Amalia - Lifegain Counters by SeekerHeart

Format: Commander

Commander: Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Amalia Benavides Aguirre leads a lifegain/aristocrats shell that explores on every life gain and aims to hit 20 power to wipe all other creatures. The deck uses Food tokens, Soulmender, extort, and small drain effects to generate frequent lifegain triggers; Light of Promise and Excalibur II turn those triggers into +1/+1 counters. After Amalia's wipe, Rogue's Passage or Bleeding Effect gives her evasion for a three-turn commander-damage finish. If that plan stalls, Aetherflux Reservoir and Bolas's Citadel provide an alternate storm-style kill, while Syr Konrad and Blood Artist tax creature deaths. The deck is a midrange grinder, not a fast combo list.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
  • 1 Angel of Vitality
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashes to Ashes
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bleeding Effect
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Aerialist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bonecache Overseer
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cauldron Familiar
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Dalkovan Encampment
  • 1 Dawn Charm
  • 1 Dawnhand Dissident
  • 1 Dazzling Angel
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Excalibur II
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Experimental Confectioner
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forlorn Flats
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Giant's Skewer
  • 1 Graveyard Trespasser // Graveyard Glutton
  • 1 Hopeful Initiate
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Joust Through
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Lifelink
  • 1 Light of Promise
  • 1 Linden, the Steadfast Queen
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Lyra Dawnbringer
  • 1 Midnight Snack
  • 1 Moment of Craving
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Requiting Hex
  • 1 Riot Control
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sanguine Indulgence
  • 1 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
  • 1 Soulmender
  • 1 Spirit Mantle
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 The Underworld Cookbook
  • 1 Tivash, Gloom Summoner
  • 1 Trading Post
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Witch's Oven
  • 1 Zombify