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Commander

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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 (soc) 305

Commander

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Beater

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Bloodthirsty Aerialist
Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Vampire Rogue
Bloodthirsty Aerialist (j25) 409
Pest Mascot
Trample
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Ape Pest
Pest Mascot (sos) 209

Beater

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Drain

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Ayara, First of Locthwain
Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Elf Noble
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Bastion of Remembrance
When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (tle) 160
Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (soc) 209
Cauldron of Essence
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
,
, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Artifact
Cauldron of Essence (sos) 179
Creeping Bloodsucker
At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.
Creature - Vampire
Creeping Bloodsucker (j25) 415
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
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
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (fdn) 178
Revenge of Ravens
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Revenge of Ravens (ltc) 207
Starscape Cleric
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
This creature can't block.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Cleric Bat
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
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
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 (soc) 233

Drain

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Draw

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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 (msc) 155
Cosmos Elixir
At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if your life total is greater than your starting life total. Otherwise, you gain 2 life.
Artifact
Cosmos Elixir (khm) 237
Decorum Dissertation
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Sorcery - Lesson
Decorum Dissertation (sos) 78
Greed
, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Moldervine Reclamation
Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (soc) 320
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
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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Finisher

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Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (fic) 276
Stensian Sanguinist
Whenever you attack, target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player this combat, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate (soc) 29

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 37 Price: $54.91
Adventurer's Inn
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land - Town
Adventurer's Inn (fin) 271
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (soc) 363
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (msc) 236
Deathcap Glade
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.
: Add
or
.
Land
Deathcap Glade (sos) 253
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (msh) 296
Jungle Hollow
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Jungle Hollow (tdm) 258
Llanowar Wastes
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Land
Llanowar Wastes (soc) 383
Necroblossom Snarl
As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Necroblossom Snarl (soc) 389
Overgrown Tomb
(
: Add
or
.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Land - Swamp Forest
Overgrown Tomb (ecl) 266
Radiant Fountain
When this land enters, you gain 2 life.
: Add
.
Land
Radiant Fountain (c21) 310
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 (ecc) 162
Subterranean Cavern
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Subterranean Cavern (msh) 273
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (msh) 292
Tainted Wood
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Wood (dsc) 305
Turbulent Fen
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless your opponents control eight or more lands.
Land - Swamp Forest
Turbulent Fen (soc) 55
Undergrowth Stadium
This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
: Add
or
.
Land
Undergrowth Stadium (tmc) 80
Vernal Fen
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Swamp Forest
Vernal Fen (soc) 419
Woodland Cemetery
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
: Add
or
.
Land
Woodland Cemetery (soc) 424

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 17 Price: $48.95
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
Bogwater Lumaret
Whenever this creature or another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Spirit Frog
Bogwater Lumaret (sos) 177
Courser of Kruphix
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature Enchantment - Centaur
Courser of Kruphix (cmm) 888
Deathgreeter
Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Shaman
Deathgreeter (plst) DDD-33
Defiling Daemogoth
Menace
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Creature - Demon
Defiling Daemogoth (soc) 25
Essence Warden
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Essence Warden (ltc) 242
Gala Greeters
Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
• Create a tapped Treasure token.
• You gain 2 life.
Creature - Elf Druid
Gala Greeters (snc) 148
Honor Troll
Vigilance
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
This creature gets +2/+1 as long as you have 25 or more life.
Creature - Druid Troll
Honor Troll (stx) 134
Lifegift
Whenever a land enters, you may gain 1 life.
Enchantment
Lifegift (bok) 132
Profane Memento
Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Profane Memento (m15) 226
Professor Dellian Fel
+2: You gain 3 life.
0: You draw a card and lose 1 life.
−3: Destroy target creature.
−6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life."
Legendary Planeswalker - Dellian
Professor Dellian Fel (sos) 214
Prosperous Innkeeper
When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Citizen Halfling
Prosperous Innkeeper (blc) 121
Scavenging Ooze
: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Ooze
Scavenging Ooze (fdn) 232
South Wind Avatar
Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control dies, you gain life equal to its toughness.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Avatar Spirit Snake
South Wind Avatar (tmt) 78
Spectrum Sentinel
Protection from multicolored (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything multicolored.)
Whenever a nonbasic land an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature Artifact - Soldier
Spectrum Sentinel (bro) 244
Sun Droplet
Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many charge counters on this artifact.
At the beginning of each upkeep, you may remove a charge counter from this artifact. If you do, you gain 1 life.
Artifact
Sun Droplet (c21) 268
Virulent Emissary
Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Elf Assassin
Virulent Emissary (ecl) 202

Lifegain

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Mass Removal

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The Meathook Massacre
When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.
Legendary Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (inr) 122
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 (msc) 161
Vicious Rivalry
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Destroy all artifacts and creatures with mana value X or less.
Sorcery
Vicious Rivalry (sos) 241

Mass Removal

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Protection

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Respite
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. You gain 1 life for each attacking creature.
Instant
Respite (cns) 176

Protection

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Ramp

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Ancient Cornucopia
Whenever you cast a spell that's one or more colors, you may gain 1 life for each of that spell's colors. Do this only once each turn.
: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Ancient Cornucopia (big) 16
Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (msc) 192
Heaped Harvest
When this artifact enters and when you sacrifice it, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.
Artifact - Food
Heaped Harvest (blb) 175
Pristine Talisman
: Add
. You gain 1 life.
Artifact
Pristine Talisman (ltc) 283
Restorative Technique
Target player gains 2 life, then searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature.
Sorcery
Restorative Technique (msh) 183
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 (soc) 285
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (msc) 214

Ramp

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Recursion

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Moseo, Vein's New Dean
Flying
When Moseo enters, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks, you gain 1 life."
Infusion — At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, return up to one 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 - Skeleton Bird Warlock
Moseo, Vein's New Dean (sos) 91
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 (soc) 228

Recursion

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Removal

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Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Instant
Beast Within (msc) 169
Binding the Old Gods
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
II — Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
III — Creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Enchantment - Saga
Binding the Old Gods (ecc) 120
Haywire Mite
When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.
, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.
Creature Artifact - Insect
Haywire Mite (soc) 349
Mortality Spear
This spell costs
less to cast if you gained life this turn.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Mortality Spear (soc) 321
Tear Asunder
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.
Instant
Tear Asunder (eoc) 109
Witch of the Moors
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Warlock
Witch of the Moors (soc) 230

Removal

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Tokens

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Eccentric Pestfinder
Trample
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
Creature - Druid Troll
Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones (soc) 46
Pest Rescuer
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you don't control a Pest creature token, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
Creature - Druid Dryad
Pest Rescuer (soc) 42
Ribtruss Roaster
Devour 1 (As this creature enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
At the beginning of your end step, create a number of 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens equal to the number of +1/+1 counters on this creature. They have "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Creature - Druid Troll
Ribtruss Roaster (soc) 43

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