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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29
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

Commander

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Counters

Qty: 1 Price: $2.49
Unspeakable Symbol
Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Enchantment
Unspeakable Symbol (scg) 79

Counters

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Creature

Qty: 3 Price: $6.19
Carrion Howler
Pay 1 life: This creature gets +2/-1 until end of turn.
Creature - Zombie Wolf
Carrion Howler (rav) 79
Glorifier of Dusk
Pay 2 life: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
Pay 2 life: This creature gains vigilance until end of turn.
Creature - Vampire Soldier
Glorifier of Dusk (clu) 62
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

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Discard

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99
Fraying Omnipotence
Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice. Round up each time.
Sorcery
Fraying Omnipotence (m19) 97

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Drain

Qty: 2 Price: $2.28
Ebon Drake
Flying
Whenever a player casts a spell, you lose 1 life.
Creature - Drake
Ebon Drake (5dn) 48
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

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 19 Price: $226.37
Ad Nauseam
Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.
Instant
Ad Nauseam (soa) 25
Agent Venom
Flash
Menace
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
Legendary Creature - Soldier Hero Symbiote
Agent Venom (spm) 49
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 (acr) 87
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
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) 334
Dark Prophecy
Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Dark Prophecy (m14) 93
Darkstar Augur
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
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 - Bat Warlock
Darkstar Augur (blb) 311
Demonic Lore
When this enchantment enters, draw three cards.
At the beginning of your end step, you lose 2 life for each card in your hand.
Enchantment
Demonic Lore (cmr) 118
Dread Presence
Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
Creature - Nightmare
Dread Presence (j22) 403
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
Infernal Sovereign
Flying, trample
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Demon
Infernal Sovereign (moc) 75
Lich's Mastery
Hexproof
You can't lose the game.
Whenever you gain life, draw that many cards.
Whenever you lose life, for each 1 life you lost, exile a permanent you control or a card from your hand or graveyard.
When Lich's Mastery leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.
Legendary Enchantment
Lich's Mastery (dom) 98
Lolth, Spider Queen
Whenever a creature you control dies, put a loyalty counter on Lolth.
0: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
−3: Create two 2/1 black Spider creature tokens with menace and reach.
−8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent is dealt combat damage by one or more creatures you control, if that player lost less than 8 life this turn, they lose life equal to the difference."
Legendary Planeswalker - Lolth
Lolth, Spider Queen (afr) 284
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (sld) 1937
Pact Weapon
As long as this Equipment is attached to a creature, you don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, draw a card and reveal it. The creature gets +X/+X until end of turn and you lose X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Equip—Discard a card.
Artifact - Equipment
Pact Weapon (clb) 139
The Last Ride
The Last Ride gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Crew 2
Legendary Artifact - Vehicle
The Last Ride (dft) 94
The One Ring
Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
Legendary Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 246
Treacherous Blessing
When this enchantment enters, draw three cards.
Whenever you cast a spell, you lose 1 life.
When this enchantment becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.
Enchantment
Treacherous Blessing (thb) 117
Vilis, Broker of Blood
Flying
, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Legendary Creature - Demon
Vilis, Broker of Blood (j25) 70

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Evasion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35
Grimclaw Bats
Flying
, Pay 1 life: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Creature - Bat
Grimclaw Bats (dst) 45

Evasion

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Finisher

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Repay in Kind
Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.
Sorcery
Repay in Kind (roe) 125
Transcendence
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
When you have 20 or more life, you lose the game.
Whenever you lose life, you gain 2 life for each 1 life you lost. (Damage dealt to you causes you to lose life.)
Enchantment
Transcendence (tor) 20

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 38 Price: $1112.66
Ancient Tomb
: Add
. This land deals 2 damage to you.
Land
Ancient Tomb (eos) 1
Bleachbone Verge
: Add
.
: Add
. Activate only if you control a Plains or a Swamp.
Land
Bleachbone Verge (dft) 371
Boseiju, Who Shelters All
Boseiju enters tapped.
, Pay 2 life: Add
. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.
Legendary Land
Boseiju, Who Shelters All (sld) 2657
Caves of Koilos
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Caves of Koilos (dmu) 378
City of Brass
Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add one mana of any color.
Land
City of Brass (sch) 41
Desolate Mire
,
: Add
.
Land
Desolate Mire (pip) 146
Eumidian Hatchery
, Pay 1 life: Add
. Put a hatchling counter on this land.
When this land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, for each hatchling counter on it, create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying.
Land
Eumidian Hatchery (eoc) 20
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 (rvr) 294
Hall of the Bandit Lord
Hall of the Bandit Lord enters tapped.
, Pay 3 life: Add
. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.
Legendary Land
Hall of the Bandit Lord (sld) 427
High Market
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Land
High Market (eos) 63
Horizon of Progress
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
,
: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
Horizon of Progress (m3c) 130
Ifnir Deadlands
: Add
.
, Pay 1 life: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Put two -1/-1 counters on target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Desert
Ifnir Deadlands (ecc) 153
Isolated Chapel
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Isolated Chapel (sld) 739
Mana Confluence
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Mana Confluence (eos) 25
Marsh Flats
, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land
Marsh Flats (spg) 110
Miren, the Moaning Well
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.
Legendary Land
Miren, the Moaning Well (sok) 163
Plains
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Plains
Plains (slp) 31
Reflecting Pool
: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.
Land
Reflecting Pool (j19) 8
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 663
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (sld) 607
Scrubland
(
: Add
or
.)
Land - Plains Swamp
Scrubland (olgc) 2018
Shattered Sanctum
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Shattered Sanctum (sos) 303
Shefet Dunes
: Add
.
, Pay 1 life: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice a Desert: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Land - Desert
Shefet Dunes (otc) 318
Silent Clearing
, Pay 1 life: Add
or
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Draw a card.
Land
Silent Clearing (acr) 115
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (slp) 33
Tainted Field
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Field (dsc) 302
The Black Gate
As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.
Legendary Land - Gate
The Black Gate (ltc) 80
Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper
Untaidake enters tapped.
, Pay 2 life: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast legendary spells.
Legendary Land
Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper (chk) 285
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Legendary Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (ltc) 375
Vault of Champions
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 667
Vault of the Archangel
: Add
.
,
: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.
Land
Vault of the Archangel (sld) 350

