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Commander

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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
Kambal, Consul of Allocation (2x2) 237
Color tag templates(None)
$8.49 $9.21

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Creature

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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.)
Legendary Creature - Vampire Scout
Amalia Benavides Aguirre (lci) 221
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Discard

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Painful Quandary
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.
Enchantment
Painful Quandary (fdn) 179
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$1.99 $0.91

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Drain

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Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (inr) 97
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $3.40
Blood Seeker
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Shaman
Blood Seeker (dsc) 77
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.40
Plague Drone
Flying
Rot Fly — If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.
Creature - Demon
Plague Drone (40k) 47
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $2.85

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Draw

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Archivist of Oghma
Flash
Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Creature - Cleric Halfling
Archivist of Oghma (clb) 4
Color tag templates(None)
$10.99 $8.34
Black Market Connections
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 87
Color tag templates(None)
$27.99 $18.80
Call of the Ring
At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
Enchantment
Call of the Ring (ltr) 79
Color tag templates(None)
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Dawn of Hope
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.
Enchantment
Dawn of Hope (ltc) 164
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.34
Erebos, God of the Dead
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Erebos, God of the Dead (ths) 85
Color tag templates(None)
$14.99 $13.68
Esper Sentinel
Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays
, where X is this creature's power.
Creature Artifact - Human Soldier
Esper Sentinel (h2r) 2
Color tag templates(None)
$69.99 $56.61
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 - Angel
Exemplar of Light (fdn) 11
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $2.02
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.
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Lunar Convocation (blb) 223
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.48
Markov Purifier
Lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Markov Purifier (vow) 241
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.29
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (sld) 207
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Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
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$5.99 $4.28
Read the Bones
Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Sorcery
Read the Bones (j25) 479
Color tag templates(None)
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Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $2.74
The Gaffer
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Peasant Halfling
The Gaffer (ltc) 12
Color tag templates(None)
$11.99 $6.77
Welcoming Vampire
Flying
Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Vampire
Welcoming Vampire (tdc) 140
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Land

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Barren Moor
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Barren Moor (dsc) 262
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.36
Castle Locthwain
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Color tag templates(None)
$5.49 $4.00
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (dsc) 268
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $1.02
City of Brass
Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add one mana of any color.
Land
City of Brass (mb2) 240
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$20.99 $15.76
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (sld) 677
Color tag templates(None)
$12.99 $16.11
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (tdc) 373
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$0.69 $0.65
Mana Confluence
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Color tag templates(None)
$49.99 $32.53
Orzhov Basilica
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Orzhov Basilica (drc) 164
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.33
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (fdn) 272
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.17
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (hob) 194
Color tag templates(None)
$---- $----
Radiant Fountain
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land
Radiant Fountain (c21) 310
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.39
Scavenger Grounds
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.
Land - Desert
Scavenger Grounds (fic) 419
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.34
Scoured Barrens
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Scoured Barrens (ltc) 329
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.25
Secluded Steppe
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Secluded Steppe (eoc) 177
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.27
Shadowy Backstreet
(
: Add
or
.)
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 - Plains Swamp
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 268
Color tag templates(None)
$19.99 $12.58
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.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shineshadow Snarl (lcc) 351
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.35
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (j25) 89
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.26
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (hob) 196
Color tag templates(None)
$---- $----
Tainted Field
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Field (dsc) 302
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.36
War Room
: Add
.
,
, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Land
War Room (soc) 422
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Lifegain

