Life Ticks Away

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari) Lifegain Theme/Gimmick Tokens

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Creature (21)

• 1x Accomplished Alchemist
• 1x Beledros Witherbloom
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Creakwood Ghoul
• 1x Deathgreeter
• 1x Epicure of Blood
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Ezzaroot Channeler
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Lampad of Death's Vigil
• 1x Marauding Blight-Priest
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1x Tymaret, Chosen from Death
• 1x Valentin, Dean of the Vein  ^Flip
• 1x Veinwitch Coven
• 1x Witch of the Moors
• 1x Wolverine Riders
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Instant (12)

• 1x Appetite for the Unnatural
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Infuse with Vitality
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Mortality Spear
• 1x Natural End
• 1x Nightmare's Thirst
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Sheltering Word
• 1x Tend the Pests
• 1x Weather the Storm

Land (35)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkbore Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 8x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Seraph Sanctuary
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Deadly Brew
• 1x Death Frenzy
• 1x Environmental Sciences
• 1x Essence Pulse
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Necrotic Hex
• 1x Nissa's Expedition
• 1x Pest Infestation
• 1x Rampant Growth

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Blight Mound
• 1x Curse of Fool's Wisdom
• 1x Grim Feast
• 1x Leyline of Vitality
• 1x Lifegift
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Powerleech
• 1x Revenge of Ravens
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Trespasser's Curse
• 1x Trudge Garden
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Artifact (6)

• 1x Demon's Horn
• 1x Pestilent Cauldron  ^Flip
• 1x Profane Memento
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Tablet of the Guilds
• 1x Wurm's Tooth

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Sideboard

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x The Meathook Massacre

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen

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Maybeboard

Creature (17)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Callous Bloodmage
• 1x Disciple of Griselbrand
• 1x Dross Harvester
• 1x Engulfing Slagwurm
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Gilded Goose
• 1x Herald of Hadar
• 1x Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• 1x Jaddi Offshoot
• 1x Kazandu Nectarpot
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sedgemoor Witch
• 1x Slimefoot, the Stowaway
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1x Witherbloom Apprentice

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Garruk, Apex Predator
• 1x Professor Onyx
• 2x Sorin Markov

Artifact (14)

• 1x Altar of Shadows
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Cosmos Elixir
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Fountain of Renewal
• 1x Golgari Locket
• 1x Ivory Tower
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Paradise Plume
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x The Celestus
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Zuran Orb

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Blood Tithe
• 1x Bond of Flourishing
• 1x Containment Breach
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Giant Opportunity
• 1x Hunt for Specimens
• 1x Pest Summoning
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Sanguine Indulgence
• 1x Scale the Heights
• 1x Syphon Life
• 1x Witherbloom Command

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Druid Class
• 1x Golgari Germination
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Quiet Disrepair
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 1x Retreat to Kazandu
• 1x Subversion
• 1x Volrath's Gardens

Instant (11)

• 1x Cling to Dust
• 1x Deathsprout
• 1x Ebony Charm
• 1x Feed the Clan
• 1x Fortifying Draught
• 1x Life Goes On
• 1x Midnight Charm
• 1x Molder
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Respite
• 1x Second Harvest

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The goal is to have many instances of gaining life to trigger Dina's ability multiple times. Lots of ways to make tokens to use as sacrifice fodder to gain life and possibly draw cards. Decent amount of getting stuff back from your graveyard too. Not running Exquisite Blood because it's an expensive card and 2-card/infinite combos are boring and a cheap way to win.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 2 Mythic Rares 30 - 2 Rares 30 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.18
Tokens	Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Emblem Vraska, Golgari Queen, Fungus Beast 4/4 G, Pest 1/1 BG, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B