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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $8.99
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 (mul) 167

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Bring the pest

Qty: 5 Price: $21.55
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
Blight Mound
Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Enchantment
Blight Mound (c21) 36
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 (c21) 65
Sedgemoor Witch
Menace
Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Creature - Human Warlock
Sedgemoor Witch (stx) 86
Valentin, Dean of the Vein
Menace, lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay
. If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Legendary Creature - Vampire Warlock
Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root (stx) 161

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Drain

Qty: 9 Price: $87.31
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 (blc) 179
Blood Artist
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Vampire
Blood Artist (lcc) 182
Bloodletter of Aclazotz
Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Creature - Vampire Demon
Bloodletter of Aclazotz (lci) 92
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 (j22) 21
Exsanguinate
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 156
Marauding Blight-Priest
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creature - Vampire Cleric
Marauding Blight-Priest (j22) 439
Sanguine Bond
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
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 (j22) 487

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Draw

Qty: 9 Price: $64.61
Beast Whisperer
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
Creature - Elf Druid
Beast Whisperer (clu) 158
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
Moldervine Reclamation
Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (blc) 255
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (mkc) 133
Plumb the Forbidden
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.
Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (blc) 188
Skullclamp
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip
Artifact - Equipment
Skullclamp (blc) 283
Vampiric Rites
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.
Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (scd) 116
Vraska, Golgari Queen
+2: You may sacrifice another permanent. If you do, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
−3: Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
−9: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Legendary Planeswalker - Vraska
Vraska, Golgari Queen (grn) 213
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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Land

Qty: 35 (36 w/ MDFC)Price: $69.67
Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (blc) 294
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
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (blc) 130
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (blc) 131
Festering Gulch
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, it deals 1 damage to target opponent.
: Add
or
.
Land - Desert
Festering Gulch (otj) 257
Field of the Dead
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
Whenever this land or another land you control enters, if you control seven or more lands with different names, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Land
Field of the Dead (m20) 247
Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Forest
Forest (blb) 378
Golgari Guildgate
This land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land - Gate
Golgari Guildgate (clu) 235
High Market
: Add
.
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.
Land
High Market (afc) 246
Jungle Hollow
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
: Add
or
.
Land
Jungle Hollow (blc) 313
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 (snc) 255
Snow-Covered Forest
(
: Add
.)
Basic Snow Land - Forest
Snow-Covered Forest (khm) 285
Snow-Covered Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Snow Land - Swamp
Snow-Covered Swamp (khm) 281
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (blb) 373

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Lifegain

Qty: 13 Price: $82.37
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
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
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 (dmc) 179
Deathgreeter
Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Shaman
Deathgreeter (gvl) 33
Druid Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
: Level 2
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
: Level 3
When this Class becomes level 3, target land you control becomes a creature with haste and "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." It's still a land.
Enchantment - Class
Druid Class (afr) 180
Essence Warden
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Elf Shaman
Essence Warden (plst) CMA-106
Exquisite Blood
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.
Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Jaddi Offshoot
Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Creature - Plant
Jaddi Offshoot (ima) 171
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 (onc) 112
Tablet of the Guilds
As this artifact enters, choose two colors.
Whenever you cast a spell, if it's at least one of the chosen colors, you gain 1 life for each of the chosen colors it is.
Artifact
Tablet of the Guilds (rtr) 235
Witherbloom Apprentice
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Creature - Human Druid
Witherbloom Apprentice (stx) 247
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 (blc) 190

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Protection

Qty: 2 Price: $6.98
Infuse with Vitality
Until end of turn, target creature gains deathtouch and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
You gain 2 life.
Instant
Infuse with Vitality (stx) 194
Tamiyo's Safekeeping
Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 8 Price: $16.32
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
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 (sta) 51
Elves of Deep Shadow
: Add
. This creature deals 1 damage to you.
Creature - Elf Druid
Elves of Deep Shadow (plst) GK1-56
Kodama's Reach
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 - Arcane
Kodama's Reach (otc) 196
Llanowar Elves
: Add
.
Creature - Elf Druid
Llanowar Elves (fdn) 227
Paradise Plume
As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life.
: Add one mana of the chosen color.
Artifact
Paradise Plume (c21) 255
Pristine Talisman
: Add
. You gain 1 life.
Artifact
Pristine Talisman (c21) 258
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (blc) 129

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Recursion

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Bala Ged Recovery
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary (plst) ZNR-180
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
Legendary Creature - Human Shaman
Meren of Clan Nel Toth (cmm) 346
Oversold Cemetery
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 309
Peerless Recycling
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.)
Return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. If the gift was promised, instead return two target permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Instant
Peerless Recycling (blb) 188
Pulse of Murasa
Return target creature or land card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. You gain 6 life.
Instant
Pulse of Murasa (c21) 202
Urborg Repossession
Kicker
(You may pay an additional
as you cast this spell.)
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. You gain 2 life. If this spell was kicked, return another target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Urborg Repossession (dmu) 114
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
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 (otc) 152

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 7 Price: $5.95
Assassin's Trophy
Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Instant
Assassin's Trophy (mkm) 187
Deadly Brew
Each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. If you sacrificed a permanent this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sorcery
Deadly Brew (stx) 176
Deadly Tempest
Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.
Sorcery
Deadly Tempest (scd) 75
Essence Pulse
You gain 2 life. Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Sorcery
Essence Pulse (c21) 39
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 (otc) 134
Mortality Spear
This spell costs
less to cast if you gained life this turn.
Destroy target nonland permanent.
Instant
Mortality Spear (stx) 207
Witherbloom Command
Choose two —
• Target player mills three cards, then you return a land card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less.
• Target creature gets -3/-1 until end of turn.
• Target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Sorcery
Witherbloom Command (stx) 248

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Tokens

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59
Trudge Garden
Whenever you gain life, you may pay
. If you do, create a 4/4 green Fungus Beast creature token with trample.
Enchantment
Trudge Garden (c21) 69

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Tutor

Qty: 2 Price: $0.79
Diabolic Tutor
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (phuk) 51
Dig Up
Cleave
(You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Search your library for a [basic land] card, [reveal it,] put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Dig Up (vow) 197

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