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Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
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Commander

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Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Flying Ward—Pay 2 life. Whenever an opponent loses life for the first time during each of their turns, put a +1/+1 counter on Valgavoth and draw a card.

Creature
Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls (dsc) 6

Commander

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Discard

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Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery
Dark Deal (frf) 66

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Lifegain

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Forsaken Wastes

Players can't gain life. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life. Whenever this enchantment becomes the target of a spell, that spell's controller loses 5 life.

Enchantment
Forsaken Wastes (mir) 125
Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Shadowspear (plst) THB-236
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107

Lifegain

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (fdc) 1
Cabal Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}. Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Instant
Cabal Ritual (mb2) 177
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dsc) 245
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (scd) 151
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (dsc) 250
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (fdc) 2
Songs of the Damned

Add {B} for each creature card in your graveyard.

Instant
Songs of the Damned (uma) 115
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (dsc) 254

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Burn

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Ankh of Mishra

Whenever a land enters, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Artifact
Ankh of Mishra (3ed) 233
Barbflare Gremlin

First strike, haste Whenever a player taps a land for mana, if this creature is tapped, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced. Then that land deals 1 damage to that player.

Creature
Barbflare Gremlin (dsc) 26
Cemetery Gatekeeper

First strike When this creature enters, exile a card from a graveyard. Whenever a player plays a land or casts a spell, if it shares a card type with the exiled card, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.

Creature
Cemetery Gatekeeper (vow) 304
Chandra, Awakened Inferno

This spell can't be countered. +2: Each opponent gets an emblem with "At the beginning of your upkeep, this emblem deals 1 damage to you." −3: Chandra deals 3 damage to each non-Elemental creature. −X: Chandra deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker. If a permanent dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.

Planeswalker
Chandra, Awakened Inferno (cmm) 875
Citadel of Pain

At the beginning of each player's end step, this enchantment deals X damage to that player, where X is the number of untapped lands they control.

Enchantment
Citadel of Pain (pcy) 86
Gleeful Arsonist

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, this creature deals damage equal to its power to that player. Undying (When this creature dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Creature
Gleeful Arsonist (dsc) 27
Manabarbs

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Manabarbs (m12) 150
Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might

Creature
Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power (lci) 158Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power (lci) 158
Razorkin Needlehead

This creature has first strike during your turn. Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to them.

Creature
Razorkin Needlehead (dsk) 153
Roiling Vortex

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to them. Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast that spell, this enchantment deals 5 damage to that player. {R}: Your opponents can't gain life this turn.

Enchantment
Roiling Vortex (znr) 156
Rug of Smothering

Flying Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 1 life for each spell they've cast this turn.

Creature Artifact
Rug of Smothering (clb) 336
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus

If a source you control would deal noncombat damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead. {1}{R/P}{R/P}, Discard two cards: Put an indestructible counter on Solphim. ({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.)

Creature
Solphim, Mayhem Dominus (one) 150
Spellshock

Whenever a player casts a spell, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Spellshock (plst) EXO-104
Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Underworld Dreams (thb) 121
Zo-Zu the Punisher

Whenever a land enters, Zo-Zu deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Creature
Zo-Zu the Punisher (dds) 41

Burn

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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
Blood Artist (dsc) 132
Blood Seeker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Creature
Blood Seeker (dsc) 77
Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (cmm) 139
Fate Unraveler

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this creature deals 1 damage to that player.

Creature Enchantment
Fate Unraveler (dsc) 141

Drain

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Mill

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Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (clb) 866

Mill

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Removal

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Basilisk Collar

Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Basilisk Collar (fdn) 669
Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (dsc) 84
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (dsc) 160
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (dsc) 162
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (spg) 68
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (fdn) 712
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (j25) 456
Massacre Girl

Menace When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Massacre Girl (dsc) 146
Mayhem Devil

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, this creature deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature
Mayhem Devil (dsc) 225
Mogis, God of Slaughter

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black and red is less than seven, Mogis isn't a creature. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, Mogis deals 2 damage to that player unless they sacrifice a creature of their choice.

Creature Enchantment
Mogis, God of Slaughter (dsc) 89
Orcish Bowmasters

Flash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 103
Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (dsc) 229
Sadistic Shell Game

Starting with the next opponent in turn order, each player chooses a creature you don't control. Destroy the chosen creatures.

Sorcery
Sadistic Shell Game (dsc) 24
Suspended Sentence

Destroy target creature an opponent controls. That player loses 3 life. Exile Suspended Sentence with three time counters on it. Suspend 3—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}{B} and exile it with three 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.)

Instant
Suspended Sentence (dsc) 25

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Counters

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Nightshade Harvester

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 1 life. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Nightshade Harvester (dsc) 150

Counters

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Draw

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Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Instant
Blood Pact (dsc) 76
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Spiteful Visions

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card. Whenever a player draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Spiteful Visions (dsc) 233
Stormfist Crusader

Menace At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Creature
Stormfist Crusader (dsc) 234
Wheel of Misfortune

Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery
Wheel of Misfortune (cmr) 211
Winds of Change

Each player shuffles the cards from their hand into their library, then draws that many cards.

Sorcery
Winds of Change (mb2) 201

Draw

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Pingers

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Barbed Wire

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this artifact deals 1 damage to that player. {2}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt by this artifact this turn.

