dmr) 226
1
Sunset Pyramid

Sunset Pyramid enters the battlefield with three brick counters on it. {2}, {T}, Remove a brick counter from Sunset Pyramid: Draw a card. {2}, {T}: Scry 1.

Artifact
Sunset Pyramid (cmr) 345
1
Throne of the God-Pharaoh

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control.

Artifact
Throne of the God-Pharaoh (akh) 237
1
Zuran Orb

Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.

Artifact
Zuran Orb (mh2) 300
1

Creature

Quantity: 19Price: $121.58
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
Aurelia, the Warleader

Flying, vigilance, haste Whenever Aurelia, the Warleader attacks for the first time each turn, untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Creature
Aurelia, the Warleader (2x2) 179
1
Azusa, Lost but Seeking

You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.

Creature
Azusa, Lost but Seeking (cmm) 274
1
Champions of Minas Tirith

When Champions of Minas Tirith enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, if you're the monarch, that opponent may pay {X}, where X is the number of cards in their hand. If they don't, they can't attack you this combat.

Creature
Champions of Minas Tirith (ltc) 94
1
Dauntless Escort

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

Creature
Dauntless Escort (scd) 223
1
Dawnglade Regent

When Dawnglade Regent enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. As long as you're the monarch, permanents you control have hexproof.

Creature
Dawnglade Regent (cmr) 222
1
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Creature Enchantment
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove (cmm) 891
1
Dune Chanter

Reach Lands you control and land cards you own that aren't on the battlefield are Deserts in addition to their other types. Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Mill two cards. You gain 1 life for each land card milled this way.

Creature
Dune Chanter (otc) 31
1
Elvish Reclaimer

Elvish Reclaimer gets +2/+2 as long as there are three or more land cards in your graveyard. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Elvish Reclaimer (m20) 169
1
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
Mina and Denn, Wildborn

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. {R}{G}, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Target creature gains trample until end of turn.

Creature
Mina and Denn, Wildborn (plst) OGW-156
1
Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist

First strike Whenever Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist attacks, each opponent can't block with more than one creature this combat. As long as Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist is tapped, no more than one creature can attack you each combat.

Creature
Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist (cmm) 347
1
Moraug, Fury of Akoum

Each creature you control gets +1/+0 for each time it has attacked this turn. Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if it's your main phase, there's an additional combat phase after this phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all creatures you control.

Creature
Moraug, Fury of Akoum (znr) 150
1
Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation

Creature
Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization (lci) 26Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization (lci) 26
1
Perennial Behemoth

You may play lands from your graveyard. Unearth {G}{G} ({G}{G}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature Artifact
Perennial Behemoth (prm) 105762
1
Ruin Ghost

{W}, {T}: Exile target land you control, then return it to the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Ruin Ghost (wwk) 19
1
Sand Scout

When Sand Scout enters the battlefield, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a Desert card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, create a 1/1 red, green, and white Sand Warrior creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Sand Scout (otc) 11
1
Sylvan Safekeeper

Sacrifice a land: Target creature you control gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)

Creature
Sylvan Safekeeper (cma) 152
1
Timeless Witness

When Timeless Witness enters the battlefield, return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Eternalize {5}{G}{G} ({5}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Timeless Witness (mh2) 179
1

Enchantment

Quantity: 13Price: $83.83
Aura Fracture

Sacrifice a land: Destroy target enchantment.

Enchantment
Aura Fracture (pcy) 2
1
Aura Shards

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

Enchantment
Aura Shards (plst) INV-233
1
Brave the Sands

Creatures you control have vigilance. Each creature you control can block an additional creature each combat.

Enchantment
Brave the Sands (cm2) 19
1
Cathars' Crusade

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Enchantment
Cathars' Crusade (jmp) 95
1
Court of Ardenvale

When Court of Ardenvale enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand. If you're the monarch, return that permanent card to the battlefield instead.

Enchantment
Court of Ardenvale (woc) 21
1
Court of Bounty

When Court of Bounty enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you're the monarch, instead you may put a creature or land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Enchantment
Court of Bounty (cmr) 220
1
Court of Embereth

When Court of Embereth enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 3/1 red Knight creature token. Then if you're the monarch, Court of Embereth deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Enchantment
Court of Embereth (woc) 24
1
Court of Grace

When Court of Grace enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. If you're the monarch, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying instead.

Enchantment
Court of Grace (onc) 62
1
Druid Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life. {2}{G}: Level 2 You may play an additional land on each of your turns. {4}{G}: Level 3 When this Class becomes level 3, target land you control becomes a creature with haste and "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." It's still a land.

Enchantment
Druid Class (afr) 180
1
Prismatic Omen

Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Enchantment
Prismatic Omen (wot) 60
1
Rising of the Day

Creatures you control have haste. Legendary creatures you control get +1/+0.

Enchantment
Rising of the Day (ltr) 145
1
War's Toll

Whenever an opponent taps a land for mana, tap all lands that player controls. If a creature an opponent controls attacks, all creatures that opponent controls attack if able.

Enchantment
War's Toll (bbd) 187
1
Warleader's Call

Creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, Warleader's Call deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Warleader's Call (mkm) 242
1

Instant

Quantity: 11Price: $58.31
Aurelia's Fury

Aurelia's Fury deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of targets. Tap each creature dealt damage this way. Players dealt damage this way can't cast noncreature spells this turn.

Instant
Aurelia's Fury (plst) GTC-144
1
Big Score

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Big Score (otc) 155
1
Crop Rotation

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Crop Rotation (dmr) 154
1
Destructive Revelry

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Destructive Revelry deals 2 damage to that permanent's controller.

Instant
Destructive Revelry (ths) 192
1
Eladamri's Call

Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant
Eladamri's Call (mh1) 197
1
Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 6
1
Flick a Coin

Flick a Coin deals 1 damage to any target. You create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") Draw a card.

Instant
Flick a Coin (woe) 128
1
Heroic Intervention

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

Instant
Heroic Intervention (cmm) 295
1
Naya Charm

Choose one — • Naya Charm deals 3 damage to target creature. • Return target card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures target player controls.

Instant
Naya Charm (dmc) 162
1
Rite of Harmony

Whenever a creature or enchantment enters the battlefield under your control this turn, draw a card. Flashback {2}{G}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Rite of Harmony (mid) 236
1
Wear

Instant
Wear // Tear (moc) 343
1

Land

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Abraded Bluffs

Abraded Bluffs enters the battlefield tapped. When Abraded Bluffs enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Abraded Bluffs (otj) 251
1
Arid Archway

Arid Archway enters the battlefield tapped. When Arid Archway enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. If another Desert was returned this way, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Land
Arid Archway (otj) 252
1
Bristling Backwoods

Bristling Backwoods enters the battlefield tapped. When Bristling Backwoods enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Bristling Backwoods (otj) 253
1
Bucolic Ranch

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Mount spell. {3}, {T}: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a Mount card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put it into your hand, you may put it on the bottom of your library.

Land
Bucolic Ranch (otj) 265
1
Cactus Preserve

Cactus Preserve enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. {3}: Until end of turn, Cactus Preserve becomes an X/X green Plant creature with reach, where X is the greatest mana value among your commanders. It's still a land.

Land
Cactus Preserve (otc) 40
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 420
1
Conduit Pylons

When Conduit Pylons enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Conduit Pylons (otj) 254
1
Cradle of the Accursed

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice Cradle of the Accursed: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Cradle of the Accursed (akh) 241
1
Creosote Heath

Creosote Heath enters the battlefield tapped. When Creosote Heath enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Creosote Heath (otj) 255
1
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
Desert of the Fervent

Desert of the Fervent enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R}. Cycling {1}{R} ({1}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Fervent (c21) 286
1
Desert of the Indomitable

Desert of the Indomitable enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G}. Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Indomitable (hou) 172
1
Desert of the True

Desert of the True enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {1}{W} ({1}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the True (c20) 268
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
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (plst) RIX-186
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (akr) 299
3
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
Hashep Oasis

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G}. {1}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Hashep Oasis (plst) HOU-177
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
Mirage Mesa

Mirage Mesa enters the battlefield tapped. As it enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Mirage Mesa (otj) 262
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (akr) 315
3
Painted Bluffs

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

Land
Painted Bluffs (akh) 246
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (akr) 324
3
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
Sandstorm Verge

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Target creature can't block this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Sandstorm Verge (otj) 263
1
Scavenger Grounds

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

Land
Scavenger Grounds (cmm) 1027
1
Shefet Dunes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {W}. {2}{W}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Shefet Dunes (hou) 183
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
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (cmm) 428
1

Sorcery

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Boom

Sorcery
Boom // Bust (tsr) 156
1
Dance of the Tumbleweeds

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Search your library for a basic land card or a Desert card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. + {3} — Create an X/X green Elemental creature token, where X is the number of lands you control.

Sorcery
Dance of the Tumbleweeds (otj) 160
1
Desert Twister

Destroy target permanent.

Sorcery
Desert Twister (c15) 181
1
Highway Robbery

You may discard a card or sacrifice a land. If you do, draw two cards. Plot {1}{R} (You may pay {1}{R} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Sorcery
Highway Robbery (otj) 129
1
Hour of Promise

Search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control three or more Deserts, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Sorcery
Hour of Promise (hou) 120
1
Hour of Revelation

This spell costs {3} less to cast if there are ten or more nonland permanents on the battlefield. Destroy all nonland permanents.

Sorcery
Hour of Revelation (znc) 17
1
Nahiri's Lithoforming

Sacrifice X lands. For each land sacrificed this way, draw a card. You may play X additional lands this turn. Lands you control enter the battlefield tapped this turn.

Sorcery
Nahiri's Lithoforming (znr) 151
1
Reconstruct History

Return up to one target artifact card, up to one target enchantment card, up to one target instant card, up to one target sorcery card, and up to one target planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Reconstruct History.

Sorcery
Reconstruct History (stx) 222
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) 151
1
Tempt with Discovery

Tempting offer — Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Each opponent may search their library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. For each opponent who searches a library this way, search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched a library this way shuffles.

Sorcery
Tempt with Discovery (plst) C16-170
1

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