Big Brain Gain/Drain to Pain, Mane

Standard* Lifegain

CasHole

Creature (17)

• 1x Angel of Serenity
• 2x Angelic Skirmisher
• 2x Child of Night
• 2x Dawnstrike Paladin
• 2x Dutiful Thrull
• 2x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Master of Cruelties
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 2x Scholar of Athreos
• 2x Vizkopa Guildmage

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Land (25)

• 10x Plains
• 2x Rakdos Guildgate
• 10x Swamp
• 3x Transguild Promenade

Enchantment (5)

• 2x Divine Favor
• 1x Path of Bravery
• 2x Sanguine Bond

Artifact (4)

• 2x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (8)

• 1x Congregate
• 2x Doom Blade
• 1x Executioner's Swing
• 3x Pharika's Cure
• 1x Warleader's Helix

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Corrupt
• 2x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Diabolic Tutor

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 2x Deathgaze Cockatrice
• 2x Serra Angel

Land (3)

• 2x Swamp
• 1x Transguild Promenade

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 2x Pacifism
• 2x Quag Sickness

Artifact (1)

• 1x Elixir of Immortality

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Liturgy of Blood

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Maybeboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Accursed Spirit
• 1x Balustrade Spy
• 1x Blightcaster
• 1x Lifebane Zombie
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x Sengir Vampire
• 1x Tenacious Dead

Artifact (1)

• 1x Staff of the Death Magus

Instant (1)

• 1x Vile Rebirth

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Midnight Recovery
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Shrivel

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The main idea behind this deck is to "double the damage by attacking with lifelink (or similar), and doing that damage again via Sanguine Bond, Vizkopa Guildmage, etc."

Which direction should I take? Lots of low drop creatures and give them lifelink, or split low and high drops (similar to how it is now) to increase the damage.

This deck has had some good games, but too many bad ones. I usually have a good chance of winning if I can get out a few cheap creatures and keep my opponents creatures under control until I bring out Sanguine Bond and Angelic Skirmisher or play Congregate if my opponent has lots of creatures out.

I believe that where I run into problems is the early drops, but I could use some other opinions. This deck hits its stride around turn 5 after Sanguine Bond, Angelic Skirmisher, Corrupt, etc. come into play.

Brief history: This is the deck I started to build right out of the gate when I got a deck builders tool kit. I got the idea from building around sanguine bond. The idea behind this deck is I gain life, making it harder to get me down to 0, while every time I gain life it reflects through sanguine bond (or another card with similar life-link effects) to take life points away from my opponent.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 8 - 3 Rares 10 - 1 Uncommons 24 - 9 Commons
Cards	65
Avg. CMC	3.52
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Goat 0/1 W