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Go to War [Rowan, Scion of War]
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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) 300

Commander

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Draw

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Archon of Cruelty

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature
Archon of Cruelty (dsc) 371
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 (pwar) 79
Cut of the Profits

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Sorcery
Cut of the Profits (psnc) 72p
Dark Tutelage

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.

Enchantment
Dark Tutelage (wot) 28
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 (wot) 31
Ob Nixilis, the Adversary

Casualty X. The copy isn't legendary and has starting loyalty X. (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power X. When you do, copy this spell. The copy becomes a token.) +1: Each opponent loses 2 life unless they discard a card. If you control a Demon or Devil, you gain 2 life. −2: Create a 1/1 red Devil creature token with "When this token dies, it deals 1 damage to any target." −7: Target player draws seven cards and loses 7 life.

Planeswalker
Ob Nixilis, the Adversary (snc) 206
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (pone) 104p
Tamiyo's Journal

At the beginning of your upkeep, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") {T}, Sacrifice three Clues: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Tamiyo's Journal (inr) 272
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 246
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

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Ramp

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Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
Talisman of Indulgence

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

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (afc) 219
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 (plst) CNS-36

Ramp

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Tokens

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Dragon Cultist

Commander creatures you own have "At the beginning of your end step, if a source you controlled dealt 5 or more damage this turn, create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying."

Enchantment
Dragon Cultist (clb) 170
Rite of the Dragoncaller

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Rite of the Dragoncaller (fdn) 331

Tokens

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Burn

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City on Fire

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage instead.

Enchantment
City on Fire (sld) 1803
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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Finisher

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Karlach, Fury of Avernus

Whenever you attack, if it's the first combat phase of the turn, untap all attacking creatures. They gain first strike until end of turn. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Karlach, Fury of Avernus (sld) 1802
Repay in Kind

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

Sorcery
Repay in Kind (roe) 125

Finisher

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Recursion

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Charmbreaker Devils

At the beginning of your upkeep, return an instant or sorcery card at random from your graveyard to your hand. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +4/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Charmbreaker Devils (ima) 120
Command the Dreadhorde

Choose any number of target creature and/or planeswalker cards in graveyards. Command the Dreadhorde deals damage to you equal to the total mana value of those cards. Put them onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Command the Dreadhorde (pwar) 82s
Metamorphosis Fanatic

Lifelink When this creature enters, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lifelink counter on it. Miracle {1}{B} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Creature
Metamorphosis Fanatic (dsc) 51
Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery. Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mizzix's Mastery (sta) 43
Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 428
Past in Flames

Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. Flashback {4}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Past in Flames (who) 565
Pyretic Rebirth

Return target artifact or creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Pyretic Rebirth deals damage equal to that card's mana value to up to one target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Pyretic Rebirth (mh3) 200
Return the Past

During your turn, each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has flashback. Its flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.

Enchantment
Return the Past (who) 92

Recursion

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Tutor

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Beseech the Mirror

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.

Sorcery
Beseech the Mirror (woe) 82
Demonic Counsel

Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Counsel (dsk) 310
Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (cma) 54
Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 315
Insatiable Avarice

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. + {B}{B} — Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Sorcery
Insatiable Avarice (otj) 91
Mastermind's Acquisition

Choose one — • Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. • Put a card you own from outside the game into your hand.

Sorcery
Mastermind's Acquisition (rix) 77
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
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire

Deathtouch Boast — {1}{B}: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Creature
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire (khm) 115

Tutor

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Counters

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Shivan Devastator

Flying, haste This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Shivan Devastator (pdmu) 143p

Counters

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Land

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Barbarian Ring

{T}: Add {R}. This land deals 1 damage to you. Threshold — {R}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: It deals 2 damage to any target. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Land
Barbarian Ring (mh3) 299
Blackcleave Cliffs

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

Land
Blackcleave Cliffs (otc) 272
Blazemire Verge

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

Land
Blazemire Verge (dsk) 256
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 (mh3) 216
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 (otc) 280
Cryptic Caves

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Cryptic Caves (khc) 109
Crystal Grotto

When this land enters, scry 1. {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Crystal Grotto (woe) 254
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 (otc) 292
Haunted Ridge

