Blood Researcher

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Blood Researcher.

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.

Prosperous Innkeeper

When Prosperous Innkeeper enters the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Jaheira, Friend of the Forest

Tokens you control have "{T}: Add {G}."
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Izoni, Thousand-Eyed

Undergrowth — When Izoni, Thousand-Eyed enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 black and green Insect creature token for each creature card in your graveyard.
{B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creakwood Liege

Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may create a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token.

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.

Ayara, First of Locthwain

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

Witch of the Moors

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

Lampad of Death's Vigil

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Ezzaroot Channeler

Reach
Creature spells you cast cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
{T}: You gain 2 life.

Silversmote Ghoul

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

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.

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.

Gluttonous Troll

Trample
When Gluttonous Troll enters the battlefield, create a number of Food tokens equal to the number of opponents you have. (Food tokens are artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
{1}{G}, Sacrifice another nonland permanent: Gluttonous Troll gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Thieving Amalgam

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you manifest the top card of that player's library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Whenever a creature you control but don't own dies, its owner loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Blossoming Bogbeast

Whenever Blossoming Bogbeast attacks, you gain 2 life. Then creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{1}{B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return Jarad from your graveyard to your hand.

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.)

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.

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

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.

Zulaport Cutthroat

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

Haywire Mite

When Haywire Mite dies, you gain 2 life.
{G}, Sacrifice Haywire Mite: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.

Veinwitch Coven

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

Gala Greeters

Alliance — Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Put a +1/+1 counter on Gala Greeters.
• Create a tapped Treasure token.
• You gain 2 life.

Willowdusk, Essence Seer

{1}, {T}: Choose another target creature. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the amount of life you gained this turn or the amount of life you lost this turn, whichever is greater. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creeping Bloodsucker

At the beginning of your upkeep, Creeping Bloodsucker deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Scavenging Ooze

{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.

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.

Courser of Kruphix

Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Defiler of Flesh

Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.

Honor Troll

Vigilance
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
Honor Troll gets +2/+1 as long as you have 25 or more 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

Pontiff of Blight

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)

Sproutback Trudge

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
Trample
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, you may cast Sproutback Trudge from your graveyard.

Defiler of Vigor

Trample
As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {G} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Deathless Knight

Haste
When you gain life for the first time each turn, return Deathless Knight from your graveyard to your hand.

Chevill, Bane of Monsters

Deathtouch
At the beginning of your upkeep, if your opponents control no permanents with bounty counters on them, put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.
Whenever a permanent an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it dies, you gain 3 life and draw a card.

Spectrum Sentinel

Protection from multicolored (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything multicolored.)
Whenever a nonbasic land enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you gain 1 life.

Silverback Elder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one —
• Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
• Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• You gain 4 life.

Noxious Gearhulk

Menace
When Noxious Gearhulk enters the battlefield, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Umori, the Collector

Companion — Each nonland card in your starting deck shares a card type. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
As Umori, the Collector enters the battlefield, choose a card type.
Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.