![]() Is this a life gain deck? Well, of course it is! We’re gaining life via our many lifelinking Angels, including our commander, with Bishop of Wings, Lyra Dawnbringer and Righteous Valkyrie pitching in for some extra value. * Bruna, the Fading Light and Gisela, the Broken Blade are included but not on the deck list due to a Streamdecker error. In truth, it’s totally fine to take a more blended approach as well! At the end of this article, I’ll present you with three decklists – one focused on frequency, one on quantity, and one oddball, though all have a blended approach generally. ![]() ![]() On a basic level, the two categories are Gain Life Often and Gain Lots Of Life, though the line between the two can be somewhat blurry, and effects aimed more toward one strategy can still end up quite powerful in the other. But what are those? Well, like the labels on a voice changer toy your grandma might have regretted giving you in your childhood, the more ubiquitous life gain commanders are pretty clear about their general functions as long as you take a moment to read them. It often seems like there are two discrete ways to build a life gain deck. Really, without life gain, where would we be? Today, I’ll go over how to build a life gain Commander deck, highlighting some key cards, showing off some synergies, suggesting the occasional subtheme and examining some commander choices. While life gain is often dismissed in 1v1 formats (at least when it fails to go infinite), it finds a fantastic home in Commander, where it exists at a tenuous tipping point – the ease of gaining countably large to arbitrarily large amounts of life necessitates the existence of the commander damage rule, which keeps combat relevant. Life gain – a force so powerful that the foundations of Commander are built with it in mind.
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