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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $3.99
Sorin of House Markov
Lifelink
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, exile Sorin, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control.
Legendary Creature - Human Noble
Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate (mh3) 245Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate (mh3) 245

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Drain

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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
Indulging Patrician
Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.
Creature - Vampire Noble
Indulging Patrician (tdc) 292

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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
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
Cremate
Exile target card from a graveyard.
Draw a card.
Instant
Cremate (rtr) 59
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) 11
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
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (ecc) 81
Pain's Reward
Each player may bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of any number. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and draws four cards.
Sorcery
Pain's Reward (sok) 85
Risky Research
Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Sorcery
Risky Research (spm) 62
Secret Rendezvous
You and target opponent each draw three cards.
Sorcery
Secret Rendezvous (stx) 26
Skeletal Scrying
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard.
You draw X cards and you lose X life.
Instant
Skeletal Scrying (c17) 125
Smuggler's Share
At the beginning of each end step, draw a card for each opponent who drew two or more cards this turn, then create a Treasure token for each opponent who had two or more lands enter the battlefield under their control this turn.
Enchantment
Smuggler's Share (mkc) 84
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 (c21) 275

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Finisher

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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 - Beast Cat
Felidar Sovereign (j25) 198
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

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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 (dft) 250
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (pz1) 135
Castle Locthwain
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Desolate Mire
,
: Add
.
Land
Desolate Mire (fic) 386
Emergence Zone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Land
Emergence Zone (war) 245
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 (eoe) 254
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (fic) 405
Kor Haven
: Add
.
,
: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by target attacking creature this turn.
Legendary Land
Kor Haven (nem) 141
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 (m3c) 358
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (mh2) 482
Scoured Barrens
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Scoured Barrens (tdm) 267
Shadowy Backstreet
(
: 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 - Plains Swamp
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 268
Shattered Sanctum
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shattered Sanctum (inr) 283
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.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shineshadow Snarl (fic) 422
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (mh2) 485
Tainted Field
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Field (pip) 298
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.)
: Add
or
.
Land
Temple of Silence (m3c) 391
Vault of Champions
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 436
Volrath's Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Legendary Land
Volrath's Stronghold (tpr) 248
War Room
: Add
.
,
, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Land
War Room (mkc) 310

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Lifegain

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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 (fdn) 137
Basilica Screecher
Flying
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Creature - Bat
Basilica Screecher (clu) 105
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.
: Level 2
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
: 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 - Class
Cleric Class (afr) 6
Pontiff of Blight
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)
Creature - Cleric Zombie
Pontiff of Blight (clb) 768
Revival
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Revival // Revenge (rvr) 241
Rhox Faithmender
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
Creature - Monk Rhino
Rhox Faithmender (tdc) 128
Soul Warden
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soul Warden (mm3) 24
Soul's Attendant
Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Cleric
Soul's Attendant (roe) 44
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
Syndic of Tithes
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Creature - Human Cleric
Syndic of Tithes (clu) 74
Thrull Parasite
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.
Creature - Thrull
Thrull Parasite (plst) GTC-81
Tithe Drinker
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay
. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Creature - Vampire
Tithe Drinker (plst) C17-200

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Protection

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Dawn's Truce
Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. If the gift was promised, permanents you control also gain indestructible until end of turn.
Instant
Dawn's Truce (blb) 9
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
Not Dead After All
Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)
Instant
Not Dead After All (woe) 101
Supernatural Stamina
Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Instant
Supernatural Stamina (cmm) 188
Ultimate Magic: Holy
Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn. If this spell was cast from exile, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
Foretell
(During your turn, you may pay
and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)
Instant
Ultimate Magic: Holy (fic) 32
Undying Evil
Target creature gains undying until end of turn. (When it dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Instant
Undying Evil (dka) 77
Undying Malice
Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."
Instant
Undying Malice (fdn) 528

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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 (ecc) 55
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 (drc) 124
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 (rvr) 70
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
Orzhov Cluestone
: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Orzhov Cluestone (c15) 261
Orzhov Keyrune
: Add
or
.
: This artifact becomes a 1/4 white and black Thrull artifact creature with lifelink until end of turn.
Artifact
Orzhov Keyrune (gtc) 233
Orzhov Locket
: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.
Artifact
Orzhov Locket (moc) 368
Orzhov Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Orzhov Signet (tdc) 323
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (ecc) 57
Sol Talisman
Suspend 3—
(Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay
and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Talisman (mh2) 432
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (fic) 365
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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Phyrexian Reclamation
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (tdc) 194
Sanguine Indulgence
This spell costs
less to cast if you've gained 3 or more life this turn.
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Sanguine Indulgence (fdn) 613
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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Removal

