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Life's a Resource
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Commander

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Darien, King of Kjeldor

Whenever you're dealt damage, you may create that many 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Creature
Darien, King of Kjeldor (mkc) 59

Commander

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Draw

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Archaeomancer's Map

When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Archaeomancer's Map (c21) 12
Archon of Coronation

Flying When this creature enters, you become the monarch. As long as you're the monarch, damage doesn't cause you to lose life. (When a creature deals combat damage to you, its controller still becomes the monarch.)

Creature
Archon of Coronation (ncc) 192
Bennie Bracks, Zoologist

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) At the beginning of each end step, if you created a token this turn, draw a card.

Creature
Bennie Bracks, Zoologist (mkc) 57
Caretaker's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. {W}: Level 2 When this Class becomes level 2, create a token that's a copy of target token you control. {3}{W}: Level 3 Creature tokens you control get +2/+2.

Enchantment
Caretaker's Talent (blb) 6
Enduring Innocence

Lifelink Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. When Enduring Innocence dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Innocence (dsk) 6
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Artifact
Idol of Oblivion (onc) 134
Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Land Tax (bbd) 94
Rumor Gatherer

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, scry 1. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, draw a card instead.

Creature
Rumor Gatherer (clb) 705
Scrawling Crawler

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Scrawling Crawler (fdn) 132
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (40k) 248
Staff of the Storyteller

When this artifact enters, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. Whenever you create one or more creature tokens, put a story counter on this artifact. {W}, {T}, Remove a story counter from this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Staff of the Storyteller (onc) 48
Tithe

Search your library for a Plains card. If target opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for an additional Plains card. Reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant
Tithe (vis) 23
Tocasia's Welcome

Whenever one or more creatures you control with mana value 3 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Tocasia's Welcome (bro) 30
Weathered Wayfarer

{W}, {T}: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if an opponent controls more lands than you.

Creature
Weathered Wayfarer (2x2) 34

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Ramp

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Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (onc) 128
Defiler of Faith

Vigilance As an additional cost to cast white permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {W} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of white mana you pay. Whenever you cast a white permanent spell, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Creature
Defiler of Faith (dmu) 16
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (wth) 153
Pristine Talisman

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

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (nph) 151
Wayfarer's Bauble

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

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (cmm) 983

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Tokens

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First Response

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you lost life last turn, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.

Enchantment
First Response (cmr) 22

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"Resource"

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Angel's Trumpet

All creatures have vigilance. At the beginning of each player's end step, tap all untapped creatures that player controls that didn't attack this turn. This artifact deals damage to the player equal to the number of creatures tapped this way.

Artifact
Angel's Trumpet (ulg) 121
Ankh of Mishra

Whenever a land enters, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.

Artifact
Ankh of Mishra (5ed) 348
Barbed Wire

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this artifact deals 1 damage to that player. {2}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt by this artifact this turn.

Artifact
Barbed Wire (mmq) 287
Copper Tablet

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, this artifact deals 1 damage to that player.

Artifact
Copper Tablet (2ed) 239
Icatian Moneychanger

This creature enters with three credit counters on it. When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to you. At the beginning of your upkeep, put a credit counter on this creature. Sacrifice this creature: You gain 1 life for each credit counter on this creature. Activate only during your upkeep.

Creature
Icatian Moneychanger (fem) 10a
Jinxed Idol

At the beginning of your upkeep, this artifact deals 2 damage to you. Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent gains control of this artifact.

Artifact
Jinxed Idol (tmp) 293
Jinxed Ring

Whenever a nontoken permanent is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, this artifact deals 1 damage to you. Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent gains control of this artifact. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Artifact
Jinxed Ring (sth) 137
Torture Chamber

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a pain counter on this artifact. At the beginning of your end step, this artifact deals damage to you equal to the number of pain counters on it. {1}, {T}, Remove all pain counters from this artifact: It deals damage to target creature equal to the number of pain counters removed this way.

