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Commander

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Beledros Witherbloom

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

Creature
Beledros Witherbloom (stx) 282

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Ezzaroot Channeler

Reach Creature spells you cast cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. {T}: You gain 2 life.

Creature
Ezzaroot Channeler (c21) 60
Marshland Bloodcaster

Flying {1}{B}, {T}: Rather than pay the mana cost of the next spell you cast this turn, you may pay life equal to that spell's mana value.

Creature
Marshland Bloodcaster (otc) 139
Netherborn Altar

{T}, Put a soul counter on this artifact: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Then you lose 3 life for each soul counter on this artifact.

Artifact
Netherborn Altar (plst) C20-45
Sloppity Bilepiper

Jolly Gutpipes — {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: The next creature spell you cast this turn has cascade. (When you next cast a creature 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.)

Creature
Sloppity Bilepiper (40k) 59
Sweet-Gum Recluse

Flash Cascade Reach When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on each of any number of target creatures that entered this turn.

Creature
Sweet-Gum Recluse (clb) 835

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Mana Rocks

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Component Pouch

{T}, Remove a component counter from this artifact: Add two mana of different colors. {T}: Roll a d20. 1—9 | Put a component counter on this artifact. 10—20 | Put two component counters on this artifact.

Artifact
Component Pouch (afc) 59
Coveted Jewel

When this artifact enters, draw three cards. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

Artifact
Coveted Jewel (blc) 268
Crowded Crypt

{T}: Add {B}. Whenever a creature you control dies, put a corpse counter on this artifact. {4}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed for each corpse counter on this artifact. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Artifact
Crowded Crypt (drc) 88
Golgari Locket

{T}: Add {B} or {G}. {B/G}{B/G}{B/G}{B/G}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Golgari Locket (grn) 237
Paradise Plume

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Paradise Plume (c21) 255
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
Spectral Searchlight

{T}: Choose a player. That player adds one mana of any color they choose.

Artifact
Spectral Searchlight (cmm) 411

Mana Rocks

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Recursion

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Deadbridge Chant

When this enchantment enters, mill ten cards. At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Enchantment
Deadbridge Chant (dsc) 215
Diregraf Rebirth

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature that died this turn. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Flashback {5}{B}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Diregraf Rebirth (mid) 220
Healing Technique

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Players may choose new targets for their copies.) Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain life equal to that card's mana value. Exile Healing Technique.

Sorcery
Healing Technique (c21) 63
Liliana, Death Mage

+1: Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. −3: Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life. −7: Target opponent loses 2 life for each creature card in their graveyard.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Death Mage (plst) M21-328
Season of Renewal

Choose one or both — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return target enchantment card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant
Season of Renewal (neo) 205
Silversmote Ghoul

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. {1}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Silversmote Ghoul (c21) 154
Veinwitch Coven

Menace Whenever you gain life, you may pay {B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Veinwitch Coven (otc) 151

Recursion

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Aristocrat

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Baba Lysaga, Night Witch

{T}, Sacrifice up to three permanents: If there were three or more card types among the sacrificed permanents, each opponent loses 3 life, you gain 3 life, and you draw three cards.

Creature
Baba Lysaga, Night Witch (clb) 266
Butcher of Malakir

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Butcher of Malakir (lcc) 187
Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Pitiless Plunderer (j25) 476
Sangromancer

Flying Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life. Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Creature
Sangromancer (j25) 122
Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker

{T}, Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: For each opponent, you mill a card, then return that card from your graveyard to your hand unless that player pays 3 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker (clb) 148
Venomcrawler

Lifelink Devourer of Souls — Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature Artifact
Venomcrawler (40k) 68
Witch's Oven

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Create a Food token. If the sacrificed creature's toughness was 4 or greater, create two Food tokens instead. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Artifact
Witch's Oven (plst) ELD-237

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 59
Golgari Rot Farm

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

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (dsc) 279
Jungle Hollow

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

Land
Jungle Hollow (dft) 256
Mage-Ring Network

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on this land. {T}, Remove any number of storage counters from this land: Add {C} for each storage counter removed this way.

Land
Mage-Ring Network (cmm) 1009
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (dsc) 288
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (dsc) 289
Sapseep Forest

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

Land
Sapseep Forest (c21) 313
Tainted Wood

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

Land
Tainted Wood (dsc) 305
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) 278

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Pests

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Hunt for Specimens

Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." 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.)

Sorcery
Hunt for Specimens (stx) 73
Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery
Pest Infestation (c21) 65
Valentin, Dean of the Vein

Creature
Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161

Pests

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Stompy

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Ageless Entity

Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature
Ageless Entity (c21) 184
Bloodthirsty Aerialist

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

Creature
Bloodthirsty Aerialist (j25) 409
Blossoming Bogbeast

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

Creature
Blossoming Bogbeast (c21) 59
Garruk, Unleashed

+1: Up to one target creature gets +3/+3 and gains trample until end of turn. −2: Create a 3/3 green Beast creature token. Then if an opponent controls more creatures than you, put a loyalty counter on Garruk. −7: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of your end step, you may search your library for a creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle."

