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The Manipulator
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Est deck cost: $148.02
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Licia, Sanguine Tribune

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each 1 life you gained this turn. First strike, lifelink Pay 5 life: Put three +1/+1 counters on Licia. Activate only during your turn and only once each turn.

Creature
Licia, Sanguine Tribune (c17) 40

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Instant

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Boros Charm

Choose one — • Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker. • Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. • Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant
Boros Charm (otc) 216
Stinging Study

You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.

Instant
Stinging Study (c21) 44

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Artifact

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Altar of the Wretched

Artifact
Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass (lcc) 10Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass (lcc) 10
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (m3c) 283
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
Gatewatch Beacon

This artifact enters with three loyalty counters on it. {T}: Add {W}. Whenever a planeswalker you control enters, if this artifact has loyalty counters on it, you may move a loyalty counter from this artifact onto that planeswalker.

Artifact
Gatewatch Beacon (cmm) 721
Glass-Cast Heart

Whenever one or more Vampires you control attack, create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {B}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Vampire creature token with lifelink. {B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact and thirteen Blood tokens: Each opponent loses 13 life and you gain 13 life.

Artifact
Glass-Cast Heart (lcc) 199
Talisman of Conviction

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

Artifact
Talisman of Conviction (mkc) 240
Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (lcc) 315
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (afc) 219
The Chain Veil

At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't activate a loyalty ability of a planeswalker this turn, you lose 2 life. {4}, {T}: For each planeswalker you control, you may activate one of its loyalty abilities once this turn as though none of its loyalty abilities have been activated this turn.

Artifact
The Chain Veil (cmm) 943

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Land

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Battlefield Forge

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

Land
Battlefield Forge (blc) 293
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (otc) 277
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (m3c) 331
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (mh3) 316
Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Nesting Grounds (ncc) 418
Nomad Outpost

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

Land
Nomad Outpost (otc) 306
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (mh3) 310
Shattered Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Mountain, Plains, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {R}{W}{B} ({R}{W}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Shattered Landscape (mh3) 226
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mh3) 315
Voldaren Estate

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Vampire spell. {5}, {T}: Create a Blood token. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each Vampire you control. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Land
Voldaren Estate (lcc) 369

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Angel of Grace

Flash Flying When this creature enters, until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead. {4}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Your life total becomes 10.

Creature
Angel of Grace (rna) 1
Arc-Slogger

{R}, Exile the top ten cards of your library: This creature deals 2 damage to any target.

Creature
Arc-Slogger (mrd) 85
Archangel of Wrath

Kicker {B} and/or {R} (You may pay an additional {B} and/or {R} as you cast this spell.) Flying, lifelink When this creature enters, if it was kicked, it deals 2 damage to any target. When this creature enters, if it was kicked twice, it deals 2 damage to any target.

Creature
Archangel of Wrath (dmu) 3
Archfiend of Spite

Flying Whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to this creature, that source's controller loses that much life unless they sacrifice that many permanents of their choice. Madness {3}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Archfiend of Spite (c19) 14
Arena Rector

When this creature dies, you may exile it. If you do, search your library for a planeswalker card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Arena Rector (bbd) 23
Aurelia's Vindicator

Flying, lifelink, ward {2} Disguise {X}{3}{W} When this creature is turned face up, exile up to X other target creatures from the battlefield and/or creature cards from graveyards. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners' hands.

Creature
Aurelia's Vindicator (mkm) 4
Bishop of Binding

When this creature enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. Whenever this creature attacks, target Vampire gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the power of the exiled card.

Creature
Bishop of Binding (rix) 2
Bloodtracker

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Bloodtracker (lcc) 186
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
Dark Confidant

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
Dark Confidant (j25) 114
Detective's Phoenix

Bestow—{R}, Collect evidence 6. (To pay this bestow cost, pay {R} and exile cards with total mana value 6 or greater from your graveyard.) Flying, haste Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and haste. You may cast this card from your graveyard using its bestow ability.

Creature Enchantment
Detective's Phoenix (mh3) 457
Djeru, With Eyes Open

Vigilance When Djeru enters, you may search your library for a planeswalker card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. If a source would deal damage to a planeswalker you control, prevent 1 of that damage.

Creature
Djeru, With Eyes Open (hou) 10
Elenda, Saint of Dusk

Lifelink, hexproof from instants As long as your life total is greater than your starting life total, Elenda gets +1/+1 and has menace. Elenda gets an additional +5/+5 as long as your life total is at least 10 greater than your starting life total.

