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Commander

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Licia, Sanguine Tribune
This spell costs
less to cast for each 1 life you gained this turn.
First strike, lifelink
Pay 5 life: Put three +1/+1 counters on Licia. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Soldier
Licia, Sanguine Tribune (c17) 40

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Card Draw

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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
Buried Alive
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Harvester of Souls
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.
Creature - Demon
Harvester of Souls (j25) 453
Keen Duelist
At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Keen Duelist (c21) 42
Midnight Reaper
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.
Creature - Knight Zombie
Midnight Reaper (drc) 44
Morbid Opportunist
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Human Rogue
Morbid Opportunist (tdc) 188
Razaketh, the Foulblooded
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Legendary Creature - Demon
Razaketh, the Foulblooded (cmm) 181
Tymna the Weaver
Lifelink
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, you may pay X life, where X is the number of opponents that were dealt combat damage this turn. If you do, draw X cards.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Tymna the Weaver (fca) 18
Unmarked Grave
Search your library for a nonlegendary card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Unmarked Grave (mh2) 106
Vilis, Broker of Blood
Flying
, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Legendary Creature - Demon
Vilis, Broker of Blood (j25) 70

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Death Triggers

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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
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
Cruel Celebrant (lcc) 267
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Syr Konrad, the Grim (dsc) 158
Teysa Karlov
If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Creature tokens you control have vigilance and lifelink.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Teysa Karlov (sld) 1235
Yahenni, Undying Partisan
Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Aetherborn
Yahenni, Undying Partisan (tdc) 202
Zulaport Cutthroat
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Rogue Ally
Zulaport Cutthroat (blc) 190

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Defensive Cards

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Dawn's Truce
Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Dawn's Truce (blb) 9
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (tdc) 102
Riot Control
You gain 1 life for each creature your opponents control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
Instant
Riot Control (blc) 151
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208
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
Swiftfoot Boots (tdc) 328
Teferi's Protection
Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.
Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 32

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Land

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Battlefield Forge
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Battlefield Forge (eoc) 58
Blood Crypt
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Mountain
Blood Crypt (rvr) 273
Bloodstained Mire
, 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
Boseiju, Who Shelters All
Boseiju enters tapped.
, Pay 2 life: Add
. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.
Legendary Land
Boseiju, Who Shelters All (chk) 273
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
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (tdc) 348
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
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (eoc) 59
Concealed Courtyard
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Concealed Courtyard (otj) 268
Dragonskull Summit
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dragonskull Summit (tdc) 357
Foreboding Ruins
As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Foreboding Ruins (dsc) 277
Godless Shrine
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Swamp
Godless Shrine (eoe) 254
Hall of the Bandit Lord
Hall of the Bandit Lord enters tapped.
, Pay 3 life: Add
. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.
Legendary Land
Hall of the Bandit Lord (plst) CHK-277
High Market
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Land
High Market (afc) 246
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (tdc) 373
Mana Confluence
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Mana Confluence (sld) 1012a
Meteor Crater
: Choose a color of a permanent you control. Add one mana of that color.
Land
Meteor Crater (pls) 140
Mount Doom
, Pay 1 life: Add
or
.
,
: Mount Doom deals 1 damage to each opponent.
,
, Sacrifice Mount Doom and a legendary artifact: Choose up to two creatures, then destroy the rest. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Land
Mount Doom (ltr) 258
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (tle) 295
Nomad Outpost
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Nomad Outpost (tdm) 263
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (tle) 297
Radiant Fountain
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land
Radiant Fountain (c21) 310
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
Smoldering Marsh
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Swamp Mountain
Smoldering Marsh (eoc) 182
Sulfurous Springs
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Sulfurous Springs (eoc) 185
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tla) 284
Thespian's Stage
: Add
.
,
: This land becomes a copy of target land, except it has this ability.
Land
Thespian's Stage (mb2) 113
Vault of the Archangel
: Add
.
,
: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.
Land
Vault of the Archangel (tdc) 410
Wind-Scarred Crag
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Wind-Scarred Crag (tdm) 271

