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Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 2 life. Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card and each opponent loses 1 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, if Oloro is in the command zone, you gain 2 life.

Creature
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic (plst) C13-203

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Anointer Priest

Whenever a creature token you control enters, you gain 1 life. Embalm {3}{W} ({3}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Human Cleric with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Anointer Priest (plst) AKH-3
Aura Blast

Destroy target enchantment. Draw a card.

Instant
Aura Blast (pls) 1

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Chalice of Life

Artifact
Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (dka) 146Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (dka) 146
Choice of Damnations

Target opponent chooses a number. You may have that player lose that much life. If you don't, that player sacrifices all but that many permanents of their choice.

Sorcery
Choice of Damnations (sok) 62
Defiant Bloodlord

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

Creature
Defiant Bloodlord (c21) 142
Indulging Patrician

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature
Indulging Patrician (m21) 219
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (znr) 112
Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (som) 73
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
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.

Planeswalker
Sorin Markov (plst) M12-109
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.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (m21) 127
Vizkopa Guildmage

{1}{W}{B}: Target creature gains lifelink until end of turn. {1}{W}{B}: Whenever you gain life this turn, each opponent loses that much life.

Creature
Vizkopa Guildmage (gk2) 47
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.)

Enchantment
Wound Reflection (2xm) 113

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Ajani's Pridemate

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Ajani's Pridemate (tsr) 290
Archangel of Thune

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Archangel of Thune (2xm) 5
Bloodbond Vampire

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Bloodbond Vampire (jmp) 209
Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Bloodthirsty Aerialist (c21) 136
Gideon's Company

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on this creature. {3}{W}: Put a loyalty counter on target Gideon planeswalker.

Creature
Gideon's Company (war) 268
Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature. Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control. {1}{W}: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Heliod, Sun-Crowned (thb) 18
Karlov of the Ghost Council

Whenever you gain life, put two +1/+1 counters on Karlov. {W}{B}, Remove six +1/+1 counters from Karlov: Exile target creature.

Creature
Karlov of the Ghost Council (pj21) 7
Nykthos Paragon

Whenever you gain life, you may put that many +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. Do this only once each turn.

Creature Enchantment
Nykthos Paragon (mh2) 22
Twinblade Paladin

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. As long as you have 25 or more life, this creature has double strike. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)

Creature
Twinblade Paladin (plst) M20-285

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Allay

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Destroy target enchantment.

Instant
Allay (exo) 1
Break Ties

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Exile target card from a graveyard. Reinforce 1—{W} ({W}, Discard this card: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.)

Instant
Break Ties (mh2) 8

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (psoi) 242p
Archfiend of Depravity

Flying At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature
Archfiend of Depravity (e01) 31
Aura of Silence

Artifact and enchantment spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. Sacrifice this enchantment: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Enchantment
Aura of Silence (plst) C15-60
Austere Command

Choose two — • Destroy all artifacts. • Destroy all enchantments. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less. • Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Austere Command (cmr) 12
Cleansing Nova

Choose one — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery
Cleansing Nova (mic) 82
Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Damn (mh2) 80
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (afc) 184
Dire Tactics

Exile target creature. If you don't control a Human, you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.

Instant
Dire Tactics (iko) 183
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (2xm) 25
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (nec) 89
Vanishing Verse

Exile target monocolored permanent.

Instant
Vanishing Verse (stx) 244
Vindicate

Destroy target permanent.

Sorcery
Vindicate (mh2) 294
Witch of the Moors

Deathtouch At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice and you return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Witch of the Moors (plst) JMP-18

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Attended Healer

Whenever you gain life for the first time each turn, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token. {2}{W}: Another target Cleric gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Attended Healer (znr) 6

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Land

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Adarkar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Adarkar Wastes (9ed) 317
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (voc) 172
Darkwater Catacombs

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Land
Darkwater Catacombs (mic) 171
Deserted Beach

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Deserted Beach (pmid) 260p
Drowned Catacomb

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Drowned Catacomb (pxln) 253p
Glacial Fortress

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or an Island. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Glacial Fortress (pxln) 255p
Hallowed Fountain

({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Hallowed Fountain (sld) 123
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (c16) 301
Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Land Tax (plst) BBD-94
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (vow) 398
Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (pmid) 267p
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (rna) 22
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (vow) 400
Tranquil Cove

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {U}.

