Mortuary
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Woe Strider
Bolas's Citadel

   Prerequisites

What do I need to start this combo?
Gray Merchant of Asphodel in hand or in your library (Gray Merchant of Asphodel on top of your library in your library).
All other permanents on the battlefield.
Your life total is at least 6 if Gray Merchant is on the top of your library, or you have 3 available otherwise.

   Steps

How does this combo work?
1
Cast Gray Merchant either from your hand by paying 3 or from the top of your library by paying 5 life.
2
When Gray Merchant enters, it triggers, causing each opponent to lose life equal to your devotion to black and causing you to gain life equal to the life lost this way.
3
Activate Woe Strider by sacrificing Gray Merchant.
4
When Gray Merchant dies, Mortuary triggers, putting Gray Merchant from your graveyard onto the top of your library.
5
Resolve the Woe Strider ability.
6
Repeat.

   Results

What do I get from this combo?
Infinite LTB
Infinite ETB
Infinite sacrifice triggers
Infinite death triggers
Infinite scry 1
Infinite lifegain triggers
Infinite lifegain
Infinite lifeloss
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New Cards
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3.6%inclusion1 decks28 decks
3%synergy
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3%synergy
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3%synergy
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2%synergy
High Synergy Cards
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84%synergy
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72%synergy
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62%synergy
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47%synergy
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45%synergy
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43%synergy
Top Cards
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21%synergy
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13%synergy
Mana Vault
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13%synergy
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11%synergy
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11%synergy
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Creatures
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37%synergy
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32%synergy
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32%synergy
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34%synergy
Warren Soultrader
33%inclusion20 decks61 decks
27%synergy
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
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30%synergy
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29%inclusion19 decks65 decks
28%synergy
Pitiless Plunderer
29%inclusion19 decks65 decks
21%synergy
Gravecrawler
28%inclusion18 decks65 decks
24%synergy
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18%synergy
Ayara, First of Locthwain
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21%synergy
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21%synergy
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18%synergy
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17%synergy
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20%synergy
Cauldron Familiar
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19%synergy
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17%synergy
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13%synergy
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15%synergy
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13%synergy
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12%synergy
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18%synergy
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16%synergy
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17%synergy
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15%synergy
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15%synergy
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13%synergy
Solemn Simulacrum
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3%synergy
Diamond Lion
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14%synergy
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14%synergy
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13%synergy
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11%synergy
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12%synergy
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11%synergy
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10%synergy
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10%synergy
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9%synergy
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11%synergy
Basal Thrull
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10%synergy
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10%synergy
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10%synergy
Instants
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29%synergy
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21%synergy
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15%synergy
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14%synergy
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14%synergy
Entomb
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8%synergy
Fatal Push
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13%synergy
Defile
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11%synergy
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11%synergy
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10%synergy
Tragic Slip
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9%synergy
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8%synergy
Dismember
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8%synergy
Snuff Out
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7%synergy
Corrupted Conviction
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6%synergy
Null Elemental Blast
