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Life Is A Resource and We're Thriving!
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Commander / EDH
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Commander

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Willowdusk, Essence Seer

{1}, {T}: Choose another target creature. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of life you gained this turn or the amount of life you lost this turn, whichever is greater. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Willowdusk, Essence Seer (c21) 6

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Evasion

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Champion of Lambholt

Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block creatures you control. Whenever another creature you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Champion of Lambholt (jmp) 383
Kodama of the West Tree

Reach Modified creatures you control have trample. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) Whenever a modified creature you control deals combat damage to a player, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Kodama of the West Tree (neo) 199
Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink. Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mask of Griselbrand (mid) 111

Evasion

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Pay Life

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Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Dark Confidant (2xm) 81
Darkstar Augur

Offspring {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Darkstar Augur (blb) 311
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
Doom Whisperer (grn) 69
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Lifelink For each {B} 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.

Creature
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (c19) 18
Staff of Compleation

{T}, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color. {T}, Pay 3 life: Proliferate. {T}, Pay 4 life: Draw a card. {5}: Untap this artifact.

Artifact
Staff of Compleation (one) 242
Wall of Blood

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Pay 1 life: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Wall of Blood (plst) MRD-82

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Removal

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Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (c21) 144
Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Sorcery
Killing Wave (avr) 111
Mortality Spear

This spell costs {2} less to cast if you gained life this turn. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Mortality Spear (stx) 207
Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277
Vendetta

Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated. You lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Instant
Vendetta (roe) 130

Removal

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Counters

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Branching Evolution

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead.

Enchantment
Branching Evolution (lcc) 234
Corpsejack Menace

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.

Creature
Corpsejack Menace (plst) IMA-197
Unspeakable Symbol

Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Enchantment
Unspeakable Symbol (scg) 79

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Land

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Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (otc) 279
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (c21) 284
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (c21) 288
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mid) 277
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (c21) 293
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (c21) 297
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (grn) 253
Revitalizing Repast

Instant
Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (c21) 312
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (vow) 273
Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Wood (c21) 321
Twilight Mire

{T}: Add {C}. {B/G}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{G}, or {G}{G}.

Land
Twilight Mire (ncc) 443
Tyrite Sanctum

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target legendary creature becomes a God in addition to its other types. Put a +1/+1 counter on it. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put an indestructible counter on target God.

Land
Tyrite Sanctum (cmm) 1049
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (clb) 929
Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dom) 248

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Pumpables

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Lifeblood Hydra

Trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When this creature dies, you gain life and draw cards equal to its power.

Creature
Lifeblood Hydra (cmm) 303

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Utility

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Instill Energy

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can attack as though it had haste. {0}: Untap enchanted creature. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn.

Enchantment
Instill Energy (5ed) 304
Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. {1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (c21) 271

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Damage

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Bond of Agony

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Each other player loses X life.

Sorcery
Bond of Agony (dis) 38
Creeping Bloodsucker

At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Creature
Creeping Bloodsucker (j22) 21
Faerie Bladecrafter

Flying Whenever one or more Faeries you control deal combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is its power.

Creature
Faerie Bladecrafter (woc) 14
Fell Beast of Mordor

Flying Devour 1 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. It enters with that many +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Fell Beast of Mordor (ltc) 513
Ragged Veins

Flash Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, its controller loses that much life.

Enchantment
Ragged Veins (chk) 139
Rite of Consumption

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery
Rite of Consumption (shm) 76
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
Twilight Prophet (lcc) 211
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. {3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (m21) 127

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Lifegain

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Blossoming Bogbeast

Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 2 life. Then creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Blossoming Bogbeast (c21) 59
Deep-Cavern Bat

Flying, lifelink When this creature enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it until this creature leaves the battlefield.

Creature
Deep-Cavern Bat (lci) 102
Eradicator Valkyrie

Flying, lifelink, hexproof from planeswalkers Boast — {1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Creature
Eradicator Valkyrie (khm) 94
Essence Harvest

Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery
Essence Harvest (avr) 100
Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 638
Feed the Clan

You gain 5 life. Ferocious — You gain 10 life instead if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Instant
Feed the Clan (plst) KTK-132
Ghastly Gloomhunter

Kicker {3}{B} (You may pay an additional {3}{B} as you cast this spell.) Flying, lifelink If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Ghastly Gloomhunter (znr) 103
Inscription of Abundance

Kicker {2}{G} Choose one. If this spell was kicked, choose any number instead. • Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. • Target player gains X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures they control. • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.

Instant
Inscription of Abundance (moc) 303
Leech Gauntlet

Lifelink Equipped creature has lifelink. Reconfigure {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Leech Gauntlet (neo) 106
Phyrexian Fleshgorger

Prototype {1}{B}{B} — 3/3 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) Menace, lifelink Ward—Pay life equal to this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Fleshgorger (bro) 121
Spike Feeder

This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: You gain 2 life.

Creature
Spike Feeder (tsb) 84
Tranquil Frillback

When this creature enters, you may pay {G} up to three times. When you pay this cost one or more times, choose up to that many — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Exile target player's graveyard. • You gain 4 life.

