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Commander

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Liesa, Shroud of Dusk
Rather than pay
for each previous time you've cast this spell from the command zone this game, pay 2 life that many times.
Flying, lifelink
Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Angel
Liesa, Shroud of Dusk (cmr) 286

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Burn

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Mai, Scornful Striker
First strike
Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, they lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Human Ally Noble
Mai, Scornful Striker (tla) 109
Rug of Smothering
Flying
Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 1 life for each spell they've cast this turn.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Rug of Smothering (clb) 336
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

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Drain

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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 (j22) 21
Kambal, Consul of Allocation
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Human Advisor
Kambal, Consul of Allocation (pkld) 183s

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Draw

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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.)
Legendary Creature - Vampire Scout
Amalia Benavides Aguirre (lci) 299
Archivist of Oghma
Flash
Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Creature - Cleric Halfling
Archivist of Oghma (clb) 4
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 (clb) 620
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.
, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (pwar) 79
Exemplar of Light
Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on this creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Creature - Angel
Exemplar of Light (fdn) 445
Lunar Convocation
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent loses 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained and lost life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Lunar Convocation (pblb) 223p
Mangara, the Diplomat
Lifelink
Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Mangara, the Diplomat (cmm) 42
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (ema) 100
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
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
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (gn3) 61
Tymna the Weaver
Lifelink
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, you may pay X life, where X is the number of opponents that were dealt combat damage this turn. If you do, draw X cards.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Tymna the Weaver (fca) 18

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Finisher

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Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (avr) 102

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Land

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Bleachbone Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Plains or a Swamp.
Land
Bleachbone Verge (pdft) 250s
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (m15) 241
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (moc) 396
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
: Add
.
Channel —
, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs
less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (woc) 159
Fabled Passage
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Land
Fabled Passage (tmc) 67
Fetid Heath
: Add
.
,
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Fetid Heath (fic) 391
Godless Shrine
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Plains Swamp
Godless Shrine (peoe) 254p
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (dom) 241
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (j25) 81
Shattered Sanctum
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shattered Sanctum (dbl) 531
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tdm) 281
Tainted Field
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Field (clb) 919
Vault of Champions
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 621

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Lifegain

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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 (brr) 65
Auriok Champion
Protection from black and from red
Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Auriok Champion (ima) 9
Authority of the Consuls
Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (kld) 5
Haliya, Guided by Light
Whenever Haliya or another creature or artifact you control enters, you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if you've gained 3 or more life this turn.
Warp
(You may cast this card from your hand for its warp cost. Exile this creature at the beginning of the next end step, then you may cast it from exile on a later turn.)
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Haliya, Guided by Light (peoe) 19p
Leonin Elder
Whenever an artifact enters, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Cleric Cat
Leonin Elder (mrd) 10
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 - Cleric Angel
Righteous Valkyrie (j22) 234
Serra Ascendant
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.
Creature - Human Monk
Serra Ascendant (sld) 2291
Soul Warden
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soul Warden (9ed) 46
Soul's Attendant
Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soul's Attendant (roe) 44
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 - Soldier
Spectrum Sentinel (bro) 244
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 - Cleric Phyrexian
Suture Priest (nph) 25

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Protection

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Flare of Fortitude
You may sacrifice a nontoken white creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Until end of turn, your life total can't change, and permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible.
Instant
Flare of Fortitude (mh3) 391
Norn's Annex
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays
for each of those creatures.
Artifact
Norn's Annex (pw23) 1

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (moc) 348
Archaeomancer's Map
When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Artifact
Archaeomancer's Map (c21) 12
Bontu's Monument
Black creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Legendary Artifact
Bontu's Monument (akh) 225
Crypt Ghast
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional
.
Creature - Spirit
Crypt Ghast (gtc) 61
Deep Gnome Terramancer
Flash
Mold Earth — Whenever one or more lands enter under an opponent's control without being played, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Do this only once each turn.
Creature - Wizard Gnome
Deep Gnome Terramancer (clb) 607
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (c16) 254
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 - Human Knight
Knight of the White Orchid (voc) 92
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legendary Creature - Rogue Halfling
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff (ltr) 213
Monologue Tax
Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, you create a Treasure token.
Enchantment
Monologue Tax (dsc) 100
Oketra's Monument
White creature spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, create a 1/1 white Warrior creature token with vigilance.
Legendary Artifact
Oketra's Monument (akh) 233
Orzhov Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Orzhov Signet (dsc) 249
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (clb) 871
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (drc) 142
The Darkness Crystal
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.
,
: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.
Legendary Artifact
The Darkness Crystal (fin) 96
The Wind Crystal
White spells you cast cost
less to cast.
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
,
: Creatures you control gain flying and lifelink until end of turn.
Legendary Artifact
The Wind Crystal (fin) 43

