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Life has many Gates
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $199.52
Salt Sum: 22.9
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $2.29
Kenrith, the Returned King

{R}: All creatures gain trample and haste until end of turn. {1}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. {2}{W}: Target player gains 5 life. {3}{U}: Target player draws a card. {4}{B}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature
Kenrith, the Returned King (plst) ELD-303
1

Artifact

Quantity: 8Price: $23.64
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmm) 367
1
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (cmm) 376
1
Conduit of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard. {T}: 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 (one) 163
1
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
1
Glaive of the Guildpact

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each Gate you control and has vigilance and menace. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Glaive of the Guildpact (grn) 236
1
Lavabrink Floodgates

{T}: Add {R}{R}. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may put a doom counter on Lavabrink Floodgates or remove a doom counter from it. Then if it has three or more doom counters on it, sacrifice Lavabrink Floodgates. When you do, it deals 6 damage to each creature.

Artifact
Lavabrink Floodgates (c20) 53
1
Navigation Orb

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Navigation Orb: Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Navigation Orb (clb) 329
1
Winged Boots

Equipped creature has flying and ward {4}. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {4}.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Winged Boots (afc) 20
1

Creature

Quantity: 22Price: $23.98
Archway Angel

Flying When Archway Angel enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life for each Gate you control.

Creature
Archway Angel (rna) 3
1
Cultivator Colossus

Trample Cultivator Colossus's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control. When Cultivator Colossus enters the battlefield, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, draw a card and repeat this process.

Creature
Cultivator Colossus (vow) 195
1
District Guide

When District Guide enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
District Guide (grn) 128
1
Gate Colossus

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Gate you control. Gate Colossus can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. Whenever a Gate enters the battlefield under your control, you may put Gate Colossus from your graveyard on top of your library.

Creature Artifact
Gate Colossus (clb) 315
1
Gatebreaker Ram

Gatebreaker Ram gets +1/+1 for each Gate you control. As long as you control two or more Gates, Gatebreaker Ram has vigilance and trample.

Creature
Gatebreaker Ram (rna) 126
1
Gatecreeper Vine

Defender When Gatecreeper Vine enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Gatecreeper Vine (ddm) 48
1
Gatekeeper Gargoyle

Flying Gatekeeper Gargoyle enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Gate you control.

Creature Artifact
Gatekeeper Gargoyle (grn) 235
1
Gatekeeper of Malakir

Kicker {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell.) When Gatekeeper of Malakir enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, target player sacrifices a creature.

Creature
Gatekeeper of Malakir (ddk) 8
1
Gateway Shade

{B}: Gateway Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Tap an untapped Gate you control: Gateway Shade gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Gateway Shade (gtc) 65
1
Gateway Sneak

Whenever a Gate enters the battlefield under your control, Gateway Sneak can't be blocked this turn. Whenever Gateway Sneak deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Gateway Sneak (rna) 40
1
Greenside Watcher

{T}: Untap target Gate.

Creature
Greenside Watcher (gtc) 122
1
Guardian of the Gateless

Flying Guardian of the Gateless can block any number of creatures. Whenever Guardian of the Gateless blocks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature it's blocking.

Creature
Guardian of the Gateless (cn2) 89
1
Krydle of Baldur's Gate

Whenever Krydle of Baldur's Gate deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 1 life and mills a card, then you gain 1 life and scry 1. Whenever you attack, you may pay {2}. If you do, target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Krydle of Baldur's Gate (afr) 226
1
Loxodon Gatekeeper

Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Loxodon Gatekeeper (plst) RAV-25
1
Nine-Fingers Keene

Menace Ward—Pay 9 life. Whenever Nine-Fingers Keene deals combat damage to a player, look at the top nine cards of your library. You may put a Gate card from among them onto the battlefield. Then if you control nine or more Gates, put the rest into your hand. Otherwise, put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Nine-Fingers Keene (clb) 289
1
Opal Lake Gatekeepers

When Opal Lake Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, you may draw a card.

Creature
Opal Lake Gatekeepers (dgm) 16
1
Saruli Gatekeepers

When Saruli Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 7 life.

Creature
Saruli Gatekeepers (dgm) 48
1
Sea Gate Oracle

When Sea Gate Oracle enters the battlefield, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.

