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Cycle of Death
Deck Size: 99
Commander / EDH
Est deck cost: $320.62
Salt sum: 30.17
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Commander

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Lyzolda, the Blood Witch

{2}, Sacrifice a creature: Lyzolda deals 2 damage to any target if the sacrificed creature was red. Draw a card if the sacrificed creature was black.

Creature
Lyzolda, the Blood Witch (dis) 117

Commander

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Counters

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Scion of the Swarm

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Scion of the Swarm (j25) 487
Skarrgan Firebird

Bloodthirst 3 (If an opponent was dealt damage this turn, this creature enters with three +1/+1 counters on it.) Flying {R}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if an opponent was dealt damage this turn.

Creature
Skarrgan Firebird (gk2) 81

Counters

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Land

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Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (40k) 265
Blackcleave Cliffs

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

Land
Blackcleave Cliffs (one) 370
Blazemire Verge

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

Land
Blazemire Verge (dsk) 329
Bloodfell Caves

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

Land
Bloodfell Caves (fdn) 259
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Dragonskull Summit

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

Land
Dragonskull Summit (e01) 93
Drannith Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Put two +1/+1 counters on target non-Human creature that entered this turn.

Land
Drannith Ruins (mat) 50
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 (soi) 272
Graven Cairns

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

Land
Graven Cairns (ima) 237
Haunted Ridge

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

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 263
Hidden Volcano

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}. {4}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Land
Hidden Volcano (lci) 277
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (afc) 246
Luxury Suite

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

Land
Luxury Suite (bbd) 82
Molten Slagheap

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {1}, Remove X storage counters from this land: Add X mana in any combination of {B} and/or {R}.

Land
Molten Slagheap (40k) 284
Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (mic) 176
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (acr) 108
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (fdn) 288
Raucous Theater

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) 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
Raucous Theater (mkm) 266
Sequestered Stash

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Mill five cards. Then you may put an artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Sequestered Stash (kld) 248
Shadowblood Ridge

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

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (who) 513
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (ltc) 332
Sulfurous Mire

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

Land
Sulfurous Mire (khm) 270
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 284
Thriving Bluff

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than red. {T}: Add {R} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Bluff (j25) 775
Tomb Fortress

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}{B}{B}{B}, {T}, Exile this land: Mill four cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Tomb Fortress (40k) 168
Voldaren Estate

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Vampire spell. {5}, {T}: Create a Blood token. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each Vampire you control. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Land
Voldaren Estate (lcc) 369

Land

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Recursion

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Akoum Firebird

Flying, haste This creature attacks each combat if able. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may pay {4}{R}{R}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Akoum Firebird (bfz) 138
Another Chance

You may mill two cards. Then return up to two creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant
Another Chance (lci) 90
Arclight Phoenix

Flying, haste At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you've cast three or more instant and sorcery spells this turn, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Arclight Phoenix (rvr) 100
Cauldron's Gift

Adamant — If at least three black mana was spent to cast this spell, mill four cards. You may choose a creature card in your graveyard. If you do, return it to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Sorcery
Cauldron's Gift (eld) 83
Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Discard a card: You may cast a creature spell from your graveyard this turn. Activate only once each turn. Whenever a nontoken creature you control enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, it gains haste until your next turn.

Creature
Chainer, Nightmare Adept (j21) 683
Chandra's Phoenix

Flying Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.) Whenever an opponent is dealt damage by a red instant or sorcery spell you control or by a red planeswalker you control, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Chandra's Phoenix (m14) 134
Drana, the Last Bloodchief

Flying Whenever Drana attacks, defending player chooses a nonlegendary creature card in your graveyard. You return that card to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. The creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.

Creature
Drana, the Last Bloodchief (sld) 1684
Flame-Wreathed Phoenix

Flying Tribute 2 (As this creature enters, an opponent of your choice may put two +1/+1 counters on it.) When this creature enters, if tribute wasn't paid, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand."

Creature
Flame-Wreathed Phoenix (bng) 97
Flamewake Phoenix

Flying, haste This creature attacks each combat if able. Ferocious — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, you may pay {R}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Flamewake Phoenix (frf) 100
Kuldotha Phoenix

Flying, haste Metalcraft — {4}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep and only if you control three or more artifacts.

