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Karlova Orzhova
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Commander

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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 (rvr) 193

Commander

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Land

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Bleachbone Verge

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control a Plains or a Swamp.

Land
Bleachbone Verge (dft) 250
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 259Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 259
Castle Ardenvale

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains. {T}: Add {W}. {2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Land
Castle Ardenvale (blc) 298
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 (eld) 241
Cathedral of War

This land enters tapped. Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Cathedral of War (plst) M13-221
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (blb) 252
Fetid Heath

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

Land
Fetid Heath (otc) 295
Godless Shrine

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

Land
Godless Shrine (gtc) 242
Isolated Chapel

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

Land
Isolated Chapel (dom) 241
Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Land
Minas Tirith (ltr) 256
Path of Ancestry

This land 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 (moc) 418
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mid) 268
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (fdn) 264
Scoured Barrens

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

Land
Scoured Barrens (mom) 272
Shambling Vent

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. {1}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Shambling Vent (bfz) 244
Shineshadow Snarl

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

Land
Shineshadow Snarl (moc) 422
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mid) 273
Tainted Field

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

Land
Tainted Field (pip) 298
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 (pip) 310
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (who) 330
Westvale Abbey

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

Land

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Protection

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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 (wot) 1
Dawn's Truce

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Dawn's Truce (blb) 295
Invasion of Gobakhan

Battle
Invasion of Gobakhan // Lightshield Array (mom) 22Invasion of Gobakhan // Lightshield Array (mom) 22
Selfless Savior

Sacrifice this creature: Another target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Creature
Selfless Savior (m21) 36
Selfless Spirit

Flying Sacrifice this creature: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Selfless Spirit (blc) 153
Sheltered by Ghosts

Enchant creature you control When this Aura enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this Aura leaves the battlefield. Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has lifelink and ward {2}.

Enchantment
Sheltered by Ghosts (dsk) 30
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

Protection

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Targeted Disruption

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (otp) 35
Cathar Commando

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

Creature
Cathar Commando (fdn) 139
Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Damn (mh2) 80
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (war) 190
Hopeful Initiate

Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) {2}{W}, Remove two +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Hopeful Initiate (vow) 20
Mortify

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Instant
Mortify (cns) 190
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (moc) 198
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (moc) 211
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 (j22) 806

Targeted Disruption

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Card Advantage

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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 (rav) 81
Lunar Convocation

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent loses 1 life. At the beginning of your end step, if you gained and lost life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying. {1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Lunar Convocation (blb) 223
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (dmc) 115
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107

Card Advantage

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Lifegain

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Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (zen) 82
Children of Korlis

Sacrifice this creature: You gain life equal to the life you've lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Children of Korlis (tsr) 14
Sorin of House Markov

Creature
Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate (mh3) 245Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate (mh3) 245
Vizkopa Guildmage

{1}{W}{B}: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn. {1}{W}{B}: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Creature
Vizkopa Guildmage (ima) 211

Lifegain

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Ramp

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Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381

Ramp

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Evasion

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Brotherhood Regalia

Equipped creature has ward {2}, is an Assassin in addition to its other types, and can't be blocked. Equip legendary creature {1} Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Brotherhood Regalia (acr) 71
Cliffhaven Kitesail

When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. Equipped creature has flying. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Cliffhaven Kitesail (znr) 243
Hero's Heirloom

Equipped creature gets +2/+1. As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has trample and haste. Equip {2}

Artifact
Hero's Heirloom (dmu) 231
O-Naginata

This Equipment can be attached only to a creature with power 3 or greater. Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
O-Naginata (plst) SOK-157
Psychic Paper

As this Equipment becomes attached to a creature, choose a creature card name and a creature type. Equipped creature has ward {1}, it can't be blocked, and its name and creature type are the last chosen name and creature type. Equip {2}

Artifact
Psychic Paper (who) 181

Evasion

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Lifegain Payoff

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Ajani's Pridemate

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

Creature
Ajani's Pridemate (ddh) 9
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
Animation Module

Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on a permanent you control, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. {3}, {T}: Choose a counter on target permanent or player. Give that permanent or player another counter of that kind.

Artifact
Animation Module (kld) 194
Cleric Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {3}{W}: Level 2 Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. {4}{W}: Level 3 When this Class becomes level 3, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Enchantment
Cleric Class (afr) 6
Essence Channeler

As long as you've lost life this turn, this creature has flying and vigilance. Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, put its counters on target creature you control.