Artifact
Barbed Wire (mmq) 287
Copper Tablet

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this artifact deals 1 damage to that player.

Artifact
Copper Tablet (2ed) 239
Kederekt Parasite

Whenever an opponent draws a card, if you control a red permanent, you may have this creature deal 1 damage to that player.

Creature
Kederekt Parasite (dsc) 144

Pingers

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Tutor

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Lively Dirge

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. + {2} — Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Lively Dirge (otj) 93

Tutor

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Creature

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Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Scrawling Crawler (fdn) 132

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Land

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Blackcleave Cliffs

This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Blackcleave Cliffs (dsc) 263
Blazemire Verge

{T}: Add {B}. {T}: Add {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Mountain.

Land
Blazemire Verge (dsk) 256
Blightstep Pathway

Land
Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252
Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (rvr) 273
Bloodfell Caves

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Bloodfell Caves (fdn) 259
Canyon Slough

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Canyon Slough (dsc) 266
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (fdc) 3
Dragonskull Summit

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (dsc) 271
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (dsc) 275
Foreboding Ruins

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Foreboding Ruins (dsc) 277
Geothermal Bog

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Geothermal Bog (dsc) 278
Graven Cairns

{T}: Add {C}. {B/R}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Land
Graven Cairns (dsc) 280
Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (fdn) 278
Shadowblood Ridge

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (dsc) 296
Smoldering Marsh

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Smoldering Marsh (dsc) 299
Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dsc) 301
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 277
Tainted Peak

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Peak (dsc) 304
Temple of Malice

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.) {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Malice (fdn) 701
Witch's Clinic

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Witch's Clinic (dsc) 325

Land

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Protection

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Hissing Miasma

Whenever a creature attacks you, its controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Hissing Miasma (gpt) 51
Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur enters, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (dsc) 223
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (dsc) 93

Protection

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Cuts

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Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (j25) 403
Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dsc) 133
Brash Taunter

Indestructible Whenever this creature is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to target opponent. {2}{R}, {T}: This creature fights another target creature.

Creature
Brash Taunter (dsc) 161
Combustible Gearhulk

First strike When this creature enters, target opponent may have you draw three cards. If the player doesn't, you mill three cards, then this creature deals damage to that player equal to the total mana value of those cards.

Creature Artifact
Combustible Gearhulk (dsc) 163
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, 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
Enchanter's Bane

At the beginning of your end step, target enchantment deals damage equal to its mana value to its controller unless that player sacrifices it.

Enchantment
Enchanter's Bane (dsc) 164
Fear of Burning Alive

When this creature enters, it deals 4 damage to each opponent. Delirium — Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, this creature deals that amount of damage to target creature that player controls.

Creature Enchantment
Fear of Burning Alive (dsk) 135
Grab the Prize

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards. If the discarded card wasn't a land card, Grab the Prize deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Sorcery
Grab the Prize (dsk) 138
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, 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.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Harsh Mentor

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of an artifact, creature, or land on the battlefield, if it isn't a mana ability, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.

Creature
Harsh Mentor (dsc) 165
Kaervek the Merciless

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, Kaervek deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to any target.

Creature
Kaervek the Merciless (dsc) 222
Light Up the Stage

Spectacle {R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Sorcery
Light Up the Stage (dsc) 166
Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Massacre Wurm (fdn) 714
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (j25) 464
Persistent Constrictor

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, they lose 1 life and you put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature they control. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Persistent Constrictor (dsc) 22
Rakdos, Lord of Riots

You can't cast Rakdos unless an opponent lost life this turn. Flying, trample Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

Creature
Rakdos, Lord of Riots (dsc) 230
Rampaging Ferocidon

Menace Players can't gain life. Whenever another creature enters, this creature deals 1 damage to that creature's controller.

Creature
Rampaging Ferocidon (dsc) 167
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (fdn) 257
Spiked Corridor

Enchantment
Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit (dsc) 28
Star Athlete

Menace Whenever this creature attacks, choose up to one target nonland permanent. Its controller may sacrifice it. If they don't, this creature deals 5 damage to that player. Blitz {3}{R} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

Creature
Star Athlete (dsc) 29
Sulfuric Vortex

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player. If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.

Enchantment
Sulfuric Vortex (dmr) 144
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (dsc) 158
Séance Board

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a soul counter on this artifact. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of soul counters on this artifact. Spend this mana only to cast instant, sorcery, Demon, and Spirit spells.

Artifact
Séance Board (dsc) 40
The Lord of Pain

Menace Your opponents can't gain life. Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, choose another target player. The Lord of Pain deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to the chosen player.

Creature
The Lord of Pain (dsc) 3
Theater of Horrors

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. During your turn, if an opponent lost life this turn, you may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with this enchantment. {3}{R}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Enchantment
Theater of Horrors (dsc) 236
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Vial Smasher the Fierce

Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, choose an opponent at random. Vial Smasher deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to that player or a planeswalker that player controls. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Vial Smasher the Fierce (dsc) 239

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Maybeboard

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Magebane Lizard

Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, this creature deals damage to that player equal to the number of noncreature spells they've cast this turn.

Creature
Magebane Lizard (otj) 134

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45 mana - 34 cards
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