Land
Tranquil Cove (m21) 258
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (c16) 335

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Ajani, Strength of the Pride

+1: You gain life equal to the number of creatures you control plus the number of planeswalkers you control. −2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this token." 0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani and each artifact and creature your opponents control.

Planeswalker
Ajani, Strength of the Pride (m20) 2
Angelic Accord

At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Angelic Accord (ima) 7
Crested Sunmare

Other Horses you control have indestructible. At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 5/5 white Horse creature token.

Creature
Crested Sunmare (plst) HOU-6
Griffin Aerie

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 white Griffin creature token with flying.

Enchantment
Griffin Aerie (m21) 22
Inkshield

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.

Instant
Inkshield (c21) 71
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (cc2) 5
Regna, the Redeemer

Partner with Krav, the Unredeemed (When this creature enters, target player may put Krav into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Flying At the beginning of each end step, if your team gained life this turn, create two 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens.

Creature
Regna, the Redeemer (bbd) 3
Speaker of the Heavens

Vigilance, lifelink (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap. Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) {T}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.

Creature
Speaker of the Heavens (plst) M21-38
Valkyrie Harbinger

Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 4 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.

Creature
Valkyrie Harbinger (khm) 374

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Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (war) 79
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Gregor, Shrewd Magistrate

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Whenever Gregor, Shrewd Magistrate deals combat damage to a player, draw cards equal to its power.

Creature
Gregor, Shrewd Magistrate (sld) 145
Lolth, Spider Queen

Whenever a creature you control dies, put a loyalty counter on Lolth. 0: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. −3: Create two 2/1 black Spider creature tokens with menace and reach. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent is dealt combat damage by one or more creatures you control, if that player lost less than 8 life this turn, they lose life equal to the difference."

Planeswalker
Lolth, Spider Queen (pafr) 112p
Ob Nixilis Reignited

+1: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. −3: Destroy target creature. −8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a player draws a card, you lose 2 life."

Planeswalker
Ob Nixilis Reignited (c21) 149
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (cc2) 4
Sorin the Mirthless

+1: Look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card and put it into your hand. If you do, you lose life equal to its mana value. −2: Create a 2/3 black Vampire creature token with flying and lifelink. −7: Sorin deals 13 damage to any target. You gain 13 life.

Planeswalker
Sorin the Mirthless (vow) 131
Veinwitch Coven

Menace Whenever you gain life, you may pay {B}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Veinwitch Coven (c21) 46

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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.

Artifact
Alhammarret's Archive (c21) 233
Rhox Faithmender

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Creature
Rhox Faithmender (jmp) 130
Serra Ascendant

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.

Creature
Serra Ascendant (ima) 31
Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul Warden (plst) MM3-24
Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Soul's Attendant (plst) ROE-44

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Abolish

You may discard a Plains card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Abolish (ddf) 29
Abyssal Gatekeeper

When this creature dies, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Abyssal Gatekeeper (dvd) 31
Abzan Advantage

Target player sacrifices an enchantment of their choice. Bolster 1. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Instant
Abzan Advantage (frf) 2
Ajani's Welcome

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Ajani's Welcome (m19) 6
Ajani's Welcome

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Ajani's Welcome (m19) 6
Ajani, Strength of the Pride

+1: You gain life equal to the number of creatures you control plus the number of planeswalkers you control. −2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this token." 0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani and each artifact and creature your opponents control.

Planeswalker
Ajani, Strength of the Pride (m20) 2
Angel of Vitality

Flying If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Creature
Angel of Vitality (m20) 4
Angel's Feather

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

Artifact
Angel's Feather (dvd) 23
Angelic Chorus

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Enchantment
Angelic Chorus (bbd) 87
Angelic Purge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a permanent. Exile target artifact, creature, or enchantment.