Creature
Kuldotha Phoenix (som) 95
Lightning Phoenix

Flying, haste This creature can't block. At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent was dealt 3 or more damage this turn, you may pay {R}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Lightning Phoenix (jmp) 21
Magma Phoenix

Flying When this creature dies, it deals 3 damage to each creature and each player. {3}{R}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Magma Phoenix (m11) 150
Metamorphosis Fanatic

Lifelink When this creature enters, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it. Miracle {1}{B} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Creature
Metamorphosis Fanatic (dsc) 21
Nullpriest of Oblivion

Kicker {3}{B} (You may pay an additional {3}{B} as you cast this spell.) Lifelink Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Nullpriest of Oblivion (j25) 472
Phoenix Chick

Flying, haste This creature can't block. Whenever you attack with three or more creatures, you may pay {R}{R}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Phoenix Chick (dmu) 140
Phoenix of Ash

Flying, haste {2}{R}: This creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. Escape—{2}{R}{R}, Exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) This creature escapes with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Phoenix of Ash (thb) 148
Pyretic Rebirth

Return target artifact or creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Pyretic Rebirth deals damage equal to that card's mana value to up to one target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Pyretic Rebirth (mh3) 200
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (cc2) 5
Rekindling Phoenix

Flying When this creature dies, create a 0/1 red Elemental creature token with "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this token and return target card named Rekindling Phoenix from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste until end of turn."

Creature
Rekindling Phoenix (rix) 111
Valgavoth's Faithful

{3}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Valgavoth's Faithful (dsk) 121
Warcry Phoenix

Flying, haste Whenever you attack with three or more creatures, you may pay {2}{R}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

Creature
Warcry Phoenix (dom) 150

Recursion

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Tutor

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Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Pyre of Heroes

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card that shares a creature type with the sacrificed creature and has mana value equal to 1 plus that creature's mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Pyre of Heroes (khm) 241
Shadow-Rite Priest

Other Clerics you control get +1/+1. {3}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another Cleric: Search your library for a black creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Shadow-Rite Priest (dmu) 106

Tutor

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Burn

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Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (fdn) 327
Impact Tremors

Whenever a creature you control enters, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Impact Tremors (wot) 44
Syrix, Carrier of the Flame

Flying, haste At the beginning of each end step, if a creature card left your graveyard this turn, target Phoenix you control deals damage equal to its power to any target. Whenever another Phoenix you control dies, you may cast this card from your graveyard.

Creature
Syrix, Carrier of the Flame (ncc) 80

Burn

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Drain

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Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
Starscape Cleric

Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} 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
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
Underhanded Designs

Whenever an artifact you control enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {1}{B}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target creature. Activate only if you control two or more artifacts.

Enchantment
Underhanded Designs (kld) 104
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.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (m21) 362

Drain

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Lifegain

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Akoum Refuge

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

Land
Akoum Refuge (c18) 231
Chalice of Life

Artifact
Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (inr) 257Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (inr) 257
Skemfar Shadowsage

When this creature enters, choose one — • Each opponent loses X life, where X is the greatest number of creatures you control that have a creature type in common. • You gain X life, where X is the greatest number of creatures you control that have a creature type in common.

Creature
Skemfar Shadowsage (j25) 489

Lifegain

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Removal

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Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (rna) 157
Final Act

Choose one or more — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all planeswalkers. • Destroy all battles. • Exile all graveyards. • Each opponent loses all counters.

Sorcery
Final Act (m3c) 104
Soul Enervation

Flash When this enchantment enters, target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Soul Enervation (mkm) 106

Removal

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Cares About Lifegain

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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.

Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (c21) 275

Cares About Lifegain

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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.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
Aurora Phoenix

Flying Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Whenever you cast a spell with cascade, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Aurora Phoenix (cmr) 161
Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (afr) 94
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (lcc) 225
Relic Vial

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card. As long as you control a Cleric, this artifact has "Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life."

