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Abzan Bilbo lifegain drain Budget
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $271.93
Salt sum: 34.8
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Commander

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Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {2}{W}{B}{G}, {T}, Exile Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant: Search your library for any number of creature cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only if you have 111 or more life.

Creature
Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant (ltc) 131

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Land

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Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) Canopy Vista enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Canopy Vista (pip) 255
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (pip) 259
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (pss4) 5
Golgari Rot Farm

Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped. When Golgari Rot Farm enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (clu) 236
Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (pip) 269
Orzhov Basilica

Orzhov Basilica enters tapped. When Orzhov Basilica enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Land
Orzhov Basilica (clu) 241
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (pip) 279
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (pss4) 1
Sandsteppe Citadel

Sandsteppe Citadel enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.

Land
Sandsteppe Citadel (ktk) 241
Selesnya Sanctuary

Selesnya Sanctuary enters tapped. When Selesnya Sanctuary enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{W}.

Land
Selesnya Sanctuary (clu) 246
Shire Terrace

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Shire Terrace: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Shire Terrace (ltr) 261
Sunpetal Grove

Sunpetal Grove enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Sunpetal Grove (pip) 297
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (pss4) 3
Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (otc) 341

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Ramp

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Accomplished Alchemist

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Accomplished Alchemist (stx) 119
Armored Scrapgorger

Armored Scrapgorger gets +3/+0 as long as it has three or more oil counters on it. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever Armored Scrapgorger becomes tapped, exile target card from a graveyard and put an oil counter on Armored Scrapgorger.

Creature
Armored Scrapgorger (one) 158
Avacyn's Pilgrim

{T}: Add {W}.

Creature
Avacyn's Pilgrim (mm3) 119
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (wc98) bs280
Hardbristle Bandit

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you commit a crime, untap Hardbristle Bandit. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Creature
Hardbristle Bandit (otj) 168
Humble Naturalist

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Creature
Humble Naturalist (iko) 160
Ilysian Caryatid

{T}: Add one mana of any color. If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, add two mana of any one color instead.

Creature
Ilysian Caryatid (thb) 174
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (evg) 9
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (mh2) 232
Poison Dart Frog

Reach {T}: Add one mana of any color. {2}: Poison Dart Frog gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Creature
Poison Dart Frog (lci) 207
Prize Pig

Whenever you gain life, put that many ribbon counters on Prize Pig. Then if there are three or more ribbon counters on Prize Pig, remove those counters and untap it. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Prize Pig (ltc) 43

Ramp

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Drain

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Cliffhaven Vampire

Flying Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Cliffhaven Vampire (ogw) 153
Dina, Soul Steeper

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life. {1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina, Soul Steeper gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Creature
Dina, Soul Steeper (plst) STX-178
Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Epicure of Blood (m20) 99
Indulging Patrician

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature
Indulging Patrician (m21) 219
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 (wot) 35
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 (pm21) 127p

Drain

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Lifegain

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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
Distinguished Conjurer

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. {4}{W}, {T}: Exile another target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature
Distinguished Conjurer (j22) 4
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) 297
Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Essence Warden (plc) 145
Gala Greeters

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn — • Put a +1/+1 counter on Gala Greeters. • Create a tapped Treasure token. • You gain 2 life.

Creature
Gala Greeters (snc) 450
Healer of the Pride

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 2 life.

Creature
Healer of the Pride (m13) 19
Impassioned Orator

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

Creature
Impassioned Orator (m20) 306
Kor Celebrant

Whenever Kor Celebrant or another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kor Celebrant (znr) 22
Lunarch Veteran

Creature
Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (mid) 27Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (mid) 27
Prosperous Innkeeper

When Prosperous Innkeeper enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Prosperous Innkeeper (ltc) 256
Righteous Valkyrie

Flying Whenever another Angel or Cleric you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Creature
Righteous Valkyrie (pkhm) 24p
Social Climber

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

Creature
Social Climber (snc) 157
Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul Warden (wc98) bh21
Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul's Attendant (plst) ROE-44
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
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. {1}{G}{W}, {T}: Populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Creature
Trostani, Selesnya's Voice (rtr) 206

Lifegain

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Removal

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Everything Comes to Dust

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.) Exile all creatures except those that share a creature type with a creature that convoked this spell, all artifacts, and all enchantments.

Sorcery
Everything Comes to Dust (who) 19
Farewell

Choose one or more — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery
Farewell (mkc) 64
Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Fumigate (mkc) 66
Kaya's Wrath

Destroy all creatures. You gain life equal to the number of creatures you controlled that were destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Kaya's Wrath (dmc) 155

Removal

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Draw

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Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Creature
Beast Whisperer (clu) 158
Guardian Project

Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if it doesn't have the same name as another creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard, draw a card.

Enchantment
Guardian Project (pip) 199
Inspiring Overseer

Flying When this creature enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Inspiring Overseer (snc) 18
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (mkc) 133
Priest of Ancient Lore

When Priest of Ancient Lore enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Priest of Ancient Lore (afr) 35
Soul of the Harvest

Trample Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may draw a card.

Creature
Soul of the Harvest (w16) 16
The Gaffer

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, draw a card.

Creature
The Gaffer (ltc) 12
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) 308
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 (brr) 62

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Much lifegain

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Angel of Vitality

Flying If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Creature
Angel of Vitality (clu) 53
Beacon of Immortality

Double target player's life total. Shuffle Beacon of Immortality into its owner's library.

