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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $8.99
Dina, Soul Steeper
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
, Sacrifice another creature: Dina gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Legendary Creature - Druid Dryad
Dina, Soul Steeper (mul) 167

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Card Draw // Adv.

Qty: 9 Price: $67.07
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 is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (lcc) 181
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) 368
Moldervine Reclamation
Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (sld) 1716
Nazar, the Velvet Fang
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever you gain life, put a feeding counter on Nazar.
Whenever Nazar attacks, you may remove three feeding counters from it. If you do, you draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Warlock
Nazar, the Velvet Fang (j25) 43
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Scheming Silvertongue
Flying, lifelink
At the beginning of your second main phase, if you gained 2 or more life this turn, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood (sos) 99
The Speed Demon
Flying, trample
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.)
At the beginning of your end step, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is your speed.
Legendary Creature - Demon
The Speed Demon (dft) 105
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 - Vampire Cleric
Twilight Prophet (cmm) 193
Well of Lost Dreams
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
, 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 (sld) 1181

Card Draw // Adv.

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Countermeasures

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Infuse with Vitality
Until end of turn, target creature gains deathtouch and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
You gain 2 life.
Instant
Infuse with Vitality (stx) 194
Wrap in Vigor
Regenerate each creature you control.
Instant
Wrap in Vigor (plst) FUT-141

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Enhancer

Qty: 1 Price: $12.99
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.
Legendary Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233

Enhancer

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Land

Qty: 35 (36 w/ MDFC)Price: $116.57
Adventurer's Inn
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land - Town
Adventurer's Inn (fin) 271
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (eoc) 149
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (sld) 7012
Deathcap Glade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Deathcap Glade (inr) 275
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (ltc) 307
Festering Thicket
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Land - Swamp Forest
Festering Thicket (eoc) 41
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (lci) 401
Golgari Rot Farm
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
: Add
.
Land
Golgari Rot Farm (2x2) 406
High Market
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Land
High Market (plst) MMQ-320
Jungle Hollow
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Jungle Hollow (tdm) 258
Llanowar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Llanowar Wastes (bro) 299
Necroblossom Snarl
As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Necroblossom Snarl (cmm) 1015
Overgrown Tomb
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Forest
Overgrown Tomb (ecl) 266
Radiant Fountain
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land
Radiant Fountain (c21) 310
Revitalizing Repast
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256
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
Sapseep Forest
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped.
,
: You gain 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more green permanents.
Land - Forest
Sapseep Forest (c21) 313
Scavenger Grounds
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.
Land - Desert
Scavenger Grounds (otc) 316
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (lci) 398
Tainted Wood
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Wood (dsc) 305
Temple of Malady
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.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Malady (tdc) 403
Underground Mortuary
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Land - Swamp Forest
Underground Mortuary (mkm) 271
Undergrowth Stadium
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 666
Vernal Fen
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Swamp Forest
Vernal Fen (tmc) 81
Viridescent Bog
,
: Add
.
Land
Viridescent Bog (m3c) 406
Wastewood Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Swamp or a Forest.
Land
Wastewood Verge (dft) 374
Woodland Cemetery
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
: Add
or
.
Land
Woodland Cemetery (dmr) 261

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Lifegain

Qty: 20 Price: $228.80
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 (brr) 2
Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (inr) 97
Bloodchief Ascension
At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.
Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (cmm) 139
Bloodthirsty Conqueror
Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Knight Vampire
Bloodthirsty Conqueror (fdn) 58
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 - Vampire
Creeping Bloodsucker (j25) 415
Deathgreeter
Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Shaman
Deathgreeter (gvl) 33
Deathrite Shaman
: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color.
,
: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life.
,
: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Deathrite Shaman (mb2) 81
Defiling Daemogoth
Menace
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Creature - Demon
Defiling Daemogoth (soc) 75
Essence Warden
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Essence Warden (ltc) 242
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (sld) 1798
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437
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 - Elf Druid
Gala Greeters (snc) 450
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Lifegift
Whenever a land enters, you may gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Lifegift (bok) 132
Prosperous Innkeeper
When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Citizen Halfling
Prosperous Innkeeper (slp) 40
Sangromancer
Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.
Creature - Vampire Shaman
Sangromancer (scd) 103
Scavenging Ooze
: 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 - Ooze
Scavenging Ooze (m21) 318
South Wind Avatar
Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control dies, you gain life equal to its toughness.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Avatar Spirit Snake
South Wind Avatar (tmt) 78
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
Vein Ripper
Flying
Ward—Sacrifice a creature.
Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Vampire Assassin
Vein Ripper (mkm) 346

