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Hope and Turtle
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Est deck cost: $718.30
Salt sum: 42.71
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Commander

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Hope Estheim

Lifelink At the beginning of your end step, each opponent mills X cards, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Hope Estheim (fin) 541

Commander

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Artifact

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The Water Crystal

Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill that many cards plus four instead. {4}{U}{U}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Artifact
The Water Crystal (fin) 333
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) 330

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Draw

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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
Beza, the Bounding Spring

When Beza enters, create a Treasure token if an opponent controls more lands than you. You gain 4 life if an opponent has more life than you. Create two 1/1 blue Fish creature tokens if an opponent controls more creatures than you. Draw a card if an opponent has more cards in hand than you.

Creature
Beza, the Bounding Spring (blb) 2
Consecrated Sphinx

Flying Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may draw two cards.

Creature
Consecrated Sphinx (2x2) 43
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
Daxos of Meletis

Daxos can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. Whenever Daxos deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library. You gain life equal to that card's mana value. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Creature
Daxos of Meletis (ncc) 335
Drogskol Reaver

Flying Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Creature
Drogskol Reaver (2x2) 205
Forced Fruition

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player draws seven cards.

Enchantment
Forced Fruition (plst) LRW-66
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler

{T}: Each player may draw a card, then each player who drew a card this way gains 1 life.

Creature
Kwain, Itinerant Meddler (blc) 254
Mangara, the Diplomat

Lifelink Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Creature
Mangara, the Diplomat (tdc) 124
Patient Rebuilding

At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent mills three cards, then you draw a card for each land card put into their graveyard this way.

Enchantment
Patient Rebuilding (m19) 67
Secret Rendezvous

You and target opponent each draw three cards.

Sorcery
Secret Rendezvous (sld) 1892
Sphinx's Revelation

You gain X life and draw X cards.

Instant
Sphinx's Revelation (rvr) 228

Draw

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Land

Qty: 34 Price: $117.95
Adarkar Wastes

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

Land
Adarkar Wastes (dmu) 243
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (pip) 259
Deserted Beach

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Deserted Beach (inr) 276
Flooded Strand

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

Land
Flooded Strand (mh3) 220
Floodfarm Verge

{T}: Add {W}. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains or an Island.

Land
Floodfarm Verge (dsk) 259
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (pip) 266
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 (rvr) 280
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (tdm) 280
Miren, the Moaning Well

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Land
Miren, the Moaning Well (sok) 163
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 (pip) 274
Nimbus Maze

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control an Island. {T}: Add {U}. Activate only if you control a Plains.

Land
Nimbus Maze (ima) 242
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (tdm) 278
Prairie Stream

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Prairie Stream (pip) 280
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (who) 296
Sea of Clouds

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

Land
Sea of Clouds (clb) 360
Seraph Sanctuary

When this land enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever an Angel you control enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Seraph Sanctuary (sld) 1292
Temple of Enlightenment

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Temple of Enlightenment (pip) 304
Tranquil Cove

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

Land
Tranquil Cove (tdm) 270
Tundra

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)

Land
Tundra (vma) 322

Land

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Lifegain

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Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Enchantment
Angelic Chorus (bbd) 87
Angelic Skirmisher

Flying At the beginning of each combat, choose first strike, vigilance, or lifelink. Creatures you control gain that ability until end of turn.

Creature
Angelic Skirmisher (gtc) 3
Archangel of Thune

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Archangel of Thune (2xm) 5
Beacon of Immortality

Double target player's life total. Shuffle Beacon of Immortality into its owner's library.

Instant
Beacon of Immortality (plst) E02-1
Bishop of Wings

Whenever an Angel you control enters, you gain 4 life. Whenever an Angel you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Creature
Bishop of Wings (plst) M20-8
Boon Reflection

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

Enchantment
Boon Reflection (2xm) 10
Celestial Force

At the beginning of each upkeep, you gain 3 life.

Creature
Celestial Force (cmd) 10
Celestial Mantle

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+3. Whenever enchanted creature deals combat damage to a player, double its controller's life total.

Enchantment
Celestial Mantle (jmp) 96
Delusions of Mediocrity

When this enchantment enters, you gain 10 life. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose 10 life.

Enchantment
Delusions of Mediocrity (7ed) 70
Felidar Sovereign

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 40 or more life, you win the game.

Creature
Felidar Sovereign (j25) 198
Feudkiller's Verdict

You gain 10 life. Then if you have more life than an opponent, create a 5/5 white Giant Warrior creature token.

Sorcery Kindred
Feudkiller's Verdict (mor) 9
Gerrard Capashen

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in target opponent's hand. {3}{W}: Tap target creature. Activate only if Gerrard Capashen is attacking.

Creature
Gerrard Capashen (dde) 46
Gerrard's Wisdom

You gain 2 life for each card in your hand.

Sorcery
Gerrard's Wisdom (s99) 18
Heroes Remembered

You gain 20 life. Suspend 10—{W} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {W} and exile it with ten time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Sorcery
Heroes Remembered (plc) 7
Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Artifact
Ivory Tower (4ed) 328
Pulse of the Fields

You gain 4 life. Then if an opponent has more life than you, return Pulse of the Fields to its owner's hand.