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Recursion

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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
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 (jmp) 18

Recursion

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (otp) 35
Avatar's Wrath
Choose up to one target creature, then airbend all other creatures. (Exile them. While each one is exiled, its owner may cast it for
rather than its mana cost.)
Until your next turn, your opponents can't cast spells from anywhere other than their hands.
Exile Avatar's Wrath.
Sorcery
Avatar's Wrath (tla) 12
Farewell
Choose one or more —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all graveyards.
Sorcery
Farewell (pneo) 13s
Mana Tithe
Counter target spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Mana Tithe (tsr) 26
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 - Archer Orc
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 103
Reprieve
Return target spell to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.
Instant
Reprieve (ltr) 26
Snuff Out
If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Instant
Snuff Out (fic) 285
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (ima) 36
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 (2xm) 110

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Stax

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Aura of Silence
Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost
more to cast.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Enchantment
Aura of Silence (c15) 60
Blind Obedience
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Enchantment
Blind Obedience (rvr) 303
Drana and Linvala
Flying, vigilance
Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.
Drana and Linvala has all activated abilities of all creatures your opponents control. You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate those abilities.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Angel
Drana and Linvala (pmom) 222p
Isolation Cell
Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, that player loses 2 life unless they pay
.
Artifact
Isolation Cell (nph) 141
Spelltithe Enforcer
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player sacrifices a permanent of their choice unless they pay
.
Creature - Wizard Elephant
Spelltithe Enforcer (gpt) 18
Thalia, Heretic Cathar
First strike
Creatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped.
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Thalia, Heretic Cathar (inr) 351

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Maybeboard

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Ankh of Mishra
Whenever a land enters, this artifact deals 2 damage to that land's controller.
Artifact
Ankh of Mishra (sum) 233
Ashes of the Abhorrent
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or activate abilities of cards in graveyards.
Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Ashes of the Abhorrent (xln) 2
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 (tle) 23
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
Celestine, the Living Saint
Flying, lifelink
Healing Tears — At the beginning of your end step, 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.
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
Celestine, the Living Saint (40k) 10
Cliffhaven Vampire
Flying
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Warrior Ally
Cliffhaven Vampire (ogw) 153
Darksteel Mutation
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.
Enchantment - Aura
Darksteel Mutation (c13) 9
Despark
Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.
Instant
Despark (drc) 115
Drana's Emissary
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric Ally
Drana's Emissary (bfz) 210
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.
Legendary Creature - Cleric Kor Phyrexian
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim (dmu) 297
Flawless Maneuver
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Flawless Maneuver (cmm) 24
Ghostly Prison
Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays
for each creature they control that's attacking you.
Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (c21) 92
Grand Abolisher
During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.
Creature - Human Cleric
Grand Abolisher (m12) 19
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 (ths) 89
Kataki, War's Wage
All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay
."
Legendary Creature - Spirit
Kataki, War's Wage (mma) 20
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (fdn) 178
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (afc) 211
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Path to Exile (cmd) 25
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (m10) 111
Soldier of the Pantheon
Protection from multicolored
Whenever an opponent casts a multicolored spell, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Soldier
Soldier of the Pantheon (ths) 32
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
Sunscorch Regent
Flying
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Dragon
Sunscorch Regent (moc) 209
Tainted Remedy
If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.
Enchantment
Tainted Remedy (ori) 120
Tainted Sigil
, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain life equal to the total life lost by all players this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Artifact
Tainted Sigil (arb) 83
The Gaffer
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Peasant Halfling
The Gaffer (ltc) 12

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48 pips - 36 cards
33 mana - 31 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
32 pips - 25 cards
27 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 5 cards
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