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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

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Artifact

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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 (sld) 1741

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Card Advantage

Qty: 10 Price: $302.16
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 (clb) 669
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
Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (3ed) 105
Diresight
Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Sorcery
Diresight (blb) 91
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
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (bro) 95
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (moc) 259
Ranger of Eos
When this creature enters, you may search your library for up to two creature cards with mana value 1 or less, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Creature - Human Soldier Ranger
Ranger of Eos (mm3) 19
The One Ring
Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
Legendary Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 380
Tymna the Weaver
Lifelink
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, you may pay X life, where X is the number of opponents that were dealt combat damage this turn. If you do, draw X cards.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Tymna the Weaver (c16) 48

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Finishers

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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 (plst) KLD-192
Akroma's Will
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.
Instant
Akroma's Will (cmr) 3
Bolas's Citadel
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (war) 79
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
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
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
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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Hate

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Blind Obedience
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Enchantment
Blind Obedience (gtc) 6
Dauthi Voidwalker
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Rogue Dauthi
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 81
Inner Sanctum
Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to creatures you control.
Enchantment
Inner Sanctum (wth) 18
Shay Cormac
: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof, indestructible, protection, shroud, and ward until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls becomes the target of a spell or ability you control, put a bounty counter on that creature.
Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, put two +1/+1 counters on Shay Cormac.
Legendary Creature - Human Knight Rogue
Shay Cormac (acr) 153
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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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $1218.71
Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
Barren Moor
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Barren Moor (c13) 277
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (wwk) 132
Boseiju, Who Shelters All
Boseiju enters tapped.
, Pay 2 life: Add
. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.
Legendary Land
Boseiju, Who Shelters All (sld) 426
Buried Ruin
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
Land
Buried Ruin (brc) 177
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (apc) 140
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (c15) 281
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
Fell the Profane
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
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 (ons) 316
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 (unf) 282
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (isd) 242
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
Maze of Ith
: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.
Land
Maze of Ith (ema) 241
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (pana) 241
Razorgrass Ambush
Razorgrass Ambush deals 3 damage to target attacking or blocking creature.
Instant
Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field (mh3) 238Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field (mh3) 238
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (c16) 316
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (c15) 302
Scrubland
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Plains Swamp
Scrubland (3ed) 286
Secluded Steppe
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land
Secluded Steppe (c18) 279
Shadowy Backstreet
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Plains Swamp
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 268
Shattered Sanctum
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shattered Sanctum (dbl) 531
Strip Mine
: Add
.
, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.
Land
Strip Mine (4ed) 363
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (ust) 214
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (plc) 165
Vault of Champions
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vault of Champions (cmr) 360
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 (ktk) 248

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LifeGain

Qty: 12 Price: $147.68
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
Archangel of Thune
Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Creature - Angel
Archangel of Thune (m14) 5
Auriok Champion
Protection from black and from red
Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Auriok Champion (ima) 9
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
Envoy of the Ancestors
Outlast
(
,
: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Outlast only as a sorcery.)
Modified creatures you control have lifelink. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
Creature - Human Cleric
Envoy of the Ancestors (mh3) 23
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
Heliod, Sun-Crowned
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature.
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control.
: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Heliod, Sun-Crowned (thb) 18
Serra Ascendant
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.
Creature - Human Monk
Serra Ascendant (m11) 28
Sorin of House Markov
Lifelink
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, exile Sorin, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.
Legendary Creature - Human Noble
Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate (mh3) 245Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate (mh3) 245
Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
During your turn, creatures and planeswalkers you control have lifelink.
+2: Sorin deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker.
−X: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.
Legendary Planeswalker - Sorin
Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord (war) 217
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 (roe) 44

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Protection

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Boromir, Warden of the Tower
Vigilance
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.
Sacrifice Boromir: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Boromir, Warden of the Tower (ltr) 407
Grand Abolisher
During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.
Creature - Human Cleric
Grand Abolisher (c14) 74
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 (c21) 71
Loran's Escape
Target artifact or creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Scry 1.
Instant
Loran's Escape (bro) 14
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 (ddo) 20
Reprieve
Return target spell to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.
Instant
Reprieve (ltr) 26
Teferi's Protection
Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.
Instant
Teferi's Protection (c17) 8

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Ramp

Qty: 9 Price: $127.47
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (plst) ELD-331
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
Mox Amber
: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.
Legendary Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Orzhov Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Orzhov Signet (c15) 262
Pristine Talisman
: Add
. You gain 1 life.
Artifact
Pristine Talisman (nph) 151
Scholar of New Horizons
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it.
, Remove a counter from a permanent you control: Search your library for a Plains card and reveal it. If an opponent controls more lands than you, you may put that card onto the battlefield tapped. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand. Then shuffle.
Creature - Human Scout
Scholar of New Horizons (brc) 6
Staff of Compleation
, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own.
, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color.
, Pay 3 life: Proliferate.
, Pay 4 life: Draw a card.
: Untap this artifact.
Artifact
Staff of Compleation (one) 242
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (mh1) 233
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (lcc) 317

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Recursion

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Celestine, the Living Saint
Flying, lifelink
Healing Tears — At the beginning of your end step, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
Celestine, the Living Saint (40k) 10
Guardian Scalelord
Backup 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following abilities until end of turn.)
Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, return target nonland permanent card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is this creature's power.
Creature - Dragon
Guardian Scalelord (moc) 16

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Removal

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Abstruse Appropriation
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Exile target nonland permanent. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend colorless mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.
Instant
Abstruse Appropriation (mh3) 177
Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (2x2) 170
Farewell
Choose one or more —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all graveyards.
Sorcery
Farewell (mkc) 64
Final Showdown
Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+
— All creatures lose all abilities until end of turn.
+
— Choose a creature you control. It gains indestructible until end of turn.
+
— Destroy all creatures.
Instant
Final Showdown (otj) 11
Fracture
Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.
Instant
Fracture (stx) 378
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 (vow) 20
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 (c13) 96
Vindicate
Destroy target permanent.
Sorcery
Vindicate (ema) 210
Winds of Abandon
Exile target creature you don't control. For each creature exiled this way, its controller searches their library for a basic land card. Those players put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Overload
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Winds of Abandon (plst) MH1-37

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Deck stats

45 pips - 39 cards
23 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
31 pips - 25 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
10 mana - 9 cards
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