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Life Giveth, Life Taketh
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Est deck cost: $430.68
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Commander

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Dina, Soul Steeper

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life. {1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Creature
Dina, Soul Steeper (mul) 167

Commander

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Protection

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Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (c20) 245
Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (eld) 104
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 {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (m12) 219
Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211

Protection

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Sac Payoffs

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Aid from the Cowl

Revolt — At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, you may put it on the bottom of your library.

Enchantment
Aid from the Cowl (aer) 105
Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (iko) 73
Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (jmp) 206
Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Deathgreeter (ala) 71
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (znr) 112
Sanguine Bond

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
Savra, Queen of the Golgari

Whenever you sacrifice a black creature, you may pay 2 life. If you do, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice. Whenever you sacrifice a green creature, you may gain 2 life.

Creature
Savra, Queen of the Golgari (gk1) 69
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. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (eld) 107
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.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (mid) 112
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
Zulaport Cutthroat

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

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (znc) 57

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Card Draw

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Blex, Vexing Pest

Creature
Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex (stx) 148Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex (stx) 148
Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Instant
Blood Pact (mid) 88
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 (pwar) 79p
Disciple of Bolas

When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (ncc) 247
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (plst) M20-214
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (dbl) 113
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (sta) 32
Skullclamp

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

Artifact
Skullclamp (dst) 140
Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (sld) 1181

Card Draw

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Ramp

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Courser of Kruphix

Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands from the top of your library. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Courser of Kruphix (tsr) 359
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (m15) 173
Fyndhorn Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Fyndhorn Elves (cmr) 228
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (clb) 244
Neverwinter Dryad

{2}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Neverwinter Dryad (afr) 329
Pristine Talisman

{T}: Add {C}. You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (c21) 258
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (2x2) 371
Sakura-Tribe Elder

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

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (plst) C18-160
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cc2) 7
Wood Elves

When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Wood Elves (sld) 1101

Ramp

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Win Cons

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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
Aetherflux Reservoir (plst) KLD-192
Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (jmp) 231
Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (plst) SOM-61
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 (ths) 89

Win Cons

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Instant

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Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (dbl) 107

Instant

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Recursion

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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.

Creature
Meren of Clan Nel Toth (plst) C15-49
Turn the Earth

Choose up to three target cards in graveyards. The owners of those cards shuffle them into their libraries. You gain 2 life. Flashback {1}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Turn the Earth (dbl) 205
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 (jmp) 18

Recursion

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Land

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Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 266
Castle Locthwain

This land enters 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 (eld) 241
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c19) 237
Darkbore Pathway

Land
Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 254Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway (khm) 254
Deathcap Glade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Deathcap Glade (vow) 281
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (c16) 295
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (mid) 277
Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (2x2) 406
Haunted Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Haunted Mire (dmu) 248
High Market

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

Land
High Market (afc) 246
Jungle Hollow

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Jungle Hollow (c19) 254
Llanowar Wastes

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

Land
Llanowar Wastes (bro) 264
Necroblossom Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Necroblossom Snarl (stx) 269
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (jmp) 493
Riveteers Overlook

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Riveteers Overlook (snc) 255
Sapseep Forest

({T}: Add {G}.) This land enters tapped. {G}, {T}: You gain 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more green permanents.

Land
Sapseep Forest (c21) 313
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mid) 272
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
Temple of Malady

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Malady (m20) 254
Undergrowth Stadium

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmr) 359
Woodland Cemetery

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

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dom) 248
Zof Consumption

Sorcery
Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog (znr) 132Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog (znr) 132

Land

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Removal

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Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (c19) 157
Cankerbloom

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Cankerbloom (one) 294
Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Culling Ritual (stx) 172
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Haywire Mite

When this creature dies, you gain 2 life. {G}, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Creature Artifact
Haywire Mite (bro) 199
In Garruk's Wake

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

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (pm15) 100
Mortality Spear

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

Instant
Mortality Spear (stx) 207
Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Putrefy (sta) 63
Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (j22) 717
Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Scavenging Ooze (m21) 204
Tear Asunder

Kicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} as you cast this spell.) Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.

Instant
Tear Asunder (dmu) 183

Removal

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Life Gain

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Cosmos Elixir

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if your life total is greater than your starting life total. Otherwise, you gain 2 life.

Artifact
Cosmos Elixir (khm) 237
Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Essence Warden (ddh) 3
Grim Feast

At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to you. Whenever a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Enchantment
Grim Feast (mir) 265
Lifegift

Whenever a land enters, you may gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Lifegift (bok) 132
Prosperous Innkeeper

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Prosperous Innkeeper (afr) 200
Sangromancer

Flying Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life. Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Creature
Sangromancer (c21) 152

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Sac Generators

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Beledros Witherbloom

Flying At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Beledros Witherbloom (stx) 163
Blight Mound

Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Enchantment
Blight Mound (c21) 36
Callous Bloodmage

When this creature enters, choose one — • Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • Exile target player's graveyard.

Creature
Callous Bloodmage (stx) 302
Gravelighter

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card if a creature died this turn. Otherwise, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Gravelighter (neo) 98
Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature
Ophiomancer (cc2) 3
Pestilent Cauldron

Artifact
Pestilent Cauldron // Restorative Burst (stx) 154Pestilent Cauldron // Restorative Burst (stx) 154
Silversmote Ghoul

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. {1}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Silversmote Ghoul (c21) 154
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

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