Give me ALL your life

Commander / EDH* Budget Combo Lifegain Pillow Fort

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Land & Mana (41)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Island
• 12x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Sol Ring
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Enlightenment
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Zhalfirin Void

Pillowfort (9)

• 1x Awe Strike
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Force Bubble
• 1x High Priest of Penance
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Lightmine Field
• 1x Righteous Aura
• 1x Serene Master
• 1x Wall of Limbs

Repeating Life (2)

• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Obzedat, Ghost Council

Card Draw (15)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Greed
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Necrologia
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Survival Cache
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams

Life Gain (9)

• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Beacon of Immortality
• 1x Boon Reflection
• 1x Children of Korlis
• 1x Dazzling Reflection
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Rhox Faithmender
• 1x Righteous Confluence
• 1x Soul Warden

Counterspell (6)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Negate
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Turn Aside

Commander (1)

Life Drain (9)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Essence Harvest
• 1x Minion of the Wastes
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Serra Avatar
• 1x Sorin, Grim Nemesis
• 1x Tainted Remedy
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage

Destroy (8)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Revoke Existence
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Utter End

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Overview

The obvious theme of this deck is lifegain. It attempts to put together a massive combo to attack the opponents life total directly in one massive hit. It does not play like a "typical" deck by attacking/blocking with creatures. The synergy of the deck allows for many different ways to combo out a win condition which makes it fun to play as no two games will be the same.

Card Draw

There is a lot of card draw in this deck because it needs to find a combo in order to win. Well of Lost Dreams can give you a minimum of 2 extra cards a turn with Oloro's lifegain. A lot of the card draw is based on spending life because if you're playing correctly you should have plenty of it to spare. You can also sac Children of Korlis after playing Necrolgia to draw out most of your deck for free. Ponder Brainstorm and Lim-Dul's Vault let you get to the cards you need while getting rid of ones you don't. There are plenty of tutors as well to get to specific cards directly and with so many different ways to combo out you won't be going for the same card everytime. Doomsday is also really fun to play as losing half your life usually isn't a big deal.

Life Killing Combos

This deck is all about finding a combo to drain your opponent's entire life total in one big shot. You usually won't try to do any damage until you're going for the win because whether your opponent has 30 life or 40 won't matter when you make your big hit. Here's a list of some ways this deck puts together a win condition but there's definitely more.

• Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood is the most obvious combo in the deck and goes infinite.
• With Aetherflux Reservoir you only need 51 life to kill one opponent. Sac Children of Korlis and you can take down 2 opponents.
• With Sanguine Bond out play Beacon of Immortality on yourself to double your life total and kill an opponent or play it on your opponent with Tainted Remedy out. It shuffles back in so you can tutor it back out if you have another opponent left.
• Essence Harvest on Minion of the Wastes or Serra Avatar. Or play Awe Strike/Dazzling Reflection on them with Sanguine Bond out. If all else fails the Minion has trample.

So many possibilities.

Protection

The only downside to putting together life drain combos without using creatures to attack is that you don't have creatures to block. That's where the second part of this deck comes in. This deck blocks by preventing damage with cards like Awe Strike and Force Bubble. It also tries to make you an undesirable target with cards like Serene Master and High Priest of Penance. You're also gaining a minimum of 2 life every turn so a lot of small attacks aren't going to bother you very much. You want to try and keep your life total high because many of the winning combos rely on it. However even with these cards the deck can be a bit vulnerable which is why there is plenty of removal and counterspells.

Conclusion

A very fun deck to play that's definitely outside the norm. It's also not super expensive to put together but can still compete very well. Always looking to make it better so feel free to make suggestions. Thanks for looking!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.13
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Vampire Knight 1/1 B
Folders	Deck Inspo, EDH
Based on	Do Something With Your Life! opticnirv EDH