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Win by Losing
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Commander

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Kenrith, the Returned King

{R}: All creatures gain trample and haste until end of turn. {1}{G}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. {2}{W}: Target player gains 5 life. {3}{U}: Target player draws a card. {4}{B}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature
Kenrith, the Returned King (plst) ELD-303

Commander

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Finisher

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Alchemist's Gambit

Cleave {4}{U}{U}{R} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Take an extra turn after this one. During that turn, damage can't be prevented. [At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.] Exile Alchemist's Gambit.

Sorcery
Alchemist's Gambit (vow) 140
Door to Nothingness

This artifact enters tapped. {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target player loses the game.

Artifact
Door to Nothingness (brr) 14
Final Fortune

Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

Instant
Final Fortune (mb2) 190
Last Chance

Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

Sorcery
Last Chance (dmr) 435
Transcendence

You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. When you have 20 or more life, you lose the game. Whenever you lose life, you gain 2 life for each 1 life you lost. (Damage dealt to you causes you to lose life.)

Enchantment
Transcendence (tor) 20
Warrior's Oath

Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

Sorcery
Warrior's Oath (2x2) 130

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 (drc) 51
Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (rvr) 133
Bloom Tender

{T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Creature
Bloom Tender (plst) EVE-66
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (drc) 53
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (blc) 119
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (blc) 269
Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 308
Nature's Lore

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

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (dmr) 170
Sakura-Tribe Elder

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

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (mb2) 72
Skyshroud Claim

Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Skyshroud Claim (plst) NEM-117
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
The Golden Throne

Arcane Life-support — If you would lose the game, instead exile The Golden Throne and your life total becomes 1. A Thousand Souls Die Every Day — {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add three mana in any combination of colors.

Artifact
The Golden Throne (40k) 157
Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Three Visits (mkc) 189

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (plst) DDC-49
Summoner's Pact

Search your library for a green creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{G}{G}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Summoner's Pact (mb2) 74
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

Tutor

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Copy

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Hive Mind

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell, each other player copies that spell. Each of those players may choose new targets for their copy.

Enchantment
Hive Mind (sld) 822

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Land

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Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 244
Blood Crypt

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

Land
Blood Crypt (rna) 245
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (pmh3) 216s
Boseiju, Who Endures

{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Boseiju, Who Endures (neo) 266
Breeding Pool

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

Land
Breeding Pool (rvr) 275
City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (2x2) 321
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 59
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (drc) 155
Forbidden Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Whenever you tap this land for mana, target opponent creates a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.

Land
Forbidden Orchard (plst) CHK-276
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dft) 290
Godless Shrine

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

Land
Godless Shrine (rna) 248
Hallowed Fountain

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

Land
Hallowed Fountain (rna) 251
Indatha Triome

({T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Indatha Triome (piko) 248p
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (dft) 282
Jetmir's Garden

({T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Jetmir's Garden (psnc) 250p
Mana Confluence

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

Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 248
Misty Rainforest

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Island card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Misty Rainforest (mh2) 250
Mutavault

{T}: Add {C}. {1}: This land becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Mutavault (clb) 903
Otawara, Soaring City

{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Otawara, Soaring City (neo) 271
Overgrown Tomb

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

Land
Overgrown Tomb (pgrn) 253p
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 278
Plaza of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell. {T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary permanents you control. {3}, {T}, Exile this land: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Land
Plaza of Heroes (dmu) 252
Raugrin Triome

({T}: Add {U}, {R}, or {W}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Raugrin Triome (iko) 251
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (m19) 254
Sacred Foundry

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

Land
Sacred Foundry (rvr) 409
Savai Triome

({T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Savai Triome (piko) 253p
Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
Spara's Headquarters

({T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Spara's Headquarters (snc) 257
Steam Vents

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

Land
Steam Vents (grn) 257
Stomping Ground

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

Land
Stomping Ground (rna) 259
Temple Garden

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

Land
Temple Garden (rvr) 414
The World Tree

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. As long as you control six or more lands, lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for any number of God cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
The World Tree (plst) KHM-275
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (mh2) 260
Watery Grave

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

Land
Watery Grave (rvr) 291
Xander's Lounge

({T}: Add {U}, {B}, or {R}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Xander's Lounge (snc) 358
Zagoth Triome

({T}: Add {B}, {G}, or {U}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Zagoth Triome (iko) 259

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Recursion

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Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (m3c) 227
Forbidden Crypt

If you would draw a card, return a card from your graveyard to your hand instead. If you can't, you lose the game. If a card would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile that card instead.

Enchantment
Forbidden Crypt (mir) 124

Recursion

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Counters

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Pact of Negation

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Pact of Negation (a25) 68

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Mill

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Out of the Tombs

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two eon counters on this enchantment, then mill cards equal to the number of eon counters on it. If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, instead return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If you can't, you lose the game.

Enchantment
Out of the Tombs (40k) 46

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (pip) 209
Fractured Identity

Exile target nonland permanent. Each player other than its controller creates a token that's a copy of it.

Sorcery
Fractured Identity (who) 236
Glorious End

End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.) At the beginning of your next end step, you lose the game.

Instant
Glorious End (akh) 133
Phage the Untouchable

When Phage enters, if you didn't cast it from your hand, you lose the game. Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated. Whenever Phage deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game.

