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EDH Kambal, Consul of Allocation (Suicide Prevention)
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Est deck cost: $590.68
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Commander

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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 (2x2) 237

Commander

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Draw

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Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (ori) 221
Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
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
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
Defiant Strike

Target creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Defiant Strike (war) 9
Invasion of Dominaria

Battle
Invasion of Dominaria // Serra Faithkeeper (mom) 21Invasion of Dominaria // Serra Faithkeeper (mom) 21
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 (5ed) 182

Draw

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Pump

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Hatred

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Instant
Hatred (exo) 64

Pump

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Tokens

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Call to the Feast

Create three 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink.

Sorcery
Call to the Feast (xln) 219
Lingering Souls

Create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying. Flashback {1}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Lingering Souls (dka) 12
Phyrexian Processor

As this artifact enters, pay any amount of life. {4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as this artifact entered.

Artifact
Phyrexian Processor (usg) 306
Regal Bloodlord

Flying At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

Creature
Regal Bloodlord (m19) 222
Resplendent Angel

Flying At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 5 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance. {3}{W}{W}{W}: Until end of turn, this creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink.

Creature
Resplendent Angel (m19) 34

Tokens

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Anthem

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Ethereal Absolution

Creatures you control get +1/+1. Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1. {2}{W}{B}: Exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If it was a creature card, you create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Ethereal Absolution (rna) 170

Anthem

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Evasion

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Maul of the Skyclaves

When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and first strike.(It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Equip {2}{W}{W}

Artifact
Maul of the Skyclaves (j25) 223
Power Matrix

{T}: Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains flying, first strike, and trample until end of turn.

Artifact
Power Matrix (mmq) 309

Evasion

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Ramp

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Crypt Ghast

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.) Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (gtc) 61
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (usg) 127
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (tmp) 292
Pearl Medallion

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Pearl Medallion (tmp) 300
Replicating Ring

{T}: Add one mana of any color. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a night counter on this artifact. Then if it has eight or more night counters on it, remove all of them and create eight colorless snow artifact tokens named Replicated Ring with "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Artifact
Replicating Ring (khm) 244
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (mic) 162
Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (pip) 247
Worn Powerstone

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Worn Powerstone (usg) 318

Ramp

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (3ed) 105
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire

Deathtouch Boast — {1}{B}: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Creature
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire (khm) 309

Tutor

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Counters

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Gideon's Company

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. {3}{W}: Put a loyalty counter on target Gideon planeswalker.

Creature
Gideon's Company (war) 268

Counters

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Land

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Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (tmp) 315
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (m15) 241
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c17) 242
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 (tdm) 255
Forsaken Sanctuary

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Forsaken Sanctuary (soi) 273
Great Hall of Starnheim

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {W}{W}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this land and a creature you control: Create a 4/4 white Angel Warrior creature token with flying and vigilance. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Great Hall of Starnheim (khm) 259
Orzhov Guildgate

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Orzhov Guildgate (rna) 252
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (m21) 309
Radiant Fountain

When this land enters, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Radiant Fountain (m21) 248
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (m13) 227
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (uma) 250
Salt Flats

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

Land
Salt Flats (tmp) 324
Scoured Barrens

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Scoured Barrens (m21) 250
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m21) 311
Temple of Silence

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Silence (m20) 256
Westvale Abbey

Land
Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (soi) 281Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (soi) 281

Land

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Recursion

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Sword of Light and Shadow

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Light and Shadow (acr) 100

Recursion

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Creature

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Selenia, Dark Angel

Flying Pay 2 life: Return Selenia to its owner's hand.

Creature
Selenia, Dark Angel (tmp) 270

Creature

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Lifegain

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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
Ajani's Pridemate

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Ajani's Pridemate (war) 4
Ajani's Welcome

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Ajani's Welcome (m19) 6
Blood Baron of Vizkopa

Lifelink, protection from white and from black As long as you have 30 or more life and an opponent has 10 or less life, this creature gets +6/+6 and has flying.

Creature
Blood Baron of Vizkopa (dgm) 57
Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Bloodthirsty Aerialist (m20) 91
Chaplain's Blessing

You gain 5 life.

Sorcery
Chaplain's Blessing (soi) 10
Congregate

Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.

Instant
Congregate (usg) 8
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) 258
Drana's Emissary

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Drana's Emissary (bfz) 210
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (avr) 102
Impassioned Orator

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Impassioned Orator (m20) 306
Linden, the Steadfast Queen

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Whenever a white creature you control attacks, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Linden, the Steadfast Queen (eld) 20
Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul Warden (exo) 21
Suture Priest

Whenever another creature you control enters, you may gain 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Creature
Suture Priest (nph) 25
Trespasser's Curse

Enchant player Whenever a creature enchanted player controls enters, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Trespasser's Curse (plst) AKH-112
Zof Consumption

Sorcery
Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog (znr) 132Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog (znr) 132

Lifegain

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Removal

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Ajani, Strength of the Pride

+1: You gain life equal to the number of creatures you control plus the number of planeswalkers you control. −2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this token." 0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani and each artifact and creature your opponents control.

Planeswalker
Ajani, Strength of the Pride (j22) 141
Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soi) 242
Bloodchief's Thirst

Kicker {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 2 or less. If this spell was kicked, instead destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Bloodchief's Thirst (znr) 94
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (war) 190
Fracture

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

Instant
Fracture (stx) 188
Heartless Act

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with no counters on it. • Remove up to three counters from target creature.

Instant
Heartless Act (iko) 91
Mortify

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Instant
Mortify (gpt) 122
Murderous Rider

Creature
Murderous Rider // Swift End (eld) 97
Peace and Quiet

Destroy two target enchantments.

Instant
Peace and Quiet (ulg) 17

Removal

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Drain

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Corpse Knight

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

Creature
Corpse Knight (m20) 206
Cruel Celebrant

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

Creature
Cruel Celebrant (war) 188
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 (thb) 99
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (znr) 112
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
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
Zulaport Cutthroat

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

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (bfz) 126

Drain

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Protection

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Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (eld) 104
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 (pw22) 4

Protection

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Stax

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Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

Vigilance If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Permanents entering don't cause abilities of permanents your opponents control to trigger.

Creature
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines (one) 10
Reidane, God of the Worthy

Creature
Reidane, God of the Worthy // Valkmira, Protector's Shield (khm) 21Reidane, God of the Worthy // Valkmira, Protector's Shield (khm) 21

Stax

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Deck Info

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19 mana - 18 cards
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13 mana - 10 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"This is a Necro/Life-Gain combo deck strategy that I've been constantly working on since 1998 (Stronghold release).... gain as much life as possible to fuel your necro mechanics. One of my preferred strategies is getting the \"Phyrexian Processor\" in play and pumping out big creatures. This rarely amounts to the win-con, but it makes a great distraction that my opponents *must* deal with, which frees me to concentrate on something else. The obvious win-con is \"Exquisite Blood\" + \"Sanguine Bond\", however getting \"Ajani, Strength of the Pride\" is a good alternate.... \n"}]}
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