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Ertai, the Corrupted
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $5043.88
Salt Sum: 58.72
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Commander

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Ertai, the Corrupted

{U}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature or enchantment: Counter target spell.

Creature
Ertai, the Corrupted (pls) 107★
1

Draw

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Rhystic Study

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

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (pcy) 45
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 (ice) 351
1
Bad River

Bad River enters the battlefield tapped. {T}, Sacrifice Bad River: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bad River (mir) 324
1
Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (apc) 140
1
City of Brass

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (arn) 71
1
Coastal Tower

Coastal Tower enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Coastal Tower (inv) 321
1
Flood Plain

Flood Plain enters the battlefield tapped. {T}, Sacrifice Flood Plain: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flood Plain (mir) 326
1
Flooded Strand

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

Land
Flooded Strand (ons) 316
1
Grand Coliseum

Grand Coliseum enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Grand Coliseum deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Grand Coliseum (ons) 319
1
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (mmq) 320
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (inv) 337
7
Kjeldoran Outpost

If Kjeldoran Outpost would enter the battlefield, sacrifice a Plains instead. If you do, put Kjeldoran Outpost onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Land
Kjeldoran Outpost (all) 139
1
Kor Haven

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{W}, {T}: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn.

Land
Kor Haven (nem) 141
1
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (usg) 322
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (inv) 331
6
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ons) 321
1
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (tmp) 322
1
Salt Marsh

Salt Marsh enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Salt Marsh (inv) 326
1
Scrubland

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)

Land
Scrubland (ced) 282
1
Strip Mine

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

Land
Strip Mine (atq) 82a
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (inv) 340
3
Thawing Glaciers

Thawing Glaciers enters the battlefield tapped. {1}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Return Thawing Glaciers to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next cleanup step.

Land
Thawing Glaciers (all) 144
1
Tundra

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)

Land
Tundra (ced) 285
1
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (ice) 362
1
Underground Sea

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)

Land
Underground Sea (ced) 286
1
Volrath's Stronghold

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

Land
Volrath's Stronghold (sth) 143
1

Untap

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Mind Over Matter

Discard a card: You may tap or untap target artifact, creature, or land.

Enchantment
Mind Over Matter (exo) 40
1

combo stuff

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (tmp) 276
1
Brain Freeze

Target player mills three cards. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Instant
Brain Freeze (scg) 29
1
Capsize

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant
Capsize (tmp) 55
1
Cloud of Faeries

Flying When Cloud of Faeries enters the battlefield, untap up to two lands. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Cloud of Faeries (ulg) 29
1
Enduring Renewal

Play with your hand revealed. If you would draw a card, reveal the top card of your library instead. If it's a creature card, put it into your graveyard. Otherwise, draw a card. Whenever a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return it to your hand.

Enchantment
Enduring Renewal (ice) 23
1
Highway Robber

When Highway Robber enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Highway Robber (mmq) 139
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
Parallax Wave

Fading 5 (This enchantment enters the battlefield with five fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) Remove a fade counter from Parallax Wave: Exile target creature. When Parallax Wave leaves the battlefield, each player returns to the battlefield all cards they own exiled with Parallax Wave.

Enchantment
Parallax Wave (nem) 17
1
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (inv) 306
1

counters

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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
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (ced) 55
1
Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Force of Will (all) 28
1
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (leg) 65
1

draw/CA/filter

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Arcanis the Omnipotent

{T}: Draw three cards. {2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis the Omnipotent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Arcanis the Omnipotent (ons) 66
1
Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Instant
Brainstorm (ice) 61
1
Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Instant
Fact or Fiction (inv) 57
1
Impulse

Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Instant
Impulse (vis) 34
1
Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Land Tax (leg) 26
1
Lim-Dûl's Vault

Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.

Instant
Lim-Dûl's Vault (all) 107
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
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (ice) 154
1
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (apc) 47
1
Scroll Rack

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Artifact
Scroll Rack (tmp) 308
1
Stroke of Genius

Target player draws X cards.

Instant
Stroke of Genius (usg) 100
1
Weathered Wayfarer

{W}, {T}: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if an opponent controls more lands than you.

Creature
Weathered Wayfarer (ons) 59
1

protection/fort

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Collective Restraint

Domain — Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {X} for each creature they control that's attacking you, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.

Enchantment
Collective Restraint (inv) 49
1
Karmic Justice

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls destroys a noncreature permanent you control, you may destroy target permanent that opponent controls.

Enchantment
Karmic Justice (ody) 26
1
Moat

Creatures without flying can't attack.

Enchantment
Moat (leg) 28
1
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (ulg) 56
1
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (tmp) 80
1

ramp

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Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (mir) 296
1
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (drk) 102
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
Marble Diamond

Marble Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}.

Artifact
Marble Diamond (mir) 310
1
Mox Diamond

If Mox Diamond would enter the battlefield, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put Mox Diamond onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Mox Diamond (sth) 138
1
Sky Diamond

Sky Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (mir) 319
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (ced) 270
1

recursion

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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 (inv) 249
1
Monk Idealist

When Monk Idealist enters the battlefield, return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Monk Idealist (usg) 20
1
Necromancy

You may cast Necromancy as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When Necromancy enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach Necromancy to it. When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment
Necromancy (vis) 64
1
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (tmp) 151
1
Replenish

Return all enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in your graveyard.)

Sorcery
Replenish (uds) 15
1

removal

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Akroma's Vengeance

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

Sorcery
Akroma's Vengeance (ons) 2
1
Aura of Silence

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. Sacrifice Aura of Silence: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment
Aura of Silence (wth) 7
1
Gilded Drake

Flying When Gilded Drake enters the battlefield, exchange control of Gilded Drake and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't or can't make an exchange, sacrifice Gilded Drake. This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal.

Creature
Gilded Drake (usg) 76
1
Oblation

The owner of target nonland permanent shuffles it into their library, then draws two cards.

Instant
Oblation (ons) 46
1
Planar Collapse

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are four or more creatures on the battlefield, sacrifice Planar Collapse and destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Enchantment
Planar Collapse (ulg) 18
1
Rout

You may cast Rout as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.) Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Rout (inv) 34
1
Seal of Cleansing

Sacrifice Seal of Cleansing: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment
Seal of Cleansing (nem) 18
1
Seal of Removal

Sacrifice Seal of Removal: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Seal of Removal (nem) 42
1
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (ced) 41
1
Treachery

Enchant creature When Treachery enters the battlefield, untap up to five lands. You control enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Treachery (uds) 50
1
Vindicate

Destroy target permanent.

Sorcery
Vindicate (apc) 126
1
Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Wrath of God (ced) 46
1

tutor

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Academy Rector

When Academy Rector dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for an enchantment card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Academy Rector (uds) 1
1
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (ced) 105
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 (mir) 14
1
Mystical Tutor

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

Instant
Mystical Tutor (mir) 80
1
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (vis) 72
1

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Description

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