Life gain/drain by rambert

Format: Commander

Commander: Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Orzhov lifegain deck, helmed by Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate, aims to gain life through extort, lifelink, and direct life-gain spells, then convert that life into a win via drain effects like Sanguine Bond and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose. The primary win condition is the infinite combo of Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond (or Vito / Enduring Tenacity), which creates a loop that drains the table. Secondary paths include Felidar Sovereign and Test of Endurance for a life-total victory, or incremental extort/pinging damage. The deck plays a controlling game with ample removal, board wipes, and protection spells, relying on its card draw engines (Phyrexian Arena, Haliya, Guided by Light) to find its pieces. The commander itself provides a steady extort trigger and becomes a planeswalker that can create food tokens and deal damage based on life gained, but the deck does not revolve around him.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Lighthouse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Authority of the Consuls
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Blighted Steppe
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Blood Money
• 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Congregate
• 1 Crypt Incursion
• 1 Darksteel Mutation
• 1 Dawn's Truce
• 1 Debt to the Deathless
• 1 Decorum Dissertation
• 1 Defiling Daemogoth
• 1 Deification
• 1 Demolition Field
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Destroy Evil
• 1 Drannith Magistrate
• 1 Emergence Zone
• 1 Enduring Tenacity
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Felidar Sovereign
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Final Showdown
• 1 Flare of Fortitude
• 1 Fumigate
• 1 Get Lost
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
• 1 Heliod's Intervention
• 1 Honor the Fallen
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kaya's Ghostform
• 1 Lithoform Engine
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Oubliette
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peter Parker's Camera
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 11 Plains
• 1 Restoration Magic
• 1 Rhox Faithmender
• 1 Riot Control
• 1 Sangromancer
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Sign in Blood
• 1 Silence
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
• 1 Spoils of Evil
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 10 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Sigil
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Test of Endurance
• 1 The Wind Crystal
• 1 Thran Dynamo
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Vanquish the Horde
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Villainous Wrath
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1 War Report
• 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow