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Commander

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Beledros Witherbloom

Flying At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Beledros Witherbloom (blc) 247

Commander

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Drain

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Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 156
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 95
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
Vengeful Bloodwitch

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

Creature
Vengeful Bloodwitch (fdn) 325
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 (j22) 487

Drain

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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 (c21) 233
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 (mb2) 39
Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Sorcery
Damnable Pact (ncc) 245
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (blc) 255
Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (plst) M21-117
Sapling of Colfenor

Indestructible Whenever Sapling of Colfenor attacks, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you gain life equal to that card's toughness, lose life equal to its power, then put it into your hand.

Creature
Sapling of Colfenor (c21) 228
Silversmote Ghoul

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. {1}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Silversmote Ghoul (c21) 154
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (blc) 283
Tallyman of Nurgle

Lifelink The Seven-fold Chant — At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. If seven or more creatures died this turn, instead you draw seven cards and you lose 7 life.

Creature
Tallyman of Nurgle (40k) 60
The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride

Trample, haste Whenever The Gitrog deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice a creature that saddled it this turn. If you do, draw X cards, then put up to X land cards from your hand onto the battlefield tapped, where X is the sacrificed creature's power. Saddle 1

Creature
The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride (otj) 206
Vraska Joins Up

When Vraska Joins Up enters, put a deathtouch counter on each creature you control. Whenever a legendary creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Enchantment
Vraska Joins Up (otj) 236
Wardens of the Cycle

Morbid — At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, choose one — • You gain 2 life. • You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Wardens of the Cycle (fdn) 125
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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Finisher

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Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

You can't spend mana to cast this spell. Convoke, delve (Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color. Each card you exile from your graveyard pays for {1}.) You may cast this card from your graveyard. Trample

Creature
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis (mb2) 136

Finisher

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Land

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Bala Ged Recovery

Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
Blighted Woodland

{T}: Add {C}. {3}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Blighted Woodland (clb) 881
Boggart Trawler

Creature
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (blc) 130
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (dsc) 275
Fertile Thicket

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may look at the top five cards of your library. If you do, reveal up to one basic land card from among them, then put that card on top of your library and the rest on the bottom in any order. {T}: Add {G}.

Land
Fertile Thicket (ddr) 27
Festering Gulch

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Festering Gulch (otj) 257
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (blb) 378
Gingerbread Cabin

({T}: Add {G}.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Forests. When this land enters untapped, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Land
Gingerbread Cabin (c21) 290
Golgari Rot Farm

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

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (blc) 308
Jungle Hollow

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

Land
Jungle Hollow (blc) 313
Lair of the Hydra

If you control two or more other lands, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {X}{G}: Until end of turn, this land becomes an X/X green Hydra creature. It's still a land. X can't be 0.

Land
Lair of the Hydra (afr) 259
Llanowar Wastes

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

Land
Llanowar Wastes (blc) 315
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
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
Sapseep Forest

({T}: Add {G}.) This land enters tapped. {G}, {T}: You gain 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more green permanents.

Land
Sapseep Forest (c21) 313
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 374
Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Wood (blc) 337
Tangled Florahedron

Creature
Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale (znr) 211Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale (znr) 211
Temple of Malady

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 {B} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Malady (blc) 341
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (dsc) 313
Witch's Clinic

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Witch's Clinic (c21) 81

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Lifegain

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Ageless Entity

Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Ageless Entity (c21) 184
Blood Researcher

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Blood Researcher (stx) 166
Blossoming Bogbeast

Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 2 life. Then creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Blossoming Bogbeast (c21) 59
Loxodon Warhammer

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink. Equip {3}

Artifact
Loxodon Warhammer (onc) 135
Sangromancer

Flying Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life. Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Creature
Sangromancer (scd) 103
Vampire Nighthawk

Flying Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Vampire Nighthawk (scd) 115
Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Artifact
Venser's Journal (c21) 273
Verdant Sun's Avatar

Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Creature
Verdant Sun's Avatar (lcc) 262
Willowdusk, Essence Seer

{1}, {T}: Choose another target creature. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of life you gained this turn or the amount of life you lost this turn, whichever is greater. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Willowdusk, Essence Seer (c21) 6

Lifegain

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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 (dsc) 92
Circuitous Route

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Circuitous Route (znc) 62
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (blc) 212
Elven Chorus

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast creature spells from the top of your library. Creatures you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."

