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Commander

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Gallowbraid
Trample
Cumulative upkeep—Pay 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Gallowbraid (wth) 70

Commander

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Card Advantage

Qty: 18 Price: $180.08
Cunning Rhetoric
Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
Enchantment
Cunning Rhetoric (otc) 129
Dark Tutelage
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.
Enchantment
Dark Tutelage (m11) 90
Dauthi Voidwalker
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Rogue Dauthi
Dauthi Voidwalker (sld) 1760
Eye of Vecna
When Eye of Vecna enters, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.
Legendary Artifact
Eye of Vecna (afr) 243
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (bro) 95
Gonti, Night Minister
Whenever a player casts a spell they don't own, that player creates a Treasure token.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller looks at the top card of that opponent's library and exiles it face down. They may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Mana of any type can be spent to cast a spell this way.
Legendary Creature - Rogue Aetherborn
Gonti, Night Minister (dft) 357
Gwenom, Remorseless
Deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever Gwenom attacks, until end of turn, you may look at the top card of your library any time and you may play cards 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.
Legendary Creature - Spider Hero Symbiote
Gwenom, Remorseless (spm) 56
Infernal Contract
Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.
Sorcery
Infernal Contract (7ed) 143
Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
Flying
Whenever a permanent owned by another player is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Kothophed, Soul Hoarder (j22) 431
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (ecc) 81
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 (dsc) 154
Requiem Monolith
: Until end of turn, target creature gains "Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you draw that many cards and lose that much life." That creature's controller may have this artifact deal 1 damage to it. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Requiem Monolith (eoe) 113
Risky Research
Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Sorcery
Risky Research (spm) 62
Seizan, Perverter of Truth
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.
Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit
Seizan, Perverter of Truth (chk) 143
Stinging Study
You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.
Instant
Stinging Study (c21) 44
The Book of Vile Darkness
At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.
Legendary Artifact - Book
The Book of Vile Darkness (afr) 91
The Endstone
Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, draw a card.
At the beginning of your end step, your life total becomes half your starting life total, rounded up.
Legendary Artifact
The Endstone (eoe) 240
The One Ring
Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
Legendary Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 246

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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $282.63
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
Dark Depths
Dark Depths enters with ten ice counters on it.
: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths.
When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, create Marit Lage, a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and indestructible.
Legendary Snow Land
Dark Depths (m3c) 334
High Market
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Land
High Market (fic) 402
Lake of the Dead
If this land would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put this land onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add
.
Land
Lake of the Dead (all) 140
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
: Add
.
,
: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Legendary Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Shizo, Death's Storehouse
: Add
.
,
: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Legendary Land
Shizo, Death's Storehouse (dmc) 233
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (dft) 284
Thespian's Stage
: Add
.
,
: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.
Land
Thespian's Stage (m3c) 395
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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Mass Disruption

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Killing Wave
For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.
Sorcery
Killing Wave (inr) 121
Living Death
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Sorcery
Living Death (ltc) 203
Ophiomancer
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.
Creature - Human Shaman
Ophiomancer (mh3) 276
Qarsi Revenant
Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Renew —
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a flying counter, a deathtouch counter, and a lifelink counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Vampire
Qarsi Revenant (tdm) 86
Rain of Daggers
Destroy all creatures target opponent controls. You lose 2 life for each creature destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Rain of Daggers (mb2) 186
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

Mass Disruption

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Plan: Can't Lose

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Abyssal Persecutor
Flying, trample
You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.
Creature - Demon
Abyssal Persecutor (ima) 78
Eternity Vessel
This artifact enters with X charge counters on it, where X is your life total.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have your life total become the number of charge counters on this artifact.
Artifact
Eternity Vessel (zen) 200
Pact Weapon
As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Equip—Discard a card.
Artifact - Equipment
Pact Weapon (clb) 139
Platinum Angel
Flying
You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.
Creature Artifact - Angel
Platinum Angel (sld) 496
Stunning Reversal
The next time you would lose the game this turn, instead draw seven cards and your life total becomes 1.
Exile Stunning Reversal.
Instant
Stunning Reversal (bbd) 51

Plan: Can't Lose

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Plan: Life for bodies

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Bitterbloom Bearer
Flash
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie creature token with flying.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Bitterbloom Bearer (ecl) 88
Mortarion, Daemon Primarch
Flying
Primarch of the Death Guard — At the beginning of your end step, you may pay
. If you do, create X 2/2 black Astartes Warrior creature tokens with menace. X can't be greater than the amount of life you lost this turn.
Legendary Creature - Demon Primarch
Mortarion, Daemon Primarch (40k) 41

