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Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur · U · 100 cards · 38 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 39Instants 12Sorceries 1Artifacts 3Enchantments 5Planeswalkers 1Lands 38
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Strategy
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it, putting +1/+1 counters on things and growing them out of range. The list holds 12 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 3 board wipes and 16 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 3.67.
Early: The early turns belong to ramp. High Tide and the other 12 ramp pieces exist to get Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur out well before its printed cost of 10 would allow.
Mid: Once the commander is down, the deck wants to be doing two things at once: advancing its own board and answering everyone else's. Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Body of Knowledge keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Aetherize for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 3 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 3.67 average mana value the top end is genuinely expensive - land drops matter.
Win conditions: Wins by growing a threat past what the table can answer and connecting with it.
- Psychosis Crawler - Core to the plan
- Geode Golem - Core to the plan
- Body of Knowledge - Card draw
- Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant - Interaction
- Laboratory Maniac - Core to the plan
- Omniscience - Core to the plan
- Jace, Wielder of Mysteries - Card draw
- Triskaidekaphile - Card draw
~$524.49
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
Flash
At the beginning of your end step, draw seven cards.
Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by seven.
Creatures (39)
Psychosis Crawler
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
$0.77
Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.
Geode Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.28
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast your commander from the command zone without paying its mana cost. (You still pay any additional costs.)
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
$8.2
Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Body of Knowledge
Creature — Avatar
$0.34
Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw that many cards.
Laboratory Maniac
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.45
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
Triskaidekaphile
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.68
You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand, you win the game.
{3}{U}: Draw a card.
Chasm Skulker
Creature — Squid Horror
$0.31
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 blue Squid creature tokens with islandwalk, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Consecrated Sphinx
Creature — Sphinx
$25.58
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.
Hullbreaker Horror
Creature — Kraken Horror
$5.72
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Nezahal, Primal Tide
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
$8.64
This spell can't be countered.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.27
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Thryx, the Sudden Storm
Legendary Creature — Elemental Giant
$0.22
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
Spells you cast with mana value 5 or greater cost {1} less to cast and can't be countered.
Sturmgeist
Creature — Spirit
$0.38
Flying
Sturmgeist's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Phyrexian Metamorph
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter
$2.1
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
Defiler of Dreams
Creature — Phyrexian Sphinx
$0.52
Flying
As an additional cost to cast blue permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {U} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of blue mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a blue permanent spell, draw a card.
Ancient Silver Dragon
Creature — Elder Dragon
$53.37
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. Draw cards equal to the result. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.
Baral, Chief of Compliance
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
$3.24
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Twenty-Toed Toad
Creature — Frog Wizard
$6.52
Your maximum hand size is twenty.
Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and draw a card.
Whenever this creature attacks, you win the game if there are twenty or more counters on it or you have twenty or more cards in hand.
Burnished Hart
Artifact Creature — Elk
$0.14
{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Arcanis the Omnipotent
Legendary Creature — Wizard
$0.17
{T}: Draw three cards.
{2}{U}{U}: Return Arcanis to its owner's hand.
Nadir Kraken
Creature — Kraken
$0.32
Whenever you draw a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and create a 1/1 blue Tentacle creature token.
Scourge of Fleets
Creature — Kraken
$0.46
When this creature enters, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner's hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.
Spellskite
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
$6.86
{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
$0.71
Flash
Creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield have flash.
Each opponent can cast spells only any time they could cast a sorcery.
Homunculus Horde
Creature — Homunculus
$1.01
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a token that's a copy of this creature.
Leveler
Artifact Creature — Juggernaut
$3.91
When this creature enters, exile all cards from your library.
Archmage Emeritus
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.56
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.
Faerie Mastermind
Creature — Faerie Rogue
$11.47
Flash
Flying
Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, you draw a card.
{3}{U}: Each player draws a card.
Kami of the Crescent Moon
Legendary Creature — Spirit
$7.62
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
The Mindskinner
Legendary Enchantment Creature — Nightmare
$2.77
The Mindskinner can't be blocked.
If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent, prevent that damage and each opponent mills that many cards.
Oneirophage
Creature — Squid Illusion
$0.14
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Archaeomancer
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.28
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Scrawling Crawler
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Construct
$7.75
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.
Urza, Lord High Artificer
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
$15.67
When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."
Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add {U}.
{5}: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Instants (12)
High Tide
Instant
$0.81
Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.
Mana Drain
Instant
$51.22
Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.
Brainstorm
Instant
$1.27
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Cyclonic Rift
Instant
$30.27
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Arcane Denial
Instant
$1.57
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.
Pongify
Instant
$2
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.
Sorceries (1)
Expropriate
Sorcery
$15.61
Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.
Artifacts (3)
Wayfarer's Bauble
Artifact
$0.3
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Enchantments (5)
Omniscience
Enchantment
$6.34
You may cast spells from your hand without paying their mana costs.
Propaganda
Enchantment
$1.83
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Wizard Class
Enchantment — Class
$3.35
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
You have no maximum hand size.
{2}{U}: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards.
{4}{U}: Level 3
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
Rhystic Study
Enchantment
$67.53
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.
Imprisoned in the Moon
Enchantment — Aura
$0.31
Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "{T}: Add {C}" and loses all other card types and abilities.
Planeswalkers (1)
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
Legendary Planeswalker — Jace
$6.15
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
+1: Target player mills two cards. Draw a card.
−8: Draw seven cards. Then if your library has no cards in it, you win the game.
Lands (38)
Mystic Sanctuary
Land — Island
$1.11
({T}: Add {U}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Temple of the False God
Land
$0.17
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Castle Vantress
Land
$0.35
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
Legendary Land
$53.08
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Otawara, Soaring City
Legendary Land
$26.49
{T}: Add {U}.
Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Halimar Depths
Land
$0.35
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Add {U}.
Academy Ruins
Legendary Land
$5.19
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Urza's Saga
Enchantment Land — Urza's Saga
$36.03
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Command Beacon
Land
$7.91
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.
Mistrise Village
Land
$6.98
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.
Basic lands: 26 Island
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