Life Gain • (Esper Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $23.99

Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life.
Whenever you gain life, you may pay

. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Soldier Giant

$23.99 $18.51 $11.47

Commander

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Counters

Qty: 2 Price: $1.04

Gideon's Company

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

: Put a loyalty counter on target Gideon planeswalker.

Creature - Human Soldier

$0.69 $0.19 $0.15

Wall of Limbs

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

, Sacrifice this creature: Target player loses X life, where X is this creature's power.

Creature - Zombie Wall

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Counters

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Drain

Qty: 5 Price: $30.25

Cliffhaven Vampire

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

Creature - Vampire Warrior Ally

$1.99 $0.65 $0.36

Cruel Celebrant

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

Creature - Vampire

$2.29 $2.13 $1.00

Defiant Bloodlord

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

Creature - Vampire

$0.49 $0.36 $0.19

Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment - Snake Glimmer

$16.99 $13.73 $12.14

Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment

$8.49 $6.80 $5.04

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 3 Price: $15.34

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.

Legendary Artifact

$14.99 $10.09 $9.99

Cloudblazer

Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life and draw two cards.

Creature - Human Scout

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Thassa's Oracle

When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$---- $---- $----

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.39

Azorius Herald

This creature can't be blocked.
When this creature enters, you gain 4 life.
When this creature enters, sacrifice it unless

was spent to cast it.

Creature - Spirit

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.76 $0.37

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 34 (35 w/ MDFC)Price: $36.77

Arcane Sanctum

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.99 $0.58 $0.34

Azorius Chancery

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$1.29 $0.37 $0.26

Island

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: Add

Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.15 $0.15

Jwar Isle Refuge

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Orzhov Basilica

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.34 $0.15

Plains

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: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.20 $0.15

Radiant Fountain

When this land enters, you gain 2 life.

: Add

Land

$0.59 $2.96 $0.20

Raffine's Tower

(

: Add

, or

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Island Swamp

$20.99 $13.82 $13.01

Rupture Spire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Scrubland

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: Add

Land - Plains Swamp

$---- $---- $----

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Temple of Enlightenment

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.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.13 $0.15

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.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Temple of the False God

: Add

. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land

$0.39 $0.31 $0.15

Transguild Promenade

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.35 $0.13 $0.15

Tundra

(

: Add

Land - Plains Island

$---- $---- $----

Underground Sea

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: Add

Land - Island Swamp

$---- $---- $----

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 27 Price: $121.95

Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact

$27.99 $20.80 $18.06

Ajani's Pridemate

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

Creature - Soldier Cat

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Enchantment

$6.99 $8.49 $4.48

Celestial Mantle

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, double its controller's life total.

Enchantment - Aura

$6.49 $7.96 $5.55

Chalice of Life

: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform this artifact.

Artifact

Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (inr) 471

$0.59 $0.29 $0.18

Cradle of Vitality

Whenever you gain life, you may pay

. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each 1 life you gained.

Enchantment

$0.69 $0.54 $0.28

Drana's Emissary

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Vampire Cleric Ally

$1.29 $0.56 $0.42

Eternal Thirst

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Enchantment - Aura

$0.79 $0.21 $0.19

Etherwrought Page

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one —
• You gain 2 life.
• Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
• Each opponent loses 1 life.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment

$49.99 $39.18 $31.72

Fountain of Renewal

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$1.99 $0.99 $0.72

Nyx-Fleece Ram

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment - Sheep

$0.39 $0.40 $0.30

Pride Guardian

Defender
Whenever this creature blocks, you gain 3 life.

Creature - Cat Monk

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Resolute Archangel

Flying
When this creature enters, if your life total is less than your starting life total, it becomes equal to your starting life total.

Creature - Angel

$2.49 $0.97 $0.18

Serra Avatar

Serra Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.
When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Creature - Avatar

$1.29 $0.67 $0.23

Souls of the Faultless

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life and attacking player loses that much life.

Creature - Spirit

$0.99 $0.88 $0.20

Staff of the Death Magus

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.40 $0.15

Staff of the Sun Magus

Whenever you cast a white spell or a Plains you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Sunbond

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

Enchantment - Aura

$0.59 $0.53 $0.15

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 - Cleric Phyrexian

$3.49 $4.64 $2.08

Test of Endurance

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

Enchantment

$10.99 $5.22 $5.15

Tithe Drinker

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Creature - Vampire

$0.49 $0.33 $0.16

Underworld Coinsmith

Constellation — Whenever this creature or another enchantment you control enters, you gain 1 life.

, Pay 1 life: Each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Enchantment - Human Cleric

$0.35 $0.38 $0.23

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 Shaman

$0.49 $0.20 $0.15

Wall of Essence

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever this creature is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life.

Creature - Wall

$0.49 $0.21 $0.15

Wall of Reverence

Defender, flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

Creature - Spirit Wall

$0.99 $1.63 $0.51

War Report

You gain life equal to the number of creatures on the battlefield plus the number of artifacts on the battlefield.