Planeswalker
Garruk, Unleashed (m21) 183
Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer

Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Molimo's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control.

Creature
Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer (cmm) 305
Rampaging Baloths

Trample Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.

Creature
Rampaging Baloths (blc) 233

Stompy

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Card Draw

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Ob Nixilis Reignited

+1: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. −3: Destroy target creature. −8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a player draws a card, you lose 2 life."

Planeswalker
Ob Nixilis Reignited (dsc) 152
Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (lcc) 254
Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Instant
Stinging Study (c21) 44
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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Life Drain

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Defiant Bloodlord

Flying Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Creature
Defiant Bloodlord (c21) 142
Dina, Soul Steeper

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

Creature
Dina, Soul Steeper (stx) 178
Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Epicure of Blood (j25) 435
Plague Drone

Flying Rot Fly — If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

Creature
Plague Drone (40k) 47
Sanguine Bond

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ima) 107

Life Drain

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Protection

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Resurrection Orb

Equipped creature has lifelink. Whenever equipped creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Resurrection Orb (40k) 165
Saryth, the Viper's Fang

Other tapped creatures you control have deathtouch. Other untapped creatures you control have hexproof. {1}, {T}: Untap another target creature or land you control.

Creature
Saryth, the Viper's Fang (mkc) 185

Protection

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basic Lands

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Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 291
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 274

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Card Draw And Life Gain

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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
Cosmos Elixir

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if your life total is greater than your starting life total. Otherwise, you gain 2 life.

Artifact
Cosmos Elixir (khm) 237
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (blc) 255
Reckoner's Bargain

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.

Instant
Reckoner's Bargain (neo) 120
Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control. Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Shamanic Revelation (blc) 237
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

Card Draw And Life Gain

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Life Gain

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Bubbling Cauldron

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 4 life. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature named Festering Newt: Each opponent loses 4 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Artifact
Bubbling Cauldron (jmp) 460
Honor Troll

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

Creature
Honor Troll (stx) 134
Poet's Quill

When this Equipment enters, 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.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink. Equip {1}{B}

Artifact
Poet's Quill (stx) 82
Pulse of Murasa

Return target creature or land card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. You gain 6 life.

Instant
Pulse of Murasa (c21) 202
Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Scavenging Ooze (fdn) 232
Vampire Nighthawk

Flying Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Vampire Nighthawk (j25) 503
Verdant Sun's Avatar

Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Creature
Verdant Sun's Avatar (lcc) 262
Willowdusk, Essence Seer

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

Creature
Willowdusk, Essence Seer (c21) 6
Wurm's Tooth

Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may gain 1 life.

Artifact
Wurm's Tooth (m12) 223

Life Gain

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Ramp

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Boseiju Reaches Skyward

Enchantment
Boseiju Reaches Skyward // Branch of Boseiju (neo) 177Boseiju Reaches Skyward // Branch of Boseiju (neo) 177
Explore the Underdark

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. You take the initiative.

Sorcery
Explore the Underdark (clb) 232
Field Trip

Search your library for a basic Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. 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.)

Sorcery
Field Trip (stx) 131
Hithlain Rope

This artifact can't be sacrificed. {1}, {T}: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. The player to your right gains control of this artifact. {2}, {T}: Draw a card. The player to your right gains control of this artifact.

Artifact
Hithlain Rope (ltc) 76
Khalni Heart Expedition

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. Remove three quest counters from this enchantment and sacrifice it: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Khalni Heart Expedition (cmm) 899
Nissa's Renewal

Search your library for up to three basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. You gain 7 life.

Sorcery
Nissa's Renewal (c21) 201
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (j25) 704
Ramunap Excavator

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Creature
Ramunap Excavator (otc) 202

Ramp

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Lesson

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Basic Conjuration

Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You gain 3 life.

Sorcery
Basic Conjuration (stx) 120
Confront the Past

Choose one — • Return target planeswalker card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Remove twice X loyalty counters from target planeswalker an opponent controls.

Sorcery
Confront the Past (stx) 67
Containment Breach

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If its mana value is 2 or less, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery
Containment Breach (stx) 125
Environmental Sciences

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.

Sorcery
Environmental Sciences (mb2) 2
Pest Summoning

Create two 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery
Pest Summoning (stx) 211

Lesson

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Maybeboard

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Explore

You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.

Sorcery
Explore (j25) 146
Leyline Prowler

Deathtouch, lifelink {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Leyline Prowler (c21) 222
Rootless Yew

When this creature dies, search your library for a creature card with power or toughness 6 or greater, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Rootless Yew (khm) 189
Yedora, Grave Gardener

Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may return it to the battlefield face down under its owner's control. It's a Forest land. (It has no other types or abilities.)

Creature
Yedora, Grave Gardener (dsc) 209

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