so hows life • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Gul Dukat, Colonial Prefect

Menace
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Legendary Creature - Rogue Cardassian

$1.49 $2.27 $1.54

Commander

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Deep Space 9

When Deep Space 9 enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top four cards of your library. Put all permanent cards exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery.)
9+ | Creatures you control get +3/+3.

Legendary Artifact - Spacecraft

$29.99 $20.03 $21.68

Queen's Diamond

: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each charge counter on Queen's Diamond. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 8+.)
8+ | Flying, vigilance, haste

Legendary Artifact - Spacecraft

$3.49 $6.13 $4.37

Artifact

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Archfiend of Despair

Flying
Your opponents can't gain life.
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature - Demon

$3.99 $3.71 $2.20

Syphon Soul

Syphon Soul deals 2 damage to each other player. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Throne of the God-Pharaoh

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control.

Legendary Artifact

$9.99 $6.90 $4.91

Burn

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Elim Garak, Simple Tailor

Menace
Whenever you face a dilemma, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. (You face a dilemma as you choose one or more modes for a spell or ability.)

Legendary Creature - Rogue Cardassian

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Grand Nagus Zek

Grand Nagus Zek gets +1/+1 for each Treasure you control.
Whenever another creature dies, create a Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn. (It's an artifact with "

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

Legendary Creature - Noble Ferengi

$0.49 $0.38 $0.15

Creature

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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

$9.49 $5.87 $4.42

Fraying Omnipotence

Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice. Round up each time.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.77 $0.15

Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment

$3.49 $1.64 $1.03

Rankle's Prank

Choose one or more —
• Each player discards two cards.
• Each player loses 4 life.
• Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.38 $0.15

Discard

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Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment

$27.99 $23.03 $18.75

Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature - Vampire Demon

$44.99 $37.78 $34.37

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

$1.29 $0.68 $0.67

Mage Hunter

Whenever an opponent casts or copies an instant or sorcery spell, they lose 1 life.

Creature - Horror

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Mirkwood Bats

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

Creature - Bat

$1.49 $1.44 $0.45

Serrated Scorpion

When this creature dies, it deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.

Creature - Scorpion

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

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

$1.79 $1.33 $1.18

Tainted Remedy

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

Enchantment

$8.49 $7.89 $3.62

Wound Reflection

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Enchantment

$12.99 $9.70 $9.21

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

$2.99 $1.54 $1.19

Drain

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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

$5.49 $4.89 $3.75

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 $16.08 $10.94

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$4.49 $3.34 $3.07

Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact - Construct Phyrexian

$8.99 $5.36 $3.67

Twilight Prophet

Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Creature - Vampire Cleric

$4.49 $3.82 $2.51

Draw

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Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.32 $0.28

Repay in Kind

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

Sorcery

$5.99 $6.58 $4.24

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 $28.82 $28.13

Finisher

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Artificial Anomaly

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Create a tapped Planet land token named New Planet with "

: Add one mana of any color."

Land

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$3.49 $1.55 $1.38

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$37.99 $32.06 $26.15

Cabal Stronghold

: Add

for each basic Swamp you control.

Land

$20.99 $13.88 $11.82

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 $1.07 $0.76

Field of the Dead

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land

$32.99 $27.95 $24.59

Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

: Add

Land

$0.39 $0.40 $0.31

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.69 $0.31 $0.22

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

$84.99 $57.03 $55.90

Susur Secundi, Void Altar

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Planet. Station only as a sorcery.)
12+ |

, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land - Planet

$9.49 $5.69 $3.12

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

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

The Unicomplex

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
When this land enters untapped, choose one —
• Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
• Surveil 1.

: Add

Land

$2.99 $1.18 $0.71

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Legendary Land

$74.99 $55.73 $52.10

Urza's Cave

: Add

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

Land - Urza's Cave

$3.49 $2.44 $1.80

War Room

: Add

, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land

$4.99 $4.56 $1.74

Land

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Retreat to Hagra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
• Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$2.99 $1.96 $0.59

Landfall

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Polluted Bonds

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment

$9.99 $10.25 $5.71

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

$109.99 $100.15 $96.90

Zof Consumption

Each opponent loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

Sorcery

Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog (znr) 132

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Lifegain

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Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Sorcery

$13.99 $9.93 $8.27

The Master of Lake-town

Deathtouch
Whenever a player loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
When The Master of Lake-town dies, draw a card for each graveyard with seven or more cards in it.

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Mill

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Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$5.49 $2.63 $2.61

Mithril Coat

Flash
Indestructible
When Mithril Coat enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control.
Equipped creature has indestructible.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$32.99 $22.47 $19.20

Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Instant

$2.79 $1.24 $0.82

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

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$2.99 $1.20 $1.23

Protection

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Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add

for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment

$6.99 $5.38 $4.12

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

$21.99 $15.94 $15.84

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each

in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian

$2.29 $1.22 $0.77

Magus of the Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Creature - Human Wizard

$7.99 $4.64 $4.27

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 $3.24 $3.15

Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Enchantment

$22.99 $20.23 $20.60

Sceptre of Eternal Glory

: Add one mana of any color.

: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Legendary Artifact

$21.99 $12.14 $12.49

The Darkness Crystal

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.

: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Legendary Artifact

$6.99 $4.95 $3.81

The Eternity Elevator

: Add

.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery.)
20+ |

: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of charge counters on The Eternity Elevator.

Legendary Artifact - Spacecraft

$4.99 $4.32 $2.08

The Soul Stone

Indestructible

: Add

, Exile a creature you control: Harness The Soul Stone. (Once harnessed, its ∞ ability is active.)
∞ — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Legendary Artifact - Infinity Stone

$109.99 $81.27 $78.67

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

$42.99 $29.97 $27.09

Ramp

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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

$12.99 $8.65 $7.88

Scourge of the Skyclaves

Kicker

When you cast this spell, if it was kicked, each player loses half their life, rounded up.
Scourge of the Skyclaves's power and toughness are each equal to 20 minus the highest life total among players.

Creature - Demon

$0.99 $0.47 $0.15

Victimize

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

Sorcery

$1.79 $1.47 $0.77

Recursion

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Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Instant

$39.99 $28.51 $25.99

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.23 $0.15

In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery

$3.49 $3.03 $2.39

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 $1.32 $1.33

Nowhere to Run

Flash
When this enchantment enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Creatures your opponents control can be the targets of spells and abilities as though they didn't have hexproof. Ward abilities of those creatures don't trigger.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.44 $0.15

Pox Plague

Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the permanents they control of their choice. Round down each time.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

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 $1.67 $0.52

Sothera, the Supervoid

Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent chooses a creature they control and exiles it.
At the beginning of your end step, if a player controls no creatures, sacrifice Sothera, then put a creature card exiled with it onto the battlefield under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Legendary Enchantment

$2.99 $2.73 $2.03

Soul Shatter

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

Instant

$6.49 $4.29 $3.90

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

$34.99 $25.76 $22.28

Will of the Abzan

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Any number of target opponents each sacrifice a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls and lose 3 life.
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$6.49 $4.69 $4.32

Removal

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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

$2.49 $1.37 $1.03

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $1,089.30

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Avg Mana Value: 3.94Total Mana Value: 260.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.94Total Mana Value: 260.00

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