Instant

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 4 Price: $9.06

Indestructibility

Enchant permanent
Enchanted permanent has indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy that permanent. A creature with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Enchantment - Aura

$1.79 $1.69 $0.70

Serene Master

Whenever this creature blocks, exchange its power and the power of target creature it's blocking until end of combat.

Creature - Human Monk

$0.99 $0.68 $0.30

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

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$4.49 $3.37 $2.55

Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts

Vigilance, protection from creatures
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, destroy that creature. Create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$1.79 $0.61 $0.39

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 3 Price: $27.07

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional

Creature - Spirit

$22.99 $17.55 $13.49

Pristine Talisman

: Add

. You gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.32 $0.28

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$3.49 $1.88 $1.60

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 3 Price: $3.27

Angel of Flight Alabaster

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target Spirit card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Angel

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Triumphant Reckoning

Return all artifact, enchantment, and planeswalker cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.51 $0.40

Valkyrie's Call

Whenever a nontoken, non-Angel creature you control dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it. It has flying and is an Angel in addition to its other types.

Enchantment

$1.79 $1.09 $0.35

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 9 Price: $39.19

Boggart Trawler

When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard.

Creature - Goblin

Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243

$2.99 $1.75 $1.40

Death Grasp

Death Grasp deals X damage to any target. You gain X life.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.31 $0.26

Dissolve

Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Instant

$0.39 $0.23 $0.15

Flesh to Dust

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$0.35 $0.09 $0.15

Oath of Kaya

When Oath of Kaya enters, it deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent attacks a planeswalker you control with one or more creatures, Oath of Kaya deals 2 damage to that player and you gain 2 life.

Legendary Enchantment

$0.79 $0.33 $0.15

Spinal Embrace

Cast this spell only during combat.
Untap target creature you don't control and gain control of it. It gains haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice it. If you do, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Instant

$0.49 $0.23 $0.15

Stab Wound

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player loses 2 life.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

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.

Legendary Enchantment

$32.99 $23.77 $22.91

Ultimate Price

Destroy target monocolored creature.

Instant

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 1 Price: $0.49

Disciple of Griselbrand

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.49 $0.32 $0.19

Sac Outlet

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Sorcery

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Ribbons of Night

Ribbons of Night deals 4 damage to target creature and you gain 4 life. If

was spent to cast this spell, draw a card.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Sorcery

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $2.29

Army of the Damned

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$2.29 $2.19 $1.04

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 4 Price: $18.06

Demonic Consultation

Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

Instant

$8.99 $6.41 $5.15

Diabolic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$1.79 $2.20 $0.81

Gifts Ungiven

Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle.

Instant

$5.99 $5.24 $4.60

Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Demon

$1.29 $1.29 $0.20

Tutor

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Sideboard

Qty: 4 Price: $14.92

Boon Reflection

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Enchantment

$11.99 $12.28 $9.60

Breaking Wave

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you pay

more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.)
Simultaneously untap all tapped creatures and tap all untapped creatures.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.70 $0.34

Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Leyline of Hope

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Enchantment

$1.29 $0.98 $0.22

Sideboard

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Maybeboard

Qty: 17 Price: $112.61

Adarkar Valkyrie

Flying, vigilance

: When target creature other than this creature dies this turn, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Snow Creature - Angel

$6.49 $7.78 $5.00

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.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Elf Rogue

$1.79 $1.58 $0.71

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature - Knight Vampire

$49.99 $36.78 $34.38

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.

: Level 2
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

: 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 - Class

$0.99 $2.39 $1.19

Daxos, Blessed by the Sun

Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each

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.

Legendary Creature Enchantment - Demigod

$0.59 $0.25 $0.15

Divinity of Pride

Flying, lifelink
This creature gets +4/+4 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Creature - Avatar Spirit

$2.49 $1.59 $1.17

Dogged Pursuit

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Dying Wish

Enchant creature you control
When enchanted creature dies, target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is its power.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Ephara's Radiance

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "

: You gain 3 life."

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

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 - Beast Cat

$4.99 $4.02 $2.86

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$9.99 $9.54 $7.91

Proper Burial

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Enchantment

$3.49 $3.67 $2.58

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 - Monk Rhino

$3.49 $2.10 $1.30

Subversion

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Enchantment

$1.79 $2.23 $0.84

True Conviction

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Enchantment

$6.49 $5.00 $3.79

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 - Cleric Angel

$4.99 $2.99 $2.91

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

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

: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Cleric

$13.99 $12.66 $11.45

Maybeboard

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Must have

Qty: 2 Price: $12.98

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 - Cleric Angel

$8.49 $5.41 $3.95

Second Sunrise

Each player returns to the battlefield all artifact, creature, enchantment, and land cards in their graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Instant

$4.49 $4.24 $3.18

Must have

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $345.72

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.73Total Mana Value: 246.00

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43 pips - 33 cards

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18 mana - 18 cards

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10 pips - 7 cards

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44 pips - 32 cards

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19 mana - 19 cards

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6 mana - 4 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.73Total Mana Value: 246.00

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