On Theme: ALL THE LIFE!

Today we join the Selesnya Conclave, and get back to nature.

People always say that life gain is not a winning strategy in EDH; commander damage, infect and combo make it not worth the effort.  I decided to kick that idea to the curb, and to just make a deck that gains a ton of life, turning it into a way to win.  This seemed like a pretty good challenge, and the Life Churchers are a great fit for the idea.

How are we gaining all this life, let me show you.

Archon of Redemption, Auriok Champion, Essence Warden, Healer of Pride, Soul Warden, Soul's Attendant, Suture Priest - These guys are the backbone of repeatable life gain effects. That some of them punish your opponent, or feed off other people’s creatures, is great, and they can get really explosive depending on who you are playing.

Baneslayer Angel, Battlegrace Angel, Seraph of Dawn, Serra Ascendant, Victory's Herald, Windbrisk Raptor - These guys either have lifelink, or they give it to people, and lifelink is a great way to hurt people while helping yourself.

Conclave Phalanx, Goldnight Redeemer, Jaddi Lifestrider, Thragtusk - Drop these guys into play, and get a good deal of life if you have a decent board state.  These guys, with the exception of Thrags, love the Avenger of Zendikar in the deck.

Shattered Angel, Grazing Gladehart, Lifegift - These three give you life off land drops.  The Angel cares about your opponents, punishing those ramp decks.  Grazing loves when you crack fetches and drop lands, and Lifegift feeds you for any drop, which is really nice in multiplayer.

Angelic Chorus - Get life for every creature you drop.

Contemplation - Small life gain, but still worth it.

Cradle of Vitality - Grow your creatures for gaining life.

Leyline of Vitality - Gives your critters a toughness boost, and gives you life when they come in.

Moonlit Wake - Life for creatures dying, yup we can abuse that.

Noble Purpose - Double up on those life link shenanigans.

Noble Stand - Now you get life for blocking.

Orim's Prayer - Or when they attack you.

Righteous Cause - Or when any of them attack.

Privileged Position, Leyline of Sanctity, Leyline of Lifeforce - Protect your stuff.  If this doesn't help you keep your stuff, how about Replenish to get them all back?

Well of Lost Dreams - Draw cards for life gain.

So now you have tons of life, but how do you win?

Ajani Goldmane - Gains life, and then gives you another Serra Avatar.

Ageless Entity, Ajani's Pridemate - These two feed on our life gain, and can get huge if left
alone.

Serra Avatar - Another creature that loves a high life total.

Phyrexian Processor - Turn life into repeatable large creatures.

Now, there are some cards that are in here that are just good, so we don’t need to list them. 

 Here is the full list so you can check them out.

Creature (29)

1x Ageless Entity
1x Ajani's Pridemate
1x Archon of Redemption
1x Atalya, Samite Master
1x Auriok Champion
1x Avenger of Zendikar
1x Baneslayer Angel
1x Battlegrace Angel
1x Conclave Phalanx
1x Craterhoof Behemoth
1x Dryad Arbor
1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1x Engulfing Slagwurm
1x Essence Warden
1x Goldnight Redeemer
1x Grazing Gladehart
1x Healer of the Pride
1x Jaddi Lifestrider
1x Purity
1x Seraph of Dawn
1x Serra Ascendant
1x Serra Avatar
1x Shattered Angel
1x Soul Warden
1x Soul's Attendant
1x Suture Priest
1x Thragtusk
1x Victory's Herald
1x Windbrisk Raptor

Land (41)

1x Command Tower
1x Dryad Arbor
1x Flagstones of Trokair
5x Forest
1x Gaea's Cradle
1x Gavony Township
1x Graypelt Refuge
1x High Market
1x Horizon Canopy
1x Kabira Crossroads
1x Kjeldoran Outpost
1x Kor Haven
1x Krosan Verge
1x Mosswort Bridge
1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
10x Plains
1x Saltcrusted Steppe
1x Savannah
1x Serra's Sanctum
1x Springjack Pasture
1x Stirring Wildwood
1x Strip Mine
1x Temple Garden
1x Temple of the False God
1x Thawing Glaciers
1x Windbrisk Heights
1x Windswept Heath
1x Yavimaya Hollow

Planeswalker (1)

1x Ajani Goldmane

Enchantment (21)

1x Angelic Chorus
1x Armadillo Cloak
1x Aura Shards
1x Contemplation
1x Cradle of Vitality
1x Doubling Season
1x Faith's Fetters
1x Leyline of Lifeforce
1x Leyline of Sanctity
1x Leyline of Vitality
1x Lifegift
1x Mana Reflection
1x Moonlit Wake
1x Noble Purpose
1x Noble Stand
1x Orim's Prayer
1x Parallel Lives
1x Privileged Position
1x Proper Burial
1x Righteous Cause
1x Sterling Grove

Artifact (5)

1x Phyrexian Processor
1x Sun Droplet
1x Sword of Light and Shadow
1x Sword of War and Peace
1x Well of Lost Dreams

Sorcery (3)

1x Divine Congregation
1x Heroes Remembered
1x Replenish
There you go, life gain and using it to win. Now the deck is a bit more expensive then some I have done in the past, dat Cradle and Doubling Season have a way of doing that.  Did you like the deck?  Have some cards I should have put in?  Hate it, and think I am dumb for building it? Leave me a comment, or shoot me a twitter message.

As always, if you got any ideas for the deck, or any other strange themes you would like to see built, shoot me an email at jmfelber@gmail.com, or hit my twitter @RealFelber.  I am also on the Salvation boards as HatterofMad all the time, and if you wanna check out my experiment in MTG Trading check out The One Red Mountain Project, it is starting to get exciting up to over 40 bucks from trading starting with a single foil mountain.