Tivash, Gloom Summoner

Tivash is a life-drain payoff commander that turns your lifegain into a growing army of flying Demons. The core gameplan is straightforward: gain life through cards like Bloodghast, Zulaport Cutthroat, or simple efficient lifegain spells, then convert that gained life into tokens at end of turn. Since Tivash herself has lifelink, attacking with your growing demon horde generates even more life to sacrifice into bigger tokens next turn—it's a snowball effect that feeds itself.

Your deck wants a mix of efficient black creatures with lifelink, sacrifice outlets to trigger death triggers and generate even more gain, and aristocrat synergies that reward you for having a big creature count. Cards like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat turn your sacrifice engine into a drain effect, while Viscera Seer gives you repeatable scry as you feed tokens into it. By turn 7–8, you'll typically have a threatening board that's hard to race and grows more dangerous each turn cycle.

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