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Lifegain Sources

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Aerith Gainsborough
Lifelink
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Aerith Gainsborough.
When Aerith Gainsborough dies, put X +1/+1 counters on each legendary creature you control, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Aerith Gainsborough.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Aerith Gainsborough (fin) 4
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
Aetherflux Reservoir (plst) KLD-192
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
Astarion, the Decadent (clb) 265
Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
Equipped creature has lifelink.
As long as you have 30 or more life, equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has indestructible and "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature."
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Caduceus, Staff of Hermes (acr) 2
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437
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
Mask of Griselbrand
Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Mask of Griselbrand (dsc) 145
Mister Negative
Vigilance, lifelink
Darkforce Inversion — When Mister Negative enters, you may exchange life totals with target opponent. If you lost life this way, draw that many cards.
Legendary Creature - Human Villain
Mister Negative (spm) 135
Serra Ascendant
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.
Creature - Human Monk
Serra Ascendant (plst) M11-28
Shard of the Nightbringer
Flying
Drain Life — When this creature enters, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Creature - C'tan
Shard of the Nightbringer (40k) 55
Sorin of House Markov
Lifelink
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, exile Sorin, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.
Legendary Creature - Human Noble
Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate (mh3) 245Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate (mh3) 245
Soul Warden
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soul Warden (plst) MM3-24
Soul's Attendant
Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soul's Attendant (plst) ROE-44
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
Sword of War and Peace
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from white.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, this Equipment deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in their hand and you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Sword of War and Peace (sld) 1730

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (eoc) 53
Ashnod's Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add
.
Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Mana Geyser
Add
for each tapped land your opponents control.
Sorcery
Mana Geyser (tdc) 223
Pristine Talisman
: Add
. You gain 1 life.
Artifact
Pristine Talisman (ltc) 283
Rowan, Scion of War
Menace
: Spells you cast this turn that are black and/or red cost
less to cast, where X is the amount of life you lost this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Rowan, Scion of War (woe) 211
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (eoc) 57
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
The Wind Crystal
White spells you cast cost
less to cast.
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
,
: Creatures you control gain flying and lifelink until end of turn.
Legendary Artifact
The Wind Crystal (fin) 43

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Reanimation

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Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
First strike
Whenever Alesha attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, return target creature card with mana value less than or equal to Alesha's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate (fdn) 115
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death
First strike
Whenever Alesha attacks, you may pay
. If you do, return target creature card with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
Alesha, Who Smiles at Death (sld) 1007
Celes, Rune Knight
When Celes enters, discard any number of cards, then draw that many cards plus one.
Whenever one or more other creatures you control enter, if one or more of them entered from a graveyard or was cast from a graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard Knight
Celes, Rune Knight (fic) 1
Celestine, the Living Saint
Flying, lifelink
Healing Tears — At the beginning of your end step, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
Celestine, the Living Saint (40k) 10
Pinnacle Monk
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Djinn Monk
Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, Whispering One (plst) NPH-73
Sidisi, Regent of the Mire
, Sacrifice a creature you control with mana value X other than Sidisi: Return target creature card with mana value X plus 1 from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Zombie Snake Warlock
Sidisi, Regent of the Mire (tdm) 92
Terra, Herald of Hope
Trance — At the beginning of combat on your turn, mill two cards. Terra gains flying until end of turn.
Whenever Terra deals combat damage to a player, you may pay
. When you do, return target creature card with power 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard Warrior
Terra, Herald of Hope (fic) 186

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Removal

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Boggart Trawler
When this creature enters, exile target player's graveyard.
Creature - Goblin
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
Fell the Profane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
In Garruk's Wake
Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.
Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (clb) 759
Loran of the Third Path
Vigilance
When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.
: You and target opponent each draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Artificer
Loran of the Third Path (blc) 143
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
Sundering Eruption
Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Creatures without flying can't block this turn.
Sorcery
Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure (mh3) 248Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure (mh3) 248
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (eoc) 45
Vandalblast
Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Vandalblast (otc) 183
Witch Enchanter
When this creature enters, destroy target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.
Creature - Human Warlock
Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239

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Deck Info

Deck stats

24 pips - 23 cards
15 mana - 15 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
54 pips - 38 cards
26 mana - 24 cards
12 pips - 10 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
15 mana - 13 cards
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