Sorcery
Angelic Purge (plst) SOI-3
Anointed Procession

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

Enchantment
Anointed Procession (plst) AKH-2
Answered Prayers

Whenever a creature you control enters, you gain 1 life. If this enchantment isn't a creature, it becomes a 3/3 Angel creature with flying in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Enchantment
Answered Prayers (mh1) 2
Arcane Lighthouse

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Until end of turn, creatures your opponents control lose hexproof and shroud and can't have hexproof or shroud.

Land
Arcane Lighthouse (cm2) 233
Archfiend of Despair

Flying Your opponents can't gain life. At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Archfiend of Despair (bbd) 44
Archfiend of Despair

Flying Your opponents can't gain life. At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature
Archfiend of Despair (bbd) 44
Archon of Cruelty

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature
Archon of Cruelty (mh2) 75
Archon of Cruelty

Flying Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature
Archon of Cruelty (mh2) 75
Archon of Justice

Flying When this creature dies, exile target permanent.

Creature
Archon of Justice (jmp) 89
Assassinate

Destroy target tapped creature.

Sorcery
Assassinate (tsr) 101
Athreos, God of Passage

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white and black is less than seven, Athreos isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you own dies, return it to your hand unless target opponent pays 3 life.

Creature Enchantment
Athreos, God of Passage (plst) JOU-146
Auriok Champion

Protection from black and from red Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Auriok Champion (ima) 9
Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Authority of the Consuls (kld) 5
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) {1}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. {1}{W}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Exile target nonland permanent. Activate only if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total.

Creature
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim (ogw) 151
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) {1}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. {1}{W}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Exile target nonland permanent. Activate only if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total.

Creature
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim (ogw) 151
Bad Deal

You draw two cards and each opponent discards two cards. Each player loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Bad Deal (m21) 89
Banishing Light

When this enchantment enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield.

Enchantment
Banishing Light (tsr) 291
Battlegrace Angel

Flying Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Battlegrace Angel (mm2) 10
Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (voc) 119
Blood Seeker

Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Creature
Blood Seeker (m12) 81
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.

Sorcery
Blood Tribute (c17) 100
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.

Sorcery
Blood Tribute (c17) 100
Bloodbond Vampire

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Bloodbond Vampire (jmp) 209
Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if this enchantment has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (zen) 82
Bond of Agony

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Each other player loses X life.

Sorcery
Bond of Agony (dis) 38
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.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (akh) 225
Boon Reflection

If you would gain life, you gain twice that much life instead.

Enchantment
Boon Reflection (2xm) 10
Brackish Trudge

This creature enters tapped. {1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you gained life this turn.

Creature
Brackish Trudge (stx) 65
Burden of Greed

Target player loses 1 life for each tapped artifact they control.

Instant
Burden of Greed (dst) 38
Campaign of Vengeance

Whenever a creature you control attacks, defending player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Campaign of Vengeance (plst) EMN-182
Celestial Purge

Exile target black or red permanent.

Instant
Celestial Purge (mm2) 11
Celestial Unicorn

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Celestial Unicorn (afr) 5
Chalice of Life

Artifact
Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (dka) 146Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death (dka) 146
Cleric Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {3}{W}: Level 2 Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. {4}{W}: Level 3 When this Class becomes level 3, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Enchantment
Cleric Class (afr) 6
Cleric Class

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. {3}{W}: Level 2 Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. {4}{W}: Level 3 When this Class becomes level 3, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Enchantment
Cleric Class (afr) 6
Cleric of Life's Bond

Whenever another Cleric you control enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever you gain life for the first time each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Cleric of Life's Bond (znr) 222
Cleric of Life's Bond

Whenever another Cleric you control enters, you gain 1 life. Whenever you gain life for the first time each turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Cleric of Life's Bond (znr) 222
Cliffhaven Vampire

Flying Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Cliffhaven Vampire (ogw) 153
Cosmos Elixir

At the beginning of your end step, draw a card if your life total is greater than your starting life total. Otherwise, you gain 2 life.

