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Dina, Soul Steeper
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Legendary Creature - Druid Dryad
Dina, Soul Steeper (soc) 305

Commander

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Blade of the Bloodchief
Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Blade of the Bloodchief (lcc) 300
Titanbones, Towering Heart
Reach
Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Titanbones.
When you discard this card, you gain 3 life.
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Druid
Titanbones, Towering Heart (fra) 266

Counters

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Falkenrath Noble
Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Noble
Falkenrath Noble (j25) 441
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (fdn) 178
Postmortem Professor
This creature can't block.
Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Zombie Warlock
Postmortem Professor (sos) 93
Starscape Cleric
Offspring
(You may pay an additional
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 - Cleric Bat
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
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
Zulaport Cutthroat (soc) 233

Drain

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Decorum Dissertation
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Sorcery - Lesson
Decorum Dissertation (sos) 78
Dina, Essence Brewer
Whenever you sacrifice a creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
,
, Sacrifice another creature: You gain X life and put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Legendary Creature - Druid Dryad
Dina, Essence Brewer (soc) 1
Disciple of Freyalise
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, you gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Creature - Elf Druid
Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise (mh3) 250
Essenceknit Scholar
When this creature enters, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, draw a card.
Creature - Dryad Warlock
Essenceknit Scholar (sos) 187
Lion Vulture
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent lost life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Bird Cat
Lion Vulture (tle) 232
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
Professor Dellian Fel (sos) 214
Witherbloom Charm
Choose one —
• You may sacrifice a permanent. If you do, draw two cards.
• You gain 5 life.
• Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less.
Instant
Witherbloom Charm (sos) 244

Draw

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Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (trc) 521
Demolition Field
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Demolition Field (fic) 385
Eden, Seat of the Sanctum
: Add
.
,
: Mill two cards. Then you may sacrifice this land. When you do, return another target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
Land - Town
Eden, Seat of the Sanctum (fin) 277
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (trc) 528
Field of Ruin
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.
Land
Field of Ruin (ltc) 308
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (mdd) 301
Ghost Quarter
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Ghost Quarter (ltc) 314
Llanowar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Llanowar Wastes (soc) 383
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (mdd) 296
Woodland Cemetery
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
: Add
or
.
Land
Woodland Cemetery (soc) 424

Land

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Bloodthirsty Conqueror
Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Knight Vampire
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 58
Bogwater Lumaret
Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Spirit Frog
Bogwater Lumaret (sos) 177
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Social Climber
Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Druid
Social Climber (snc) 157
Teacher's Pest
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 1 life.
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Skeleton Pest
Teacher's Pest (sos) 238
Virulent Emissary
Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Elf Assassin
Virulent Emissary (ecl) 202
Zof Consumption
Each opponent loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.
Sorcery
Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog (znr) 132Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog (znr) 132

Lifegain

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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
Lightning Greaves (trc) 496
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
Swiftfoot Boots (trc) 501
Veil of Summer
Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Instant
Veil of Summer (plst) M20-198

Protection

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (trc) 485
Fyndhorn Elves
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Fyndhorn Elves (fdc) 204
Llanowar Elves
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Llanowar Elves (fdn) 227
Mind Roots
Target player discards two cards. Put up to one land card discarded this way onto the battlefield tapped under your control.
Sorcery
Mind Roots (sos) 203
Noxious Newt
Deathtouch
: Add
.
Creature - Salamander
Noxious Newt (sos) 155
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Shaman Snake
Sakura-Tribe Elder (soc) 285
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (trc) 499
Solemn Simulacrum
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Creature Artifact - Golem
Solemn Simulacrum (msc) 215
Zimone's Experiment
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal up to two creature and/or land cards from among them, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Put all land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield tapped and put all creature cards revealed this way into your hand.
Sorcery
Zimone's Experiment (sos) 169

Ramp

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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
Cauldron of Essence (sos) 179
Conduit of Worlds
You may play lands from your graveyard.
: Choose target nonland permanent card in your graveyard. If you haven't cast a spell this turn, you may cast that card. If you do, you can't cast additional spells this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Conduit of Worlds (msc) 171
Gixian Puppeteer
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Warlock Phyrexian
Gixian Puppeteer (bro) 99
Living Death
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Sorcery
Living Death (tdc) 185
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
Legendary Creature - Human Shaman
Meren of Clan Nel Toth (tdc) 297
Moseo, Vein's New Dean
Flying
When Moseo enters, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."
Infusion — At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, return up to one 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 - Skeleton Bird Warlock
Moseo, Vein's New Dean (sos) 91
Restore with Empathy
Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain 4 life.
Instant
Restore with Empathy (fra) 112
Timeless Witness
When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Eternalize
(
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Human Shaman
Timeless Witness (tdc) 274
Timeline Culler
Haste
You may cast this card from your graveyard using its warp ability.
Warp—
, Pay 2 life. (You may cast this card from your hand or graveyard for its warp cost. If you do, exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Creature - Warlock Drix
Timeline Culler (eoe) 121
Zombify
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Zombify (fdn) 187

Recursion

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Abrupt Decay
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
Instant
Abrupt Decay (plst) GK1-57
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
Casualties of War
Choose one or more —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target creature.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Destroy target land.
• Destroy target planeswalker.
Sorcery
Casualties of War (soc) 300
Deglamer
Choose target artifact or enchantment. Its owner shuffles it into their library.
Instant
Deglamer (plst) MOR-118
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (plst) MM2-79
Extended Absence
Exile target creature or planeswalker. Extended Absence deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
Instant
Extended Absence (fra) 54
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 (tle) 257
Force of Vigor
If it's not your turn, you may exile a green card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy up to two target artifacts and/or enchantments.
Instant
Force of Vigor (h1r) 21
Grapple with Death
Destroy target artifact or creature. You gain 1 life.
Sorcery
Grapple with Death (sos) 192
Pick Your Poison
Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices an artifact of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature with flying of their choice.
Sorcery
Pick Your Poison (mkm) 170
Putrefy
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Putrefy (ecc) 131
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
Sothera, the Supervoid (eoe) 115
Tear Asunder
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.
Instant
Tear Asunder (eoc) 109
Vicious Rivalry
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Destroy all artifacts and creatures with mana value X or less.
Sorcery
Vicious Rivalry (sos) 241

Removal

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Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
Flying, trample
Whenever an opponent searches their library, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice and loses 10 life.
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled (2x2) 84

Stax

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Basking Broodscale
Devoid (This card has no color.)
: 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, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add
."
Creature - Lizard Eldrazi
Basking Broodscale (mh3) 145
Eldrazi Repurposer
Devoid (This card has no color.)
When you cast this spell and when this creature dies, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add
."
Creature - Eldrazi Drone
Eldrazi Repurposer (mh3) 150
Pestbrood Sloth
Reach
When this creature dies, create two 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."
Creature - Plant Sloth
Pestbrood Sloth (sos) 157

Tokens

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Analyze the Pollen
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 8. (Exile cards with total mana value 8 or greater from your graveyard.)
Search your library for a basic land card. If evidence was collected, instead search your library for a creature or land card. Reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Analyze the Pollen (mkm) 150
Demonic Counsel
Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Counsel (dsk) 92
Dina's Guidance
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand or graveyard, then shuffle.
Instant
Dina's Guidance (sos) 184

Tutor

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