Gain life • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $21.99

Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life.
Whenever you gain life, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Soldier Giant

$21.99 $22.95 $17.45

Commander

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Drain

Qty: 5 Price: $41.11

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

$15.99 $12.30 $10.39

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Vampire Cleric

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment

$8.49 $5.97 $5.09

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

$2.29 $1.09 $0.28

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

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

: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Cleric

$13.99 $10.37 $9.71

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 8 Price: $175.72

Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Legendary Artifact

$15.99 $10.48 $9.82

Archivist of Oghma

Flash
Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature - Cleric Halfling

$7.99 $6.48 $6.17

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

$16.99 $9.07 $9.21

Drogskol Reaver

Flying
Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Creature - Spirit

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays

, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact - Human Soldier

$79.99 $61.24 $65.86

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$6.49 $4.15 $3.55

Sensei's Divining Top

: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact

$44.99 $42.14 $39.49

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 $2.14 $1.55

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 1 Price: $47.99

Delney, Streetwise Lookout

Creatures you control with power 2 or less can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.
If a triggered ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.

Legendary Creature - Human Scout

$47.99 $35.17 $34.33

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 2 Price: $7.78

Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery

$6.99 $6.77 $5.26

Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.36 $0.28

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $455.24

Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.69 $0.30 $0.29

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$2.99 $1.64 $1.44

Brightclimb Pathway

: Add

Land

Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259

$6.49 $4.73 $6.10

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$39.99 $32.14 $23.96

Caves of Koilos

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.79 $0.81 $0.50

Clearwater Pathway

: Add

Land

Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (plst) ZNR-260

$7.49 $4.70 $4.79

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.31 $0.20

Concealed Courtyard

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

: Add

Land

$1.99 $1.20 $1.04

Darkslick Shores

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

: Add

Land

$3.49 $3.45 $1.99

Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$2.49 $1.22 $1.03

Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$8.99 $5.60 $5.21

Exotic Orchard

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land

$0.69 $0.38 $0.15

Fetid Heath

: Add

, or

Land

$0.99 $0.39 $0.21

Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.38 $0.17

Godless Shrine

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Swamp

$9.99 $---- $----

Hall of Heliod's Generosity

: Add

: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Legendary Land

$15.99 $11.01 $10.25

Hallowed Fountain

(

: Add

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

Land - Plains Island

$9.99 $---- $----

Hengegate Pathway

: Add

Land

Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway (khm) 260

$6.49 $5.02 $4.15

Isolated Chapel

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

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.38 $0.20

Morphic Pool

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

: Add

Land

$42.99 $29.73 $27.07

Mystic Gate

: Add

, or

Land

$5.99 $4.54 $4.95

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

: Add

: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Legendary Land

$69.99 $54.23 $56.25

Otawara, Soaring City

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$39.99 $27.89 $28.61

Plains

(

: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $---- $----

Raffine's Tower

(

: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Swamp

$18.99 $12.53 $10.94

Sea of Clouds

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

: Add

Land

$24.99 $20.25 $19.78

Seachrome Coast

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

: Add

Land

$1.29 $0.40 $0.20

Sunken Ruins

: Add

, or

Land

$4.49 $2.84 $2.56

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $---- $----

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

: Add

.
Channel —

, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs

less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Legendary Land

$18.99 $11.32 $10.40

Underground River

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$3.49 $1.71 $1.77

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Legendary Land

$69.99 $57.96 $52.07

Vault of Champions

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

: Add

Land

$18.99 $16.49 $15.57

Watery Grave

(

: Add

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

Land - Island Swamp

$9.99 $---- $----

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 18 Price: $384.62

Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact

$29.99 $21.26 $19.46

Archangel of Thune

Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature - Angel

$47.99 $49.69 $44.85

Auriok Champion

Protection from black and from red
Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Cleric

$12.99 $10.07 $8.72

Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$5.99 $3.82 $3.54

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature - Knight Vampire

$49.99 $35.64 $33.40

Cleric Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.

: Level 2
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

: Level 3
When this Class becomes level 3, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Enchantment - Class

$1.79 $1.96 $0.95

Debt to the Deathless

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

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.45 $0.34

Felidar Sovereign

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 40 or more life, you win the game.

Creature - Beast Cat

$4.99 $3.00 $2.35

Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control.

: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Legendary Creature Enchantment - God

$24.99 $20.89 $20.00

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$9.99 $9.18 $6.82

Rhox Faithmender

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Creature - Monk Rhino

$3.49 $2.12 $1.42

Righteous Valkyrie

Flying
Whenever another Angel or Cleric you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Creature - Cleric Angel

$8.49 $5.58 $4.65

Serra Ascendant

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.

Creature - Human Monk

$29.99 $28.95 $28.60

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$129.99 $101.54 $101.57

Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Cleric

$4.99 $3.72 $3.21

Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Cleric

$7.99 $5.67 $5.69

Suture Priest

Whenever another creature you control enters, you may gain 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Creature - Cleric Phyrexian

$3.49 $4.36 $2.39

Test of Endurance

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 50 or more life, you win the game.

Enchantment

$6.99 $7.94 $5.00

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 5 Price: $79.45

Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant

$32.99 $21.93 $21.36

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$7.49 $6.16 $4.93

Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature - Human Cleric

$21.99 $18.23 $16.15

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.99 $2.99 $2.34

Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Instant

$12.99 $10.24 $7.58

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 7 Price: $12.83

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.51 $0.51

Fellwar Stone

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact

$1.99 $0.88 $0.90

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $1.61 $1.68

Talisman of Dominance

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$2.79 $1.19 $1.17

Talisman of Hierarchy

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$1.29 $0.48 $0.35

Talisman of Progress

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.35 $0.28

Will, Scion of Peace

Vigilance

: Spells you cast this turn that are white and/or blue cost

less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$1.49 $1.49 $0.73

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $13.99

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

$13.99 $7.43 $7.71

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 13 Price: $75.67

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

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

Instant

$6.49 $2.92 $3.09

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant

$3.99 $1.50 $1.23

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $3.52 $2.98

Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Overload

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

Sorcery

$3.99 $1.92 $1.70

Dovin's Veto

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

$4.99 $3.56 $1.04

Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant

$1.99 $0.87 $0.91

Karlov of the Ghost Council

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov.

, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov: Exile target creature.

Legendary Creature - Spirit Advisor

$15.99 $14.06 $14.19

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant

$2.79 $1.37 $1.29

Supreme Verdict

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery

$3.49 $2.29 $1.55

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

$16.99 $10.31 $10.49

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant

$3.49 $1.51 $1.62

Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery

$6.49 $4.55 $4.31

Void Rend

This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant

$0.99 $0.36 $0.25

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $5.99

Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment

$5.99 $4.55 $4.02

Stax

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $8.49

Resplendent Angel

Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 5 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.

: Until end of turn, this creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink.

Creature - Angel

$8.49 $8.77 $5.40

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $20.99

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$20.99 $17.01 $12.50

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,351.86

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.77Total Mana Value: 177.00

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27 mana - 23 cards

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28 pips - 20 cards

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31 mana - 27 cards

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13 mana - 12 cards

Avg Mana Value: 2.77Total Mana Value: 177.00

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