Sadistic lifegain/drain by Push2talk

Format: Commander

Commander: Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim leads a life-gain drain build that converts every creature entering or dying into incremental advantage. The primary plan is to flood the board with cheap clerics and vampires, gaining life from Elas and friends, then tip that life gain into universal life loss through Sanguine Bond, Enduring Tenacity, or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose. The hidden ace is Bloodthirsty Conqueror: combined with any of those payoffs, one life-gain trigger creates an infinite drain loop that eliminates all opponents. Secondary paths are evasive lifelink beats and token armies from Valkyrie Harbinger and Preacher of the Schism, with Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord as a recursion engine.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Angel of Vitality
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dazzling Angel
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dire Tactics
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, Saint of Dusk
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Essence Channeler
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fiendish Panda
  • 1 Forlorn Flats
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Healer's Hawk
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Leonardo, Cutting Edge
  • 1 Leyline of Hope
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
  • 1 Make a Stand
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Meteor Crater
  • 1 Minwu, White Mage
  • 1 Morlun, Devourer of Spiders
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Preacher of the Schism
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Restless Fortress
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
  • 1 Split Up
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Valkyrie Harbinger
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vampire of the Dire Moon
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Withering Torment