Artifact
Cosmos Elixir (khm) 237
Council's Judgment

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

Sorcery
Council's Judgment (plst) CNS-16
Courier Bat

Flying When this creature enters, if you gained life this turn, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Courier Bat (vow) 102
Cradle of Vitality

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {1}{W}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each 1 life you gained.

Enchantment
Cradle of Vitality (jmp) 98
Cruel Celebrant

Whenever this creature or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Cruel Celebrant (war) 188
Curse of Fool's Wisdom

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life. Madness {3}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Curse of Fool's Wisdom (c19) 16
Curse of Fool's Wisdom

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player draws a card, they lose 2 life and you gain 2 life. Madness {3}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Curse of Fool's Wisdom (c19) 16
Curse of Vitality

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, you gain 2 life. Each opponent attacking that player does the same.

Enchantment
Curse of Vitality (c17) 3
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (tsr) 106
Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Dark Confidant (2xm) 81
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) A25-82
Darksteel Mutation

Enchant creature Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.

Enchantment
Darksteel Mutation (voc) 84
Dawn of Hope

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. {3}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

Enchantment
Dawn of Hope (grn) 8
Dawnbringer Cleric

When this creature enters, choose one — • Cure Wounds — You gain 2 life. • Dispel Magic — Destroy target enchantment. • Gentle Repose — Exile target card from a graveyard.

Creature
Dawnbringer Cleric (afr) 9
Daxos of Meletis

Daxos can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater. Whenever Daxos deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library. You gain life equal to that card's mana value. Until end of turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Creature
Daxos of Meletis (c18) 173
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun

Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.) Whenever another creature you control enters or dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun (thb) 9
Disenchant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Disenchant (cmr) 372
Divine Gambit

Exile target artifact, creature, or enchantment an opponent controls. That player may put a permanent card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Divine Gambit (khm) 8
Divinity of Pride

Flying, lifelink This creature gets +4/+4 as long as you have 25 or more life.

Creature
Divinity of Pride (c13) 228
Dogged Pursuit

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Dogged Pursuit (khm) 85
Doomskar Oracle

Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, you gain 2 life. Foretell {W} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
Doomskar Oracle (khm) 10
Drana's Emissary

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Drana's Emissary (plst) BFZ-210
Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Dread Presence (m20) 96
Dreadhound

When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.) Whenever a creature dies or a creature card is put into a graveyard from a library, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Dreadhound (mid) 97
Dream Trawler

Flying, lifelink Whenever you draw a card, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Whenever this creature attacks, draw a card. Discard a card: This creature gains hexproof until end of turn. Tap it.

Creature
Dream Trawler (thb) 214
Drogskol Reaver

Flying Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Creature
Drogskol Reaver (dka) 137
Drogskol Reaver

Flying Double strike (This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Whenever you gain life, draw a card.

Creature
Drogskol Reaver (dka) 137
Duskmantle Seer

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of their library, loses life equal to that card's mana value, then puts it into their hand.

Creature
Duskmantle Seer (c18) 176
Emissary of Despair

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses 1 life for each artifact they control.

Creature
Emissary of Despair (dst) 42
Emissary of Hope

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 1 life for each artifact that player controls.

Creature
Emissary of Hope (dst) 3
Epicure of Blood

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Epicure of Blood (c21) 143
Essence Pulse

You gain 2 life. Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Sorcery
Essence Pulse (c21) 39
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (jmp) 231
Famished Paladin

This creature doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever you gain life, untap this creature.

Creature
Famished Paladin (rix) 8
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (voc) 129
Fountain of Renewal

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life. {3}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Fountain of Renewal (plst) M19-235
Fraying Omnipotence

Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice. Round up each time.

Sorcery
Fraying Omnipotence (m19) 97
Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (voc) 87
Gideon Blackblade

During your turn, Gideon Blackblade is a 4/4 Human Soldier creature with indestructible that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Gideon Blackblade during your turn. +1: Up to one other target creature you control gains your choice of vigilance, lifelink, or indestructible until end of turn. −6: Exile target nonland permanent.

