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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $19.99
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) 437

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Drain

Qty: 9 Price: $56.61
Cliffhaven Vampire
Flying
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Warrior Ally
Cliffhaven Vampire (ogw) 153
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
Indulging Patrician
Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.
Creature - Vampire Noble
Indulging Patrician (tdc) 292
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (wot) 35
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) 444Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate (mh3) 444
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
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
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

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Draw

Qty: 12 Price: $131.38
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
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
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.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (fca) 7
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 (khm) 237
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 (mh2) 12
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
Haliya, Guided by Light
Whenever Haliya or another creature or artifact you control enters, you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if you've gained 3 or more life this turn.
Warp
(You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Haliya, Guided by Light (eoe) 19
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (eoc) 85
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
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
Twilight Prophet
Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Twilight Prophet (mkc) 143
Well of Lost Dreams
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.
Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (brr) 62

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $29.99
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

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Land

Qty: 34 (36 w/ MDFC)Price: $145.98
Bleachbone Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Plains or a Swamp.
Land
Bleachbone Verge (dft) 250
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (eoc) 149
Brightclimb Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 285Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 285
Castle Ardenvale
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains.
: Add
.
,
: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.
Land
Castle Ardenvale (tdc) 346
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (tdc) 348
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
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (eoc) 159
Fetid Heath
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Fetid Heath (tdc) 362
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
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (tdc) 373
Marsh Flats
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
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
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (tle) 304
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
Scoured Barrens
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Scoured Barrens (tdm) 267
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
Shattered Sanctum
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shattered Sanctum (tdc) 391
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
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tla) 284
Tainted Field
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Field (dsc) 302
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
or
.
Land
Temple of Silence (tdc) 406
Vault of Champions
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 436
Vault of the Archangel
: Add
.
,
: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.
Land
Vault of the Archangel (tdc) 410

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Lifegain

Qty: 14 Price: $156.26
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.
Legendary Planeswalker - Ajani
Ajani, Strength of the Pride (j22) 141
Auriok Champion
Protection from black and from red
Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Auriok Champion (plst) IMA-9
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 (fic) 232
Blind Obedience
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Enchantment
Blind Obedience (rvr) 9
Bloodthirsty Conqueror
Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Knight Vampire
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 58
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
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
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun (mul) 2
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
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 (kld) 183
Lunarch Veteran
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Disturb
(You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
Creature - Human Cleric
Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (inr) 32Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (inr) 32
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
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 (fic) 255
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 (nph) 25

Lifegain

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Lifegain payoff

Qty: 6 Price: $44.10
Ajani's Pridemate
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Soldier Cat
Ajani's Pridemate (j25) 158
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
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 - Cleric Bat
Essence Channeler (blb) 12
Heliod, Sun-Crowned
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control.
: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Heliod, Sun-Crowned (cmm) 29
Speaker of the Heavens
Vigilance, lifelink (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.
Creature - Human Cleric
Speaker of the Heavens (j25) 102
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 (inr) 50

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Protection

Qty: 5 Price: $142.95
Giver of Runes
: Another target creature you control gains protection from colorless or from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Creature - Cleric Kor
Giver of Runes (plst) MH1-13
Grand Abolisher
During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.
Creature - Human Cleric
Grand Abolisher (big) 2
Mother of Runes
: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Creature - Human Cleric
Mother of Runes (clb) 702
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
Voice of Victory
Mobilize 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, create two tapped and attacking 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.)
Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.
Creature - Human Bard
Voice of Victory (tdm) 33

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Ramp

Qty: 7 Price: $110.73
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (eoc) 53
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
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legendary Creature - Rogue Halfling
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff (ltr) 213
Orzhov Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Orzhov Signet (tdc) 323
Smothering Tithe
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay
. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 57
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (eoc) 57
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (tdc) 331

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Recursion

Qty: 3 Price: $58.97
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
Reanimate
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Sorcery
Reanimate (dsc) 155
Rodolf Duskbringer
Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever you gain life, Rodolf Duskbringer gains indestructible until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay
. When you do, 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 - Vampire Angel
Rodolf Duskbringer (j25) 482

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (tdc) 279
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
Fell the Profane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Generous Gift
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Instant
Generous Gift (blc) 106
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
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (eoc) 45
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
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 stats

47 pips - 40 cards
32 mana - 30 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
36 pips - 27 cards
33 mana - 31 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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