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

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 263
Luxury Suite

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

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 602
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (m20) 273
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (otc) 310
Rakdos Carnarium

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

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (clu) 243
Shadowblood Ridge

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

Land
Shadowblood Ridge (otc) 317
Sulfurous Springs

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

Land
Sulfurous Springs (otc) 323
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (m20) 271

Land

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Removal

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Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (dsc) 84
Cavalier of Night

Lifelink When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target creature an opponent controls. When this creature dies, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Cavalier of Night (plst) M20-94
Deadly Tempest

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Deadly Tempest (c21) 140
Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Instant
Dismember (spg) 41
Drakuseth, Maw of Flames

Flying Whenever Drakuseth attacks, it deals 4 damage to any target and 3 damage to each of up to two other targets.

Creature
Drakuseth, Maw of Flames (cmm) 218
Electrodominance

Electrodominance deals X damage to any target. You may cast a spell with mana value X or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Instant
Electrodominance (rna) 99
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 (otc) 134
In Garruk's Wake

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

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (znc) 45
Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Sorcery
Killing Wave (inr) 121
Live or Die

Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Destroy target creature.

Instant
Live or Die (dsk) 107
Orcish Bowmasters

Flash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 433
Pyroblast

Choose one — • Counter target spell if it's blue. • Destroy target permanent if it's blue.

Instant
Pyroblast (pw23) 8
Terror of the Peaks

Flying Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost an additional 3 life to cast. Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target.

Creature
Terror of the Peaks (otj) 149
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (inr) 122
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 (mh3) 277
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 313

Removal

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Drain

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Grievous Wound

Enchant player Enchanted player can't gain life. Whenever enchanted player is dealt damage, they lose half their life, rounded up.

Enchantment
Grievous Wound (dsk) 416
Nazgûl Battle-Mace

Equipped creature has menace, deathtouch, annihilator 1, and "Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control unless that player pays 3 life." (Whenever a creature with annihilator 1 attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.) Equip {3}

Artifact
Nazgûl Battle-Mace (ltc) 510
Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (bro) 111
Tainted Remedy

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

Enchantment
Tainted Remedy (ori) 120
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) 127

Drain

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Protection

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Bolt Bend

This spell costs {3} less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant
Bolt Bend (war) 115
Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant
Deflecting Swat (cmm) 698
Platinum Angel

Flying You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.

Creature Artifact
Platinum Angel (brr) 104
Return the Favor

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Copy target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. You may choose new targets for the copy. + {1} — Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.

Instant
Return the Favor (otj) 142
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 (fdn) 258

Protection

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Stax

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Stranglehold

Your opponents can't search libraries. If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.

Enchantment
Stranglehold (sld) 1804

Stax

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Maybeboard

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Ancient Cellarspawn

Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.

Creature Enchantment
Ancient Cellarspawn (dsc) 16
Archfiend of Despair

Flying Your opponents can't gain life. At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Archfiend of Despair (cmm) 137
Asmodeus the Archfiend

Binding Contract — If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead. {B}{B}{B}: Draw seven cards. {B}: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus to their owner's hand and you lose that much life.

Creature
Asmodeus the Archfiend (afr) 88
Balefire Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, it deals that much damage to each creature that player controls.

Creature
Balefire Dragon (cmm) 207
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 (drc) 101
Caldera Pyremaw

Flying Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Then this creature deals damage equal to its power to target opponent.

Creature
Caldera Pyremaw (tdc) 33
Caustic Bronco

Whenever this creature attacks, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. You lose life equal to that card's mana value if this creature isn't saddled. Otherwise, each opponent loses that much life. Saddle 3 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Caustic Bronco (otj) 82
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
Dragonmaster Outcast

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control six or more lands, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Creature
Dragonmaster Outcast (onc) 98
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Fiery Emancipation

If a source you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals triple that damage to that permanent or player instead.

Enchantment
Fiery Emancipation (m21) 143
Illicit Shipment

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.) Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Illicit Shipment (snc) 83
Marshland Bloodcaster

Flying {1}{B}, {T}: Rather than pay the mana cost of the next spell you cast this turn, you may pay life equal to that spell's mana value.

Creature
Marshland Bloodcaster (otc) 139
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
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

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