Creature
Sea Gate Oracle (khc) 43
1
Smelt-Ward Gatekeepers

When Smelt-Ward Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Smelt-Ward Gatekeepers (dgm) 39
1
Sunspire Gatekeepers

When Sunspire Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance.

Creature
Sunspire Gatekeepers (dgm) 9
1
Ubul Sar Gatekeepers

When Ubul Sar Gatekeepers enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Ubul Sar Gatekeepers (dgm) 30
1
Westgate Regent

Flying Ward—Discard a card. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player discards a card.) Whenever Westgate Regent deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Westgate Regent (afr) 126
1

Enchantment

Quantity: 9Price: $32.89
Abundance

If you would draw a card, you may instead choose land or nonland and reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card of the chosen kind. Put that card into your hand and put all other cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.

Enchantment
Abundance (cmm) 884
1
Crackling Perimeter

Tap an untapped Gate you control: Crackling Perimeter deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Crackling Perimeter (gtc) 88
1
Druid Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life. {2}{G}: Level 2 You may play an additional land on each of your turns. {4}{G}: Level 3 When this Class becomes level 3, target land you control becomes a creature with haste and "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." It's still a land.

Enchantment
Druid Class (afr) 180
1
Exploration

You may play an additional land on each of your turns.

Enchantment
Exploration (dmr) 159
1
Guild Summit

When Guild Summit enters the battlefield, you may tap any number of untapped Gates you control. Draw a card for each Gate tapped this way. Whenever a Gate enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card.

Enchantment
Guild Summit (grn) 41
1
Hold the Gates

Creatures you control get +0/+1 for each Gate you control and have vigilance.

Enchantment
Hold the Gates (gtc) 16
1
March from the Black Gate

When March from the Black Gate enters the battlefield and whenever an Army you control attacks, amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Enchantment
March from the Black Gate (ltr) 94
1
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
1
Rites of Flourishing

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Each player may play an additional land on each of their turns.

Enchantment
Rites of Flourishing (znc) 80
1

Instant

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Eureka Moment

Draw two cards. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Eureka Moment (stx) 184
1
Growth Spiral

Draw a card. You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Growth Spiral (dmc) 153
1
Joint Exploration

Kicker {G} (You may pay an additional {G} as you cast this spell.) Scry 2, then draw a card. If this spell was kicked, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Instant
Joint Exploration (dmu) 56
1
Sultai Charm

Choose one — • Destroy target monocolored creature. • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant
Sultai Charm (dmc) 168
1

Land

Quantity: 37Price: $58.43
Azorius Guildgate

Azorius Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Azorius Guildgate (khc) 107
1
Baldur's Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of other Gates you control.

Land
Baldur's Gate (clb) 345
1
Basilisk Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Gates you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Basilisk Gate (clb) 346
1
Black Dragon Gate

Black Dragon Gate enters the battlefield tapped. As Black Dragon Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Black Dragon Gate (clb) 347
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 (moc) 391
1
Boros Guildgate

Boros Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Boros Guildgate (cmr) 478
1
Citadel Gate

Citadel Gate enters the battlefield tapped. As Citadel Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than white. {T}: Add {W} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Citadel Gate (clb) 349
1
Cliffgate

Cliffgate enters the battlefield tapped. As Cliffgate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than red. {T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Cliffgate (clb) 350
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 420
1
Dimir Guildgate

Dimir Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Dimir Guildgate (znc) 127
1
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (cmm) 993
1
Field of the Dead

Field of the Dead enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. Whenever Field of the Dead or another land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land
Field of the Dead (m20) 247
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (cmm) 451
1
Gates of Istfell

Gates of Istfell enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W}. {2}{W}{U}{U}, {T}, Sacrifice Gates of Istfell: You gain 2 life and draw two cards.