Creature
Elenda, Saint of Dusk (fdn) 119
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) 12
Indulging Patrician

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature
Indulging Patrician (m21) 219
Jaya's Phoenix

Flying, haste Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, copy the next loyalty ability you activate this turn when you activate it. You may choose new targets for the copy. Whenever you cast a planeswalker spell, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Jaya's Phoenix (cmm) 738
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
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
Verrak, Warped Sengir

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Whenever you activate an ability that isn't a mana ability, if life was paid to activate it, you may pay that much life again. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Creature
Verrak, Warped Sengir (dmc) 16
Vona, Butcher of Magan

Vigilance, lifelink {T}, Pay 7 life: Destroy target nonland permanent. Activate only during your turn.

Creature
Vona, Butcher of Magan (lcc) 293

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Planeswalker

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Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator

If you would pay life while your library has at least that many cards in it, exile that many cards from the top of your library instead. +1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Exile one of them and put the other into your hand. −2: Create two 1/1 black Nightmare creature tokens with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, if a card was put into exile this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this token." −7: Target player exiles the top X cards of their library, where X is the total mana value of cards you own in exile.

Planeswalker
Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator (woe) 78
Dihada, Binder of Wills

+2: Up to one target legendary creature gains vigilance, lifelink, and indestructible until your next turn. −3: Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put any number of legendary cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Create a Treasure token for each card put into your graveyard this way. −11: Gain control of all nonland permanents until end of turn. Untap them. They gain haste until end of turn. Dihada, Binder of Wills can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Dihada, Binder of Wills (dmc) 1
Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast

+1: Exile the top three cards of your library. Creature cards exiled this way gain "You may cast this card from exile as long as you control a Lukka planeswalker." −2: Exile target creature you control, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card with higher mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. −7: Each creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.

Planeswalker
Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast (iko) 125

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Enchantment

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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 (lcc) 181
Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment. {1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.

Enchantment
Font of Agonies (rna) 74
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) 223
March of the Canonized

When this enchantment enters, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink. At the beginning of your upkeep, if your devotion to white and black is seven or greater, create a 4/3 white and black Vampire Demon creature token with flying.

Enchantment
March of the Canonized (lcc) 73
Oath of Gideon

When Oath of Gideon enters, create two 1/1 white Kor Ally creature tokens. Each planeswalker you control enters with an additional loyalty counter on it.

Enchantment
Oath of Gideon (cmm) 830
Oath of Kaya

When Oath of Kaya enters, it deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life. Whenever an opponent attacks a planeswalker you control with one or more creatures, Oath of Kaya deals 2 damage to that player and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Oath of Kaya (war) 209
Protection Racket

At the beginning of your upkeep, repeat the following process for each opponent in turn order. Reveal the top card of your library. That player may pay life equal to that card's mana value. If they do, exile that card. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Enchantment
Protection Racket (ncc) 39
Resourceful Defense

Whenever a permanent you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on target permanent you control. {4}{W}: Move any number of counters from target permanent you control to another target permanent you control.

Enchantment
Resourceful Defense (ncc) 19
Urza Assembles the Titans

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.) I — Scry 4, then you may reveal the top card of your library. If a planeswalker card is revealed this way, put it into your hand. II — You may put a planeswalker card with mana value 6 or less from your hand onto the battlefield. III — You may activate the loyalty abilities of planeswalkers you control twice this turn rather than only once.

Enchantment
Urza Assembles the Titans (dmu) 37

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Sorcery

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Allure of the Unknown

Reveal the top six cards of your library. An opponent exiles a nonland card from among them, then you put the rest into your hand. That opponent may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Allure of the Unknown (thb) 207
Breaking Point

Any player may have Breaking Point deal 6 damage to them. If no one does, destroy all creatures. Creatures destroyed this way can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Breaking Point (ddk) 67
Call the Gatewatch

Search your library for a planeswalker card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Call the Gatewatch (ogw) 16
Chandra's Ignition

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.

Sorcery
Chandra's Ignition (lcc) 220
Debt to the Deathless

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

Sorcery
Debt to the Deathless (rvr) 176
Painful Truths

Converge — You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Sorcery
Painful Truths (otc) 146
Subterranean Tremors

Subterranean Tremors deals X damage to each creature without flying. If X is 4 or more, destroy all artifacts. If X is 8 or more, create an 8/8 red Lizard creature token.

Sorcery
Subterranean Tremors (cn2) 58
Waltz of Rage

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature. Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control dies, exile the top card of your library. You may play it until the end of your next turn.

Sorcery
Waltz of Rage (dsk) 318

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Festival of Embers

During your turn, you may cast instant and sorcery spells from your graveyard by paying 1 life in addition to their other costs. If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead. {1}{R}: Sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment
Festival of Embers (blb) 134

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31 pips - 24 cards
11 mana - 11 cards
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