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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $7.99
Betor, Ancestor's Voice
Flying, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, put a number of +1/+1 counters on up to one other target creature you control equal to the amount of life you gained this turn. Return up to one target creature card with mana value less than or equal to the amount of life you lost this turn from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit
Betor, Ancestor's Voice (tdc) 1

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Counters

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Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
Lifelink
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, distribute up to that many +1/+1 counters among any number of other target creatures.
Legendary Creature - Unicorn
Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn (cmr) 285
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
Nykthos Paragon
Whenever you gain life, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. Do this only once each turn.
Creature Enchantment - Human Soldier
Nykthos Paragon (mh2) 22
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 (snc) 98

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Draw

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Colossal Majesty
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Enchantment
Colossal Majesty (m19) 173
Dark Confidant
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.
Creature - Human Wizard
Dark Confidant (fin) 94
Diresight
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
Diresight (blb) 91
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
Inspiring Call
Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)
Instant
Inspiring Call (fic) 310
Keen Duelist
At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Keen Duelist (soc) 218
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (eoc) 85
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Stargaze
Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.
Sorcery
Stargaze (blb) 114

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Into the grave you go

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Buried Alive
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Buried Alive (mh3) 273
Cemetery Tampering
Hideaway 5 (When this enchantment enters, look at the top five cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill three cards. Then if there are twenty or more cards in your graveyard, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Enchantment
Cemetery Tampering (dsc) 135
Doom Whisperer
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: 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.)
Creature - Demon Nightmare
Doom Whisperer (mkc) 128
Grim Flayer
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Delirium — This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Creature - Human Warrior
Grim Flayer (2x2) 222
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
Vanguard Seraph
Flying
Whenever you gain life for the first time each turn, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Creature - Warrior Angel
Vanguard Seraph (fdn) 28

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Land

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Brushland
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Brushland (plst) M3C-324
Canopy Vista
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Plains Forest
Canopy Vista (pip) 255
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (dsc) 268
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (tmc) 63
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (sos) 280
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (fic) 405
Llanowar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Llanowar Wastes (blc) 315
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (sos) 272
Sandsteppe Citadel
This land enters tapped.
: Add
,
, or
.
Land
Sandsteppe Citadel (ecc) 164
Sunpetal Grove
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or a Plains.
: Add
or
.
Land
Sunpetal Grove (fic) 432
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (sos) 276

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Lifegain

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Ajani, the Greathearted
Creatures you control have vigilance.
+1: You gain 3 life.
−2: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and a loyalty counter on each other planeswalker you control.
Legendary Planeswalker - Ajani
Ajani, the Greathearted (plst) WAR-184
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 (soc) 264
Children of Korlis
Sacrifice this creature: You gain life equal to the life you've lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Human Cleric Rebel
Children of Korlis (tsr) 14
Dazzling Reflection
You gain life equal to target creature's power. The next time that creature would deal damage this turn, prevent that damage.
Instant
Dazzling Reflection (ogw) 17
Feed the Clan
You gain 5 life.
Ferocious — You gain 10 life instead if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Instant
Feed the Clan (ktk) 132
Heron of Hope
Flying
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
: This creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
Creature - Bird
Heron of Hope (vow) 18
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 (plst) MM3-24
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

Lifegain

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Lifespending

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Gwenom, Remorseless
Deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever Gwenom attacks, until end of turn, you may look at the top card of your library any time and you may play cards 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.
Legendary Creature - Spider Hero Symbiote
Gwenom, Remorseless (spm) 256
Staff of Compleation
, Pay 1 life: Destroy target permanent you own.
, Pay 2 life: Add one mana of any color.
, Pay 3 life: Proliferate.
, Pay 4 life: Draw a card.
: Untap this artifact.
Artifact
Staff of Compleation (tdc) 326
Verrak, Warped Sengir
Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever you activate an ability that isn't a mana ability, if life was paid to activate it, you may pay that much life again. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Legendary Creature - Vampire
Verrak, Warped Sengir (dmc) 16

Lifespending

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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
Bramble Familiar
: Add
.
,
, Discard a card: Return this creature to its owner's hand.
Creature - Elemental Raccoon
Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest (woe) 164
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 (tmc) 50
Defiler of Vigor
Trample
As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost
less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Creature - Wurm Phyrexian
Defiler of Vigor (dmu) 160
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Farseek (eoc) 50
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
(
can be paid with either
or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each
in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.
Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
Kami of Whispered Hopes
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead.
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.
Creature - Spirit
Kami of Whispered Hopes (soc) 273
Pristine Talisman
: Add
. You gain 1 life.
Artifact
Pristine Talisman (brr) 43
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
Skull Prophet
: Add
or
.
: Mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Creature - Human Druid
Skull Prophet (iko) 206
Talisman of Hierarchy
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (soc) 358
Talisman of Resilience
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (pip) 250

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Recursion

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Angel of Indemnity
Flying, lifelink
When this creature enters, return target permanent card with mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Encore
(
, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Warrior Angel
Angel of Indemnity (soc) 133
Colossal Grave-Reaver
Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, mill three cards.
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, put one of them onto the battlefield.
Creature - Dragon
Colossal Grave-Reaver (tdc) 50
Eerie Ultimatum
Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Eerie Ultimatum (plst) IKO-184
Fix What's Broken
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Return each artifact and creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Sorcery
Fix What's Broken (sos) 188
Grave Researcher
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Troll Warlock
Grave Researcher // Reanimate (sos) 85
Priest of Fell Rites
, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Unearth
(
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Human Warlock
Priest of Fell Rites (fic) 328

Recursion

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Removal

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Anguished Unmaking
Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.
Instant
Anguished Unmaking (soc) 293
Bitter Triumph
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
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 (tle) 257
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (eoc) 84
Invoke the Divine
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.
Instant
Invoke the Divine (khm) 16
Natural End
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 3 life.
Instant
Natural End (m20) 183
Reckless Spite
Destroy two target nonblack creatures. You lose 5 life.
Instant
Reckless Spite (woc) 117
Signature Slam
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then each modified creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
Instant
Signature Slam (mh3) 168

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Sideboard

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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 (clb) 265
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
Bloatfly Swarm
Flying
This creature enters with five +1/+1 counters on it.
If damage would be dealt to this creature while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage, remove that many +1/+1 counters from it, then give each player a rad counter for each +1/+1 counter removed this way.
Creature - Mutant Insect
Bloatfly Swarm (pip) 42
Dark Tutelage
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.
Enchantment
Dark Tutelage (m11) 90
Defiler of Flesh
Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost
less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.
Creature - Horror Phyrexian
Defiler of Flesh (dmu) 90
Emeria Shepherd
Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If that land is a Plains, you may return that nonland permanent card to the battlefield instead.
Creature - Angel
Emeria Shepherd (bfz) 22
Ghastly Death Tyrant
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Disintegration Ray — Destroy target enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to its mana value.
• Death Ray — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Creature - Skeleton Beholder
Ghastly Death Tyrant (clb) 127
Golgari Grave-Troll
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.
Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, you may mill six cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Creature - Skeleton Troll
Golgari Grave-Troll (rvr) 144
Inscription of Abundance
Kicker

Choose one. If this spell was kicked, choose any number instead.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature.
• Target player gains X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures they control.
• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.
Instant
Inscription of Abundance (dsc) 186
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 (ecc) 82
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 (ori) 114
Ripples of Undeath
At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay
and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.
Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107
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

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Deck stats

28 pips - 24 cards
19 mana - 18 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
40 pips - 30 cards
26 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
5 mana - 4 cards
26 pips - 22 cards
20 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
6 mana - 6 cards
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