Creature
Phage the Untouchable (cns) 120
Slaughter Pact

Destroy target nonblack creature. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{B}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Slaughter Pact (tsr) 138
Sudden Substitution

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Exchange control of target noncreature spell and target creature. Then the spell's controller may choose new targets for it.

Instant
Sudden Substitution (c19) 11

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Drain

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Archfiend of the Dross

Flying This creature enters with four oil counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an oil counter from this creature. Then if it has no oil counters on it, you lose the game. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, its controller loses 2 life.

Creature
Archfiend of the Dross (one) 82
Tree of Perdition

Defender {T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Perdition (inr) 135

Drain

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Pingers

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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

Pingers

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Theft

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Donate

Target player gains control of target permanent you control.

Sorcery
Donate (uds) 31
Harmless Offering

Target opponent gains control of target permanent you control.

Sorcery
Harmless Offering (fdn) 625

Theft

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Draw

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Demonic Pact

At the beginning of your upkeep, choose one that hasn't been chosen — • This enchantment deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life. • Target opponent discards two cards. • Draw two cards. • You lose the game.

Enchantment
Demonic Pact (ori) 92
Immortal Coil

{T}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Draw a card. If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. Exile a card from your graveyard for each 1 damage prevented this way. When there are no cards in your graveyard, you lose the game.

Artifact
Immortal Coil (ala) 79
Lich's Mastery

Hexproof You can't lose the game. Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards. Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard. When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Enchantment
Lich's Mastery (dom) 98
Marina Vendrell's Grimoire

When Marina Vendrell's Grimoire enters, if you cast it, draw five cards. You have no maximum hand size and don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards. Whenever you lose life, discard that many cards. Then if you have no cards in hand, you lose the game.

Artifact
Marina Vendrell's Grimoire (dsk) 64
Nefarious Lich

If damage would be dealt to you, exile that many cards from your graveyard instead. If you can't, you lose the game. If you would gain life, draw that many cards instead. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Enchantment
Nefarious Lich (ody) 153
The Deck of Many Things

{2}, {T}: Roll a d20 and subtract the number of cards in your hand. If the result is 0 or less, discard your hand. 1—9 | Return a card at random from your graveyard to your hand. 10—19 | Draw two cards. 20 | Put a creature card from any graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When that creature dies, its owner loses the game.

Artifact
The Deck of Many Things (afr) 241
Zedruu the Greathearted

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the number of permanents you own that your opponents control. {U}{R}{W}: Target opponent gains control of target permanent you control.

Creature
Zedruu the Greathearted (cmr) 543

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Protection

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Abyssal Persecutor

Flying, trample You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

Creature
Abyssal Persecutor (ima) 78
Angel's Grace

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Instant
Angel's Grace (tsr) 4
Chance for Glory

Creatures you control gain indestructible. Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, you lose the game.

Instant
Chance for Glory (grn) 159
Cloudsteel Kirin

Flying Equipped creature has flying and "You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game." Reconfigure {5} ({5}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Cloudsteel Kirin (neo) 8
Enduring Angel

Creature
Enduring Angel // Angelic Enforcer (mid) 17Enduring Angel // Angelic Enforcer (mid) 17
Exquisite Archangel

Flying If you would lose the game, instead exile this creature and your life total becomes equal to your starting life total.

Creature
Exquisite Archangel (aer) 18
Gideon of the Trials

+1: Until your next turn, prevent all damage target permanent would deal. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon becomes a 4/4 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn. 0: You get an emblem with "As long as you control a Gideon planeswalker, you can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game."

Planeswalker
Gideon of the Trials (akh) 14
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (pip) 202
Intervention Pact

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {1}{W}{W}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Intervention Pact (fut) 8
Lich

As this enchantment enters, you lose life equal to your life total. You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. If you would gain life, draw that many cards instead. Whenever you're dealt damage, sacrifice that many nontoken permanents. If you can't, you lose the game. When this enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose the game.

Enchantment
Lich (cei) 114
Nine Lives

Hexproof If a source would deal damage to you, prevent that damage and put an incarnation counter on this enchantment. When there are nine or more incarnation counters on this enchantment, exile it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Enchantment
Nine Lives (m21) 28
Platinum Angel

Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

Creature Artifact
Platinum Angel (brr) 41
Release to the Wind

Exile target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Release to the Wind (rix) 46
Stunning Reversal

The next time you would lose the game this turn, instead draw seven cards and your life total becomes 1. Exile Stunning Reversal.

Instant
Stunning Reversal (bbd) 51
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 424

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Tokens

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Pact of the Titan

Create a 4/4 red Giant creature token. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {4}{R}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Pact of the Titan (tsr) 179
The Book of Exalted Deeds

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying. {W}{W}{W}, {T}, Exile The Book of Exalted Deeds: Put an enlightened counter on target Angel. It gains "You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game." Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
The Book of Exalted Deeds (afr) 4

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Deck Info

Deck stats

23 pips - 14 cards
27 mana - 23 cards
8 pips - 7 cards
27 mana - 23 cards
32 pips - 16 cards
25 mana - 21 cards
12 pips - 8 cards
25 mana - 21 cards
10 pips - 9 cards
28 mana - 23 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 5 cards
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