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Pain and Drain
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Est deck cost: $746.17
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Commander

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Rowan, Scion of War

Menace {T}: Spells you cast this turn that are black and/or red cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you lost this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Rowan, Scion of War (woe) 211

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (som) 61
Repay in Kind

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

Sorcery
Repay in Kind (roe) 125
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77

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 (p30m) 1F★
Birgi, God of Storytelling

Creature
Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty (khm) 311Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty (khm) 311
Blood Celebrant

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

Creature
Blood Celebrant (lgn) 61
Chrome Mox

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Artifact
Chrome Mox (slc) 2003
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (sta) 26
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (cmd) 248
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Lifelink For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana. Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Creature
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (plst) C19-18
Lotus Petal

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

Artifact
Lotus Petal (tmp) 294
Rakdos Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Artifact
Rakdos Signet (scd) 272
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (pf19) 7
Storm-Kiln Artist

This creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Storm-Kiln Artist (cmm) 644
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (40k) 257
Treasonous Ogre

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Pay 3 life: Add {R}.

Creature
Treasonous Ogre (cns) 36

Ramp

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Burn

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Acidic Soil

Acidic Soil deals damage to each player equal to the number of lands they control.

Sorcery
Acidic Soil (plst) USG-172
Crackle with Power

Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets.

Sorcery
Crackle with Power (stx) 95

Burn

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Land

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Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (vma) 289
Badlands

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

Land
Badlands (vma) 291
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 (prm) 36254
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (40k) 271
Drossforge Bridge

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Artifact Land
Drossforge Bridge (brc) 183
Evolving Wilds

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

Land
Evolving Wilds (afr) 353
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (pw21) 4
Foreboding Ruins

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Foreboding Ruins (afc) 238
Geothermal Bog

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Geothermal Bog (dmu) 247
Luxury Suite

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

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
Mount Doom

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {R}. {1}{B}{R}, {T}: Mount Doom deals 1 damage to each opponent. {5}{B}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Mount Doom and a legendary artifact: Choose up to two creatures, then destroy the rest. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Mount Doom (ltr) 343
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (cmm) 447
Shadowblood Ridge

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (brc) 199
Smoldering Marsh

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

Land
Smoldering Marsh (afc) 262
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dmu) 256
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (cmm) 444
Tainted Peak

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Peak (afc) 266
Temple of Malice

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 {B} or {R}.

Land
Temple of Malice (brc) 208
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (h09) 34

Land

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Recursion

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Orcus, Prince of Undeath

Flying, trample When Orcus enters, choose one — • Each other creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You lose X life. • Return up to X target creature cards with total mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. They gain haste until end of turn.

Creature
Orcus, Prince of Undeath (afr) 229

Recursion

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Copy

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Storm King's Thunder

When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell X times. You may choose new targets for the copies.

Instant
Storm King's Thunder (clb) 196

Copy

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Lifegain

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Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn. Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (plst) KLD-192
Magus of the Mirror

{T}, Sacrifice this creature: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Creature
Magus of the Mirror (tsp) 116
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
Tendrils of Agony

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Tendrils of Agony (scg) 75

Lifegain

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Removal

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Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (brc) 111
Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (brc) 121
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (brc) 113
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (brc) 114
Comet Storm

Multikicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} any number of times as you cast this spell.) Choose any target, then choose another target for each time this spell was kicked. Comet Storm deals X damage to each of them.

Instant
Comet Storm (cmr) 411
Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (c20) 42
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (brc) 106
Fire Covenant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Fire Covenant deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.

Instant
Fire Covenant (sld) 271
Fireball

This spell costs {1} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.

Sorcery
Fireball (plst) DD2-56
In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (c19) 121
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
Jaya's Immolating Inferno

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Jaya's Immolating Inferno deals X damage to each of up to three targets.

Sorcery
Jaya's Immolating Inferno (cmr) 415
Profane Command

Choose two — • Target player loses X life. • Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. • Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Sorcery
Profane Command (c20) 135
Rakdos Charm

Choose one — • Exile target player's graveyard. • Destroy target artifact. • Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant
Rakdos Charm (c17) 190
Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Snuff Out (who) 222
Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Terminate (pls) 128
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (cmm) 646

Removal

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Drain

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Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (tsr) 323

Drain

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Protection

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Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (c20) 245
Mischievous Poltergeist

Flying Pay 1 life: Regenerate this creature.

Creature
Mischievous Poltergeist (wth) 74
Soul Channeling

Enchant creature Pay 2 life: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Enchantment
Soul Channeling (mmq) 163
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (brr) 121

Protection

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Tutor

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Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (6ed) 161

Tutor

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Draw

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Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (c20) 129
Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ancient Craving (c21) 135
Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Instant
Blood Pact (mid) 88
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 (plg21) 3
Commune with Lava

Exile the top X cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Instant
Commune with Lava (afc) 118
Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Sorcery
Damnable Pact (c21) 139
Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Faithless Looting (brc) 116
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card. {4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (bro) 95
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Greven, Predator Captain

Menace Greven gets +X/+0, where X is the amount of life you've lost this turn. Whenever Greven attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, you draw cards equal to that creature's power and you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Creature
Greven, Predator Captain (c19) 43
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (slc) 1995
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (moc) 259
Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (m21) 117
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Prosper, Tome-Bound

Deathtouch Mystic Arcanum — At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card. Pact Boon — Whenever you play a card from exile, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Prosper, Tome-Bound (afc) 2
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (ddp) 56
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 (m20) 122
Wheel of Misfortune

Each player secretly chooses a number 0 or greater, then all players reveal those numbers simultaneously and determine the highest and lowest numbers revealed this way. Wheel of Misfortune deals damage equal to the highest number to each player who chose that number. Each player who didn't choose the lowest number discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery
Wheel of Misfortune (cmr) 211

Draw

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Pump

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Hatred

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Instant
Hatred (exo) 64
Wall of Blood

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Pay 1 life: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Wall of Blood (mrd) 82

Pump

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