Artifact
Torture Chamber (tmp) 313

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Land

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Abstergo Entertainment

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {3}, {T}, Exile Abstergo Entertainment: Return up to one target historic card from your graveyard to your hand, then exile all graveyards. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Land
Abstergo Entertainment (acr) 79
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 (7ed) 327
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (c15) 56
Conduit Pylons

When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Conduit Pylons (otj) 254
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 (bro) 260
Diamond City

This land enters with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Move a shield counter from this land onto target creature. Activate only if two or more creatures entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Land
Diamond City (pip) 147
Dunes of the Dead

{T}: Add {C}. When this land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Land
Dunes of the Dead (hou) 175
Fountainport

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a token: Draw a card. {3}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token. {4}, {T}: Create a Treasure token.

Land
Fountainport (blb) 253
Grand Coliseum

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Grand Coliseum (ons) 319
Lazotep Quarry

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color. {X}{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Lazotep Quarry (m3c) 79
Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Land
Minas Tirith (ltr) 256
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 (cmm) 421
Nomad Stadium

{T}: Add {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You gain 4 life. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Land
Nomad Stadium (ody) 322
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (scd) 334
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (cmm) 1027
Sunscorched Desert

When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Sunscorched Desert (akh) 249
Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Land
Talon Gates of Madara (m3c) 134
Tarnished Citadel

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. This land deals 3 damage to you.

Land
Tarnished Citadel (mb2) 112
Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Land
Tectonic Edge (c14) 313
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (blb) 260
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (clb) 929

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Recursion

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Campfire

{1}, {T}: You gain 2 life. {2}, {T}, Exile this artifact: Put all commanders you own from the command zone and from your graveyard into your hand. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Artifact
Campfire (cmm) 374

Recursion

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Boardwipes

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Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (clb) 687
Final Showdown

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — All creatures lose all abilities until end of turn. + {1} — Choose a creature you control. It gains indestructible until end of turn. + {3}{W}{W} — Destroy all creatures.

Instant
Final Showdown (otj) 11

Boardwipes

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Lifegain

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Ajani's Welcome

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Ajani's Welcome (plst) M19-6
Case of the Uneaten Feast

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. To solve — You've gained 5 or more life this turn. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — Sacrifice this Case: Creature cards in your graveyard gain "You may cast this card from your graveyard" until end of turn.

Enchantment
Case of the Uneaten Feast (mkm) 10
Orim's Prayer

Whenever one or more creatures attack you, you gain 1 life for each attacking creature.

Enchantment
Orim's Prayer (tmp) 32
Renounce

Sacrifice any number of permanents. You gain 2 life for each permanent sacrificed this way.

Instant
Renounce (mmq) 42
Soldier of the Pantheon

Protection from multicolored Whenever an opponent casts a multicolored spell, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Soldier of the Pantheon (ths) 32
Spectrum Sentinel

Protection from multicolored (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything multicolored.) Whenever a nonbasic land an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Spectrum Sentinel (bro) 244
Sun Droplet

Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many charge counters on this artifact. At the beginning of each upkeep, you may remove a charge counter from this artifact. If you do, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Sun Droplet (c21) 268
Suture Priest

Whenever another creature you control enters, you may gain 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Creature
Suture Priest (nph) 25

Lifegain

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Removal

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Aerial Extortionist

Flying Whenever this creature enters or deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may cast it. Whenever another player casts a spell from anywhere other than their hand, draw a card.

Creature
Aerial Extortionist (ncc) 11
Bounty Agent

Vigilance {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target legendary permanent that's an artifact, creature, or enchantment.

Creature
Bounty Agent (grn) 2
Cathar Commando

Flash {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Cathar Commando (mid) 10
Galadriel's Dismissal

Kicker {2}{W} (You may pay an additional {2}{W} as you cast this spell.) Target creature phases out. If this spell was kicked, each creature target player controls phases out instead. (Treat phased-out creatures and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Instant
Galadriel's Dismissal (ltc) 500
Palace Jailer

When this creature enters, you become the monarch. When this creature enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until an opponent becomes the monarch.

