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Give Life, Take Life
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $239.59
Salt Sum: 26.74
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Commander

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Willowdusk, Essence Seer

{1}, {T}: Choose another target creature. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of life you gained this turn or the amount of life you lost this turn, whichever is greater. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Willowdusk, Essence Seer (c21) 6
1

Artifact

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Staff of Compleation

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color. {T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate. {T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card. {5}: Untap Staff of Compleation.

Artifact
Staff of Compleation (one) 242
1

Card Advantage

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Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ancient Craving (c21) 135
1
Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Sorcery
Damnable Pact (c21) 139
1
Disciple of Bolas

When Disciple of Bolas enters the battlefield, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (2xm) 85
1
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (c21) 145
1
Moldervine Reclamation

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

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (c21) 225
1
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (voc) 133
1
Silversmote Ghoul

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, return Silversmote Ghoul from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. {1}{B}, Sacrifice Silversmote Ghoul: Draw a card.

Creature
Silversmote Ghoul (c21) 154
1
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 (c21) 275
1

Cards to Replace

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Temple of Malady

Temple of Malady enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Malady enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Malady (c21) 323
1

Counters

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Hardened Scales

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Enchantment
Hardened Scales (2x2) 151
1
Winding Constrictor

If one or more counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead. If you would get one or more counters, you get that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters instead.

Creature
Winding Constrictor (sld) 309
1

Enchantment

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Greater Good

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

Enchantment
Greater Good (afc) 160
1
Instill Energy

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can attack as though it had haste. {0}: Untap enchanted creature. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn.

Enchantment
Instill Energy (5ed) 304
1

Graveyard Recursion

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Healing Technique

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Players may choose new targets for their copies.) Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain life equal to that card's mana value. Exile Healing Technique.

Sorcery
Healing Technique (c21) 63
1
Pulse of Murasa

Return target creature or land card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. You gain 6 life.

Instant
Pulse of Murasa (c21) 202
1

Land

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Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (mic) 167
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c21) 284
1
Darkbore Pathway

Land
Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 254Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 254
1
Deathcap Glade

Deathcap Glade enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Deathcap Glade (vow) 261
1
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Demolition Field: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (bro) 260
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (c21) 288
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (stx) 375
7
High Market

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

Land
High Market (c21) 293
1
Jungle Hollow

Jungle Hollow enters the battlefield tapped. When Jungle Hollow enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Jungle Hollow (c21) 295
1
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (c21) 297
1
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: 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 (c21) 304
1
Radiant Fountain

When Radiant Fountain enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Radiant Fountain (c21) 310
1
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (c21) 312
1
Sapseep Forest

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

Land
Sapseep Forest (c21) 313
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (stx) 371
12
Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Wood (c21) 321
1
Witch's Clinic

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Witch's Clinic (c21) 81
1

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
1
Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. Equip {2}

Artifact
Basilisk Collar (2xm) 233
1
Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodthirsty Aerialist.

Creature
Bloodthirsty Aerialist (c21) 136
1
Dina, Soul Steeper

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

Creature
Dina, Soul Steeper (stx) 178
1
Elixir of Immortality

{2}, {T}: You gain 5 life. Shuffle Elixir of Immortality and your graveyard into their owner's library.

Artifact
Elixir of Immortality (c21) 243
1
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (sld) 206
1
Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (plst) SOM-61
1
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (c14) 146
1
Honor Troll

Vigilance If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. Honor Troll gets +2/+1 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Creature
Honor Troll (stx) 134
1
Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink. Equip {3}

Artifact
Loxodon Warhammer (c21) 249
1
Lurking Roper

Lurking Roper doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever you gain life, untap Lurking Roper.

Creature
Lurking Roper (afr) 194
1
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (znr) 112
1
Phyrexian Processor

As Phyrexian Processor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as Phyrexian Processor entered the battlefield.

Artifact
Phyrexian Processor (dde) 29
1
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
1
Sapling of Colfenor

Indestructible Whenever Sapling of Colfenor attacks, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you gain life equal to that card's toughness, lose life equal to its power, then put it into your hand.

Creature
Sapling of Colfenor (c21) 228
1
Sproutback Trudge

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. Trample At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may cast Sproutback Trudge from your graveyard.

