Revival / Revenge
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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
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Revival / Revenge

Sorcery

Revival

Return target creature with converted mana cost/mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Revenge

Double your life total.
Target opponent loses half their life total rounded up.

Veethevvitch on Queens of the damned (Vampire Tribal)

3 months ago

Breepup81 shock7123

Thank you for your suggestions!

I retained some contenders that are currently sitting in my maybeboard:
Aetherflux Reservoir ,Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose , Debtors' Knell , Palace Siege , Pyre of Heroes , Revival / Revenge , Astarion, the Decadent.

I kind of changed my mind as to the maintheme of the deck and will be moving a bit more towards a stax deck.

However, I will keep the subtheme of vampires and therefore lifegain so I will eventually work my way into incorporating those ! :)

Breepup81 on Queens of the damned (Vampire Tribal)

3 months ago

While I'm working on upgrading my own orzhov vampire deck, which drew me to your deck in particular, I do recommend Astarion, the Decadent and perhaps Sengir, the Dark Baron. In particular, Astarion, the Decadent can just outright kill someone if combined with Revival / Revenge, opponent loses half their rounded life, Astarion's endstep triggers and the opponent can lose the other half. Sengir, the Dark Baron also nets you your opponent's life when they die.

Since this is also a lifesteal deck, I reccomend Aetherflux Reservoir.

to_regatha_and_beyond on Warrior Midrange

1 year ago

Good deck! I made a similar archetype a while back, though I didn't have the lifegain components as much.

You might want to play around with Glory-Bound Initiate, it has some really strong synergy with Herald of Dromoka. You're essentially attacking with a 4/4 lifelink every single turn, possibly even a 5/4, which is super powerful, even moreso if you can get double strike on it.

Mardu Strike Leader could be pretty helpful, though I concede it's a little bit slow for the gameplan you're using.

I would get rid of the Dutiful Attendants, you're already able to use Revival / Revenge to bring those creatures back at instant speed without having to wait for the Attendant to die, which is way more powerful.

Lastly, when you're working on building your sideboard, I would consider:

  • Despark, a good and cheap removal card for certain situations
  • Go Blank, a good tool against graveyard decks
  • Lifebane Zombie, a good tool against green and white that also comes on a warrior
  • Duress, a good way to fight combo decks

Good build so far, I'm excited to see where you take it!

multimedia on Liesa, Liesa, they so flying...

1 year ago

Hey, if you want to stop No Mercy then consider Cathar Commando? It's a budget creature so it can be reanimated or recurred with Liesa, Forgotten Archangel as well as other ways which I will mention in my next comment :)

If your getting Jumpstart packs there's several cards to look for other than Exquisite Blood:

I believe in using my money getting singles to build my decks not on $5 packs, but if you enjoy cracking Jumpstart packs look for these cards. Selfless Savior and Blood Artist are uncommons, you might have these cards.

If you're interested in Exquisite Blood then maybe you want to make your deck more combo? I don't think Exquisite is worth $18 since with $18 you can make several upgrades not just one card. For $18 you can make close to 20 card upgrades. Even if you're playing casual having a combo to win the game is helpful. Just don't combo off right away, let the game build up, have fun and then boom.

There's no budget alternative card for Exquisite Blood, but you can mimic the outcome of what the Blood combo does with budget cards. By making yourself lose a lot of life and then gaining the life you lost right back.

Vizkopa Guildmage's ability is like Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose/Sanguine Bond except it's more powerful because it affects each opponent all at once not just one opponent. It however costs three mana to have the effect until end of turn. The combo is to cast a spell or activate an effect to lose a lot of life such as Bond of Agony where you can control how much life you lose which then makes each opponent lose that same amount of life. When you lose the life then sac either Children of Korlis or Tainted Sigil to gain all that life back. This then triggers Guildmage to make each opponent lose that same amount of life again, most likely killing each of your opponents for having 0 life and you win the game.

Children of Korlis is a good card for gaining life because it looks at all life you lose for the entire turn. You can gain a lot at one time after a big attack from opponent doing combat damage to you or a small amount, you choose. It's a one drop creature who can be reanimated or recurred to repeat this effect, great with Liesa, Forgotten Archangel. Outside the combo if you're paying a lot of life for draw such as with Greed then Children can help to gain that life back.

