Bargain life plus hate sphinx - looking for input!

Commander / EDH Artifact Budget Combo Lifegain Multiplayer WUB (Esper)

Spydurr

Land (39)

• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Bad River
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Coastal Tower
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Flood Plain
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Kabira Crossroads
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x New Benalia
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 3x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Secluded Steppe
• 1x Sejiri Refuge
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tower of the Magistrate
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Vivid Meadow
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Instant (4)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Hurkyl's Recall
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Riot Control

Creature (23)

• 1x Ajani's Pridemate
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Divinity of Pride
• 1x Drogskol Reaver
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Duskmantle Seer
• 1x Enigma Sphinx
• 1x Ethersworn Adjudicator
• 1x Felidar Sovereign
• 1x Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1x Magister Sphinx
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Razor Hippogriff
• 1x Sharuum the Hegemon
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sphinx of the Steel Wind
• 1x Sphinx Summoner
• 1x Treasure Mage
• 1x Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1x Wall of Reverence

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Aura of Silence
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Greed
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Righteous Aura
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Test of Endurance
• 1x Zur's Weirding

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Ajani, Caller of the Pride
• 1x Ajani Goldmane
• 1x Jace, Architect of Thought

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mirrorworks
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Scourglass
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Well of Lost Dreams
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Catastrophe
• 1x Death Grasp
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Survival Cache
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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Sideboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Archangel Avacyn  ^Flip
• 1x Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Karlov of the Ghost Council
• 1x Sphinx Sovereign

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Grasp of Fate
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

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Maybeboard

Creature (17)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Ashen Rider
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Dominating Licid
• 1x Heliod, God of the Sun
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Intrepid Hero
• 1x Isperia, Supreme Judge
• 1x Magus of the Disk
• 1x Medomai the Ageless
• 1x Reiver Demon
• 1x Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant  ^Flip
• 1x Serra Avatar
• 1x Sphinx Sovereign
• 1x Stormscape Battlemage
• 1x Sydri, Galvanic Genius
• 1x Xathrid Gorgon

Enchantment (16)

• 1x Act of Authority
• 1x Angelic Accord
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Archmage Ascension
• 1x Control Magic
• 1x Crackdown
• 1x Cradle of Vitality
• 1x Darksteel Mutation
• 1x Marshal's Anthem
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Righteous Authority
• 1x Righteous Cause
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Spiritual Asylum

Artifact (6)

• 1x Chalice of Life  ^Flip
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Sword of Kaldra
• 1x Venser's Journal

Land (4)

• 1x Springjack Pasture
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Vivid Creek

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Diabolic Tutor

Instant (1)

• 1x Counterspell

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Started with Eternal Bargain premade, with a bunch of cost-sensitive (<$4/card) additions - and a couple I happened to own. Please let me know what you think!!
The deck gains a ton of life, and tends to win via a handful of combo's on life gain/damage/draw. Board clears & artifact creatures keep things in check.
The Magister (aka hate sphinx) was originally added after playing an Erebos deck - he ends up being a turning point more often than I'd expected. -- Retooled a bit to try & refocus deck...very interested in feedback! Deck is almost always playing 4-person, so oriented a little that way -- Need to add a couple cards I picked up at recent pre-releases as Maybes

Date added	10 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 3 Mythic Rares 38 - 5 Rares 32 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.02
Tokens	*/* W Creature Avatar, Cat 2/2 W, Copy Clone, Minion X/X B
Folders	Commander Decks