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{"ops":[{"insert":"This deck is a skeleton typal deck helmed by "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ygra, Eater of All"}},{"insert":" .\n\nSkeletons are very good at coming back from the graveyard, but often don't have their own means of getting there in the first place outside of combat. That's where Ygra comes in. Ygra turns all creatures into food, including my own. This gives them a nice ability to put themselves in the graveyard, and give me a bit of life for the trouble.\n\nCertain skeletons like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Moseo, Vein's New Dean"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Deathless Knight"}},{"insert":" synergize extra well with the lifegain from food sacrifice. Other lifegain synergy cards like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Well of Lost Dreams"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Enduring Tenacity"}},{"insert":" , and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Witch of the Moors"}},{"insert":" also pair well with the life gained from food sacrifice.\n\nThe deck also contains some more traditional skeleton/sacrifice pieces. Such as "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Grave Pact"}},{"insert":" , "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dark Prophecy"}},{"insert":" , and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Erebos, God of the Dead"}},{"insert":" . The life gained from food sacrifice also helps negate some of the life lost from effects like Dark Prophecy. Erebos also has the added benefit of disabling my opponents from taking full advantage of the life they could gain from sacrificing their own food creatures. "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Ashnod's Altar"}},{"insert":" allows us to sacrifice a creature to pay for the food cost of another, netting 2 death triggers and 3 life, basically for free!\n\nI tried to stay away from a food theme, to keep the deck distinct from other Ygra decks, and keep the focus on the skeletons.\n"}]}

Commander

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Ygra, Eater of All
Ward—Sacrifice a Food.
Other creatures are Food artifacts in addition to their other types and have "
,
, Sacrifice this permanent: You gain 3 life."
Whenever a Food is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on Ygra.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Cat
Ygra, Eater of All (blb) 241

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Anthem

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Chronicle of Victory
As Chronicle of Victory enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2 and have first strike and trample.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type, draw a card.
Legendary Artifact
Chronicle of Victory (ecl) 253
Corpses of the Lost
Skeletons you control get +1/+0 and have haste.
When this enchantment enters, create a 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate creature token.
At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, you may pay 1 life. If you do, return this enchantment to its owner's hand. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
Enchantment
Corpses of the Lost (lci) 98
Death Baron
Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Creature - Wizard Zombie
Death Baron (fdn) 521
Death-Priest of Myrkul
Skeletons, Vampires, and Zombies you control get +1/+1.
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you may pay
. If you do, create a 1/1 black Skeleton creature token.
Creature - Cleric Tiefling
Death-Priest of Myrkul (afr) 95
Paragon of Open Graves
Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.
,
: Another target black creature you control gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Paragon of Open Graves (m15) 111
Skeletal Swarming
Each Skeleton you control has trample, attacks each combat if able, and gets +X/+0, where X is the number of other Skeletons you control.
At the beginning of your end step, create a tapped 1/1 black Skeleton creature token. If a creature died this turn, create two of those tokens instead.
Enchantment
Skeletal Swarming (afr) 232

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Death Triggers

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Cauldron of Essence
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
,
, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Cauldron of Essence (sos) 179
Dark Prophecy
Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Dark Prophecy (m14) 93
Dictate of Erebos
Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Dictate of Erebos (plst) JOU-65
Grave Pact
Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Enchantment
Grave Pact (cmm) 165
Grave Venerations
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Grave Venerations (ecc) 9

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Draw

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Ayara, First of Locthwain
Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Elf Noble
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Erebos, Bleak-Hearted (cmm) 868
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
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
Pact of the Serpent
Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.
Sorcery
Pact of the Serpent (lcc) 206

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Land

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Accursed Duneyard
: Add
.
,
: Regenerate target Shade, Skeleton, Specter, Spirit, Vampire, Wraith, or Zombie. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Land
Accursed Duneyard (drc) 20
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (soc) 363
Cavern of Souls
As this land enters, choose a creature type.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
Land
Cavern of Souls (lci) 269
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (msc) 233
Fabled Passage
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Land
Fabled Passage (msc) 242
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (soi) 295
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
Phyrexian Tower
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Legendary Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (soc) 398
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (dmu) 270
Three Tree City
As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type.
: Add
.
,
: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.
Legendary Land
Three Tree City (blb) 260
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) 260

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Lifegain Matters

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Defiling Daemogoth
Menace
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Creature - Demon
Defiling Daemogoth (soc) 25
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
Enduring Tenacity (dsk) 95
Veinwitch Coven
Menace
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Veinwitch Coven (soc) 228
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
Witch of the Moors (soc) 230

