Death Afterlife (Life Gain Pain Train of Death)

Standard BGW (Abzan, Junk) Combo Competitive Lifegain Ramp

Shvian

Creature (24)

• 2x Archangel of Thune
• 3x Corpsejack Menace
• 4x Elvish Mystic
• 4x Gyre Sage
• 2x Kalonian Hydra
• 3x Loxodon Smiter
• 2x Renegade Krasis
• 2x Scavenging Ooze
• 2x Trostani, Selesnya's Voice

Land (24)

• 5x Forest
• 4x Godless Shrine
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Grove of the Guardian
• 4x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Plains
• 3x Selesnya Guildgate
• 4x Temple Garden

Enchantment (6)

• 2x Gift of Orzhova
• 2x Sanguine Bond
• 2x Unflinching Courage

Instant (3)

• 1x Advent of the Wurm
• 2x Ready / Willing

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Call of the Conclave

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Sideboard

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vraska the Unseen

Artifact (2)

• 1x Pithing Needle
• 1x Ratchet Bomb

Instant (8)

• 2x Golgari Charm
• 2x Orzhov Charm
• 2x Putrefy
• 2x Selesnya Charm

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Duress

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Maybeboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Blood Baron of Vizkopa
• 2x Fiendslayer Paladin
• 1x Obzedat, Ghost Council
• 2x Voice of Resurgence
• 3x Witchstalker

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Debt to the Deathless

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No matter who you are - no matter how powerful - no matter how important and critical for the world your work seems at the time - in the end everything returns to nature.
Bit by bit all that we build and all that we hold dear will be lost and eventually forgotten...
The bindings degrade and the whole falls back into the many...
I guess it's not really a bad thing that everything is eventually lost - for something new to come into the world, something else has to go... beyond the grasp of all destiny awaits...

-Christopher Thoburn

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Ideology

1. Get ahead early with some ramp from Elvish Mystic and Gyre Sage.


2. Play beefy efficient creatures with Call of the Conclave, Loxodon Smiter, or Advent of the Wurm, and enchant with Unflinching Courage.


3. Drop the Corpsejack Menace and / or Trostani, Selesnya's Voice and the healing and counters really begin.


4. Time for the bread and butter. Play Archangel of Thune and / or Kalonian Hydra enchanted with Gift of Orzhova.


5. Spread around the counters with Renegade Krasis and have some fun with Ready / Willing.


6. If your opponent is still alive, Sanguine Bond, now they are not.

• Supplement the deck as needed with a mass debuff, enchantment kill, or mass regeneration from Golgari Charm. Evasion, creature removal, or recursion from Orzhov Charm, Creature or artifact removal from Putrefy, or boost, creature exile, or token creation from Selesnya Charm. Anti-spell Duress, anti-abilities Pithing Needle, anti-aggro Ratchet Bomb, badassness Vraska the Unseen.

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Please comment with your thoughts and ideas!

Top Ranked	Achieved #82 position overall 11 years ago
Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 1 Mythic Rares 29 - 2 Rares 8 - 8 Uncommons 10 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.19
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Player Killer, Centaur 3/3 G, Elemental 8/8 GW, Knight 2/2 W w/ Vigilance, Wurm 5/5 G w/ Trample
Folders	Copied, BWG, Decks