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Esper life gains
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $446.27
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Commander

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Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life. Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro, Ageless Ascetic is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.

Creature
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic (plst) C13-203

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Artifact

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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: Aetherflux Reservoir deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (plst) KLD-192
Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead. If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (fdc) 1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (fdc) 2
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256

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Creature

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Body of Knowledge

Body of Knowledge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. You have no maximum hand size. Whenever Body of Knowledge is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

Creature
Body of Knowledge (dsc) 112
Crypt Ghast

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 you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (rvr) 70
Divinity of Pride

Flying, lifelink Divinity of Pride gets +4/+4 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Creature
Divinity of Pride (c13) 228
Drogskol Captain

Flying Other Spirit creatures you control get +1/+1 and have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Creature
Drogskol Captain (voc) 154
Drogskol Cavalry

Flying Whenever another Spirit you control enters, you gain 2 life. {3}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Creature
Drogskol Cavalry (soi) 15
Drogskol Reaver

Flying Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Creature
Drogskol Reaver (fdn) 655
Drogskol Reinforcements

Melee (Whenever this creature attacks, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each opponent you attacked this combat.) Other Spirits you control have melee. Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt to Spirits you control.

Creature
Drogskol Reinforcements (voc) 5
Faithbound Judge

Creature
Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12Faithbound Judge // Sinner's Judgment (vow) 12
Geist of Saint Traft

Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying that's tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.

Creature
Geist of Saint Traft (voc) 155
Grey Host Reinforcements

Flying, ward {3} When Grey Host Reinforcements enters, exile target player's graveyard. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on Grey Host Reinforcements equal to the number of creature cards exiled this way.

Creature
Grey Host Reinforcements (ltc) 14
Guardian of Faith

Flash Vigilance When Guardian of Faith enters, any number of other target creatures you control phase out. (Treat them and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Creature
Guardian of Faith (afr) 18
Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature. Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control. {1}{W}: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Heliod, Sun-Crowned (cmm) 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 (2x2) 237
Karlov of the Ghost Council

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov of the Ghost Council. {W}{B}, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov of the Ghost Council: Exile target creature.

Creature
Karlov of the Ghost Council (rvr) 193
Katilda, Dawnhart Martyr

Creature
Katilda, Dawnhart Martyr // Katilda's Rising Dawn (vow) 21Katilda, Dawnhart Martyr // Katilda's Rising Dawn (vow) 21
King of the Oathbreakers

Flying Whenever King of the Oathbreakers or another Spirit you control becomes the target of a spell, it phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until your next turn.) Whenever King of the Oathbreakers or another Spirit you control phases in, create a tapped 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Creature
King of the Oathbreakers (ltr) 211
Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

Flying Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."

Creature
Kira, Great Glass-Spinner (jmp) 154
Millicent, Restless Revenant

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each Spirit you control. Flying Whenever Millicent, Restless Revenant or another nontoken Spirit you control dies or deals combat damage to a player, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Creature
Millicent, Restless Revenant (voc) 1
Patrician Geist

Flying Other Spirits you control get +1/+1. Spells you cast from your graveyard cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Patrician Geist (mid) 69
Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Psychosis Crawler (blc) 282
Queza, Augur of Agonies

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Queza, Augur of Agonies (snc) 212
Rattlechains

Flash Flying When Rattlechains enters, target Spirit gains hexproof until end of turn. You may cast Spirit spells as though they had flash.

Creature
Rattlechains (voc) 110
Spirit of the Hearth

Flying You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Creature
Spirit of the Hearth (c17) 73
Supreme Phantom

Flying Other Spirits you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Supreme Phantom (voc) 115
Voice of the Blessed

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

Creature
Voice of the Blessed (vow) 44
Walking Ballista

Walking Ballista enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Walking Ballista. Remove a +1/+1 counter from Walking Ballista: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (mb2) 238
Windborn Muse

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

Creature
Windborn Muse (mkc) 92

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Enchantment

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Ajani's Welcome

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

Enchantment
Ajani's Welcome (plst) M19-6
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
Leyline of Hope

If Leyline of Hope is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. As long as you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total, creatures you control get +2/+2.

