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Commander

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Willowdusk, Essence Seer
,
: Choose another target creature. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of life you gained this turn or the amount of life you lost this turn, whichever is greater. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Druid Dryad
Willowdusk, Essence Seer (c21) 6
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Drain

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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 (stx) 178
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21
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
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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
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$2.99 $4.40
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208
Color tag templates(None)
$6.99 $4.41
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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$13.99 $10.82
Zulaport Cutthroat
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Rogue Ally
Zulaport Cutthroat (blc) 190
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Draw

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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
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$12.99 $11.40
Bloodtracker
Flying
, Pay 2 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.
Creature - Wizard Vampire
Bloodtracker (lcc) 186
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.33
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 (mb2) 39
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Damnable Pact
Target player draws X cards and loses X life.
Sorcery
Damnable Pact (ncc) 245
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$1.29 $3.26
Disciple of Bolas
When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Creature - Human Wizard
Disciple of Bolas (tdc) 178
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$1.29 $0.31
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.39
Midnight Reaper
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.
Creature - Knight Zombie
Midnight Reaper (drc) 44
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$0.49 $0.32
Moldervine Reclamation
Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (blc) 255
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$0.59 $0.39
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
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Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
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$1.49 $2.85
Silversmote Ghoul
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.
Creature - Vampire Zombie
Silversmote Ghoul (c21) 154
Color tag templates(None)
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Skullclamp
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Skullclamp (tdc) 103
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$8.49 $6.56
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 (ltc) 291
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$2.79 $1.13

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Land

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Blighted Woodland
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Blighted Woodland (clb) 881
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.38
Blooming Marsh
This land enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Blooming Marsh (otj) 266
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$4.49 $2.11
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (eoc) 59
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$0.69 $0.31
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (eoc) 159
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Forest
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: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (tla) 286
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Gingerbread Cabin
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Forests.
When this land enters untapped, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
,
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Land - Forest
Gingerbread Cabin (c21) 290
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High Market
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Land
High Market (afc) 246
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Jungle Hollow
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Jungle Hollow (tdm) 258
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Llanowar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Llanowar Wastes (eoc) 165
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$0.99 $0.54
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Myriad Landscape (eoc) 169
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.27
Radiant Fountain
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land
Radiant Fountain (c21) 310
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$0.99 $0.38
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
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$1.29 $0.50
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
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$1.29 $0.44
Swamp
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: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (tla) 284
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$0.49 $0.12
Tainted Wood
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Wood (dsc) 305
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$0.79 $0.28
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
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.27
Witch's Clinic
: Add
.
,
: Target commander gains lifelink until end of turn.
Land
Witch's Clinic (dsc) 325
Color tag templates(None)
$18.99 $12.91
Witherbloom Campus
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
,
: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Witherbloom Campus (stx) 275
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.25

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Lifegain

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Blossoming Bogbeast
Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 2 life. Then creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Creature - Beast
Blossoming Bogbeast (c21) 59
Color tag templates(None)
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Essence Warden
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Essence Warden (ltc) 242
Color tag templates(None)
$4.99 $7.04
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Color tag templates(None)
$42.99 $37.47
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
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.42
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 Shaman
Vampire Nighthawk (j25) 503
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.21
Verdant Sun's Avatar
Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
Creature - Avatar Dinosaur
Verdant Sun's Avatar (lcc) 262
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.36

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Protection

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Gyome, Master Chef
Trample
At the beginning of your end step, create a number of Food tokens equal to the number of nontoken creatures you had enter the battlefield under your control this turn.
, Sacrifice a Food: Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.
Legendary Creature - Troll Warlock
Gyome, Master Chef (c21) 5
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Malakir Rebirth
Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
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$20.99 $12.61

