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Cycle of Life and Death
Deck Size: 59
Commander
Est deck cost: $224.19
Salt sum: 16.96
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Commander

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Teval, Arbiter of Virtue

Flying, lifelink Spells you cast have delve. (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting those spells pays for {1}.) Whenever you cast a spell, you lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Teval, Arbiter of Virtue (tdm) 319

Commander

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Card Draw

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Canyon Crab

{1}{U}: This creature gets +2/-2 until end of turn. At the beginning of your end step, if you haven't cast a spell from your hand this turn, draw a card, then discard a card.

Creature
Canyon Crab (otj) 40
Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Deep Analysis (tdc) 150
Hydroid Krasis

When you cast this spell, you gain half X life and draw half X cards. Round down each time. Flying, trample This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Hydroid Krasis (clu) 195
Likeness Looter

Flying {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {X}: This creature becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except it has flying and this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Likeness Looter (woe) 208
Tatyova, Benthic Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Tatyova, Benthic Druid (dsc) 235
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (j25) 371
Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Vilis, Broker of Blood (j25) 70

Card Draw

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Channel

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Careful Cultivation

Enchant artifact or creature As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it gets +1/+3 and has reach and "{T}: Add {G}{G}." Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Create a 1/1 green Human Monk creature token with "{T}: Add {G}."

Enchantment
Careful Cultivation (woc) 122
Colossal Skyturtle

Flying, ward {2} Channel — {2}{G}, Discard this card: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Channel — {1}{U}, Discard this card: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature Enchantment
Colossal Skyturtle (neo) 216
Greater Tanuki

Trample Channel — {2}{G}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Enchantment
Greater Tanuki (dsc) 181

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Cycling

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Agonasaur Rex

Trample Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature or Vehicle. It gains trample and indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Agonasaur Rex (dft) 151
Barrier Breach

Exile up to three target enchantments. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Barrier Breach (iko) 145
Boon of the Wish-Giver

Draw four cards. Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Boon of the Wish-Giver (ltc) 185
Countervailing Winds

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Countervailing Winds (hou) 32
Curator of Mysteries

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, scry 1. Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Curator of Mysteries (afc) 81
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 (dsc) 136
Drownyard Lurker

Vigilance When you cast or cycle Drownyard Lurker, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." Cycling {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Drownyard Lurker (mh3) 3
Generous Ent

Reach When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Forestcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Generous Ent (ltr) 169
Lórien Revealed

Draw three cards. Islandcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Sorcery
Lórien Revealed (ltr) 60
Nimble Obstructionist

Flash Flying Cycling {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, counter target activated or triggered ability you don't control.

Creature
Nimble Obstructionist (c20) 121
Shark Typhoon

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value. Cycling {X}{1}{U} ({X}{1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Shark Typhoon (dsc) 127
Shefet Monitor

Cycling {3}{G} ({3}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, you may search your library for a basic land card or a Desert card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. (Do this before you draw.)

Creature
Shefet Monitor (akh) 186
Titanoth Rex

Trample Cycling {1}{G} ({1}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put a trample counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Titanoth Rex (plst) IKO-174
Troll of Khazad-dûm

This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures. Swampcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Troll of Khazad-dûm (ltr) 111
Vile Manifestation

This creature gets +1/+0 for each card with cycling in your graveyard. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Vile Manifestation (hou) 80
Void Beckoner

Deathtouch Cycling {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put a deathtouch counter on target creature you control.

Creature
Void Beckoner (plst) IKO-104
Warped Tusker

Reach When you cast or cycle Warped Tusker, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Warped Tusker (mh3) 16
Wilt

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Wilt (plst) IKO-176

Cycling

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Cycling Support

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Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Archfiend of Ifnir (drc) 86
Bone Miser

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever you discard a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Creature
Bone Miser (plst) C19-15
Drake Haven

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Drake Haven (c20) 110
Faith of the Devoted

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Faith of the Devoted (c19) 112
Fluctuator

Cycling abilities you activate cost {2} less to activate.

Artifact
Fluctuator (c20) 241
Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Gixian Puppeteer (bro) 99
New Perspectives

When this enchantment enters, draw three cards. As long as you have seven or more cards in hand, you may pay {0} rather than pay cycling costs.

Enchantment
New Perspectives (c20) 119
Ominous Seas

Whenever you draw a card, put a foreshadow counter on this enchantment. Remove eight foreshadow counters from this enchantment: Create an 8/8 blue Kraken creature token. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment
Ominous Seas (plst) IKO-61
Rhet-Tomb Mystic

Flying Each creature card in your hand has cycling {1}{U}. ({1}{U}, Discard that card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Rhet-Tomb Mystic (drc) 10
Wharf Infiltrator

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. Whenever you discard a creature card, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 3/2 colorless Eldrazi Horror creature token.

Creature
Wharf Infiltrator (clb) 737

Cycling Support

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Finisher

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Death Begets Life

Destroy all creatures and enchantments. Draw a card for each permanent destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Death Begets Life (tdm) 176
Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (tdc) 185
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
Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fdn) 183

Finisher

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Land

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Barren Moor

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

Land
Barren Moor (dsc) 262
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
Lonely Sandbar

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

Land
Lonely Sandbar (j25) 769
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
Shifting Woodland

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}: Add {G}. Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Land
Shifting Woodland (mh3) 228
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
Tranquil Thicket

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

Land
Tranquil Thicket (dsc) 318

Land

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Life Gain

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Gnaw to the Bone

You gain 2 life for each creature card in your graveyard. Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Gnaw to the Bone (plst) ISD-183
Long Rest

Return X target cards with different mana values from your graveyard to your hand. If eight or more cards were returned to your hand this way, your life total becomes equal to your starting life total. Exile Long Rest.

Sorcery
Long Rest (afr) 193
Titania's Command

Choose two — • Exile target player's graveyard. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way. • Search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. • Create two 2/2 green Bear creature tokens. • Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

Sorcery
Titania's Command (bro) 194
Twilight Prophet

Flying Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Creature
Twilight Prophet (mkc) 143

Life Gain

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Mana Ramp

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Ancient Cornucopia

Whenever you cast a spell that's one or more colors, you may gain 1 life for each of that spell's colors. Do this only once each turn. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Ancient Cornucopia (big) 16
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (tdc) 255
Molt Tender

{T}: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) {T}, Exile a card from your graveyard: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Molt Tender (dft) 171

Mana Ramp

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My Son

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Tetzimoc, Primal Death

Deathtouch {B}, Reveal this card from your hand: Put a prey counter on target creature. Activate only during your turn. When Tetzimoc enters, destroy each creature your opponents control with a prey counter on it.

Creature
Tetzimoc, Primal Death (rix) 86

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Maybeboard

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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) 107
Scavenged Brawler

Flying, vigilance, trample, lifelink {5}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Choose target creature. Put four +1/+1 counters, a flying counter, a vigilance counter, a trample counter, and a lifelink counter on that creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature Artifact
Scavenged Brawler (brc) 17
Soul of Innistrad

Deathtouch {3}{B}{B}: Return up to three target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. {3}{B}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Return up to three target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Soul of Innistrad (c20) 137
Wonder

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

Creature
Wonder (tdc) 170

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