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Life: I Gain, You Lose!
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Commander

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Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life. Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.

Creature
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic (plst) C13-203

Commander

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Protection

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Archangel of Tithes

Flying As long as this creature is untapped, creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures. As long as this creature is attacking, creatures can't block unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

Creature
Archangel of Tithes (ori) 4
Ghostly Prison

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

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (pca) 7
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (tmp) 80
Purity

Flying If noncombat damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way. When Purity is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Creature
Purity (lrw) 37
Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {X} for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Enchantment
Sphere of Safety (rtr) 24
Windborn Muse

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

Creature
Windborn Muse (cmd) 38

Protection

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (uma) 93
Diabolic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (m14) 95
Wishclaw Talisman

This artifact enters with three wish counters on it. {1}, {T}, Remove a wish counter from this artifact: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. An opponent gains control of this artifact. Activate only during your turn.

Artifact
Wishclaw Talisman (eld) 110

Tutor

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Drain

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Defiant Bloodlord

Flying Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Creature
Defiant Bloodlord (bfz) 107
Sanguine Bond

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c13) 92
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. {3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (m21) 127

Drain

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (c20) 237
Archaeomancer's Map

When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Archaeomancer's Map (c21) 12
Azorius Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Artifact
Azorius Signet (gk2) 24
Chromatic Lantern

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

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (grn) 233
Coalition Relic

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all charge counters from this artifact. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

Artifact
Coalition Relic (tsr) 266
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (sta) 26
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (znc) 112
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (5ed) 369
Firemind Vessel

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add two mana of different colors.

Artifact
Firemind Vessel (war) 237
Orzhov Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (c20) 247
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (rna) 22
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (3ed) 274

Ramp

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Draw

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Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (war) 79
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (sld) 165
Cosmos Elixir

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if your life total is greater than your starting life total. Otherwise, you gain 2 life.

Artifact
Cosmos Elixir (khm) 368
Drogskol Reaver

Flying Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Creature
Drogskol Reaver (dka) 137
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (dgm) 88
Paradox Haze

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's first upkeep each turn, that player gets an additional upkeep step after this step.

Enchantment
Paradox Haze (plst) TSP-71
Sorin, Grim Nemesis

+1: Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. Each opponent loses life equal to its mana value. −X: Sorin deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life. −9: Create a number of 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature tokens with lifelink equal to the highest life total among all players.

Planeswalker
Sorin, Grim Nemesis (soi) 251
Survival Cache

You gain 2 life. Then if you have more life than an opponent, draw a card. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Survival Cache (c13) 23
Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Journal (soi) 265
Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (c13) 271

Draw

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Removal

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Cyclonic Rift

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.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (2xm) 339
Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Dromar's Charm

Choose one — • You gain 5 life. • Counter target spell. • Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Instant
Dromar's Charm (c13) 187
Essence Pulse

You gain 2 life. Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Sorcery
Essence Pulse (c21) 366
Heliod's Intervention

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

Instant
Heliod's Intervention (thb) 19
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (bbd) 110
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (c13) 96

Removal

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Land

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Arcane Sanctum

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

Land
Arcane Sanctum (c17) 234
Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Azorius Chancery (c13) 274
Bleachbone Verge

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control a Plains or a Swamp.

Land
Bleachbone Verge (dft) 250
Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (khc) 108
Dimir Aqueduct

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Dimir Aqueduct (znc) 126
Esper Panorama

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Esper Panorama (c13) 286
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 (drc) 154
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (c20) 273
Floodfarm Verge

{T}: Add {W}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

Land
Floodfarm Verge (dsk) 259
Gloomlake Verge

{T}: Add {U}. {T}: Add {B}. Activate only if you control an Island or a Swamp.

Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 260
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (gtc) 242
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rtr) 241
Hengegate Pathway

Land
Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (thb) 251
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (cmr) 721
Morphic Pool

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

Land
Morphic Pool (bbd) 83
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (c20) 292
Orzhov Basilica

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Land
Orzhov Basilica (c17) 268
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (thb) 250
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 438
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (bfz) 241
Raffine's Tower

({T}: Add {W}, {U}, or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Raffine's Tower (snc) 254
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (plg20) 1
Sea of Clouds

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

Land
Sea of Clouds (bbd) 84
Shineshadow Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Shineshadow Snarl (stx) 272
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (c20) 318
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (thb) 252
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (cmr) 497
Vault of Champions

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

Land
Vault of Champions (cmr) 360

Land

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Stax

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Aven Mindcensor

Flash Flying If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead.

Creature
Aven Mindcensor (akh) 5

Stax

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Lifegain

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Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn. Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (plst) KLD-192
Ajani's Pridemate

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Ajani's Pridemate (c13) 3
Archangel of Thune

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Archangel of Thune (m14) 5
Boon Reflection

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Enchantment
Boon Reflection (shm) 5
Cradle of Vitality

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}{W}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each 1 life you gained.

Enchantment
Cradle of Vitality (c13) 7
Divinity of Pride

Flying, lifelink This creature gets +4/+4 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Creature
Divinity of Pride (c13) 228
Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (avr) 102
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.

Creature
Felidar Sovereign (bfz) 26
Liesa, Shroud of Dusk

Rather than pay {2} for each previous time you've cast this spell from the command zone this game, pay 2 life that many times. Flying, lifelink Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Liesa, Shroud of Dusk (cmr) 286
Lone Rider

Creature
Lone Rider // It That Rides as One (emn) 33Lone Rider // It That Rides as One (emn) 33
Rhox Faithmender

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Creature
Rhox Faithmender (m13) 29
Sanguine Sacrament

You gain twice X life. Put Sanguine Sacrament on the bottom of its owner's library.

Instant
Sanguine Sacrament (plst) XLN-33
Serra Avatar

Serra Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to your life total. When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Creature
Serra Avatar (pdp13) 2
Suture Priest

Whenever another creature you control enters, you may gain 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Creature
Suture Priest (nph) 25
Wall of Reverence

Defender, flying At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

Creature
Wall of Reverence (c13) 26

Lifegain

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Tokens

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Angelic Accord

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Angelic Accord (plst) M14-3
Crested Sunmare

Other Horses you control have indestructible. At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 5/5 white Horse creature token.

Creature
Crested Sunmare (hou) 6
Sigil of the Empty Throne

Whenever you cast an enchantment spell, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Sigil of the Empty Throne (c15) 80

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck stats

50 pips - 33 cards
31 mana - 28 cards
10 pips - 9 cards
30 mana - 27 cards
26 pips - 17 cards
33 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 9 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
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