Life Drain • (Rakdos Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

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Burn Combo Deathtouch Flying Group Slug Lifedrain Lifegain Self-Damage Vampires

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Commander

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Burn Combo Deathtouch Flying Group Slug Lifedrain Lifegain Self-Damage Vampires

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $21.99

The Lord of Pain

Menace
Your opponents can't gain life.
Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, choose another target player. The Lord of Pain deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to the chosen player.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

$21.99 $10.45 $9.97

Commander

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Burn

Qty: 8 Price: $37.90

Breath of Malfegor

Breath of Malfegor deals 5 damage to each opponent.

Instant

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Burst Lightning

Kicker

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell.)
Burst Lightning deals 2 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, it deals 4 damage instead.

Instant

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Fiery Emancipation

If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Enchantment

$14.99 $13.15 $11.05

Firebrand Archer

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature - Human Archer

$0.39 $0.25 $0.15

Impact Tremors

Whenever a creature you control enters, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Enchantment

$4.49 $3.04 $2.24

Lightning Strike

Lightning Strike deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Throne of the God-Pharaoh

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control.

Legendary Artifact

$11.99 $7.22 $6.07

Toralf, God of Fury

Trample
Whenever a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls is dealt excess noncombat damage, Toralf deals damage equal to the excess to any target other than that permanent.

Legendary Creature - God

Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer (khm) 154

$4.99 $5.27 $3.95

Burn

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Creature

Qty: 5 Price: $46.39

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature - Knight Vampire

$44.99 $37.76 $35.02

Perforating Artist

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Creature - Devil

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Sanguine Syphoner

Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Vampire Warlock

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Soul-Shackled Zombie

When this creature enters, exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. If at least one creature card was exiled this way, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Vampire Soulcaller

Flying
This creature can't block.
When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Vampire Warlock

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Creature

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Discard

Qty: 1 Price: $1.79

Fraying Omnipotence

Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice. Round up each time.

Sorcery

$1.79 $0.71 $0.60

Discard

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Drain

Qty: 11 Price: $40.85

Agent of the Iron Throne

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever an artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life."

Legendary Enchantment - Background

$2.99 $2.93 $2.60

Bloodhunter Bat

Flying
When this creature enters, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature - Bat

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Dogged Pursuit

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment - Snake Glimmer

$15.99 $13.02 $10.39

Etched Familiar

When this creature dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature Artifact - Fox Phyrexian

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

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.)

Creature - Zombie

$7.99 $8.71 $4.03

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Vampire Cleric

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Raven of Fell Omens

Flying
Whenever you commit a crime, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature - Bird

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Serrated Scorpion

When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.

Creature - Scorpion

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Vein Ripper

Flying
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature - Vampire Assassin

$10.99 $7.10 $6.00

Vengeful Bloodwitch

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Vampire Warlock

$0.79 $0.39 $0.15

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 9 Price: $15.45

Atrocious Experiment

Target player mills two cards, draws two cards, and loses 2 life. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Emberwilde Captain

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever an opponent attacks you while you're the monarch, this creature deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Creature - Djinn Pirate

$2.79 $1.96 $1.55

Grasping Shadows

Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. Put a dread counter on this enchantment. Then if there are three or more dread counters on it, transform it.

Enchantment

Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair (lci) 108

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment

$9.99 $7.39 $5.19

Stargaze

Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Starlit Soothsayer

Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained or lost life this turn, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature - Cleric Bat

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Vampiric Rites

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment

$0.39 $0.34 $0.15

Witch's Cauldron

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Artifact

$0.39 $0.23 $0.15

Wretched Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
• Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Draw

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.38 $0.19

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $38.18

Black Dragon Gate

This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than black.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land - Gate

$0.99 $0.55 $0.36

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.79 $0.41 $0.22

Escape Tunnel

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

, Sacrifice this land: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Evolving Wilds

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Immersturm Skullcairn

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: It deals 3 damage to target player. That player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Jagged Barrens

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.

: Add

Land - Desert

$2.29 $0.45 $0.15

Mountain

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: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

$0.49 $0.64 $0.15

Raucous Theater

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land - Swamp Mountain

$18.99 $10.94 $10.57

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.15 $0.15

Terramorphic Expanse

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Thriving Bluff

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than red.

: Add

or one mana of the chosen color.

Land

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 4 Price: $10.86

Chalice of Life

: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform this artifact.

Artifact

Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (inr) 257

$0.39 $0.35 $0.15

Polluted Bonds

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment

$7.99 $8.86 $6.46

Trespasser's Curse

Enchant player
Whenever a creature enchanted player controls enters, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment - Aura Curse

$1.79 $2.01 $0.61

Vampire Nighthawk

Flying
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature - Vampire Shaman

$0.69 $0.30 $0.15

Lifegain

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Mill

Qty: 1 Price: $0.39

Mire Triton

Deathtouch
When this creature enters, mill two cards and you gain 2 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature - Merfolk Zombie

$0.39 $0.26 $0.15

Mill

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Pingers

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

Loyal Subordinate

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature - Zombie

$0.59 $0.41 $0.15

Pingers

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Protection

Qty: 1 Price: $1.79

Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.
Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legendary Creature - Demon Berserker

$1.79 $3.65 $0.87

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 5 Price: $12.01

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.69 $0.52

Armillary Sphere

, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legendary Artifact

$6.49 $4.44 $3.48

Cryptolith Fragment

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add one mana of any color. Each player loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if each player has 10 or less life, transform this artifact.

Artifact

Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul (inr) 260

$0.69 $0.36 $0.15

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $1.82 $1.45

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 4 Price: $2.04

Ayara, Widow of the Realm

, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Ayara deals X damage to target opponent or battle and you gain X life, where X is the sacrificed permanent's mana value.

: Transform Ayara. Activate only as a sorcery. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Legendary Creature - Elf Noble

Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen (mom) 296

$0.99 $0.44 $0.20

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.66 $0.45

Macabre Waltz

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Zombify

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 9 Price: $61.85

Callous Sell-Sword

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature that died under your control this turn.

Creature - Human Soldier

Callous Sell-Sword // Burn Together (woe) 221

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

Deep-Cavern 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.

Creature - Bat

$0.79 $0.35 $0.15

Demon Bolt

Demon Bolt deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
Foretell

(During your turn, you may pay

and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Hazardous Blast

Hazardous Blast deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control. Creatures your opponents control can't block this turn.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Rush of Dread

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+

— Target opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up.
+

— Target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded up.
+

— Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.40 $0.15

Sorin's Thirst

Sorin's Thirst deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Instant

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Stab Wound

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player loses 2 life.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Street Urchin

Commander creatures you own have "

, Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."

Legendary Enchantment - Background

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Terror of the Peaks

Flying
Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost an additional 3 life to cast.
Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target.

Creature - Dragon

$57.99 $32.23 $38.88

Removal

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Sorcery

Qty: 1 Price: $5.49

Boltwave

Boltwave deals 3 damage to each opponent.

Sorcery

$5.49 $2.67 $1.12

Sorcery

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Tutor

Qty: 2 Price: $1.64

Final Parting

Search your library for two cards. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.41 $0.30

The Creation of Avacyn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle.
II — Turn the exiled card face up. If it's a creature card, you lose life equal to its mana value.
III — You may put the exiled card onto the battlefield if it's a creature card. If you don't put it onto the battlefield, put it into its owner's hand.

Enchantment - Saga

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $300.00

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.11Total Mana Value: 199.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.11Total Mana Value: 199.00

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