What Even is a Lifetotal Anyway? • (Golgari Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

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Davvol, Evincar of Rath

Whenever another creature you control enters, you lose 1 life and add

Legendary Creature - Noble Phyrexian

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

Commander

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Creature

Qty: 1 Price: $4.99

Dryad Arbor

(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "

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.")

Creature Land - Dryad Forest

$4.99 $4.96 $4.03

Creature

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Drain

Qty: 2 Price: $7.48

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

$5.49 $4.44 $3.19

Mirkwood Bats

Flying
Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Bat

$1.99 $0.89 $0.71

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 10 Price: $79.06

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

$10.99 $9.08 $6.46

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

$22.99 $19.20 $16.48

Dark Prophecy

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment

$10.99 $5.79 $3.16

Minions' Murmurs

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment

$0.99 $0.34 $0.15

Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery

$4.49 $3.73 $3.06

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

$0.79 $0.42 $0.20

Skullclamp

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

Artifact - Equipment

$8.49 $9.00 $8.23

The Endstone

Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, draw a card.
At the beginning of your end step, your life total becomes half your starting life total, rounded up.

Legendary Artifact

$3.99 $2.99 $2.00

Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying

, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Legendary Creature - Demon

$14.99 $9.89 $9.36

Draw

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Finisher

Qty: 3 Price: $48.97

Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.42 $0.15

Stensian Sanguinist

Whenever you attack, target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player this combat, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

Creature - Vampire Cleric

Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate (soc) 78

$7.99 $6.91 $4.15

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery

$39.99 $41.48 $35.94

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 35 Price: $137.35

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$2.99 $1.43 $1.21

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.69 $0.38 $0.20

Deathcap Glade

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

: Add

Land

$5.49 $2.92 $2.34

Exotic Orchard

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

Land

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

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

$2.79 $1.26 $0.97

Forest

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Basic Land - Forest

$0.69 $0.56 $0.15

Llanowar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.79 $1.08 $0.78

Necroblossom Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.46 $0.15

Nurturing Peatland

, Pay 1 life: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land

$8.99 $6.46 $5.64

Overgrown Tomb

(

: Add

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

Land - Swamp Forest

$13.99 $9.01 $7.29

Phyrexian Tower

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: Add

Legendary Land

$42.99 $30.56 $30.18

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.99 $0.55 $0.20

Tainted Wood

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land

$0.79 $0.38 $0.29

Temple of Malady

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.69 $0.36 $0.15

Turbulent Fen

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless your opponents control eight or more lands.

Land - Swamp Forest

$9.99 $8.37 $8.00

Twilight Mire

: Add

, or

Land

$0.69 $0.36 $0.34

Undergrowth Stadium

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

: Add

Land

$11.99 $7.13 $6.68

Vernal Fen

(

: Add

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

Land - Swamp Forest

$0.99 $0.46 $0.36

Viridescent Bog

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.34 $0.15

Wastewood Verge

: Add

. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Forest.

Land

$14.99 $9.66 $8.32

Woodland Cemetery

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

: Add

Land

$1.79 $1.12 $0.77

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 6 Price: $28.66

Bogwater Lumaret

Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature - Spirit Frog

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature - Elf Shaman

$11.99 $10.70 $8.04

Greenhouse Propagator

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Creature - Druid Cat

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Leyline of Vitality

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Creatures you control get +0/+1.
Whenever a creature you control enters, you may gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$3.49 $3.21 $1.56

Professor Dellian Fel

+2: You gain 3 life.
0: You draw a card and lose 1 life.
−3: Destroy target creature.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life."

Legendary Planeswalker - Dellian

$10.99 $7.39 $5.46

Virulent Emissary

Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature - Elf Assassin

$1.49 $1.04 $0.77

Lifegain

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Ramp

Qty: 16 Price: $165.84

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

$1.79 $0.88 $0.67

Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add

Artifact

$23.99 $16.93 $15.37

Awaken the Woods

Create X 1/1 green Forest Dryad land creature tokens. (They're affected by summoning sickness.)

Sorcery

$15.99 $13.40 $12.71

Blood Pet

Sacrifice this creature: Add

Creature - Thrull

$1.79 $1.58 $1.64

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

$5.49 $3.73 $2.70

Carnival of Souls

Whenever a creature enters, you lose 1 life and add

Enchantment

$21.99 $18.89 $17.83

Cryptolith Rite

Creatures you control have "

: Add one mana of any color."

Enchantment

$15.99 $10.79 $11.65

Doubling Cube

: Double the amount of each type of unspent mana you have.

Artifact

$27.99 $30.51 $27.91

Enduring Vitality

Vigilance
Creatures you control have "

: Add one mana of any color."
When Enduring Vitality 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 - Elk Glimmer

$23.99 $21.18 $18.93

Horizon Stone

If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes colorless instead.

Artifact

$3.99 $4.15 $3.99

Omnath, Locus of the Void

Omnath gets +1/+1 for each unspent mana you have.
If you would lose unspent mana, that mana becomes colorless instead.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add

Legendary Creature - Elemental

$5.99 $4.36 $4.57

Priest of Gix

When this creature enters, add

Creature - Human Cleric Minion Phyrexian

$2.79 $2.51 $1.15

Prosperous Innkeeper

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature - Citizen Halfling

$0.79 $0.91 $0.40

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $2.00 $1.33

Wight of the Reliquary

Vigilance
This creature gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.

, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature - Knight Zombie

$1.29 $0.41 $0.25

Witherbloom, the Balancer

Affinity for creatures (This spell costs

less to cast for each creature you control.)
Flying, deathtouch
Instant and sorcery spells you cast have affinity for creatures.

Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon

$8.99 $9.56 $9.96

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $2.78

Gravecrawler

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

Creature - Zombie

$1.79 $1.38 $0.96

Honest Rutstein

When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Legendary Creature - Human Warlock

$0.99 $0.86 $0.45

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 6 Price: $22.74

Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add

for each permanent destroyed this way.

Sorcery

$2.79 $1.63 $0.96

Ezuri's Predation

For each creature your opponents control, create a 4/4 green Phyrexian Beast creature token. Each of those tokens fights a different one of those creatures.

Sorcery

$4.99 $3.14 $2.70

Necrotic Hex

Each player sacrifices six creatures of their choice. You create six tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Sorcery

$1.49 $2.05 $1.25

Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery

$1.49 $1.13 $0.43

Saw in Half

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

Instant

$7.49 $5.31 $4.15

Szat's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature they control with the greatest power.
• Exile all opponents' graveyards, then create X 0/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is the greatest power among creature cards exiled this way.

Instant

$4.49 $2.39 $2.20

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 4 Price: $24.27

Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Zombie

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

Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature - Wizard Vampire

$0.79 $0.49 $0.45

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

$22.99 $20.92 $15.47

Woe Strider

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1.
Escape—

, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature - Horror

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Sac Outlet

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Tokens

Qty: 10 Price: $49.00

Army of the Damned

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$1.79 $1.20 $0.78

Chatterfang, Squirrel General

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.)
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus that many 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens are created instead.

, Sacrifice X Squirrels: Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Warrior Squirrel

$13.99 $10.08 $9.58

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

$2.99 $2.62 $1.52

Genesis Chamber

Whenever a nontoken creature enters, if this artifact is untapped, that creature's controller creates a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

Artifact

$3.99 $4.21 $3.07

Pest Rescuer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you don't control a Pest creature token, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.

Creature - Druid Dryad

$0.99 $0.46 $0.15

Springleaf Parade

When this enchantment enters, create X 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature tokens with changeling. (They're every creature type.)
Creature tokens you control have "

: Add one mana of any color."

Enchantment

$11.99 $8.97 $8.95

Sprout Swarm

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for

or one mana of that creature's color.)
Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

Instant

$4.49 $7.92 $4.77

Sylvan Offering

Choose an opponent. You and that player each create an X/X green Treefolk creature token.
Choose an opponent. You and that player each create X 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens.

Sorcery

$2.49 $1.63 $1.37

Tendershoot Dryad

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.
Saprolings you control get +2/+2 as long as you have the city's blessing.

Creature - Dryad

$2.79 $1.21 $0.81

Verdant Kraken

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, you create a 3/3 green Forest Tentacle land creature token. (It has "

: Add

." It's affected by summoning sickness until your next turn.)

Creature - Plant Kraken

$3.49 $2.54 $2.57

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 4 Price: $58.76

Dina's Guidance

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand or graveyard, then shuffle.

Instant

$2.29 $1.94 $0.72

Emeritus of Woe

This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
At the beginning of your end step, if two or more creatures died this turn, this creature becomes prepared.

Creature - Vampire Warlock

Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor (sos) 80

$14.99 $12.04 $9.87

Finale of Devastation

Search your library and/or graveyard for a creature card with mana value X or less and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. If X is 10 or more, creatures you control get +X/+X and gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery

$34.99 $32.28 $33.33

Hoarding Broodlord

Convoke
Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it.
Spells you cast from exile have convoke.

Creature - Dragon

$6.49 $5.28 $3.10

Tutor

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Tokens & Extras

Qty: 18 Price: $26.70

City's Blessing

Card

$---- $---- $0.46

Elf Warrior

Creature Token - Warrior Elf

$0.99 $---- $0.29

Forest Dryad

(This creature is affected by summoning sickness, and it has "

: Add

.")

Creature Land Token - Dryad Forest

$0.79 $---- $0.31

Forest Tentacle

(This token has "

: Add

." It's affected by summoning sickness until your next turn.)

Creature Land Token - Forest Tentacle

$0.69 $---- $0.36

Goat

Creature Token - Goat

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

Myr

Creature Artifact Token - Myr

$13.99 $15.87 $7.96

Pest

When this creature dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Token - Pest

$0.79 $---- $0.50

Phyrexian Beast

Creature Token - Beast Phyrexian

$0.59 $---- $0.21

Professor Dellian Fel Emblem

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

Emblem

$3.49 $---- $1.31

Saproling

Creature Token - Saproling

$---- $---- $0.25

Shapeshifter

Changeling (This token is every creature type.)

Creature Token - Shapeshifter

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

Shapeshifter

Changeling

Creature Token - Shapeshifter

$0.35 $---- $0.15

Squirrel

Creature Token - Squirrel

$0.79 $0.55 $0.15

Thrull

Creature Token - Thrull

$2.49 $2.55 $2.36

Thrull

Creature Token - Thrull

$0.69 $1.37 $1.21

Treasure

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

Artifact Token - Treasure

$0.35 $0.20 $----

Treefolk

Creature Token - Treefolk

$0.35 $---- $0.15

Zombie

Creature Token - Zombie

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $656.60

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.44Total Mana Value: 220.00

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Commander

Creature

Drain

Draw

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Finisher

Instant

Land

Lifegain

Planeswalker

Ramp

Recursion

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Sac Outlet

Tokens

Tutor

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0 mana - 8 cards

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0 mana - 8 cards

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54 pips - 36 cards

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43 mana - 37 cards

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0 mana - 8 cards

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38 pips - 29 cards

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37 mana - 34 cards

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10 mana - 7 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.44Total Mana Value: 220.00

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