Life? • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.49

Torgaar, Famine Incarnate

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs

less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way.
When Torgaar enters, up to one target player's life total becomes half their starting life total, rounded down.

Legendary Creature - Avatar

$0.49 $0.38 $0.15

Commander

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Blink

Qty: 1 Price: $5.49

Conjurer's Closet

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Artifact

$5.49 $3.20 $2.70

Blink

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Discard

Qty: 3 Price: $37.47

Bone Miser

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever you discard a land card, add

.
Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$34.99 $33.15 $34.49

Oona's Prowler

Flying
Discard a card: This creature gets -2/-0 until end of turn. Any player may activate this ability.

Creature - Rogue Faerie

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Putrid Imp

Discard a card: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+1 and can't block.

Creature - Zombie Imp

$1.99 $1.41 $0.41

Discard

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Drain

Qty: 4 Price: $12.26

Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$4.49 $3.90 $2.12

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

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

Creature - Zombie

$2.29 $3.82 $0.90

Marionette Master

Fabricate 3 (When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on it or create three 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.)
Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to this creature's power.

Creature - Human Artificer

$2.99 $2.87 $2.29

Zulaport Cutthroat

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

Creature - Human Rogue Ally

$2.49 $3.15 $1.11

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 12 Price: $98.98

Ad Nauseam

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Instant

$10.99 $9.90 $9.53

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Elf Noble

$8.99 $8.46 $6.44

Bag of Holding

Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Return all cards exiled with this artifact to their owner's hand.

Artifact

$0.49 $0.31 $0.21

Hoarder's Greed

You lose 2 life and draw two cards, then clash with an opponent. If you win, repeat this process. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on their choice of the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a greater mana value.)

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

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

$44.99 $38.23 $36.47

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.38 $0.18

Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery

$3.99 $3.56 $3.12

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

$0.49 $0.31 $0.20

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.49 $2.68 $0.44

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$8.49 $5.28 $5.12

Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Instant

$16.99 $10.69 $9.59

Village Rites

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

Instant

$0.99 $1.07 $0.20

Draw

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $39.99

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery

$39.99 $41.60 $35.94

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 35 (36 w/ MDFC)Price: $379.75

Cabal Pit

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold —

, Sacrifice this land: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Land

$0.99 $0.36 $0.15

Emergence Zone

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land

$4.49 $4.01 $2.92

Ghost Quarter

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$1.29 $0.47 $0.44

Lake of the Dead

If this land would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.

: Add

, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add

Land

$129.99 $124.57 $68.05

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

: Add

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

Legendary Land

$37.99 $33.23 $29.17

Snow-Covered Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Snow Land - Swamp

$3.99 $1.95 $0.97

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$17.99 $10.72 $10.42

Tomb of Urami

: Add

. Tomb of Urami deals 1 damage to you if you don't control an Ogre.

, Sacrifice all lands you control: Create Urami, a legendary 5/5 black Demon Spirit creature token with flying.

Legendary Land

$2.79 $3.96 $1.56

Urborg

: Add

: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

Legendary Land

$22.99 $18.64 $11.82

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Legendary Land

$59.99 $55.42 $52.91

Witch's Cottage

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Swamp

$1.49 $0.90 $0.47

Land

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Ramp

Qty: 16 Price: $273.04

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.83 $0.42

Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add

Artifact

$19.99 $16.74 $14.03

Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional

Sorcery

$4.49 $2.44 $2.10

Cabal Ritual

Add

.
Threshold — Add

instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Instant

$20.99 $15.72 $11.89

Culling the Weak

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

Instant

$9.49 $7.00 $6.47

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$8.49 $5.64 $4.62

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker

(You may pay an additional

any number of times as you cast this spell.)
This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.

: Add

for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.27 $0.20

Expedition Map

, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact

$3.99 $1.68 $1.40

Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact

$1.99 $1.39 $0.72

Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay

. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.

: Add

Artifact

$129.99 $115.92 $109.59

Mind Stone

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, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.35 $0.19

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$59.99 $53.88 $56.18

Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add an amount of

equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant

$6.49 $6.05 $2.81

Skirge Familiar

Flying
Discard a card: Add

Creature - Imp Phyrexian

$0.59 $0.29 $0.15

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $2.23 $1.58

Wayfarer's Bauble

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.35 $0.35

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 7 Price: $71.49

Agadeem's Awakening

Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.

Sorcery

Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90

$39.99 $29.46 $28.64

Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment - Aura

$9.49 $7.94 $5.38

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

$0.39 $0.61 $0.36

Footsteps of the Goryo

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice that creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Sorcery - Arcane

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Nim Deathmantle

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay

. If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach this Equipment to it.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$6.49 $4.73 $3.99

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Sorcery

$13.99 $9.93 $8.73

Shadow of the Grave

Return to your hand all cards in your graveyard that you cycled or discarded this turn.

Instant

$0.79 $0.73 $0.22

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 7 Price: $22.23

Baleful Mastery

You may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the

cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$4.49 $2.50 $2.26

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.43 $0.21

Blood on the Snow

Choose one —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all planeswalkers.
Then return a creature or planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of

spent to cast this spell. (

is mana from a snow source.)

Snow Sorcery

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Dead of Winter

All nonsnow creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of snow permanents you control.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.35 $0.15

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.34 $0.15

Saw in Half

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

Instant

$7.49 $5.27 $4.68

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery

$7.99 $5.88 $5.05

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 3 Price: $22.37

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact

$20.99 $16.60 $14.81

Viscera Seer

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

Creature - Wizard Vampire

$0.79 $0.50 $0.39

Woe Strider

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1.
Escape—

, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature - Horror

$0.59 $0.29 $0.15

Sac Outlet

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Tokens

Qty: 6 Price: $48.52

Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Enchantment Kindred - Faerie

$32.99 $32.52 $32.04

Chittering Witch

When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Rat creature tokens equal to the number of opponents you have.

, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature - Human Warlock

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Marsh Flitter

Flying
When this creature enters, create two 1/1 black Goblin Rogue creature tokens.
Sacrifice a Goblin: This creature has base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn.

Creature - Rogue Faerie

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Plague of Vermin

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.

Sorcery

$13.99 $20.80 $10.19

Sengir Autocrat

When this creature enters, create three 0/1 black Serf creature tokens.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, exile all Serf tokens.

Creature - Human

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Weaponcraft Enthusiast

Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.)

Creature - Artificer Aetherborn

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 4 Price: $139.46

Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$84.99 $69.28 $61.46

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$19.99 $17.22 $12.13

Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery

$27.99 $24.42 $19.94

Hoarding Broodlord

Convoke
Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it.
Spells you cast from exile have convoke.

Creature - Dragon

$6.49 $5.09 $3.27

Tutor

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Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,151.54

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Avg Mana Value: 2.88Total Mana Value: 187.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.88Total Mana Value: 187.00

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