Planeswalker
Gideon Blackblade (sld) 503
Introduction to Annihilation

Exile target nonland permanent. Its controller draws a card.

Sorcery
Introduction to Annihilation (stx) 3
Isolation Cell

Whenever an opponent casts a creature spell, that player loses 2 life unless they pay {2}.

Artifact
Isolation Cell (nph) 141
Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Kambal, Consul of Allocation (kld) 183
Karmic Justice

Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls destroys a noncreature permanent you control, you may destroy target permanent that opponent controls.

Enchantment
Karmic Justice (c15) 72
Karn Liberated

+4: Target player exiles a card from their hand. −3: Exile target permanent. −14: Restart the game, leaving in exile all non-Aura permanent cards exiled with Karn. Then put those cards onto the battlefield under your control.

Planeswalker
Karn Liberated (2xm) 1
Kaya, Bane of the Dead

Your opponents and permanents your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof. −3: Exile target creature.

Planeswalker
Kaya, Bane of the Dead (sld) 531
Kaya, Ghost Assassin

0: Exile Kaya or up to one target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. You lose 2 life. −1: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. −2: Each opponent discards a card and you draw a card.

Planeswalker
Kaya, Ghost Assassin (plst) CN2-75
Keen Duelist

At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.

Creature
Keen Duelist (c21) 42
Leonin Warleader

Whenever this creature attacks, create two 1/1 white Cat creature tokens with lifelink that are tapped and attacking.

Creature
Leonin Warleader (sld) 22
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

Flying, lifelink Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step. If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.

Creature
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel (mid) 232
Liesa, Shroud of Dusk

Rather than pay {2} for each previous time you've cast this spell from the command zone this game, pay 2 life that many times. Flying, lifelink Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Liesa, Shroud of Dusk (cmr) 286
Light of Promise

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Whenever you gain life, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature."

Enchantment
Light of Promise (m21) 25
Liliana, Death Mage

+1: Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. −3: Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life. −7: Target opponent loses 2 life for each creature card in their graveyard.

Planeswalker
Liliana, Death Mage (m21) 328
Lolth, Spider Queen

Whenever a creature you control dies, put a loyalty counter on Lolth. 0: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. −3: Create two 2/1 black Spider creature tokens with menace and reach. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent is dealt combat damage by one or more creatures you control, if that player lost less than 8 life this turn, they lose life equal to the difference."

Planeswalker
Lolth, Spider Queen (pafr) 112a
Lone Rider

Creature
Lone Rider // It That Rides as One (emn) 33Lone Rider // It That Rides as One (emn) 33
Lorcan, Warlock Collector

Flying Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you may pay life equal to its mana value. If you do, put it onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Warlock in addition to its other types. If a Warlock you control would die, exile it instead.

Creature
Lorcan, Warlock Collector (afc) 296
Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marauding Blight-Priest (znr) 112
Markov Purifier

Lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Markov Purifier (vow) 241
Markov Purifier

Lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.

Creature
Markov Purifier (vow) 241
Marshland Bloodcaster

Flying {1}{B}, {T}: Rather than pay the mana cost of the next spell you cast this turn, you may pay life equal to that spell's mana value.

Creature
Marshland Bloodcaster (c21) 43
Merciless Eviction

Choose one — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all planeswalkers.

Sorcery
Merciless Eviction (2xm) 211
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (ima) 220
Mortify

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Instant
Mortify (plst) C18-186
Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step. As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. Draw X cards.

Instant
Necrologia (7ed) 149
Needlebite Trap

If an opponent gained life this turn, you may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target player loses 5 life and you gain 5 life.

Instant
Needlebite Trap (zen) 105
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (voc) 133
Nightmare's Thirst

You gain 1 life. Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Instant
Nightmare's Thirst (m19) 111
Nirkana Assassin

Whenever you gain life, this creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Nirkana Assassin (plst) BFZ-118
Noble Purpose

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Noble Purpose (8ed) 31
Oathsworn Vampire

This creature enters tapped. You may cast this card from your graveyard if you gained life this turn.

