Take This Life • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Vincent Valentine

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a number of +1/+1 counters on Vincent Valentine equal to that creature's power.
Whenever Vincent Valentine attacks, you may transform it.

Legendary Creature - Assassin

Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast (fin) 383

$12.99 $10.17 $8.74

Commander

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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

$8.49 $5.42 $3.86

Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$1.99 $1.09 $0.50

Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Vampire

$5.49 $2.89 $2.54

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

$4.99 $3.18 $2.90

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.

: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

$5.49 $4.64 $4.68

The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Legendary Enchantment

$29.99 $25.04 $24.43

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Rogue Ally

$3.49 $2.26 $0.83

Drain

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Enchantment

$21.99 $15.83 $14.07

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Nightmare

$6.99 $4.27 $3.85

Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Instant

$0.99 $0.39 $0.18

Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature - Human Wizard

$7.99 $5.35 $3.84

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Instant

$2.29 $0.97 $0.62

Decorum Dissertation

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)

Sorcery - Lesson

$8.99 $6.07 $5.39

Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Creature - Knight Zombie

$1.99 $1.00 $1.04

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature - Human Rogue

$1.99 $0.50 $0.30

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$2.29 $1.21 $0.83

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$4.49 $3.18 $3.12

Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.

Instant

$1.99 $1.33 $0.26

Priest of Forgotten Gods

, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add

and draw a card. (Activate only as an instant.)

Creature - Human Cleric

$1.79 $1.19 $0.26

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$8.99 $7.07 $5.43

Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Instant

$0.99 $0.41 $0.19

Draw

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Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$3.49 $1.58 $1.42

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$34.99 $21.87 $23.13

Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.

: Add

: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land

$1.49 $1.08 $0.72

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

$3.49 $3.21 $3.09

High Market

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land

$1.49 $0.52 $0.40

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Legendary Land

$74.99 $53.46 $53.95

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

$0.79 $0.69 $0.36

Land

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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

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

Artifact - Equipment

$4.49 $3.25 $2.39

Protection

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Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legendary Artifact

$3.99 $2.89 $2.70

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional

Creature - Spirit

$27.99 $21.86 $17.55

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$6.49 $5.03 $3.88

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$20.99 $15.34 $15.36

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

$4.99 $3.73 $3.38

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$8.49 $5.76 $3.95

Ramp

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Bloodghast

This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature - Vampire Spirit

$5.49 $4.04 $2.16

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$2.49 $1.50 $0.93

Gravecrawler

This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Creature - Zombie

$1.49 $1.37 $1.02

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery

$7.99 $5.93 $5.09

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Sorcery

$15.99 $9.94 $8.97

Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery

$21.99 $21.38 $20.37

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery

$1.79 $0.60 $0.48

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery

$2.49 $1.51 $1.04

Recursion

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Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$3.99 $6.01 $5.57

Archfiend of Depravity

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature - Demon

$0.99 $0.36 $0.26

Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$0.79 $0.60 $0.15

Braids, Cabal Minion

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices an artifact, creature, or land of their choice.

Legendary Creature - Human Minion

$0.69 $0.95 $0.51

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment

$20.99 $14.80 $14.57

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.40 $0.15

Fell the Profane

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$8.99 $5.98 $5.00

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

$7.49 $5.02 $4.27

Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.

Instant

$7.99 $6.75 $6.06

Massacre Girl

Menace
When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

$2.99 $1.69 $1.19

Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature - Wurm Phyrexian

$3.99 $1.48 $1.54

Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature - Human Shaman

$2.49 $2.22 $0.56

Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Legendary Creature - Rogue Faerie

$2.99 $2.71 $2.55

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Instant

$2.29 $1.57 $0.52

Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$8.49 $5.19 $4.84

Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant

$6.99 $4.33 $3.28

Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery

$8.49 $6.03 $4.73

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.99 $2.21 $1.22

Removal

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Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Creature - Wizard Goblin Zombie

$29.99 $23.73 $19.91

Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Aetherborn

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Sac Outlet

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Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value.
When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$5.99 $11.41 $9.84

Grave Titan

Deathtouch
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Creature - Giant

$8.99 $15.70 $4.94

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 315

$3.49 $2.62 $2.29

Ogre Slumlord

Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
Rats you control have deathtouch.

Creature - Rogue Ogre

$0.79 $0.39 $0.15

Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature - Human Shaman

$5.99 $5.61 $4.10

Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add

Creature - Vampire Shaman

$1.79 $0.65 $0.36

Tokens

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Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery

$32.99 $23.88 $23.21

Insatiable Avarice

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+

— Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
+

— Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Sorcery

$7.99 $5.38 $4.89

Tutor

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Deck size: 100Est cost: $611.40

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Avg Mana Value: 3.08Total Mana Value: 200.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.08Total Mana Value: 200.00

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