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Life is a Resource
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Est deck cost: $312.28
Salt sum: 41.84
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Commander

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Rowan, Scion of War

Menace {T}: Spells you cast this turn that are black and/or red cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you lost this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Rowan, Scion of War (woe) 300

Commander

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Land

Qty: 33 Price: $95.79
Arid Mesa

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

Land
Arid Mesa (zne) 9
Barbarian Ring

{T}: Add {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: It deals 2 damage to any target. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Land
Barbarian Ring (plst) ODY-313
Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (rna) 245
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 (clb) 884
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (woc) 156
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dmc) 207
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (woc) 159
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (woe) 273
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: 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 (mkc) 276
Ramunap Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add {R}. {2}{R}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: This land deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Land
Ramunap Ruins (hou) 181
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 425
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (otc) 321
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dmu) 256
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (woe) 272

Land

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Artifact

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (woc) 145
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 (war) 79
Commander's Sphere

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

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (cmm) 377
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (woc) 147
Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (cmm) 398
Rakdos Locket

{T}: Add {B} or {R}. {B/R}{B/R}{B/R}{B/R}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Rakdos Locket (c19) 220
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (scd) 272
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (woc) 149
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 (brr) 121
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (scd) 282
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (woc) 151

Artifact

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Sorcery

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Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (moc) 246
Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ancient Craving (j22) 376
Apex of Power

Exile the top seven cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among them. If this spell was cast from your hand, add ten mana of any one color.

Sorcery
Apex of Power (afc) 114
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (cmm) 872
Crackle with Power

Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.

Sorcery
Crackle with Power (stx) 95
Cut

Sorcery
Cut // Ribbons (sld) 367
Devil's Play

Devil's Play deals X damage to any target. Flashback {X}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Devil's Play (c19) 138
Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (kld) 75
Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 156
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (cmm) 220
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 (cmm) 159
Gamble

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

Sorcery
Gamble (dmr) 121
Hell to Pay

Hell to Pay deals X damage to target creature. Create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the amount of excess damage dealt to that creature this way.

Sorcery
Hell to Pay (otj) 126
Jaya's Immolating Inferno

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Jaya's Immolating Inferno deals X damage to each of up to three targets.

Sorcery
Jaya's Immolating Inferno (cmr) 415
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (scd) 151
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (moc) 259
Profane Transfusion

Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.

Sorcery
Profane Transfusion (cmr) 145
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (cmm) 182
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107
Their Number Is Legion

Create X tapped 2/2 black Necron Warrior artifact creature tokens, then you gain life equal to the number of artifacts you control. Exile Their Number Is Legion. You may cast this card from your graveyard.

Sorcery
Their Number Is Legion (40k) 63
Wheel of Misfortune

Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery
Wheel of Misfortune (cmr) 211

Sorcery

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Creature

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Anger

Haste As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Anger (afc) 113
Decadent Dragon

Creature
Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste (woe) 223
Defiler of Flesh

Menace As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay. Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Creature
Defiler of Flesh (dmu) 90
Defiler of Instinct

First strike As an additional cost to cast red permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {R} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of red mana you pay. Whenever you cast a red permanent spell, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Defiler of Instinct (dmu) 119
Dualcaster Mage

Flash When this creature enters, copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Dualcaster Mage (c21) 165
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 (scd) 80
Heartless Hidetsugu

{T}: Heartless Hidetsugu deals damage to each player equal to half that player's life total, rounded down.

Creature
Heartless Hidetsugu (cmm) 231
Keen Duelist

At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.

Creature
Keen Duelist (sld) 828
Priest of Gix

When this creature enters, add {B}{B}{B}.

Creature
Priest of Gix (plst) DDE-7
Professional Face-Breaker

Menace Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice a Treasure: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.

Creature
Professional Face-Breaker (psnc) 116p
Storm-Kiln Artist

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Storm-Kiln Artist (cmm) 260
Stormfist Crusader

Menace At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Creature
Stormfist Crusader (scd) 247
Tavern Swindler

{T}, Pay 3 life: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 6 life.

Creature
Tavern Swindler (snc) 96
Wall of Blood

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Pay 1 life: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Wall of Blood (plst) MRD-82

Creature

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Enchantment

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first 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 (lcc) 181
City on Fire

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage instead.

Enchantment
City on Fire (mom) 135
Descent into Avernus

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on this enchantment. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and this enchantment deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Descent into Avernus (clb) 169
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 283
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153

Enchantment

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Instant

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Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (cmm) 203
Ad Nauseam

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Instant
Ad Nauseam (2xm) 76
Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (brc) 121
Bolt Bend

This spell costs {3} less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant
Bolt Bend (war) 115
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (moc) 273
Comet Storm

Multikicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} any number of times as you cast this spell.) Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

Instant
Comet Storm (cmr) 411
Commune with Lava

Exile the top X cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Instant
Commune with Lava (afc) 118
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (sta) 26
Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant
Lightning Bolt (sld) 1822
Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Instant
Not Dead After All (woe) 101
Rowan's Grim Search

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) If this spell was bargained, look at the top four cards of your library, then put up to two of them back on top of your library in any order and the rest into your graveyard. You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Instant
Rowan's Grim Search (woe) 104
Seething Song

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

Instant
Seething Song (c21) 179
Stonesplitter Bolt

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Stonesplitter Bolt deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker. If this spell was bargained, it deals twice X damage to that permanent instead.

Instant
Stonesplitter Bolt (woe) 151
Thrill of Possibility

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Thrill of Possibility (one) 151

Instant

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