Adam's Tournament Decklists
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Ambition's Cost
Sorcery
Whenever one or more creatures you control die, draft a card from Xander's Wake's spellbook. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
Sorcery // Land
Lightning Axe
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay .
Lightning Axe deals 5 damage to target creature.
Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain
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Ivora, Insatiable Heir
Legendary Creature — Vampire Warrior
Trample
When Ivora enters and whenever it deals combat damage to a player, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with ",
, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Whenever you discard a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Ivora.
Stone of Erech
Legendary Artifact
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
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, Sacrifice Stone of Erech: Exile target player's graveyard. Draw a card.
Barbarian Ring
Land
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. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold —
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, Sacrifice this land: It deals 2 damage to any target. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Ash Zealot
Creature — Human Warrior
Vigilance Whenever you discover, investigate, scry, surveil, or seek one or more cards, Val deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
Cast into the Fire
Instant
Choose one — • Cast into the Fire deals 1 damage to each of up to two target creatures. • Exile target artifact.
Fiery Temper
Instant
Fiery Temper deals 3 damage to any target.
Madness (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Blazing Rootwalla
Creature — Lizard
: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.
Madness
(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Marauding Mako
Creature — Shark Pirate
Whenever you discard one or more cards, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.
Cycling (
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Torch the Tower
Instant
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Torch the Tower deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If this spell was bargained, instead it deals 3 damage to that permanent and you scry 1. If a permanent dealt damage by Torch the Tower would die this turn, exile it instead.
Giant Cindermaw
Creature — Dinosaur Beast
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Players can't gain life.
Sneaky Snacker
Creature — Faerie Rogue
Flying When you draw your third card in a turn, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Craving of Yeenoghu
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature gets +3/+2, has haste, and attacks each combat if able.
: Return Craving of Yeenoghu from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to target creature you control. Craving of Yeenoghu perpetually gains "Enchanted creature gets -1/-1." Activate only as a sorcery.
Scarlet Spider, Kaine
Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When Scarlet Spider enters, you may discard a card. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on him.
Mayhem (You may cast this card from your graveyard for
if you discarded it this turn. Timing rules still apply.)
Faithless Looting
Sorcery
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Grab the Prize
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. If the discarded card wasn't a land card, Grab the Prize deals 2 damage to each opponent.
Soul-Guide Lantern
Artifact
When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
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, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Maindeck (60 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Craving of Yeenoghu | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 2 | Scarlet Spider, Kaine | Legendary Creature — Spider Human Hero | 2/1 | |
| 4 | Fiery Temper | Instant | — | |
| 1 | Lightning Axe | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Blazing Rootwalla | Creature — Lizard | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Marauding Mako | Creature — Shark Pirate | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Sneaky Snacker | Creature — Faerie Rogue | 2/1 | |
| 2 | Ambition's Cost | Sorcery | — | |
| 4 | Faithless Looting | Sorcery | — | |
| 4 | Grab the Prize | Sorcery | — | |
| 4 | Ash Zealot | Creature — Human Warrior | 2/3 | |
| 4 | Ivora, Insatiable Heir | Legendary Creature — Vampire Warrior | 1/1 | |
| 2 | Barbarian Ring | — | Land | — |
| 1 | Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure | — | Sorcery // Land | — |
| 18 | Mountain | — | Basic Land — Mountain | — |
Sideboard (15 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soul-Guide Lantern | Artifact | — | |
| 3 | Stone of Erech | Legendary Artifact | — | |
| 2 | Giant Cindermaw | Creature — Dinosaur Beast | 4/3 | |
| 3 | Cast into the Fire | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Smash to Smithereens | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Torch the Tower | Instant | — |
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Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Creature — Zombie
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Tymaret, Chosen from Death
Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod
Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.
Grave Expectations
Instant
Choose one — • Heist target opponent's library. • Exile up to three target cards from your opponents' graveyards. You gain 3 life.
Cry of the Carnarium
Sorcery
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Exile all creature cards in all graveyards that were put there from the battlefield this turn. If a creature would die this turn, exile it instead.
Sheoldred's Edict
Instant
Choose one — • Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice. • Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice. • Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.
Duress
Sorcery
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Swamp
Basic Land — Swamp
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Consuming Corruption
Instant
Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
Birthing Boughs
Artifact
Exile this creature: Each opponent chooses two cards in their graveyard and exiles the rest.
Witch's Cottage
Land — Swamp
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This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Gonti, Lord of Luxury
Legendary Creature — Aetherborn Rogue
Deathtouch When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
Gifted Aetherborn
Creature — Aetherborn Vampire
Deathtouch, lifelink
Fatal Push
Instant
Destroy target creature if it has mana value 2 or less. Revolt — Destroy that creature if it has mana value 4 or less instead if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn.
Troll of Khazad-dûm
Creature — Troll
This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
Swampcycling (
, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
Chittering Skullspeaker
Creature — Squirrel Warlock
Starting intensity 0 When Chittering Skullspeaker enters, cards you own named Chittering Skullspeaker intensify by 1. Then you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is Chittering Skullspeaker's intensity.
Maindeck (60 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tymaret, Chosen from Death | Legendary Enchantment Creature — Demigod | 2/* | |
| 4 | Consuming Corruption | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Fatal Push | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Snuff Out | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Inquisition of Kozilek | Sorcery | — | |
| 1 | Night's Whisper | Sorcery | — | |
| 3 | Reanimate | Sorcery | — | |
| 4 | Troll of Khazad-dûm | Creature — Troll | 6/5 | |
| 4 | Gifted Aetherborn | Creature — Aetherborn Vampire | 2/3 | |
| 4 | Chittering Skullspeaker | Creature — Squirrel Warlock | 1/1 | |
| 3 | Gatekeeper of Malakir | Creature — Vampire Warrior | 2/2 | |
| 4 | Gray Merchant of Asphodel | Creature — Zombie | 2/4 | |
| 21 | Swamp | — | Basic Land — Swamp | — |
| 1 | Witch's Cottage | — | Land — Swamp | — |
Sideboard (15 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Birthing Boughs | Artifact | — | |
| 3 | Grave Expectations | Instant | — | |
| 2 | Sheoldred's Edict | Instant | — | |
| 2 | Tendrils of Corruption | Instant | — | |
| 1 | Gonti, Lord of Luxury | Legendary Creature — Aetherborn Rogue | 2/3 | |
| 2 | Cry of the Carnarium | Sorcery | — | |
| 3 | Duress | Sorcery | — |