Enchantment
Elven Chorus (ltr) 160
Ezzaroot Channeler

Reach Creature spells you cast cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. {T}: You gain 2 life.

Creature
Ezzaroot Channeler (c21) 60
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 (mh3) 274
Leyline Prowler

Deathtouch, lifelink {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Leyline Prowler (c21) 222
Marshland Bloodcaster

Flying {1}{B}, {T}: Rather than pay the mana cost of the next spell you cast this turn, you may pay life equal to that spell's mana value.

Creature
Marshland Bloodcaster (otc) 139
Nissa's Renewal

Search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. You gain 7 life.

Sorcery
Nissa's Renewal (c21) 201
Pristine Talisman

{T}: Add {C}. You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (ltc) 283
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (blc) 234
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129
Wild Growth

Enchant land Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}.

Enchantment
Wild Growth (mkc) 195
Yedora, Grave Gardener

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may return it to the battlefield face down under its owner's control. It's a Forest land. (It has no other types or abilities.)

Creature
Yedora, Grave Gardener (mkc) 197

Ramp

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Recursion

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Regrowth

Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Regrowth (sta) 56
Revival Experiment

For each permanent type, return up to one card of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose 3 life for each card returned this way. Exile Revival Experiment.

Sorcery
Revival Experiment (c21) 74
Sproutback Trudge

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. Trample At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may cast this creature from your graveyard.

Creature
Sproutback Trudge (c21) 68
Veinwitch Coven

Menace Whenever you gain life, you may pay {B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Veinwitch Coven (otc) 151

Recursion

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Removal

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Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (mkm) 187
Blasphemous Edict

You may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield. Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Deadly Tempest

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Deadly Tempest (scd) 75
Essence Pulse

You gain 2 life. Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Sorcery
Essence Pulse (c21) 39
Gaze of Granite

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less.

Sorcery
Gaze of Granite (c21) 217
Massacre Girl

Menace When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Massacre Girl (rvr) 425
Mortality Spear

This spell costs {2} less to cast if you gained life this turn. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Mortality Spear (stx) 207
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
Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery
Pest Infestation (c21) 65
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (moc) 309

Removal

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Tokens

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Blight Mound

Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Enchantment
Blight Mound (c21) 36
Gyome, Master Chef

Trample At the beginning of your end step, create a number of Food tokens equal to the number of nontoken creatures you had enter under your control this turn. {1}, Sacrifice a Food: Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Creature
Gyome, Master Chef (c21) 5
Tend the Pests

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Create X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life," where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Instant
Tend the Pests (stx) 242
Tivash, Gloom Summoner

Lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. If you do, create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying.

Creature
Tivash, Gloom Summoner (j22) 476
Trudge Garden

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 4/4 green Fungus Beast creature token with trample.

Enchantment
Trudge Garden (c21) 69

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Maybeboard

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Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (dsc) 131
Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (dsc) 132
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Creakwood Liege

Other black creatures you control get +1/+1. Other green creatures you control get +1/+1. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token.

Creature
Creakwood Liege (2x2) 197
Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Culling Ritual (dsc) 85
Deathcap Glade

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

Land
Deathcap Glade (vow) 261
Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Essence Warden (ltc) 242
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 (dsc) 142
Greed

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

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Insidious Roots

Creature tokens you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token, then put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant you control.

Enchantment
Insidious Roots (mkm) 208
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (otc) 196
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (mkc) 178
Necroblossom Snarl

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

Land
Necroblossom Snarl (dsc) 290
Overgrown Tomb

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

Land
Overgrown Tomb (rvr) 283
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way. You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (blc) 188
Prosperous Innkeeper

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

Creature
Prosperous Innkeeper (blc) 121
Pulse of Murasa

Return target creature or land card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. You gain 6 life.

Instant
Pulse of Murasa (c21) 202
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (dsc) 194
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 (blc) 286
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (otc) 209
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 (mh3) 277
Undergrowth Stadium

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 435
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (lcc) 212
Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Viscera Seer (lcc) 213
Witch of the Moors

Deathtouch At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Witch of the Moors (otc) 152
Woodland Cemetery

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

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dsc) 326
Zulaport Cutthroat

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

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (blc) 190

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