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Death and Taxes
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Commander

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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 (rvr) 193

Commander

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Ramp

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Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (clb) 739
Gift of Estates

If an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for up to three Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Gift of Estates (plst) C14-73
Keeper of the Accord

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if that player controls more creatures than you, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token. At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if that player controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Keeper of the Accord (pip) 164
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 (cmm) 37
Orzhov Cluestone

{T}: Add {W} or {B}. {W}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Orzhov Cluestone (c15) 261
Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
Pristine Talisman

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

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (c21) 258
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 (wot) 67
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (otc) 267
Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (lcc) 315

Ramp

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Tutor

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Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (m14) 95
Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two 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.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 97

Tutor

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Draw

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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 (clb) 620
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
Court of Grace

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. If you're the monarch, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying instead.

Enchantment
Court of Grace (onc) 62
Greed

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

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Creature
Grim Haruspex (clb) 754
Marketback Walker

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. When this creature dies, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Marketback Walker (dft) 235
Master of Ceremonies

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent chooses money, friends, or secrets. For each player who chose money, you and that player each create a Treasure token. For each player who chose friends, you and that player each create a 1/1 green and white Citizen creature token. For each player who chose secrets, you and that player each draw a card.

Creature
Master of Ceremonies (ncc) 18
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (otc) 142
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (moc) 379
Smuggler's Share

At the beginning of each end step, draw a card for each opponent who drew two or more cards this turn, then create a Treasure token for each opponent who had two or more lands enter the battlefield under their control this turn.

Enchantment
Smuggler's Share (ncc) 122
The Gaffer

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, draw a card.

Creature
The Gaffer (ltc) 12

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Recursion

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Body Launderer

Deathtouch Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, this creature connives. When this creature dies, return another target non-Rogue creature card with equal or lesser power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Body Launderer (snc) 68
Revival

Sorcery
Revival // Revenge (rvr) 241

Recursion

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Land

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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
Diamond City

This land enters with a shield counter on it. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Move a shield counter from this land onto target creature. Activate only if two or more creatures entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Land
Diamond City (pip) 439
Guildless Commons

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Land
Guildless Commons (cmm) 1003
Mobilized District

{T}: Add {C}. {4}: This land becomes a 3/3 Citizen creature with vigilance until end of turn. It's still a land. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature and planeswalker you control.

Land
Mobilized District (cmm) 1011
Obscura Storefront

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Obscura Storefront (snc) 252
Orzhov Basilica

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Land
Orzhov Basilica (clu) 241
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (otj) 278
Radiant Fountain

When this land enters, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Radiant Fountain (c21) 310
Restless Fortress

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. {2}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 1/4 white and black Nightmare creature until end of turn. It's still a land. Whenever this land attacks, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Land
Restless Fortress (woe) 259
Shambling Vent

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. {1}{W}{B}: This land becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

Land
Shambling Vent (clb) 914
Shattered Sanctum

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

Land
Shattered Sanctum (vow) 264
Shineshadow Snarl

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

Land
Shineshadow Snarl (lcc) 351
Silverquill Campus

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. {4}, {T}: Scry 1.

Land
Silverquill Campus (moc) 423
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (otj) 281
Tainted Field

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

Land
Tainted Field (lcc) 356
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 (otc) 339
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (mkc) 310

Land

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Removal

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Blood Money

Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token.

Sorcery
Blood Money (lcc) 183
Exile

Exile target nonwhite attacking creature. You gain life equal to its toughness.

Instant
Exile (6ed) 21
Martial Coup

Create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. If X is 5 or more, destroy all other creatures.

Sorcery
Martial Coup (blc) 146
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (otc) 85
Pestilence

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment. {B}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Enchantment
Pestilence (4ed) 152
Stroke of Midnight

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Instant
Stroke of Midnight (woe) 33
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (cst) 54
The Battle of Bywater

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Then create a Food token for each creature you control. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Sorcery
The Battle of Bywater (ltr) 2
Vanishing Verse

Exile target monocolored permanent.

Instant
Vanishing Verse (otp) 57

Removal

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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
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 (fdn) 137
Elspeth Resplendent

+1: Choose up to one target creature. Put a +1/+1 counter and a counter from among flying, first strike, lifelink, or vigilance on it. −3: Look at the top seven cards of your library. You may put a permanent card with mana value 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield with a shield counter on it. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. −7: Create five 3/3 white Angel creature tokens with flying.

Planeswalker
Elspeth Resplendent (snc) 11

Lifegain

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Taxes (Extort /Drain)

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Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (pip) 182
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 (rvr) 9
Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (inr) 97
Cruel Celebrant

Whenever this creature or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Cruel Celebrant (lcc) 267
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
Falkenrath Noble

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Falkenrath Noble (lcc) 196
Kingpin's Pet

Flying 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.)

Creature
Kingpin's Pet (plst) GTC-173
Life Insurance

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 a nontoken creature dies, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token.

Enchantment
Life Insurance (otc) 233
Pontiff of Blight

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.) Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)

Creature
Pontiff of Blight (clb) 768
Vizkopa Guildmage

{1}{W}{B}: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn. {1}{W}{B}: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Creature
Vizkopa Guildmage (ima) 211
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (clb) 775

Taxes (Extort /Drain)

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Protection

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Archangel of Tithes

Flying As long as this creature is untapped, creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures. As long as this creature is attacking, creatures can't block unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

Creature
Archangel of Tithes (otj) 2
Ghostly Prison

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

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (chk) 10
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
Nils, Discipline Enforcer

At the beginning of your end step, for each player, put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature that player controls. Each creature with one or more counters on it can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless its controller pays {X}, where X is the number of counters on that creature.

Creature
Nils, Discipline Enforcer (c21) 20

Protection

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Tokens

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Baron Bertram Graywater

Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, create a 1/1 black Vampire Rogue creature token with lifelink. This ability triggers only once each turn. {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Draw a card.

Creature
Baron Bertram Graywater (otj) 195
Call the Coppercoats

Strive — This spell costs {1}{W} more to cast for each target beyond the first. Choose any number of target opponents. Create X 1/1 white Human Soldier creature tokens, where X is the number of creatures those opponents control.

Instant
Call the Coppercoats (onc) 60
Denethor, Ruling Steward

At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. {2}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Denethor, Ruling Steward (ltr) 198
Dramatic Finale

Creature tokens you control get +1/+1. Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Dramatic Finale (stx) 180
Edgar, Charmed Groom

Creature
Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin (vow) 236Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin (vow) 236
Felisa, Fang of Silverquill

Flying Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.) Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, if it had counters on it, create X tapped 2/1 white and black Inkling creature tokens with flying, where X is the number of counters it had on it.

Creature
Felisa, Fang of Silverquill (clb) 845
Jerren, Corrupted Bishop

Creature
Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter (mid) 109Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter (mid) 109
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor

Whenever one or more tokens your opponents control enter, for each of them, create a tapped token that's a copy of it. This ability triggers only once each turn. Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor (otj) 211
Teysa Karlov

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Creature tokens you control have vigilance and lifelink.

Creature
Teysa Karlov (cmm) 359
Thalisse, Reverent Medium

At the beginning of each end step, create X 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying, where X is the number of tokens you created this turn.

Creature
Thalisse, Reverent Medium (cmr) 291

Tokens

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