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Commander

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Selenia, Dark Angel
Flying
Pay 2 life: Return Selenia to its owner's hand.
Legendary Creature - Angel Phyrexian
Selenia, Dark Angel (tmp) 270

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Counters

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Unspeakable Symbol
Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Enchantment
Unspeakable Symbol (plst) SCG-79

Counters

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Drain

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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
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
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208
Tainted Remedy
If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.
Enchantment
Tainted Remedy (ori) 120
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

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Ancient Craving
You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Ancient Craving (j22) 376
Blood Pact
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Instant
Blood Pact (dsc) 76
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 (mb2) 39
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
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
Necrologia
Cast this spell only during your end step.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Draw X cards.
Instant
Necrologia (plst) 7ED-149
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (eoc) 85
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
Peer into the Abyss
Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.
Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (plst) M21-117
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156

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Finisher

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Near-Death Experience
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly 1 life, you win the game.
Enchantment
Near-Death Experience (roe) 38
Repay in Kind
Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.
Sorcery
Repay in Kind (plst) ROE-125

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Land

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Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (eoc) 149
Buried Ruin
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
Land
Buried Ruin (eoc) 150
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
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (eoc) 59
Emergence Zone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
Esper Panorama
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Esper Panorama (ncc) 399
Fetid Heath
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Fetid Heath (fic) 391
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 Heliod's Generosity
: Add
.
,
: Put target enchantment card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Legendary Land
Hall of Heliod's Generosity (dsc) 283
High Market
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Land
High Market (fic) 402
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (fic) 405
Leechridden Swamp
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped.
,
: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.
Land - Swamp
Leechridden Swamp (dsc) 286
Mistveil Plains
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped.
,
: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.
Land - Plains
Mistveil Plains (plst) UMA-247
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) 300
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 the False God
: Add
. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Land
Temple of the False God (fic) 438
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

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Children of Korlis
Sacrifice this creature: You gain life equal to the life you've lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Human Cleric Rebel
Children of Korlis (tsr) 14
Divinity of Pride
Flying, lifelink
This creature gets +4/+4 as long as you have 25 or more life.
Creature - Avatar Spirit
Divinity of Pride (c13) 228
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
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
Resolute Archangel (m15) 28
Reverse the Sands
Redistribute any number of players' life totals. (Each of those players gets one life total back.)
Sorcery
Reverse the Sands (c16) 75
Tainted Sigil
, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain life equal to the total life lost by all players this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Artifact
Tainted Sigil (arb) 83

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Protection

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Angel's Grace
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.
Instant
Angel's Grace (tsr) 4
Courageous Resolve
Up to one target creature you control gains protection from each of your opponents until end of turn. Draw a card. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything controlled by those players.)
Fateful hour — If you have 5 or less life, you can't lose life this turn, you can't lose the game this turn, and your opponents can't win the game this turn.
Instant
Courageous Resolve (ltc) 506
Enduring Angel
Flying, double strike
You have hexproof.
If your life total would be reduced to 0 or less, instead transform this creature and your life total becomes 3. Then if this creature didn't transform this way, you lose the game.
Creature - Angel
Enduring Angel // Angelic Enforcer (mid) 17Enduring Angel // Angelic Enforcer (mid) 17
Exquisite Archangel
Flying
If you would lose the game, instead exile this creature and your life total becomes equal to your starting life total.
Creature - Angel
Exquisite Archangel (aer) 18
Faith's Shield
Target permanent you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Fateful hour — If you have 5 or less life, instead you and each permanent you control gain protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Instant
Faith's Shield (dka) 7
Gideon of the Trials
+1: Until your next turn, prevent all damage target permanent would deal.
0: Until end of turn, Gideon becomes a 4/4 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
0: You get an emblem with "As long as you control a Gideon planeswalker, you can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game."
Legendary Planeswalker - Gideon
Gideon of the Trials (akh) 14
Intervention Pact
The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay
. If you don't, you lose the game.
Instant
Intervention Pact (fut) 8
Phyrexian Unlife
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
As long as you have 0 or less life, all damage is dealt to you as though its source had infect. (Damage is dealt to you in the form of poison counters.)
Enchantment
Phyrexian Unlife (nph) 18
Platinum Angel
Flying
You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.
Creature Artifact - Angel
Platinum Angel (plst) CN2-214
Soul Echo
This enchantment enters with X echo counters on it.
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment if there are no echo counters on it. Otherwise, target opponent may choose that for each 1 damage that would be dealt to you until your next upkeep, you remove an echo counter from this enchantment instead.
Enchantment
Soul Echo (mir) 40
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

Protection

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Pump

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Wall of Blood
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Pay 1 life: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Wall
Wall of Blood (plst) MRD-82

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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
Black Market
Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add
for each charge counter on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Black Market (pip) 183
Blood Celebrant
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Human Cleric
Blood Celebrant (lgn) 61
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) 322
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
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
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
Marshland Bloodcaster
Flying
,
: Rather than pay the mana cost of the next spell you cast this turn, you may pay life equal to that spell's mana value.
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Marshland Bloodcaster (otc) 139
Orzhov Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Orzhov Signet (tdc) 323
Pearl Medallion
White spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Pearl Medallion (mh3) 294
Skirge Familiar
Flying
Discard a card: Add
.
Creature - Imp Phyrexian
Skirge Familiar (mh2) 276
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (tle) 316
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (fic) 365
Weathered Wayfarer
,
: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if an opponent controls more lands than you.
Creature - Human Cleric Nomad
Weathered Wayfarer (ltc) 183

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Recursion

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Phyrexian Reclamation
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (tdc) 194

Recursion

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (tdc) 279
Despark
Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.
Instant
Despark (tdc) 284
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 (tle) 257
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
Fumigate
Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Fumigate (eoc) 65
Mortify
Destroy target creature or enchantment.
Instant
Mortify (fic) 327

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Stax

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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

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Tutor

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Plunge into Darkness
Choose one —
• Sacrifice any number of creatures. You gain 3 life for each creature sacrificed this way.
• Pay any amount of life, then look at that many cards from the top of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and exile the rest.
Entwine
(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Instant
Plunge into Darkness (5dn) 57
Scheming Symmetry
Choose two target players. Each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.
Sorcery
Scheming Symmetry (m20) 113

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Maybeboard

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Axis of Mortality
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have two target players exchange life totals.
Enchantment
Axis of Mortality (xln) 3
Solemnity
Players can't get counters.
Counters can't be put on artifacts, creatures, enchantments, or lands.
Enchantment
Solemnity (hou) 22
Spoils of the Vault
Choose a card name. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with that name, then put that card into your hand. Exile all other cards revealed this way, and you lose 1 life for each of the exiled cards.
Instant
Spoils of the Vault (uma) 116
The Golden Throne
Arcane Life-support — If you would lose the game, instead exile The Golden Throne and your life total becomes 1.
A Thousand Souls Die Every Day —
, Sacrifice a creature: Add three mana in any combination of colors.
Legendary Artifact
The Golden Throne (40k) 157

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37 pips - 23 cards
24 mana - 22 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
63 pips - 41 cards
32 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
14 mana - 12 cards
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