GIVE Me LIFE!!!!! by Pentduh

Format: Commander

Commander: Karlov of the Ghost Council

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck uses Karlov of the Ghost Council at the helm to turn incidental lifegain into rapid creature growth and repeatable board control. The primary strategy works by deploying early lifegain enablers like Soul Warden and Guide of Souls to fuel Karlov and build an insurmountable life cushion. While Karlov applies early combat pressure and exiles opposing creatures, the deck searches for its primary win condition: an infinite drain loop combining Exquisite Blood with Sanguine Bond, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Enduring Tenacity, or Marauding Blight-Priest. Tutors such as Idyllic Tutor and Enlightened Tutor ensure reliable access to combo pieces by Turn 6. Backup plans include alternate win triggers like Felidar Sovereign and Test of Endurance, or heavy artillery from Aetherflux Reservoir. Low ramp density and lack of stack interaction leave the deck vulnerable to faster combo strategies, but strong recursion and resilient engines give it excellent midgame staying power.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Attended Healer
  • 1 Auramancer
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Beza, the Bounding Spring
  • 1 Blood Clock
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Daydream
  • 1 Deathgreeter
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Evershrike's Gift
  • 1 Excalibur II
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Flicker of Fate
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Ghostway
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Guide of Souls
  • 1 Helm of Awakening
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Hop to It
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Karlov of the Ghost Council
  • 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric
  • 1 Neglected Manor
  • 1 Nurturing Pixie
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Personify
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Runed Halo
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silverquill Campus
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin Markov
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Spectrum Sentinel
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Sun Clasp
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tablet of the Guilds
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Test of Endurance
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Umbilicus
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voice of the Blessed
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 Whitemane Lion