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Bats using life as a resource
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Commander

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Zoraline, Cosmos Caller

Flying, vigilance Whenever a Bat you control attacks, you gain 1 life. Whenever Zoraline enters or attacks, you may pay {W}{B} and 2 life. When you do, return target nonland permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it.

Creature
Zoraline, Cosmos Caller (pblb) 242s

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Card Advantage

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (clb) 620
Dark Prophecy

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

Enchantment
Dark Prophecy (m14) 93
Darkstar Augur

Offspring {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Darkstar Augur (blb) 311
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) 368
Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 455
Sanguimancy

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Sorcery
Sanguimancy (bng) 81
Star Charter

Flying At the beginning of your end step, if you gained or lost life this turn, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with power 3 or less from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Star Charter (blb) 33
Stargaze

Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.

Sorcery
Stargaze (blb) 114
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) 308

Card Advantage

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Lifegain

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Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal

Creature
Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead (lci) 316Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead (lci) 316
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 (plst) KLD-5
Basilica Screecher

Flying Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)

Creature
Basilica Screecher (gtc) 58
Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (zen) 82
Dazzling Reflection

You gain life equal to target creature's power. The next time that creature would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.

Instant
Dazzling Reflection (ogw) 17
Deep-Cavern Bat

Flying, lifelink When this creature enters, look at target opponent's hand. You may exile a nonland card from it until this creature leaves the battlefield.

Creature
Deep-Cavern Bat (lci) 102
Funeral Room

Enchantment
Funeral Room // Awakening Hall (dsk) 338
Ghastly Gloomhunter

Kicker {3}{B} (You may pay an additional {3}{B} as you cast this spell.) Flying, lifelink If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Ghastly Gloomhunter (znr) 103
Glasswing Grace

Enchantment
Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel (mh3) 254Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel (mh3) 254
Lifecreed Duo

Flying Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Lifecreed Duo (blb) 20
Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (eld) 104
Ruin-Lurker Bat

Flying, lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you descended this turn, scry 1. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)

Creature
Ruin-Lurker Bat (lci) 33
Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord

During your turn, creatures and planeswalkers you control have lifelink. +2: Sorin deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. −X: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a Vampire in addition to its other types.

Planeswalker
Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord (sld) 524
Valley Rotcaller

Menace Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of other Squirrels, Bats, Lizards, and Rats you control.

Creature
Valley Rotcaller (blb) 313
Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (ths) 110

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Protection

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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) 295
Sejiri Shelter

Instant
Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37

Protection

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Bat Buffers

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Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

Artifact
Coat of Arms (dpa) 90
Moonstone Harbinger

Flying, deathtouch Whenever you gain or lose life during your turn, Bats you control get +1/+0 and gain deathtouch until end of turn. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Moonstone Harbinger (blb) 101

Bat Buffers

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Card Selection

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Azor's Gateway

Artifact
Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun (rix) 176Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun (rix) 176
Eyetwitch

Flying When this creature dies, 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.)

Creature
Eyetwitch (stx) 70
Starlit Soothsayer

Flying At the beginning of your end step, if you gained or lost life this turn, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Starlit Soothsayer (blb) 115

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Lifegain Payoffs

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Courier Bat

Flying When this creature enters, if you gained life this turn, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Courier Bat (vow) 102
Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. When Enduring Tenacity 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 Tenacity (dsk) 374
Essence Channeler

As long as you've lost life this turn, this creature has flying and vigilance. Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, put its counters on target creature you control.

Creature
Essence Channeler (blb) 356
Lunar Convocation

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent loses 1 life. At the beginning of your end step, if you gained and lost life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying. {1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Lunar Convocation (blb) 366
Starscape Cleric

Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Flying This creature can't block. Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. {3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (pm21) 127★
Wax-Wane Witness

Flying, vigilance Whenever you gain or lose life during your turn, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Wax-Wane Witness (blb) 39

Lifegain Payoffs

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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 (blc) 127
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (gtc) 61
Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (c17) 53
Life Insurance

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Whenever a nontoken creature dies, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token.

Enchantment
Life Insurance (ncc) 174
Patchwork Banner

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

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129
Sword of Hearth and Home

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Hearth and Home (mh2) 324
Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (drc) 142

Ramp

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Bats

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Desecrated Tomb

Whenever one or more creature cards leave your graveyard, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

Artifact
Desecrated Tomb (pm19) 230
Regal Bloodlord

Flying At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

Creature
Regal Bloodlord (m19) 222

Bats

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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 (wwk) 132
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (10e) 350
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (blc) 130
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 (gtc) 242
Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (isd) 242
Lupinflower Village

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W}. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell. {1}{W}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a Bat, Bird, Mouse, or Rabbit card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Land
Lupinflower Village (blb) 256
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 (zen) 219
Path of Ancestry

This land 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 (plg21) C3
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (blb) 264
Scoured Barrens

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

Land
Scoured Barrens (ktk) 242
Shadowy Backstreet

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 330
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 272
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
Vault of Champions

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 667
Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Vault of the Archangel (dka) 158

Land

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Mass Disruption

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Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (scg) 64
Farewell

Choose one or more — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery
Farewell (neo) 365
Meathook Massacre II

When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice. Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.

Enchantment
Meathook Massacre II (dsk) 108
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (inr) 387

Mass Disruption

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Targeted Disruption

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Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Fracture

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

Instant
Fracture (stx) 188
Hagra Mauling

Instant
Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (plst) ZNR-106Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (plst) ZNR-106
Karlov of the Ghost Council

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov. {W}{B}, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov: Exile target creature.

Creature
Karlov of the Ghost Council (c15) 46
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (blc) 109
Witch Enchanter

Creature
Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239

Targeted Disruption

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Life Loss

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Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (pwar) 79p

Life Loss

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Multipliers

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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 (ori) 221
Boon Reflection

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Enchantment
Boon Reflection (2xm) 10
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 (plst) 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) 369

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Maybeboard

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Lurrus of the Dream-Den

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Lifelink Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.

Creature
Lurrus of the Dream-Den (mul) 51
Mana Tithe

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Instant
Mana Tithe (sta) 8
Profane Transfusion

Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.

Sorcery
Profane Transfusion (cmr) 145
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (sta) 95
True Conviction

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Enchantment
True Conviction (som) 25

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