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Dismantled Ruhan - Eternal (forced) Combat
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $127.88
Salt Sum: 30.89
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Commander

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Ruhan of the Fomori

At the beginning of combat on your turn, choose an opponent at random. Ruhan of the Fomori attacks that player this combat if able.

Creature
Ruhan of the Fomori (cmd) 221
1

AttackDeterrent

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Baird, Steward of Argive

Vigilance Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

Creature
Baird, Steward of Argive (dom) 4
1
Dissipation Field

Whenever a permanent deals damage to you, return it to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Dissipation Field (som) 32
1
Farsight Mask

Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, if Farsight Mask is untapped, you may draw a card.

Artifact
Farsight Mask (pca) 109
1
Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer

{W}{U}, {T}: Put a bribery counter on target creature you don't control. Its controller draws a card. Creatures with bribery counters on them can't attack or block.

Creature
Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer (bbd) 223
1
Isperia, Supreme Judge

Flying Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, you may draw a card.

Creature
Isperia, Supreme Judge (rtr) 171
1
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs

Whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, if you're the defending player, create a 3/3 red Ogre creature token unless that creature's controller pays {3}.

Creature
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs (c16) 130
1
Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker

Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, that player sacrifices a permanent.

Creature
Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker (sok) 19
1
Polymorphist's Jest

Until end of turn, each creature target player controls loses all abilities and becomes a blue Frog with base power and toughness 1/1.

Instant
Polymorphist's Jest (c17) 90
1
Slumbering Dragon

Flying Slumbering Dragon can't attack or block unless it has five or more +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, put a +1/+1 counter on Slumbering Dragon.

Creature
Slumbering Dragon (m13) 148
1
Spear of Heliod

Creatures you control get +1/+1. {1}{W}{W}, {T}: Destroy target creature that dealt damage to you this turn.

Artifact Enchantment
Spear of Heliod (ths) 33
1
Stuffy Doll

Indestructible As Stuffy Doll enters the battlefield, choose a player. Whenever Stuffy Doll is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to the chosen player. {T}: Stuffy Doll deals 1 damage to itself.

Creature Artifact
Stuffy Doll (m13) 218
1

AttackEachTurn

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Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. {1}{U}, {T}: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Artifact Enchantment
Bident of Thassa (ths) 42
1
Fumiko the Lowblood

Fumiko the Lowblood has bushido X, where X is the number of attacking creatures. (Whenever this creature blocks or becomes blocked, it gets +X/+X until end of turn.) Creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able.

Creature
Fumiko the Lowblood (cm2) 100
1
Goblin Spymaster

First strike At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player creates a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with "Creatures you control attack each combat if able."

Creature
Goblin Spymaster (c16) 19
1
Grand Melee

All creatures attack each combat if able. All creatures block each combat if able.

Enchantment
Grand Melee (ons) 211
1
Rowan Kenrith

+2: During target player's next turn, each creature that player controls attacks if able. −2: Rowan Kenrith deals 3 damage to each tapped creature target player controls. −8: Target player gets an emblem with "Whenever you activate an ability that isn't a mana ability, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy." Partner with Will Kenrith Rowan Kenrith can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Rowan Kenrith (bbd) 2
1
Trove of Temptation

Each opponent must attack you or a planeswalker you control with at least one creature each combat if able. At the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Trove of Temptation (xln) 171
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 (dis) 77
1
Warmonger Hellkite

Flying All creatures attack each combat if able. {1}{R}: Attacking creatures get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Warmonger Hellkite (c14) 41
1

CommanderDamage

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Archetype of Aggression

Creatures you control have trample. Creatures your opponents control lose trample and can't have or gain trample.

Creature Enchantment
Archetype of Aggression (bng) 88
1
Assault Suit

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has haste, can't attack you or planeswalkers you control, and can't be sacrificed. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of equipped creature until end of turn. If you do, untap it. Equip {3}

Artifact
Assault Suit (c16) 242
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 (a25) 199
1
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

Flying, first strike If a source would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, that source deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead. If a source would deal damage to you or a permanent you control, prevent half that damage, rounded up.

Creature
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight (a25) 204
1
Onward

Instant
Onward // Victory (akh) 218
1
Rush of Blood

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power.

Instant
Rush of Blood (avr) 154
1
Savage Beating

Cast this spell only during your turn and only during combat. Choose one — • Creatures you control gain double strike until end of turn. • Untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Entwine {1}{R} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Savage Beating (dst) 67
1
Sunforger

Equipped creature gets +4/+0. {R}{W}, Unattach Sunforger: Search your library for a red or white instant card with mana value 4 or less and cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then shuffle. Equip {3}

Artifact
Sunforger (c16) 275
1
Temur Battle Rage

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. Ferocious — That creature also gains trample until end of turn if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Instant
Temur Battle Rage (frf) 116
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 (aer) 48
1

Draw

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Azor, the Lawbringer

Flying When Azor, the Lawbringer enters the battlefield, each opponent can't cast instant or sorcery spells during that player's next turn. Whenever Azor attacks, you may pay {X}{W}{U}{U}. If you do, you gain X life and draw X cards.

Creature
Azor, the Lawbringer (rix) 154
1
Chemister's Insight

Draw two cards. Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)

Instant
Chemister's Insight (c19) 80
1
Magus of the Wheel

{1}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Magus of the Wheel: Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Creature
Magus of the Wheel (cm2) 113
1
Sphinx's Revelation

You gain X life and draw X cards.

Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (mm3) 187
1
Stormsurge Kraken

Hexproof Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, Stormsurge Kraken gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever Stormsurge Kraken becomes blocked, you may draw two cards."

Creature
Stormsurge Kraken (c14) 18
1
Tome of Legends

Tome of Legends enters the battlefield with a page counter on it. Whenever your commander enters the battlefield or attacks, put a page counter on Tome of Legends. {1}, {T}, Remove a page counter from Tome of Legends: Draw a card.

Artifact
Tome of Legends (eld) 332
1
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (cm2) 53
1

Evasion/Protect

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Aqueous Form

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't be blocked. Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Enchantment
Aqueous Form (ths) 39
1
Comeuppance

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and planeswalkers you control this turn by sources you don't control. If damage from a creature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to that creature. If damage from a noncreature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to the source's controller.

Instant
Comeuppance (c14) 4
1
Dawn Charm

Choose one — • Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. • Regenerate target creature. • Counter target spell that targets you.

Instant
Dawn Charm (uma) 13
1
Deflecting Palm

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. If damage is prevented this way, Deflecting Palm deals that much damage to that source's controller.

Instant
Deflecting Palm (ktk) 173
1
Mandate of Peace

Cast this spell only during combat. Your opponents can't cast spells this turn. End the combat phase. (Remove all attackers and blockers from combat. Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this spell.)

Instant
Mandate of Peace (c19) 4
1
Stubborn Denial

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

Instant
Stubborn Denial (ktk) 56
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 (c18) 225
1
Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.) At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. {1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Enchantment
Thassa, God of the Sea (ths) 66
1

Land

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Boros Garrison

Boros Garrison enters the battlefield tapped. When Boros Garrison enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{W}.

Land
Boros Garrison (gk1) 98
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 (dom) 239
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c17) 242
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 (ddp) 31
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (c19) 242
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (m19) 267
6
Izzet Boilerworks

Izzet Boilerworks enters the battlefield tapped. When Izzet Boilerworks enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{R}.

Land
Izzet Boilerworks (c18) 256
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (ktk) 264
5
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (a25) 243
1
Mystic Monastery

Mystic Monastery enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}, {R}, or {W}.

Land
Mystic Monastery (c17) 263
1
Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters the battlefield with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Land
Opal Palace (c17) 266
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 (c17) 56
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (shm) 283
4
Prahv, Spires of Order

{T}: Add {C}. {4}{W}{U}, {T}: Prevent all damage a source of your choice would deal this turn.

