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Omnath, Locus of All
If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes black instead.
At the beginning of your first main phase, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card if it has three or more colored mana symbols in its mana cost. If you do, add three mana in any combination of its colors and put it into your hand. If you don't reveal it, put it into your hand.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Phyrexian
Omnath, Locus of All (mom) 249

Commander

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Rage Extractor
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Whenever you cast a spell with
in its mana cost, this artifact deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.
Artifact
Rage Extractor (nph) 91

Artifact

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Phyrexian Metamorph
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
Creature Artifact - Shapeshifter Phyrexian
Phyrexian Metamorph (eoc) 75

Clones

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Mental Misstep
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Counter target spell with mana value 1.
Instant
Mental Misstep (nph) 38
Pith Driller
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
When this creature enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian
Pith Driller (nph) 69

Counters

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Porcelain Legionnaire
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
First strike
Creature Artifact - Soldier Phyrexian
Porcelain Legionnaire (plst) NPH-19
Slash Panther
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Haste
Creature Artifact - Cat Phyrexian
Slash Panther (nph) 96
Thundering Tanadon
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Trample
Creature Artifact - Beast Phyrexian
Thundering Tanadon (nph) 122

Creature

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Ajani, Sleeper Agent
Compleated (
can be paid with
,
, or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature or planeswalker card, put it into your hand. Otherwise, you may put it on the bottom of your library.
−3: Distribute three +1/+1 counters among up to three target creatures. They gain vigilance until end of turn.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a creature or planeswalker spell, target opponent gets two poison counters."
Legendary Planeswalker - Ajani
Ajani, Sleeper Agent (dmu) 192
Erebos, God of the Dead
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Erebos, God of the Dead (ths) 85
Gitaxian Probe
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Look at target player's hand.
Draw a card.
Sorcery
Gitaxian Probe (plst) NPH-35
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Nahiri, the Unforgiving
Compleated (
can be paid with
,
, or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature attacks a player each combat if able.
+1: Discard a card, then draw a card.
0: Exile target creature or Equipment card with mana value less than Nahiri's loyalty from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Legendary Planeswalker - Nahiri
Nahiri, the Unforgiving (one) 211
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
Necropotence (ima) 98
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (ecc) 81
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
Peer into the Abyss (plst) M21-117
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
Read the Bones (j25) 479
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Tezzeret's Gambit
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Sorcery
Tezzeret's Gambit (eoc) 47

Draw

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Ruthless Invasion
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Nonartifact creatures can't block this turn.
Sorcery
Ruthless Invasion (plst) NPH-93
Spined Thopter
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Flying
Creature Artifact - Thopter Phyrexian
Spined Thopter (plst) NPH-45

Evasion

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Moltensteel Dragon
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Flying
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Creature Artifact - Dragon Phyrexian
Moltensteel Dragon (nph) 88
Near-Death Experience
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly 1 life, you win the game.
Enchantment
Near-Death Experience (roe) 38
Repay in Kind
Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.
Sorcery
Repay in Kind (plst) ROE-125

Finisher

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Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (eoc) 147
Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
Arid Mesa
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 436
Battlefield Forge
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Battlefield Forge (soc) 362
Blood Crypt
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Mountain
Blood Crypt (ecl) 262
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
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 216
Breeding Pool
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Forest
Breeding Pool (eoe) 251
Brushland
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Brushland (fic) 377
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (soc) 365
City of Brass
Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add one mana of any color.
Land
City of Brass (tmc) 62
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
Flooded Strand (mh3) 436
Godless Shrine
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Swamp
Godless Shrine (eoe) 254
Grand Coliseum
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Grand Coliseum (tmc) 68
Hallowed Fountain
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Island
Hallowed Fountain (ecl) 265
Karplusan Forest
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Karplusan Forest (eoc) 164
Llanowar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Llanowar Wastes (soc) 383
Mana Confluence
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
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
Marsh Flats (mh2) 437
Misty Rainforest
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 438
Overgrown Tomb
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Forest
Overgrown Tomb (ecl) 266
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
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Sacred Foundry
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Mountain
Sacred Foundry (eoe) 256
Scalding Tarn
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 439
Shivan Reef
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Shivan Reef (soc) 404
Steam Vents
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Mountain
Steam Vents (ecl) 267
Stomping Ground
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Mountain Forest
Stomping Ground (eoe) 258
Sulfurous Springs
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Sulfurous Springs (eoc) 185
Tarnished Citadel
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. This land deals 3 damage to you.
Land
Tarnished Citadel (ody) 329
Temple Garden
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Forest
Temple Garden (ecl) 268
Underground River
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Underground River (fic) 439
Verdant Catacombs
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 440
Watery Grave
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Island Swamp
Watery Grave (eoe) 261
Windswept Heath
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235
Wooded Foothills
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Wooded Foothills (mh3) 441
Yavimaya Coast
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Yavimaya Coast (soc) 425

Land

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Soul Conduit
,
: Two target players exchange life totals.
Artifact
Soul Conduit (nph) 158
Vault Skirge
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Creature Artifact - Imp Phyrexian
Vault Skirge (nph) 76

Lifegain

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Jace, the Perfected Mind
Compleated (
can be paid with
or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target creature gets -3/-0.
−2: Target player mills three cards. Then if a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, you draw three cards. Otherwise, you draw a card.
−X: Target player mills three times X cards.
Legendary Planeswalker - Jace
Jace, the Perfected Mind (one) 57

