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2.0 Ramp-Suite (15)

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (ltc) 273
Bre of Clan Stoutarm
,
: Another target creature you control gains flying and lifelink until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost if the spell's mana value is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained this turn. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
Legendary Creature - Warrior Giant
Bre of Clan Stoutarm (ecl) 207
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 (ltc) 534
Studious First-Year
This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Wizard Bear
Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth (sos) 162
Yavimaya Bloomsage
At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then if that creature has power 7 or greater, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Druid Dryad
Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel (soc) 44

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2.2 Reanimate-others

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Aerith, Last Ancient
Lifelink
Raise — At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If you gained 7 or more life this turn, return that card to the battlefield instead.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric Druid
Aerith, Last Ancient (fic) 163

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3.3 Removal-Suite (10)

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Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (ltc) 265
Decimate
Destroy target artifact, target creature, target enchantment, and target land. (You can't cast this spell unless you have legal choices for all its targets.)
Sorcery
Decimate (otc) 220
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 (soc) 282

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4.2 Draw

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Hoarder's Greed
You lose 2 life and draw two cards, then clash with an opponent. If you win, repeat this process. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on their choice of the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a greater mana value.)
Sorcery
Hoarder's Greed (ecc) 47
Mister Negative
Vigilance, lifelink
Darkforce Inversion — When Mister Negative enters, you may exchange life totals with target opponent. If you lost life this way, draw that many cards.
Legendary Creature - Human Villain
Mister Negative (spm) 135
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
Necrologia
Cast this spell only during your end step.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Draw X cards.
Instant
Necrologia (plst) 7ED-149
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
Requiem Monolith
: Until end of turn, target creature gains "Whenever this creature is dealt damage, you draw that many cards and lose that much life." That creature's controller may have this artifact deal 1 damage to it. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Requiem Monolith (eoe) 113
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

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4.3 Amount-of-Life-lost-matters

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Vampire Scrivener
Flying
Whenever you gain life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Whenever you lose life during your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Vampire Warlock
Vampire Scrivener (j25) 505

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6.0 Finisher

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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 (sld) 1797
Hatred
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.
Instant
Hatred (exo) 64
Vizkopa Guildmage
: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.
Creature - Human Wizard
Vizkopa Guildmage (ima) 211
Xander's Pact
Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)
Each opponent exiles the top card of their library. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to that spell's mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
Sorcery
Xander's Pact (ncc) 43

6.0 Finisher

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Amplify-Lifegain

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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

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Burst-Lifegain (10+)

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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
Piru, the Volatile
Flying, lifelink
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Piru unless you pay
.
When Piru dies, it deals 7 damage to each nonlegendary creature.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Piru, the Volatile (mh2) 466

Burst-Lifegain (10+)

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Fun but not optimal

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Necravolver
Kicker
and/or
(You may pay an additional
and/or
as you cast this spell.)
If this creature was kicked with its
kicker, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it and with trample.
If this creature was kicked with its
kicker, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it and with "Whenever this creature deals damage, you gain that much life."
Creature - Volver
Necravolver (plst) APC-46
Soul Link
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.
Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, you gain that much life.
Enchantment - Aura
Soul Link (apc) 120

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Land

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Battlefield Forge
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Battlefield Forge (ltc) 296
Brushland
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Brushland (ltc) 297
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (ltc) 306
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (ltr) 270
Horizon Canopy
, Pay 1 life: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
Horizon Canopy (ltc) 366
Mountain
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Mountain
Mountain (ltr) 268
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Path of Ancestry (ltc) 322
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (ltr) 263
Sulfurous Springs
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Sulfurous Springs (ltc) 334
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (ltr) 267

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Lifegain-Trigger-Payoff (4x)

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Aerith Gainsborough
Lifelink
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Aerith Gainsborough.
When Aerith Gainsborough dies, put X +1/+1 counters on each legendary creature you control, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Aerith Gainsborough.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Aerith Gainsborough (fin) 423
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
Light of Promise
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature."
Enchantment - Aura
Light of Promise (m21) 25

Lifegain-Trigger-Payoff (4x)

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Old-Lifegain

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Spirit Link
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.)
Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.
Enchantment - Aura
Spirit Link (dmr) 274

Old-Lifegain

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Tutor

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Primal Command
Choose two —
• Target player gains 7 life.
• Put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library.
• Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.
• Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Primal Command (sta) 55