Land
Prahv, Spires of Order (dis) 177
1
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Prairie Stream enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (pss1) 241
1
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (c19) 270
1
Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{R}{W}, {T}: Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Land
Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion (hop) 138
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
Swiftwater Cliffs

Swiftwater Cliffs enters the battlefield tapped. When Swiftwater Cliffs enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Swiftwater Cliffs (c19) 279
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 (ddn) 74
1
Tranquil Cove

Tranquil Cove enters the battlefield tapped. When Tranquil Cove enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Tranquil Cove (c19) 284
1
Vivid Crag

Vivid Crag enters the battlefield tapped with two charge counters on it. {T}: Add {R}. {T}, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Crag: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Vivid Crag (c15) 316
1
Vivid Creek

Vivid Creek enters the battlefield tapped with two charge counters on it. {T}: Add {U}. {T}, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Creek: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Vivid Creek (c17) 290
1
Warped Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Warped Landscape: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Warped Landscape (c18) 291
1
Wind-Scarred Crag

Wind-Scarred Crag enters the battlefield tapped. When Wind-Scarred Crag enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Wind-Scarred Crag (ktk) 247
1

Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (eld) 331
1
Azorius Signet

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

Artifact
Azorius Signet (gk2) 24
1
Boros Signet

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

Artifact
Boros Signet (cmd) 243
1
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (cma) 213
1
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (c16) 254
1
Gilded Lotus

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

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (dom) 215
1
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (gk1) 46
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmd) 261
1
Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (cm2) 218
1
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (c14) 277
1

Removal

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Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (cm2) 89
1
Crib Swap

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Exile target creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling.

Instant Tribal
Crib Swap (c15) 65
1
Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery
Curse of the Swine (ths) 46
1
Forsake the Worldly

Exile target artifact or enchantment. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Forsake the Worldly (akh) 13
1
Orim's Thunder

Kicker {R} (You may pay an additional {R} as you cast this spell.) Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, it deals damage equal to that permanent's mana value to target creature.

Instant
Orim's Thunder (cm2) 33
1
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (c17) 91
1
Realm-Cloaked Giant

Creature
Realm-Cloaked Giant // Cast Off (eld) 26
1
Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (rtr) 201
1

Maybeboard

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Aggravated Assault

{3}{R}{R}: Untap all creatures you control. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Aggravated Assault (e02) 25
1
Akroma's Vengeance

Destroy all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Akroma's Vengeance (a25) 3
1
Borrowing 100,000 Arrows

Draw a card for each tapped creature target opponent controls.

Sorcery
Borrowing 100,000 Arrows (cma) 33
1
Darien, King of Kjeldor

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may create that many 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Creature
Darien, King of Kjeldor (a25) 9
1
Fatal Frenzy

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains trample and gets +X/+0, where X is its power. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Fatal Frenzy (plc) 98
1
Infiltration Lens

Whenever equipped creature becomes blocked by a creature, you may draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Infiltration Lens (som) 167
1
Inquisitor's Flail

If equipped creature would deal combat damage, it deals double that damage instead. If another creature would deal combat damage to equipped creature, it deals double that damage to equipped creature instead. Equip {2}

Artifact
Inquisitor's Flail (isd) 227
1
Keep Watch

Draw a card for each attacking creature.

Instant
Keep Watch (hop) 10
1
Mob Mentality

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has trample. Whenever all non-Wall creatures you control attack, enchanted creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

Enchantment
Mob Mentality (vis) 88
1
Oracle en-Vec

{T}: Target opponent chooses any number of creatures they control. During that player's next turn, the chosen creatures attack if able, and other creatures can't attack. At the beginning of that turn's end step, destroy each of the chosen creatures that didn't attack this turn. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Oracle en-Vec (tmp) 31
1
Pramikon, Sky Rampart

Flying, defender As Pramikon, Sky Rampart enters the battlefield, choose left or right. Each player may attack only the nearest opponent in the chosen direction and planeswalkers controlled by that opponent.

Creature
Pramikon, Sky Rampart (c19) 47
1
Psychotic Fury

Target multicolored creature gains double strike until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Psychotic Fury (dis) 68
1
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may pay {R/W}{R/W}. If you do, target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Creature
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest (frf) 52
1
Sunblast Angel

Flying When Sunblast Angel enters the battlefield, destroy all tapped creatures.

Creature
Sunblast Angel (c14) 92
1
World at War

After the first postcombat main phase this turn, there's an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase. At the beginning of that combat, untap all creatures that attacked this turn. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
World at War (roe) 172
1

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Description

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