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Ramp

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Accomplished Alchemist
: Add one mana of any color.
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Creature - Elf Druid
Accomplished Alchemist (stx) 119
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.40
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (eoc) 53
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$0.99 $0.37
Elvish Mystic
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Elvish Mystic (cmm) 284
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.97
Ezzaroot Channeler
Reach
Creature spells you cast cost
less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
: You gain 2 life.
Creature - Druid Treefolk
Ezzaroot Channeler (c21) 60
Color tag templates(None)
$1.49 $1.24
Fertilid
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Target player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles.
Creature - Elemental
Fertilid (moc) 296
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.25
Llanowar Elves
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Llanowar Elves (j25) 149
Color tag templates(None)
$0.79 $0.45
Marshland Bloodcaster
Flying
,
: Rather than pay the mana cost of the next spell you cast this turn, you may pay life equal to that spell's mana value.
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Marshland Bloodcaster (otc) 139
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.32
Marwyn, the Nurturer
Whenever another Elf you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Marwyn.
: Add an amount of
equal to Marwyn's power.
Legendary Creature - Elf Druid
Marwyn, the Nurturer (j25) 687
Color tag templates(None)
$6.49 $4.44
Rampant Growth
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Rampant Growth (tdc) 265
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.41
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Creature - Shaman Snake
Sakura-Tribe Elder (tdc) 266
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.42
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (eoc) 57
Color tag templates(None)
$2.49 $1.41
Viridian Joiner
: Add an amount of
equal to this creature's power.
Creature - Elf Druid
Viridian Joiner (mrd) 138
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$0.35 $0.40

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Recursion

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Healing Technique
Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it. Players may choose new targets for their copies.)
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain life equal to that card's mana value. Exile Healing Technique.
Sorcery
Healing Technique (c21) 63
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.38
Nether Traitor
Haste
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay
. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Creature - Spirit
Nether Traitor (tsr) 127
Color tag templates(None)
$8.49 $8.96
Reassembling Skeleton
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Creature - Warrior Skeleton
Reassembling Skeleton (tdc) 195
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.29
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
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $1.93
Whip of Erebos
Creatures you control have lifelink.
,
: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (dsc) 159
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$11.99 $6.90

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Removal

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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) 39
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.36
Gaze of Granite
Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less.
Sorcery
Gaze of Granite (eoc) 116
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.23
Khalni Ambush
Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Instant
Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory (znr) 192Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory (znr) 192
Color tag templates(None)
$1.99 $0.48
Mortality Spear
This spell costs
less to cast if you gained life this turn.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Mortality Spear (stx) 207
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.26
Nature's Claim
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
Instant
Nature's Claim (mb2) 69
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.69
Noxious Gearhulk
Menace
When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.
Creature Artifact - Construct
Noxious Gearhulk (tdc) 191
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.36
Plaguecrafter
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.
Creature - Human Shaman
Plaguecrafter (blc) 187
Color tag templates(None)
$0.99 $0.38
Reckless Spite
Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.
Instant
Reckless Spite (woc) 117
Color tag templates(None)
$0.35 $0.22
Reclamation Sage
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Reclamation Sage (fdn) 231
Color tag templates(None)
$0.49 $0.32

Removal

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Sac Outlet

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Disciple of Griselbrand
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.
Creature - Human Cleric
Disciple of Griselbrand (c13) 74
Color tag templates(None)
$0.39 $0.27
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Jarad gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Legendary Creature - Elf Zombie
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord (tdc) 293
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$2.29 $1.13

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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.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Beledros Witherbloom (blc) 247
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $2.50
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
Color tag templates(None)
$0.59 $0.57
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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Tutor

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Diabolic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (kld) 75
Color tag templates(None)
$2.29 $1.57
Final Parting
Search your library for two cards. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.
Sorcery
Final Parting (cmm) 160
Color tag templates(None)
$0.69 $0.35
Jarad's Orders
Search your library for up to two creature cards and reveal them. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.
Sorcery
Jarad's Orders (rtr) 175
Color tag templates(None)
$1.79 $1.01
Rushed Rebirth
Choose target creature. When that creature dies this turn, search your library for a creature card with lesser mana value, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Instant
Rushed Rebirth (stx) 228
Color tag templates(None)
$1.29 $0.46

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Untap

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Staff of Domination
: Untap this artifact.
,
: You gain 1 life.
,
: Untap target creature.
,
: Tap target creature.
,
: Draw a card.
Artifact
Staff of Domination (cmr) 343
Color tag templates(None)
$12.99 $11.60

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