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Ajani, Strength of the Pride
+1: You gain life equal to the number of creatures you control plus the number of planeswalkers you control.
−2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this token."
0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani and each artifact and creature your opponents control.
Legendary Planeswalker - Ajani
Ajani, Strength of the Pride (m20) 2
Despark
Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.
Instant
Despark (tdc) 284
Hallowed Moonlight
Until end of turn, if a creature would enter and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
Draw a card.
Instant
Hallowed Moonlight (ori) 16
Heliod's Intervention
Choose one —
• Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments.
• Target player gains twice X life.
Instant
Heliod's Intervention (otc) 81
Nightmare's Thirst
You gain 1 life. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Instant
Nightmare's Thirst (m19) 111
Not on My Watch
Exile target attacking creature.
Instant
Not on My Watch (mkm) 28
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 (ecc) 65
Swords to Plowshares
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Instant
Swords to Plowshares (eoc) 45
Vile Rebirth
Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Instant
Vile Rebirth (m14) 121

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Reward for life gaines

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Elenda's Hierophant
Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is its power.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Elenda's Hierophant (lcc) 71
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 - Cleric Bat
Essence Channeler (blb) 12
Griffin Aerie
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying.
Enchantment
Griffin Aerie (plst) M21-22

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Stax

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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) 9

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Tokens

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Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
Flying
Whenever Gwaihir attacks, target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn.
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 3/3 white Bird creature token with flying and "Whenever this token attacks, target attacking creature gains flying until end of turn."
Legendary Creature - Bird Noble
Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles (ltc) 417

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Sideboard

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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
Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 147
Karlov of the Ghost Council
Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov.
, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov: Exile target creature.
Legendary Creature - Spirit Advisor
Karlov of the Ghost Council (rvr) 193
Leonin Elder
Whenever an artifact enters, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Cleric Cat
Leonin Elder (mrd) 10
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) 414

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Maybeboard

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Adipose Offspring
Emerge
(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When this creature enters, create a 2/2 white Alien creature token. If this creature's emerge cost was paid, instead create X of those tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's toughness.
Creature - Alien
Adipose Offspring (who) 10
Ajani's Pridemate
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Soldier Cat
Ajani's Pridemate (fdn) 135
Altar of Dementia
Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Artifact
Altar of Dementia (mh1) 218
Altar of the Wretched
When this artifact enters, you may sacrifice a nontoken creature. If you do, draw X cards, then mill X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Craft with one or more creatures

: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Artifact
Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass (lcc) 10Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass (lcc) 10
Astarion, the Decadent
Deathtouch, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, choose one —
• Feed — Target opponent loses life equal to the amount of life they lost this turn.
• Friends — You gain life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.
Legendary Creature - Vampire Elf Rogue
Astarion, the Decadent (clb) 265
Bushmeat Poacher
,
, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Draw a card.
Creature - Human Soldier
Bushmeat Poacher (iko) 77
Contemplation
Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Contemplation (sth) 4
Defiant Bloodlord
Flying
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Creature - Vampire
Defiant Bloodlord (c21) 142
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 (eoe) 19
Parting Thoughts
Destroy target creature. You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of counters on that creature.
Sorcery
Parting Thoughts (c16) 15
Ratchet, Field Medic
More Than Meets the Eye
(You may cast this card converted for
.)
Lifelink
Whenever you gain life, you may convert Ratchet. When you do, return target artifact card with mana value less than or equal to the amount of life you gained this turn from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Robot
Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer (bot) 2Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer (bot) 2
Sunbond
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature."
Enchantment - Aura
Sunbond (bng) 28

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Deck Info

Deck stats

41 pips - 31 cards
29 mana - 29 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
1 mana - 1 card
31 pips - 27 cards
29 mana - 27 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
1 mana - 1 card
0 pips - 0 cards
1 mana - 1 card
0 pips - 0 cards
11 mana - 9 cards
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