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Commander

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Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life.
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Soldier Giant
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic (sld) 1962

Commander

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Alt Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $9.98
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 (plst) KLD-5
Soul Warden
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soul Warden (hop) 7

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Backup Wincon

Qty: 4 Price: $1.82
Drogskol Reaver
Flying
Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever you gain life, draw a card.
Creature - Spirit
Drogskol Reaver (fdn) 655
Marina Vendrell's Grimoire
When Marina Vendrell's Grimoire enters, if you cast it, draw five cards.
You have no maximum hand size and don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, discard that many cards. Then if you have no cards in hand, you lose the game.
Legendary Artifact - Book
Marina Vendrell's Grimoire (dsk) 64
Queza, Augur of Agonies
Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Advisor Octopus
Queza, Augur of Agonies (snc) 326
Starving Revenant
When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Spirit Horror
Starving Revenant (lci) 123

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Blue Draw

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Borne Upon a Wind
You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Draw a card.
Instant
Borne Upon a Wind (ltr) 44
Brainstorm
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Instant
Brainstorm (cst) 61
Compulsive Research
Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.
Sorcery
Compulsive Research (rvr) 38
Seize the Secrets
This spell costs
less to cast if you've committed a crime this turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Draw two cards.
Sorcery
Seize the Secrets (otj) 64

Blue Draw

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Countermagic

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Counterspell
Counter target spell.
Instant
Counterspell (dmr) 281
Disallow
Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
Instant
Disallow (drc) 74
Muddle the Mixture
Counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Instant
Muddle the Mixture (rvr) 315
Perplex
Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand.
Transmute
(
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Instant
Perplex (rav) 217
Wash Away
Cleave
(You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].
Instant
Wash Away (plst) VOW-87

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Don't Swing Me

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Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
Equipped creature has lifelink.
As long as you have 30 or more life, equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has indestructible and "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature."
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Caduceus, Staff of Hermes (acr) 2
Ghostly Prison
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (tdc) 116
Propaganda
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Propaganda (m3c) 191

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General Tutor

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Beseech the Queen
(
can be paid with any two mana or with
. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Beseech the Queen (hop) 19
Diabolic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (10e) 135
Insatiable Avarice
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+
— Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
+
— Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.
Sorcery
Insatiable Avarice (potj) 91p
Mastermind's Acquisition
Choose one —
• Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Put a card you own from outside the game into your hand.
Sorcery
Mastermind's Acquisition (rix) 77
Servant of the Stinger
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if you've committed a crime this turn, you may sacrifice this creature. If you do, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)
Creature - Human Warlock
Servant of the Stinger (otj) 105

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $53.54
Academy Ruins
: Add
.
,
: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Legendary Land
Academy Ruins (drc) 58
Adarkar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Adarkar Wastes (tdc) 338
Arcane Sanctum
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Arcane Sanctum (plst) MOC-390
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
Emergence Zone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
Fetid Heath
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Fetid Heath (fic) 391
Glacial Fortress
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island.
: Add
or
.
Land
Glacial Fortress (eoc) 160
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
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (mom) 278
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
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (dmu) 262
Prairie Stream
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Island
Prairie Stream (scd) 314
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (tmc) 76
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (m19) 271
Tolaria West
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with mana value 0, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Land
Tolaria West (tsr) 286

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Lifegain Doubler

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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
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

Lifegain Doubler

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Protection

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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
Selfless Spirit
Flying
Sacrifice this creature: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Creature - Cleric Spirit
Selfless Spirit (blc) 153

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Queza Support

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Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (fdn) 178
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

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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
Archaeomancer's Map
When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Artifact
Archaeomancer's Map (fic) 230
Azorius Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Azorius Signet (tdc) 312
Blood Pet
Sacrifice this creature: Add
.
Creature - Thrull
Blood Pet (plst) TMP-109
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
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (lcc) 302
Expedition Map
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifact
Expedition Map (fdn) 724
Obelisk of Esper
: Add
,
, or
.
Artifact
Obelisk of Esper (c13) 250
Orzhov Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Orzhov Signet (dsc) 249
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (tmc) 59
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (e01) 90
Talisman of Progress
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Progress (m3c) 313
Will, Scion of Peace
Vigilance
: Spells you cast this turn that are white and/or blue cost
less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Will, Scion of Peace (woe) 218

