The Most Powerful Lifegain Deck Commanders | Power Tier List | EDH | Commander | MTG
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- The Commander's Quarters is your Magic the Gathering source that helps you Command Your Budget! Today Mitch goes over The Most Powerful Lifegain Deck Commanders with the Ultimate Commander Power Tier List!
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Karlov of the Ghost Counsel in D tier is criminal 😮
And Trelasarra in C 🤣
thats what im thinking, cant you at least build extort around him and then exile everything? thats how id play him
Came to say this. He comes out turn 2 and If you build the whole rest of the deck around gaining life he gets so big so quick. No one swings at you for fear of dying and then you can just exile everything
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1 Karlov of the Ghost Council
1 Abiding Grace
1 Aetherflux Reservoir
1 Ajani's Mantra
1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Ajani, Strength of the Pride
1 Angel's Feather
1 Archivist of Oghma
1 Authority of the Consuls
1 Blessed Sanctuary
1 Blind Obedience
1 Bolas's Citadel
1 Caves of Koilos
1 Cleric Class
1 Command Tower
1 Command the Dreadhorde
1 Concealed Courtyard
1 Consecrate // Consume
1 Creeping Bloodsucker
1 Crested Sunmare
1 Crypt Ghast
1 Dark Ritual
1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
1 Death Grasp
1 Demon's Horn
1 Dire Tactics
1 Distinguished Conjurer
1 Drana's Emissary
1 Erebos's Intervention
1 Felidar Sovereign
1 Fountain of Renewal
1 Fumigate
1 Giver of Runes
1 Godless Shrine
1 Graceful Reprieve
1 Greed
1 Griffin Aerie
1 Kabira Crossroads
1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
1 Kaya's Guile
1 Kaya's Wrath
1 Kaya, Ghost Assassin
1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
1 Marauding Blight-Priest
1 Mindcrank
1 Mortify
1 Mortuary Mire
1 Mother of Runes
1 Night's Whisper
1 Nighthawk Scavenger
1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
1 Phyrexian Arena
14 Plains
1 Profane Memento
1 Radiant Fountain
1 Revenge of Ravens
1 Revival // Revenge
1 Riot Control
1 Rogue's Passage
1 Scoured Barrens
1 Smothering Tithe
1 Sol Ring
1 Soul Warden
1 Soul's Attendant
1 Speaker of the Heavens
1 Spectrum Sentinel
1 Sun Titan
1 Sunscorch Regent
1 Sunset Revelry
8 Swamp
1 Tablet of the Guilds
1 Talisman of Hierarchy
1 Temple of Silence
1 Vicious Rumors
1 Vindicate
1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
1 Vizkopa Guildmage
1 Voice of the Blessed
1 Well of Lost Dreams
1 Wrath of God
Karlov is incredibly underrated on this list
Oloro in B is rude. He's crazy good for guaranteed life gain triggers, card advantage and drain. The colors are also powerful giving you access to esper when deck building. He deserves at the least an A
Yeah.. I basically moved up to him as my dedicated lifegain commander because there just is not anything better for guaranteed lifegain.
I came to say this lol
@Duskrequim I'm currently building an oloro edh deck. But I'm confused ; do I gain 2 life on turn 1 on upkeep before drawstep?
@@depressedpepe69 YEP. Once your turn begins at start of game you still go through the Untap/Upkeep steps even though you have nothing in play.
I have a Heliod deck with no combos, its a ton of fun and often represents the strongest board. The fact that Heliod is very hard to remove for most non-white decks (and white decks often struggle to interact with him as well) really makes the deck's game plan robust. I think he should be higher on this list
Dina is my absolute favorite, so simple. My first commander deck, and a great intro. I will forever lover her gain and drain
I personally love Lathiel as a Lifelink deck. When you hit with something that has lifelink, you can double that creatures power for the next turn, then double again. You keep that going and eventually you'll have a 32/32 healers hawk that cost you 1 mana. Its not the strongest in the world but its super fun to slowly build up a nasty board state. It also triggers at "each" end step so if you block with a lifelink creature, your stuff gets stronger. It really makes people think about hitting you.
I do the same ! I also have a bunch of other keywords like trample and first strike so I often have a 40/40 trample Lifelink first strike ABSOLUTE UNIT
Me too! My playgroups that have played against Lathiel before act like she is a kill on sight commander cuz if u get a lathiel deck going it can be mean
My strongest deck is a lifegain/ aristocrats deck piloted by “Krav, the unredeemed” and “Regna, the redeemer”. I recommend checking them out
Have the same deck, always surprises people how explosive especially Krav is
@@WondeR871 yes, card draw life gain and +1/+1 counters built into one of the commanders is insane
Great deck. My son runs it. I'm waiting for him to dismantle it so I can build it 😊
I love my Liesa deck. Pretty much any commander that can get around commander tax is really interesting to me because it makes the gameplan more consistent.
