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Bane, Gortash's Lover
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $87.62
Salt sum: 27.76
Est Commander Bracket: 1 or 2
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Bane, Lord of Darkness

As long as your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, Bane, Lord of Darkness has indestructible. Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, target opponent may have you draw a card. If they don't, you may put a creature card with equal or lesser toughness from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Bane, Lord of Darkness (clb) 415

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Instant

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Refute

Counter target spell. Draw a card, then discard a card.

Instant
Refute (fdn) 48

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Ramp

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Gleaming Barrier

Defender When this creature dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature Artifact
Gleaming Barrier (fdn) 252
Sky Diamond

Sky Diamond enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Artifact
Sky Diamond (scd) 273
Undercity Scrounger

{T}: Create a Treasure token. Activate only if a creature died this turn. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature Artifact
Undercity Scrounger (j25) 501

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Tutor

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Grim Servant

Menace When Grim Servant enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Grim Servant (mh3) 97

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Counters

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Gixian Skullflayer

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Gixian Skullflayer.

Creature
Gixian Skullflayer (bro) 100
Iron Apprentice

Iron Apprentice enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. When Iron Apprentice dies, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target creature you control.

Creature Artifact
Iron Apprentice (neo) 248

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Land

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Abandoned Campground

Abandoned Campground enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Abandoned Campground (dsk) 255
Contaminated Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Contaminated Landscape: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {W}{U}{B} ({W}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Contaminated Landscape (mh3) 218
Dismal Backwater

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dismal Backwater (dft) 254
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (inr) 278
Idyllic Beachfront

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Idyllic Beachfront enters tapped.

Land
Idyllic Beachfront (dmu) 249
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (inr) 290
Lonely Arroyo

Lonely Arroyo enters tapped. When Lonely Arroyo enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Lonely Arroyo (otj) 260
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (inr) 289
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (inr) 293
Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Tranquil Cove (dft) 267

Land

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Recursion

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Drana, the Last Bloodchief

Flying Whenever Drana, the Last Bloodchief attacks, defending player chooses a nonlegendary creature card in your graveyard. You return that card to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. The creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.

Creature
Drana, the Last Bloodchief (znr) 98
Extraction Specialist

Lifelink When Extraction Specialist enters, return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature can't attack or block for as long as you control Extraction Specialist.

Creature
Extraction Specialist (snc) 12
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

Flying, lifelink Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step. If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.

Creature
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel (inr) 243
Midnight Scavengers

When this creature enters, you may return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand. (Melds with Graf Rats.)

Creature
Midnight Scavengers (inr) 123
Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Reassembling Skeleton (j25) 481
Sam's Desperate Rescue

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. The Ring tempts you.

Sorcery
Sam's Desperate Rescue (ltr) 105
Sanitarium Skeleton

{2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Sanitarium Skeleton (inr) 129
Zombify

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Zombify (a25) 116

Recursion

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Creature

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Abundant Maw

Emerge {6}{B} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.) When you cast this spell, target opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Creature
Abundant Maw (inr) 1
Arbiter of Woe

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Flying When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life. You draw a card and gain 2 life.

Creature
Arbiter of Woe (fdn) 55
Erudite Wizard

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Erudite Wizard (fdn) 37
Graf Rats

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you both own and control this creature and a creature named Midnight Scavengers, exile them, then meld them into Chittering Host.

Creature
Graf Rats (inr) 113
Hungry Ghoul

{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Hungry Ghoul (fdn) 62
Infernal Vessel

When this creature dies, if it wasn't a Demon, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with two +1/+1 counters on it. It's a Demon in addition to its other types.

Creature
Infernal Vessel (fdn) 63
Infestation Sage

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token with flying.

Creature
Infestation Sage (fdn) 64
Shroudstomper

Deathtouch Whenever Shroudstomper enters or attacks, each opponent loses 2 life. You gain 2 life and draw a card.

Creature
Shroudstomper (dsk) 233
Took Reaper

When Took Reaper dies, the Ring tempts you.

Creature
Took Reaper (ltr) 35
Vampire Gourmand

Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, draw a card and this creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Vampire Gourmand (fdn) 74

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Mill

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Carrion Grub

Carrion Grub gets +X/+0, where X is the greatest power among creature cards in your graveyard. When Carrion Grub enters, mill four cards. (Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Carrion Grub (dsc) 134

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Removal

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Cathar Commando

Flash {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Cathar Commando (inr) 15
Final Vengeance

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment. Exile target creature.

