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Commander

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Verrak, Warped Sengir
Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever you activate an ability that isn't a mana ability, if life was paid to activate it, you may pay that much life again. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Legendary Creature - Vampire
Verrak, Warped Sengir (dmc) 16

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Draw

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Alhammarret's Archive
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.
Legendary Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
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
Decorum Dissertation
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Sorcery - Lesson
Decorum Dissertation (sos) 78
Erebos, God of the Dead
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Erebos, God of the Dead (ths) 85
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
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
Street Wraith
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Cycling—Pay 2 life. (Pay 2 life, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Creature - Wraith
Street Wraith (dmr) 102
Underworld Connections
Enchant land
Enchanted land has "
, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."
Enchantment - Aura
Underworld Connections (voc) 138
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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Interesting / Payoff

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Axis of Mortality
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have two target players exchange life totals.
Enchantment
Axis of Mortality (xln) 3
Cruel Entertainment
Choose target player and another target player. The first player controls the second player during the second player's next turn, and the second player controls the first player during the first player's next turn.
Sorcery
Cruel Entertainment (c16) 11
Debtors' Knell
(
can be paid with either
or
.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Enchantment
Debtors' Knell (c21) 215
Enduring Ideal
Search your library for an enchantment card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability.)
Sorcery
Enduring Ideal (sok) 9
Grave Betrayal
Whenever a creature you don't control dies, return it to the battlefield under your control with an additional +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
Enchantment
Grave Betrayal (rtr) 67
Lich's Mastery
Hexproof
You can't lose the game.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard.
When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.
Legendary Enchantment
Lich's Mastery (dom) 98
Plague of Vermin
Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.
Sorcery
Plague of Vermin (shm) 73
Spirit-Sister's Call
At the beginning of your end step, choose target permanent card in your graveyard. You may sacrifice a permanent that shares a card type with the chosen card. If you do, return the chosen card from your graveyard to the battlefield and it gains "If this permanent would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else."
Enchantment
Spirit-Sister's Call (dsc) 232
Virtue of Persistence
At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
Enchantment
Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn (woe) 115

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Land

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Arid Mesa
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 244
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 (soc) 363
Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (soc) 129
Echoing Deeps
You may have this land enter tapped as a copy of any land card in a graveyard, except it's a Cave in addition to its other types.
: Add
.
Land - Cave
Echoing Deeps (lci) 271
Flooded Strand
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
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 (eoe) 254
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
Petrified Field
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.
Land
Petrified Field (plst) ODY-323
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (hob) 194
Polluted Delta
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Polluted Delta (mh3) 224
Prismatic Vista
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Prismatic Vista (h1r) 40
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (hob) 196
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Urza's Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "
: Add
."
II — This Saga gains "
,
: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost
or
, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land Enchantment - Saga Urza's
Urza's Saga (mh2) 259
Vault of Champions
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 436
Verdant Catacombs
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Windswept Heath
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 235

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Life Shenanigans

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Eternity Vessel
This artifact enters with X charge counters on it, where X is your life total.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have your life total become the number of charge counters on this artifact.
Artifact
Eternity Vessel (zen) 200
Invincible Hymn
Count the number of cards in your library. Your life total becomes that number.
Sorcery
Invincible Hymn (ala) 14
Repay in Kind
Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.
Sorcery
Repay in Kind (plst) ROE-125
Reverse the Sands
Redistribute any number of players' life totals. (Each of those players gets one life total back.)
Sorcery
Reverse the Sands (c16) 75
Revival
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Revival // Revenge (rvr) 241
Tainted Remedy
If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.
Enchantment
Tainted Remedy (ori) 120

Life Shenanigans

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Lifegain

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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
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) 176
Soul Warden
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soul Warden (plst) MM3-24
Soul's Attendant
Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soul's Attendant (plst) ROE-44
Zuran Orb
Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.
Artifact
Zuran Orb (mh2) 300

Lifegain

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Misc

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Rings of Brighthearth
Whenever you activate an ability, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay
. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Artifact
Rings of Brighthearth (cmr) 335
Scheming Symmetry
Choose two target players. Each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.
Sorcery
Scheming Symmetry (m20) 113

Misc

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Pillowfort / Stax

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Ghostly Prison
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (soc) 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
Sphere of Safety
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays
for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.
Enchantment
Sphere of Safety (dsc) 104
Windborn Muse
Flying
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Creature - Spirit
Windborn Muse (mkc) 92

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Ramp

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Crucible of Worlds
You may play lands from your graveyard.
Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (2x2) 303
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) 322
Expedition Map
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifact
Expedition Map (2xm) 255
Forsworn Paladin
Menace
,
, Pay 1 life: Create a Treasure token.
: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. If mana from a Treasure was spent to activate this ability, that creature also gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Creature - Human Knight
Forsworn Paladin (afr) 104
Mirran Safehouse
As long as this artifact is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all land cards in all graveyards.
Artifact
Mirran Safehouse (one) 232
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (soc) 358
Treasure Dredger
,
, Pay 1 life: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creature - Human Rogue
Treasure Dredger (otj) 110

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Recursion

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Brought Back
Choose up to two target permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn. Return them to the battlefield tapped.
Instant
Brought Back (plst) M20-9
Cosmic Intervention
If a permanent you control would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn, exile it instead. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Foretell
(During your turn, you may pay
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Instant
Cosmic Intervention (khc) 3
Court of Ardenvale
When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand. If you're the monarch, return that permanent card to the battlefield instead.
Enchantment
Court of Ardenvale (woc) 21
Faith's Reward
Return to the battlefield all permanent cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.
Instant
Faith's Reward (cn2) 84
Second Sunrise
Each player returns to the battlefield all artifact, creature, enchantment, and land cards in their graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.
Instant
Second Sunrise (plst) MRD-20
Serra Paragon
Flying
Once during each of your turns, you may play a land from your graveyard or cast a permanent spell with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. If you do, it gains "When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it and you gain 2 life."
Creature - Angel
Serra Paragon (soc) 169
Sevinne's Reclamation
Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy.
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (soc) 170
Sudden Salvation
Choose up to three target permanent cards in graveyards that were put there from the battlefield this turn. Return them to the battlefield tapped under their owners' control. You draw a card for each opponent who controls one or more of those permanents.
Instant
Sudden Salvation (voc) 10
Sun Titan
Vigilance
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, you may return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Giant
Sun Titan (soc) 178

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soc) 293
Decree of Pain
Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Sorcery
Decree of Pain (dsc) 136
Despark
Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.
Instant
Despark (tdc) 284
Dusk
Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater.
Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (drc) 65
Font of Agonies
Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment.
, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.
Enchantment
Font of Agonies (rna) 74
Heliod's Intervention
Choose one —
• Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments.
• Target player gains twice X life.
Instant
Heliod's Intervention (otc) 81
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
Mortify
Destroy target creature or enchantment.
Instant
Mortify (fic) 327
Skull Storm
When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game.
Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Each opponent who can't loses half their life, rounded up.
Sorcery
Skull Storm (c18) 18
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (soc) 179
Vanishing Verse
Exile target monocolored permanent.
Instant
Vanishing Verse (soc) 335

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Deck Info

Deck stats

52 pips - 33 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
50 pips - 32 cards
18 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 4 cards
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