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Lifegain

Qty: 2 Price: $0.94
Dross Harvester
Protection from white
At the beginning of your end step, you lose 4 life.
Whenever a creature dies, you gain 2 life.
Creature - Horror
Dross Harvester (clb) 750
Wax-Wane Witness
Flying, vigilance
Whenever you gain or lose life during your turn, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Creature - Cleric Bat
Wax-Wane Witness (blb) 39

Lifegain

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Proliferate

Qty: 1 Price: $5.99
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

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Protection

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Blood of the Martyr
Until end of turn, if damage would be dealt to any creature, you may have that damage dealt to you instead.
Instant
Blood of the Martyr (chr) 4
Cecil, Dark Knight
Deathtouch
Darkness — Whenever Cecil deals damage, you lose that much life. Then if your life total is less than or equal to half your starting life total, untap Cecil and transform it.
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin (fin) 91Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin (fin) 91
Imp's Mischief
Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.
Instant
Imp's Mischief (otp) 15
Lich
As this enchantment enters, you lose life equal to your life total.
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
If you would gain life, draw that many cards instead.
Whenever you're dealt damage, sacrifice that many nontoken permanents. If you can't, you lose the game.
When this enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you lose the game.
Enchantment
Lich (30a) 110
Lich's Tomb
You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life.
Whenever you lose life, sacrifice a permanent for each 1 life you lost. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Artifact
Lich's Tomb (dst) 128
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 (cmm) 829
Stunning Reversal
The next time you would lose the game this turn, instead draw seven cards and your life total becomes 1.
Exile Stunning Reversal.
Instant
Stunning Reversal (bbd) 51

Protection

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Pump

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Death's Shadow
This creature gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.
Creature - Avatar
Death's Shadow (slp) 8

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Ramp

Qty: 6 Price: $91.10
Blood Celebrant
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.
Creature - Human Cleric
Blood Celebrant (lgn) 61
Carnival of Souls
Whenever a creature enters, you lose 1 life and add
.
Enchantment
Carnival of Souls (uds) 55
Dark Ritual
Add
.
Instant
Dark Ritual (sta) 89
Infernal Idol
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
Artifact
Infernal Idol (j22) 49
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
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

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 5 Price: $68.75
Anrakyr the Traveller
Lord of the Pyrrhian Legions — Whenever Anrakyr the Traveller attacks, you may cast an artifact spell from your hand or graveyard by paying life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Necron
Anrakyr the Traveller (40k) 28
Athreos, God of Passage
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you own dies, return it to your hand unless target opponent pays 3 life.
Legendary Creature Enchantment - God
Athreos, God of Passage (sld) 76
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
Flying, lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.
If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
Legendary Creature - Angel
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel (inr) 243
Liliana, Heretical Healer
Lifelink
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, exile Liliana, Heretical Healer, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. If you do, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Legendary Creature - Human Cleric
Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer (cc2) 1Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer (cc2) 1
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 (cc2) 5

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 3 Price: $61.17
Cruel Sadist
,
, Pay 1 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
,
, Remove X +1/+1 counters from this creature: It deals X damage to target creature.
Creature - Human Assassin
Cruel Sadist (j22) 391
Overkill
Target creature gets -0/-9999 until end of turn.
Instant
Overkill (fin) 109
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) 345

Removal

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Tokens

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Bitterbloom Bearer
Flash
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie creature token with flying.
Creature - Rogue Faerie
Bitterbloom Bearer (ecl) 352
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

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Tutor

Qty: 4 Price: $121.32
Doomsday
Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.
Sorcery
Doomsday (sld) 1115
Grim Servant
Menace
When this creature enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each
in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Creature - Zombie Warlock
Grim Servant (mh3) 97
Grim Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 315
Vampiric Tutor
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Vampiric Tutor (soa) 35

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Deck stats

18 pips - 10 cards
22 mana - 20 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 7 cards
78 pips - 52 cards
35 mana - 31 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 7 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
16 mana - 14 cards
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