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Maybeboard

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Adventurer's Inn
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land - Town
Adventurer's Inn (fin) 271
Agent of the Shadow Thieves
Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn."
Legendary Enchantment - Background
Agent of the Shadow Thieves (clb) 108
Axis of Mortality
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have two target players exchange life totals.
Enchantment
Axis of Mortality (xln) 3
Azor's Gateway
,
: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand. If cards with five or more different mana values are exiled with Azor's Gateway, you gain 5 life, untap Azor's Gateway, and transform it.
Legendary Artifact
Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun (plst) RIX-176Azor's Gateway // Sanctum of the Sun (plst) RIX-176
Bastion Protector
Commander creatures you control get +2/+2 and have indestructible.
Creature - Human Soldier
Bastion Protector (fic) 233
Betor, Kin to All
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if creatures you control have total toughness 10 or greater, draw a card. Then if creatures you control have total toughness 20 or greater, untap each creature you control. Then if creatures you control have total toughness 40 or greater, each opponent loses half their life, rounded up.
Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit
Betor, Kin to All (tdm) 172
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
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 (war) 79
Cabaretti Courtyard
When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Mountain, Forest, or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.
Land
Cabaretti Courtyard (snc) 249
Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
Equipped creature has lifelink.
As long as you have 30 or more life, equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has indestructible and "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature."
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Caduceus, Staff of Hermes (acr) 2
Caravan Vigil
Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Morbid — You may put that card onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your hand if a creature died this turn.
Sorcery
Caravan Vigil (isd) 173
Chalice of Life
: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform this artifact.
Artifact
Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (inr) 257Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (inr) 257
Chromatic Lantern
Lands you control have "
: Add one mana of any color."
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (drc) 53
Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh
Allies — At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to two other target legendary creatures.
Betrayal — Whenever a legendary creature with counters on it dies, draw a card for each counter on it. You lose 2 life.
Legendary Creature - Human Noble
Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh (acr) 119
Collapsing Borders
Domain — At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains 1 life for each basic land type among lands they control. Then this enchantment deals 3 damage to that player.
Enchantment
Collapsing Borders (inv) 141
Cradle of Vitality
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each 1 life you gained.
Enchantment
Cradle of Vitality (jmp) 98
Crypt Incursion
Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.
Instant
Crypt Incursion (ltc) 198
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 (ltc) 236
Essence Harvest
Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
Sorcery
Essence Harvest (avr) 100
Eventide's Shadow
Remove any number of counters from among permanents on the battlefield. You draw cards and lose life equal to the number of counters removed this way.
Sorcery
Eventide's Shadow (ecc) 8
Evra, Halcyon Witness
Lifelink
: Exchange your life total with Evra's power.
Legendary Creature - Avatar
Evra, Halcyon Witness (plst) DOM-16
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Eye of Vecna
When Eye of Vecna enters, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay
. If you do, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.
Legendary Artifact
Eye of Vecna (afr) 243
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (tdc) 255
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (tdc) 318
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Grim Feast
At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 1 damage to you.
Whenever a creature is put into an opponent's graveyard from the battlefield, you gain life equal to its toughness.
Enchantment
Grim Feast (mir) 265
Hand of Vecna
At the beginning of combat on your turn, equipped creature or a creature you control named Vecna gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Equip—Pay 1 life for each card in your hand.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Hand of Vecna (afr) 246
Kain, Traitorous Dragoon
Jump — During your turn, Kain has flying.
Whenever Kain deals combat damage to a player, that player gains control of Kain. If they do, you draw that many cards, create that many tapped Treasure tokens, then lose that much life.
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Kain, Traitorous Dragoon (fin) 105
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
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 (soc) 155
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (j25) 471
Nomad Outpost
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Nomad Outpost (tdm) 263
Painful Truths
Converge — You draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.
Sorcery
Painful Truths (otc) 146
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Radiant Fountain
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land
Radiant Fountain (c21) 310
Rampant Growth
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Rampant Growth (ltc) 257
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 (ltc) 206
Reverse the Sands
Redistribute any number of players' life totals. (Each of those players gets one life total back.)
Sorcery
Reverse the Sands (c16) 75
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
Rodolf Duskbringer
Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever you gain life, Rodolf Duskbringer gains indestructible until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay
. When you do, 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 - Vampire Angel
Rodolf Duskbringer (j25) 482
Sandsteppe Citadel
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Sandsteppe Citadel (tdm) 266
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (ltc) 208
Savage Lands
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Savage Lands (cmm) 1025
Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge
Menace
Other legendary creatures you control have menace.
Whenever you play a legendary land or cast a legendary spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Shanid, Sleepers' Scourge (dmc) 4
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (ltc) 284
Sproutback Trudge
This spell costs
less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Trample
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may cast this creature from your graveyard.
Creature - Beast Fungus
Sproutback Trudge (c21) 68
Star Charter
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained or lost life this turn, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with power 3 or less from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Creature - Cleric Bat
Star Charter (blb) 33
Starlit Soothsayer
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained or lost life this turn, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Cleric Bat
Starlit Soothsayer (blb) 115
Tavern Swindler
, Pay 3 life: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 6 life.
Creature - Human Rogue
Tavern Swindler (snc) 96
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Terramorphic Expanse (tdc) 408
The Book of Vile Darkness
At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.
Legendary Artifact - Book
The Book of Vile Darkness (afr) 91
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
Wild Growth
Enchant land
Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional
.
Enchantment - Aura
Wild Growth (mkc) 195

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Tokens & Extras

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Pest
When this creature dies, you gain 1 life.
Creature Token - Pest
Pest (tblc) 34
Vecna
Indestructible
Legendary Creature Token - Zombie God
Vecna (tafr) 8
Zombie
Creature Token - Zombie
Zombie (tdft) 3

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Deck stats

14 pips - 13 cards
8 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
2 mana - 2 cards
24 pips - 17 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
4 pips - 3 cards
7 mana - 7 cards
10 pips - 6 cards
8 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 5 cards
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