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Valgavoth Life Tax
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Est deck cost: $697.76
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Commander

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Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Flying Ward—Pay 2 life. Whenever an opponent loses life for the first time during each of their turns, put a +1/+1 counter on Valgavoth and draw a card.

Creature
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls (dsc) 6

Commander

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Land

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Arena of Glory

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}, Exert this land: Add {R}{R}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (An exerted permanent won't untap during your next untap step.)

Land
Arena of Glory (mh3) 215
Blazemire Verge

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Land
Blazemire Verge (dsk) 256
Blightstep Pathway

Land
Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (slu) 12Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (slu) 12
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 (mh3) 216
Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (c21) 281
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dsc) 271
Graven Cairns

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

Land
Graven Cairns (dsc) 280
Haunted Ridge

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

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 263
Leechridden Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.) This land enters tapped. {B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Land
Leechridden Swamp (dsc) 286
Luxury Suite

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

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
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 (dsk) 275
Polluted Delta

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

Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Raucous Theater

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Raucous Theater (mkm) 266
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 663
Scalding Tarn

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

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
Shadowblood Ridge

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

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (dsc) 296
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (dsc) 299
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dsc) 301
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dsk) 274
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 (dsc) 325

Land

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Tutor

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Demonic Counsel

Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Counsel (dsk) 92
Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 401

Tutor

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Burn

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All Will Be One

Whenever you put one or more counters on a permanent or player, this enchantment deals that much damage to target opponent, creature an opponent controls, or planeswalker an opponent controls.

Enchantment
All Will Be One (one) 118
Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (dsc) 132
Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fdn) 173
Forsaken Wastes

Players can't gain life. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life. Whenever this enchantment becomes the target of a spell, that spell's controller loses 5 life.

Enchantment
Forsaken Wastes (mir) 125
Gleeful Arsonist

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, this creature deals damage equal to its power to that player. Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Gleeful Arsonist (dsc) 27
Harsh Mentor

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of an artifact, creature, or land on the battlefield, if it isn't a mana ability, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.

Creature
Harsh Mentor (dsc) 165
Hearthborn Battler

Haste Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, this creature deals 2 damage to target opponent.

Creature
Hearthborn Battler (blb) 139
Hissing Miasma

Whenever a creature attacks you, its controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Hissing Miasma (gpt) 51
Kederekt Parasite

Whenever an opponent draws a card, if you control a red permanent, you may have this creature deal 1 damage to that player.

Creature
Kederekt Parasite (dsc) 144
Magebane Lizard

Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, this creature deals damage to that player equal to the number of noncreature spells they've cast this turn.

Creature
Magebane Lizard (otj) 134
Manabarbs

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Manabarbs (m12) 150
Mayhem Devil

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Mayhem Devil (dsc) 225
Mogis, God of Slaughter

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.

Creature Enchantment
Mogis, God of Slaughter (dsc) 89
Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Ob Nixilis deals 1 damage to that player. −2: Destroy target creature. Its controller draws two cards.

Planeswalker
Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted (j22) 450
Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might

Creature
Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power (lci) 158Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power (lci) 158
Orcish Bowmasters

Flash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 103
Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (fdn) 179
Rampaging Ferocidon

Menace Players can't gain life. Whenever another creature enters, this creature deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

Creature
Rampaging Ferocidon (spg) 8
Razorkin Needlehead

This creature has first strike during your turn. Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to them.

Creature
Razorkin Needlehead (pdsk) 153p
Roiling Vortex

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to them. Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast that spell, this enchantment deals 5 damage to that player. {R}: Your opponents can't gain life this turn.

Enchantment
Roiling Vortex (znr) 156
Rug of Smothering

Flying Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 1 life for each spell they've cast this turn.

Creature Artifact
Rug of Smothering (clb) 336
Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Scrawling Crawler (fdn) 132
Spiked Corridor

Enchantment
Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit (dsc) 28
The Lord of Pain

Menace Your opponents can't gain life. Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, choose another target player. The Lord of Pain deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to the chosen player.

Creature
The Lord of Pain (dsc) 3
Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Underworld Dreams (thb) 121
Zo-Zu the Punisher

Whenever a land enters, Zo-Zu deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Creature
Zo-Zu the Punisher (dds) 41

Burn

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Protection

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Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Basilisk Collar (dsc) 241
Feign Death

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Feign Death (afr) 103
Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment
Kaya's Ghostform (war) 94
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (dsc) 93
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Instant
Not Dead After All (woe) 101
Torpor Orb

Creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.

Artifact
Torpor Orb (big) 27

Protection

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Wrath

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (dsc) 160
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
Spiteful Banditry

When this enchantment enters, it deals X damage to each creature. Whenever one or more creatures your opponents control die, you create a Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Spiteful Banditry (ltr) 149
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 (inr) 122
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

Wrath

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Draw

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Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Flying, trample Whenever one or more opponents each lose exactly 1 life, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis. Exile the top card of your library. Until your next end step, you may play that card.

Creature
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin (mat) 41
Unholy Annex

Enchantment
Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber (dsk) 118

Draw

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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 (cmm) 653
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (cst) 120
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (mkc) 156
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (ltc) 284
Séance Board

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a soul counter on this artifact. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of soul counters on this artifact. Spend this mana only to cast instant, sorcery, Demon, and Spirit spells.

Artifact
Séance Board (dsc) 40
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (dsc) 254

Ramp

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Finisher

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Blackblade Reforged

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control. Equip legendary creature {3} Equip {7}

Artifact
Blackblade Reforged (dmc) 178
Fiery Emancipation

If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Enchantment
Fiery Emancipation (m21) 143
Heartless Hidetsugu

{T}: Heartless Hidetsugu deals damage to each player equal to half that player's life total, rounded down.

Creature
Heartless Hidetsugu (cmm) 231
Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar

Whenever a commander you control deals combat damage to an opponent, it deals that much damage to each other opponent. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar (cmr) 188
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead. {1}{R/P}{R/P}, Discard two cards: Put an indestructible counter on Solphim. ({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.)

Creature
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus (one) 150

Finisher

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Removal

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Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
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 (dsc) 162
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (dsc) 78
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (mbs) 43
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (dsc) 143
Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (dsc) 229
Shoot the Sheriff

Destroy target non-outlaw creature. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws. Everyone else is fair game.)

Instant
Shoot the Sheriff (otj) 106
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (m3c) 274
Untimely Malfunction

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target. • One or two target creatures can't block this turn.

Instant
Untimely Malfunction (dsk) 161
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

Removal

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Maybeboard

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Fain, the Broker

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. {T}, Remove a counter from a creature you control: Create a Treasure token. {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. {3}{B}: Untap Fain.

Creature
Fain, the Broker (otc) 133
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins

Flash Menace When Lobelia enters, exile target creature card from an opponent's graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn, then create X Treasure tokens, where X is the exiled card's power.

Creature
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins (ltr) 93
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 (m21) 117
Storm-Kiln Artist

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Storm-Kiln Artist (otc) 181

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