Instant
Pulse of the Fields (dst) 11
Rhox Faithmender

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Creature
Rhox Faithmender (tdc) 128
Righteous Valkyrie

Flying Whenever another Angel or Cleric you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Creature
Righteous Valkyrie (j25) 246
Sanguine Sacrament

You gain twice X life. Put Sanguine Sacrament on the bottom of its owner's library.

Instant
Sanguine Sacrament (plst) XLN-33
Shabraz, the Skyshark

Partner with Brallin, Skyshark Rider Flying Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Shabraz and you gain 1 life. {W/U}: Target Human gains flying until end of turn.

Creature
Shabraz, the Skyshark (plst) C20-14
Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Shadowspear (plst) THB-236
Tower of Eons

{8}, {T}: You gain 10 life.

Artifact
Tower of Eons (plst) MRD-266
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
Wall of Reverence

Defender, flying At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

Creature
Wall of Reverence (tdc) 139

Lifegain

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Mill

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Bruvac the Grandiloquent

If an opponent would mill one or more cards, they mill twice that many cards instead. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Bruvac the Grandiloquent (rvr) 35
Fractured Sanity

Each opponent mills fourteen cards. Cycling {1}{U} ({1}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, each opponent mills four cards.

Sorcery
Fractured Sanity (clb) 722
Hedron Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Hedron Crab (tdc) 155
Memory Erosion

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player mills two cards.

Enchantment
Memory Erosion (plst) CM2-45
Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (sld) 1669
Ruin Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, each opponent mills three cards. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Ruin Crab (plst) ZNR-75
Tasha's Hideous Laughter

Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until that player has exiled cards with total mana value 20 or greater.

Sorcery
Tasha's Hideous Laughter (afr) 78

Mill

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Protection

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Caduceus, Staff of Hermes

Equipped creature has lifelink. As long as you have 30 or more life, equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has indestructible and "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature." Equip {W}{W}

Artifact
Caduceus, Staff of Hermes (acr) 2
Crystal Barricade

Defender (This creature can't attack.) You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to other creatures you control.

Creature Artifact
Crystal Barricade (fdn) 7
Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (tdc) 116
Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker

Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to you, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.

Creature
Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker (j22) 215
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 85

Protection

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Ramp

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Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Blue spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast.

Creature
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV (2x2) 221
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 57
Will, Scion of Peace

Vigilance {T}: Spells you cast this turn that are white and/or blue cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Will, Scion of Peace (woe) 218

Ramp

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Recursion

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Celestine, the Living Saint

Flying, lifelink Healing Tears — At the beginning of your end step, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Celestine, the Living Saint (40k) 10

Recursion

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Removal

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Bronzebeak Foragers

When this creature enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. {X}{W}: Put target card with mana value X exiled with this creature into its owner's graveyard. You gain X life.

Creature
Bronzebeak Foragers (lcc) 69
Heliod's Intervention

Choose one — • Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments. • Target player gains twice X life.

Instant
Heliod's Intervention (otc) 81
Honor the Fallen

Exile all creature cards from all graveyards. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way.

Instant
Honor the Fallen (mmq) 21
Ojutai's Command

Choose two — • Return target creature card with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • You gain 4 life. • Counter target creature spell. • Draw a card.

Instant
Ojutai's Command (dtk) 227
Righteous Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Create a 2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance. • Exile target enchantment. • You gain 5 life.

Sorcery
Righteous Confluence (cmm) 53

Removal

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Stax

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Fatespinner

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player chooses draw step, main phase, or combat phase. The player skips each instance of the chosen step or phase this turn.

Creature
Fatespinner (plst) MRD-36
Spelltithe Enforcer

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice unless they pay {1}.

Creature
Spelltithe Enforcer (plst) GPT-18

Stax

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Tokens

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Elspeth Tirel

+2: You gain 1 life for each creature you control. −2: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. −5: Destroy all other permanents except for lands and tokens.

Planeswalker
Elspeth Tirel (onc) 64
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
Valkyrie Harbinger

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.

Creature
Valkyrie Harbinger (j25) 275
Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Creature Artifact
Wurmcoil Engine (2xm) 308

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Tokens & Extras

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Angel

Flying

Creature Token
Angel (totj) 2
Angel

Flying, vigilance

Creature Token
Angel (ttdc) 2
Fish

Creature Token
Fish (tfdn) 10
Giant Warrior

Creature Token
Giant Warrior (tmma) 1
Knight

Vigilance

Creature Token
Knight (twoe) 3
Soldier

Creature Token
Soldier (ttdm) 4
Spirit

Flying

Creature Token
Spirit (ttdc) 6
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (ttdm) 16
Wurm

Deathtouch

Creature Artifact Token
Wurm (t2xm) 29
Wurm

Lifelink

Creature Artifact Token
Wurm (t2xm) 30

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Deck Info

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71 pips - 45 cards
24 mana - 24 cards
33 pips - 23 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
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0 mana - 2 cards
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6 mana - 6 cards
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