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Pauper EDH - Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Deck Size: 100
Pauper EDH
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Est deck cost: $125.19
Salt sum: 30.69
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Commander

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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 {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142

Commander

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Land

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Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 285

Land

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Artifact

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Altar of the Pantheon

Your devotion to each color and each combination of colors is increased by one. {T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a God, a Demigod, or a legendary enchantment, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Altar of the Pantheon (plst) THB-231
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 51
Drossclaw

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life. Equip {2}

Artifact
Drossclaw (mh3) 89
Explorer's Scope

Whenever equipped creature attacks, look at the top card of your library. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield tapped. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Explorer's Scope (pip) 231
Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Lotus Petal (mb2) 226

Artifact

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Sorcery

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Bone Splinters

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Destroy target creature.

Sorcery
Bone Splinters (dmu) 83
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
Dread Return (cmm) 153
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
Macabre Waltz

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

Sorcery
Macabre Waltz (fdn) 177
Painful Lesson

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Painful Lesson (plst) AKH-102
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (j25) 479

Sorcery

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Creature

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Acolyte of Aclazotz

{T}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Acolyte of Aclazotz (lci) 89
Blood Seeker

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

Creature
Blood Seeker (dsc) 77
Crypt Rats

{X}: This creature deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

Creature
Crypt Rats (j22) 392
Daggerfang Duo

Deathtouch When this creature enters, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Daggerfang Duo (blb) 89
Dauthi Slayer

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) This creature attacks each combat if able.

Creature
Dauthi Slayer (tmp) 126
Deathspore Thallid

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a spore counter on this creature. Remove three spore counters from this creature: Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token. Sacrifice a Saproling: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Deathspore Thallid (tsr) 109
Defiant Salvager

Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Defiant Salvager (cmr) 117
Demon's Disciple

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.

Creature
Demon's Disciple (cmm) 149
Disciple of Phenax

When this creature enters, target player reveals a number of cards from their hand equal to your devotion to black. You choose one of them. That player discards that card. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Disciple of Phenax (ths) 84
Disowned Ancestor

Outlast {1}{B} ({1}{B}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Disowned Ancestor (plst) KTK-70
Fetid Gargantua

{2}{B}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, you may draw two cards. If you do, you lose 2 life.

Creature
Fetid Gargantua (mh3) 94
Fleshbag Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Fleshbag Marauder (drc) 92
Gloom Sower

Whenever this creature becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Gloom Sower (plst) M21-100
Hoard Robber

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Hoard Robber (afr) 110
Legion Vanguard

{1}, Sacrifice another creature: This creature explores. (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
Legion Vanguard (cmm) 170
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 95
Nadier's Nightblade

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Nadier's Nightblade (blc) 184
Orzhov Euthanist

Haunt (When this creature dies, exile it haunting target creature.) When this creature enters or the creature it haunts dies, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.

Creature
Orzhov Euthanist (rvr) 88
Overeager Apprentice

Discard a card, Sacrifice this creature: Add {B}{B}{B}.

Creature
Overeager Apprentice (dvd) 35
Pestilent Syphoner

Flying Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)

Creature
Pestilent Syphoner (one) 103
Phyrexian Gargantua

When this creature enters, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Creature
Phyrexian Gargantua (cmm) 178
Pulse Tracker

Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Pulse Tracker (ddm) 43
Qarsi Sadist

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Qarsi Sadist (dtk) 113
Ravine Raider

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) {1}{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Ravine Raider (blb) 106
Scurrilous Sentry

Menace Whenever this creature enters or attacks, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)

Creature
Scurrilous Sentry (mh3) 108
Serrated Scorpion

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

Creature
Serrated Scorpion (cmm) 185
Soldevi Adnate

{T}, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Creature
Soldevi Adnate (all) 60a
Spectral Snatcher

Ward—Discard a card. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player discards a card.) Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Spectral Snatcher (dsk) 116
Stingblade Assassin

Flash Flying When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.

Creature
Stingblade Assassin (woe) 109
Thrill-Kill Assassin

Deathtouch Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Thrill-Kill Assassin (rvr) 94
Undercity Scrounger

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

Creature Artifact
Undercity Scrounger (j25) 501
Unhallowed Phalanx

This creature enters tapped.

Creature
Unhallowed Phalanx (vow) 135
Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Viscera Seer (lcc) 213
Voracious Null

{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Voracious Null (plst) BFZ-125
Zhentarim Bandit

Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay 1 life. If you do, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Zhentarim Bandit (clb) 158
Zulaport Enforcer

Level up {4} ({4}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.) LEVEL 1-2 3/3 LEVEL 3+ 5/5 This creature can't be blocked except by black creatures.

Creature
Zulaport Enforcer (plst) ROE-133

Creature

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Enchantment

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Eternal Thirst

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Enchantment
Eternal Thirst (plst) IMA-89
Fungal Fortitude

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0. When enchanted creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.

Enchantment
Fungal Fortitude (lci) 106
Quag Sickness

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -1/-1 for each Swamp you control.

Enchantment
Quag Sickness (m14) 110
Vampiric Link

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Vampiric Link (plst) PLC-92

Enchantment

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Instant

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Another Chance

You may mill two cards. Then return up to two creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant
Another Chance (lci) 90
Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Instant
Cabal Ritual (mb2) 177
Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Culling the Weak (mb2) 40
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
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
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
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (j25) 467
Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Instant
Not Dead After All (woe) 101
Rowan's Grim Search

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard. You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Instant
Rowan's Grim Search (woe) 104
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
Supernatural Stamina

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."

Instant
Supernatural Stamina (cmm) 188

Instant

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