Lifegain Matters

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Ramp

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Accomplished Alchemist
: Add one mana of any color.
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Creature - Elf Druid
Accomplished Alchemist (stx) 119
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (blc) 127
Ashnod's Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Bag End Banquet
When this artifact enters, create three Food tokens.
: Add
for each Food you control.
Artifact
Bag End Banquet (hoc) 5
Birds of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Bird
Birds of Paradise (dmr) 151
Gilded Goose
Flying
When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
,
: Create a Food token.
, Sacrifice a Food: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Bird
Gilded Goose (soc) 269
Golgari Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Golgari Signet (dsc) 246
Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
,
: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Whenever you sacrifice a Food, create a tapped Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Artifact
Nuka-Cola Vending Machine (pip) 137
Patchwork Banner
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Patchwork Banner (soc) 353
Pitiless Plunderer
Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Human Pirate
Pitiless Plunderer (j25) 476
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (msc) 211

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Recursion

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Graveshifter
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Shapeshifter
Graveshifter (ecl) 104
Raise the Draugr
Choose one —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.
Instant
Raise the Draugr (khm) 105
Unbury
Choose one —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.
Instant
Unbury (ecl) 123

Recursion

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Removal

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Abrupt Decay
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
Instant
Abrupt Decay (plst) GK1-57
Assassin's Trophy
Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Assassin's Trophy (soc) 294
Blood Money
Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token.
Sorcery
Blood Money (lcc) 183
Crippling Fear
Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.
Sorcery
Crippling Fear (cmm) 862
Flare of Malice
You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.
Instant
Flare of Malice (mh3) 408
Golgari Charm
Choose one —
• All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Regenerate each creature you control.
Instant
Golgari Charm (plst) GK1-62
Grapple with Death
Destroy target artifact or creature. You gain 1 life.
Sorcery
Grapple with Death (sos) 192
Immoral Bargain
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice X creatures.
Destroy X target nonland permanents.
Sorcery
Immoral Bargain (soc) 47
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
Mortality Spear
This spell costs
less to cast if you gained life this turn.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Mortality Spear (soc) 321
Putrefy
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Putrefy (ecc) 131
Tainted Treats
Destroy target artifact or creature. If its mana value was 4 or less, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Instant
Tainted Treats (tmt) 170
Withering Curse
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Infusion — If you gained life this turn, destroy all creatures instead.
Sorcery
Withering Curse (sos) 105

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Skeletons

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Champion of Stray Souls
,
, Sacrifice X other creatures: Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.
: Put this card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Champion of Stray Souls (c19) 109
Clattering Augur
This creature can't block.
When this creature enters, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Skeleton Shaman
Clattering Augur (mh2) 79
Cult Conscript
This creature enters tapped.
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if a non-Skeleton creature died under your control this turn.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Cult Conscript (dmu) 88
Deathless Knight
Haste
When you gain life for the first time each turn, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Knight Skeleton
Deathless Knight (plst) ELD-208
Forsaken Miner
This creature can't block.
Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay
. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Creature - Skeleton Rogue
Forsaken Miner (otj) 88
Gutterbones
This creature enters tapped.
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn and only if an opponent lost life this turn.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Gutterbones (rna) 76
Moseo, Vein's New Dean
Flying
When Moseo enters, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."
Infusion — At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, return up to one target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Bird Warlock
Moseo, Vein's New Dean (sos) 91
Ozox, the Clattering King
Ozox can't block.
When Ozox dies, create Jumblebones, a legendary 2/1 black Skeleton creature token with "Jumblebones can't block" and "When Jumblebones leaves the battlefield, return target card named Ozox, the Clattering King from your graveyard to your hand."
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Noble
Ozox, the Clattering King (j25) 44
Persistent Specimen
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Skeleton
Persistent Specimen (j25) 473
Reassembling Skeleton
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Reassembling Skeleton (tdc) 195
Sanitarium Skeleton
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Skeleton
Sanitarium Skeleton (inr) 129
Skeleton Crew
Each other creature you control that's a Skeleton or Pirate gets +1/+1.
Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Skeleton Pirate creature token. (This ability triggers only from the battlefield.)
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Skeleton Pirate
Skeleton Crew (lcc) 85
Teacher's Pest
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 1 life.
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Skeleton Pest
Teacher's Pest (sos) 238
Tenacious Dead
When this creature dies, you may pay
. If you do, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Tenacious Dead (bbd) 163
Titanbones, Towering Heart
Reach
Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Titanbones.
When you discard this card, you gain 3 life.
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Druid
Titanbones, Towering Heart (fra) 266

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