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Alternate Wincon Budget Commander Matters Lifegain Mill

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Alternate Wincon Budget Commander Matters Lifegain Mill

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Hope Estheim

Lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent mills X cards, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Commander

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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 - Beast Cat

$5.49 $4.16 $2.60

Test of Endurance

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

Enchantment

$8.49 $7.00 $5.19

Alt. wincon

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Boon Reflection

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

Enchantment

$9.99 $11.32 $6.25

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.

: Level 2
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

: 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 - Class

$0.69 $1.69 $0.91

Cradle of Vitality

Whenever you gain life, you may pay

. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each 1 life you gained.

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.51 $0.26

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

$1.49 $0.93 $0.21

Light of Promise

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

Enchantment - Aura

$0.79 $0.42 $0.15

Nykthos Paragon

Whenever you gain life, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. Do this only once each turn.

Creature Enchantment - Human Soldier

$1.29 $0.64 $0.66

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 - Monk Rhino

$3.49 $2.30 $1.85

Sunbond

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

Enchantment - Aura

$0.79 $0.41 $0.15

The Water Crystal

Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.
If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill that many cards plus four instead.

: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Legendary Artifact

$11.99 $8.95 $6.52

The Wind Crystal

White spells you cast cost

less to cast.
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

: Creatures you control gain flying and lifelink until end of turn.

Legendary Artifact

$12.99 $9.52 $7.86

Buffs

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Felidar Guardian

When this creature enters, you may exile another target permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature - Beast Cat

$5.49 $2.31 $2.31

Icewind Stalwart

Protection Fighting Style — When this creature enters, exile up to one target non-Warrior creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature - Warrior Tiefling

$0.59 $0.25 $0.15

Restoration Angel

Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, you may exile target non-Angel creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Creature - Angel

$0.69 $0.37 $0.26

Combo

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Archivist

: Draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.59 $0.30 $0.21

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

$4.99 $3.21 $2.03

Dawn of Hope

Whenever you gain life, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card.

: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.36 $0.31

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 - Angel

$3.49 $1.65 $1.54

Kumena's Awakening

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 upkeep, each player draws a card. If you have the city's blessing, instead only you draw a card.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.40 $0.15

Loyal Drake

Flying
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, draw a card.

Creature - Drake

$0.79 $0.34 $0.20

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.

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

$0.99 $0.39 $0.25

Memory Deluge

Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the amount of mana spent to cast this spell. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Oracle's Insight

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "

: Scry 1, then draw a card." (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Sphinx of the Revelation

Flying, lifelink
Whenever you gain life, you get that many

(energy counters).

, Pay X

: Draw X cards.

Creature Artifact - Sphinx

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

The Gaffer

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

Legendary Creature - Peasant Halfling

$11.99 $6.89 $7.45

Draw

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Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.41 $0.15

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.20 $0.15

Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.30 $0.19

Irrigated Farmland

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Kabira Crossroads

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.35 $0.25

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Port Town

As this land enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Prairie Stream

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land - Plains Island

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Promising Vein

: Add

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

Land - Cave

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Radiant Fountain

When this land enters, you gain 2 life.

: Add

Land

$0.99 $2.61 $0.31

Sejiri Refuge

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Shire Terrace

: Add

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

Land

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.24 $0.15

Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Land

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Ajani's Welcome

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

Enchantment

$5.99 $1.68 $1.75

Ashes of the Abhorrent

Players can't cast spells from graveyards or activate abilities of cards in graveyards.
Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$1.49 $0.70 $0.32

Baneslayer Angel

Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons

Creature - Angel

$4.99 $3.46 $2.82

Danitha Capashen, Paragon

First strike, vigilance, lifelink
Aura and Equipment spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

$0.69 $0.37 $0.15

Healer's Flock

Flying, lifelink

Creature - Bird

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Lone Rider

First strike, lifelink
At the beginning of the end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, transform this creature.

Creature - Human Knight

Lone Rider // It That Rides as One (emn) 33

$0.69 $0.16 $0.15

Nyx-Fleece Ram

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment - Sheep

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Senate Guildmage

: You gain 2 life.

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Cleric

$6.49 $3.61 $3.38

Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Cleric

$15.99 $8.14 $5.98

Tablet of the Guilds

As this artifact enters, choose two colors.
Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.28 $0.15

Wall of Reverence

Defender, flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

Creature - Spirit Wall

$0.79 $0.41 $0.15

Lifegain

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Fleet Swallower

Whenever this creature attacks, target player mills half their library, rounded up.

Creature - Fish

$2.49 $1.17 $0.86

Terisian Mindbreaker

Whenever this creature attacks, defending player mills half their library, rounded up.
Unearth

(

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature Artifact - Juggernaut

$1.79 $1.06 $0.63

Mill

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Curator's Ward

Enchant permanent
Enchanted permanent has hexproof.
When enchanted permanent leaves the battlefield, if it was historic, draw two cards. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.49 $0.36 $0.22

Flickering Ward

Enchant creature
As this Aura enters, choose a color.
Enchanted creature has protection from the chosen color. This effect doesn't remove this Aura.

