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Lifedrain
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Commander

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Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Deathtouch Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim (dmu) 297

Commander

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Instant

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (otp) 35
Beacon of Immortality

Double target player's life total. Shuffle Beacon of Immortality into its owner's library.

Instant
Beacon of Immortality (plst) E02-1
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (moc) 322
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (dsc) 106
Vanishing Verse

Exile target monocolored permanent.

Instant
Vanishing Verse (stx) 244

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Artifact

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Chalice of Life

Artifact
Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (dka) 146Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (dka) 146
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 (pkhm) 237p
Orzhov Locket

{T}: Add {W} or {B}. {W/B}{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact
Orzhov Locket (moc) 368
Orzhov Signet

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

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (dsc) 249
Sunbeam Spellbomb

{W}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 5 life. {1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Sunbeam Spellbomb (mrd) 250
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (lcc) 317

Artifact

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Land

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Boggart Trawler

Creature
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog (mh3) 243
Caves of Koilos

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

Land
Caves of Koilos (dsc) 268
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (dsc) 96
Concealed Courtyard

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

Land
Concealed Courtyard (otj) 268
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 (woe) 256
Fetid Heath

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

Land
Fetid Heath (otc) 295
Isolated Chapel

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

Land
Isolated Chapel (otc) 301
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 (dsc) 292
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 (blc) 322
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (fdn) 273
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
Scoured Barrens

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

Land
Scoured Barrens (neo) 274
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
Snowfield Sinkhole

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Snowfield Sinkhole (clb) 915
Sunlit Marsh

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) This land enters tapped.

Land
Sunlit Marsh (dmu) 257
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (fdn) 277
Temple of Silence

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Temple of Silence (dsc) 312
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (cmm) 428

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Creature

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Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Ward—Pay 3 life. Whenever you gain life, Amalia Benavides Aguirre explores. Then destroy all other creatures if its power is exactly 20. (To have this creature explore, reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Amalia Benavides Aguirre (lci) 221
Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (dsc) 132
Bloodthirsty Aerialist

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

Creature
Bloodthirsty Aerialist (c21) 136
Cat Collector

When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Whenever you gain life for the first time during each of your turns, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token.

Creature
Cat Collector (fdn) 4
Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Tenacity (dsk) 95
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
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
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 (klr) 198
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
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 (moc) 191
Knight of the White Orchid

First strike When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Knight of the White Orchid (moc) 193
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

Flying, lifelink Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step. If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.

Creature
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel (mid) 232
Loyal Warhound

Vigilance When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Loyal Warhound (afr) 23
Lurrus of the Dream-Den

Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.) Lifelink Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.

Creature
Lurrus of the Dream-Den (iko) 226
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
Righteous Valkyrie

Flying Whenever another Angel or Cleric you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Creature
Righteous Valkyrie (khm) 24
Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul Warden (plst) MM3-24
Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul's Attendant (roe) 44
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
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
Voice of the Blessed

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. As long as this creature has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance. As long as this creature has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.

Creature
Voice of the Blessed (vow) 44
Welcoming Vampire

Flying Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Welcoming Vampire (mkc) 91
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 (jmp) 18
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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Sorcery

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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
Day of Judgment

Destroy all creatures.

Sorcery
Day of Judgment (m12) 12
Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Eaten Alive (fdn) 172
Expel the Interlopers

Choose a number between 0 and 10. Destroy all creatures with power greater than or equal to the chosen number.

Sorcery
Expel the Interlopers (woe) 13
Fumigate

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Fumigate (onc) 69
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 (dsc) 154
Revival

Sorcery
Revival // Revenge (rvr) 241
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Vindicate

Destroy target permanent.

Sorcery
Vindicate (brc) 131

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Enchantment

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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

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Ajani's Pridemate

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

Creature
Ajani's Pridemate (plst) WAR-4
Ajani's Welcome

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Ajani's Welcome (m19) 6
Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Flying, deathtouch Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 58
Cleric Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {3}{W}: Level 2 Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. {4}{W}: Level 3 When this Class becomes level 3, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Enchantment
Cleric Class (afr) 6
Cleric of Life's Bond

Whenever another Cleric you control enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever you gain life for the first time each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Cleric of Life's Bond (znr) 222
Drana's Emissary

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Drana's Emissary (bfz) 210
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Felidar Sovereign

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 40 or more life, you win the game.

Creature
Felidar Sovereign (j25) 198
Lunarch Veteran

Creature
Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (mid) 27Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom (mid) 27
Markov Purifier

Lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Markov Purifier (dbl) 508
Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Mentor of the Meek (j25) 99
Monologue Tax

Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.

Enchantment
Monologue Tax (dsc) 100
Nykthos Paragon

Whenever you gain life, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. Do this only once each turn.

Creature Enchantment
Nykthos Paragon (mh2) 22
Test of Endurance

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 50 or more life, you win the game.

Enchantment
Test of Endurance (dmr) 32
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Valkyrie Harbinger

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.

Creature
Valkyrie Harbinger (khm) 374
Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (c21) 275

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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 (akh) 225
Enduring Innocence

Lifelink Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. When Enduring Innocence dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment
Enduring Innocence (dsk) 6
Funeral Room

Enchantment
Funeral Room // Awakening Hall (dsk) 100
Rodolf Duskbringer

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Whenever you gain life, Rodolf Duskbringer gains indestructible until end of turn. At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}{W/B}. When you do, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Rodolf Duskbringer (j25) 482

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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
Cliffhaven Vampire

Flying Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Cliffhaven Vampire (ogw) 153
Hinterland Sanctifier

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

Creature
Hinterland Sanctifier (fdn) 730
Second Sunrise

Each player returns to the battlefield all artifact, creature, enchantment, and land cards in their graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Instant
Second Sunrise (plst) MRD-20
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

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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 (drc) 124
Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (blc) 181
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 108
Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature
Ophiomancer (mh3) 276
Priest of Forgotten Gods

{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.

Creature
Priest of Forgotten Gods (j25) 478
Sanguine Spy

Menace, lifelink {1}, Sacrifice another creature: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.) At the beginning of your end step, if there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Sanguine Spy (snc) 93
Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy. Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Sevinne's Reclamation (mh3) 267
Shadows of the Past

Whenever a creature dies, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {4}{B}: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Activate only if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Enchantment
Shadows of the Past (ddr) 60
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
Storm of Souls

Return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Each of them is a 1/1 Spirit with flying in addition to its other types. Exile Storm of Souls.

Sorcery
Storm of Souls (blc) 156
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
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (j22) 486
Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Viscera Seer (lcc) 213
Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 110
Zahur, Glory's Past

Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) Sacrifice another creature: Surveil 1. Activate only once each turn. Max speed — Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Zahur, Glory's Past (dft) 229
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

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59 pips - 44 cards
28 mana - 26 cards
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35 pips - 27 cards
28 mana - 26 cards
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3 mana - 3 cards
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