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Commander

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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 (c15) 46

Commander

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1. Plan - gain life pump K

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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
Ajani's Welcome
Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Ajani's Welcome (plst) M19-6
Auriok Champion
Protection from black and from red
Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Auriok Champion (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 (fdn) 137
Basilisk Collar
Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Equip
(
: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Basilisk Collar (clb) 300
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Cleric Kor Phyrexian
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim (dmu) 198
Healer's Hawk
Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Creature - Bird
Healer's Hawk (grn) 14
Hinterland Sanctifier
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Cleric Rabbit
Hinterland Sanctifier (fdn) 730
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 (mid) 27Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (mid) 27
Nighthawk Scavenger
Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Creature - Vampire Rogue
Nighthawk Scavenger (clb) 763
Shadowspear
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Shadowspear (plst) THB-236
Soldier of the Pantheon
Protection from multicolored
Whenever an opponent casts a multicolored spell, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Soldier
Soldier of the Pantheon (ths) 32
Soul Warden
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soul Warden (m10) 34
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 (blc) 158
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 (plst) NPH-25
Tablet of the Guilds
As this artifact enters, choose two colors.
Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.
Artifact
Tablet of the Guilds (rtr) 235
Vampire Nighthawk
Flying
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Creature - Vampire Shaman
Vampire Nighthawk (fdn) 186

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2. Protect Karlov

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Clever Concealment
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for
or one mana of that creature's color.)
Any number of target nonland permanents you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until your next turn.)
Instant
Clever Concealment (fic) 236
Dying Wish
Enchant creature you control
When enchanted creature dies, target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is its power.
Enchantment - Aura
Dying Wish (gtc) 64
Flawless Maneuver
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Flawless Maneuver (c20) 26
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 (mh1) 13
Inkshield
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.
Instant
Inkshield (soc) 316
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Lightning Greaves (mrd) 199
Malakir Rebirth
Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
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
Sejiri Shelter
Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Instant
Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37
Selfless Spirit
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Creature - Cleric Spirit
Selfless Spirit (blc) 153
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 (blc) 286
Whispersilk Cloak
Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Whispersilk Cloak (dsc) 257

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3. Incidental lifegain ping

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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) 374
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 (m21) 127

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4. Finisher

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Bloodletter of Aclazotz
Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Vampire Demon
Bloodletter of Aclazotz (lci) 92
Essence Harvest
Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Sorcery
Essence Harvest (avr) 100
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fdn) 173
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 (ths) 89

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Draw

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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
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
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
Inspiring Overseer
Flying
When this creature enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Creature - Cleric Angel
Inspiring Overseer (blc) 141
Mangara, the Diplomat
Lifelink
Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Mangara, the Diplomat (blc) 145
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (cn2) 144
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 (ori) 114
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (m13) 110
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
Tocasia's Welcome
Whenever one or more creatures you control with mana value 3 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Enchantment
Tocasia's Welcome (plst) BRO-30

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Land

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Abandoned Air Temple
This land enters tapped unless you control a basic land.
: Add
.
,
: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Land
Abandoned Air Temple (tla) 263
Brightclimb Pathway
: Add
.
Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (plst) ZNR-259
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 (eld) 241
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (ori) 245
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (blc) 130
Concealed Courtyard
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Concealed Courtyard (kld) 245
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 (gtc) 242
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 (ltc) 318
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
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (tla) 282
Radiant Fountain
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land
Radiant Fountain (m21) 248
Scoured Barrens
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Scoured Barrens (ktk) 242
Shattered Sanctum
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shattered Sanctum (tdc) 391
Silent Clearing
, Pay 1 life: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
Silent Clearing (mh1) 246
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tla) 284
Tainted Field
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Field (cmm) 1039
Turbulent Moor
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless your opponents control eight or more lands.
Land - Plains Swamp
Turbulent Moor (soc) 56
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 (lcc) 367

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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 (onc) 125
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 (gtc) 61
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (dvd) 45
Land Tax
At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Enchantment
Land Tax (cmm) 37
Monologue Tax
Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.
Enchantment
Monologue Tax (c21) 19
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129
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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Recursion

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Agadeem's Awakening
Return from your graveyard to the battlefield any number of target creature cards that each have a different mana value X or less.
Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soi) 242
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
Fell the Profane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Kaya's Wrath
Destroy all creatures. You gain life equal to the number of creatures you controlled that were destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Kaya's Wrath (rna) 187
Reprieve
Return target spell to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.
Instant
Reprieve (ltr) 26
Retribution of the Ancients
, Remove X +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Enchantment
Retribution of the Ancients (ktk) 85
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 (cmm) 191

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5. Optional combos

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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
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 (rna) 22

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Breena, the Demagogue
Flying
Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, if that opponent has more life than another of your opponents, that attacking player draws a card and you put two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control.
Legendary Creature - Bird Warlock
Breena, the Demagogue (soc) 298
Felidar Sovereign
Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 40 or more life, you win the game.
Creature - Beast Cat
Felidar Sovereign (plst) BFZ-26
Guide of Souls
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life and get
(an energy counter).
Whenever you attack, you may pay
. When you do, put two +1/+1 counters and a flying counter on target attacking creature. It becomes an Angel in addition to its other types.
Creature - Human Cleric
Guide of Souls (mh3) 29
Hopeful Initiate
Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
, Remove two +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Creature - Human Warlock
Hopeful Initiate (inr) 27
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (mh1) 233
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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Spendy upgrades

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Galadriel's Dismissal
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Target creature phases out. If this spell was kicked, each creature target player controls phases out instead. (Treat phased-out creatures and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)
Instant
Galadriel's Dismissal (ltc) 500
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) 437
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107
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
The Ozolith
Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if The Ozolith has counters on it, you may move all counters from The Ozolith onto target creature.
Legendary Artifact
The Ozolith (iko) 237

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Deck Info

Deck stats

42 pips - 36 cards
26 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
43 pips - 29 cards
31 mana - 27 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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