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Orzhov Life Gain to Combo Kills (V.3.1)
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Commander

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Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Ward—Pay 3 life. Whenever you gain life, Amalia Benavides Aguirre explores. Then destroy all other creatures if its power is exactly 20. (To have this creature explore, reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Amalia Benavides Aguirre (lci) 221

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Lifegain

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Ashes of the Abhorrent

Players can't cast spells from graveyards or activate abilities of cards in graveyards. Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Ashes of the Abhorrent (xln) 2
Auriok Champion

Protection from black and from red Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Auriok Champion (ima) 9
Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (kld) 5
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 tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (c16) 59
Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (jmp) 206
Contemplation

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Contemplation (sth) 4
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun

Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.) Whenever another creature you control enters or dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun (thb) 9
Diamond Mare

As this creature enters, choose a color. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Diamond Mare (m19) 231
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

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

Creature
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim (dmu) 198
Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Kambal, Consul of Allocation (kld) 183
Leonin Elder

Whenever an artifact enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Leonin Elder (mrd) 10
Shattered Angel

Flying Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, you may gain 3 life.

Creature
Shattered Angel (nph) 23
Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul Warden (hop) 7
Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul's Attendant (roe) 44
Sunscorch Regent

Flying Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Sunscorch Regent (c17) 74

Lifegain

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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) 553
Arguel's Blood Fast

Enchantment
Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz (xln) 90Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz (xln) 90
Clackbridge Troll

Trample, haste When this creature enters, target opponent creates three 0/1 white Goat creature tokens. At the beginning of combat on your turn, any opponent may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If a player does, tap this creature, you gain 3 life, and you draw a card.

Creature
Clackbridge Troll (eld) 84
Dawn of Hope

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. {3}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

Enchantment
Dawn of Hope (grn) 8
Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) Your opponents can't gain life. {1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Erebos, God of the Dead (ths) 85
Four Knocks

Vanishing 4 (This enchantment enters with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) At the beginning of your first main phase, draw a card.

Enchantment
Four Knocks (who) 20
Greed

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

Enchantment
Greed (7ed) 140
Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Mentor of the Meek (c14) 79
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 384
Tocasia's Welcome

Whenever one or more creatures you control with mana value 3 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Tocasia's Welcome (bro) 30
Welcoming Vampire

Flying Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Welcoming Vampire (lcc) 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 (c21) 275

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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 (ncc) 360
Archaeomancer's Map

When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Archaeomancer's Map (c21) 12
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
Discerning Financier

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") {2}{W}: Choose another player. That player gains control of target Treasure you control. You draw a card.

Creature
Discerning Financier (woe) 10
Orzhov Signet

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

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (ncc) 375
Paradise Mantle

Equipped creature has "{T}: Add one mana of any color." Equip {1}

Artifact
Paradise Mantle (5dn) 142
Prismatic Lens

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

Artifact
Prismatic Lens (tsr) 272
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (rna) 22
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (ncc) 379
Weathered Wayfarer

{W}, {T}: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if an opponent controls more lands than you.

Creature
Weathered Wayfarer (ons) 59

Ramp

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Go Fish

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Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.) Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Beseech the Queen (shm) 57
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (ddc) 49
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 (bbd) 141
Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (wc99) js161

Go Fish

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Removal

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Cathar Commando

Flash {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Cathar Commando (mid) 10
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (war) 190
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (ncc) 201
Kagemaro, First to Suffer

Kagemaro's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. {B}, Sacrifice Kagemaro: All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Creature
Kagemaro, First to Suffer (sok) 73
Karlov of the Ghost Council

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov. {W}{B}, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov: Exile target creature.

Creature
Karlov of the Ghost Council (c15) 46
Lethal Scheme

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.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked Lethal Scheme connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)

Instant
Lethal Scheme (ncc) 36
Necrotic Sliver

All Slivers have "{3}, Sacrifice this permanent: Destroy target permanent."

Creature
Necrotic Sliver (cmm) 932
Promise of Loyalty

Each player puts a vow counter on a creature they control and sacrifices the rest. Each of those creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control for as long as it has a vow counter on it.

Sorcery
Promise of Loyalty (c21) 21
Slash the Ranks

Destroy all creatures and planeswalkers except for commanders.

Sorcery
Slash the Ranks (cmr) 47
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (ncc) 211
Westfold Rider

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Westfold Rider (ltr) 37
White Sun's Twilight

You gain X life. Create X 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1 and "This token can't block." If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures. (Players dealt combat damage by a creature with toxic 1 also get a poison counter.)

Sorcery
White Sun's Twilight (one) 38

Removal

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Land

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Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (dmu) 244
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (woc) 156
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (ori) 246
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (woc) 159
Fetid Heath

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

Land
Fetid Heath (moc) 399
Marsh Flats

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

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Obscura Storefront

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

Land
Obscura Storefront (snc) 252
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (lci) 393
Shattered Sanctum

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

Land
Shattered Sanctum (vow) 264
Silent Clearing

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

Land
Silent Clearing (mh1) 246
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (lci) 397

Land

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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 (kld) 192
Approach of the Second Sun

If this spell was cast from your hand and you've cast another spell named Approach of the Second Sun this game, you win the game. Otherwise, put Approach of the Second Sun into its owner's library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life.

