Ayli life shenanigans

Commander / EDH

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Instant (8)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Beacon of Immortality
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Mortify
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Essence Harvest
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Rite of Consumption
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Cradle of Vitality
• 1x Dying Wish
• 1x Gift of Immortality
• 1x Greed
• 1x Martyrs' Tomb
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Tainted Remedy
• 1x Underworld Connections
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

Artifact (10)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tainted Sigil
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Creature (22)

• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Children of Korlis
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Defiant Bloodlord
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Divinity of Pride
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Kagemaro, First to Suffer
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Minion of the Wastes
• 1x Serra Ascendant
• 1x Serra Avatar
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Souldrinker
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Wall of Blood
• 1x Wall of Nets
• 1x Wall of Omens
• 1x Wall of Reverence

Land (38)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 10x Plains
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of the Archangel

Commander (1)

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Instant (1)

• 1x Plunge into Darkness

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Based off (heavily stolen from) this deck:

http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/ayli-life-pt-combo2/

This deck is SO MUCH FUN. It wins through non-infinite combo but has a few avenues of getting there:

1. Vizkopa guildmage/Sanguine bond/Defiant bloodlord + massive life gain through by either sacrificing a large creature (Serra avatar, Minion of the wastes, Wall of blood, Soul drinker, Unspeakable symbol) or paying a ton of life and using Children of Korlis or Tainted sigil. What's that? You can do both at the same time?

2. You know those big creatures? Let's put a Dying wish on one of them! Or Rite of consumption or Essence harvest. Then let's sacrifice them to gain even more life!

3. A big ol' Debt to the Deathless

4. Surprise Hatred!

5. Tainted remedy + Beacon of immortality sounds like fun

6. Straight value - strap a Gift of Immortality to Kokusho. Seriously do it. Sacrifice him on everyone's turn. Or put it on Gray merchant of asphodel. Or put it on Serra avatar and double your life every turn

All of these are usually 3+ card combos which allows them to be interacted with. They also have redundancies and since we are in B/W we have redundancies for our redundancies (Reanimate, Animate dead, Whip of erebos).

A lot of the time this deck wins in one or two turns, but they are late game so we need control and card draw. Black has the draw (Necropotence, Greed, Disciple of bolas) and W/B has control (Utter end, Mortify, Austere command, Toxic deluge). The deck is also not very threatening and Ayli serves as a rattlesnake and a life extender - yeah we are playing a life gain deck so we should be able to stick around.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.35
Based on	Ayli Life Gain/Pay/Drain Combo yankeehero EDH