Mill

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Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
Compleated (
can be paid with
or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
0: You draw a card and lose 1 life. Proliferate.
−2: Target creature becomes a Treasure artifact with "
, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color" and loses all other card types and abilities.
−9: If target player has fewer than nine poison counters, they get a number of poison counters equal to the difference.
Legendary Planeswalker - Vraska
Vraska, Betrayal's Sting (ecc) 88

Proliferate

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Apostle's Blessing
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target artifact or creature you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Instant
Apostle's Blessing (plst) MM2-8
Norn's Annex
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays
for each of those creatures.
Artifact
Norn's Annex (cmm) 829

Protection

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Mutagenic Growth
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Instant
Mutagenic Growth (plst) NPH-116

Pump

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K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each
in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.
Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
Lukka, Bound to Ruin
Compleated (
can be paid with
,
, or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells or activate abilities of creatures.
−1: Create a 3/3 green Phyrexian Beast creature token with toxic 1.
−4: Lukka deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control as you activate this ability.
Legendary Planeswalker - Lukka
Lukka, Bound to Ruin (one) 207
Talisman of Conviction
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Conviction (fic) 363
Talisman of Creativity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (soc) 357
Talisman of Curiosity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Curiosity (drc) 140
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (fic) 364
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (soc) 358
Talisman of Impulse
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Impulse (tdc) 332
Talisman of Indulgence
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (fic) 366
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (fic) 367
Talisman of Resilience
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (dsc) 255
Talisman of Unity
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Unity (mkc) 244

Ramp

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Noxious Revival
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Put target card from a graveyard on top of its owner's library.
Instant
Noxious Revival (onc) 110
Postmortem Lunge
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Sorcery
Postmortem Lunge (nph) 70
Tamiyo, Compleated Sage
Compleated (
can be paid with
,
, or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Tap up to one target artifact or creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
−X: Exile target nonland permanent card with mana value X from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of that card.
−7: Create Tamiyo's Notebook, a legendary colorless Book artifact token with "Spells you cast cost
less to cast" and "
: Draw a card."
Legendary Planeswalker - Tamiyo
Tamiyo, Compleated Sage (neo) 238

Recursion

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Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (2x2) 170
Cathedral Membrane
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Defender
When this creature dies during combat, it deals 6 damage to each creature it blocked this combat.
Creature Artifact - Wall Phyrexian
Cathedral Membrane (nph) 5
Corrosive Gale
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Corrosive Gale deals X damage to each creature with flying.
Sorcery
Corrosive Gale (nph) 107
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (plst) MM2-79
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
Fire Covenant (ice) 289
Gut Shot
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Gut Shot deals 1 damage to any target.
Instant
Gut Shot (plst) MM2-117
Marrow Shards
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Marrow Shards deals 1 damage to each attacking creature.
Instant
Marrow Shards (nph) 15
Nissa, Ascended Animist
Compleated (
can be paid with
or 2 life. For each
paid with life, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
+1: Create an X/X green Phyrexian Horror creature token, where X is Nissa's loyalty.
−1: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
−7: Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 for each Forest you control and gain trample.
Legendary Planeswalker - Nissa
Nissa, Ascended Animist (one) 175
Surgical Extraction
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
Instant
Surgical Extraction (2x2) 94
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (cc2) 6

Removal

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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
Act of Aggression (c15) 141
Synthesis Pod
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
,
, Exile a spell you control: Target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a card with mana value equal to 1 plus the exiled spell's mana value. Exile that card, then that player shuffles. You may cast that exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Artifact
Synthesis Pod (onc) 23

Theft

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Birthing Pod
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
,
, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Birthing Pod (nph) 104
Cruel Tutor
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Cruel Tutor (plst) POR-87
Grim Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 103
Imperial Seal
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Imperial Seal (2x2) 79
Lim-Dûl's Vault
Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.
Instant
Lim-Dûl's Vault (c13) 197
Tainted Pact
Exile the top card of your library. You may put that card into your hand unless it has the same name as another card exiled this way. Repeat this process until you put a card into your hand or you exile two cards with the same name, whichever comes first.
Instant
Tainted Pact (ody) 164
Vampiric Tutor
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck stats

15 pips - 10 cards
20 mana - 18 cards
12 pips - 10 cards
20 mana - 18 cards
36 pips - 25 cards
20 mana - 18 cards
14 pips - 10 cards
21 mana - 19 cards
17 pips - 10 cards
21 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
24 mana - 23 cards
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{"ops":[{"insert":"So, this unhinged list came together based on an idea for the April 2026 Deck Building challenge. I reviewed the list of keywords wondering what would be fun/interesting to build and came upon the keyword Compleated. Exceptionally interesting concept both mechanically and in the Lore. Only problem is there are only 7 cards currently in magics history that contain this keyword. This list runs all 7. While contemplating how to continue, i got the idea that each thematically has a phyrexian mana symbol in the cost. Perfect, except there are also not enough phyrexian mana symbols to fill an entire decklist as a sub theme...so i broke it down to the most basic concept...pay life to get ahead. With the exception of my win conditions Soul Conduit, Repay in Kind, and the all star Near-Death Experience, every card in this list either can or does cost life to cast. This seemed very gimmicky so i wanted to make sure I treated this like a functional deck. Core concepts such as ramp, draw, and interaction are all present in reasonable quantities. Just with a rather unhinged sub-theme. This deck list existing makes me very happy, let me know what you think or if you have recommendations on cards to further the theme. Thank you to the team responsible for this awesome contest that inspired this, and you for your time. Have a good day!\n"}]}
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