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Elenda, aristocrat combo
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $1205.33
Salt Sum: 44.21
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Commander

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Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Lifelink Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda, the Dusk Rose. When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

Creature
Elenda, the Dusk Rose (rix) 157
1

Draw

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Archivist of Oghma

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

Creature
Archivist of Oghma (clb) 4
1
Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Instant
Blood Pact (mid) 88
1
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 (rav) 81
1
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is Esper Sentinel's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
1
Eye of Vecna

When Eye of Vecna enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 2 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {2}. If you do, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.

Artifact
Eye of Vecna (afr) 243
1
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (sld) 207
1
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (9ed) 152
1
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Read the Bones (ths) 101
1
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (sta) 32
1

For combo

Quantity: 10Price: $66.62
Animation Module

Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a permanent you control, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. {3}, {T}: Choose a counter on target permanent or player. Give that permanent or player another counter of that kind.

Artifact
Animation Module (kld) 194
1
Bitter Ordeal

Search target player's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Gravestorm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each permanent put into a graveyard this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Bitter Ordeal (fut) 80
1
Bog Initiate

{1}: Add {B}.

Creature
Bog Initiate (inv) 95
1
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (akh) 225
1
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (tmp) 292
1
Nim Deathmantle

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {4}. If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach Nim Deathmantle to it. Equip {4}

Artifact
Nim Deathmantle (2x2) 309
1
Oathsworn Vampire

Oathsworn Vampire enters the battlefield tapped. You may cast Oathsworn Vampire from your graveyard if you gained life this turn.

Creature
Oathsworn Vampire (rix) 80
1
Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever Pawn of Ulamog or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Creature
Pawn of Ulamog (roe) 122
1
Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Pitiless Plunderer (rix) 81
1
Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return Reassembling Skeleton from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Reassembling Skeleton (plst) M19-116
1

Land

Quantity: 35Price: $300.19
Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 244
1
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ktk) 230
1
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (clb) 882
1
Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 285Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 285
1
Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
1
Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (c21) 283
1
City of Brass

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (5ed) 413
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c15) 281
1
Fetid Heath

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

Land
Fetid Heath (a25) 238
1
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (gtc) 242
1
Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (dom) 241
1
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (cmr) 721
1
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Marsh Flats: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
1
Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield tapped. When Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (c20) 289
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (vow) 398
5
Shattered Sanctum

Shattered Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Shattered Sanctum (vow) 264
1
Silent Clearing

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {W} or {B}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Silent Clearing: Draw a card.

Land
Silent Clearing (mh1) 246
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (khm) 396
9
Tainted Field

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

Land
Tainted Field (tor) 140
1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
1
Vault of Champions

Vault of Champions enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Vault of Champions (cmr) 360
1
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Verdant Catacombs: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (pmh2) 260s
1
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
1

Life drain

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Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (avr) 86
1
Corpse Knight

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Corpse Knight (m20) 206
1
Cruel Celebrant

Whenever Cruel Celebrant or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Cruel Celebrant (war) 188
1
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Deathtouch Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life. Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim (dmu) 198
1
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters the battlefield, 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.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (mid) 112
1
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (bfz) 126
1

Other

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Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped. Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (kld) 5
1
Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your precombat 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 has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (clb) 669
1
Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (gtc) 6
1
Deep Gnome Terramancer

Flash Mold Earth — Whenever one or more lands enter the battlefield under an opponent's control without being played, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Do this only once each turn.

Creature
Deep Gnome Terramancer (clb) 658
1
Opposition Agent

Flash You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries. While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature
Opposition Agent (cmr) 141
1

Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (clb) 298
1
Blood Pet

Sacrifice Blood Pet: Add {B}.

Creature
Blood Pet (plst) TMP-109
1
Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Instant
Cabal Ritual (v16) 2
1
Chrome Mox

Imprint — When Chrome Mox enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Artifact
Chrome Mox (slc) 2003
1
Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Culling the Weak (exo) 55
1
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (4ed) 129
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (clb) 871
1
Talisman of Hierarchy

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Talisman of Hierarchy deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (mh1) 233
1

Recursion

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Argivian Find

Return target artifact or enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Argivian Find (wth) 6
1
Ritual of Restoration

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Ritual of Restoration (dst) 13
1
Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy. Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (clb) 707
1

Removal

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (sld) 138
1
Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Damn (pmh2) 80s
1
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (clb) 841
1
Disenchant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Disenchant (cmr) 372
1
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 (znr) 102
1
Fracture

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

Instant
Fracture (stx) 188
1
Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant
Generous Gift (cmr) 375
1
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
Path to Exile (f15) 7
1
Rite of Oblivion

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a nonland permanent. Exile target nonland permanent. Flashback {2}{W}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Rite of Oblivion (mid) 237
1
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (sld) 364
1
Vanishing Verse

Exile target monocolored permanent.

Instant
Vanishing Verse (stx) 244
1
Vindicate

Destroy target permanent.

Sorcery
Vindicate (mh2) 294
1

Sacrifice

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Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (plst) EMA-218
1
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (uma) 232
1

Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (3ed) 105
1
Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Intent (pls) 42
1
Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (mir) 14
1
Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 315
1
Imperial Seal

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Imperial Seal (2x2) 354
1
Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 401
1
Scheming Symmetry

Choose two target players. Each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.