In my last comment I mentioned you can get quality from filler creature cards you play with Infantry Veteran as example of not quality. Children of Korlis and Selfless Savior are examples of quality budget one drops. Mischievous Poltergeist/Wall of Blood's ability can be paid as much as you want, each time losing 1 life, but it's not a good card outside the combo. I suggested it because it's a creature who can be easily reanimated or recurred which can be helpful to more easily combo or repeat the combo. If I was playing this combo I would play it for that reason.

I'll continue with more advice in another comment later.

Niko9 on Impactful Lifegain to improve black …

1 year ago

I do love a good lifegain deck : ) The one I built a while back is a variation of 60 card soul sisters with Soul Warden and Soul's Attendant gaining me life from Lingering Souls or afterlife creatures like Seraph of the Scales or Orzhov Enforcer all to power up a Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Revival / Revenge is a great versatile card, and my favorite lifegain combo is to use Selenia, Dark Angel with Sanguine Bond and Tainted Sigil Selenia is a great flying blocker that your opponent will never actually get rid of, bond is bond : ) and sigil can actually save you in a pinch, but when you put them all together, it's a kill one player combo. Stacking Selenia triggers can be fun when it works : )

But again, I use this in 60 card, so not sure how applicable it is to commander. I also really like Ivory Tower or Sun Droplet just for constant gain effects for Bloodthirsty Aerialist but I'm not sure if it would work in EDH.

Best of luck with the deck! Looks pretty awesome.

RationallyIrrationalNinja on It's Fair Until It's Not

2 years ago

Niko9 Thanks for the kind words! Glad it inspired you to shuffle up your lifegain deck, if the cat ever moved anyways :) I like the idea of Revitalize - I've used it before in a few different applications. It has low manacost to play and is useful at most points of a typical games timeline. I might have to play around with adding some of these, or browsing for something similar that perhaps has "positive for me but negative for opponents" action, like that of Revival / Revenge.

For this deck, I'm not sure Revival / Revenge is the best fit, given that up until the playing field gets equalized, I don't really care too much about being ahead or falling behind in the life count, so I wouldn't be playing it early on. In my mind, optimistically, I benefit from "knowing" we'll all end up with identical low life amounts and if I don't win as planned there...I think I the 6 mana that Revival / Revenge is too much compared to the benefit I might gain from the first steps in taking another shot at knocking out opponent(s). This could be saving mana for defensive spells, since I'll be number one on the most wanted list after this little maneuver, or depending on the opponents boards, looking at brute forcing my way to a win. This only works if someone had a really low life total - if that isn't the case, then I could see this being an option. I still think Bargain or some of the other sideboard cards might be as good or better with lower mana requirements and some offering offense and defense in future turns. With 4 of each Celestial Convergence and Hex Parasite in my deck, there's also the chance I could try again with the combo.

I have said it before and will say it again - the alternative winning conditions are a big weakness for this deck I think...So anyone with suggestions to how to improve this pipe up! :) Protection / defense in general is also a weak spot for me as a new player and

Vampire Hexmage was one I considered, but as you mentioned, it can be an attention grabber. I like that this deck has an off beat feel to it and that it does use a sweet combo, but it's not infinite, obvious, or common (that I know of). For this reason alone, I shy away from adding this. But I'll try out some "similar card" searches and see if anything interesting pops up.

I'll do some more investigating and then try and make any changes over the coming weekend.

Thanks again Niko9 !

Niko9 on It's Fair Until It's Not

2 years ago

Nice deck! This makes me want to dust off my lifegain deck and give it a go again. So thanks for the inspiration : ) Only problem is that my cat is sitting on the box with that deck in it and he may not move for a while...

Anyways, I really like the idea you've got. There may be ways to streamline the combo with something like Vampire Hexmage who is the classic remove counters creature, but I really like that you have a different way to do it. So, up to you. I know hexmage can make opponents groan because it's almost only used for brutal combos.

And I wonder how something like Revitalize would do. I always liked it as a cantrip at instant speed that can also trigger life gain. I've definitely had a few games where Revitalize saved me, and then drew a card too, which are both very nice : )

There's also Revival / Revenge that could bring back Hex Parasite if they target it and also can be a swingy life spell. It might not be exactly what the deck wants, but thought I'd throw out some ideas.

But yep, off to play lifegain now. Thanks!

nbarry223 on Glittering Company

2 years ago

Ye, makes sense over Revival / Revenge since you can just wish for Kitchen Finks if you wanted to reanimate it, so the downside on Can't Stay Away isn't much of a downside in reality plus you can flash it back if needed, so there's that.

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