No Pain No Gain • (Rakdos Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

Greven, Predator Captain

Menace
Greven gets +X/+0, where X is the amount of life you've lost this turn.
Whenever Greven attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, you draw cards equal to that creature's power and you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Legendary Creature - Human Warrior Phyrexian

$0.99 $0.36 $0.15

Commander

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Acceleration

Qty: 14 Price: $60.82

Alena, Kessig Trapper

First strike

: Add an amount of

equal to the greatest power among creatures you control that entered this turn.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Legendary Creature - Human Scout

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.79 $0.67 $0.51

Coldsteel Heart

This artifact enters tapped.
As this artifact enters, choose a color.

: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Snow Artifact

$2.79 $2.97 $1.02

Cursed Mirror

: Add

.
As this artifact enters, you may have it become a copy of any creature on the battlefield until end of turn, except it has haste.

Artifact

$1.29 $1.49 $0.87

Liquimetal Torque

: Add

: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Artifact

$4.99 $2.90 $2.52

Mana Geyser

Add

for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery

$2.29 $2.94 $1.27

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$1.79 $0.79 $0.35

Rakdos Signet

: Add

Artifact

$4.49 $1.30 $0.78

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $2.08 $1.51

Talisman of Indulgence

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$3.49 $3.10 $1.30

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $3.22 $2.83

Treasonous Ogre

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Pay 3 life: Add

Creature - Shaman Ogre

$27.99 $21.88 $16.50

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 $0.53 $0.51

Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $0.48 $0.26

Acceleration

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Independent Advantage

Qty: 7 Price: $235.03

Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$84.99 $63.20 $60.43

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 $36.18

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.74 $0.33

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$6.49 $4.37 $3.90

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

$0.59 $0.35 $0.20

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 $10.00

Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant

$79.99 $75.10 $50.58

Independent Advantage

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Land

Qty: 35 (37 w/ MDFC)Price: $565.21

Ancient Tomb

: Add

. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land

$199.99 $130.93 $114.62

Ash Barrens

: Add

.
Basic landcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land

$0.35 $0.21 $0.17

Blightstep Pathway

: Add

Land

Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252

$7.99 $5.66 $4.16

Blood Crypt

(

: Add

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

Land - Swamp Mountain

$16.99 $9.43 $9.27

Bloodstained Mire

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

Land

$29.99 $18.24 $16.88

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.

: Add

Land

$2.99 $3.84 $1.51

City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$20.99 $17.19 $13.60

Command Beacon

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land

$12.99 $9.47 $8.25

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.44 $0.26

Dragonskull Summit

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

: Add

Land

$1.49 $1.01 $0.51

Graven Cairns

: Add

, or

Land

$5.99 $4.42 $3.48

Guildless Commons

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

: Add

Land

$2.79 $1.20 $1.10

Hall of the Bandit Lord

Hall of the Bandit Lord enters tapped.

, Pay 3 life: Add

. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.

Legendary Land

$24.99 $22.11 $12.35

Haunted Ridge

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

: Add

Land

$12.99 $8.72 $6.90

Luxury Suite

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

: Add

Land

$18.99 $13.37 $8.85

Mana Confluence

, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$42.99 $35.54 $25.70

Mountain

(

: Add

Basic Land - Mountain

$0.49 $0.38 $0.20

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.69 $0.29 $0.23

Prismatic Vista

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

Land

$42.99 $30.85 $28.13

Rakdos Carnarium

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

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.34 $0.18

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$7.49 $4.87 $4.34

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$0.99 $0.43 $0.40

Shadowblood Ridge

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.38 $0.17

Sulfurous Springs

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$7.99 $6.09 $4.17

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.59 $0.30 $0.15

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Legendary Land

$69.99 $57.67 $54.27

War Room

: Add

, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land

$6.49 $5.30 $4.41

Witch's Clinic

: Add

: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Land

$18.99 $14.88 $11.86

Land

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Lifelink

Qty: 11 Price: $66.25

Alchemist's Gift

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains your choice of deathtouch or lifelink until end of turn. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$6.99 $5.72 $4.54

Blessing of Belzenlok

Target creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn. If it's legendary, it also gains lifelink until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Deadly Wanderings

As long as you control exactly one creature, that creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch and lifelink.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Essence Harvest

Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Homicidal Seclusion

As long as you control exactly one creature, that creature gets +3/+1 and has lifelink.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.06 $0.15

Return to Action

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Rush of Vitality

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage dealt by that creature also causes its controller to gain that much life, and it can't be destroyed by damage or effects that say "destroy.")

Instant

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.

: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$42.99 $29.53 $27.35

Unexpected Fangs

Put a +1/+1 counter and a lifelink counter on target creature.

Instant

$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.

: 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.

Legendary Artifact Enchantment

$12.99 $10.83 $6.57

Lifelink

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Noms

Qty: 9 Price: $52.77

Combat Celebrant

If this creature hasn't been exerted this turn, you may exert it as it attacks. When you do, untap all other creatures you control and after this phase, there is an additional combat phase. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.)

Creature - Human Warrior

$2.99 $2.41 $1.43

Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature - Demon Nightmare

$8.99 $5.88 $5.50

Frenzied Saddlebrute

Haste
All creatures can attack your opponents and planeswalkers your opponents control as though those creatures had haste.

