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Valentin, Dean of the Vein
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Commander

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Valentin, Dean of the Vein

Creature
Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161

Commander

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Life drain and life gain

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Blood Tithe

Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Blood Tithe (m11) 84
Chalice of Life

Artifact
Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (dka) 146Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (dka) 146
Dina, Soul Steeper

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life. {1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Creature
Dina, Soul Steeper (stx) 178
Isolation Cell

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, that player loses 2 life unless they pay {2}.

Artifact
Isolation Cell (nph) 141
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (znr) 112
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 (cmr) 136
Poison-Tip Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Poison-Tip Archer (khc) 90
Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (eld) 104
Savra, Queen of the Golgari

Whenever you sacrifice a black creature, you may pay 2 life. If you do, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice. Whenever you sacrifice a green creature, you may gain 2 life.

Creature
Savra, Queen of the Golgari (gk1) 69
Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Scavenging Ooze (m21) 204
Vindictive Vampire

Whenever another creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Vindictive Vampire (rna) 90
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (c20) 142

Life drain and life gain

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Token Generators

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Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Enchantment
Dreadhorde Invasion (war) 86
Grismold, the Dreadsower

Trample At the beginning of your end step, each player creates a 1/1 green Plant creature token. Whenever a creature token dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Grismold.

Creature
Grismold, the Dreadsower (c19) 44
Necrogenesis

{2}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Enchantment
Necrogenesis (mm2) 181
Pestilent Cauldron

Artifact
Pestilent Cauldron // Restorative Burst (stx) 154Pestilent Cauldron // Restorative Burst (stx) 154
Rite of Belzenlok

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I, II — Create two 0/1 black Cleric creature tokens. III — Create a 6/6 black Demon creature token with flying, trample, and "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice another creature. If you can't, this token deals 6 damage to you."

Enchantment
Rite of Belzenlok (dom) 102
Second Harvest

For each token you control, create a token that's a copy of that permanent.

Instant
Second Harvest (soi) 227
Sedgemoor Witch

Menace Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.) Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Creature
Sedgemoor Witch (stx) 86
Squirrel Nest

Enchant land Enchanted land has "{T}: Create a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token."

Enchantment
Squirrel Nest (mh1) 182
Tend the Pests

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Create X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life," where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Instant
Tend the Pests (stx) 242

Token Generators

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Card draw

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Arguel's Blood Fast

Enchantment
Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz (xln) 90Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz (xln) 90
Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (peld) 75p
Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Sorcery
Damnable Pact (dtk) 93
Funeral Rites

You draw two cards, lose 2 life, then mill two cards.

Sorcery
Funeral Rites (thb) 97
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (m20) 214
Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way. You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (stx) 81
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 (ori) 114
Spark Reaper

{3}, Sacrifice a creature or planeswalker: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Spark Reaper (war) 106
Underworld Connections

Enchant land Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

Enchantment
Underworld Connections (ddm) 73
Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (bfz) 124

Card draw

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Ramp

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Accomplished Alchemist

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Accomplished Alchemist (stx) 119
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (c21) 239
Golgari Signet

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

Artifact
Golgari Signet (gk1) 73
Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Hedron Archive (c21) 244
Hierophant's Chalice

When this artifact enters, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Hierophant's Chalice (xln) 240
Leafkin Druid

{T}: Add {G}. If you control four or more creatures, add {G}{G} instead.

Creature
Leafkin Druid (m20) 178
Leyline Prowler

Deathtouch, lifelink {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Leyline Prowler (war) 202
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (m10) 189
Paradise Plume

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Paradise Plume (tsr) 271
Pristine Talisman

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

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (ima) 225
Sisay's Ring

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

Artifact
Sisay's Ring (cmr) 340

Ramp

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Land

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Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c15) 281
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 (c14) 295
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (znr) 384
Foul Orchard

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Foul Orchard (c19) 244
Golgari Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Golgari Guildgate (khc) 111
Golgari Rot Farm

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

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (c19) 248
Grim Backwoods

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

Land
Grim Backwoods (c18) 251
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (c21) 293
Jungle Hollow

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Jungle Hollow (iko) 249
Llanowar Wastes

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

Land
Llanowar Wastes (c19) 258
Radiant Fountain

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

Land
Radiant Fountain (m21) 248
Sapseep Forest

({T}: Add {G}.) This land enters tapped. {G}, {T}: You gain 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more green permanents.

Land
Sapseep Forest (shm) 279
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (znr) 382
Witherbloom Campus

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. {4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Land
Witherbloom Campus (stx) 275

Land

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Removal

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Abyssal Gatekeeper

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

Creature
Abyssal Gatekeeper (dvd) 31
Anowon, the Ruin Sage

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player sacrifices a non-Vampire creature of their choice.

Creature
Anowon, the Ruin Sage (c17) 96
Barter in Blood

Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Barter in Blood (jmp) 202
Binding the Old Gods

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls. II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.

Enchantment
Binding the Old Gods (khm) 206
Butcher of Malakir

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Butcher of Malakir (cm2) 60
Consuming Vapors

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness. 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
Consuming Vapors (c17) 105
Deadly Tempest

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Deadly Tempest (c21) 140
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (c21) 144
In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (znc) 45
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (cmr) 134
Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Putrefy (c20) 228

Removal

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Life Gain Benefits

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Ageless Entity

Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Ageless Entity (ddh) 18
Blood Researcher

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Blood Researcher (stx) 166
Bloodthirsty Aerialist

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

Creature
Bloodthirsty Aerialist (m20) 91
Spike Feeder

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: You gain 2 life.

