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The Archimandrite, Flying lifegain kick
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The Archimandrite

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4. Whenever you gain life, each Advisor, Artificer, and Monk you control gains vigilance and gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained. Tap three untapped Advisors, Artificers, and/or Monks you control: Draw a card.

Creature
The Archimandrite (brc) 26

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Evasion

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Wonder

Flying As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control an Island, creatures you control have flying.

Creature
Wonder (cma) 44

Evasion

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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
Dazzling Theater

Enchantment
Dazzling Theater // Prop Room (dsk) 3
Izzet Signet

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

Artifact
Izzet Signet (blc) 278
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Narset of the Ancient Way

+1: You gain 2 life. Add {U}, {R}, or {W}. Spend this mana only to cast a noncreature spell. −2: Draw a card, then you may discard a card. When you discard a nonland card this way, Narset deals damage equal to that card's mana value to target creature or planeswalker. −6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this emblem deals 2 damage to any target."

Planeswalker
Narset of the Ancient Way (cmm) 930
Prismatic Lens

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Prismatic Lens (otc) 264
Pristine Talisman

{T}: Add {C}. You gain 1 life.

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (ltc) 283
Talisman of Conviction

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

Artifact
Talisman of Conviction (pip) 243
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256

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Draw

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Assemble the Players

You may look at the top card of your library any time. Once each turn, you may cast a creature spell with power 2 or less from the top of your library.

Enchantment
Assemble the Players (mkm) 3
Elsha of the Infinite

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast noncreature spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, you may cast it as though it had flash.

Creature
Elsha of the Infinite (2x2) 208
Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Artifact
Geth's Grimoire (dst) 123
Gregor, Shrewd Magistrate

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Whenever Gregor, Shrewd Magistrate deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its power.

Creature
Gregor, Shrewd Magistrate (slx) 21
Heartwarming Redemption

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards plus one. You gain life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Instant
Heartwarming Redemption (war) 199
Jaya, Fiery Negotiator

+1: Create a 1/1 red Monk creature token with prowess. −1: Exile the top two cards of your library. Choose one of them. You may play that card this turn. −2: Choose target creature an opponent controls. Whenever you attack this turn, Jaya deals damage equal to the number of attacking creatures to that creature. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a red instant or sorcery spell, copy it twice. You may choose new targets for the copies."

Planeswalker
Jaya, Fiery Negotiator (dmu) 133
Kami of the Crescent Moon

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.

Creature
Kami of the Crescent Moon (voc) 107
Military Intelligence

Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, draw a card.

Enchantment
Military Intelligence (j22) 322
Revitalize

You gain 3 life. Draw a card.

Instant
Revitalize (j25) 244
Trouble in Pairs

If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead. Whenever an opponent attacks you with two or more creatures, draws their second card each turn, or casts their second spell each turn, you draw a card.

Enchantment
Trouble in Pairs (mkc) 15
Vanish into Memory

Exile target creature. You draw cards equal to that creature's power. At the beginning of your next upkeep, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If you do, discard cards equal to that creature's toughness.

Instant
Vanish into Memory (afc) 196

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Adarkar Wastes (dsc) 258
Battlefield Forge

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

Land
Battlefield Forge (blc) 293
Boros Garrison

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{W}.

Land
Boros Garrison (clu) 231
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (otc) 283
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (dsc) 274
Frostboil Snarl

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

Land
Frostboil Snarl (stx) 265
Furycalm Snarl

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

Land
Furycalm Snarl (mkc) 263
Glacial Floodplain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Glacial Floodplain (khm) 257
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (xln) 255
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (mh2) 484
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mh2) 488
Muraganda Raceway

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) {T}: Add {C}. Max speed — {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Land
Muraganda Raceway (dft) 426
Mystic Monastery

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}, {R}, or {W}.

Land
Mystic Monastery (blc) 318
Pinnacle Monk

Creature
Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak (mh3) 246
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mh2) 482
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Seachrome Coast

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

Land
Seachrome Coast (blc) 328
Shivan Reef

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

Land
Shivan Reef (apc) 142
Skycloud Expanse

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{U}.

