Portal for the Long Game
Gate to the Afterlife rewards a graveyard focused approach by turning each nontoken casualty into incremental advantage. Gate to the Afterlife gives you one life when a nontoken creature you control dies then offers a card draw with an immediate discard to sharpen hand quality. Those small increments matter in longer games and pair cleanly with self mill and sacrifice themes in Commander Aetherdrift decks.
The activated ability scales into a late game payoff. By paying {2}, tapping and sacrificing Gate to the Afterlife you can tutor up a copy of God-Pharaohs Gift from graveyard hand or library and put it directly onto the battlefield provided you have six or more creature cards in your graveyard. Practical, repeatable synergies with tokens sacrifices and ETB self recur make this a reliable engine piece. Condition is Near Mint and the card is English print from Commander Aetherdrift which fits well into value oriented artifact slots.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {3}
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Card Type – Artifact
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Subtypes – None
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. {2}, Tap, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaohs Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.
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Power / Toughness – N A
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Loyalty – N A
