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Orzhov Life Counts 5DH
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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) 369

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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 this creature 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 (j25) 198
Test of Endurance

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 50 or more life, you win the game.

Enchantment
Test of Endurance (dmr) 276
Wall of Limbs

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {5}{B}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Target player loses X life, where X is this creature's power.

Creature
Wall of Limbs (m15) 121

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Protection

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Blessed Sanctuary

Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to you and creatures you control. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, create a 2/2 white Unicorn creature token.

Enchantment
Blessed Sanctuary (jmp) 1
Mother of Runes

{T}: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Creature
Mother of Runes (plst) ULG-14
Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant

Creature
Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant // Rune-Tail's Essence (sok) 27

Protection

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Supers

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Ajani's Pridemate

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

Creature
Ajani's Pridemate (fdn) 135
Bloodthirsty Aerialist

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

Creature
Bloodthirsty Aerialist (m20) 91
Celestial Unicorn

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

Creature
Celestial Unicorn (afr) 301
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
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
Twinblade Paladin

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. As long as you have 25 or more life, this creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Creature
Twinblade Paladin (plst) M20-285
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 (inr) 50

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Counters

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Reluctant Role Model

Survival — At the beginning of your second main phase, if this creature is tapped, put a flying, lifelink, or +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, if it had counters on it, put those counters on up to one target creature.

Creature
Reluctant Role Model (dsk) 26

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Land

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Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 285Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 285
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
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (pdmu) 244p
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (who) 263
Concealed Courtyard

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

Land
Concealed Courtyard (potj) 268p
Fetid Heath

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

Land
Fetid Heath (a25) 238
Horizon of Progress

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce. {3}, {T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.

Land
Horizon of Progress (m3c) 130
Isolated Chapel

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

Land
Isolated Chapel (drc) 162
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
Nephalia Academy

If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard a card, you may reveal that card and put it on top of your library instead of putting it anywhere else. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Nephalia Academy (plst) EMN-205
Obscura Storefront

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Obscura Storefront (dsc) 291
Orzhov Basilica

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

Land
Orzhov Basilica (lcc) 345
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (j22) 99
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (lcc) 349
Scoured Barrens

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

Land
Scoured Barrens (fdn) 266
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 (lcc) 351
Skyclave Cleric

Creature
Skyclave Cleric // Skyclave Basilica (znr) 40Skyclave Cleric // Skyclave Basilica (znr) 40
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dsk) 281
Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Vault of the Archangel (lcc) 367
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 (mkc) 310

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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 (m3c) 283
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
Defiler of Faith

Vigilance As an additional cost to cast white permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {W} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of white mana you pay. Whenever you cast a white permanent spell, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Creature
Defiler of Faith (dmu) 16
Gold Myr

{T}: Add {W}.

Creature Artifact
Gold Myr (som) 157
Leaden Myr

{T}: Add {B}.

Creature Artifact
Leaden Myr (mrd) 191
Oketra's Monument

White creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 1/1 white Warrior creature token with vigilance.

Artifact
Oketra's Monument (akh) 233
Ornithopter of Paradise

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

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (blc) 281
Orzhov Signet

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

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (dsc) 249
Relic of Legends

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Relic of Legends (dmu) 236
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129
Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (lcc) 315

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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
Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Epicure of Blood (m20) 99
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (fdn) 178
Starscape Cleric

Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Flying This creature can't block. Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116

Drain

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Lifegain

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Ajani's Welcome

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

Enchantment
Ajani's Welcome (plst) M19-6
Auriok Champion

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

Creature
Auriok Champion (plst) IMA-9
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 (thb) 258
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
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
Impassioned Orator

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

Creature
Impassioned Orator (pip) 162
Lunarch Veteran

Creature
Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (inr) 32Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (inr) 32
Patron of the Kitsune

Fox offering (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant by sacrificing a Fox and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed Fox. Mana cost includes color.) Whenever a creature attacks, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Patron of the Kitsune (bok) 19
Righteous Cause

Whenever a creature attacks, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Righteous Cause (ons) 51
Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul Warden (10e) 44
Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul's Attendant (plst) ROE-44
Sun Droplet

Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many charge counters on this artifact. At the beginning of each upkeep, you may remove a charge counter from this artifact. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Sun Droplet (c21) 268
Sunscorch Regent

Flying Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Sunscorch Regent (blc) 158
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

Lifegain

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Recursion

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Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Carmen and you gain 1 life. Whenever Carmen attacks, return up to one target permanent card with mana value less than or equal to Carmen's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher (lcc) 26
Court of Ardenvale

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand. If you're the monarch, return that permanent card to the battlefield instead.

Enchantment
Court of Ardenvale (woc) 21
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

Recursion

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Draw

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Exemplar of Light

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on this creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Exemplar of Light (fdn) 445
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 728
Sigarda's Splendor

As this enchantment enters, note your life total. At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if your life total is greater than or equal to the last noted life total for this enchantment. Then note your life total. Whenever you cast a white spell, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Sigarda's Splendor (mid) 33
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

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Pillow Fort

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Darien, King of Kjeldor

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may create that many 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Creature
Darien, King of Kjeldor (mkc) 59

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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 (m20) 2
Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (otp) 35
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) {1}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. {1}{W}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Exile target nonland permanent. Activate only if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total.

Creature
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim (fdn) 652
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 (inr) 27
Retribution of the Ancients

{B}, Remove X +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.

Enchantment
Retribution of the Ancients (ktk) 85
Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Instant
Stroke of Midnight (fdn) 148
Vona, Butcher of Magan

Vigilance, lifelink {T}, Pay 7 life: Destroy target nonland permanent. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Vona, Butcher of Magan (moc) 342

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Contemplation

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Contemplation (sth) 4
Cosmos Elixir

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if your life total is greater than your starting life total. Otherwise, you gain 2 life.

Artifact
Cosmos Elixir (plst) KHM-237
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 (mh3) 264
Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles

Flying Whenever Gwaihir attacks, target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn. At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 3/3 white Bird creature token with flying and "Whenever this token attacks, target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn."

Creature
Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles (ltc) 15
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
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Whenever one or more tokens your opponents control enter, for each of them, create a tapped token that's a copy of it. This ability triggers only once each turn. Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor (otj) 211
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

Flying, lifelink Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step. If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.

Creature
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel (inr) 433
Lifecreed Duo

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

Creature
Lifecreed Duo (blb) 20
Oasis Gardener

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

Creature Artifact
Oasis Gardener (otj) 246
Palladium Myr

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

Creature Artifact
Palladium Myr (cmm) 967
Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact
Panharmonicon (kld) 226
Resourceful Defense

Whenever a permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target permanent you control. {4}{W}: Move any number of counters from target permanent you control to another target permanent you control.

Enchantment
Resourceful Defense (ncc) 120
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 (ltc) 207
Vindicate

Destroy target permanent.

Sorcery
Vindicate (plst) A25-219
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

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62 pips - 45 cards
32 mana - 29 cards
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0 mana - 5 cards
21 pips - 16 cards
29 mana - 26 cards
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9 mana - 8 cards
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