Health Thief

by Keplor on 14 May 2017

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Enchantments (2)

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Deck Tags

  • Life Gain
  • Life
  • Green
  • Black
  • Draw
  • Land

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Health Thief

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth would allow you to put more mana in to drain life

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Posted 26 May 2017 at 14:21

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Thanks, I'll take out the leechridden swamp and add that.

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Posted 27 May 2017 at 04:07

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Vampiric Link would be perfect. It would also nullify their creatures since it doesn't give the enchanted creature lifelink, but instead makes the controller of Vampiric Link gain life.

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Posted 26 May 2017 at 14:31

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Thanks, I always thought that's what lifelink did but i looked it up and i was wrong. I'll add it to the deck.

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Posted 27 May 2017 at 03:44

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Tainted remedy is a good card to use for a anti-life deck. And also polluted bonds is another life exchange enchantment.

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Posted 07 June 2017 at 15:19

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I think that if you can play both Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond, you would win the duel due to an infinite combo. The combo starts off with:
(1) Opponent loses life
(2) Exquisite Blood activates which will give you the total amount of life that the opponent loses
(3) Sanguine Bond activates in response to Exquisite Blood which will make TARGET opponent lose life equal to the amount of life you gain.

Once this chain starts I think it will repeat itself until the opponent has no more life. Please correct me if I'm wrong about any of this.

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Posted 07 June 2017 at 17:16

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Yes in theory that's how it works. The cards will keep in checking if there is any life lost/gained and the cycle continues. All he/she would need to do is use a simple Alms of the Vein or Blood tithe.

As a quick suggestion you need card drawing/searching to get the right cards out fast. Try looking into Beseech the Queen or Diabolic Tutor.

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Posted 07 June 2017 at 17:37

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I would suggest taking out Mourning and replacing it with Diabolic Tutor.

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Posted 07 June 2017 at 19:21

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The thing about Mourning is it works so very well with Agent of the Fates. The way i understand it, you can just keep casting and taking Mourning off of Agent of the Fates to kill all of your opponents' creatures.

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Posted 07 June 2017 at 21:06

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Oh ok I didn't see that combo before.

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Posted 09 June 2017 at 17:49

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