life switch • (Orzhov Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $5.49

Selenia, Dark Angel

Flying
Pay 2 life: Return Selenia to its owner's hand.

Legendary Creature - Angel Phyrexian

$5.49 $5.06 $2.78

Commander

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Discard

Qty: 1 Price: $8.49

Court of Ambition

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.

Enchantment

$8.49 $5.65 $4.35

Discard

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Draw

Qty: 12 Price: $182.78

Archivist of Oghma

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

Creature - Cleric Halfling

$7.49 $6.72 $5.56

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

$17.99 $13.45 $12.69

Cut a Deal

Each opponent draws a card, then you draw a card for each opponent who drew a card this way.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.39 $0.34

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

$69.99 $62.62 $60.67

Necrodominance

Skip your draw step.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay any amount of life. If you do, draw that many cards.
Your maximum hand size is five.
If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Legendary Enchantment

$4.49 $3.25 $2.51

Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Draw X cards.

Instant

$0.79 $0.71 $0.43

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

$42.99 $37.67 $34.90

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.39 $0.27

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$5.99 $5.08 $4.07

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.49 $0.37 $0.34

Tenuous Truce

Enchant opponent
At the beginning of enchanted opponent's end step, you and that player each draw a card.
When you attack enchanted opponent or a planeswalker they control or when they attack you or a planeswalker you control, sacrifice this Aura.

Enchantment - Aura

$1.29 $0.40 $0.26

Trouble in Pairs

If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.
Whenever an opponent attacks you with two or more creatures, draws their second card each turn, or casts their second spell each turn, you draw a card.

Enchantment

$27.99 $27.17 $17.40

Draw

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Finisher

Qty: 2 Price: $5.49

Darkest Hour

All creatures are black.

Enchantment

$5.49 $4.79 $3.36

Near-Death Experience

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly 1 life, you win the game.

Enchantment

$---- $---- $----

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 34 Price: $1014.72

Ancient Tomb

: Add

. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land

$179.99 $128.03 $132.53

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

$42.99 $30.78 $27.08

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

$24.99 $17.30 $16.07

Brightclimb Pathway

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Land

Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 259

$6.49 $4.67 $3.55

Caves of Koilos

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.79 $0.73 $0.46

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.39 $0.26

Fetid Heath

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, or

Land

$0.99 $0.86 $0.73

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

$22.99 $15.21 $13.63

Forlorn Flats

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.

: Add

Land - Desert

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Gemstone Caverns

If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.

: Add

. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

Legendary Land

$84.99 $60.18 $53.60

Godless Shrine

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

Land - Plains Swamp

$14.99 $10.16 $9.51

Isolated Chapel

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

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.38 $0.26

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

$34.99 $32.43 $31.24

Orzhova, the Church of Deals

: Add

: Target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Land

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

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

$29.99 $19.38 $17.21

Prismatic Vista

, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land

$39.99 $30.31 $29.16

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.11 $3.94

Scrubland

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Land - Plains Swamp

$299.99 $359.96 $435.55

Shadowy Backstreet

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.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land - Plains Swamp

$18.99 $11.16 $10.25

Shattered Sanctum

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

: Add

Land

$2.99 $2.68 $1.80

Silent Clearing

, Pay 1 life: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land

$5.99 $5.70 $4.16

Sunscorched Desert

When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.

: Add

Land - Desert

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Swamp

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Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.22 $0.15

Tainted Field

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land

$1.29 $0.39 $0.39

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Legendary Land

$64.99 $56.35 $54.85

Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "

: Add

."
II — This Saga gains "

: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost

, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land Enchantment - Saga Urza's

$47.99 $38.32 $35.41

Vault of Champions

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

: Add

Land

$18.99 $16.74 $14.53

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

$37.99 $28.70 $29.17

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

$17.99 $12.06 $11.43

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 6 Price: $360.74

Axis of Mortality

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have two target players exchange life totals.

Enchantment

$1.99 $1.79 $0.62

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 $0.38

Mirror Universe

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

Artifact

$349.99 $369.90 $234.45

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

$3.99 $1.45 $1.37

Reverse the Sands

Redistribute any number of players' life totals. (Each of those players gets one life total back.)