Creature
Palace Jailer (cn2) 18
Parting Gust

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.) Exile target nontoken creature. If the gift wasn't promised, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Parting Gust (blb) 24
Swift Reconfiguration

Flash Enchant creature or Vehicle Enchanted permanent is a Vehicle artifact with crew 5 and it loses all other card types. (It's not a creature unless it's crewed.)

Enchantment
Swift Reconfiguration (nec) 10
Werefox Bodyguard

Flash When this creature enters, exile up to one other target non-Fox creature until this creature leaves the battlefield. {1}{W}, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 2 life.

Creature
Werefox Bodyguard (woe) 39

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Burn

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Rug of Smothering

Flying Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 1 life for each spell they've cast this turn.

Creature Artifact
Rug of Smothering (clb) 336

Burn

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Protection

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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
Bastion Protector

Commander creatures you control get +2/+2 and have indestructible.

Creature
Bastion Protector (40k) 182
Fanatical Devotion

Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate target creature.

Enchantment
Fanatical Devotion (nem) 8
Flare of Fortitude

You may sacrifice a nontoken white creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Until end of turn, your life total can't change, and permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible.

Instant
Flare of Fortitude (mh3) 26
Knight-Captain of Eos

When this creature enters, create two 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. {W}, Sacrifice a Soldier: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Creature
Knight-Captain of Eos (ala) 17
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 (dgm) 6

Protection

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Thematic/Synergy

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Angel of Grace

Flash Flying When this creature enters, until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead. {4}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Your life total becomes 10.

Creature
Angel of Grace (rna) 1
Blood of the Martyr

Until end of turn, if damage would be dealt to any creature, you may have that damage dealt to you instead.

Instant
Blood of the Martyr (drk) 2
Divine Presence

If a source would deal 4 or more damage to a permanent or player, that source deals 3 damage to that permanent or player instead.

Enchantment
Divine Presence (inv) 15
Equal Treatment

If any source would deal 1 or more damage to a permanent or player this turn, it deals 2 damage to that permanent or player instead. Draw a card.

Instant
Equal Treatment (tor) 4
Harm's Way

The next 2 damage that a source of your choice would deal to you and/or permanents you control this turn is dealt to any target instead.

Instant
Harm's Way (ddg) 23
Sivvi's Valor

If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay this spell's mana cost. All damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn is dealt to you instead.

Instant
Sivvi's Valor (nem) 22
The Wind Crystal

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. {4}{W}{W}, {T}: Creatures you control gain flying and lifelink until end of turn.

Artifact
The Wind Crystal (fin) 43
Worship

If you control a creature, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Enchantment
Worship (usg) 57

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Sideboard

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Clever Concealment

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Any number of target nonland permanents you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until your next turn.)

Instant
Clever Concealment (onc) 5
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun

Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.) Whenever another creature you control enters or dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun (mul) 2
Endbringer

Untap this creature during each other player's untap step. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. {C}, {T}: Target creature can't attack or block this turn. {C}{C}, {T}: Draw a card.

Creature
Endbringer (ogw) 3
Marble Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}.

Artifact
Marble Diamond (6ed) 298
Phyrexian Vindicator

Flying If damage would be dealt to this creature, prevent that damage. When damage is prevented this way, this creature deals that much damage to any other target.

Creature
Phyrexian Vindicator (one) 27
Planar Atlas

Planar Atlas enters tapped. When Planar Atlas enters, you may look at the top four cards of your library. If you do, reveal up to one land card from among them, then put that card on top of your library and the rest on the bottom in a random order. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Planar Atlas (j22) 51
Witch Hunter

{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. {1}{W}{W}, {T}: Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Creature
Witch Hunter (drk) 19
Wrath of the Skies

You get X {E} (energy counters), then you may pay any amount of {E}. Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with mana value less than or equal to the amount of {E} paid this way.

Sorcery
Wrath of the Skies (mh3) 49

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