Artifact
Relic Vial (znr) 250
Sunbird's Invocation

Whenever you cast a spell from your hand, reveal the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from among cards revealed this way without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Enchantment
Sunbird's Invocation (xln) 165
Taborax, Hope's Demise

Flying Taborax has lifelink as long as it has five or more +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Taborax. If that creature was a Cleric, you may draw a card. If you do, you lose 1 life.

Creature
Taborax, Hope's Demise (j25) 69
Witch's Mark

You may discard a card. If you do, draw two cards. Create a Wicked Role token attached to up to one target creature you control. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Sorcery
Witch's Mark (woe) 158

Draw

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Mill

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Song of Blood

Mill four cards. Whenever a creature attacks this turn, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each creature card put into your graveyard this way.

Sorcery
Song of Blood (vis) 94

Mill

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Sac Outlet

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Master of Dark Rites

{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Add {B}{B}{B}. Spend this mana only to cast Vampire, Cleric, and/or Demon spells.

Creature
Master of Dark Rites (lcc) 83
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (spg) 23

Sac Outlet

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Copy

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Molten Echoes

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Whenever a nontoken creature you control of the chosen type enters, create a token that's a copy of that creature. That token gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Molten Echoes (c20) 54

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fdn) 173

Finisher

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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 (cmr) 297
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (sta) 26
Hazoret's Monument

Red creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Hazoret's Monument (akh) 229
Hierophant's Chalice

When this artifact enters, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Hierophant's Chalice (xln) 240
Ruby Medallion

Red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Ruby Medallion (mh3) 295
Sneak Attack

{R}: You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield. That creature gains haste. Sacrifice the creature at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Sneak Attack (wot) 79
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (pfdn) 1

Ramp

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Tokens

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Desecrated Tomb

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

Artifact
Desecrated Tomb (m19) 230

Tokens

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Sideboard

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Angel of Suffering

Flying If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.

Creature
Angel of Suffering (snc) 67
Archfiend's Vessel

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) When this creature enters, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, exile it. If you do, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying.

Creature
Archfiend's Vessel (j25) 398
Ashcloud Phoenix

Flying When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield face down under your control. Morph {4}{R}{R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When this creature is turned face up, it deals 2 damage to each player.

Creature
Ashcloud Phoenix (ktk) 99
Banner of Kinship

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. This artifact enters with a fellowship counter on it for each creature you control of the chosen type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each fellowship counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Banner of Kinship (fdn) 352
Blood Divination

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw three cards.

Sorcery
Blood Divination (m19) 86
Bloodfeather Phoenix

Flying This creature can't block. Whenever an instant or sorcery spell you control deals damage to an opponent or battle, you may pay {R}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Bloodfeather Phoenix (mom) 132
Bolt Bend

This spell costs {3} less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant
Bolt Bend (plst) WAR-115
Canonized in Blood

At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.) {5}{B}{B}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Create a 4/3 white and black Vampire Demon creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Canonized in Blood (lci) 96
Corpse Churn

Mill three cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Instant
Corpse Churn (clu) 107
Eerie Soultender

When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.) {4}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Return another target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eerie Soultender (j25) 431
Everquill Phoenix

Mutate {3}{R} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.) Flying Whenever this creature mutates, create a red artifact token named Feather with "{1}, Sacrifice this token: Return target Phoenix card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped."

Creature
Everquill Phoenix (moc) 275
Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch

First strike, haste Unleash (You may have this creature enter with a +1/+1 counter on it. It can't block as long as it has a +1/+1 counter on it.) Each other creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has haste.

Creature
Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch (dgm) 69
Faithless Salvaging

Discard a card, then draw a card. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Instant
Faithless Salvaging (mh2) 349
Final Flare

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment. Final Flare deals 5 damage to target creature.

Instant
Final Flare (thb) 134
Funeral Rites

You draw two cards, lose 2 life, then mill two cards.

Sorcery
Funeral Rites (thb) 97
Golden Egg

When this artifact enters, draw a card. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.

Artifact
Golden Egg (eld) 220
Golden Urn

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain life equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.

