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Commander

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MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
Whenever a creature you control with power 2 or less attacks, it gains skulk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Whenever a creature with power 4 or greater attacks you, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
MacCready, Lamplight Mayor (pip) 108

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Defense

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Batwing Brume
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if
was spent to cast this spell. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature they control if
was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if
was spent.)
Instant
Batwing Brume (plst) EVE-81
Blessed Reversal
You gain 3 life for each creature attacking you.
Instant
Blessed Reversal (plst) ULG-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
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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Drain

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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
Debt to the Deathless
Each opponent loses two times X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Debt to the Deathless (rvr) 364
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
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 (2x2) 237
Liesa, Shroud of Dusk
Rather than pay
for each previous time you've cast this spell from the command zone this game, pay 2 life that many times.
Flying, lifelink
Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Angel
Liesa, Shroud of Dusk (cmr) 286
Painful Quandary
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.
Enchantment
Painful Quandary (fdn) 179
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
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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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
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
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
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
Lunar Convocation
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained and lost life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Lunar Convocation (blb) 223
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 (tdc) 124
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 (ecc) 81
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
Underworld Connections
Enchant land
Enchanted land has "
, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."
Enchantment - Aura
Underworld Connections (voc) 138

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Land

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Adventurer's Inn
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land - Town
Adventurer's Inn (fin) 271
Barren Moor
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Barren Moor (dsc) 262
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 (tmc) 63
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (tmc) 66
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (fic) 405
Kabira Crossroads
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land
Kabira Crossroads (j25) 768
Obscura Storefront
When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.
Land
Obscura Storefront (dsc) 291
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
Orzhov Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Orzhov Guildgate (fdn) 692
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (tmt) 191
Radiant Fountain
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land
Radiant Fountain (c21) 310
Scoured Barrens
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Scoured Barrens (tdm) 267
Secluded Steppe
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Secluded Steppe (eoc) 177
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tmt) 193
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
Temple of the False God
: Add
. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Land
Temple of the False God (fic) 438

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Lifegain payoff

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Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent dealt combat damage this game by a creature named Gollum, Obsessed Stalker loses life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.
Legendary Creature - Horror Halfling
Gollum, Obsessed Stalker (ltc) 428
Midnight Snack
Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
, Sacrifice this enchantment: Target opponent loses X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Enchantment
Midnight Snack (fdn) 65
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208
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
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
Witch of the Moors
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Warlock
Witch of the Moors (otc) 152

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Lifegain trigger

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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
Kingpin's Pet
Flying
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Creature - Thrull
Kingpin's Pet (plst) GTC-173
Leonin Elder
Whenever an artifact enters, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Cleric Cat
Leonin Elder (mrd) 10
Rhox Faithmender
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
Creature - Monk Rhino
Rhox Faithmender (tdc) 128
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 (plst) MM3-24
Spectrum Sentinel
Protection from multicolored (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything multicolored.)
Whenever a nonbasic land an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature Artifact - Soldier
Spectrum Sentinel (bro) 244
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
Thrull Parasite
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.
Creature - Thrull
Thrull Parasite (plst) GTC-81
Tithe Drinker
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Creature - Vampire
Tithe Drinker (plst) C17-200

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Lifegain volume

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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
Congregate
Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.
Instant
Congregate (dmr) 4
Rewards of Diversity
Whenever an opponent casts a multicolored spell, you gain 4 life.
Enchantment
Rewards of Diversity (inv) 32
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
Wall of Reverence
Defender, flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.
Creature - Spirit Wall
Wall of Reverence (tdc) 139

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Pay life

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Minion of the Wastes
Trample
As this creature enters, pay any amount of life.
Minion of the Wastes's power and toughness are each equal to the life paid as it entered.
Creature - Minion
Minion of the Wastes (tmp) 146
Righteous Aura
, Pay 2 life: The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage.
Enchantment
Righteous Aura (mmq) 45
Unspeakable Symbol
Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Enchantment
Unspeakable Symbol (plst) SCG-79

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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 (tmc) 57
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
Orzhov Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Orzhov Signet (tdc) 323
Pristine Talisman
: Add
. You gain 1 life.
Artifact
Pristine Talisman (ltc) 283
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (fic) 365

