K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} 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, Son of Yawgmoth.

Ajani, Strength of the Pride

+1: You gain life equal to the number of creatures you control plus the number of planeswalkers you control.
−2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Ajani's Pridemate."
0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani, Strength of the Pride and each artifact and creature your opponents control.

Voice of the Blessed

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Voice of the Blessed.
As long as Voice of the Blessed has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance.
As long as Voice of the Blessed has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.

Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
{2}{W}{B}{G}, {T}, Exile Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant: Search your library for any number of creature cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only if you have 111 or more life.

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Dig Up

Cleave {1}{B}{B}{G} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Search your library for a [basic land] card, [reveal it,] put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Accomplished Alchemist

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Defiler of Faith

Vigilance
As an additional cost to cast white permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {W} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of white mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a white permanent spell, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Sol Ring

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Athreos, God of Passage

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you own dies, return it to your hand unless target opponent pays 3 life.

Twinblade Paladin

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Twinblade Paladin.
As long as you have 25 or more life, Twinblade Paladin has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

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.)

Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodthirsty Aerialist.

Trelasarra, Moon Dancer

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Trelasarra, Moon Dancer and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Riveteers Overlook

When Riveteers Overlook enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Sandsteppe Citadel

Sandsteppe Citadel enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.

Dina, Soul Steeper

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina, Soul Steeper gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Deathtouch
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Obscura Storefront

When Obscura Storefront enters the battlefield, 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.

Prosperous Innkeeper

When Prosperous Innkeeper enters the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Soul of Eternity

Soul of Eternity's power and toughness are each equal to your life total.
Encore {7}{W}{W} ({7}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)

Predator's Rapport

Choose target creature you control. You gain life equal to that creature's power plus its toughness.

Kaya's Wrath

Destroy all creatures. You gain life equal to the number of creatures you controlled that were destroyed this way.

Knight of Dawn's Light

First strike
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
{1}{W}: Knight of Dawn's Light gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Kor Celebrant

Whenever Kor Celebrant or another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Lunarch Veteran

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
Disturb {1}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)

Luminous Phantom

Flying
Whenever another creature you control leaves the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
If Luminous Phantom would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom

Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: Aetherflux Reservoir deals 50 damage to any target.

Cleric Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
{3}{W}: Level 2
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
{4}{W}: Level 3
When this Class becomes level 3, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Command Tower

Dawn of Hope

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.
{3}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Honor Troll

Vigilance
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
Honor Troll gets +2/+1 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Soul's Grace

You gain life equal to target creature's power.

Jungle Hollow

Jungle Hollow enters the battlefield tapped.
When Jungle Hollow enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Blossoming Sands

Blossoming Sands enters the battlefield tapped.
When Blossoming Sands enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Beast Whisperer

Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Soulmender

Ageless Entity

Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on Ageless Entity.

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Forest

Scoured Barrens

Scoured Barrens enters the battlefield tapped.
When Scoured Barrens enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Plains

Farewell

Choose one or more —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all graveyards.

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Eerie Ultimatum

Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Karlov of the Ghost Council

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov of the Ghost Council.
{W}{B}, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov of the Ghost Council: Exile target creature.

Willowdusk, Essence Seer

{1}, {T}: Choose another target creature. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of life you gained this turn or the amount of life you lost this turn, whichever is greater. Activate only as a sorcery.

Graypelt Refuge

Graypelt Refuge enters the battlefield tapped.
When Graypelt Refuge enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Cabaretti Courtyard

When Cabaretti Courtyard enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Mountain, Forest, or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Suture Priest

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain 1 life.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Ajani, Mentor of Heroes

+1: Distribute three +1/+1 counters among one, two, or three target creatures you control.
+1: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an Aura, creature, or planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
−8: You gain 100 life.

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Swamp

Dazzling Reflection

You gain life equal to target creature's power. The next time that creature would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.

Impassioned Orator

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Tend the Pests

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Create X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life," where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Blossoming Bogbeast

Whenever Blossoming Bogbeast attacks, you gain 2 life. Then creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

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.

Fracture

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

Blood Researcher

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Blood Researcher.

Ranger of Eos

When Ranger of Eos enters the battlefield, 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.

Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn

Lifelink
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, distribute up to that many +1/+1 counters among any number of other target creatures.

Defiler of Vigor

Trample
As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {G} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Sapseep Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)
Sapseep Forest enters the battlefield tapped.
{G}, {T}: You gain 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more green permanents.

Elenda's Hierophant

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda's Hierophant.
When Elenda's Hierophant dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is its power.

Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Astarion, the Decadent

Deathtouch, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, choose one —
• Feed — Target opponent loses life equal to the amount of life they lost this turn.
• Friends — You gain life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Soul Warden

Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Archivist of Oghma

Flash
Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

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.

Beledros Witherbloom

Flying
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

Kabira Crossroads

Kabira Crossroads enters the battlefield tapped.
When Kabira Crossroads enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {W}.

Rodolf Duskbringer

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever you gain life, Rodolf Duskbringer gains indestructible until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}{W/B}. When you do, 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.

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