My trelysarra deck gets scary fast. There are so many ETB life gain triggers that I am selecting cards early and my commander is huge.
Thanks for listing out the start of the 99 for my new lifeline deck with this video 👌
Sad to not see Kambal here, one of my best gain-drain deck ever. (kind of biased though cause my playgroup loves mono blue/mono red)
Bro this tier list was so whack lmao what the hell is this
I wanna see the most powerful tribal commanders
Yo, that's a good idea fam
Who do you think will be on S alog with the ur dragon and Edgar markov?
@@adoo765I don’t think Edgar is S tier to be perfectly honest. I build tribal almost exclusively and he ain’t all that. B or maybe A tier, but not S.
@@adoo765 maybe Krenko
My favorite lifegain commander is trostani. Throw in a serra avatar and double your life. Add some of the various flicker abilities and you can laser 3 opponenets with aetherflux. Or add a scute swarm just for funsies.
Even without combos Heliod is easily an A or B tier life gain card, it's definitely focused more around combat that straight up gaining life but it can boost your board to insane levels of power and swing with lifelink, aside from being an indestructible enchantment
My favorite is probably Eriette of the Charmed Apple. Just fun and auras are cheap so I’ve been able to two shot opponents (and one shot with sanguine bond and Exquisite Blood)
Carmen from the new Vampire precon is really cool. Gaining a life for anything that get sacrificed is really good (didnt realize how many things get sacrificed in a game)
I ran a Shanna deck for a while and was asked to retire it by my regular pod. I leaned into utilizing all the fast mana in bant, card draw triggers and obviously tons of lifegain boosts and I was often sitting on 20+ cards in my hand, 80+ life and enough mana to do whatever I want by turn 5. It was intended to be a 'strong casual' deck, but it was just too much for a strictly casual table. That was also a while ago, honestly I should rebuild it now with all the new stuff and reprints it's probably even more filthy.
My first ever Commander deck was Oloro, and I'm still a fan of lifegain decks. Love the opportunity to see what other people can potentially do with them.
No Astarion, the Decadent and Kambal Consul of Allocation smh
The reason why willowdusk is only activated at sorcery speed is because you couldn't attack her if it was at instant speed. She just wouldn't block, take the damage, pay 1 and get 10 free counters. A good willowdusk deck will have ways to gain life back using those counters anyway as well as untap willowdusk and rinse and repeat
Darian, king of Kjeldor, he may not actually say life gain, he is actually built around incremental life gain
You say incremental, but me dumping 50 tokens on the field in one turn is not incremental...
@Fablelord1 This is true, but at the same time, it is incremental in the sense that it's 4 or 5 triggers per token. And there are effects that trigger off of each instance of life gain
Right or wrong dude, I'm happy to see your perspective on different cards. There are a good number of commanders that I wouldnt have considered using until I watched one of your videos. Quality videos always my dude, I appreciate it.
One of my favorite decks that I made myself was a Licia: Sanguine Tribune weaponized life-gain deck. Lots of ways to gain life then use that extra life as a resource to take out my opponents. But ya, I got to agree, she's not that powerful on her own, I just love her. I would have said in your list a C, but ya, C/D is about right for her on her own.
I absolutely *love* The Archimandrite. I built mine with a Lifelink theme, which means *every* time my monks attack, the next one gets stronger, even without factoring in the passive life gain effects I've got on my board. It doesn't really matter what your board looks like when I send a 200 power flample dude at you.
Great video. As someone with a high power casual Beledros deck, I agreed with the initial S rating, though I see why you landed on A. I built it with 15+ ramp spells, some mana/token doublers, and random x spells (with plenty of token win conditions thrown in). I also enjoy all my decks having a way out (way to knock myself out of the game) so beledros is great for that too
I mostly play lifegain decks and Dina was one of my first decks! I love the lifedrain gameplay!
Treebeard is CRAZY. Every new pod i join i warn them cause you normally dont see voltron winning so quickly
Happy to see my boy Beledros up there in A, and potentially an S! He's my pet commander atm, building the deck around the pest tokens and token generation in general. It's so fun, I only need like 3-4 cards on board to start draining people, and the moment Beledros comes out, the other players are usually too busy sizing each other up for them to worry about my dragon boy.