Land
Gates of Istfell (khm) 256
1
Gateway Plaza

Gateway Plaza enters the battlefield tapped. When Gateway Plaza enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you pay {1}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Gateway Plaza (plst) GRN-247
1
Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai

{T}: Add {C}. When Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Land
Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai (bok) 164
1
Golgari Guildgate

Golgari Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Golgari Guildgate (khc) 111
1
Gond Gate

Gates you control enter the battlefield untapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Gond Gate (clb) 353
1
Gruul Guildgate

Gruul Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Gruul Guildgate (znc) 130
1
Heap Gate

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}, Tap an untapped Gate you control: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Land
Heap Gate (clb) 354
1
Irrigated Farmland

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) Irrigated Farmland enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Irrigated Farmland (c20) 282
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (cmm) 442
1
Izzet Guildgate

Izzet Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Izzet Guildgate (c19) 253
1
Manor Gate

Manor Gate enters the battlefield tapped. As Manor Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than green. {T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Manor Gate (clb) 356
1
Maze's End

Maze's End enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Return Maze's End to its owner's hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Land
Maze's End (dgm) 152
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (cmm) 446
1
Orzhov Guildgate

Orzhov Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Orzhov Guildgate (rna) 253
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (cmm) 438
1
Plaza of Harmony

When Plaza of Harmony enters the battlefield, if you control two or more Gates, you gain 3 life. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any type that a Gate you control could produce.

Land
Plaza of Harmony (rna) 254
1
Rakdos Guildgate

Rakdos Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Rakdos Guildgate (c19) 267
1
Sea Gate

Sea Gate enters the battlefield tapped. As Sea Gate enters the battlefield, choose a color other than blue. {T}: Add {U} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Sea Gate (clb) 359
1
Sea Gate Wreckage

{T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.) {2}{C}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.

Land
Sea Gate Wreckage (cmm) 1028
1
Selesnya Guildgate

Selesnya Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Selesnya Guildgate (znc) 139
1
Simic Guildgate

Simic Guildgate enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {U}.

Land
Simic Guildgate (cmr) 493
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (cmm) 791
1
The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters the battlefield, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

Land
The Black Gate (ltc) 80
1
Thran Portal

Thran Portal enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. As Thran Portal enters the battlefield, choose a basic land type. Thran Portal is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Mana abilities of Thran Portal cost an additional 1 life to activate.

Land
Thran Portal (dmu) 259
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 18Price: $48.68
Circuitous Route

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Circuitous Route (znc) 62
1
Declaration in Stone

Exile target creature and all other creatures its controller controls with the same name as that creature. That player investigates for each nontoken creature exiled this way.

Sorcery
Declaration in Stone (ncc) 196
1
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (c17) 111
1
Expand the Sphere

Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If you put fewer than two lands onto the battlefield this way, proliferate a number of times equal to the difference. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery
Expand the Sphere (one) 168
1
Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (dmc) 131
1
Explore the Underdark

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. You take the initiative.

Sorcery
Explore the Underdark (clb) 232
1
Gates Ablaze

Gates Ablaze deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of Gates you control.

Sorcery
Gates Ablaze (rna) 102
1
Hour of Promise

Search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control three or more Deserts, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Sorcery
Hour of Promise (hou) 120
1
Mythos of Brokkos

If {U}{B} was spent to cast this spell, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle. Return up to two permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Mythos of Brokkos (iko) 168
1
Nylea's Intervention

Choose one — • Search your library for up to X land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. • Nylea's Intervention deals twice X damage to each creature with flying.

Sorcery
Nylea's Intervention (thb) 188
1
Open the Gates

Search your library for a basic land card or Gate card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Open the Gates (rna) 133
1
Painful Truths

Converge — You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Sorcery
Painful Truths (moc) 262
1
Reap and Sow

Choose one — • Destroy target land. • Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Entwine {1}{G} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Reap and Sow (dst) 81
1
Reshape the Earth

Search your library for up to ten land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Reshape the Earth (cmr) 249
1
Sea Gate Restoration

Sorcery
Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76
1
Sunder the Gateway

Choose one — • Destroy target nontoken artifact or enchantment an opponent controls. Incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.) • Incubate 2, then transform an Incubator token you control.

Sorcery
Sunder the Gateway (mom) 39
1
Urban Evolution

Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

Sorcery
Urban Evolution (ncc) 355
1
Wargate

Search your library for a permanent card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Wargate (plst) ARB-129
1

Top Sneaky

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Progenitus

Protection from everything If Progenitus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Progenitus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead.

Creature
Progenitus (plst) CON-121
1

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