Creature - Warrior Orc

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Hellkite Courser

Flying
When this creature enters, you may put a commander you own from the command zone onto the battlefield. It gains haste. Return it to the command zone at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature - Dragon

$5.99 $4.39 $3.75

Lupine Prototype

This creature can't attack or block unless a player has no cards in hand.

Creature Artifact - Construct Wolf

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Phyrexian Soulgorger

Cumulative upkeep—Sacrifice a creature. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Snow Creature Artifact - Construct Phyrexian

$10.99 $11.03 $5.86

Rotting Regisaur

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card.

Creature - Dinosaur Zombie

$2.99 $4.55 $1.43

Urabrask the Hidden

Creatures you control have haste.
Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$5.99 $4.60 $4.03

Wall of Blood

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Pay 1 life: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature - Wall

$13.99 $13.13 $10.21

Noms

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Removal

Qty: 7 Price: $26.63

All Is Dust

Each player sacrifices all permanents they control that are one or more colors.

Sorcery Kindred - Eldrazi

$7.99 $5.29 $4.77

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs

less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery

$2.79 $1.45 $0.91

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant

$0.99 $0.66 $0.31

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.39 $0.17

Fire Covenant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Fire Covenant deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

Instant

$2.29 $1.39 $0.65

Phyrexian Purge

This spell costs 3 life more to cast for each target.
Destroy any number of target creatures.

Sorcery

$3.99 $2.01 $1.41

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 $6.37 $5.27

Removal

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Tricks

Qty: 16 Price: $257.60

Act of Aggression

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Instant

$0.39 $0.36 $0.20

Bolt Bend

This spell costs

less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant

$5.49 $4.02 $2.79

Champion's Helm

Equipped creature gets +2/+2.
As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$5.49 $3.25 $2.79

Chandra's Ignition

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.

Sorcery

$12.99 $9.11 $7.08

Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant

$94.99 $73.93 $73.98

Fervor

Creatures you control have haste. (They can attack and

as soon as they come under your control.)

Enchantment

$5.49 $5.39 $2.29

Hatred

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Instant

$57.99 $66.65 $41.66

Kazuul's Fury

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Kazuul's Fury deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target.

Instant

Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs (znr) 146

$0.99 $0.74 $0.59

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$8.49 $6.60 $3.86

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111

$19.99 $14.02 $13.02

Silent Arbiter

No more than one creature can attack each combat.
No more than one creature can block each combat.

Creature Artifact - Construct

$17.99 $11.85 $8.14

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

$4.49 $1.97 $1.90

Tentative Connection

This spell costs

less to cast if you control a creature with menace.
Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Tibalt's Trickery

Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Instant

$17.99 $10.59 $10.40

Vorrac Battlehorns

Equipped creature has trample and can't be blocked by more than one creature.
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$0.99 $1.43 $0.41

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$3.49 $2.96 $1.55

Tricks

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Maybeboard

Qty: 29 Price: $158.33

Anger

Haste
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature - Incarnation

$1.49 $1.22 $0.58

Arcane Lighthouse

: Add

: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Land

$3.49 $6.87 $2.92

Besmirch

Until end of turn, gain control of target creature and it gains haste. Untap and goad that creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.35 $0.15

Bloodsworn Steward

Flying
Commander creatures you control get +2/+2 and have haste.

Creature - Knight Vampire

$0.49 $0.38 $0.20

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

$13.99 $16.82 $12.47

Butcher's Glee

Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains lifelink until end of turn. Regenerate it. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$27.99 $21.56 $18.74

Frenzied Fugue

Enchant permanent
When this Aura enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, gain control of enchanted permanent until end of turn. Untap that permanent. It gains haste until end of turn.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.69 $0.38 $0.15

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 $1.18 $1.01

Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.
Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legendary Creature - Demon Berserker

$1.29 $0.65 $0.57

Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar

Whenever a commander you control deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other opponent.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Legendary Creature - Elemental Lizard

$7.99 $5.40 $3.82

Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit

$39.99 $24.34 $23.29

Loxodon Warhammer

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

Artifact - Equipment

$2.79 $1.21 $1.25

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant

$19.99 $14.02 $13.02

Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$1.79 $0.64 $0.35

Oblivion Stone

: Put a fate counter on target permanent.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.45 $0.36

Poet's Quill

When this Equipment enters, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Pyroblast

Choose one —
• Counter target spell if it's blue.
• Destroy target permanent if it's blue.

Instant

$14.99 $8.58 $6.34

Rakdos Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant

$1.29 $0.55 $0.36

Scavenger Grounds

: Add

, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land - Desert

$0.79 $0.38 $0.20

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.82 $0.63

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.49 $0.34 $0.25

Soul Channeling

Enchant creature
Pay 2 life: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Soul's Fire

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Instant

$0.69 $0.32 $0.15

Tainted Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Instant

$4.49 $3.36 $2.44

Tectonic Edge

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Land

$0.49 $0.32 $0.22

Temur Battle Rage

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.
Ferocious — That creature also gains trample until end of turn if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Instant

$0.69 $0.27 $0.15

Unleash Fury

Double the power of target creature until end of turn.

Instant

$0.79 $0.44 $0.15

Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload

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

Sorcery

$5.49 $2.25 $2.86

Maybeboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,265.30

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.14Total Mana Value: 204.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.14Total Mana Value: 204.00

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