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Recurring Draw

Qty: 7 Price: $14.03
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
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
Dawn of Hope
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, draw a card.
: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.
Enchantment
Dawn of Hope (scd) 17
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
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
Sphinx of the Revelation
Flying, lifelink
Whenever you gain life, you get that many
(energy counters).
,
, Pay X
: Draw X cards.
Creature Artifact - Sphinx
Sphinx of the Revelation (m3c) 127
Well of Lost Dreams
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.
Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (c13) 271

Recurring Draw

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Removal

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Damn
Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Damn (drc) 89
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 (cma) 9
Despark
Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.
Instant
Despark (drc) 115
Generous Gift
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.
Instant
Generous Gift (cmr) 375
Rapid Hybridization
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.
Instant
Rapid Hybridization (blc) 111
Rite of Oblivion
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a nonland permanent.
Exile target nonland permanent.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Rite of Oblivion (mid) 237
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (lcc) 137
Unsummon
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Instant
Unsummon (fdn) 599
Void Rend
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Void Rend (otp) 59

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Triggers From Lifegain

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Ajani's Pridemate
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Soldier Cat
Ajani's Pridemate (m15) 2
Cat Collector
When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Whenever you gain life for the first time during each of your turns, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token.
Creature - Human Citizen
Cat Collector (fdn) 4
Essence Channeler
As long as you've lost life this turn, this creature has flying and vigilance.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, put its counters on target creature you control.
Creature - Cleric Bat
Essence Channeler (blb) 12
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 (rvr) 369
Vanguard Seraph
Flying
Whenever you gain life for the first time each turn, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Warrior Angel
Vanguard Seraph (fdn) 28
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 (vow) 44

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Wincon

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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 (j25) 198
Test of Endurance
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 50 or more life, you win the game.
Enchantment
Test of Endurance (dmr) 276

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Sideboard

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Aetherflux Reservoir
Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.
Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (brr) 2
Clutch of the Undercity
Return target permanent to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 3 life.
Transmute
(
, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)
Instant
Clutch of the Undercity (plst) RAV-197
Coveted Prize
This spell costs
less to cast for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)
Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. If you have a full party, you may cast a spell with mana value 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Coveted Prize (znr) 95
Dark Petition
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, add
.
Sorcery
Dark Petition (ori) 90
Demonic Bargain
Exile the top thirteen cards of your library, then search your library for a card. Put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Bargain (vow) 103
Demonic Counsel
Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Counsel (dsk) 92
Diabolic Revelation
Search your library for up to X cards, put those cards into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Revelation (m13) 87
Fabricate
Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Fabricate (sld) 2090
Feast of Sanity
Whenever you discard a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Feast of Sanity (mh2) 84
Fumigate
Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Fumigate (eoc) 65
Gold-Forged Thopteryx
Flying, lifelink
Each legendary permanent you control has ward
. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays
.)
Creature Artifact - Dinosaur Thopter
Gold-Forged Thopteryx (mat) 31
Laboratory Maniac
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
Creature - Human Wizard
Laboratory Maniac (inr) 359
Long-Term Plans
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.
Instant
Long-Term Plans (scg) 38
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 384
Pristine Talisman
: Add
. You gain 1 life.
Artifact
Pristine Talisman (ltc) 283
Profane Tutor
Suspend 2—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay
and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 401
Scour for Scrap
Choose one or both —
• Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
Instant
Scour for Scrap (eoe) 73
Snap
Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.
Instant
Snap (woc) 110
Sydri, Galvanic Genius
: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value until end of turn.
: Target artifact creature gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Artificer
Sydri, Galvanic Genius (c13) 220
Tidal Barracuda
Any player may cast spells as though they had flash.
Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.
Creature - Fish
Tidal Barracuda (c20) 39
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

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Deck Info

Deck stats

36 pips - 31 cards
26 mana - 24 cards
22 pips - 19 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
25 pips - 19 cards
22 mana - 20 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 3 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
10 mana - 9 cards
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