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No Pain, No Gain
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Est deck cost: $677.42
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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

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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 (rvr) 273
Bloodstained Mire

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

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ktk) 230
Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Boseiju enters tapped. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.

Land
Boseiju, Who Shelters All (chk) 273
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
City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (2x2) 321
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (lcc) 325
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dmc) 207
Foreboding Ruins

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

Land
Foreboding Ruins (lcc) 330
Hall of the Bandit Lord

Hall of the Bandit Lord enters tapped. {T}, Pay 3 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.

Land
Hall of the Bandit Lord (plst) CHK-277
Mana Confluence

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

Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Mount Doom

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {R}. {1}{B}{R}, {T}: Mount Doom deals 1 damage to each opponent. {5}{B}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Mount Doom and a legendary artifact: Choose up to two creatures, then destroy the rest. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Mount Doom (ltr) 258
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (lci) 399
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (lcc) 348
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (lcc) 353
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 (lci) 397

Land

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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 (lcc) 299
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) DDE-18
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Lifelink For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana. Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Creature
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (plst) C19-18
Priest of Urabrask

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

Creature
Priest of Urabrask (nph) 90
Rakdos Signet

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

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (lcc) 311
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (lcc) 313
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (cmm) 973
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (scd) 282
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (cmm) 414
Treasonous Ogre

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Pay 3 life: Add {R}.

Creature
Treasonous Ogre (plst) CNS-36

Ramp

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Card Draw

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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
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
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
Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Dark Confidant (2xm) 81
Dark Tutelage

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Enchantment
Dark Tutelage (m11) 90
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (moc) 259
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
Stormfist Crusader

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

Creature
Stormfist Crusader (scd) 247

Card Draw

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Life Dumps

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Blood Celebrant

{B}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Blood Celebrant (lgn) 61
Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature
Doom Whisperer (grn) 69
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (cmm) 191
Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Vilis, Broker of Blood (m20) 122
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

Life Dumps

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Removal

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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 (otc) 160
Cut

Sorcery
Cut // Ribbons (plst) AKH-223
Fire Covenant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Fire Covenant deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

Instant
Fire Covenant (ice) 289
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Sorcery
Killing Wave (avr) 111
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (moc) 260
Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Snuff Out (gvl) 53
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (scd) 249

Removal

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Creature

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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 (c21) 42

Creature

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Power X Spells

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Call Forth the Tempest

Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order. Then do it again.) Call Forth the Tempest deals damage to each creature your opponents control equal to the total mana value of other spells you've cast this turn.

Sorcery
Call Forth the Tempest (ltc) 509
Crackle with Power

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

Sorcery
Crackle with Power (stx) 95
Electrodominance

Electrodominance deals X damage to any target. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Electrodominance (rna) 99
Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 156
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
Shivan Devastator

Flying, haste This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Shivan Devastator (dmu) 143
Storm King's Thunder

When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell X times. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Instant
Storm King's Thunder (clb) 196
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77

Power X Spells

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Tutors & Combo Pieces

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Behold the Beyond

Discard your hand. Search your library for three cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Behold the Beyond (soi) 101
Birgi, God of Storytelling

Creature
Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty (khm) 123Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty (khm) 123
Dark Petition

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, add {B}{B}{B}.

Sorcery
Dark Petition (ori) 90
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Diabolic Revelation

Search your library for up to X cards, put those cards into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Revelation (m13) 87
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 103
Hoarding Broodlord

Convoke Flying When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it. Spells you cast from exile have convoke.

Creature
Hoarding Broodlord (mom) 110
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
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
Searing Touch

Buyback {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Searing Touch deals 1 damage to any target.

Instant
Searing Touch (tmp) 201
Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 314

Tutors & Combo Pieces

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Healing

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Archon of Cruelty

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature
Archon of Cruelty (mh2) 75
Erebos's Intervention

Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Instant
Erebos's Intervention (thb) 94
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
Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Creature
Magus of the Mirror (cns) 117
March of Wretched Sorrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.

Instant
March of Wretched Sorrow (neo) 111
Professor Onyx

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. +1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. −3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls. −8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.

Planeswalker
Professor Onyx (stx) 83
Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Tendrils of Agony (scg) 75

Healing

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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 (plst) C19-217
Pact Weapon

As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value. Equip—Discard a card.

Artifact
Pact Weapon (clb) 139
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 (lcc) 314
Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. {1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (c21) 271

Protection

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Maybeboard

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Abrade

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

Instant
Abrade (lci) 131
Blood for the Blood God!

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature that died this turn. Discard your hand, then draw eight cards. Blood for the Blood God! deals 8 damage to each opponent. Exile Blood for the Blood God!

Instant
Blood for the Blood God! (40k) 108
Greven, Predator Captain

Menace Greven gets +X/+0, where X is the amount of life you've lost this turn. Whenever Greven attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, you draw cards equal to that creature's power and you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Creature
Greven, Predator Captain (c19) 43
March of Reckless Joy

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of red cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. Exile the top X cards of your library. You may play up to two of those cards until the end of your next turn.

Instant
March of Reckless Joy (neo) 154
Shard of the Nightbringer

Flying Drain Life — When this creature enters, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Creature
Shard of the Nightbringer (40k) 55
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
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

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