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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

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Counters

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Magistrate's Scepter

{4}, {T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Remove three charge counters from this artifact: Take an extra turn after this one.

Artifact
Magistrate's Scepter (m19) 238

Counters

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Drain

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Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Flying If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Bloodletter of Aclazotz (lci) 92
Cliffhaven Vampire

Flying Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Cliffhaven Vampire (ogw) 153
Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. When Enduring Tenacity 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 Tenacity (dsk) 95
Indulging Patrician

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature
Indulging Patrician (tdc) 292
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
Starscape Cleric

Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Flying This creature can't block. Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
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 (j25) 71

Drain

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Draw

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 87
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
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) 237
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
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Plea for Power

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for time or knowledge. If time gets more votes, take an extra turn after this one. If knowledge gets more votes or the vote is tied, draw three cards.

Sorcery
Plea for Power (ltc) 195
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
Teferi, Timebender

+2: Untap up to one target artifact or creature. −3: You gain 2 life and draw two cards. −9: Take an extra turn after this one.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Timebender (dom) 270
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
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

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Finisher

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Beacon of Tomorrows

Target player takes an extra turn after this one. Shuffle Beacon of Tomorrows into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Beacon of Tomorrows (dds) 2
Capture of Jingzhou

Take an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery
Capture of Jingzhou (cmm) 79
Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437

Finisher

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Land

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Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (tdc) 386

Land

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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
Angel of Destiny

Flying, double strike Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you and that player each gain that much life. At the beginning of your end step, if you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, each player this creature attacked this turn loses the game.

Creature
Angel of Destiny (plst) ZNR-2
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
Beacon of Immortality

Double target player's life total. Shuffle Beacon of Immortality into its owner's library.

Instant
Beacon of Immortality (plst) E02-1
Bloodthirsty Conqueror

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

Creature
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 58
Boon Reflection

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

Enchantment
Boon Reflection (2xm) 10
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
Debt to the Deathless

Each opponent loses two times X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Debt to the Deathless (rvr) 176
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
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
Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Kambal, Consul of Allocation (2x2) 237
Queza, Augur of Agonies

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Queza, Augur of Agonies (snc) 212
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 (tdc) 128
Serra Ascendant

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.

Creature
Serra Ascendant (plst) M11-28
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107
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
Test of Endurance

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 50 or more life, you win the game.

Enchantment
Test of Endurance (dmr) 32
Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Artifact
Venser's Journal (c21) 273

Lifegain

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Protection

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Ghostly Prison

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

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (tdc) 116
Propaganda

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

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 32

Protection

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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 (tdc) 105
Chromatic Lantern

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

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (drc) 53
Pristine Talisman

{T}: Add {C}. You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (ltc) 283
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 (cmm) 57
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (tdc) 106
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256

Ramp

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Recursion

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Celestine, the Living Saint

Flying, lifelink Healing Tears — At the beginning of your end step, 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
Celestine, the Living Saint (40k) 10
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

Recursion

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Removal

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Absorb

Counter target spell. You gain 3 life.

Instant
Absorb (dmr) 186
Ajani, Strength of the Pride

+1: You gain life equal to the number of creatures you control plus the number of planeswalkers you control. −2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this token." 0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani and each artifact and creature your opponents control.

Planeswalker
Ajani, Strength of the Pride (j22) 141
Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (tdc) 279
Cataclysm

Each player chooses from among the permanents they control an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a land, then sacrifices the rest.

Sorcery
Cataclysm (plst) V14-3
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
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 (rvr) 40
Death Cloud

Each player loses X life, discards X cards, sacrifices X creatures of their choice, then sacrifices X lands of their choice.

Sorcery
Death Cloud (plst) DST-40
Dovin's Veto

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

Instant
Dovin's Veto (war) 193
Farewell

Choose one or more — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery
Farewell (mkc) 64
Fumigate

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

Sorcery
Fumigate (mkc) 66
Karlov of the Ghost Council

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov. {W}{B}, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov: Exile target creature.

Creature
Karlov of the Ghost Council (rvr) 193
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57
Mortify

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Instant
Mortify (acr) 96
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (mom) 68
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (mb2) 15
Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Supreme Verdict (clu) 211
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (tdc) 134
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
Void Rend

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

Instant
Void Rend (snc) 230

Removal

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Stax

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Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (rvr) 9

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Tokens

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Alrund's Epiphany

Create two 1/1 blue Bird creature tokens with flying. Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Alrund's Epiphany. Foretell {4}{U}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Alrund's Epiphany (khm) 41
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

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Tutor

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Behold the Beyond

Discard your hand. Search your library for three cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Behold the Beyond (soi) 101
Citanul Flute

{X}, {T}: Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Citanul Flute (10e) 315
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 6
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

Tutor

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Deck Info

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53 pips - 42 cards
4 mana - 3 cards
23 pips - 17 cards
4 mana - 3 cards
42 pips - 28 cards
4 mana - 3 cards
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