Instant
Beacon of Immortality (plst) E02-1
Heron of Hope

Flying If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {1}{W}: Heron of Hope gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Heron of Hope (vow) 18
Honor Troll

Vigilance If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. Honor Troll gets +2/+1 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Creature
Honor Troll (stx) 134
Knight of Dawn's Light

First strike If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {1}{W}: Knight of Dawn's Light gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Knight of Dawn's Light (dmu) 23
Rhox Faithmender

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Creature
Rhox Faithmender (m13) 29

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Finisher

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Angel of Destiny

Flying, double strike Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you and that player each gain that much life. At the beginning of your end step, if you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, each player Angel of Destiny attacked this turn loses the game.

Creature
Angel of Destiny (pznr) 2p
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

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Protection

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Elderscale Wurm

Trample When Elderscale Wurm enters, if your life total is less than 7, your life total becomes 7. As long as you have 7 or more life, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 7 reduces it to 7 instead.

Creature
Elderscale Wurm (m13) 167
Ghostway

Exile each creature you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Ghostway (rvr) 19
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (pip) 202
Loxodon Hierarch

When Loxodon Hierarch enters, you gain 4 life. {G}{W}, Sacrifice Loxodon Hierarch: Regenerate each creature you control.

Creature
Loxodon Hierarch (ddh) 15
Riot Control

You gain 1 life for each creature your opponents control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Instant
Riot Control (dgm) 6

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Sideboard

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Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain 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
Harabaz Druid

{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of Allies you control.

Creature
Harabaz Druid (wwk) 105
Loyal Subordinate

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature
Loyal Subordinate (cmm) 172
Oasis Gardener

When Oasis Gardener enters, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Oasis Gardener (otj) 246
Restless Bloodseeker

Creature
Restless Bloodseeker // Bloodsoaked Reveler (vow) 128Restless Bloodseeker // Bloodsoaked Reveler (vow) 128

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Maybeboard

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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: Aetherflux Reservoir deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (kld) 192
Archivist of Oghma

Flash Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Archivist of Oghma (clb) 4
Archon of Cruelty

Flying Whenever Archon of Cruelty 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
Astarion, the Decadent

Deathtouch, lifelink At the beginning of your end step, choose one — • Feed — Target opponent loses life equal to the amount of life they lost this turn. • Friends — You gain life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Astarion, the Decadent (clb) 413
Auriok Champion

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

Creature
Auriok Champion (ima) 9
Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (pip) 156
Beastcaller Savant

Haste {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.

Creature
Beastcaller Savant (bfz) 170
Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (plst) C17-99
Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Flying If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Bloodletter of Aclazotz (plci) 92p
Bloom Tender

{T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Creature
Bloom Tender (2x2) 138
Blot Out the Sky

Create X tapped 2/1 white and black Inkling creature tokens with flying. If X is 6 or more, destroy all noncreature, nonland permanents.

Sorcery
Blot Out the Sky (stx) 167
Boreal Druid

{T}: Add {C}.

Creature
Boreal Druid (plst) CSP-105
Celestial Judgment

For each different power among creatures on the battlefield, choose a creature with that power. Destroy each creature not chosen this way.

Sorcery
Celestial Judgment (mic) 43
Celestine, the Living Saint

Flying, lifelink Healing Tears — At the beginning of your end step, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Celestine, the Living Saint (40k) 10
Cruel Celebrant

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

Creature
Cruel Celebrant (lcc) 267
Defiant Bloodlord

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

Creature
Defiant Bloodlord (c21) 142
Delighted Halfling

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.

Creature
Delighted Halfling (ltr) 609
Divinity of Pride

Flying, lifelink Divinity of Pride gets +4/+4 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Creature
Divinity of Pride (c13) 228
Elder Gargaroth

Vigilance, reach, trample Whenever Elder Gargaroth attacks or blocks, choose one — • Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. • You gain 3 life. • Draw a card.

Creature
Elder Gargaroth (pm21) 179p
Elves of Deep Shadow

{T}: Add {B}. Elves of Deep Shadow deals 1 damage to you.

Creature
Elves of Deep Shadow (rav) 161
Elvish Mystic

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Elvish Mystic (cmm) 284
Falkenrath Noble

Flying Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Falkenrath Noble (j22) 414
Flawless Maneuver

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Flawless Maneuver (onc) 68
Fyndhorn Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Fyndhorn Elves (ice) 244
Glorious Enforcer

Flying, lifelink At the beginning of each combat, if you have more life than an opponent, Glorious Enforcer gains double strike until end of turn.

Creature
Glorious Enforcer (mh2) 14
Lifeblood Hydra

Trample Lifeblood Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Lifeblood Hydra dies, you gain life and draw cards equal to its power.

Creature
Lifeblood Hydra (cmm) 303
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, Resplendent Angel gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink.

Creature
Resplendent Angel (plci) 32p
Serra Ascendant

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) As long as you have 30 or more life, Serra Ascendant gets +5/+5 and has flying.

Creature
Serra Ascendant (m11) 28
Speaker of the Heavens

Vigilance, lifelink (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) {T}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.

Creature
Speaker of the Heavens (m21) 38
Sylvan Caryatid

Defender, hexproof {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Sylvan Caryatid (ths) 180
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 (2x2) 32
Utopia Tree

{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Utopia Tree (9ed) 277
Valkyrie Harbinger

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.

Creature
Valkyrie Harbinger (j22) 261
Vraan, Executioner Thane

Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Vraan, Executioner Thane (pone) 114p
Wispdrinker Vampire

Flying Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {5}{W}{B}: Creatures you control with power 2 or less gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Wispdrinker Vampire (mkm) 243
Zulaport Cutthroat

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

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (bfz) 126

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Deck stats

42 pips - 33 cards
31 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 12 cards
14 pips - 11 cards
28 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 12 cards
29 pips - 24 cards
33 mana - 30 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
1 mana - 1 card
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