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Commander

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Dina, Soul Steeper
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Legendary Creature - Druid Dryad
Dina, Soul Steeper (mul) 167

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Artifact

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Cauldron of Essence
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
,
, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Cauldron of Essence (sos) 179

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Creature

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Acolyte of Xathrid
,
: Target player loses 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Acolyte of Xathrid (m10) 83

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Discard

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Chain of Smog
Target player discards two cards. That player may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.
Sorcery
Chain of Smog (plst) ONS-132
Cruel Grimnarch
Deathtouch
When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you gain 4 life.
Creature - Cleric Phyrexian
Cruel Grimnarch (one) 88
Painful Quandary
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.
Enchantment
Painful Quandary (fdn) 179

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Drain

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Bastion of Remembrance
When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (tle) 160
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
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
Mai, Scornful Striker
First strike
Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, they lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Human Ally Noble
Mai, Scornful Striker (tla) 109
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (fdn) 178
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208
Sinister Monolith
At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Sinister Monolith (blb) 113
Soul-Shackled Zombie
When this creature enters, exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. If at least one creature card was exiled this way, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Zombie
Soul-Shackled Zombie (fdn) 70
Specter of the Fens
Flying
: Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Specter
Specter of the Fens (stx) 87
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
Vengeful Bloodwitch
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Vengeful Bloodwitch (fdn) 76

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Draw

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Ad Nauseam
Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.
Instant
Ad Nauseam (2xm) 76
Daemogoth Woe-Eater
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.
When you sacrifice this creature, each opponent discards a card, you draw a card, and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Demon
Daemogoth Woe-Eater (stx) 175
Moldervine Reclamation
Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (soc) 320
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Professor Onyx
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
+1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
−3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.
−8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.
Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
Professor Onyx (dsc) 153
Vraska, Golgari Queen
+2: You may sacrifice another permanent. If you do, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
−3: Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
−9: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Legendary Planeswalker - Vraska
Vraska, Golgari Queen (grn) 213

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fic) 276

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Instant

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Dark Nourishment
Dark Nourishment deals 3 damage to any target. You gain 3 life.
Instant
Dark Nourishment (xln) 97

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Land

Qty: 35 (36 w/ MDFC)Price: $106.33
Black Dragon Gate
This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than black.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land - Gate
Black Dragon Gate (clb) 347
Blooming Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Blooming Marsh (otj) 266
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (ecc) 59
Darkmoss Bridge
This land enters tapped.
Indestructible
: Add
or
.
Artifact Land
Darkmoss Bridge (dsc) 269
Deathcap Glade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Deathcap Glade (inr) 275
Festering Gulch
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
: Add
or
.
Land - Desert
Festering Gulch (otj) 257
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (ecl) 273
Jungle Hollow
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Jungle Hollow (tdm) 258
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
Manor Gate
This land enters tapped.
As this land enters, choose a color other than green.
: Add
or one mana of the chosen color.
Land - Gate
Manor Gate (clb) 356
Nurturing Peatland
, Pay 1 life: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
Nurturing Peatland (mh1) 243
Piranha Marsh
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, target player loses 1 life.
: Add
.
Land
Piranha Marsh (j22) 818
Reflecting Pool
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
Land
Reflecting Pool (mb2) 257
Shifting Woodland
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
: Add
.
Delirium —
: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Land
Shifting Woodland (mh3) 228
Strangled Cemetery
This land enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Strangled Cemetery (dsk) 268
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (ecl) 271
Tainted Wood
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Wood (dsc) 305
Tree of Tales
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Tree of Tales (dsc) 319
Twilight Mire
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Twilight Mire (eoc) 189
Uncharted Haven
This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
Land
Uncharted Haven (fdn) 564
Vault of Whispers
: Add
.
Artifact Land
Vault of Whispers (j25) 780
Viridescent Bog
,
: Add
.
Land
Viridescent Bog (eoc) 190
Woodland Cemetery
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
: Add
or
.
Land
Woodland Cemetery (ecc) 176

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Lifegain

Qty: 10 Price: $91.00
Banehound
Lifelink, haste
Creature - Nightmare Dog
Banehound (war) 77
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
Fortifying Draught
You gain 2 life. Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Instant
Fortifying Draught (stx) 132
Fountain of Youth
,
: You gain 1 life.
Artifact
Fountain of Youth (10e) 323
Leech Fanatic
During your turn, this creature has lifelink.
Creature - Human Warlock
Leech Fanatic (stx) 75
Nourishing Shoal
You may exile a green card with mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
You gain X life.
Instant - Arcane
Nourishing Shoal (uma) 175
Overgrown Arch
Defender
: You gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice this creature: Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)
Creature - Plant Wall
Overgrown Arch (stx) 139
Witherbloom Apprentice
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Druid
Witherbloom Apprentice (stx) 247
Zof Consumption
Each opponent loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.
Sorcery
Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog (znr) 132Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog (znr) 132