Artifact
Golden Urn (som) 158
Immortal Phoenix

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) When this creature dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Creature
Immortal Phoenix (g18) GP4
Infernal Plunge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Add {R}{R}{R}.

Sorcery
Infernal Plunge (isd) 148
Kalastria Healer

Rally — Whenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kalastria Healer (bfz) 114
Koma's Faithful

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) When this creature dies, each player mills three cards. (They each put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Koma's Faithful (j25) 457
Liliana, Heretical Healer

Creature
Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer (v17) 14Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer (v17) 14
Nemesis Phoenix

Flying {2}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking. Activate only during the declare attackers step and only if you're attacking two or more opponents.

Creature
Nemesis Phoenix (clb) 189
Priest of Forgotten Gods

{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.

Creature
Priest of Forgotten Gods (rna) 83
Priest of Gix

When this creature enters, add {B}{B}{B}.

Creature
Priest of Gix (j25) 121
Pyrrhic Blast

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Pyrrhic Blast deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target. Draw a card.

Instant
Pyrrhic Blast (bro) 148
Retriever Phoenix

Flying, haste When this creature enters, if you cast it, learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.) As long as this card is in your graveyard, if you would learn, you may instead return this card to the battlefield.

Creature
Retriever Phoenix (stx) 113
Sanguimancy

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Sorcery
Sanguimancy (bng) 81
Sanguine Syphoner

Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Sanguine Syphoner (fdn) 68
Shared Trauma

Join forces — Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player mills X cards, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Sorcery
Shared Trauma (cmd) 99
Skyfire Phoenix

Flying, haste When you cast your commander, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Skyfire Phoenix (c19) 28
Thran Vigil

Whenever one or more artifact and/or creature cards leave your graveyard during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Thran Vigil (bro) 114
Underworld Connections

Enchant land Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

Enchantment
Underworld Connections (voc) 138
Urge to Feed

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You may tap any number of untapped Vampire creatures you control. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each of those Vampires.

Instant
Urge to Feed (ddk) 22
Vampire Scrivener

Flying Whenever you gain life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever you lose life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Vampire Scrivener (j25) 505
Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (wot) 37
Vengeful Reaper

Flying, deathtouch, haste Foretell {1}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
Vengeful Reaper (khm) 116
Venomous Hierophant

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Venomous Hierophant (thb) 122
Warstorm Surge

Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Enchantment
Warstorm Surge (c19) 155

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Angelheart Vial

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may put that many charge counters on this artifact. {2}, {T}, Remove four charge counters from this artifact: You gain 2 life and draw a card.

Artifact
Angelheart Vial (roe) 215
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 (drc) 101
Blasphemous Edict

You may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield. Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Incarnation Technique

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it.) Mill five cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Incarnation Technique (c21) 41
Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Sorcery
Killing Wave (inr) 121
Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107
Shadowblood Egg

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add {B}{R}. Draw a card.

Artifact
Shadowblood Egg (ody) 308
Triskaidekaphobia

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one — • Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player gains 1 life. • Each player with exactly 13 life loses the game, then each player loses 1 life.

Enchantment
Triskaidekaphobia (inr) 136
Twilight Prophet

Flying Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Creature
Twilight Prophet (mkc) 143
Wondrous Crucible

Permanents you control have ward {2}. At the beginning of your end step, mill two cards, then exile a nonland card at random from your graveyard. Copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Artifact
Wondrous Crucible (brc) 67

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Blade of the Bloodchief

Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead. Equip {1}

Artifact
Blade of the Bloodchief (lcc) 300
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) 636
Demand Answers

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or discard a card. Draw two cards.

Instant
Demand Answers (mkm) 122
Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 638
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (sta) 38
Haunted Ridge

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

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 282
Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (pl22) 5
Miren, the Moaning Well

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Land
Miren, the Moaning Well (sok) 163
Molten Duplication

Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.

Sorcery
Molten Duplication (big) 44
Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (pip) 272
Path of Ancestry

This land enters 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.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (plg21) C3
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dsc) 301
Tainted Peak

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

Land
Tainted Peak (pip) 300
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 416
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (cmm) 646

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