Enchantment
Leyline of Hope (dsk) 18
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
Necrodominance

Skip your draw step. At the beginning of your end step, you may pay any amount of life. If you do, draw that many cards. Your maximum hand size is five. If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Enchantment
Necrodominance (mh3) 102
Obscura Ascendancy

Whenever you cast a spell, if its mana value is equal to 1 plus the number of soul counters on Obscura Ascendancy, put a soul counter on Obscura Ascendancy, then create a 2/2 white Spirit creature token with flying. As long as there are five or more soul counters on Obscura Ascendancy, Spirits you control get +3/+3.

Enchantment
Obscura Ascendancy (snc) 207
Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Enchantment
Psychic Corrosion (plst) M19-68
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208
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 artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 57
Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {X} for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Enchantment
Sphere of Safety (dsc) 104
Struggle for Project Purity

As Struggle for Project Purity enters, choose Brotherhood or Enclave. • Brotherhood — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card. You draw a card for each card drawn this way. • Enclave — Whenever a player attacks you with one or more creatures, that player gets twice that many rad counters.

Enchantment
Struggle for Project Purity (pip) 39
Teferi's Ageless Insight

If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Enchantment
Teferi's Ageless Insight (j25) 371

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Instant

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Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant
Arcane Denial (dsc) 110
Bladebrand

Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Draw a card.

Instant
Bladebrand (rvr) 68
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (dsc) 114
Galadriel's Dismissal

Kicker {2}{W} (You may pay an additional {2}{W} as you cast this spell.) Target creature phases out. If this spell was kicked, each creature target player controls phases out instead. (Treat phased-out creatures and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Instant
Galadriel's Dismissal (ltc) 500
Mortify

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Instant
Mortify (fdn) 662
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (j25) 467
Negate

Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Negate (fdn) 710
Obsessive Search

Draw a card. Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Instant
Obsessive Search (dmr) 61
Opt

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

Instant
Opt (j25) 339
Precognitive Perception

Draw three cards. Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, instead scry 3, then draw three cards.

Instant
Precognitive Perception (rna) 45
Pressure Point

Tap target creature. Draw a card.

Instant
Pressure Point (plst) FRF-21
Quick Study

Draw two cards.

Instant
Quick Study (fdn) 513
Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Return to Dust (dsc) 102
Revitalize

You gain 3 life. Draw a card.

Instant
Revitalize (j25) 244
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 32

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Land

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Concealed Courtyard

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

Land
Concealed Courtyard (otj) 268
Deserted Beach

Deserted Beach enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Deserted Beach (who) 270
Dismal Backwater

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

Land
Dismal Backwater (fdn) 261
Glacial Fortress

Glacial Fortress enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (blc) 307
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (j25) 84
Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Land
Minas Tirith (ltr) 256
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (fdn) 273
Port Town

As Port Town enters, you may reveal a Plains or Island card from your hand. If you don't, Port Town enters tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Port Town (who) 294
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (dsc) 295
Scoured Barrens

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

Land
Scoured Barrens (fdn) 266
Sejiri Refuge

Sejiri Refuge enters tapped. When Sejiri Refuge enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Sejiri Refuge (scd) 317
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (j25) 87
Terramorphic Expanse

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

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (j25) 156
Tranquil Cove

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

Land
Tranquil Cove (fdn) 270

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Planeswalker

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Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim

Whenever you draw a card, put a loyalty counter on Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim. 0: Draw a card. −2: Create a 2/2 blue Spirit creature token with vigilance and "Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." −12: Target opponent chooses a permanent they control and returns it to its owner's hand. Then they shuffle each nonland permanent they control into its owner's library.

Planeswalker
Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim (bro) 66

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Sorcery

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Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards. Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Deep Analysis (j25) 304
Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Peer into the Abyss (plst) M21-117
Preordain

Scry 2, then draw a card. (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
Preordain (mb2) 35
Seize the Secrets

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you've committed a crime this turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) Draw two cards.

Sorcery
Seize the Secrets (otj) 64

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Deck Info

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44 pips - 32 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
34 pips - 28 cards
15 mana - 15 cards
24 pips - 14 cards
13 mana - 13 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 2 cards
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0 mana - 2 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
4 mana - 3 cards
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