Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, 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.)

Karn's Sylex

Karn's Sylex enters the battlefield tapped.
Players can't pay life to cast spells or to activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.
{X}, {T}, Exile Karn's Sylex: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value X or less. Activate only as a sorcery.

Fume Spitter

Sacrifice Fume Spitter: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Puppet Strings

{2}, {T}: You may tap or untap target creature.

Feed the Swarm

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

Torment of Venom

Put three -1/-1 counters on target creature. Its controller loses 3 life unless they sacrifice another nonland permanent or discards a card.

Exsanguinate

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

Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market.
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

Glistening Oil

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has infect.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.
When Glistening Oil is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Glistening Oil to its owner's hand.

Eternal Thirst

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink and "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature." (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Midnight Banshee

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each nonblack creature.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Phyrexian Rager

When Phyrexian Rager enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Dark Ritual

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Skinrender

When Skinrender enters the battlefield, put three -1/-1 counters on target creature.

Crumbling Ashes

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy target creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Hunter of Eyeblights

When Hunter of Eyeblights enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you don't control.
{2}{B}, {T}: Destroy target creature with a counter on it.

Deepglow Skate

When Deepglow Skate enters the battlefield, double the number of each kind of counter on any number of target permanents.

Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

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.

Ascendant Evincar

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Other black creatures get +1/+1.
Nonblack creatures get -1/-1.

Grimdancer

Grimdancer enters the battlefield with your choice of two different counters on it from among menace, deathtouch, and lifelink.

Massacre Wurm

When Massacre Wurm enters the battlefield, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

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.

Inexorable Tide

Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Phyrexian Debaser

Flying
{T}, Sacrifice Phyrexian Debaser: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Traveler's Amulet

{1}, Sacrifice Traveler's Amulet: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Plague Engineer

Deathtouch
As Plague Engineer enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Creatures of the chosen type your opponents control get -1/-1.

Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Phyrexian Boon

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 as long as it's black. Otherwise, it gets -1/-2.

Tezzeret's Gambit

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Nest of Scarabs

Whenever you put one or more -1/-1 counters on a creature, create that many 1/1 black Insect creature tokens.

Liliana's Influence

Put a -1/-1 counter on each creature you don't control. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Liliana, Death Wielder, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Blistergrub

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
When Blistergrub dies, each opponent loses 2 life.

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sol Ring

Splendid Agony

Distribute two -1/-1 counters among one or two target creatures.

Arcane Signet

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

Diabolic Tutor

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

Blowfly Infestation

Whenever a creature dies, if it had a -1/-1 counter on it, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Dusk Urchins

Whenever Dusk Urchins attacks or blocks, put a -1/-1 counter on it.
When Dusk Urchins dies, draw a card for each -1/-1 counter on it.

Vedalken Anatomist

{2}{U}, {T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature. You may tap or untap that creature.

Grim Affliction

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Banewhip Punisher

When Banewhip Punisher enters the battlefield, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
{B}, Sacrifice Banewhip Punisher: Destroy target creature that has a -1/-1 counter on it.

Corrosive Mentor

Black creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)

Blood Artist

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

Skeleton Ship

When you control no Islands, sacrifice Skeleton Ship.
{T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Island

Quagmire Lamprey

Whenever Quagmire Lamprey becomes blocked by a creature, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.

Sadistic Obsession

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has "{B}, {T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature."

Stronghold Assassin

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Blood for Bones

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then return another creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

The Cruelty of Gix

Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.
II — Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
III — Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Steady Progress

Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Draw a card.

Refocus

Contagion Clasp

When Contagion Clasp enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Thrummingbird

Flying
Whenever Thrummingbird deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Horobi, Death's Wail

Flying
Whenever a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy that creature.

Phyrexian Delver

When Phyrexian Delver enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Flux Channeler

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Command Tower

Eastern Paladin

{B}{B}, {T}: Destroy target green creature.

Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Phyrexian Plaguelord

{T}, Sacrifice Phyrexian Plaguelord: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Black Sun's Zenith

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Serrated Biskelion

{T}: Put a -1/-1 counter on Serrated Biskelion and a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Chain Stasis

You may tap or untap target creature. Then that creature's controller may pay {2}{U}. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Incremental Blight

Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, two -1/-1 counters on another target creature, and three -1/-1 counters on a third target creature.

Swamp

Guildpact Informant

Flying
Whenever Guildpact Informant deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Liliana, Death Wielder

+2: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature.
−3: Destroy target creature with a -1/-1 counter on it.
−10: Return all creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Blind Zealot

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever Blind Zealot deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, destroy target creature that player controls.