Sorcery
Scheming Symmetry (m20) 113
1
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (plst) EMA-112
1
Wishclaw Talisman

Wishclaw Talisman enters the battlefield with three wish counters on it. {1}, {T}, Remove a wish counter from Wishclaw Talisman: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. An opponent gains control of Wishclaw Talisman. Activate only during your turn.

Artifact
Wishclaw Talisman (eld) 110
1

Sideboard

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Basal Thrull

{T}, Sacrifice Basal Thrull: Add {B}{B}.

Creature
Basal Thrull (fem) 34c
1
Body Count

Spectacle {B} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Draw a card for each creature that died under your control this turn.

Instant
Body Count (ncc) 34
1
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (plst) C17-114
1
Gutterbones

Gutterbones enters the battlefield tapped. {1}{B}: Return Gutterbones from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn and only if an opponent lost life this turn.

Creature
Gutterbones (rna) 76
1
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 389
1
Mine Excavation

Return target artifact or enchantment card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. Conspire (As you cast this spell, you may tap two untapped creatures you control that share a color with it. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)

Sorcery
Mine Excavation (shm) 13
1
Phyrexian Reclamation

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (c13) 88
1
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 you lose 1 life.

Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (stx) 81
1
Shadow Prophecy

Domain — Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Shadow Prophecy (dmu) 105
1
Skullclamp

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

Artifact
Skullclamp (dst) 140
1
Viscera Seer

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

Creature
Viscera Seer (c13) 99
1

Maybeboard

Quantity: 7Price: $236.69
Flooded Strand

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Flooded Strand: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Flooded Strand (ktk) 233
1
Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice Jeweled Lotus: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Artifact
Jeweled Lotus (cmr) 319
1
Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Lotus Petal (tmp) 294
1
Orzhov Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (c20) 247
1
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Polluted Delta: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
1
Snowfield Sinkhole

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) Snowfield Sinkhole enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Snowfield Sinkhole (clb) 915
1
Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Windswept Heath: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Windswept Heath (ktk) 248
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Life drain combo :\n\n-> oathsworn vampire :\n\t\t+ phyrexian altar + bontu's monument\n\t\t+ phyrexian altar + jet medalion + blood artist / cruel celebrant / zulaport cuthroat / bastion of remenbrance\n\t\t+ ashnod's altar + bog initiate + bontu's monument / blood artist / cruel celebrant / zulaport cuthroat / bastion of remenbrance\n\t\t+ ashnod's altar + pitiless plunderer + bontu's monument / blood artist / cruel celebrant / zulaport cuthroat / bastion of remenbrance\n\n\nInfinity loop combo* :\n\n-> persistent specimen :\n\t\t+ phyrexian altar + pawn of ulamog + pitiless plunderer\n\t\t+ ashnod's altar + bog initiate + pawn of ulamog\n\t\t+ ashnod's altar + pitiless plunderer\n\n-> gutterbones :\n\t\t+ phyrexian altar + pawn of ulamog + pitiless plunderer\n\t\t+ ashnod's altar + bog initiate + pawn of ulamog\n\n-> reassembling skeleton :\n\t\t+ phyrexian altar + pawn of ulamog / pitiless plunderer\n\t\t+ ashnod's altar + bog initiate / pitiless plunderer\n\n-> elenda, the dusk rose + ashnod's altar / phyrexian altar + nim dearhmantle\n\n-> elenda, the dusk rose + ashnod's altar / phyrexian altar + animation module\n\n-> elenda, the dusk rose + ashnod's altar + pawn of ulamog + pitiless plunderer **\n\n* win with blood artist / corpse knight / cruel celebrant / the meathook massacre / zulaport cuthroat / bastion of remenbrance or bitter ordeal\n\n** Elenda infinite loop explanation : \n \nOn the board ashnod's altar + pawn of ulamog + pitiless plunderer + 4 mana including 1 white and 1 black\n1) play Elenda for 4\n2) sacrifice Elenda with ashnod's altar -> 2 colorless mana and 1 vampire token, pawn of ulamog -> 1 eldrazi token, pitiless plunderer -> 1 treasure token\n3) sacrifice the vampire token with ashnod's altar -> 2 colorless mana, pitiless plunderer -> 2 treasure token\n         Total: 4 colorless mana + 1 Eldrazi token + 2 treasure\n4) play Elenda for 6 with the 4 colorless mana + 2 treasure\n5) sacrifice the eldrazi token with ashnod's altar -> 2 colorless mana, Elenda becomes 2/2\n6) sacrifice Elenda with ashnod's altar -> 2 colorless mana and 2 vampire token, pawn of ulamog -> 1 eldrazi token, pitiless plunderer -> 1 treasure token\n7) sacrifice the 2 vampire tokens with ashnod's altar -> 4 colorless mana, pitiless plunderer -> 2 treasure token\n         Total: 6 colorless mana + 1 Eldrazi token + 2 treasure\n8) play Elenda for 8 with 6 colorless mana + 2 treasure\n9) start over with an additional vampire token each time\n"}]}
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