Scourge Lifegain (Standard)

This deck has options, option are good.

Obviously we are heavy on the life gain, but that's not the only thing we are trying to do.

Charming Prince has two options that fit our deck, we can Scry 2 if needed but really we want to Gain 3 life.

Heliod, Sun-Crowned is a big player for only 3 mana, every time we gain life we are pumping up one of our creatures with +1/+1 counters. He also gives us the option to pay 1W to give any creature life gain.

Lotus Cobra is helping us ramp and is a good target for those +1/+1 counters.

Scavenging Ooze helps us thin out our opponents grave yard and gain more life, while putting another pumpable creature on the board.

Then we've got Vito, this is most likely where most of the work will get done. Every time we gain life with Vito on board our opponent loses that much life. Vito can also give all of our creatures life gain until end of turn for 3BB.

Then we have Scourge of the Scyclaves, if we are ahead on the board we can use his Kicker ability and halve our opponents life total and swing in. If not, we can cast him and get a big creature on board.

Life goes on and Light of Hope are low cost life gain, with Vito on board they are as good as Lightning Bolt.

Inscription of Abundance gives us more options and is just amazing if we can Kick it.

Scale the Heights is in my opinion one of the best cards in the set. For 2G we get a +1/+1 counter, gain 2 life, we can play an additional land this turn and draw a card! Counters, life, land ramp and card advantage for 3 mana!