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Pingers

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Archers' Parapet
Defender
,
: Each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Wall
Archers' Parapet (ktk) 128

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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 (ecc) 55
Birds of Paradise
Flying
: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Bird
Birds of Paradise (rvr) 133
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
Elvish Spirit Guide
Exile this creature from your hand: Add
.
Creature - Elf Spirit
Elvish Spirit Guide (dmr) 157
Environmental Sciences
Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.
Sorcery - Lesson
Environmental Sciences (mb2) 2
Food Chain
Exile a creature you control: Add X mana of any one color, where X is 1 plus the exiled creature's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.
Enchantment
Food Chain (2x2) 147
Golgari Keyrune
: Add
or
.
: This artifact becomes a 2/2 black and green Insect artifact creature with deathtouch until end of turn.
Artifact
Golgari Keyrune (rtr) 229
Golgari Locket
: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.
Artifact
Golgari Locket (grn) 237
Golgari Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Golgari Signet (dsc) 246
Heaped Harvest
When this artifact enters and when you sacrifice it, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.
Artifact - Food
Heaped Harvest (blb) 175
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (ecc) 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
Titania's Command
Choose two —
• Exile target player's graveyard. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way.
• Search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
• Create two 2/2 green Bear creature tokens.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
Sorcery
Titania's Command (bro) 194

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Recursion

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Eternal Scourge
You may cast this card from exile.
When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, exile this creature.
Creature - Horror Eldrazi
Eternal Scourge (emn) 7
Golgari Findbroker
When this creature enters, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Golgari Findbroker (rvr) 187
Hazel's Nocturne
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Instant
Hazel's Nocturne (blb) 97
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

Recursion

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Removal

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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 (fdn) 669
Grist, the Hunger Tide
As long as Grist isn't on the battlefield, it's a 1/1 Insect creature in addition to its other types.
+1: Create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token, then mill a card. If an Insect card was milled this way, put a loyalty counter on Grist and repeat this process.
−2: You may sacrifice a creature. When you do, destroy target creature or planeswalker.
−5: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Legendary Planeswalker - Grist
Grist, the Hunger Tide (dsc) 220
Putrefy
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Putrefy (ecc) 131
Savra, Queen of the Golgari
Whenever you sacrifice a black creature, you may pay 2 life. If you do, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Whenever you sacrifice a green creature, you may gain 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Elf Shaman
Savra, Queen of the Golgari (rvr) 381
Witherbloom Command
Choose two —
• Target player mills three cards, then you return a land card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less.
• Target creature gets -3/-1 until end of turn.
• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Sorcery
Witherbloom Command (stx) 248

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Sac Outlet

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Acolyte of Aclazotz
, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Acolyte of Aclazotz (lci) 89

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Tokens

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Pest Summoning
Create two 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Sorcery - Lesson
Pest Summoning (stx) 211
Verdant Command
Choose two —
• Target player creates two tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens.
• Counter target loyalty ability of a planeswalker.
• Exile target card from a graveyard.
• Target player gains 3 life.
Instant
Verdant Command (mh2) 359

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Tutor

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Blightspeaker
: Target player loses 1 life.
,
: Search your library for a Rebel permanent card with mana value 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Cleric Rebel
Blightspeaker (tsr) 103
Diabolic Intent
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Intent (fca) 34
Diabolic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (plst) ODY-129
Primal Command
Choose two —
• Target player gains 7 life.
• Put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library.
• Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.
• Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Primal Command (mm3) 132

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Sideboard

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Archfiend's Vessel
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
When this creature enters, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, exile it. If you do, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying.
Creature - Human Cleric
Archfiend's Vessel (j25) 398
Dryad Arbor
(This land isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "
: Add
.")
Creature Land - Dryad Forest
Dryad Arbor (dsc) 273
Essence Infusion
Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It gains lifelink until end of turn.
Sorcery
Essence Infusion (stx) 69
Honor Troll
Vigilance
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
This creature gets +2/+1 as long as you have 25 or more life.
Creature - Druid Troll
Honor Troll (stx) 134
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Jarad gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legendary Creature - Elf Zombie
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord (tdc) 293
Llanowar Dead
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Zombie
Llanowar Dead (apc) 109
Llanowar Elves
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Llanowar Elves (fdn) 227
Valentin, Dean of the Vein
Menace, lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay
. If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Legendary Creature - Vampire Warlock
Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161

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