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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $22.99

Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life.
Whenever you gain life, you may pay

. 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.

Legendary Creature - Soldier Giant

$22.99 $23.49 $18.83

Commander

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Artifact

Qty: 2 Price: $20.28

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

$1.29 $0.83 $0.15

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

$18.99 $13.13 $9.95

Artifact

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Creature

Qty: 2 Price: $5.98

Aerith Gainsborough

Lifelink
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Aerith Gainsborough.
When Aerith Gainsborough dies, put X +1/+1 counters on each legendary creature you control, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Aerith Gainsborough.

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

$4.49 $2.30 $1.02

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

$1.49 $2.18 $1.42

Creature

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Drain

Qty: 8 Price: $45.62

Cliffhaven Vampire

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

Creature - Vampire Warrior Ally

$1.99 $0.68 $0.37

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 - Snake Glimmer

$16.99 $13.99 $12.17

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 - Vampire Noble

$0.79 $0.36 $0.15

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Vampire Cleric

$0.39 $0.19 $0.15

Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment

$7.49 $5.58 $4.91

Starscape Cleric

Offspring

(You may pay an additional

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 - Cleric Bat

$1.99 $0.84 $0.40

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

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

: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Cleric

$14.99 $9.06 $9.37

Vizkopa Guildmage

: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Creature - Human Wizard

$0.99 $0.59 $0.25

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 10 Price: $262.40

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.

Legendary Artifact

$12.99 $10.42 $8.85

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.

, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Legendary Artifact

$10.99 $8.55 $9.69

Drogskol Reaver

Flying
Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Creature - Spirit

$1.99 $2.72 $0.39

Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays

, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact - Human Soldier

$74.99 $56.46 $52.10

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

$3.99 $2.04 $1.67

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

$47.99 $38.23 $35.00

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$5.49 $4.12 $3.30

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$89.99 $69.59 $62.41

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

$10.99 $7.14 $7.35

Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay

, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Artifact

$2.99 $2.76 $1.55

Draw

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Land

Qty: 30 Price: $432.70

Adventurer's Inn

When this land enters, you gain 2 life.

: Add

Land - Town

$0.39 $0.20 $0.15

Ancient Tomb

: Add

. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land

$179.99 $127.91 $124.06

Azorius Chancery

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

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.26 $0.20

Dismal Backwater

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

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Drowned Catacomb

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

: Add

Land

$2.29 $1.35 $1.05

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Flooded Strand

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$22.99 $14.16 $15.30

Glacial Fortress

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

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.26 $0.18

Godless Shrine

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Swamp

$13.99 $9.73 $8.17

Hallowed Fountain

(

: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Island

$13.99 $9.01 $9.27

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.18 $0.15

Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.35 $0.25

Marsh Flats

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$39.99 $31.94 $31.26

Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$37.99 $29.76 $27.08

Orzhov Basilica

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.38 $0.15

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$---- $0.17 $0.17

Polluted Delta

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$24.99 $18.70 $17.71

Prairie Stream

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: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

$0.59 $0.25 $0.15

Raffine's Tower

(

: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Swamp

$20.99 $14.19 $12.99

Scoured Barrens

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

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Sea of Clouds

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$29.99 $21.80 $18.74

Sunken Hollow

(

: Add

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

Land - Island Swamp

$0.79 $0.34 $0.23

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Tranquil Cove

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

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Vault of Champions

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$21.99 $16.71 $15.10

Watery Grave

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: Add

.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Island Swamp

$14.99 $10.51 $8.77

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 19 Price: $439.57

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

$27.99 $20.40 $18.72

Ajani's Pridemate

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

Creature - Soldier Cat

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

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 - Angel

$57.99 $50.96 $46.89

Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$6.99 $5.08 $3.93

Beacon of Immortality

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

Instant

$18.99 $15.45 $14.06

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

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

Creature - Knight Vampire

$49.99 $37.28 $34.38

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 - Vampire

$8.99 $5.10 $4.84

Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment

$44.99 $41.57 $36.20

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

$4.49 $3.36 $2.60

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.

: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Legendary Creature Enchantment - God

$27.99 $21.95 $18.74

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

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

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$9.99 $9.79 $7.91

Lyra Dawnbringer

Flying
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.

Legendary Creature - Angel

$2.99 $4.57 $1.95

Queza, Augur of Agonies

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

Legendary Creature - Advisor Octopus

$0.39 $0.26 $0.15

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 $2.03 $0.98

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 - Human Monk

$34.99 $28.30 $25.00

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$119.99 $97.41 $97.94

Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Cleric

$5.49 $3.67 $3.71

Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Cleric

$9.99 $5.64 $6.65

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 $2.51 $1.61

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 5 Price: $140.45

Avacyn, Angel of Hope

Flying, vigilance, indestructible
Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Legendary Creature - Angel

$49.99 $41.05 $40.42

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$7.49 $6.31 $5.13

Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature - Human Cleric

$23.99 $18.19 $16.15

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.99 $3.02 $2.39

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

$54.99 $45.92 $43.24

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 6 Price: $138.84

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.79 $0.53 $0.40

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Spells your opponents cast cost

more to cast.

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$18.99 $19.23 $13.87

Lotus Petal

, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$44.99 $35.03 $33.34

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay

. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment

$69.99 $58.82 $56.64

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.93 $1.45

Will, Scion of Peace

Vigilance

: Spells you cast this turn that are white and/or blue cost

less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$1.29 $1.09 $0.58

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

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 - Human Warlock

$0.79 $1.63 $0.16

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 9 Price: $168.01

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$4.49 $1.88 $1.68

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $4.42 $2.87

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

$44.99 $39.16 $35.80

Dovin's Veto

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

Instant

$4.99 $4.08 $2.65

Karlov of the Ghost Council

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov.

, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov: Exile target creature.

Legendary Creature - Spirit Advisor

$15.99 $14.22 $13.53

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of

equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$79.99 $56.17 $53.45

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

$2.79 $1.77 $1.18

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.79 $1.66 $1.39

Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery

$7.49 $5.83 $5.05

Removal

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Sorcery

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

Space-Time Anomaly

Target player mills cards equal to your life total.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Sorcery

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Tokens

Qty: 3 Price: $25.97

Crested Sunmare

Other Horses you control have indestructible.
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 5/5 white Horse creature token.

Creature - Horse

$9.99 $4.99 $5.10

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 - Vampire Cleric

$6.49 $4.22 $4.15

Resplendent Angel

Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 5 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.

: Until end of turn, this creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink.

Creature - Angel

$9.49 $9.90 $5.98

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 3 Price: $187.97

Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$84.99 $68.30 $61.46

Enlightened Tutor

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

Instant

$42.99 $37.75 $32.44

Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant

$59.99 $53.91 $53.62

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,892.16

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.13Total Mana Value: 219.00

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52 pips - 41 cards

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19 mana - 19 cards

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16 pips - 14 cards

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19 mana - 19 cards

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33 pips - 23 cards

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18 mana - 18 cards

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6 mana - 4 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.13Total Mana Value: 219.00

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