Land
Skycloud Expanse (blc) 332
Sulfur Falls

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Sulfur Falls (ltc) 333
Swiftwater Cliffs

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

Land
Swiftwater Cliffs (mom) 273
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (lcc) 360

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Removal

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An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
An Offer You Can't Refuse (fdn) 160
Azorius Charm

Choose one — • Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn. • Draw a card. • Put target attacking or blocking creature on top of its owner's library.

Instant
Azorius Charm (plst) IMA-192
Into the Flood Maw

Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.) Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, instead return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Instant
Into the Flood Maw (blb) 52
Lightning Helix

Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

Instant
Lightning Helix (mkm) 218
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (mb2) 15
Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant
Pongify (otc) 106
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (woc) 78

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Enabler

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Ashes of the Abhorrent

Players can't cast spells from graveyards or activate abilities of cards in graveyards. Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Ashes of the Abhorrent (xln) 2
Congregate

Target player gains 2 life for each creature on the battlefield.

Instant
Congregate (dmr) 4
Honor the Fallen

Exile all creature cards from all graveyards. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way.

Instant
Honor the Fallen (mmq) 21
Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Loran of the Third Path (blc) 143
Path of Bravery

As long as your life total is greater than or equal to your starting life total, creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, you gain life equal to the number of attacking creatures.

Enchantment
Path of Bravery (jmp) 126
Peach Garden Oath

You gain 2 life for each creature you control.

Sorcery
Peach Garden Oath (8ed) 34
Reward the Faithful

Any number of target players each gain life equal to the highest mana value among permanents you control.

Instant
Reward the Faithful (scg) 22
Riot Control

You gain 1 life for each creature your opponents control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Instant
Riot Control (blc) 151
Sanguine Sacrament

You gain twice X life. Put Sanguine Sacrament on the bottom of its owner's library.

Instant
Sanguine Sacrament (plst) XLN-33
Thassa, God of the Sea

Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue is less than five, Thassa isn't a creature. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.) At the beginning of your upkeep, scry 1. {1}{U}: Target creature you control can't be blocked this turn.

Creature Enchantment
Thassa, God of the Sea (lcc) 176
Union of the Third Path

Draw a card, then you gain life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Instant
Union of the Third Path (bro) 31
Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size. At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Artifact
Venser's Journal (c21) 273

Enabler

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Lifegain

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Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (fdn) 137
Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Artifact
Ivory Tower (4ed) 328

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Enhancer

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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.

Enchantment
Cleric Class (afr) 6
Leyline of Hope

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Enchantment
Leyline of Hope (dsk) 18
True Conviction

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Enchantment
True Conviction (scd) 38
View from Above

Target creature gains flying until end of turn. If you control a white permanent, return View from Above to its owner's hand.

Instant
View from Above (con) 38

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Githzerai Monk

Flash Flying Psychic Defense — When this creature enters, tap all creatures you don't control.

Creature
Githzerai Monk (clb) 20
Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker

Flying Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Ishai. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker (cm2) 12
Mantis Rider

Flying, vigilance, haste

Creature
Mantis Rider (ktk) 184
Monastery Mentor

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess.

Creature
Monastery Mentor (mom) 28
Monastery Swiftspear

Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Creature
Monastery Swiftspear (bro) 144
Monk of the Open Hand

Flurry of Blows — Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Monk of the Open Hand (afr) 25
Myth Realized

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a lore counter on this enchantment. {2}{W}: Put a lore counter on this enchantment. {W}: Until end of turn, this enchantment becomes a Monk Avatar creature in addition to its other types and gains "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lore counters on it."

Enchantment
Myth Realized (2x2) 22
Narset, Enlightened Exile

Creatures you control have prowess. Whenever Narset attacks, exile target noncreature, nonland card with mana value less than Narset's power from a graveyard and copy it. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Narset, Enlightened Exile (mat) 38
Oreskos Sun Guide

Inspired — Whenever this creature becomes untapped, you gain 2 life.

Creature
Oreskos Sun Guide (bng) 22
Orzhov Advokist

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. If a player does, creatures that player controls can't attack you or planeswalkers you control until your next turn.