Sorcery
Final Vengeance (dsk) 99
Flare of Denial

You may sacrifice a nontoken blue creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Flare of Denial (mh3) 62
Glorious Gale

Counter target creature spell. If it was a legendary spell, the Ring tempts you.

Instant
Glorious Gale (ltr) 51
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (j25) 447
Hero's Downfall

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Hero's Downfall (dmc) 112
Hindering Light

Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control. Draw a card.

Instant
Hindering Light (ala) 173
Lash of the Balrog

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {4}. Destroy target creature.

Sorcery
Lash of the Balrog (ltr) 92
Make Your Move

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or creature with power 4 or greater.

Instant
Make Your Move (fdn) 143
Myrkul's Edict

Roll a d20. 1—9 | Choose an opponent. That player sacrifices a creature of their choice. 10—19 | Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. 20 | Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.

Sorcery
Myrkul's Edict (clb) 135
Royal Assassin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature
Royal Assassin (acr) 93
Shay Cormac

{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof, indestructible, protection, shroud, and ward until end of turn. Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes the target of a spell or ability you control, put a bounty counter on that creature. Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, put two +1/+1 counters on Shay Cormac.

Creature
Shay Cormac (acr) 65
Soul Transfer

Choose one. If you control an artifact and an enchantment as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Exile target creature or planeswalker. • Return target creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Soul Transfer (neo) 122
Syncopate

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Syncopate (inr) 89
Void Rend

This spell can't be countered. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Void Rend (otp) 59
Witness Protection

Enchant creature Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a green and white Citizen creature with base power and toughness 1/1 named Legitimate Businessperson. (It loses all other colors, card types, creature types, and names.)

Enchantment
Witness Protection (snc) 66

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Drain

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Vengeful Bloodwitch

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

Creature
Vengeful Bloodwitch (fdn) 76

Drain

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Protection

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Fake Your Own Death

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Fake Your Own Death (fdn) 174
Hydroelectric Specimen

Creature
Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111

Protection

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Sac Outlet

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Fleshtaker

Whenever you sacrifice another creature, you gain 1 life and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {1}, Sacrifice another creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Fleshtaker (inr) 235
Lunarch Mantle

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has "{1}, Sacrifice a permanent: This creature gains flying until end of turn."

Enchantment
Lunarch Mantle (inr) 344
Sepulcher Ghoul

Sacrifice another creature: Sepulcher Ghoul gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Sepulcher Ghoul (afr) 118

Sac Outlet

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Draw

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Eviscerator's Insight

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards. Flashback {4}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Instant
Eviscerator's Insight (mh3) 93
Faramir, Field Commander

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, draw a card. Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Faramir, Field Commander as your Ring-bearer, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

Creature
Faramir, Field Commander (ltr) 14
Gibbering Barricade

Defender {2}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Gibbering Barricade (dmu) 95
Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card. +1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. −4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice. −9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Dreadhorde General (fdn) 176
Nasty End

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Instant
Nasty End (ltr) 99
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar (clb) 499
Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker

{T}, Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: For each opponent, you mill a card, then return that card from your graveyard to your hand unless that player pays 3 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker (clb) 148
The Council of Four

Whenever a player draws their second card during their turn, you draw a card. Whenever a player casts their second spell during their turn, you create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.

Creature
The Council of Four (clb) 271
Think Twice

Draw a card. Flashback {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Think Twice (inr) 92
Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (otc) 120
Warlock Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, each opponent loses 1 life. {1}{B}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. {6}{B}: Level 3 At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Enchantment
Warlock Class (afr) 125

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Pump

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Glasswing Grace

Enchantment
Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel (mh3) 254Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel (mh3) 254
Rasaad yn Bashir

Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Whenever Rasaad yn Bashir attacks, if you have the initiative, double the toughness of each creature you control until end of turn. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Rasaad yn Bashir (clb) 479

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Tokens

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Prince Imrahil the Fair

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.

Creature
Prince Imrahil the Fair (ltr) 431
Skirsdag High Priest

Morbid — {T}, Tap two untapped creatures you control: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Creature
Skirsdag High Priest (inr) 132
Teysa Karlov

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Creature tokens you control have vigilance and lifelink.

Creature
Teysa Karlov (mul) 61

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck stats

21 pips - 18 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
16 pips - 14 cards
17 mana - 17 cards
51 pips - 43 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
1 mana - 1 card
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