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9%synergy
Consuming Corruption
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8%synergy
Sudden Edict
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9%synergy
Rain of Filth
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8%synergy
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6%synergy
Mausoleum Secrets
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7%synergy
Hero's Downfall
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6%synergy
Soul Shatter
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5%synergy
Tainted Pact
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4%synergy
Drag to the Underworld
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6%synergy
Withering Boon
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6%synergy
Crypt Incursion
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5%synergy
Doom Blade
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5%synergy
Feign Death
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4%synergy
Sheoldred's Edict
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4%synergy
Sorceries
Toxic Deluge
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23%synergy
Exsanguinate
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27%synergy
Diabolic Intent
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23%synergy
Bubbling Muck
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28%synergy
Beseech the Mirror
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26%synergy
Victimize
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15%synergy
Insatiable Avarice
24%inclusion15 decks63 decks
21%synergy
Praetor's Grasp
22%inclusion14 decks65 decks
19%synergy
Diabolic Tutor
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16%synergy
Buried Alive
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15%synergy
Sign in Blood
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13%synergy
Doomsday
18%inclusion12 decks65 decks
18%synergy
Duress
17%inclusion11 decks65 decks
16%synergy
Torment of Hailfire
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13%synergy
Read the Bones
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11%synergy
Dark Petition
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15%synergy
Peer into the Abyss
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13%synergy
Agadeem's Awakening
15%inclusion10 decks65 decks
12%synergy
Night's Whisper
15%inclusion10 decks65 decks
6%synergy
Zof Consumption
14%inclusion9 decks65 decks
14%synergy
Cruel Tutor
14%inclusion9 decks65 decks
13%synergy
Chain of Smog
14%inclusion9 decks65 decks
13%synergy
Grim Tutor
14%inclusion9 decks65 decks
10%synergy
Living Death
14%inclusion9 decks65 decks
9%synergy
Damnation
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7%synergy
Blasphemous Edict
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8%synergy
Pelakka Predation
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
12%synergy
Yawgmoth's Will
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11%synergy
Final Parting
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
11%synergy
Dread Return
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
7%synergy
Beseech the Queen
11%inclusion7 decks65 decks
10%synergy
Profane Tutor
11%inclusion7 decks65 decks
9%synergy
Cruelclaw's Heist
10%inclusion6 decks61 decks
9%synergy
Unearth
9.2%inclusion6 decks65 decks
6%synergy
Morality Shift
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8%synergy
Forever Young
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7%synergy
Lively Dirge
6.3%inclusion4 decks63 decks
5%synergy
Illicit Shipment
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6%synergy
Exhume
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5%synergy
Mutilate
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5%synergy
Persist
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4%synergy
Dark Deal
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4%synergy
Syphon Mind
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3%synergy
Utility Artifacts
Lavaspur Boots
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35%synergy
Defense Grid
29%inclusion19 decks65 decks
28%synergy
Phyrexian Altar
29%inclusion19 decks65 decks
26%synergy
Wishclaw Talisman
26%inclusion17 decks65 decks
21%synergy
Codex Shredder
25%inclusion16 decks65 decks
24%synergy
Altar of Dementia
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22%synergy
Conqueror's Flail
22%inclusion14 decks65 decks
21%synergy
Skullclamp
22%inclusion14 decks65 decks
10%synergy
Conjurer's Bauble
17%inclusion11 decks65 decks
17%synergy
The One Ring
15%inclusion10 decks65 decks
7%synergy
The Darkness Crystal
14%inclusion7 decks49 decks
11%synergy
Demon's Horn
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
12%synergy
Brainstone
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
12%synergy
Scroll Rack
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
11%synergy
Wayfarer's Bauble
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
4%synergy
Pyxis of Pandemonium
11%inclusion7 decks65 decks
11%synergy
Ghoulcaller's Bell
11%inclusion7 decks65 decks
11%synergy
Expedition Map
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6%synergy
Engineered Explosives
7.7%inclusion5 decks65 decks
8%synergy
The Endstone
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6%synergy
Fountainport Bell
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6%synergy
Golem's Heart
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6%synergy
Wand of Vertebrae
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6%synergy
Prism Ring
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6%synergy
Voltaic Key
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5%synergy
Moonsilver Key
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5%synergy
Elixir of Immortality
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
5%synergy
Manifold Key
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
5%synergy
Enchantments
Animate Dead
32%inclusion21 decks65 decks
23%synergy
Bastion of Remembrance
29%inclusion19 decks65 decks
23%synergy
