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Sorin of House Lifegain and Combos

Commander / EDH Bracket 4 Combo Control Exile Infinite Combo Lifegain Lifelink Midrange Reanimator Tokens WB (Orzhov)

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Land (34)

Enchantment (7)

Creature (26)

Artifact (7)

Commander (1)

Commander: Sorin of House Markov  Flip

Sorcery (13)

Instant (12)

A perfect commander for a classic play-style. Sorin allows us to overcome many obstacles with built in removal, assured lifegain and a cheap enough body to always be around. The deck operates in a simple fashion, gain life, tutor and/or reanimate combo pieces, combo-off and win the game. There are also a few value loops just incase the combos get crushed and we have to pivot into a control, burn and beat down strategy.

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Further changes — Dec. 2, 2025
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Cut Land Tax for Deep Gnome Terramancer

Cut Saw in Half for Dawn's Truce

Cut Victimize for Desperate Plea

All of the cuts made were toward giving the deck more upside and fewer dead draws by expanding the flexibility of our choices.

Deep Gnome gives more upside in this deck, compared to land tax due to how few basic are being run and it’s added upside of being more tutorable, reanimatable, and useful as a blocker.

Saw on Half often felt like a dead draw at times due to it being more of a win-more card that did not often do much more than provide snap protection from a targeted removal given the combo strategy we are running. So I switched things up for Dawn’s Truce. It’s a solid low mana cost card that gives wider protection for our board while giving us some politicking levarge with gift a card.

The cut of Victimize I was on the fence for. Some times it just came up as a dead draw that simply did not further my combo plan. But when it’s good it’s really good. I think ATL brings a nice in between option with Desperate Plea. Now i will have a mid tier removal spell with upside of bringing back most any of my creatures given that they all have fairly low power anyways. This way the slot feels less situational and instead more widely applicable.

Deck Update — Oct. 25, 2025
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Revision 17 See all

(1 month ago)

+1 Dawn's Truce main
+1 Deep Gnome Terramancer main
-1 Land Tax main
-1 Saw in Half main