Regarding Vito, it's the combo with Exquisite Blood that goes infinite. Vito (and Sanguine Bond) says "whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life". Exquisite blood says "whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life". Combining these two creates the loop. Sanguine Bond is the same effect as Vito, basically resulting in an "I gain 1, you lose 2" scenario.
Lifegain is my favorite mechanic in any game and it's no different for Magic. In my own personal goal to build the ultimate lifegain deck I eventually settled for Ghave but it was a real tough decision between him and Oloro. My original thought was to build a deck that ONLY gained life and include the lifegain wincons but it eventually turned into a deck that does the lifegain thing and abuses the saprolings I make with the all the soul sisters. It's probably one if my favorite decks and I'm constantly tweaking it because I made the list myself!
Wow I cant believe Kambal didnt make it in the list but Dina did. I may be biased considering I play Oloro and Kambal has just always been an all star though. The man does work.
Absolutely love krav an regna. It just doesn't lose. Add grave pact ... dictate of erebos... Butcher of Malakir. The whole deck is a work of art I've honed over 3 years.
If you like karlov's style of lifegain (tons of small lifegain triggers). Trelasarra is also a really strong option, you get a scry for every lifegain trigger and you're in selesnya which opens up really great options like the 3rd soul sister, shalai, trostani as well as really bomb cards like sythis and parley selvala for insane card draw.
I ❤️ that my commander took 3rd. Dina is such a fun commander to use and there are so many useful ping healers in her color alignment that it's really easy for her to sneak up on players. I wish she took first, but 3rd is still a pretty solid place to end up here.🤩
You totally forgot Elanda, The Dusk Rose. Combo her with Westvale Abbey and your opponents will not know what hit them. She is a very powerful commander
FIRST ... Ps: A lot of people didn't payed attention to Lathiel in commander legends, its great with all the lifegain support as of late and combines +1 counters and lifegain in a great way (Heliod is part of the 99)
I have a Karlov lifegain and exile/destroy deck. Its very very strong. I always have removal for everything and i finish games always above 50 life. Awesome. For me he should be no1
Licia is grotesquely undervalued. Her first ability means that you’ll never pay commander tax to recast her. In fact, it’s rare that I pay more than RWB for her at all. She is the Thanos of life gain decks. In my build, she takes advantage of K’rrik and Ayli, but also has some nasty surprises in red. I used to use Vito, but he lost out to Vikopa Guildmage, whose ability can be stacked and hits all opponents. Karlov and Liesa are cute and while I did consider them, they didn’t make the cut. I thought Kambal, Consul of Allocation would be on this list. His is limited to non-creature spells unlike Liesa, but it’s still a powerful effect.
If you really want to take advantage of life gain in Orzov, Tivash Gloom Summoner, and Astarion the Decadent work together amazingly well, if you have a lot of life gain in your deck. If you have both out at the same time, depending on what order you decide to activate their effects. You could can have some crazy outcomes. If are able to add beacon of immortality into the mix, we'll things will just get silly.. sorry but alot of math in all directions with those cards ( especially if used in the same turn, those X/X demon tokens can become ludicrous ) and for context, I run those in a Teysa Karlov deck. So those tokens that can be spawned depending on how much life I have gained in a turn have life link.
Best way to describe what I was getting at. Life gain deck. On your end step you can either, Use Tivash to make a Demon with X/X ( X is life gained that turn sacrifice same ammount to create) Astarion doubles life gain each turn. ( Friends ability) So you can either double beforehand to make something big or after to keep yourself up after making the demon. If you can get a beacon of immortality off before that. We'll the numbers just get silly lol.
I have a Licia deck and this is my favorite lifegain Commander... Its dificult to play with this deck, I hardly win a match. I'm trying to make a voltron and I accept suggestions
I love dina. Her second ability absolutely destroys. You play I a game with 4 people and widdle opponents down with her ability. Then you tap 4 for rogues passage, sac a couple of creatures and do 21 commander pretty easily and there's not much they can do about it. It catches people off guard really easily. Especially if your deck is not really ment to be aggressive. Also, you can sac more than one creature per turn as long as you pay one mana each.
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Regarding Vito, it's the combo with Exquisite Blood that goes infinite. Vito (and Sanguine Bond) says "whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life". Exquisite blood says "whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life". Combining these two creates the loop. Sanguine Bond is the same effect as Vito, basically resulting in an "I gain 1, you lose 2" scenario.
Lifegain is my favorite mechanic in any game and it's no different for Magic.
In my own personal goal to build the ultimate lifegain deck I eventually settled for Ghave but it was a real tough decision between him and Oloro.