: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.69 $0.50 $0.15

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$7.99 $7.03 $5.31

Gold-Forged Thopteryx

Flying, lifelink
Each legendary permanent you control has ward

. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays

Creature Artifact - Dinosaur Thopter

$0.79 $0.36 $0.15

Mask of Avacyn

Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$1.49 $1.28 $0.39

Mirror Shield

Equipped creature gets +0/+2 and has hexproof and "Whenever a creature with deathtouch blocks or becomes blocked by this creature, destroy that creature."
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.99 $0.46 $0.36

Mother of Runes

: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Creature - Human Cleric

$13.99 $12.50 $7.81

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.49 $2.48 $2.20

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$3.49 $2.52 $1.82

Windborn Muse

Flying
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Creature - Spirit

$1.29 $1.09 $0.70

Protection

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Fumigate

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

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.37 $0.15

Heliod's Intervention

Choose one —
• Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments.
• Target player gains twice X life.

Instant

$4.49 $2.93 $2.34

Invoke the Divine

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

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

$2.49 $1.30 $1.21

Sanctify

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 3 life.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.49 $1.71 $1.26

Time Wipe

Return a creature you control to its owner's hand, then destroy all creatures.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Removal

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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

$2.99 $4.35 $2.08

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

$0.39 $0.22 $0.20

Speaker of the Heavens

Vigilance, lifelink (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.

Creature - Human Cleric

$1.29 $0.69 $0.29

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.

, 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.

Legendary Artifact - Book

$13.99 $9.38 $8.33

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 - Cleric Angel

$7.49 $4.62 $4.13

Tokens

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Azorius Charm

Choose one —
• Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
• Draw a card.
• Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Instant

$0.39 $0.35 $0.26

Battle Menu

Choose one —
• Attack — Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token.
• Ability — Target creature gets +0/+4 until end of turn.
• Magic — Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.
• Item — You gain 4 life.

Instant

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Light of Hope

Choose one —
• You gain 4 life.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Instant

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Ojutai's Command

Choose two —
• Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• You gain 4 life.
• Counter target creature spell.
• Draw a card.

Instant

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Righteous Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.
• Exile target enchantment.
• You gain 5 life.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.36 $0.15

Utility

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Absolute Virtue

This spell can't be countered.
Flying
You have protection from each of your opponents. (You can't be dealt damage, enchanted, or targeted by anything controlled by your opponents.)

Legendary Creature - Warrior Avatar

$8.99 $7.98 $6.75

Absorb

Counter target spell. You gain 3 life.

Instant

$0.49 $0.36 $0.17

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant

$0.99 $0.53 $0.16

Ajani's Mantra

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

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

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery

$8.99 $6.35 $6.19

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.71 $0.36

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.54 $0.19

Beloved Princess

Lifelink
This creature can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.

Creature - Human Noble

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Brightblade Stoat

First strike, lifelink

Creature - Soldier Weasel

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Congregate

Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Contemplation

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Dazzling Reflection

You gain life equal to target creature's power. The next time that creature would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.

Instant

$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Dramatic Rescue

Return target creature to its owner's hand. You gain 2 life.

Instant

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Excalibur II

Whenever you gain life, put a charge counter on Excalibur II.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Excalibur II.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$1.79 $2.37 $0.98

Faithful Mending

You gain 2 life, draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$1.79 $0.67 $0.21

Fountain of Renewal

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$2.29 $1.02 $0.72

Fractured Sanity

Each opponent mills fourteen cards.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, each opponent mills four cards.

Sorcery

$3.99 $2.69 $1.89

Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant

$2.29 $1.59 $0.93

Giver of Runes

: Another target creature you control gains protection from colorless or from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Creature - Cleric Kor

$12.99 $5.48 $5.18

Guide of Souls

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life and get

(an energy counter).
Whenever you attack, you may pay

. 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 - Human Cleric

$5.99 $4.02 $2.76

Maddening Cacophony

Kicker

Each opponent mills eight cards. If this spell was kicked, instead each opponent mills half their library, rounded up.

Sorcery

$8.49 $6.83 $3.68

Minwu, White Mage

Vigilance, lifelink
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each Cleric you control.

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

$2.29 $1.75 $1.25

Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact

$7.99 $4.70 $4.42

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Sorcery

$5.49 $3.48 $2.09

Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (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

$1.79 $0.88 $0.75

Pristine Talisman

: Add

. You gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.40 $0.31

Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment

$6.99 $3.95 $3.30

Ruin Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature - Crab

$1.49 $1.12 $0.70

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $2.10 $1.41

Sphinx's Revelation

You gain X life and draw X cards.

Instant

$1.29 $1.03 $0.38

Storm Herd

Create X 1/1 white Pegasus creature tokens with flying, where X is your life total.

Sorcery

$1.49 $0.95 $0.92

Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Instant

$0.49 $0.39 $0.15

Sunscorch Regent

Flying
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Dragon

$0.69 $0.38 $0.15

Talisman of Progress

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.46 $0.26

The Mindskinner

The Mindskinner can't be blocked.
If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent, prevent that damage and each opponent mills that many cards.

Legendary Creature Enchantment - Nightmare

$2.99 $2.98 $2.02

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $2.90 $2.61

Voice of the Blessed

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
As long as this creature has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance.
As long as this creature has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.

Creature - Cleric Spirit

$3.49 $2.27 $1.51

War Report

You gain life equal to the number of creatures on the battlefield plus the number of artifacts on the battlefield.

Instant

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Maybeboard

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Angel

Flying

Creature Token - Angel

$0.99 $0.52 $0.41

Angel

Flying, vigilance

Creature Token - Angel

$1.49 $---- $1.19

Knight

Creature Token - Knight

$1.29 $0.93 $0.29

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $229.03

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Avg Mana Value: 3.21Total Mana Value: 218.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.21Total Mana Value: 218.00

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