Creature
Sproutback Trudge (c21) 68
1
Vampire Nighthawk

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink

Creature
Vampire Nighthawk (c21) 157
1
Vampire Spawn

When Vampire Spawn enters the battlefield, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Vampire Spawn (afr) 123
1
Verdant Sun's Avatar

Whenever Verdant Sun's Avatar or another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Creature
Verdant Sun's Avatar (c21) 208
1
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 (m21) 127
1
Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (ths) 110
1
Witherbloom Apprentice

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Witherbloom Apprentice (stx) 247
1

Protection

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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 creature dies, you gain 1 life," where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Instant
Tend the Pests (stx) 242
1

Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (c21) 234
1
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (c21) 187
1
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (clb) 860
1
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (c21) 197
1
Leyline Prowler

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

Creature
Leyline Prowler (c21) 222
1
Pristine Talisman

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

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (c21) 258
1
Prosperous Innkeeper

When Prosperous Innkeeper enters the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Prosperous Innkeeper (afr) 200
1
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (c21) 204
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c21) 263
1
Talisman of Resilience

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Talisman of Resilience deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (c21) 270
1

Removal

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (afc) 152
1
Erebos's Intervention

Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Instant
Erebos's Intervention (thb) 94
1
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
1
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 (c21) 198
1
Mortality Spear

This spell costs {2} less to cast if you gained life this turn. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Mortality Spear (stx) 207
1
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When Noxious Gearhulk enters the battlefield, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (c21) 148
1
Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery
Pest Infestation (c21) 65
1
Putrefy

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

Instant
Putrefy (khc) 91
1
Reckless Spite

Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.

Instant
Reckless Spite (c21) 151
1

Remove Life

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Bloodtracker

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodtracker. When Bloodtracker leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Bloodtracker (c21) 137
1
Tivash, Gloom Summoner

Lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. If you do, create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying.

Creature
Tivash, Gloom Summoner (c21) 45
1

Token Generator

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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 creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Creature
Sedgemoor Witch (stx) 86
1

Untapped

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Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. +1: Untap up to one target creature. −2: Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Planeswalker
Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler (one) 218
1

Wrath

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Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Culling Ritual (stx) 172
1
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
1
Essence Pulse

You gain 2 life. Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Sorcery
Essence Pulse (c21) 39
1

Card to Add

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Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 104
1

Cards Removed Recently

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Blight Mound

Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Enchantment
Blight Mound (c21) 36
1
Blossoming Bogbeast

Whenever Blossoming Bogbeast attacks, you gain 2 life. Then creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Blossoming Bogbeast (c21) 59
1
Defiant Bloodlord

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

Creature
Defiant Bloodlord (c21) 142
1
Ezzaroot Channeler

Reach Creature spells you cast cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. {T}: You gain 2 life.

Creature
Ezzaroot Channeler (c21) 60
1
Marshland Bloodcaster

Flying {1}{B}, {T}: Rather than pay the mana cost of the next spell you cast this turn, you may pay life equal to that spell's mana value.

Creature
Marshland Bloodcaster (c21) 43
1
Nissa's Renewal

Search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. You gain 7 life.

Sorcery
Nissa's Renewal (c21) 201
1
Revival Experiment

For each permanent type, return up to one card of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose 3 life for each card returned this way. Exile Revival Experiment.

Sorcery
Revival Experiment (c21) 74
1
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
1
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
Stinging Study (c21) 44
1
Suffer the Past

Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Instant
Suffer the Past (c21) 155
1
Trudge Garden

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 4/4 green Fungus Beast creature token with trample.

Enchantment
Trudge Garden (c21) 69
1
Witherbloom Campus

Witherbloom Campus enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. {4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Land
Witherbloom Campus (stx) 275
1

Cards to Considered

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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
1
Fangren Marauder

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may gain 5 life.

Creature
Fangren Marauder (mbs) 79
1

Maybeboard

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Bastion of Remembrance

When Bastion of Remembrance enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (iko) 73
1
Blex, Vexing Pest

Creature
Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex (stx) 148Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex (stx) 148
1
Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Essence Warden (plst) CMA-106
1
Golgari Signet

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

Artifact
Golgari Signet (gk1) 73
1
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard. {1}{B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return Jarad from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord (gk1) 65
1
Loyal Guardian

Trample Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Loyal Guardian (c18) 31
1
Momentous Fall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. You draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then you gain life equal to its toughness.

Instant
Momentous Fall (jmp) 411
1
Undergrowth Stadium

Undergrowth Stadium enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmr) 359
1
Underrealm Lich

If you would draw a card, instead look at the top three cards of your library, then put one into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Pay 4 life: Underrealm Lich gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Creature
Underrealm Lich (grn) 211
1
Unspeakable Symbol

Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Enchantment
Unspeakable Symbol (scg) 79
1
Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Vilis, Broker of Blood (m20) 122
1
Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dom) 248
1

Recently Removed

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Veinwitch Coven

Menace Whenever you gain life, you may pay {B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Veinwitch Coven (c21) 46
1

Wish List

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Tree of Redemption

Defender {T}: Exchange your life total with Tree of Redemption's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Redemption (a25) 191
1

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