Devour Flesh

Target player sacrifices a creature of their choice, then gains life equal to that creature's toughness.

Engulfing Slagwurm

Whenever Engulfing Slagwurm blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Epicure of Blood

Bake into a Pie

Destroy target creature. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Sanguine Bond

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

Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
When Gixian Puppeteer dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Nissa's Revelation

Scry 5, then reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you draw cards equal to its power and you gain life equal to its toughness.

Weather the Storm

You gain 3 life.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

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.

Bloodthirsty Aerialist

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

Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Night's Whisper

Evolving Wilds

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

Bushmeat Poacher

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Draw a card.

Return to Action

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Vraska's Stoneglare

Destroy target creature. You gain life equal to its toughness. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Vraska, Regal Gorgon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Severed Strands

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness. Destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Yargle and Multani

Mask of Griselbrand

Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip {3}

Malakir Mire

Malakir Mire enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Malakir Rebirth

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

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Jaddi Offshoot

Defender
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Greater Good

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

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.

Forest

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

Phyrexian Arena

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

Witch's Cauldron

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}

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.

Final Strike

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Final Strike deals damage to target opponent or planeswalker equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Deadly Tempest

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Vampiric Rites

{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Radiant Fountain

When Radiant Fountain enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Etched Familiar

When Etched Familiar dies, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

Menace
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Momentous Fall

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
You draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then you gain life equal to its toughness.

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.

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.

Terramorphic Expanse

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

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.

Disciple of Bolas

When Disciple of Bolas enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Noxious Gearhulk

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

Dread Presence

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

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.

Blight Mound

Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace.
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Doomgape

Trample
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. You gain life equal to that creature's toughness.

Paradise Plume

As Paradise Plume enters, choose a color.
Whenever a player casts a spell of the chosen color, you may gain 1 life.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Venser's Journal

You have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in your hand.

Scale the Heights

Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. You gain 2 life. You may play an additional land this turn.
Draw a card.

Talisman of Resilience

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. Talisman of Resilience deals 1 damage to you.

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.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Hell's Caretaker

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your upkeep.

March of Wretched Sorrow

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way.
March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.

Protean Hulk

When Protean Hulk dies, search your library for any number of creature cards with total mana value 6 or less, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Dark Ritual

Essence Harvest

Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Shadowgrange Archfiend

When Shadowgrange Archfiend enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creatures sacrificed this way.
Madness—{2}{B}, Pay 8 life. (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Crypt Ghast

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.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

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.

Fyndhorn Elves

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

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.

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.

Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Culling Ritual

Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.

Exsanguinate

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

Cultivate

Scavenging Ooze

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

Tyvar's Stand

Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. (A creature with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

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.

Sol Ring

Veinwitch Coven

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

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.

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Flourishing Hunter

When Flourishing Hunter enters, you gain life equal to the greatest toughness among other creatures you control.

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.)

Reckoner's Bargain

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.

Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Deathsprout

Destroy target creature. Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Arcane Signet

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

Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control
When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Mortality Spear

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

Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Putrefy

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

Colossification

Enchant creature
When Colossification enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature gets +20/+20.

Pristine Talisman

Sengir, the Dark Baron

Flying
Whenever another creature dies, put two +1/+1 counters on Sengir, the Dark Baron.
Whenever another player loses the game, you gain life equal to that player's life total as the turn began.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Llanowar Elves

Jungle Hollow

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

Rite of Consumption

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Rite of Consumption deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Pulse of Murasa

Return target creature or land card from a graveyard to its owner's hand. You gain 6 life.

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.

Dying Wish

Enchant creature you control
When enchanted creature dies, target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is its power.

Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Swamp

Filigree Familiar

When Filigree Familiar enters, you gain 2 life.
When Filigree Familiar dies, draw a card.