Creature
Spike Feeder (tsb) 84

Life Gain Benefits

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Sac Outlet

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Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (mh1) 81
Claws of Gix

{1}, Sacrifice a permanent: You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Claws of Gix (usg) 290
Gutless Ghoul

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 2 life.

Creature
Gutless Ghoul (csp) 60
Lampad of Death's Vigil

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Lampad of Death's Vigil (thb) 103
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 (cmr) 158

Sac Outlet

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Maybeboard

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Altar's Reap

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

Instant
Altar's Reap (plst) DDR-37
Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ancient Craving (a25) 79
Archfiend of Spite

Flying Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to this creature, that source's controller loses that much life unless they sacrifice that many permanents of their choice. Madness {3}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Archfiend of Spite (c19) 14
Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (stx) 64
Bankrupt in Blood

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice two creatures. Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Bankrupt in Blood (rna) 62
Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (ema) 81
Bloodbond Vampire

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

Creature
Bloodbond Vampire (e02) 15
Bushmeat Poacher

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Draw a card.

Creature
Bushmeat Poacher (iko) 77
Callous Bloodmage

When this creature enters, choose one — • Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • Exile target player's graveyard.

Creature
Callous Bloodmage (stx) 66
Carnage Altar

{3}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

Artifact
Carnage Altar (c13) 238
Chevill, Bane of Monsters

Deathtouch At the beginning of your upkeep, if your opponents control no permanents with bounty counters on them, put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls. Whenever a permanent an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it dies, you gain 3 life and draw a card.

Creature
Chevill, Bane of Monsters (piko) 181p
Costly Plunder

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

Instant
Costly Plunder (xln) 96
Daemogoth Woe-Eater

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. When you sacrifice this creature, each opponent discards a card, you draw a card, and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Daemogoth Woe-Eater (stx) 175
Dead Drop

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Target player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Dead Drop (ktk) 67
Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Deathgreeter (ddd) 33
Defiant Bloodlord

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

Creature
Defiant Bloodlord (bfz) 107
Diabolic Edict

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Instant
Diabolic Edict (a25) 85
Dogged Pursuit

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Dogged Pursuit (khm) 85
Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Dread Presence (m20) 96
Dredge

Sacrifice a creature or land. Draw a card.

Instant
Dredge (inv) 103
Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Epicure of Blood (m20) 99
Fate Unraveler

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.

Creature Enchantment
Fate Unraveler (bng) 68
Foul-Tongue Shriek

Target opponent loses 1 life for each attacking creature you control. You gain that much life.

Instant
Foul-Tongue Shriek (dtk) 103
Fountain of Renewal

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life. {3}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Fountain of Renewal (plst) M19-235
Gnawing Zombie

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Gnawing Zombie (m14) 99
Golgari Charm

Choose one — • All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn. • Destroy target enchantment. • Regenerate each creature you control.

Instant
Golgari Charm (c15) 221
Hissing Quagmire

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. {1}{B}{G}: This land becomes a 2/2 black and green Elemental creature with deathtouch until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Hissing Quagmire (ogw) 171
Indulgent Tormentor

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice or pays 3 life.

Creature
Indulgent Tormentor (m15) 101
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed

Undergrowth — When Izoni enters, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. {B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Izoni, Thousand-Eyed (grn) 180
Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Krosan Grip (tsr) 214
Mardu Shadowspear

Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life. Dash {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Creature
Mardu Shadowspear (frf) 74
Night Market Lookout

Whenever this creature becomes tapped, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Night Market Lookout (kld) 95
Palace Siege

As this enchantment enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Dragons — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Palace Siege (frf) 79
Piper of the Swarm

Rats you control have menace. {1}{B}, {T}: Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token. {2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice three Rats: Gain control of target creature.

Creature
Piper of the Swarm (eld) 392
Relic Vial

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card. As long as you control a Cleric, this artifact has "Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life."

Artifact
Relic Vial (znr) 250
Retreat to Hagra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. • Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Retreat to Hagra (c18) 116
Retreat to Kazandu

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • You gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Retreat to Kazandu (cmr) 435
Sangromancer

Flying Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life. Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Creature
Sangromancer (c21) 152
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
Scion of the Swarm

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

Creature
Scion of the Swarm (znr) 121
Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control. Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Shamanic Revelation (pfrf) 138p
Soulreaper of Mogis

{2}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Soulreaper of Mogis (thb) 115
Sporemound

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Creature
Sporemound (cmr) 437
Staff of Nin

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card. {T}: This artifact deals 1 damage to any target.

Artifact
Staff of Nin (cm2) 221
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (znc) 56
Tenured Inkcaster

When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Tenured Inkcaster (stx) 88
Thallid Soothsayer

{2}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Thallid Soothsayer (gnt) 35
Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Underworld Dreams (thb) 121
Ur-Golem's Eye

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

Artifact
Ur-Golem's Eye (dst) 155
Village Rites

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

Instant
Village Rites (khm) 117
Witch's Cauldron

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Artifact
Witch's Cauldron (m21) 129

Maybeboard

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