Creature
Tranquil Frillback (mat) 24
Valentin, Dean of the Vein

Creature
Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161
Vampire Cutthroat

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Vampire Cutthroat (emn) 110
Vampire of the Dire Moon

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Vampire of the Dire Moon (m20) 120
Vault Skirge

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature Artifact
Vault Skirge (nph) 76
Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (ths) 110

Lifegain

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Ramp

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Crystalline Crawler

Converge — This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Crystalline Crawler (plst) C16-54
Gyre Sage

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) {T}: Add {G} for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Gyre Sage (gk2) 112
Heronblade Elite

Vigilance Whenever another Human you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.

Creature
Heronblade Elite (mic) 26
Honest Rutstein

When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Honest Rutstein (otj) 207
Incubation Druid

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. If this creature has a +1/+1 counter on it, add three mana of that type instead. {3}{G}{G}: Adapt 3. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put three +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Incubation Druid (rna) 131
Kami of Whispered Hopes

If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.

Creature
Kami of Whispered Hopes (mom) 196
Leyline Prowler

Deathtouch, lifelink {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Leyline Prowler (c21) 222
Marwyn, the Nurturer

Whenever another Elf you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Marwyn. {T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to Marwyn's power.

Creature
Marwyn, the Nurturer (khc) 68
Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
Viridian Joiner

{T}: Add an amount of {G} equal to this creature's power.

Creature
Viridian Joiner (mrd) 138

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Draw

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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.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
Blex, Vexing Pest

Creature
Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex (stx) 148Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex (stx) 148
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. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (plg21) 3
Dark Tutelage

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Enchantment
Dark Tutelage (m11) 90
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (c21) 145
Sylvan Library

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Enchantment
Sylvan Library (dmr) 179

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Lifegain Synergy

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Starscape Cleric

Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} 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
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116

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Recursion

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Pulse of Murasa

Return target creature or land card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. You gain 6 life.

Instant
Pulse of Murasa (c21) 202
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (jmp) 270

Recursion

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Sideboard

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Compost

Whenever a black card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Compost (plst) UDS-102

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Maybeboard

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Banehound

Lifelink, haste

Creature
Banehound (war) 77
Barrowgoyf

Deathtouch, lifelink Barrowgoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may mill that many cards. If you do, you may put a creature card from among them into your hand.

Creature
Barrowgoyf (m3c) 50
Berserk

Cast this spell only before the combat damage step. Target creature gains trample and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is its power. At the beginning of the next end step, destroy that creature if it attacked this turn.

Instant
Berserk (cn2) 175
Bloodtracker

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Bloodtracker (lcc) 186
Child of Night

Lifelink

Creature
Child of Night (plst) IMA-85
Concordant Crossroads

All creatures have haste.

Enchantment
Concordant Crossroads (2x2) 141
Daggerdrome Imp

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Daggerdrome Imp (bbd) 140
Dreamdrinker Vampire

Lifelink {1}{B}: Adapt 1. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, it gains menace until end of turn.

Creature
Dreamdrinker Vampire (mh3) 88
Duskfang Mentor

When this creature enters, put a lifelink counter on target non-Human creature you control. {1}{B}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with lifelink.

Creature
Duskfang Mentor (iko) 86
Evolution Witness

{1}{G}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Evolution Witness (mh3) 151
Gifted Aetherborn

Deathtouch, lifelink

Creature
Gifted Aetherborn (plst) AER-61
Gumdrop Poisoner

Creature
Gumdrop Poisoner // Tempt with Treats (woe) 93
Hydra Trainer

You may exert this creature as it attacks. When you do, target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of counters on permanents you control. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step.) {2}{G}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.)

Creature
Hydra Trainer (mh3) 159
Primal Rage

Creatures you control have trample. (A creature with trample can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Enchantment
Primal Rage (10e) 286
Urborg Scavengers

Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile target card from a graveyard. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. This creature has flying as long as a card exiled with it has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance.

Creature
Urborg Scavengers (mat) 15
Viridian Revel

Whenever an artifact is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Viridian Revel (som) 132

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The Cut

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Archfiend's Vessel

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) When this creature enters, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, exile it. If you do, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying.

Creature
Archfiend's Vessel (m21) 88
Command the Dreadhorde

Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Command the Dreadhorde (war) 82
Deadly Tempest

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Deadly Tempest (c21) 140
Dire Fleet Ravager

Menace, deathtouch When this creature enters, each player loses a third of their life, rounded up.

Creature
Dire Fleet Ravager (clb) 749
Flesh-Eater Imp

Flying Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Sacrifice a creature: Flesh-Eater Imp gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Flesh-Eater Imp (mbs) 42
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 {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (thb) 99
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Jarad gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard. {1}{B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord (ddj) 45
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (ncc) 254
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (jmp) 267
Saryth, the Viper's Fang

Other tapped creatures you control have deathtouch. Other untapped creatures you control have hexproof. {1}, {T}: Untap another target creature or land you control.

Creature
Saryth, the Viper's Fang (mid) 304
Vampire Nighthawk

Flying Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Vampire Nighthawk (c21) 157
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
Witch of the Moors (plst) JMP-18

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55 pips - 42 cards
32 mana - 27 cards
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