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The Gaff Step
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Est deck cost: $711.01
Salt sum: 36.87
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Commander

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The Gaffer

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, draw a card.

Creature
The Gaffer (ltc) 12

Commander

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Land

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Emeria, the Sky Ruin

This land enters tapped. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. {T}: Add {W}.

Land
Emeria, the Sky Ruin (plst) ZEN-213
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 (dsc) 289
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 277
Radiant Fountain

When this land enters, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Radiant Fountain (c21) 310
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (mkc) 310

Land

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Draw

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Dawn of Hope

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. {3}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

Enchantment
Dawn of Hope (ltc) 164
Enduring Innocence

Lifelink Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. When Enduring Innocence 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
Enduring Innocence (dsk) 6
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
Exemplar of Light

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on this creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Exemplar of Light (fdn) 11
Mangara, the Diplomat

Lifelink Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Creature
Mangara, the Diplomat (blc) 145
Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Mentor of the Meek (inr) 34
Tocasia's Welcome

Whenever one or more creatures you control with mana value 3 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Tocasia's Welcome (bro) 30
Welcoming Vampire

Flying Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Welcoming Vampire (mkc) 91
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 (ltc) 291

Draw

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Lifegain 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
Attended Healer

Whenever you gain life for the first time each turn, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token. {2}{W}: Another target Cleric gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Attended Healer (j22) 152
Cat Collector

When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Whenever you gain life for the first time during each of your turns, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token.

Creature
Cat Collector (fdn) 4
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 (plst) HOU-6
Elenda's Hierophant

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is its power.

Creature
Elenda's Hierophant (lcc) 71
Griffin Aerie

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Griffin Aerie (plst) M21-22
Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles

Flying Whenever Gwaihir attacks, target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn. At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 3/3 white Bird creature token with flying and "Whenever this token attacks, target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn."

Creature
Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles (ltc) 15
Ocelot Pride

First strike, lifelink Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token. Then if you have the city's blessing, for each token you control that entered this turn, create a token that's a copy of it.

Creature
Ocelot Pride (mh3) 38
Resplendent Angel

Flying At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 5 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance. {3}{W}{W}{W}: Until end of turn, this creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink.

Creature
Resplendent Angel (lci) 32
The Book of Exalted Deeds

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying. {W}{W}{W}, {T}, Exile The Book of Exalted Deeds: Put an enlightened counter on target Angel. It gains "You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game." Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
The Book of Exalted Deeds (afr) 4
Valkyrie Harbinger

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) 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 and vigilance.

Creature
Valkyrie Harbinger (j25) 275

Lifegain Tokens

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ETB Gain

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Auriok Champion

Protection from black and from red Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Auriok Champion (plst) IMA-9
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun

Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.) Whenever another creature you control enters or dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun (plst) THB-9
Distinguished Conjurer

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. {4}{W}, {T}: Exile another target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature
Distinguished Conjurer (mh3) 264
Guide of Souls

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life and get {E} (an energy counter). Whenever you attack, you may pay {E}{E}{E}. When you do, put two +1/+1 counters and a flying counter on target attacking creature. It becomes an Angel in addition to its other types.

Creature
Guide of Souls (mh3) 29
Healer of the Pride

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 2 life.

Creature
Healer of the Pride (plst) M13-19
Hinterland Sanctifier

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Hinterland Sanctifier (j25) 5
Impassioned Orator

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Impassioned Orator (pip) 162
Lifecreed Duo

Flying Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Lifecreed Duo (blb) 20
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
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 (moc) 210

ETB Gain

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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 (drc) 51
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
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Gilded Lotus

{T}: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact
Gilded Lotus (blc) 271
Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Land Tax (cmm) 37
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color. {T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color. {3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Artifact
Throne of Eldraine (woc) 28

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Extra Lifegain

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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
Angel of Vitality

Flying If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Creature
Angel of Vitality (j25) 162
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
Heron of Hope

Flying If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {1}{W}: This creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Heron of Hope (vow) 18
Knight of Dawn's Light

First strike If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {1}{W}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Knight of Dawn's Light (dmu) 23
Leyline of Hope

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Enchantment
Leyline of Hope (dsk) 18
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 (j25) 245

Extra Lifegain

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Token Multi

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Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Enchantment
Anointed Procession (plst) AKH-2
Mondrak, Glory Dominus

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, twice that many of those tokens are created instead. {1}{W/P}{W/P}, Sacrifice two other artifacts and/or creatures: Put an indestructible counter on Mondrak. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Creature
Mondrak, Glory Dominus (one) 23
Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation

Creature
Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization (lci) 26Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization (lci) 26

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Finisher

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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
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 (2xm) 5
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 (j25) 198
Qala, Ajani's Pridemate

Whenever Qala attacks, other attacking creatures you control get +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of counters on Qala. Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Qala. {3}{W}: You gain 1 life.

Creature
Qala, Ajani's Pridemate (j25) 32

Finisher

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Tokens

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Benevolent Offering

Choose an opponent. You and that player each create three 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying. Choose an opponent. You gain 2 life for each creature you control and that player gains 2 life for each creature they control.

Instant
Benevolent Offering (voc) 78
Call the Coppercoats

Strive — This spell costs {1}{W} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Choose any number of target opponents. Create X 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens, where X is the number of creatures those opponents control.

Instant
Call the Coppercoats (onc) 60
Charge of the Mites

Choose one — • Charge of the Mites deals damage equal to the number of creatures you control to target creature or planeswalker. • Create two 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1 and "This token can't block." (Players dealt combat damage by them also get a poison counter.)

Instant
Charge of the Mites (one) 6
Grand Crescendo

Create X 1/1 green and white Citizen creature tokens. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Grand Crescendo (ncc) 16
Illustrious Wanderglyph

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Other artifact creatures you control get +2/+2 as long as you have the city's blessing. At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature token.

Creature Artifact
Illustrious Wanderglyph (lcc) 9
Master's Call

Create two 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens.

Instant
Master's Call (mbs) 13
Midnight Haunting

Create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying.

Instant
Midnight Haunting (onc) 82
Raise the Alarm

Create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Instant
Raise the Alarm (j25) 101
Rally for the Throne

Create two 1/1 white Human creature tokens. Adamant — If at least three white mana was spent to cast this spell, you gain 1 life for each creature you control.

Instant
Rally for the Throne (eld) 25
Secure the Wastes

Create X 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens.

Instant
Secure the Wastes (pip) 171
You're Confronted by Robbers

Choose one — • Stall for Time — Tap up to three target creatures. • Call for Aid — Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Instant
You're Confronted by Robbers (clb) 53

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Deck Info

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71 pips - 56 cards
40 mana - 35 cards
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0 mana - 4 cards
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