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Ajani's Mantra
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Ajani's Mantra (ddh) 22
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$0.59 $0.39
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 (fdn) 137
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $4.40
Creeping Bloodsucker
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.
Creature - Vampire
Creeping Bloodsucker (j25) 415
Color tag templates(None)
$8.49 $4.86
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 (rvr) 176
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.39
Drana's Emissary
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric Ally
Drana's Emissary (plst) BFZ-210
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $0.53
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fdn) 173
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.46
Fountain of Renewal
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Fountain of Renewal (plst) M19-235
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $1.69
Nyx-Fleece Ram
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life.
Creature Enchantment - Sheep
Nyx-Fleece Ram (j25) 231
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.31
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107
Color tag templates(None)
$109.99 $91.67
Soul Warden
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soul Warden (plst) MM3-24
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $3.59
Soul's Attendant
Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soul's Attendant (plst) ROE-44
Color tag templates(None)
$8.49 $8.76
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
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.37
Sunscorch Regent
Flying
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Dragon
Sunscorch Regent (blc) 158
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.31
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
Suture Priest (moc) 210
Color tag templates(None)
$3.49 $5.77
Tablet of the Guilds
As this artifact enters, choose two colors.
Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.
Artifact
Tablet of the Guilds (rtr) 235
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.41
Trespasser's Curse
Enchant player
Whenever a creature enchanted player controls enters, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Trespasser's Curse (plst) AKH-112
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.84
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
Vampire Nighthawk (j25) 503
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21
Vizkopa Guildmage
: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.
Creature - Human Wizard
Vizkopa Guildmage (ima) 211
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.53

Lifegain

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payoff

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Cliffhaven Vampire
Flying
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Warrior Ally
Cliffhaven Vampire (ogw) 153
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $0.84
Elenda's Hierophant
Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is its power.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Elenda's Hierophant (lcc) 71
Color tag templates(None)
$5.99 $4.31
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
Enduring Tenacity (dsk) 95
Color tag templates(None)
$15.99 $13.38
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (fdn) 178
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.31
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208
Color tag templates(None)
$6.99 $4.42
Starscape Cleric
Offspring
(You may pay an additional
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 - Cleric Bat
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $0.68
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
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (j25) 71
Color tag templates(None)
$13.99 $10.81
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 - Cleric Spirit
Voice of the Blessed (vow) 44
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $2.82

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Recursion

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Agadeem's Awakening
Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.
Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
Color tag templates(None)
$39.99 $28.73
Malakir Rebirth
Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Color tag templates(None)
$20.99 $12.55
Phyrexian Reclamation
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (tdc) 194
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $2.45
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 - Human Warlock
Witch of the Moors (otc) 152
Color tag templates(None)
$1.99 $2.63

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Removal

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Aether Snap
Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.
Sorcery
Aether Snap (ncc) 241
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.40
Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (pip) 209
Color tag templates(None)
$2.79 $2.20
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 (pip) 156
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.46
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (eoc) 149
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $0.97
Damn
Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Damn (drc) 89
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $1.69
Fumigate
Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Fumigate (eoc) 65
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.35
Generous Gift
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Instant
Generous Gift (blc) 106
Color tag templates(None)
$1.99 $1.85
Heliod's Intervention
Choose one —
• Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments.
• Target player gains twice X life.
Instant
Heliod's Intervention (otc) 81
Color tag templates(None)
$3.99 $2.65
Karlov of the Ghost Council
Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov.
, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov: Exile target creature.
Legendary Creature - Spirit Advisor
Karlov of the Ghost Council (rvr) 193
Color tag templates(None)
$18.99 $16.15
Merciless Eviction
Choose one —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all planeswalkers.
Sorcery
Merciless Eviction (onc) 120
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.58
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 (blc) 147
Color tag templates(None)
$2.99 $1.62
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (soc) 179
Color tag templates(None)
$2.79 $1.30

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Tokens

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Crested Sunmare
Other Horses you control have indestructible.
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 5/5 white Horse creature token.
Creature - Horse
Crested Sunmare (plst) HOU-6
Color tag templates(None)
$11.99 $10.75
Great Unclean One
Reverberating Summons — At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 2 life. Then for each opponent who has less life than you, create a 1/3 black Demon creature token named Plaguebearer of Nurgle.
Creature - Demon
Great Unclean One (40k) 35
Color tag templates(None)
$6.49 $5.04

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Deck Info

Deck stats

41 pips - 33 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
53 pips - 39 cards
26 mana - 26 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
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