Creature
Oathsworn Vampire (rix) 80
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

+2: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. −2: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. You lose 2 life. −8: You get an emblem with "{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the sacrificed creature's power." Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath (c14) 27
Obzedat, Ghost Council

When Obzedat enters, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. At the beginning of your end step, you may exile Obzedat. If you do, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. It gains haste.

Creature
Obzedat, Ghost Council (mm3) 176
Orim's Prayer

Whenever one or more creatures attack you, you gain 1 life for each attacking creature.

Enchantment
Orim's Prayer (tmp) 32
Pacifism

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block.

Enchantment
Pacifism (jmp) 125
Pillar Tombs of Aku

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may sacrifice a creature of their choice. If that player doesn't, they lose 5 life and you sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment
Pillar Tombs of Aku (vis) 67
Professor Onyx

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. +1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. −3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls. −8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.

Planeswalker
Professor Onyx (pstx) 83p
Purify

Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.

Sorcery
Purify (7ed) 31
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (plst) DDP-56
Regal Bloodlord

Flying At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.

Creature
Regal Bloodlord (m19) 222
Resplendent Angel

Flying At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 5 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance. {3}{W}{W}{W}: Until end of turn, this creature gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink.

Creature
Resplendent Angel (m19) 34
Righteous Cause

Whenever a creature attacks, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Righteous Cause (plst) CMA-21
Sanguine Indulgence

This spell costs {3} less to cast if you've gained 3 or more life this turn. Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Sanguine Indulgence (m21) 121
Self-Inflicted Wound

Target opponent sacrifices a green or white creature of their choice. If that player does, they lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Self-Inflicted Wound (dtk) 117
Serra Avatar

Serra Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to your life total. When Serra Avatar is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.

Creature
Serra Avatar (c18) 73
Shadrix Silverquill

Flying, double strike At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may choose two. Each mode must target a different player. • Target player creates a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. • Target player draws a card and loses 1 life. • Target player puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature they control.

Creature
Shadrix Silverquill (stx) 230
Shinewend

Flying This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. {1}{W}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Destroy target enchantment.

Creature
Shinewend (mor) 23
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (cm2) 77
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (cm2) 77
Silversmote Ghoul

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. {1}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Silversmote Ghoul (c21) 154
Sorin, Grim Nemesis

+1: Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. Each opponent loses life equal to its mana value. −X: Sorin deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life. −9: Create a number of 1/1 black Vampire Knight creature tokens with lifelink equal to the highest life total among all players.

Planeswalker
Sorin, Grim Nemesis (soi) 251
Soul Link

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life. Whenever enchanted creature is dealt damage, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Soul Link (apc) 120
Soul Shatter

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

Instant
Soul Shatter (znr) 127
Souls of the Faultless

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Whenever this creature is dealt combat damage, you gain that much life and attacking player loses that much life.

Creature
Souls of the Faultless (gpt) 131
Spirit Link

Enchant creature (Target a creature as you cast this. This card enters attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Spirit Link (10e) 45
The Book of Exalted Deeds

At the beginning of your end step, if you gained 3 or more life this turn, create a 3/3 white Angel creature token with flying. {W}{W}{W}, {T}, Exile The Book of Exalted Deeds: Put an enlightened counter on target Angel. It gains "You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game." Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
The Book of Exalted Deeds (afr) 4
Tivash, Gloom Summoner

Lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may pay X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn. If you do, create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying.

Creature
Tivash, Gloom Summoner (c21) 45
Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77
Torment of Scarabs

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.

Enchantment
Torment of Scarabs (hou) 78
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.)

Creature
Vampire Nighthawk (voc) 140
Vampiric Link

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Vampiric Link (plc) 92
Voice of the Blessed

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. As long as this creature has four or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has flying and vigilance. As long as this creature has ten or more +1/+1 counters on it, it has indestructible.

Creature
Voice of the Blessed (vow) 44
Wall of Reverence

Defender, flying At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.

Creature
Wall of Reverence (uma) 41
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.

Artifact
Well of Lost Dreams (c21) 275

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