Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Trespasser's Curse

Enchant player
Whenever a creature enchanted player controls enters, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Restorative Burst

Return up to two target creature, land, and/or planeswalker cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each player gains 4 life. Exile Restorative Burst.

Pestilent Cauldron

{T}, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
{1}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.
{4}, {T}: Exile four target cards from a single graveyard. Draw a card.

Pestilent Cauldron // Restorative Burst

Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Demon's Horn

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Parallel Lives

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Well of Lost Dreams

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {X}, where X is less than or equal to the amount of life you gained. If you do, draw X cards.

Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodthirsty Aerialist.

Sorin Markov

+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
−3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10.
−7: You control target player during that player's next turn.

Necroblossom Snarl

As Necroblossom Snarl enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, Necroblossom Snarl enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Swamp

Overgrown Arch

Defender
{T}: You gain 1 life.
{2}, Sacrifice Overgrown Arch: Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.)
As Overgrown Tomb enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Infuse with Vitality

Until end of turn, target creature gains deathtouch and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
You gain 2 life.

Blood Tithe

Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Dina, Soul Steeper

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Dina, Soul Steeper gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Lisette, Dean of the Root

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control and those creatures gain trample until end of turn.

Valentin, Dean of the Vein

Menace, lifelink
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. When you do, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root

Tend the Pests

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Create X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life," where X is the sacrificed creature's power.

Putrefy

Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Blood Tribute

Kicker—Tap an untapped Vampire you control. (You may tap a Vampire you control in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell.)
Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. If this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sangromancer

Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Blooming Marsh

Blooming Marsh enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Sanguine Bond

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Mortality Spear

This spell costs {2} less to cast if you gained life this turn.
Destroy target nonland permanent.

Beledros Witherbloom

Flying
At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Wound Reflection

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Forest

Sedgemoor Witch

Menace
Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.)
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Search for Blex

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put any number of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 3 life for each card you put into your hand this way.

Blex, Vexing Pest

Other Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders you control get +1/+1.
When Blex, Vexing Pest dies, you gain 4 life.

Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex

Alhammarret's Archive

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.
If you would draw a card except the first one you draw in each of your draw steps, draw two cards instead.

Marauding Blight-Priest

Feast of Blood

Cast this spell only if you control two or more Vampires.
Destroy target creature. You gain 4 life.

Prism Ring

As Prism Ring enters, choose a color.
Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Three Visits

Search your library for a Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Chalice of Death

Chalice of Life

{T}: You gain 1 life. Then if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total, transform Chalice of Life.

Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death

Mana Reflection

If you tap a permanent for mana, it produces twice as much of that mana instead.

Vampire Nighthawk

Flying
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Nighthawk Scavenger

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.

Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Night's Whisper

Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Sol Ring

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Skyshroud Claim

Search your library for up to two Forest cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Altar's Reap

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Hunt for Specimens

Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."
Learn. (You may reveal a Lesson card you own from outside the game and put it into your hand, or discard a card to draw a card.)

Golgari Signet

Foul-Tongue Shriek

Target opponent loses 1 life for each attacking creature you control. You gain that much life.

Staff of the Death Magus

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Foreboding Fruit

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Adamant — If at least three black mana was spent to cast this spell, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Springmane Cervin

When Springmane Cervin enters, you gain 2 life.

Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn.
Pay 50 life: Aetherflux Reservoir deals 50 damage to any target.

Sovereign's Bite

Target player loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Accomplished Alchemist

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Tribute to Hunger

Target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Drana, Liberator of Malakir

Flying, first strike
Whenever Drana, Liberator of Malakir deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Arcane Signet

Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Pest Summoning

Create two 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Doubling Season

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.
If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.

Cultivate

Witherbloom Pledgemage

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, you gain 1 life.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Profane Memento

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.

Roiling Regrowth

Sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Defiant Bloodlord

Flying
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.

Elixir of Immortality

{2}, {T}: You gain 5 life. Shuffle Elixir of Immortality and your graveyard into their owner's library.