Creature
Orzhov Advokist (mkc) 77
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest

Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, you may pay {R/W}{R/W}. If you do, target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Creature
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest (frf) 52
Soulfire Grand Master

Lifelink Instant and sorcery spells you control have lifelink. {2}{U/R}{U/R}: The next time you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand this turn, put that card into your hand instead of into your graveyard as it resolves.

Creature
Soulfire Grand Master (frf) 27
Taigam, Ojutai Master

Instant, sorcery, and Dragon spells you control can't be countered. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, if Taigam attacked this turn, that spell gains rebound. (Exile the spell as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Creature
Taigam, Ojutai Master (c17) 46
Take Heart

Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. You gain 1 life for each attacking creature you control.

Instant
Take Heart (jmp) 134
Taurean Mauler

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Taurean Mauler (nec) 111
Tax Collector

When this creature enters, choose one — • Tax — Until your next turn, spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast. • Arrest — Detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Creature
Tax Collector (acr) 9

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Ajani's Pridemate

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

Creature
Ajani's Pridemate (j25) 158
Angelic Gift

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature has flying.

Enchantment
Angelic Gift (afc) 64
Blade of Selves

Equipped creature has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Equip {4}

Artifact
Blade of Selves (clb) 301
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Crash Through

Creatures you control gain trample until end of turn. (Each of those creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Draw a card.

Sorcery
Crash Through (hou) 88
Curiosity

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Curiosity (wot) 17
Mistwalker

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Flying {1}{U}: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Mistwalker (khm) 68
Student of Elements

Creature
Student of Elements // Tobita, Master of Winds (chk) 93

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Ajani, Wise Counselor

+2: You gain 1 life for each creature you control. −3: Creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn. −9: Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is your life total.

Planeswalker
Ajani, Wise Counselor (m19) 281
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
Beacon of Immortality

Double target player's life total. Shuffle Beacon of Immortality into its owner's library.

Instant
Beacon of Immortality (10e) 10
Boros Charm

Choose one — • Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Boros Charm (otc) 216
Boros Signet

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

Artifact
Boros Signet (blc) 128
Caduceus, Staff of Hermes

Equipped creature has lifelink. As long as you have 30 or more life, equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has indestructible and "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature." Equip {W}{W}

Artifact
Caduceus, Staff of Hermes (acr) 2
Dawn's Truce

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.) You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Dawn's Truce (blb) 9
Elusive Spellfist

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Creature
Elusive Spellfist (ima) 54
Flying Crane Technique

Untap all creatures you control. They gain flying and double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Flying Crane Technique (ktk) 176
Heliod's Intervention

Choose one — • Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments. • Target player gains twice X life.

Instant
Heliod's Intervention (otc) 81
Imperial Recruiter

When this creature enters, search your library for a creature card with power 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Imperial Recruiter (mh2) 281
Lone Missionary

When this creature enters, you gain 4 life.

Creature
Lone Missionary (plst) DDN-49
Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker

Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.

Creature
Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker (j22) 215
Ojutai Exemplars

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, choose one — • Tap target creature. • This creature gains first strike and lifelink until end of turn. • Exile this creature, then return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.

Creature
Ojutai Exemplars (j25) 232
Raking Claws

Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Raking Claws (j22) 584
Rhox Faithmender

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Creature
Rhox Faithmender (j25) 245
Sanctify

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 3 life.

Sorcery
Sanctify (vow) 33
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 258
Trailblazer's Boots

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Trailblazer's Boots (otc) 269
Whirlwind of Thought

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, draw a card.

Enchantment
Whirlwind of Thought (moc) 344
Wizard Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) You have no maximum hand size. {2}{U}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, draw two cards. {4}{U}: Level 3 Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

Enchantment
Wizard Class (blc) 112

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47 pips - 41 cards
22 mana - 22 cards
20 pips - 19 cards
23 mana - 23 cards
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0 mana - 5 cards
13 pips - 11 cards
23 mana - 23 cards
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13 mana - 11 cards
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