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Siphoning Nightmare
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $284.78
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Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dmu) 84

Commander

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Land

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Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (mic) 177
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (con) 143
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mir) 339
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mir) 340
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mir) 341
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mir) 342
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (inv) 339
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (inv) 340
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (inv) 341
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (inv) 342
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ody) 339
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ody) 340
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ody) 341
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ody) 342
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ons) 339
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ons) 340
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ons) 341
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ons) 342
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m12) 239
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m14) 241
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m15) 258
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m15) 261
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dom) 258
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dom) 259
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dom) 260
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dom) 261
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m20) 271
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m20) 272
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m21) 266
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m21) 267
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m21) 268
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dmu) 268
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dmu) 269
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dmu) 270
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) Witch's Cottage enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When Witch's Cottage enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

Land

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Wards

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Accursed Marauder

When Accursed Marauder enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
Cavalier of Night

Lifelink When Cavalier of Night enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target creature an opponent controls. When Cavalier of Night dies, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Cavalier of Night (m20) 94
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
Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 389
Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery
Mutilate (c14) 150
Ravenous Chupacabra

When Ravenous Chupacabra enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (clb) 770

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Aristocrats

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Bastion of Remembrance

When Bastion of Remembrance 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 Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (avr) 86
Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Deathgreeter (ala) 71
Falkenrath Noble

Flying Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Falkenrath Noble (voc) 128
Funeral Room

Enchantment
Funeral Room // Awakening Hall (dsk) 338
Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Creature
Grim Haruspex (ugin) 73
Morbid Opportunist

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

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (mid) 113
Open the Graves

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Enchantment
Open the Graves (m19) 112
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
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 (plst) RIX-81
Sifter of Skulls

Devoid (This card has no color.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Creature
Sifter of Skulls (ogw) 77
Vengeful Bloodwitch

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

Creature
Vengeful Bloodwitch (fdn) 76
Vindictive Vampire

Whenever another creature you control dies, Vindictive Vampire deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Vindictive Vampire (rna) 90
Zulaport Cutthroat

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

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (blc) 190

Aristocrats

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 653
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 (dmc) 179
Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (mic) 158
Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (afc) 203
Crowded Crypt

{T}: Add {B}. Whenever a creature you control dies, put a corpse counter on Crowded Crypt. {4}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Crowded Crypt: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed for each corpse counter on Crowded Crypt. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Artifact
Crowded Crypt (mic) 17
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cc2) 7
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (mkc) 245

Ramp

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Canon Fodder

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Callous Bloodmage

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

Creature
Callous Bloodmage (stx) 66
Cult Conscript

Cult Conscript enters tapped. {1}{B}: Return Cult Conscript from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only if a non-Skeleton creature died under your control this turn.

Creature
Cult Conscript (dmu) 88
Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Enchantment
Dreadhorde Invasion (mic) 114
Forsaken Miner

Forsaken Miner can't block. Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay {B}. If you do, return Forsaken Miner from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Forsaken Miner (otj) 88
Gravecrawler

Gravecrawler can't block. You may cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Creature
Gravecrawler (2x2) 78
Gravedigger

When Gravedigger enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Gravedigger (m10) 97
Gravelighter

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

Creature
Gravelighter (neo) 98
Guildsworn Prowler

Deathtouch When Guildsworn Prowler dies, if it wasn't blocking, draw a card.

Creature
Guildsworn Prowler (clb) 130
Gurgling Anointer

Flying Whenever you draw your second card each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Gurgling Anointer. When Gurgling Anointer dies, return another target creature card with mana value less than or equal to Gurgling Anointer's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Gurgling Anointer (bro) 104
Gutterbones

Gutterbones enters 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
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 108
Nether Traitor

Haste Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, return Nether Traitor from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Nether Traitor (tsr) 127
Oathsworn Vampire

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

Creature
Oathsworn Vampire (lcc) 204
Persistent Specimen

{2}{B}: Return Persistent Specimen from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Persistent Specimen (vow) 125
Razorlash Transmogrant

Razorlash Transmogrant can't block. {4}{B}{B}: Return Razorlash Transmogrant from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. This ability costs {4} less to activate if an opponent controls four or more nonbasic lands.

Creature Artifact
Razorlash Transmogrant (bro) 122
Reassembling Skeleton

{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Reassembling Skeleton (afc) 109

Canon Fodder

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Sacrifier

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Ashnod's Altar

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

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Carrion Feeder

Carrion Feeder can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (mh1) 81
Viscera Seer

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

Creature
Viscera Seer (plst) M11-120

Sacrifier

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Draw

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Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (mom) 98
Costly Plunder

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Costly Plunder (2xm) 80
Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (clb) 124
Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Dread Presence (m20) 96
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (voc) 133
Priest of Forgotten Gods

{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.

Creature
Priest of Forgotten Gods (rna) 83
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (m15) 114
Treacherous Blessing

When Treacherous Blessing enters, draw three cards. Whenever you cast a spell, you lose 1 life. When Treacherous Blessing becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.

Enchantment
Treacherous Blessing (thb) 117
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (mh1) 113
Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (bfz) 124
Victimize

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

Sorcery
Victimize (afc) 112
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (khm) 117
Witch's Cauldron

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Artifact
Witch's Cauldron (m21) 129

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Siphon

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Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. When Gixian Puppeteer dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Gixian Puppeteer (bro) 99
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (znr) 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

Siphon

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Sideboard

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Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Flying, deathtouch Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 58
Chthonian Nightmare

When Chthonian Nightmare enters, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters). Pay X {E}, Sacrifice a creature, Return Chthonian Nightmare to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Chthonian Nightmare (mh3) 83
Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. {B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod, Carnage Dominus. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Creature
Drivnod, Carnage Dominus (pone) 90p
Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Epicure of Blood (c21) 143
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195

Sideboard

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Maybeboard

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Bloodghast

Bloodghast can't block. Bloodghast has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return Bloodghast from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Bloodghast (plst) ZEN-83
Butcher of Malakir

Flying Whenever Butcher of Malakir or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Butcher of Malakir (clb) 741
Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Tenacity (dsk) 95
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 (dsc) 78
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Mortuary Mire

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

Land
Mortuary Mire (mic) 176
Prowling Geistcatcher

Whenever you sacrifice another creature, exile it. If that creature was a token, put a +1/+1 counter on Prowling Geistcatcher. When Prowling Geistcatcher leaves the battlefield, return each card exiled with it to the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Prowling Geistcatcher (mic) 59
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (plst) NPH-73
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
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 (otc) 152
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Tokens & Extras

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Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dmu) 288
Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. {B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod, Carnage Dominus. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Creature
Drivnod, Carnage Dominus (one) 305
Eldrazi Scion

Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.

Creature Token
Eldrazi Scion (tbfz) 2
Eldrazi Scion

Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.

Creature Token
Eldrazi Scion (tbfz) 3
Eldrazi Scion

Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.

Creature Token
Eldrazi Scion (tbfz) 4
Eldrazi Spawn

Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.

Creature Token
Eldrazi Spawn (tmh3) 2
Human Soldier

Creature Token
Human Soldier (tsoi) 2
Pest

When this creature dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Token
Pest (tstx) 5
Starscape Cleric

Flying This creature can't block. Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life. (This token's mana cost is {1}{B}.)

Creature Token
Starscape Cleric (tblb) 15
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tvow) 18
Zombie

Decayed (This creature can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature Token
Zombie (tmid) 5
Zombie

Creature Token
Zombie (tgn3) 7
Zombie

Creature Token
Zombie (tdmr) 5
Zombie Army

Creature Token
Zombie Army (tmh3) 22

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