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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

$19.99 $24.04 $18.21

Commander

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Cliffhaven Vampire

Flying
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Vampire Warrior Ally

$1.79 $0.51 $0.25

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

$17.99 $12.50 $11.19

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Vampire Cleric

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

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

$15.99 $10.35 $10.30

Drain

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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 $10.78 $9.36

Archivist of Oghma

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

Creature - Cleric Halfling

$8.99 $6.07 $6.40

Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Legendary Artifact

$13.99 $15.74 $10.94

Dawn of Hope

Whenever you gain life, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card.

: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

Enchantment

$1.29 $0.35 $0.32

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

$44.99 $36.23 $34.90

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$3.49 $7.15 $7.81

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$5.49 $2.82 $2.64

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.34 $0.15

Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays

Enchantment

$74.99 $67.93 $69.29

Sea Gate Restoration

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand plus one. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Sorcery

Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76

$49.99 $35.22 $34.38

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

$4.49 $3.08 $2.28

Draw

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Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.35 $0.23

Finisher

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Adarkar Wastes

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.99 $0.37 $0.29

Arcane Sanctum

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.69 $0.31 $0.20

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$3.49 $1.70 $1.44

Caves of Koilos

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.69 $0.32 $0.19

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.59 $0.31 $0.19

Drowned Catacomb

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

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.47 $0.21

Glacial Fortress

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

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

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

$7.99 $5.31 $5.47

Hallowed Fountain

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

Land - Plains Island

$7.49 $4.83 $5.00

Island

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Basic Land - Island

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

Isolated Chapel

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.28 $0.16

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

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

Raffine's Tower

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This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Swamp

$22.99 $14.48 $13.75

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.66 $3.94

Swamp

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Basic Land - Swamp

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

Underground River

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. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$1.29 $0.71 $0.41

Vault of the Archangel

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: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Land

$2.49 $1.75 $1.34

Watery Grave

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

Land - Island Swamp

$7.99 $6.72 $5.78

Land

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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 $21.15 $19.05

Ajani's Pridemate

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Soldier Cat

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

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

$57.99 $44.90 $43.28

Authority of the Consuls

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

Enchantment

$7.49 $5.32 $4.11

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

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

Creature - Knight Vampire

$49.99 $38.58 $36.45

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 $4.44 $2.60

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

$34.99 $21.58 $19.37

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 $9.51 $6.19

Queza, Augur of Agonies

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legendary Creature - Advisor Octopus

$0.39 $0.34 $0.15

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

$37.99 $28.31 $26.78

Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Cleric

$5.99 $3.77 $3.30

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 $4.47 $2.29

Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Artifact - Book

$10.99 $7.28 $5.47

Lifegain

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Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$8.49 $6.80 $5.62

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment

$23.99 $17.89 $16.45

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$3.49 $2.85 $2.28

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

$6.99 $4.00 $3.78

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant

$57.99 $46.55 $41.66

Protection

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.66 $0.46

Azorius Signet

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Artifact

$0.69 $0.30 $0.15

Commander's Sphere

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$4.99 $3.97 $2.81

Dimir Signet

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $0.41 $0.31

Orzhov Signet

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Artifact

$0.79 $0.34 $0.31

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

$79.99 $61.10 $58.99

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.62 $1.39

Talisman of Dominance

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$1.49 $0.48 $0.38

Talisman of Hierarchy

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$1.49 $0.53 $0.46

Talisman of Progress

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

Ramp

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Agadeem's Awakening

Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.

Sorcery

Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90

$32.99 $25.11 $25.99

Celestine, the Living Saint

Flying, lifelink
Healing Tears — At the beginning of your end step, return 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 - Human Warrior

$24.99 $20.24 $21.27

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

$0.99 $0.44 $0.15

Recursion

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant

$4.49 $1.84 $1.88

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

$4.49 $3.12 $2.09

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $2.64 $2.50

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

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

Instant

$42.99 $38.41 $37.25

Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

Dovin's Veto

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

Instant

$5.99 $4.00 $3.15

Farewell

Choose one or more —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery

$4.99 $4.83 $3.54

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

$18.99 $17.20 $13.93

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

$2.49 $1.23 $1.04

Supreme Verdict

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

Sorcery

$2.99 $4.48 $2.27

Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant

$2.79 $1.45 $1.30

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 $5.55 $5.10

Removal

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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

$9.49 $6.64 $5.64

Stax

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Crested Sunmare

Other Horses you control have indestructible.
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 5/5 white Horse creature token.

Creature - Horse

$9.99 $5.59 $6.04

Elenda's Hierophant

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is its power.

Creature - Vampire Cleric

$6.99 $6.06 $4.99

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $986.33

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.13Total Mana Value: 200.00

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35 pips - 30 cards

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24 mana - 24 cards

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33 pips - 21 cards

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10 mana - 9 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.13Total Mana Value: 200.00

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