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Life backs baby, alright!
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Commander

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Licia, Sanguine Tribune

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each 1 life you gained this turn. First strike, lifelink Pay 5 life: Put three +1/+1 counters on Licia. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn.

Creature
Licia, Sanguine Tribune (c17) 40

Commander

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Oh you wanna pay life?

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Athreos, God of Passage

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you own dies, return it to your hand unless target opponent pays 3 life.

Creature Enchantment
Athreos, God of Passage (plst) JOU-146
Meathook Massacre II

When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice. Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.

Enchantment
Meathook Massacre II (dsk) 108
Temporal Extortion

When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion. Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Temporal Extortion (plc) 81

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Being Aggressive

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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
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 (mb2) 39
Boros Charm

Choose one — • Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Boros Charm (otc) 216
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Carmen and you gain 1 life. Whenever Carmen attacks, return up to one target permanent card with mana value less than or equal to Carmen's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher (lcc) 5
Duelist's Heritage

Whenever one or more creatures attack, you may have target attacking creature gain double strike until end of turn.

Enchantment
Duelist's Heritage (mkc) 60
Greven, Predator Captain

Menace Greven gets +X/+0, where X is the amount of life you've lost this turn. Whenever Greven attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, you draw cards equal to that creature's power and you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Creature
Greven, Predator Captain (c19) 43
Haunted Cloak

Equipped creature has vigilance, trample, and haste. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Haunted Cloak (cmm) 389
Inner Sanctum

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (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.) Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures you control.

Enchantment
Inner Sanctum (wth) 18
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Lifelink For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana. Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Creature
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
Nexus of Becoming

At the beginning of combat on your turn, draw a card. Then you may exile an artifact or creature card from your hand. If you do, create a token that's a copy of the exiled card, except it's a 3/3 Golem artifact creature in addition to its other types.

Artifact
Nexus of Becoming (big) 25
Rowan, Scion of War

Menace {T}: Spells you cast this turn that are black and/or red cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you lost this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Rowan, Scion of War (woe) 211
Verrak, Warped Sengir

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Whenever you activate an ability that isn't a mana ability, if life was paid to activate it, you may pay that much life again. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Verrak, Warped Sengir (dmc) 16
Witch of the Moors

Deathtouch At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Witch of the Moors (otc) 152

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Paying Life

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Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
Bloodtracker

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Bloodtracker (lcc) 186
Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature
Doom Whisperer (mkc) 128
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card. {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted (cmm) 868
Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment. {1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.

Enchantment
Font of Agonies (rna) 74
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Hatred

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Instant
Hatred (exo) 64
Lunar Convocation

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent loses 1 life. At the beginning of your end step, if you gained and lost life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying. {1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Lunar Convocation (blb) 223
Moonlight Bargain

Look at the top five cards of your library. For each card, put that card into your graveyard unless you pay 2 life. Then put the rest into your hand.

Instant
Moonlight Bargain (c18) 114
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
Plunge into Darkness

Choose one — • Sacrifice any number of creatures. You gain 3 life for each creature sacrificed this way. • Pay any amount of life, then look at that many cards from the top of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and exile the rest. Entwine {B} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Plunge into Darkness (5dn) 57
Priest of Fell Rites

{T}, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery. Unearth {3}{W}{B} ({3}{W}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Priest of Fell Rites (mh2) 208
Purgatory

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, exile that card. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4} and 2 life. If you do, return a card exiled with this enchantment to the battlefield.

Enchantment
Purgatory (mir) 275
Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Snuff Out (mb2) 187
Soul Channeling

Enchant creature Pay 2 life: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Soul Channeling (mmq) 163
Staff of Compleation

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color. {T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate. {T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card. {5}: Untap this artifact.

Artifact
Staff of Compleation (one) 242
Tivash, Gloom Summoner

Lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. If you do, create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying.

Creature
Tivash, Gloom Summoner (j22) 476
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 (mh3) 277
Treasonous Ogre

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Pay 3 life: Add {R}.

Creature
Treasonous Ogre (plst) CNS-36
Treasure Dredger

{1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Treasure Dredger (otj) 110
Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Vilis, Broker of Blood (j25) 70
Vona, Butcher of Magan

Vigilance, lifelink {T}, Pay 7 life: Destroy target nonland permanent. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Vona, Butcher of Magan (lcc) 293
Withering Boon

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life. Counter target creature spell.

Instant
Withering Boon (mir) 152

Paying Life

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Changing Life Totals lol

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Axis of Mortality

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have two target players exchange life totals.

Enchantment
Axis of Mortality (xln) 3
Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Creature
Magus of the Mirror (cns) 117
Profane Transfusion

Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.

Sorcery
Profane Transfusion (cmr) 145
Soul Conduit

{6}, {T}: Two target players exchange life totals.

Artifact
Soul Conduit (nph) 158

Changing Life Totals lol

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Ramp

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Wayfarer's Bauble

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

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (pip) 252

Ramp

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Gaining Life

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Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Ward—Pay 3 life. Whenever you gain life, Amalia Benavides Aguirre explores. Then destroy all other creatures if its power is exactly 20. (To have this creature explore, reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Amalia Benavides Aguirre (lci) 221
Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (fdn) 137
Bloodthirsty Conqueror

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

Creature
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 58
Chandra's Ignition

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.

Sorcery
Chandra's Ignition (lcc) 220
Children of Korlis

Sacrifice this creature: You gain life equal to the life you've lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Children of Korlis (tsr) 14
Cleric Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {3}{W}: Level 2 Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. {4}{W}: Level 3 When this Class becomes level 3, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Enchantment
Cleric Class (afr) 6
Creeping Bloodsucker

At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Creature
Creeping Bloodsucker (j25) 415
Elenda, Saint of Dusk

Lifelink, hexproof from instants As long as your life total is greater than your starting life total, Elenda gets +1/+1 and has menace. Elenda gets an additional +5/+5 as long as your life total is at least 10 greater than your starting life total.

Creature
Elenda, Saint of Dusk (fdn) 119
Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Lifelink Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda. When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Creature
Elenda, the Dusk Rose (lcc) 268
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Fumigate (mkc) 66
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.

Creature Enchantment
Heliod, Sun-Crowned (cmm) 29
Markov Purifier

Lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Markov Purifier (vow) 241
Rodolf Duskbringer

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Whenever you gain life, Rodolf Duskbringer gains indestructible until end of turn. At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}{W/B}. When you do, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Rodolf Duskbringer (j25) 482
Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul Warden (plst) MM3-24
Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul's Attendant (plst) ROE-44
Sunspring Expedition

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. Remove three quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: You gain 8 life.

Enchantment
Sunspring Expedition (zen) 37

Gaining Life

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Removal

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Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant
Generous Gift (blc) 106

Removal

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (drc) 148
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (tdc) 360
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 (rvr) 277
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (tdm) 284
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 278
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
Savai Triome

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

Land
Savai Triome (iko) 253
Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Land
Shizo, Death's Storehouse (dmc) 233
Slayers' Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {R}{W}, {T}: Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains vigilance and haste until end of turn.

Land
Slayers' Stronghold (mkc) 295
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 284

Land

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Deck Info

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29 pips - 26 cards
12 mana - 12 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
64 pips - 42 cards
31 mana - 31 cards
7 pips - 6 cards
7 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
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