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Karlov: In Death - Is Life / In Death - Is Death
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Est deck cost: $990.48
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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 (pj21) 7

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ramp

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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
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 (c14) 139
Pristine Talisman

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

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (cm2) 211
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c20) 252
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) 238
Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of the Animist (plst) E01-89

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Land

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Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Land
Arcane Lighthouse (cm2) 233
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (hop) 132
Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (c20) 264
Fetid Heath

{T}: Add {C}. {W/B}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Land
Fetid Heath (a25) 238
Glasswing Grace

Enchantment
Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel (mh3) 254Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel (mh3) 254
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 (rna) 248
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (cma) 257
Isolated Chapel

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

Land
Isolated Chapel (dom) 241
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 (td0) A132
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (ths) 223
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (gk2) 50
Plaza of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell. {T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary permanents you control. {3}, {T}, Exile this land: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Land
Plaza of Heroes (dmu) 252
Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Rogue's Passage (c20) 303
Sejiri Shelter

Instant
Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier (znr) 37
Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Land
Shizo, Death's Storehouse (chk) 283
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (gk2) 51
Tainted Field

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

Land
Tainted Field (e02) 47
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (uma) 254
Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Urza's Cave (mh3) 234
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 (md1) 17
Witch's Clinic

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Witch's Clinic (c21) 81

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draw

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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 (war) 79
Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you. Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Enchantment
Call of the Ring (ltr) 355
Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Sorcery
Damnable Pact (c17) 108
Exemplar of Light

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on this creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Exemplar of Light (fdn) 11
Greed

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

Enchantment
Greed (c13) 79
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
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 (ima) 98
Sword of Forge and Frontier

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from green. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn. You may play an additional land this turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Forge and Frontier (one) 244

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recursion

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Ascend from Avernus

Return all creature and planeswalker cards with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile Ascend from Avernus.

Sorcery
Ascend from Avernus (clb) 5
Revival

Sorcery
Revival // Revenge (rna) 228
Sword of Light and Shadow

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Light and Shadow (mma) 217

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lifegain

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Auriok Champion

Protection from black and from red Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Auriok Champion (ima) 9
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 (kld) 5
Blind Obedience

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.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (c17) 57
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
Children of Korlis

Sacrifice this creature: You gain life equal to the life you've lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Children of Korlis (tsp) 8
Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (jmp) 231
Funeral Room

Enchantment
Funeral Room // Awakening Hall (dsk) 100
Guide of Souls

Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life and get {E} (an energy counter). Whenever you attack, you may pay {E}{E}{E}. When you do, put two +1/+1 counters and a flying counter on target attacking creature. It becomes an Angel in addition to its other types.

Creature
Guide of Souls (mh3) 29
Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature. Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control. {1}{W}: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Heliod, Sun-Crowned (thb) 18
Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Kambal, Consul of Allocation (kld) 183
Kaya, Ghost Assassin

0: Exile Kaya or up to one target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. You lose 2 life. −1: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. −2: Each opponent discards a card and you draw a card.

Planeswalker
Kaya, Ghost Assassin (pz2) 67
Leonin Elder

Whenever an artifact enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Leonin Elder (mrd) 10
Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink. Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mask of Griselbrand (mid) 347
Serra Ascendant

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.

Creature
Serra Ascendant (ha1) 1
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 (thb) 236
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107
Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul Warden (ha1) 2
Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul's Attendant (roe) 44
Sunscorch Regent

Flying Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Sunscorch Regent (c17) 74
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
True Conviction

Creatures you control have double strike and lifelink.

Enchantment
True Conviction (ss2) 6
Tymna the Weaver

Lifelink At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, you may pay X life, where X is the number of opponents that were dealt combat damage this turn. If you do, draw X cards. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Tymna the Weaver (c16) 48
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 (blb) 242

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removal

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soi) 242
Deathbringer Liege

Other white creatures you control get +1/+1. Other black creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a white spell, you may tap target creature. Whenever you cast a black spell, you may destroy target creature if it's tapped.

Creature
Deathbringer Liege (eve) 85
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (c20) 209
Erebos's Intervention

Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Instant
Erebos's Intervention (thb) 94
Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant
Generous Gift (mh1) 11
Hopeful Initiate

Training (Whenever this creature attacks with another creature with greater power, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) {2}{W}, Remove two +1/+1 counters from among creatures you control: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Hopeful Initiate (vow) 20
Thraben Charm

Choose one — • Thraben Charm deals damage equal to twice the number of creatures you control to target creature. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile any number of target players' graveyards.

Instant
Thraben Charm (mh3) 45
Vanishing Verse

Exile target monocolored permanent.

Instant
Vanishing Verse (stx) 244

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lifegain tech

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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
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 (ima) 8
Tivash, Gloom Summoner

Lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. If you do, create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying.

Creature
Tivash, Gloom Summoner (c21) 45
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 (m21) 362

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tutor

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Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (plst) DDC-49
Ranger-Captain of Eos

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value 1 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Sacrifice this creature: Your opponents can't cast noncreature spells this turn.

Creature
Ranger-Captain of Eos (mh1) 21
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 (plst) ONS-59

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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
Mother of Runes

{T}: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Creature
Mother of Runes (plst) DDO-20
Ollenbock Escort

Vigilance Sacrifice this creature: Target creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Ollenbock Escort (vow) 27
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 (c20) 254

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wrath

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Ajani, Strength of the Pride

+1: You gain life equal to the number of creatures you control plus the number of planeswalkers you control. −2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this token." 0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani and each artifact and creature your opponents control.

Planeswalker
Ajani, Strength of the Pride (m20) 2
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 (ima) 10
Dusk

Sorcery
Dusk // Dawn (c19) 63
Farewell

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

Sorcery
Farewell (neo) 13
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (ema) 108

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Deck Info

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62 pips - 42 cards
16 mana - 13 cards
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24 mana - 21 cards
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