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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $1.99
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) 300

Commander

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Draw

Qty: 14 Price: $52.02
Damnable Pact
Target player draws X cards and loses X life.
Sorcery
Damnable Pact (ncc) 245
Dark Confidant
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.
Creature - Human Wizard
Dark Confidant (rvr) 323
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
Darkstar Augur
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
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.
Creature - Bat Warlock
Darkstar Augur (blb) 90
Faithless Looting
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Faithless Looting (tdc) 213
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
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (eoc) 85
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
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
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
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Staff of Compleation
, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own.
, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color.
, Pay 3 life: Proliferate.
, Pay 4 life: Draw a card.
: Untap this artifact.
Artifact
Staff of Compleation (tdc) 326
Stargaze
Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.
Sorcery
Stargaze (blb) 114
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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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $253.37
Blazemire Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
Land
Blazemire Verge (dsk) 256
Blightstep Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252
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 (ecl) 262
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
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (eoc) 149
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
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (eoc) 59
Dragonskull Summit
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain.
: Add
or
.
Land
Dragonskull Summit (fic) 387
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (eoc) 159
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 (fic) 394
Graven Cairns
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Graven Cairns (fic) 401
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
Haunted Ridge
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Haunted Ridge (inr) 280
Luxury Suite
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (tle) 296
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (tdc) 386
Shadowblood Ridge
,
: Add
.
Land
Shadowblood Ridge (fic) 421
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
Tainted Peak
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Peak (dsc) 304
Tarnished Citadel
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. This land deals 3 damage to you.
Land
Tarnished Citadel (mb2) 112
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287

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Lifegain

Qty: 4 Price: $110.76
Bloodchief Ascension
At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.
Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (cmm) 139
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
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
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

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 5 Price: $41.95
Bolt Bend
This spell costs
less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
Instant
Bolt Bend (tle) 163
Imp's Mischief
Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Imp's Mischief (cmm) 167
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (fic) 349
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
Tibalt's Trickery
Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.
Instant
Tibalt's Trickery (khm) 153

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 10 Price: $89.00
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
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (ice) 120
Descent into Avernus
At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on this enchantment. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and this enchantment deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on this enchantment.
Enchantment
Descent into Avernus (clb) 169
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Patriar's Seal
: Add one mana of any color.
,
: Untap target legendary creature you control.
Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
Rakdos Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dsc) 250
Seething Song
Add
.
Instant
Seething Song (c21) 179
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (eoc) 57
Talisman of Indulgence
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (fic) 366

Ramp

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Recursion

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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 (fic) 282
Return the Past
During your turn, each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. Its flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.
Enchantment
Return the Past (who) 92
Shreds of Sanity
Return up to one target instant card and up to one target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card. Exile Shreds of Sanity.
Sorcery
Shreds of Sanity (emn) 141

Recursion

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Removal

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Baleful Mastery
You may pay
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the
cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Baleful Mastery (otc) 126
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
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (plst) MM2-79
Erebos's Intervention
Choose one —
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life.
• Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.
Instant
Erebos's Intervention (thb) 94
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
Rakdos Charm
Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.
Instant
Rakdos Charm (eoc) 125
Snuff Out
If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Snuff Out (fic) 285
Withering Torment
Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Synergy - Beef

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Archon of Cruelty
Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.
Creature - Archon
Archon of Cruelty (m3c) 197
Arco-Flagellant
Squad
(As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay
any number of times. When this creature enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.)
This creature can't block.
Endurant — Pay 3 life: This creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
Creature - Human
Arco-Flagellant (40k) 29
Kaervek the Merciless
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, Kaervek deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.
Legendary Creature - Human Shaman
Kaervek the Merciless (dsc) 222
Shivan Devastator
Flying, haste
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Creature - Dragon Hydra
Shivan Devastator (dmu) 143

Synergy - Beef

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Synergy - Big Damage Spell

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Comet Storm
Multikicker
(You may pay an additional
any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.
Instant
Comet Storm (cmr) 411
Crackle with Power
Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.
Sorcery
Crackle with Power (stx) 95
Cut
Cut deals 4 damage to target creature.
Sorcery
Cut // Ribbons (plst) AKH-223
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fic) 276
Jaya's Immolating Inferno
(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Jaya's Immolating Inferno deals X damage to each of up to three targets.
Legendary Sorcery
Jaya's Immolating Inferno (cmr) 415
Torment of Hailfire
Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.
Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77

Synergy - Big Damage Spell

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Synergy - Haste

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Rising of the Day
Creatures you control have haste.
Legendary creatures you control get +1/+0.
Enchantment
Rising of the Day (ltr) 145
Thousand-Year Elixir
You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste.
,
: Untap target creature.
Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (c21) 271

Synergy - Haste

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Synergy - Life Loss

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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
Doom Whisperer
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: 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.)
Creature - Demon Nightmare
Doom Whisperer (mkc) 128
Greven, Predator Captain
Menace
Greven gets +X/+0, where X is the amount of life you've lost this turn.
Whenever Greven attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, you draw cards equal to that creature's power and you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior Phyrexian
Greven, Predator Captain (c19) 43
Immolating Souleater
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. (
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Creature Artifact - Dog Phyrexian
Immolating Souleater (plst) NPH-139
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
Treasonous Ogre
Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Pay 3 life: Add
.
Creature - Shaman Ogre
Treasonous Ogre (plst) CNS-36

Synergy - Life Loss

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