Sorcery
Approach of the Second Sun (akh) 4
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 (plg21) 3
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (jmp) 231
Felidar Sovereign

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 40 or more life, you win the game.

Creature
Felidar Sovereign (bfz) 26
Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature. Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control. {1}{W}: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Heliod, Sun-Crowned (pthb) 18p
Tainted Sigil

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain life equal to the total life lost by all players this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Tainted Sigil (arb) 83
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (plst) C17-8
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
Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (aer) 181

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Sideboard

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Batwing Brume

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if {W} was spent to cast this spell. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature they control if {B} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {W}{B} was spent.)

Instant
Batwing Brume (eve) 81
Comeuppance

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and planeswalkers you control this turn by sources you don't control. If damage from a creature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to that creature. If damage from a noncreature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to the source's controller.

Instant
Comeuppance (c14) 4
Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Eerie Interlude (khc) 22
Inkshield

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.

Instant
Inkshield (c21) 71
Knight of the White Orchid

First strike When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Knight of the White Orchid (mic) 88
Selfless Squire

Flash When this creature enters, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn. Whenever damage that would be dealt to you is prevented, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Selfless Squire (ltc) 176

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Sin Collector

When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it and exile that card.

Creature
Sin Collector (dgm) 103

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Deck Info

Deck stats

47 pips - 39 cards
30 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
31 pips - 23 cards
27 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
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0 mana - 7 cards
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5 mana - 4 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"As a chronic lifegain player, Amalia is as close to \"Whenever you gain life, draw a card\" as we have gotten in a Commander. The overall goal of this deck is to incrementally gain life off of your plays and your opponents' plays to activate "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Amalia Benavides Aguirre"}},{"insert":"'s explore ability and tear through your deck to find one of five two-card winning combos (listed below). This deck is exclusively a combo deck that uses lifegain as a way to see as many cards as possible during a game. It is not designed to push damage/commander damage, but rather it will take advantage of our opponents building up their board state with lifegain triggers tied to creatures, artifacts, non creature spells, and damage dealt to stick around while looking for a winning combo.\n\nWin Cons:\nA) Have 40+ life, Feldar and Teferi in hand, 3 white + 5 other mana available\nPlay "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Felidar Sovereign"}},{"insert":" then play "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Teferi's Protection"}},{"insert":" to phase out your winning board state until your next turn.\n\nB) Have a means to gain life in play, Exquisite and Vito in hand, 2 black + 6 other mana available\nPlay "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Exquisite Blood"}},{"insert":" first, then "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose"}},{"insert":" with a creature etb life gain trigger in play (like "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Soul's Attendant"}},{"insert":"). When Vito enters the battlefield, you gain life, triggering Exquisite to drain an opponent, which triggers Vito and Ex in an infinite loop. Drain the table from repeating Ex/Vito triggers.\n\nC) Heliod and Balista in hand, 2 white + 7 generic mana available (Amalia NOT on the battlefield or already over 20 power!)\nPlay "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Heliod, Sun-Crowned"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Walking Ballista"}},{"insert":" with at least 2 counters on it (4 mana). Activate Heliods ability and give Ballista lifelink. Remove a counter from Balista to deal one damage to an opponent, lifelink will trigger, triggering Heliod. Put the +1/+1 counter back on balista. Deal damage out to the table.\n\nD) Have 50+ life, Aetherflux and Tainted Sigil on the Battlefield\nWith 51 or more life, pay 50 life to activate "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Aetherflux Reservoir"}},{"insert":"'s ability to deal 50 damage to opponent #1. Tap and sacrifice "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Tainted Sigil"}},{"insert":" to gain back the 50 life you lost and the 50 life opponent #1 lost. With your 101 or more life, activate Reservoir two more times, targeting opponents #2 and #3.\n\nE) Have Bolas's Citadel in play and Approach in hand or near the top of library\nCast "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Approach of the Second Sun"}},{"insert":" either from your hand or off the top of your library using "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bolas's Citadel"}},{"insert":". Use the Citadel to dig through seven cards and cast Approach by paying seven life.\n\nV.2 Update:\nAfter playtesting, added more lifegain tied to creature etb and upped creature count from 19 to 27. Trying to find a happy medium between gaining life off of opponent's plays while increasing lifegain consistency. Creatures added replaced ramp and removal instant/sorcery/or enchantment spells that did not trigger lifegain effects.\n\nV.3 Update:\nBoard Protection Category taken out, replaced with additional card draw.\n\nV.3.1 Update:\nShuffle between "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Amalia Benavides Aguirre"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Karlov of the Ghost Council"}},{"insert":", and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kambal, Consul of Allocation"}},{"insert":" as Commander for extra fun/variance.\n"}]}
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