Parallel Lives

Enchantment

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many tokens instead.

Combos

• Grave Pact + Parallel Lives + Spawnsire of Ulamog
• Blowfly Infestation + Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons + Parallel Lives
• Llanowar Elves + Parallel Lives + Wren's Run Packmaster
• Doubling Season + Parallel Lives + Primal Vigor

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Czarnian90 on Arachnophobia, Webs of Fear (Shelob)

1 week ago

Hey,

You're right — the deck is still a bit raw and definitely needs some improvements in card draw and mana ramp. Thanks a lot for the suggestions! I actually had some of these cards on my acquireboard already. I’ve now added Moldervine Reclamation and Sol Ring, and took out Serrated Scorpion and Chainweb Aracnir.

I also swapped Gloomwidow for Hoarding Recluse.

I’m waiting to see if Curse of Clinging Webs and Swarmyard become available in my local shop — if they do, I’ll definitely include them :)

Also, I'm still considering a few more cards for the deck, like Back for More, Archdruid's Charm, Obscuring Haze, Fog, Deathsprout, Tear Asunder, Terrifying Presence, You Look Upon the Tarrasque, Revitalizing Repast  ^Flip, Heroic Intervention, Vraska, the Silencer, Graveshifter, Juvenile Gloomwidow, Greta, Sweettooth Scourge, Broodspinner, Graverobber Spider, Nyx Weaver, Spinner of Souls, Worldly TutorGC, Doubling Season, Parallel Lives, Triumph of the Hordes, Rotwidow Pack, Sporeweb Weaver, Realmwalker, and a few others...

greyninja on Slimefoot, the Stowaway

2 weeks ago

Hello! Saw the thread and wanted to jump in

Can add a few more one drops to get Slimefoot out turn 2. Elves of Deep Shadow, Delighted Halfling, Deathrite Shaman, Elvish Mystic, Fyndhorn Elves, etc

If money isn't an issue, Doubling Season to get redundancy with the slimefoot + Parallel Lives + Ashnod's Altar combo. Demonic TutorGC to help find it

What are some other wincons?
- Craterhoof Behemoth
- Peregrin Took + Experimental Confectioner
- Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer
- Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Warren Soultrader + Blood Artist
- Hazel's Brewmaster + Devoted Druid

There are a lot of other 3-4 card combos in these colors, but these will help get your gears going when building.

Have fun! Please take a minute and upvote a few of my decks!

DemonDragonJ on All Creatures Great and Small

2 months ago

I have replaced Parallel Lives and Thought Vessel with Bloom Tender and Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.60 to 3.58, since I believe that the creatures are a better match for this deck, and two cards that increase the number of tokens that this deck generates are more than sufficient, for its purposes.

DemonDragonJ on Should I Keep Parallel Lives …

2 months ago

I have copies of Doubling Season, Parallel Lives, and Mondrak, Glory Dominus in my Ghired, Conclave Exile EDH deck, but I am considering replacing parallel lives with another card, since I feel that it is simply too passive, rather than proactive, and the new Elspeth, Storm Slayer seems as if she would be amazing in that deck, so she is definitely one of my top candidates for replacing the enchantment, but I also believe that Rabble Rousing would be amazing in that deck, as well, since two cards that double the amount of tokens that I can generate are more than sufficient, so I now am uncertain about what to do, in this situation, so I would like to ask everyone else for advice.

What does everyone else say, about this? Which card, between Elspeth, Storm Slayer and Rabble Rousing, should replace Parallel Lives, or should I simply keep the existing enchantment in my deck? I certainly would appreciate your feedback, on this subject.

hyalopterouslemur on What commander for a Hare …

3 months ago

I'm kind of fond of Rhys the Redeemed. Green gives you access to card draw and mana accel, so you can keep playing more copies of Hare Apparent every turn. Rhys also can double your tokens on his own. All this extra card draw will also help you get to the Thrumming Stone (or to an artifact tutor). Finally, this gives you access to Parallel Lives, for another token doubler if you need it.

You must make a decision, as with all token decks. Do you want to anthem and Cathars' Crusade your bunnies to be huge? Or do you want to use Meekstone and Dusk / Dawn to mess with your opponents while not hurting yourself at all?

MTGBurgeoning on The Chitter-Chatter(Fang) of So Many Little Feet

7 months ago

Thank you for commenting on my deck! I appreciate it. FULL DISCLOSURE: I have not played with this Chatterfang, Squirrel General deck since the banning of Jeweled Lotus and Mana Crypt, both of which were in this build prior to being showcased on tappedout. They were replaced with Llanowar Elves and Fyndhorn Elves. Since these two zero-mana artifacts were replaced, there did not seem to be a need for Urza's Saga anymore, which was replaced by a basic Swamp. Anyway, in the rare instances when one of these artifacts was in my opening hand, a turn one Chatterfang was almost always game over, especially if that artifact was Jeweled Lotus, which allowed me to cast a one-drop in addition to casting our General. Aside from these occurrences, the deck is still lightning fast. There are so many different ways to combo-off and so many ways to find the needed pieces, it is almost a detriment to playing this build: Often times I have focused TOO MUCH on the combo pieces as opposed to engaging in some aristocratic game-play from turn to turn by whittling opponents' life totals down here and there. I admit that once a copy of Old Gnawbone becomes available, then it would easily replace Beledros Witherbloom. I originally had token doublers in this build like Parallel Lives and Doubling Season, but decided to take them out because Chatterfang is a token-doubler, should almost always be on our side of the battlefield, and I could use those cards in other decks. They ain't cheap! Tree rats 4life. Happy brewing!!

StarRushford on Rhys of the Elves

7 months ago

Add Ghalta and Mavren, it can get out of hand VERY quickly. Especially with your Doubling Season, Parallel Lives and Rhys the Redeemed. That will be 5 attacking 12/12s with trample the turn after Ghalta and Mavren comes out. The next turn, if you used Rhys the Redeemed, that'll be 32 dinosaurs, but if you attack with Ghalta and Mavren again, that'll be 37 12/12 dinosaurs with trample. In 3 turns. That are attacking.

Craeter on Selesnya beatdown-ish with tokens?

8 months ago

Rhys the Redeemed is needed here if you're going for token spam, prolly 2 of them. Then there's the staple Green token / counter doublers: Doubling Season / Parallel Lives. These are obnoxiously expensive cards since they're so powerful, so either proxy them or just go with multiple Primal Vigor. Tribute to the World Tree is also worth considering here since you're running 4 Watchwolf for ez draws, and it will auto buff the tokens you generate as well.