My original thought was to build a deck that ONLY gained life and include the lifegain wincons but it eventually turned into a deck that does the lifegain thing and abuses the saprolings I make with the all the soul sisters. It's probably one if my favorite decks and I'm constantly tweaking it because I made the list myself!
Crazy how Oloro is still so good after all this time.
Wow I cant believe Kambal didnt make it in the list but Dina did. I may be biased considering I play Oloro and Kambal has just always been an all star though. The man does work.
Kamal is just weaker liesa
I love my Oloro deck easily one of my favorites
Absolutely love krav an regna. It just doesn't lose. Add grave pact ... dictate of erebos... Butcher of Malakir. The whole deck is a work of art I've honed over 3 years.
If you like karlov's style of lifegain (tons of small lifegain triggers). Trelasarra is also a really strong option, you get a scry for every lifegain trigger and you're in selesnya which opens up really great options like the 3rd soul sister, shalai, trostani as well as really bomb cards like sythis and parley selvala for insane card draw.
I ❤️ that my commander took 3rd. Dina is such a fun commander to use and there are so many useful ping healers in her color alignment that it's really easy for her to sneak up on players. I wish she took first, but 3rd is still a pretty solid place to end up here.🤩
You totally forgot Elanda, The Dusk Rose. Combo her with Westvale Abbey and your opponents will not know what hit them. She is a very powerful commander
My favorite lifegain commander is Selenia, Dark Angel.
Essentialy a bunch of "Profane Transfusion" big spells.
Missing Kambal in your list :(
FIRST ...
Ps: A lot of people didn't payed attention to Lathiel in commander legends, its great with all the lifegain support as of late and combines +1 counters and lifegain in a great way (Heliod is part of the 99)
I have a Karlov lifegain and exile/destroy deck. Its very very strong. I always have removal for everything and i finish games always above 50 life. Awesome. For me he should be no1
Licia is grotesquely undervalued. Her first ability means that you’ll never pay commander tax to recast her. In fact, it’s rare that I pay more than RWB for her at all. She is the Thanos of life gain decks.
In my build, she takes advantage of K’rrik and Ayli, but also has some nasty surprises in red. I used to use Vito, but he lost out to Vikopa Guildmage, whose ability can be stacked and hits all opponents.
Karlov and Liesa are cute and while I did consider them, they didn’t make the cut. I thought Kambal, Consul of Allocation would be on this list. His is limited to non-creature spells unlike Liesa, but it’s still a powerful effect.
Ikra Shadiqi is good for life gain, and has partner so you can further capitalize on gain and drain mechanics.
If you really want to take advantage of life gain in Orzov, Tivash Gloom Summoner, and Astarion the Decadent work together amazingly well, if you have a lot of life gain in your deck.
If you have both out at the same time, depending on what order you decide to activate their effects. You could can have some crazy outcomes. If are able to add beacon of immortality into the mix, we'll things will just get silly.. sorry but alot of math in all directions with those cards ( especially if used in the same turn, those X/X demon tokens can become ludicrous ) and for context, I run those in a Teysa Karlov deck. So those tokens that can be spawned depending on how much life I have gained in a turn have life link.
Best way to describe what I was getting at. Life gain deck.
On your end step you can either,
Use Tivash to make a Demon with X/X ( X is life gained that turn sacrifice same ammount to create)
Astarion doubles life gain each turn. ( Friends ability) So you can either double beforehand to make something big or after to keep yourself up after making the demon. If you can get a beacon of immortality off before that. We'll the numbers just get silly lol.
I have a Licia deck and this is my favorite lifegain Commander... Its dificult to play with this deck, I hardly win a match. I'm trying to make a voltron and I accept suggestions
Focus on her first ability. “A mana saved is a mana earned.”
Hating pretty hard on Selesnya
I’m a fan of Trelasarra Moon Dancer
What about Trostani! It is insane as a life gain commander!
My Boi Kambal ❤
I like the Kambal
I love dina. Her second ability absolutely destroys. You play I a game with 4 people and widdle opponents down with her ability. Then you tap 4 for rogues passage, sac a couple of creatures and do 21 commander pretty easily and there's not much they can do about it. It catches people off guard really easily. Especially if your deck is not really ment to be aggressive. Also, you can sac more than one creature per turn as long as you pay one mana each.
If oloro was green white black he would be the best hands down. If only...
My only life gain deck is Lyra dawn bringer
Where os kambal in this list?
Where is Firesong & Sunspeaker?
What!!!! Bro...where is ghave? He can be a powerfull lifegain commander, because you have acess to WBG and you have a lot of combos with him
No Beledros? That's absurd.