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1/25/2025
snakes and gorgons to get your life
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $144.36
Salt sum: 22.37
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Commander

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Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

Deathtouch Whenever Aphelia attacks, you may pay {1}{B/G}. If you do, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch. {4}{B}: Until end of turn, whenever one or more Gorgons and/or Snakes you control deal combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up.

Creature
Aphelia, Viper Whisperer (j25) 40

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Anthem

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Adaptive Automaton

As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Other creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.

Creature Artifact
Adaptive Automaton (2xm) 231

Anthem

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Artifact

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Quick-Draw Katana

During your turn, equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Quick-Draw Katana (fdn) 130

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Counters

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Hagra Constrictor

Hagra Constrictor enters with two +1/+1 counters on it. Each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it has menace. (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Hagra Constrictor (znr) 105
Heir of the Ancient Fang

Heir of the Ancient Fang enters with a +1/+1 counter on it if you control a modified creature. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Creature
Heir of the Ancient Fang (j25) 669
Mold Adder

Whenever an opponent casts a blue or black spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Mold Adder (m10) 194
Winding Constrictor

If one or more counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead. If you would get one or more counters, you get that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters instead.

Creature
Winding Constrictor (pip) 223

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Creature

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Moonglove Changeling

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) {B}: Moonglove Changeling gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)

Creature
Moonglove Changeling (plst) MOR-67
Narnam Cobra

{G}: Narnam Cobra gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature Artifact
Narnam Cobra (kld) 224
Nessian Asp

Reach {6}{G}: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

Creature
Nessian Asp (cn2) 187
Pitiless Gorgon

Deathtouch

Creature
Pitiless Gorgon (clu) 203
Scourge of the Undercity

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) When Scourge of the Undercity enters, another target creature you control gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Scourge of the Undercity (j25) 11
Ukud Cobra

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Ukud Cobra (j25) 498
Wardens of the Cycle

Morbid — At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, choose one — • You gain 2 life. • You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Wardens of the Cycle (fdn) 125

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Discard

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Noose Constrictor

Reach Discard a card: Noose Constrictor gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Noose Constrictor (inr) 210

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Drain

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Hooded Blightfang

Deathtouch Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker.

Creature
Hooded Blightfang (j25) 455
Sinister Monolith

At the beginning of combat on your turn, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Pay 2 life, Sacrifice Sinister Monolith: Draw two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Sinister Monolith (blb) 113

Drain

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Draw

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Audacity

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) When Audacity is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Enchantment
Audacity (j25) 631
Corrupted Conviction

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

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
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
Gruesome Realization

Choose one — • You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. • Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Gruesome Realization (bro) 103
Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink. Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mask of Griselbrand (dsc) 145
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (j25) 471
Reaper of the Wilds

Whenever another creature dies, scry 1. {B}: Reaper of the Wilds gains deathtouch until end of turn. {1}{G}: Reaper of the Wilds gains hexproof until end of turn.

Creature
Reaper of the Wilds (cp2) 4
Sheltering Boughs

Enchant creature When Sheltering Boughs enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.

Enchantment
Sheltering Boughs (vow) 218
Village Rites

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

Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137

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Enchantment

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Frantic Strength

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has trample.

Enchantment
Frantic Strength (dsk) 179

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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 (j25) 437

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Infect

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Fynn, the Fangbearer

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Creature
Fynn, the Fangbearer (khm) 170
Vector Asp

{B}: Vector Asp gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Creature Artifact
Vector Asp (som) 219

Infect

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Instant

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Give In to Violence

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink until end of turn.

Instant
Give In to Violence (dsk) 101

Instant

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Land

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Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 59
Deathcap Glade

Deathcap Glade enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Deathcap Glade (inr) 275
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 290
Haunted Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) Haunted Mire enters tapped.