Exquisite Blood
25%inclusion16 decks65 decks
19%synergy
Phyrexian Arena
23%inclusion15 decks65 decks
7%synergy
Font of Agonies
22%inclusion14 decks65 decks
21%synergy
Heartless Summoning
20%inclusion13 decks65 decks
19%synergy
The Meathook Massacre
18%inclusion12 decks65 decks
13%synergy
Sanguine Bond
17%inclusion11 decks65 decks
12%synergy
Black Market Connections
17%inclusion11 decks65 decks
5%synergy
Grave Pact
14%inclusion9 decks65 decks
9%synergy
Dreadhorde Invasion
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
10%synergy
Bitterblossom
11%inclusion7 decks65 decks
7%synergy
Dictate of Erebos
9.2%inclusion6 decks65 decks
6%synergy
Black Market
9.2%inclusion6 decks65 decks
5%synergy
Tortured Existence
7.7%inclusion5 decks65 decks
6%synergy
Underworld Dreams
7.7%inclusion5 decks65 decks
5%synergy
Vampiric Rites
7.7%inclusion5 decks65 decks
5%synergy
Phyrexian Reclamation
7.7%inclusion5 decks65 decks
4%synergy
Bloodchief Ascension
7.7%inclusion5 decks65 decks
4%synergy
Leshrac's Sigil
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
6%synergy
Blight Mound
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
6%synergy
Virtue of Persistence
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
4%synergy
Planeswalkers
Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
23%inclusion11 decks47 decks
22%synergy
Liliana Vess
20%inclusion13 decks65 decks
19%synergy
Professor Onyx
15%inclusion10 decks65 decks
14%synergy
Liliana, Dreadhorde General
14%inclusion9 decks65 decks
10%synergy
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
5%synergy
Ugin, Eye of the Storms
5.9%inclusion3 decks51 decks
5%synergy
Utility Lands
Cabal Coffers
42%inclusion27 decks65 decks
32%synergy
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
38%inclusion25 decks65 decks
29%synergy
Castle Locthwain
34%inclusion22 decks65 decks
30%synergy
Bojuka Bog
31%inclusion20 decks65 decks
1%synergy
Phyrexian Tower
29%inclusion19 decks65 decks
20%synergy
Witch's Cottage
26%inclusion17 decks65 decks
23%synergy
Hall of the Bandit Lord
25%inclusion16 decks65 decks
24%synergy
Ebon Stronghold
23%inclusion15 decks65 decks
23%synergy
Spymaster's Vault
23%inclusion14 decks61 decks
20%synergy
War Room
22%inclusion14 decks65 decks
16%synergy
Crystal Vein
20%inclusion13 decks65 decks
19%synergy
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
20%inclusion13 decks65 decks
15%synergy
Amonkhet Raceway
20%inclusion11 decks56 decks
19%synergy
Swarmyard
18%inclusion12 decks65 decks
17%synergy
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
18%inclusion12 decks65 decks
10%synergy
Peat Bog
17%inclusion11 decks65 decks
17%synergy
Cabal Stronghold
17%inclusion11 decks65 decks
14%synergy
Rogue's Passage
15%inclusion10 decks65 decks
-5%synergy
City of Traitors
14%inclusion9 decks65 decks
13%synergy
Urza's Saga
14%inclusion9 decks65 decks
7%synergy
Lake of the Dead
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
12%synergy
High Market
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
10%synergy
The Black Gate
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
10%synergy
Vault of Whispers
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
8%synergy
Bonders' Enclave
11%inclusion7 decks65 decks
8%synergy
Leechridden Swamp
9.2%inclusion6 decks65 decks
8%synergy
Emergence Zone
9.2%inclusion6 decks65 decks
7%synergy
Inventors' Fair
9.2%inclusion6 decks65 decks
5%synergy
Mortuary Mire
9.2%inclusion6 decks65 decks
5%synergy
Command Beacon
9.2%inclusion6 decks65 decks
4%synergy
Susur Secundi, Void Altar
6.7%inclusion3 decks45 decks
4%synergy
Midgar, City of Mako
6.3%inclusion3 decks48 decks
2%synergy
Blast Zone
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
5%synergy
Volrath's Stronghold
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
5%synergy
Field of Ruin
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
4%synergy
Thespian's Stage
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
4%synergy
Shizo, Death's Storehouse
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
2%synergy
Reliquary Tower
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
-24%synergy
Mana Artifacts
Sol Ring
92%inclusion60 decks65 decks
9%synergy
Arcane Signet
68%inclusion44 decks65 decks
-5%synergy
Mind Stone
32%inclusion21 decks65 decks
17%synergy
Fellwar Stone
32%inclusion21 decks65 decks
12%synergy
The Soul Stone
32%inclusion14 decks44 decks
28%synergy
Lotus Petal
26%inclusion17 decks65 decks
19%synergy
Thought Vessel
22%inclusion14 decks65 decks
4%synergy
Charcoal Diamond
18%inclusion12 decks65 decks
14%synergy
Mox Opal
17%inclusion11 decks65 decks
13%synergy
Springleaf Drum
14%inclusion9 decks65 decks
12%synergy
Chromatic Star
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
12%synergy
Mox Diamond
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
8%synergy
Chromatic Sphere
11%inclusion7 decks65 decks
10%synergy
Lion's Eye Diamond
11%inclusion7 decks65 decks
9%synergy
Jeweled Amulet
9.2%inclusion6 decks65 decks
9%synergy
Nyx Lotus
7.7%inclusion5 decks65 decks
7%synergy
Everflowing Chalice
7.7%inclusion5 decks65 decks
3%synergy
Lotus Bloom
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
6%synergy
Commander's Sphere
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
-6%synergy
Lands
Bloodstained Mire
22%inclusion14 decks65 decks
10%synergy
Polluted Delta
20%inclusion13 decks65 decks
8%synergy
Verdant Catacombs
18%inclusion12 decks65 decks
8%synergy
Marsh Flats
17%inclusion11 decks65 decks
6%synergy
Daily Bugle Building
16%inclusion7 decks44 decks
15%synergy
Gemstone Caverns
15%inclusion10 decks65 decks
10%synergy
Prismatic Vista
14%inclusion9 decks65 decks
9%synergy
Cavern of Souls
14%inclusion9 decks65 decks
7%synergy
Demolition Field
12%inclusion8 decks65 decks
9%synergy
Talon Gates of Madara
11%inclusion7 decks61 decks
9%synergy
Myriad Landscape
11%inclusion7 decks65 decks
-6%synergy
Command Tower
11%inclusion7 decks65 decks
-63%synergy
Plaza of Heroes
9.2%inclusion6 decks65 decks
7%synergy
Evolving Wilds
9.2%inclusion6 decks65 decks
-12%synergy
Urza's Cave
6.3%inclusion4 decks63 decks
4%synergy
Ash Barrens
6.2%inclusion4 decks65 decks
1%synergy