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Payoffs

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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 - Snake Glimmer
Enduring Tenacity (dsk) 95
Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent dealt combat damage this game by a creature named Gollum, Obsessed Stalker loses life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.
Legendary Creature - Horror Halfling
Gollum, Obsessed Stalker (ltc) 26
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (sld) 1799
Starscape Cleric
Offspring
(You may pay an additional
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 - Cleric Bat
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
Trudge Garden
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, create a 4/4 green Fungus Beast creature token with trample.
Enchantment
Trudge Garden (c21) 69
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Cleric
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (j25) 71

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Pests

Qty: 6 Price: $31.94
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.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Beledros Witherbloom (stx) 282
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
Eccentric Pestfinder
Trample
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Druid Troll
Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones (soc) 46
Feral Appetite
Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have deathtouch.
: Exile target card from a graveyard. If a creature card is exiled this way, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Enchantment
Feral Appetite (soc) 38
Pest Rescuer
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you don't control a Pest creature token, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
Creature - Druid Dryad
Pest Rescuer (soc) 42
Valentin, Dean of the Vein
Menace, lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay
. If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Legendary Creature - Vampire Warlock
Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161

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Ramp

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Ancient Cornucopia
Whenever you cast a spell that's one or more colors, you may gain 1 life for each of that spell's colors. Do this only once each turn.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Ancient Cornucopia (big) 16
Cultivate
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Cultivate (sta) 51
Heaped Harvest
When this artifact enters and when you sacrifice it, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.
Artifact - Food
Heaped Harvest (blb) 175
Kodama's Reach
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery - Arcane
Kodama's Reach (cmm) 649
Llanowar Elves
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Llanowar Elves (pdom) 168
Nature's Lore
Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Nature's Lore (cmm) 904
Pristine Talisman
: Add
. You gain 1 life.
Artifact
Pristine Talisman (ltc) 283
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (ltc) 284

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Recursion

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Bala Ged Recovery
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
Reanimate
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Sorcery
Reanimate (fic) 282
Veinwitch Coven
Menace
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Veinwitch Coven (otc) 151

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Targeted Removal

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Assassin's Trophy
Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Assassin's Trophy (mkm) 187
Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (tdc) 249
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 (soa) 29
Mortality Spear
This spell costs
less to cast if you gained life this turn.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Mortality Spear (stx) 207
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 (otp) 30
Witherbloom Charm
Choose one —
• You may sacrifice a permanent. If you do, draw two cards.
• You gain 5 life.
• Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less.
Instant
Witherbloom Charm (sos) 244

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (plst) DDC-49

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Wraths // Sweepers

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Essence Pulse
You gain 2 life. Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Sorcery
Essence Pulse (c21) 366
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 - Human Warlock
Witch of the Moors (sld) 1722

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Maybeboard

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Angel's Feather
Whenever a player casts a white spell, you may gain 1 life.
Artifact
Angel's Feather (dvd) 23
Cauldron of Essence
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
,
, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Cauldron of Essence (sos) 179
Druid Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
: Level 2
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
: 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 - Class
Druid Class (afr) 180
Jaddi Offshoot
Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Plant
Jaddi Offshoot (ima) 171
Kazandu Nectarpot
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Insect
Kazandu Nectarpot (znr) 190
Moseo, Vein's New Dean
Flying
When Moseo enters, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."
Infusion — At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, return up to one 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.
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Bird Warlock
Moseo, Vein's New Dean (sos) 91
Professor Dellian Fel
+2: You gain 3 life.
0: You draw a card and lose 1 life.
−3: Destroy target creature.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life."
Legendary Planeswalker - Dellian
Professor Dellian Fel (sos) 283
Trespasser's Curse
Enchant player
Whenever a creature enchanted player controls enters, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment - Aura Curse
Trespasser's Curse (plst) AKH-112
Withering Curse
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Infusion — If you gained life this turn, destroy all creatures instead.
Sorcery
Withering Curse (sos) 105

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