Sorcery

$1.99 $0.86 $0.64

Soul Conduit

: Two target players exchange life totals.

Artifact

$1.29 $0.51 $0.30

Lifegain

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Mill

Qty: 1 Price: $8.49

Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature - Demon Nightmare

$8.49 $5.78 $5.36

Mill

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Protection

Qty: 8 Price: $1367.72

Ensnaring Bridge

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

Artifact

$21.99 $14.22 $9.07

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$7.49 $6.52 $4.87

Light of Day

Black creatures can't attack or block.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.78 $0.97

Moat

Creatures without flying can't attack.

Enchantment

$1299.99 $926.95 $907.63

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment

$19.99 $16.66 $17.35

Peacekeeper

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature unless you pay

.
Creatures can't attack.

Creature - Human

$10.99 $10.80 $7.30

Phyrexian Unlife

You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
As long as you have 0 or less life, all damage is dealt to you as though its source had infect. (Damage is dealt to you in the form of poison counters.)

Enchantment

$0.99 $1.15 $0.50

Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays

for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Enchantment

$5.49 $4.01 $3.76

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 11 Price: $923.19

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

$20.99 $17.99 $13.77

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$11.99 $7.01 $6.05

Grim Monolith

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.

: Add

: Untap this artifact.

Artifact

$649.99 $483.24 $376.16

Hedron Archive

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, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.66 $0.19

Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay

. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.

: Add

Artifact

$119.99 $253.59 $----

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay

. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Enchantment

$64.99 $54.87 $52.08

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$12.99 $9.77 $7.79

Sol Talisman

Suspend 3—

(Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay

and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $1.42 $0.98

Thran Dynamo

: Add

Artifact

$3.99 $3.84 $2.83

Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color.

: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color.

: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Legendary Artifact

$34.99 $32.45 $25.51

Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $0.46 $0.31

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $12.99

Court of Ardenvale

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand. If you're the monarch, return that permanent card to the battlefield instead.

Enchantment

$12.99 $8.51 $7.24

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 13 Price: $80.27

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant

$3.99 $2.33 $1.70

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 $2.06 $1.37

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$22.99 $21.76 $15.81

Day of Judgment

Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery

$2.29 $1.28 $0.41

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.31 $0.18

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

$1.79 $0.77 $0.27

Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance
When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.

: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Artificer

$8.49 $7.98 $5.15

Noetic Scales

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, return to its owner's hand each creature that player controls with power greater than the number of cards in their hand.

Artifact

$12.99 $12.95 $6.06

Out of Time

When this enchantment enters, untap all creatures, then those creatures phase out until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Put a time counter on this enchantment for each creature that phased out this way.
Vanishing (At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from this enchantment. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.34 $0.15

Spreading Plague

Whenever a creature enters, destroy all other creatures that share a color with it. They can't be regenerated.

Enchantment

$9.99 $11.33 $6.34

Terminus

Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries.
Miracle

(You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.49 $0.15

Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery

$7.49 $5.75 $4.89

Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$4.49 $6.14 $3.61

Removal

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Stax

Qty: 4 Price: $65.96

Meekstone

Creatures with power 3 or greater don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

Artifact

$29.99 $44.49 $45.58

Portcullis

Whenever a creature enters, if there are two or more other creatures on the battlefield, exile that creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control when this artifact leaves the battlefield.

Artifact

$2.49 $1.89 $0.77

Solemnity

Players can't get counters.
Counters can't be put on artifacts, creatures, enchantments, or lands.

Enchantment

$8.49 $9.05 $7.28

Ward of Bones

Each opponent who controls more creatures than you can't cast creature spells. The same is true for artifacts and enchantments.
Each opponent who controls more lands than you can't play lands.

Artifact

$24.99 $28.20 $20.66

Stax

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Tutor

Qty: 6 Price: $435.94

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$79.99 $67.72 $60.85

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$42.99 $36.90 $34.22

Idyllic Tutor

Search your library for an enchantment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$14.99 $12.90 $11.13

Imperial Seal

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$229.99 $171.45 $159.40

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 $5.22 $4.83

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$59.99 $55.33 $52.53

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $4,472.27

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.47Total Mana Value: 229.00

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27 mana - 16 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.47Total Mana Value: 229.00

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