Upon the Gallows • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Lifegain Life Paying

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

Gallowbraid

Trample
Cumulative upkeep—Pay 1 life. (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.)

Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian

$0.59 $1.09 $0.47

Commander

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Counters

Qty: 4 Price: $1.74

Unexpected Fangs

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

Instant

$0.69 $0.21 $0.15

Vampire Scrivener

Flying
Whenever you gain life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Whenever you lose life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Vampire Warlock

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Vengeful Warchief

Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature - Warrior Orc

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Wall of Limbs

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

, Sacrifice this creature: Target player loses X life, where X is this creature's power.

Creature - Zombie Wall

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Counters

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Creature

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Morinfen

Flying
Cumulative upkeep—Pay 1 life. (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.)

Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian

$0.69 $0.74 $0.42

Creature

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Drain

Qty: 5 Price: $5.61

Defiant Bloodlord

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

Creature - Vampire

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Vampire

$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Vampire Cleric

$0.39 $0.19 $0.15

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 $0.83 $0.42

Subversion

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Enchantment

$2.29 $2.15 $0.57

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 10 Price: $17.26

Greed

, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

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 $0.97 $0.51

Nazar, the Velvet Fang

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever you gain life, put a feeding counter on Nazar.
Whenever Nazar attacks, you may remove three feeding counters from it. If you do, you draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Warlock

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.37 $0.19

Pact Weapon

As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Equip—Discard a card.

Artifact - Equipment

$4.99 $3.71 $2.08

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

$0.49 $0.27 $0.19

Seizan, Perverter of Truth

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit

$1.99 $1.84 $1.25

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.38 $0.33

Sorin the Mirthless

+1: Look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card and put it into your hand. If you do, you lose life equal to its mana value.
−2: Create a 2/3 black Vampire creature token with flying and lifelink.
−7: Sorin deals 13 damage to any target. You gain 13 life.

Legendary Planeswalker - Sorin

$2.29 $2.21 $1.81

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

$2.79 $3.36 $1.55

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 2 Price: $2.28

Assassin Initiate

: This creature gains your choice of flying, deathtouch, or lifelink until end of turn.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Changeling Outcast

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
This creature can't block and can't be blocked.

Creature - Shapeshifter

$1.79 $1.40 $0.90

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 2 Price: $4.48

Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.42 $0.15

Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.

: Until end of turn, this Equipment gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$3.49 $2.67 $1.54

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 38 Price: $44.28

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$3.49 $1.72 $1.56

Leechridden Swamp

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.

: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Land - Swamp

$1.29 $1.12 $0.86

Midgar, City of Mako

This land enters tapped.

: Add

Land - Town

Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid (fin) 286

$3.99 $1.77 $0.65

Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.35 $0.15

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

$0.59 $0.35 $0.25

Piranha Marsh

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, target player loses 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $5.48 $3.81

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$1.29 $0.70 $0.51

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.11 $0.15

Temple of the False God

: Add

. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land

$0.39 $0.19 $0.15

War Room

: Add

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

Land

$6.49 $5.22 $3.64

Westvale Abbey

: Add

, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.

, Sacrifice five creatures: Transform this land, then untap it.

Land

Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (inr) 474

$4.99 $2.43 $2.22

Witch's Cottage

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Swamp

$1.49 $0.82 $0.36

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 17 Price: $25.29

Banehound

Lifelink, haste

Creature - Nightmare Dog

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Chancellor of the Dross

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life, then you gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Flying, lifelink

Creature - Vampire Phyrexian

$1.99 $1.70 $0.52

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 $4.92 $4.25

Demon's Horn

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Diamond Mare

As this creature enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Creature Artifact - Horse

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Gonti's Machinations

Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, you get

. (You get an energy counter. Damage causes loss of life.)
Pay

, Sacrifice this enchantment: Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Magus of the Mirror

, Sacrifice this creature: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.49 $0.71 $0.39

Mark of the Vampire

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has lifelink.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Phyrexian Fleshgorger

Prototype

— 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.)
Menace, lifelink
Ward—Pay life equal to this creature's power.

Creature Artifact - Wurm Phyrexian

$2.29 $1.50 $1.04

Pontiff of Blight

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)

Creature - Cleric Zombie

$0.69 $0.27 $0.15

Prism Ring

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.35 $0.16

Profane Transfusion

Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.

Sorcery

$3.49 $1.48 $1.30

Staff of the Death Magus

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Thrull Parasite

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

Creature - Thrull

$0.79 $0.28 $0.15

Vampire Cutthroat

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature - Vampire Rogue

$0.79 $0.52 $0.15

Vampire of the Dire Moon

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature - Vampire

$1.49 $0.50 $0.30

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

$0.39 $0.32 $0.15

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 3 Price: $1.49

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 $0.13 $0.15

Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.30 $0.26

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 $0.28 $0.15

Protection

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Pump

Qty: 2 Price: $1.34

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

$0.99 $0.82 $0.15

Moment of Defiance

Target creature gets +2/+1 and gains lifelink until end of turn.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Pump

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Ramp

Qty: 5 Price: $6.95

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.46 $0.36

Defiler of Flesh

Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost

less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Creature - Horror Phyrexian

$0.49 $0.41 $0.15

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

$1.99 $1.06 $0.77

Pristine Talisman

: Add

. You gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.32 $0.27

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.60 $1.59

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $13.34

Unbreakable Bond

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.25 $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 $10.25 $6.23

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 6 Price: $10.80

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

$5.49 $5.09 $5.09

Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Instant

$0.59 $0.31 $0.15

Eradicator Valkyrie

Flying, lifelink, hexproof from planeswalkers
Boast —

, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Creature - Angel Berserker

$2.29 $2.17 $2.08

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

$0.59 $0.51 $0.20

Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment.

, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.

Enchantment

$1.49 $0.67 $0.19

Tendrils of Corruption

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Removal

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Tokens

Qty: 2 Price: $1.38

Mortarion, Daemon Primarch

Flying
Primarch of the Death Guard — At the beginning of your end step, you may pay

. If you do, create X 2/2 black Astartes Warrior creature tokens with menace. X can't be greater than the amount of life you lost this turn.

Legendary Creature - Demon Primarch

$0.59 $0.67 $0.50

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.

Legendary Creature - Human Warlock

$0.79 $0.36 $0.22

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $137.52

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Avg Mana Value: 3.34Total Mana Value: 207.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.34Total Mana Value: 207.00

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