Plan: Life for bodies

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Plan: Life Loss and Swap

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Gray Merchant of Asphodel
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Grievous Wound
Enchant player
Enchanted player can't gain life.
Whenever enchanted player is dealt damage, they lose half their life, rounded up.
Enchantment - Aura
Grievous Wound (dsk) 102
Hand of Vecna
At the beginning of combat on your turn, equipped creature or a creature you control named Vecna gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Equip—Pay 1 life for each card in your hand.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Hand of Vecna (afr) 246
Magus of the Mirror
, Sacrifice this creature: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.
Creature - Human Wizard
Magus of the Mirror (cns) 117
Profane Transfusion
Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.
Sorcery
Profane Transfusion (cmr) 145
Repay in Kind
Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.
Sorcery
Repay in Kind (plst) ROE-125
Soul Conduit
,
: Two target players exchange life totals.
Artifact
Soul Conduit (nph) 158
Temporal Extortion
When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion.
Take an extra turn after this one.
Sorcery
Temporal Extortion (plc) 81
Unspeakable Symbol
Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Enchantment
Unspeakable Symbol (plst) SCG-79

Plan: Life Loss and Swap

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Plan: Lose Life

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Deepwood Ghoul
Pay 2 life: Regenerate this creature.
Creature - Zombie
Deepwood Ghoul (8ed) 127
Ebonblade Reaper
Whenever this creature attacks, you lose half your life, rounded up.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
Morph
(You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for
. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Creature - Human Cleric
Ebonblade Reaper (ons) 141
Mischievous Poltergeist
Flying
Pay 1 life: Regenerate this creature.
Creature - Spirit
Mischievous Poltergeist (6ed) 144
Murderous Betrayal
, Pay half your life, rounded up: Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Enchantment
Murderous Betrayal (8ed) 147

Plan: Lose Life

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Plan: You Lose

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Summon: Primal Odin
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Gungnir — Destroy target creature an opponent controls.
II — Zantetsuken — This creature gains "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
III — Hall of Sorrow — Draw two cards. Each player loses 2 life.
Creature Enchantment - Knight Saga
Summon: Primal Odin (fin) 121
Vorpal Sword
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.
: Until end of turn, this Equipment gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Vorpal Sword (afr) 124
Zenos yae Galvus
My First Friend — When Zenos yae Galvus enters, choose a creature an opponent controls. Until end of turn, creatures other than Zenos yae Galvus and the chosen creature get -2/-2.
When the chosen creature leaves the battlefield, transform Zenos yae Galvus.
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior Noble
Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival (fin) 455Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival (fin) 455

Plan: You Lose

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Ramp and mana

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (dsc) 92
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
Crypt Ghast (rvr) 70
Grim Hireling
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create two Treasure tokens.
, Sacrifice X Treasures: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Rogue Tiefling
Grim Hireling (clb) 755
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each
in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.
Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
Rev, Tithe Extractor
Whenever you attack, target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token, then look at the top card of that player's library and exile it face down. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled. (A Treasure token is an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Rev, Tithe Extractor (j25) 45
Sceptre of Eternal Glory
: Add one mana of any color.
: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.
Legendary Artifact
Sceptre of Eternal Glory (40k) 166
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
The Darkness Crystal
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.
,
: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
Legendary Artifact
The Darkness Crystal (fin) 96
Throne of Eldraine
As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color.
: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color.
,
: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.
Legendary Artifact
Throne of Eldraine (woc) 28

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Targeted Disruption

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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
Font of Agonies
Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment.
, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.
Enchantment
Font of Agonies (rna) 74
Garza's Assassin
Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.
Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up. (When another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)
Creature - Human Assassin
Garza's Assassin (csp) 57
Nowhere to Run
Flash
When this enchantment enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
Creatures your opponents control can be the targets of spells and abilities as though they didn't have hexproof. Ward abilities of those creatures don't trigger.
Enchantment
Nowhere to Run (dsk) 111
Withering Boon
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life.
Counter target creature spell.
Instant
Withering Boon (mir) 152

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Sideboard

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Hatred
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.
Instant
Hatred (exo) 64
Necropotence
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.
Enchantment
Necropotence (ima) 98

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