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Stern Scolding
Instant
Counter target creature spell with power or toughness 2 or less.
Sheltered by Ghosts
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this Aura leaves the battlefield.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has lifelink and ward .
Ethereal Armor
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each enchantment you control and has first strike.
Banishing Light
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.
Nurturing Pixie
Creature — Faerie Rogue
Flying When this creature enters, return up to one target non-Faerie, nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand. If a permanent was returned this way, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Shardmage's Rescue
Enchantment — Aura
Flash Enchant creature you control As long as this Aura entered this turn, enchanted creature has hexproof. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.
Island
Basic Land — Island
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Unable to Scream
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a Toy artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/2 in addition to its other types. As long as enchanted creature is face down, it can't be turned face up.
Essence Scatter
Instant
Counter target creature spell.
Don't Make a Sound
Instant
Counter target spell unless its controller pays . If they do, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Scrabbling Skullcrab
Creature — Crab Skeleton
Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, target player mills two cards. (They put the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Stormplain Detainment
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.
Opt
Instant
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) Draw a card.
Plains
Basic Land — Plains
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Grand Entryway // Elegant Rotunda
Enchantment — Room // Enchantment — Room
Optimistic Scavenger
Creature — Human Scout
Eerie — Whenever an enchantment you control enters and whenever you fully unlock a Room, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Maindeck (60 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Ethereal Armor | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 4 | Sheltered by Ghosts | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 3 | Mother of Runes | Creature — Human Cleric | 1/1 | |
| 3 | Banishing Light | Enchantment | — | |
| 1 | Stormplain Detainment | Enchantment | — | |
| 2 | Opt | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Stern Scolding | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Nurturing Pixie | Creature — Faerie Rogue | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Grand Entryway // Elegant Rotunda | Enchantment — Room // Enchantment — Room | — | |
| 3 | Optimistic Scavenger | Creature — Human Scout | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Scrabbling Skullcrab | Creature — Crab Skeleton | 0/3 | |
| 9 | Island | — | Basic Land — Island | — |
| 15 | Plains | — | Basic Land — Plains | — |
Sideboard (15 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Shardmage's Rescue | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 4 | Unable to Scream | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 4 | Don't Make a Sound | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Essence Scatter | Instant | — |
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Dismember
Instant
( can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Lone Rider // It That Rides as One
Creature — Human Knight // Creature — Eldrazi Horror
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Kor Cleric
Deathtouch Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
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.
Plains
Basic Land — Plains
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Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
Creature — Human Cleric // Creature — Spirit Cleric
Fiendish Panda
Creature — Bear Demon
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, return another target non-Bear creature card with mana value less than or equal to this creature's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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.
Surge of Salvation
Instant
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. Prevent all damage that black and/or red sources would deal to creatures you control this turn.
Swamp
Basic Land — Swamp
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Ajani's Pridemate
Creature — Cat Soldier
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Sheltered by Ghosts
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this Aura leaves the battlefield.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has lifelink and ward .
Deep-Cavern Bat
Creature — Bat
Flying, lifelink When this creature enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it until this creature leaves the battlefield.
Exorcise
Sorcery
Exile target artifact, enchantment, or creature with power 4 or greater.
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.
Maindeck (60 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Sheltered by Ghosts | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 3 | Deep-Cavern Bat | Creature — Bat | 1/1 | |
| 3 | Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim | Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Kor Cleric | 2/2 | |
| 4 | Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom | — | Creature — Human Cleric // Creature — Spirit Cleric | — |
| 3 | Mother of Runes | Creature — Human Cleric | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Soul Warden | Creature — Human Cleric | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Fiendish Panda | Creature — Bear Demon | 3/2 | |
| 4 | Lone Rider // It That Rides as One | — | Creature — Human Knight // Creature — Eldrazi Horror | — |
| 2 | Dismember | Instant | — | |
| 1 | Sheoldred's Edict | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Ajani's Pridemate | Creature — Cat Soldier | 2/2 | |
| 2 | Inquisition of Kozilek | Sorcery | — | |
| 4 | Shineshadow Snarl | — | Land | — |
| 12 | Plains | — | Basic Land — Plains | — |
| 7 | Swamp | — | Basic Land — Swamp | — |
Sideboard (15 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Stone of Erech | Legendary Artifact | — | |
| 1 | Mother of Runes | Creature — Human Cleric | 1/1 | |
| 1 | Dismember | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Fatal Push | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Surge of Salvation | Instant | — | |
| 3 | Exorcise | Sorcery | — |
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Thud
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Thud deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target.
Fireblade Charger
Creature — Goblin Warrior
As long as this creature is equipped, it has haste. When this creature dies, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.
Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
Instant // Land
Resolute Strike
Instant
Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. If it's a Warrior, you may attach an Equipment you control to it.
Kemba's Outfitter
Creature — Cat Artificer
When Kemba's Outfitter enters, choose one —
• Choose an Equipment card in your hand. It perpetually gains equip .
• Target Equipment you control perpetually gains equip
.
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.
Open the Armory
Sorcery
Search your library for an Aura or Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Starfield Shepherd
Creature — Angel
Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a basic Plains card or a creature card with mana value 1 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Warp (You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Cacophony Scamp
Creature — Phyrexian Goblin Warrior
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) When this creature dies, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.
Mountain
Basic Land — Mountain
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Gods Willing
Instant
Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that color.) Scry 1.
Swiftfoot Boots
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip
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: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Sheltered by Ghosts
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this Aura leaves the battlefield.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has lifelink and ward .
Mana Tithe
Instant
Counter target spell unless its controller pays .
Surge of Salvation
Instant
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. Prevent all damage that black and/or red sources would deal to creatures you control this turn.
Plains
Basic Land — Plains
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Legion Leadership // Legion Stronghold
Instant // Land
Scout for Survivors
Sorcery
Return up to three target creature cards with total mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter on each of them.
Maindeck (60 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
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| 2 | Starfield Shepherd | Creature — Angel | 3/2 | |
| 4 | Kemba's Outfitter | Creature — Cat Artificer | 2/1 | |
| 4 | Mother of Runes | Creature — Human Cleric | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Colossus Hammer | Artifact — Equipment | — | |
| 3 | Gods Willing | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Resolute Strike | Instant | — | |
| 4 | Open the Armory | Sorcery | — | |
| 4 | Thud | Sorcery | — | |
| 4 | Cacophony Scamp | Creature — Phyrexian Goblin Warrior | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Fireblade Charger | Creature — Goblin Warrior | 1/1 | |
| 4 | Furycalm Snarl | — | Land | — |
| 4 | Legion Leadership // Legion Stronghold | — | Instant // Land | — |
| 1 | Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier | — | Instant // Land | — |
| 6 | Mountain | — | Basic Land — Mountain | — |
| 8 | Plains | — | Basic Land — Plains | — |
Sideboard (14 cards)
| # | Card Name | Mana Cost | Type | P/T |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Starfield Shepherd | Creature — Angel | 3/2 | |
| 3 | Stone of Erech | Legendary Artifact | — | |
| 3 | Sheltered by Ghosts | Enchantment — Aura | — | |
| 1 | Swiftfoot Boots | Artifact — Equipment | — | |
| 1 | Gods Willing | Instant | — | |
| 1 | Mana Tithe | Instant | — | |
| 2 | Surge of Salvation | Instant | — | |
| 2 | Scout for Survivors | Sorcery | — |