Land
Haunted Mire (blc) 311
Jungle Hollow

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

Land
Jungle Hollow (dft) 256
Memorial to Folly

Memorial to Folly enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {2}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice Memorial to Folly: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Memorial to Folly (j25) 770
Necroblossom Snarl

As Necroblossom Snarl enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, Necroblossom Snarl enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Necroblossom Snarl (dsc) 290
Overgrown Tomb

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

Land
Overgrown Tomb (rvr) 283
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry 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 (drc) 61
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
Strangled Cemetery

Strangled Cemetery enters tapped unless a player has 13 or less life. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Strangled Cemetery (dsk) 268
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 274
Tainted Wood

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

Land
Tainted Wood (dsc) 305
Thriving Grove

Thriving Grove enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than green. {T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Grove (j25) 776
Thriving Moor

Thriving Moor enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than black. {T}: Add {B} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Moor (j25) 779
Undergrowth Stadium

Undergrowth Stadium enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 435
Viridescent Bog

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

Land
Viridescent Bog (dsc) 324
Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (dsc) 326

Land

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Mill

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Venomous Hierophant

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

Creature
Venomous Hierophant (j25) 506

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Protection

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Fake Your Own Death

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Fake Your Own Death (fdn) 174
Fungal Fortitude

Flash Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+0. When enchanted creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.

Enchantment
Fungal Fortitude (lci) 106
Horrid Vigor

Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Horrid Vigor (dsk) 184
Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Undying Malice (vow) 134

Protection

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Pump

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Fanatical Strength

Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn.

Instant
Fanatical Strength (mkm) 159

Pump

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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 (drc) 52
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (dsc) 174
Fanatic of Rhonas

{T}: Add {G}. Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Fanatic of Rhonas (mh3) 152
Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Heraldic Banner (scd) 267
Lotus Cobra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.

Creature
Lotus Cobra (j25) 685
Orochi Merge-Keeper

{T}: Add {G}. As long as Orochi Merge-Keeper is modified, it has "{T}: Add {G}{G}." (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Creature
Orochi Merge-Keeper (j25) 695
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 57

Ramp

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Recursion

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Hazel's Nocturne

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Instant
Hazel's Nocturne (blb) 97
Macabre Waltz

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand, then discard a card.

Sorcery
Macabre Waltz (fdn) 177
Peerless Recycling

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If the gift was promised, instead return two target permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Peerless Recycling (blb) 188

Recursion

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Removal

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Ankle Biter

Deathtouch

Creature
Ankle Biter (otj) 153
Bushwhack

Choose one — • Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Sorcery
Bushwhack (j25) 641
Coat with Venom

Target creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Instant
Coat with Venom (j25) 412
Deadly Brew

Each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. If you sacrificed a permanent this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Deadly Brew (stx) 176
Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Eaten Alive (inr) 106
Gorgon Recluse

Whenever Gorgon Recluse blocks or becomes blocked by a nonblack creature, destroy that creature at end of combat. Madness {B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Gorgon Recluse (tsr) 117
Keepsake Gorgon

Deathtouch {5}{B}{B}: Monstrosity 1. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put a +1/+1 counter on it and it becomes monstrous.) When Keepsake Gorgon becomes monstrous, destroy target non-Gorgon creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Keepsake Gorgon (cn2) 141
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (j25) 467
Over the Edge

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact or enchantment. • Target creature you control explores, then it explores again. (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 that creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard. Then repeat this process.)

Sorcery
Over the Edge (lci) 205
Pharika's Chosen

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Pharika's Chosen (j25) 474
Return to Nature

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard.

Instant
Return to Nature (moc) 309
Serpent Assassin

When Serpent Assassin enters, you may destroy target nonblack creature.

Creature
Serpent Assassin (j25) 123
Sisters of Stone Death

{G}: Target creature blocks Sisters of Stone Death this turn if able. {B}{G}: Exile target creature blocking or blocked by Sisters of Stone Death. {2}{B}: Put a creature card exiled with Sisters of Stone Death onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Sisters of Stone Death (rav) 231
Subtle Strike

Choose one or both — • Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Instant
Subtle Strike (j25) 491
Vraska's Finisher

When Vraska's Finisher enters, destroy target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls that was dealt damage this turn.

Creature
Vraska's Finisher (j25) 510

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Tokens

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For the Common Good

Create X tokens that are copies of target token you control. Then tokens you control gain indestructible until your next turn. You gain 1 life for each token you control.

Sorcery
For the Common Good (blb) 172
Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature
Ophiomancer (mh3) 276

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