You forgot the most important reason the Bilbo is probably S tier. He's Abzan. Of all the other life gain commanders you mentioned, 5 were Selesnya, 4 were Orzhov, 3 were Golgari, and 3 were mono-black. Then we had just one each of White, Bant, Azorius, Boros, Jeskai, Esper, and Mardu. That means that if you wanted to have as many of the powerful cards as possible in the 99, from all the decks for all these commanders, you could fit any card from 16 of the others, and about half or more from the rest, into an Abzan deck. Biblo is the best, just because he gives you access to all the colors that the best life gain decks want. Before Biblo was printed, I used Daghatar the Adamant as my life gain commander. I basically never cast him, but he gave me the colors I needed. Now, I actually use Myrkul, Lord of Bones, because turning my creatures into enchantments works great in this strategy, but, if my wife ever trades me her Biblo, I may just run him instead. Either way, Abzan is by far the best color combination for lifegain sttrategies, and Bilbo needs to go up a tier or two.
There is no possible scenario where Oloro is B tier. S tier easily. Not only is it guaranteed lifegain, letting you easily abuse life without repercussions, but you can run Will in the 99 for a guaranteed 2 extra mana a turn. Then you add black with things like Necropotence, Sanguine Bond, and other life based effects that can win you the game. Watch someone's face as you use Wall of Blood to drain yourself for a ton of life, then drop Oketra's Mercy with Sanguine Bond on the field.
Then activate the Strionic Resonator.
2 opponents in 1 turn from weird jank that nobody else uses.
Someone responds and you just negate or counterspell their response because you still have blue.
Also, for the horrible people out there, you can run Sen Triplets in the 99 of Oloro as an Alternative Commander.
Oloro=S Tier.
Throwing am honorable mention for my boy Piru the Volatile.
If he goes off when the board is full of token creatures you can easily heal for 200+ health
Yesterday I finished my Elas Il-Kor Commander Deck. Need to try it out asap
Astarion is literally the most powerful and its not featured in the video
You gained 5 life this turn? Nah its 10! Your opponent lost half of their? Actually they are dead
I play a deck with Ikra Shidiqi and Prava. It has many cards like Doran and produces a wide board. Love to swing with a bunch of tokens and getting 6 life for each
My first and favorite deck is willowdusk. Could play things like beledros, son of yagmoth and veto for some insane turns.
Rick "shake my hand''' Steadfast Leader is insane as a Lifegain commander :)
I’m curious if you considered Eriette of the Charmed Apple… not necessarily a full blown life gain build but the end step trigger coupled with many cheap enchantments to protect yourself can add up to gain and drain rather quickly
Those were... some takes.
My son rodolph got D tier for costing 6, then immediatly slammed baladros in s (shifted down to A) even though he costs 7. A little inconsistant.
Sad that Evra, halcyon witness wasn't on there. Although going by your rankings she would only be c or d tier. 6 mana mono white that wins with combat damage.
K'rrik is not a lifegain deck - as lifegain is not the main tech there. It just helps not to die :) Same about Liesa.
Rodolf in D is absurd. Rodolf is incredibly powerful. My deck slaps the shit out of my opponents. They have a really hard time keeping up.
I have a Liesa lifedrain deck and when I put she in the board, everyone tries to put her back in the command zone, because she stops a lot of combos/storm decks. And the fact that she has flying, lifelink and can be cast using life as part of the cost, garantees me to put her back in the board almost every turn. So, in my opinion, she is an A tier, at least, or S
Not going to lie, having the only s tear life gain Commander be mono black with phyrexian mana as the payoff doesn't feel right to me. I understand how powerful phyrexian mana is, but you don't need to focus on life gain to feel those benefits.
Heliod deserves better lol
What about Sam and Frodo?
My strongest deck is a Ayli Eternal Pilgrim deck and I'm sad to not see her here. She's an amazing card, 2/3 deathtouch for 2 with life gain ability and removal!
Sad noises coming from 'Piru, the Volatile' for not being included as a life gain commander :(.
I like Bilbo just for the color identity. White, Black and Green are the best colors for lifegain and there isn't another dedicated Abzan lifegain commander.
I have an Amalia deck and a Dina deck and they're both really fun. I think Dina is a bit stronger as more of an aristocrat deck while Amalia is definitely a soul sisters deck.
No Kambal, Consul of Allocation?
I'm surprised
Ooo yeahhh hes great!
Ayli is my lifegain commander. The deck does the work, and she keeps the board clean.
Im sorry but lathiel is easily S tier. The amount of counters you can put on your creatures is crazy, and if those creatures have lifeline you're basically doubling them every turn
Mine is Licia (Sanguine Tribune) ...and the deck is pretty decent, I've even caused about 120 points of life loss with Vito on the board.