Creature
Essence Channeler (blb) 12
Voice of the Blessed

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. As long as this creature has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance. As long as this creature has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.

Creature
Voice of the Blessed (vow) 44

Lifegain Payoff

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Recursion

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Call a Surprise Witness

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a flying counter on it. It's a Spirit in addition to its other types.

Sorcery
Call a Surprise Witness (mkm) 6
Command the Dreadhorde

Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Command the Dreadhorde (war) 82
Immortal Servitude

Return each creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Immortal Servitude (gtc) 220
Raise the Past

Return all creature cards with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Raise the Past (fdn) 300
Recommission

Return target artifact or creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If a creature enters this way, it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Sorcery
Recommission (bro) 22
Revival

Sorcery
Revival // Revenge (rna) 228
Stitch Together

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Stitch Together (jud) 72

Recursion

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Finisher

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Debt to the Deathless

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

Sorcery
Debt to the Deathless (dgm) 64
Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 156
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 (hou) 77

Finisher

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Mass Disruption

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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 (lcc) 126
Farewell

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

Sorcery
Farewell (neo) 13
Vanquish the Horde

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Vanquish the Horde (inr) 302

Mass Disruption

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Soul Sister

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Ajani's Welcome

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

Enchantment
Ajani's Welcome (m19) 6
Archivist of Oghma

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

Creature
Archivist of Oghma (clb) 4
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
Case of the Uneaten Feast

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. To solve — You've gained 5 or more life this turn. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — Sacrifice this Case: Creature cards in your graveyard gain "You may cast this card from your graveyard" until end of turn.

Enchantment
Case of the Uneaten Feast (mkm) 10
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 (mul) 2
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 (plst) DMU-198
Guide of Souls

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life and get {E} (an energy counter). Whenever you attack, you may pay {E}{E}{E}. When you do, put two +1/+1 counters and a flying counter on target attacking creature. It becomes an Angel in addition to its other types.

Creature
Guide of Souls (mh3) 29
Hinterland Sanctifier

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

Creature
Hinterland Sanctifier (fdn) 730
Lunarch Veteran

Creature
Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (mid) 27Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (mid) 27
Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul Warden (mm3) 24
Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul's Attendant (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

Soul Sister

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Sideboard

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Lurrus of the Dream-Den

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Lifelink Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.

Creature
Lurrus of the Dream-Den (mul) 51

Sideboard

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Maybeboard

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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 (mm3) 239
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, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.

Creature
Serra Ascendant (m11) 28
Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Land
Shizo, Death's Storehouse (plst) CHK-283
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (pmid) 112p
The Ozolith

Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.

Artifact
The Ozolith (sld) 1741
Vault of Champions

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

Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 667

Maybeboard

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25 mana - 23 cards
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0 mana - 2 cards
32 pips - 21 cards
23 mana - 21 cards
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0 mana - 2 cards
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8 mana - 7 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Karlov of the Ghost Council with Lurrus of the Dream-Den as a companion. Looking to gain life with Soul Sister type effects and win through Karlov-Combat/Commander damage. Functions very similarly with Amalia as commander, trading some explosiveness and the exile effect for card selection.\n\nPerfect starting hand is an Untapped White Source, and Untapped Black Source, a two 1W Soul-Sister type effects, Dark Confidant, a third land, and some form of evasion. \nTurn 1 White Source, play a Soul-Sister\nTurn 2 Black Source, play Karlov always. Karlov sees the life-gain from his entry and gets the counters.\nTurn 3 Land, play the second Soul-Sister and Dark Confidant for three life-gain triggers. Karlov attacks as a 10/10.\nTurn 4, play any other creature. If Karlov wasn't blocked last turn and you can attack the same player, he should be a 12/12 and will knock them out with commander damage.\n\nObviously this won't happen every game. You will likely need to use Karlov's ability to remove potential blockers/problematic creatures. \n\nYou don't need to be in a rush to pay the 3-Mana Companion Tax. Lurrus is just for refill after your Soul-Sisters have been sniped. Dark Confidant is one of the best creatures to reanimate. Selfless Savior/Spirit and Cathar Commando are also particularly strong. Lurrus works on Permanents, not just Creatures--grab equipment/Sheltered by Ghosts if necessary. \n\nWestvale Abbey is in here as a pet card, but you can use it to dodge exile effects. \n\nKarlov + A Soul Sister + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar (not in the deck) goes infinite if you desire.\n"}]}
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