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Punishing Gains
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $234.14
Salt sum: 37.18
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Commander

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Dina, Soul Steeper

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life. {1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Creature
Dina, Soul Steeper (stx) 178

Commander

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (blc) 294
Brokers Hideout

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

Land
Brokers Hideout (snc) 248
Cabaretti Courtyard

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

Land
Cabaretti Courtyard (snc) 249
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (blb) 378
Hall of Oracles

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery and only if you've cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn.

Land
Hall of Oracles (stx) 267
Jungle Hollow

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Jungle Hollow (blc) 313
Maestros Theater

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

Land
Maestros Theater (snc) 251
Riveteers Overlook

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

Land
Riveteers Overlook (snc) 255
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 374
Thriving Grove

This land enters tapped. As it enters, choose a color other than green. {T}: Add {G} or one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Thriving Grove (blc) 347

Land

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Ramp

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Awakening Zone

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Enchantment
Awakening Zone (ncc) 281
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
Courser of Kruphix

Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play lands from the top of your library. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Courser of Kruphix (cmm) 888
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (mmq) 129
Druid Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life. {2}{G}: Level 2 You may play an additional land on each of your turns. {4}{G}: Level 3 When this Class becomes level 3, target land you control becomes a creature with haste and "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." It's still a land.

Enchantment
Druid Class (afr) 180
Gala Greeters

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn — • Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. • Create a tapped Treasure token. • You gain 2 life.

Creature
Gala Greeters (snc) 148
Many Partings

Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Sorcery
Many Partings (ltr) 445
Paradise Plume

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Paradise Plume (c21) 255
Pristine Talisman

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

Artifact
Pristine Talisman (c21) 258
Prosperous Innkeeper

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Prosperous Innkeeper (blc) 121
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (blc) 236
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129

Ramp

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Tutor

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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

Tutor

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Discard

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Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Thoughtseize (otp) 20

Discard

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Landfall

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Scute Swarm

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of this creature instead.

Creature
Scute Swarm (dsc) 197

Landfall

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Recursion

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Nine-Lives Familiar

This creature enters with eight revival counters on it if you cast it. When this creature dies, if it had a revival counter on it, return it to the battlefield with one fewer revival counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Nine-Lives Familiar (fdn) 66
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (ulg) 63
Veinwitch Coven

Menace Whenever you gain life, you may pay {B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Veinwitch Coven (otc) 151
Witch of the Moors

Deathtouch At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Witch of the Moors (otc) 152

Recursion

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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 (blc) 179
Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (lcc) 182
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
Starscape Cleric

Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Flying This creature can't block. Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
Tree of Perdition

Defender {T}: Exchange target opponent's life total with this creature's toughness.

Creature
Tree of Perdition (inr) 135
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 (j22) 487
Zulaport Cutthroat

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

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (blc) 190

Drain

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Lifegain

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Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Bloodthirsty Aerialist (j25) 409
Creeping Bloodsucker

At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Creature
Creeping Bloodsucker (j25) 415
Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Deathgreeter (gvl) 33
Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Essence Warden (plst) CMA-106
Fountain of Renewal

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life. {3}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Fountain of Renewal (plst) M19-235
Lifegift

Whenever a land enters, you may gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Lifegift (bok) 132
Overgrown Arch

Defender {T}: You gain 1 life. {2}, Sacrifice this creature: Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Creature
Overgrown Arch (stx) 139
Polluted Bonds

Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Polluted Bonds (shm) 74
Profane Memento

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Profane Memento (m15) 226
Social Climber

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Social Climber (snc) 157
Spectrum Sentinel

Protection from multicolored (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything multicolored.) Whenever a nonbasic land an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Spectrum Sentinel (bro) 244
Tablet of the Guilds

As this artifact enters, choose two colors. Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.

Artifact
Tablet of the Guilds (rtr) 235
Vampire Nighthawk

Flying Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Vampire Nighthawk (scd) 115

Lifegain

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Removal

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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
Hero's Downfall

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Hero's Downfall (dmc) 112
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
Kindred Dominance

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (woc) 113
Mortality Spear

This spell costs {2} less to cast if you gained life this turn. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Instant
Mortality Spear (stx) 207
Natural End

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 3 life.

Instant
Natural End (m20) 183
Nightmare's Thirst

You gain 1 life. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Instant
Nightmare's Thirst (m19) 111
Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery
Pest Infestation (c21) 65
Rise of the Witch-king

Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you sacrificed a creature this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Rise of the Witch-king (ltr) 221
Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Scavenging Ooze (onc) 112

Removal

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Draw

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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
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (mkc) 133
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 (cmm) 182
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107
Skullclamp

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

Artifact
Skullclamp (blc) 283

Draw

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Pingers

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Sanctum of Stone Fangs

At the beginning of your first main phase, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of Shrines you control.

Enchantment
Sanctum of Stone Fangs (m21) 120

Pingers

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Sac Outlet

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Zuran Orb

Sacrifice a land: You gain 2 life.

Artifact
Zuran Orb (mh2) 300

Sac Outlet

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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 (cmm) 156

Finisher

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Protection

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Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (pip) 202
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 95
Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (eld) 104
Revitalizing Repast

Instant
Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256

Protection

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Tokens

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Beledros Witherbloom

Flying At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Beledros Witherbloom (blc) 247
Blight Mound

Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Enchantment
Blight Mound (c21) 36
Creakwood Liege

Other black creatures you control get +1/+1. Other green creatures you control get +1/+1. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token.

Creature
Creakwood Liege (2x2) 197
Trudge Garden

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 4/4 green Fungus Beast creature token with trample.

Enchantment
Trudge Garden (c21) 69

Tokens

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