It's a Mardu build, so it gets pretty attacky in some instances, especially with some staples of that particular wedge.
Wouldn't K'rrik be counted as a "life loss" comander than a life gain comander, similar to Rowan
Beledros is my favorite card, it's awesome. its S tier in my book
Evra, Halcyon Witness
I have a hard time believing that you didn't mention Lyra Dawnbringer. Play her in angel typal decks. She is pretty powerful on her own but giving every other angel in the deck +1/+1 and lifelink makes her incredibly powerful in terms of commanders. IMHO.
Personally Liesa doesnt even need to be made into a lifegain deck. Shes a great voltron deck that will gain you way more life than you pay
Bilbo's ultimate really almost never works because life-gain players generally get lots of attack hate, and even if they can maintain their life totals up, reaching 111 is a tall order.
I think i would have bumped Dina up to A tier. While she doesnt do as much damage as the life you gain, it is ridiculously easy to have many instances of life gain. Lifelink creatures can be used for attack or defence, there are a ton of ETB/LTB effects that her sac outlet allows you to make great use of. Shes not OP, but Dina can be nasty. I won the first game i ever played with the deck i built and i barely did anything. Just siphoned everyones life away....steeped it away
I'm extremely surprised Oloro ranked so low.
Where's elenda the dusk rose
Where do you think Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher ranks on this list?
Not life gain specifically but the frodo Sam precon is a food deck which is life gain adjacent
Kambal’s not included in the list?
Elas is a A tier, soul sister that comes out quickly. You play lots of aristocrat stuff with lots of tokens. Definitely not uncommon worthy
Astarion should have definitely made the list
Queza is a much better life gain commander then many on this list. I don't know why it's so vastly underrated.
4 mana and is a lightning rod for removal...
Patron of the Kitsune is my favorite
Treebeard in A tier and Karlov in D tier seriously ?
What about Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles!?!
No nonononono
I got skeptical early on when both Trelasarra and Elas were put below Dina. Sure, Dina is nice, but both of the others have better secondary benefits. Dina's life drain ability isn't balanced toward you since she only drains one life no matter how much you gain for each gain instance; being a sac outlet is nice, but it's not a free sac and giving herself a *temporary* power buff (and without a toughness buff) isn't that great. Elas' life gain/drain synergizes with building a good board state, and having deathtough as a defense mechanism is nice. And Trelasarra is the best of the two-cost uncommon bunch as a good lifegain deck will make her absolutely huge in very short order with the added benefit of all that scrying.
I had to stop the vid to write this comment when you put Heloid in D tier. Even without the combo stuff, I would wager he's better than any of the other three aforementioned girls. He's one of the few cheap commanders that both benefits from lifegain and can create it himself - plus, with that indestructible, he's way harder to remove than other commanders and can be a huge defensive wall. The only argument against him is he's mono-color, meaning using him as a commander (vs in the 99) is a bit more restrictive - but there's so much lifegain stuff (and control) in white that it's really not that big of a problem at all.
I enjoy Will, really respect Vito, (he's one of the few black decks I run,) and absolutely love Lathiel, so going to go keep watching now.
Vito C tier? He literally needs 1 card to go infinity e..g Exquisite Blood
Lathiel, C thats crazy , i have seen it get out of control alooooottttt ,
Is Karametra dead now?...
This list is terrible!!!! Karlov, Vito, annnd heliod in D/C CRIMINAL
Ayara first of locthwain should be on the list
Where is my boy Kambal?
sythis harvest hand not being here is absurd. Your content seems kinda half cooked everytime i stumble upon it.
No Kokusho? You're out of your mind.
Dyna is the budget combo commander
Bilbo is a straight up S-tier. The only thing that stops you is your own obsession with hitting that 111 life.
Love your videos but you speak way to fast. I struggle to understand you when you read the card.
Where is Evra!?
Najeela deserves a mention
I really wouldn't call that a life gain deck... it's usually a combo deck, secondarily warrior tribal. No one builds her for the lifelink.
@@davidrosenberg9615 It's not primarily a life gain deck no but it's always built around her second ability which gives an additional combat as well as gives warriors lifegain. Even if she doesn't go infinite players will always use her second ability when they have the mana for it causing them to gain massive amounts of life even if it's not the primary goal. And most well built najeela decks exploit the life gained to some sort of extent
Where is zedruu? Doesnt He match the Life gain?
No Kambal?
Putting trelassara in c tier >:(
Beledros not an S tier? You lost a subscriber here my dude! 🤣 jk
Its not golgari, its Witherbloom!
Its not lifegain, its Witchcraft!