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Removal

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Flay Essence
Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the number of counters on it.
Sorcery
Flay Essence (mh2) 85
Fumigate
Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Fumigate (eoc) 65
Invoke the Divine
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.
Instant
Invoke the Divine (khm) 16
Killing Wave
For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.
Sorcery
Killing Wave (inr) 386
Stroke of Midnight
Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.
Instant
Stroke of Midnight (tdc) 132
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

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Threat

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Baneslayer Angel
Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons
Creature - Angel
Baneslayer Angel (m21) 6
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

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Maybeboard

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Ambition's Cost
You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (moc) 246
Angelic Accord
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.
Enchantment
Angelic Accord (plst) M14-3
Arguel's Blood Fast
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, you may transform Arguel's Blood Fast.
Legendary Enchantment
Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz (xln) 90Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz (xln) 90
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
Bloodtracker
Flying
, Pay 2 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.
Creature - Wizard Vampire
Bloodtracker (lcc) 186
Bond of Agony
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Each other player loses X life.
Sorcery
Bond of Agony (dis) 38
Bontu's Monument
Black creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bontu's Monument (drc) 124
Bubbling Muck
Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional
.
Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (plst) UDS-54
Commander's Sphere
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Commander's Sphere (ecc) 139
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
Crested Sunmare
Other Horses you control have indestructible.
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 5/5 white Horse creature token.
Creature - Horse
Crested Sunmare (plst) HOU-6
Damnation
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.
Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
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 (fin) 94
Darksteel Mutation
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.
Enchantment - Aura
Darksteel Mutation (cmm) 21
Defiant Bloodlord
Flying
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Creature - Vampire
Defiant Bloodlord (c21) 142
Defiling Daemogoth
Menace
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Creature - Demon
Defiling Daemogoth (soc) 25
Dismember
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Instant
Dismember (plst) MM2-79
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
Erase
Exile target enchantment.
Instant
Erase (ktk) 9
Eventide's Shadow
Remove any number of counters from among permanents on the battlefield. You draw cards and lose life equal to the number of counters removed this way.
Sorcery
Eventide's Shadow (ecc) 8
Hellish Rebuke
Until end of turn, permanents your opponents control gain "When this permanent deals damage to the player who cast Hellish Rebuke, sacrifice this permanent. You lose 2 life."
Instant
Hellish Rebuke (afc) 26
Hushbringer
Flying, lifelink
Creatures entering or dying don't cause abilities to trigger.
Creature - Faerie
Hushbringer (plst) ELD-18
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
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
Kunoros, Hound of Athreos
Vigilance, menace, lifelink
Creature cards in graveyards can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards.
Legendary Creature - Dog
Kunoros, Hound of Athreos (thb) 222
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (fdn) 178
Orzhov Keyrune
: Add
or
.
: This artifact becomes a 1/4 white and black Thrull artifact creature with lifelink until end of turn.
Artifact
Orzhov Keyrune (gtc) 233
Phyrexian Reclamation
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (tdc) 194
Qarsi Revenant
Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Renew —
, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a flying counter, a deathtouch counter, and a lifelink counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Creature - Vampire
Qarsi Revenant (tdm) 86
Reciprocate
Exile target creature that dealt damage to you this turn.
Instant
Reciprocate (ddg) 24
Righteous Cause
Whenever a creature attacks, you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Righteous Cause (plst) CMA-21
Sanctify
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 3 life.
Sorcery
Sanctify (vow) 33
Serra Avatar
Serra Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.
When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
Creature - Avatar
Serra Avatar (dmr) 26
Silverquill Charm
Choose one —
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
• Exile target creature with power 2 or less.
• Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.
Instant
Silverquill Charm (sos) 225
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
Spoils of Evil
For each artifact or creature card in target opponent's graveyard, add
and you gain 1 life.
Instant
Spoils of Evil (ice) 163
Survival Cache
You gain 2 life. Then if you have more life than an opponent, draw a card.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Survival Cache (plst) IMA-34
Tivash, Gloom Summoner
Lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. If you do, create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying.
Legendary Creature - Human Warlock
Tivash, Gloom Summoner (j22) 476
Veinwitch Coven
Menace
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Veinwitch Coven (otc) 151
Withering Curse
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Infusion — If you gained life this turn, destroy all creatures instead.
Sorcery
Withering Curse (sos) 105

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Deck stats

43 pips - 32 cards
23 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
54 pips - 35 cards
26 mana - 26 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 6 cards
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