Secret Lair Commander Deck: 20 Ways to Win

Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Felidar Sovereign

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 40 or more life, you win the game.

Go-Shintai of Life's Origin

{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, {T}: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Whenever Go-Shintai of Life's Origin or another nontoken Shrine you control enters, create a 1/1 colorless Shrine enchantment creature token.

Go-Shintai of Life's Origin (Display Card)

{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, {T}: Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Whenever Go-Shintai of Life's Origin or another nontoken Shrine you control enters, create a 1/1 colorless Shrine enchantment creature token.

Happily Ever After

When this enchantment enters, each player gains 5 life and draws a card. At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are five colors among permanents you control, there are six or more card types among permanents you control and/or cards in your graveyard, and your life total is greater than or equal to your starting life total, you win the game.

Helix Pinnacle

Shroud (This enchantment can't be the target of spells or abilities.) {X}: Put X tower counters on this enchantment. At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are 100 or more tower counters on this enchantment, you win the game.

Maze's End

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Return this land to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Shrine

Simic Ascendancy

{1}{G}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a creature you control, put that many growth counters on this enchantment. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this enchantment has twenty or more growth counters on it, you win the game.

Sol Ring

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

Triskaidekaphile

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.

Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Crib Swap

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Exile target creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling.

Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Fertile Ground

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Ghostly Prison

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

Ghoulish Impetus

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1, has deathtouch, and is goaded. When enchanted creature dies, return this card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.

Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Lignify

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is a Treefolk with base power and toughness 0/4 and loses all abilities.

Liliana's Contract

When this enchantment enters, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game.

Mayael's Aria

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control if you control a creature with power 5 or greater. Then you gain 10 life if you control a creature with power 10 or greater. Then you win the game if you control a creature with power 20 or greater.

Mechanized Production

Enchant artifact you control At the beginning of your upkeep, create a token that's a copy of enchanted artifact. Then if you control eight or more artifacts with the same name as one another, you win the game.

Monologue Tax

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.

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}.

Pariah

Enchant creature All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to enchanted creature instead.

Shiny Impetus

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Test of Endurance

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 50 or more life, you win the game.

Trace of Abundance

Enchant land Enchanted land has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional one mana of any color.

Tireless Tracker

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Hangarback Walker

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying for each +1/+1 counter on this creature. {1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Alseid of Life's Bounty

Lifelink {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature or enchantment you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Maskwood Nexus

Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)

The World Tree

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Gateway Plaza

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Augur of Autumn

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands from the top of your library. Coven — As long as you control three or more creatures with different powers, you may cast creature spells from the top of your library.

Auriok Champion

Protection from black and from red Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Azorius Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Baldur's Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Biovisionary

At the beginning of the end step, if you control four or more creatures named Biovisionary, you win the game.

Black Dragon Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Boros Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Bountiful Promenade

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Brushland

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Circuitous Route

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Citadel Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than white. {T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Clever Concealment

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Any number of target nonland permanents you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until your next turn.)

Cliffgate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than red. {T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Darksteel Citadel

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Dimir Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Drown in Dreams

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Target player draws X cards. • Target player mills twice X cards.

Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Eerie Ultimatum

Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Exotic Orchard

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

Faeburrow Elder

Vigilance This creature gets +1/+1 for each color among permanents you control. {T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Forgotten Ancient

Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.

Golgari Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Gond Gate

Gates you control enter untapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.

Gruul Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Halo Fountain

{W}, {T}, Untap a tapped creature you control: Create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. {W}{W}, {T}, Untap two tapped creatures you control: Draw a card. {W}{W}{W}{W}{W}, {T}, Untap fifteen tapped creatures you control: You win the game.

Heap Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}, Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Heliod's Intervention

Choose one — • Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments. • Target player gains twice X life.

Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature. Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control. {1}{W}: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Hellkite Tyrant

Flying, trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

Izzet Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card. Each player may put a land card from their hand onto the battlefield, then each opponent who didn't draws a card.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Mangara, the Diplomat

Lifelink Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Manor Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than green. {T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Orzhov Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Overgrown Farmland

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Plaza of Harmony

When this land enters, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 3 life. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any type that a Gate you control could produce.

Rakdos Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Razorverge Thicket

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Reflecting Pool

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

Rite of Replication

Kicker {5} (You may pay an additional {5} as you cast this spell.) Create a token that's a copy of target creature. If this spell was kicked, create five of those tokens instead.

Sanctum Weaver

{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Sea Gate

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color other than blue. {T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Seedborn Muse

Untap all permanents you control during each other player's untap step.

Selesnya Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Shalai, Voice of Plenty

Flying You, planeswalkers you control, and other creatures you control have hexproof. {4}{G}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Simic Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Sphinx's Revelation

You gain X life and draw X cards.

Sunscorch Regent

Flying Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Sun Titan

Vigilance Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Taurean Mauler

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

The Eternal Wanderer

No more than one creature can attack The Eternal Wanderer each combat. +1: Exile up to one target artifact or creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of that player's next end step. 0: Create a 2/2 white Samurai creature token with double strike. −4: For each player, choose a creature that player controls. Each player sacrifices all creatures they control not chosen this way.

Thornglint Bridge

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Tragic Arrogance

For each player, you choose from among the permanents that player controls an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker. Then each player sacrifices all other nonland permanents they control.

Twenty-Toed Toad

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.

Wooded Bastion

{T}: Add {C}. {G/W}, {T}: Add {G}{G}, {G}{W}, or {W}{W}.

Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni. Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Enduring Ideal (foil)

Search your library for an enchantment card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability.)