The Book of Vile Darkness

At the beginning of your end step, if you lost 2 or more life this turn, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
{T}, Exile The Book of Vile Darkness and artifacts you control named Eye of Vecna and Hand of Vecna: Create Vecna, a legendary 8/8 black Zombie God creature token with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.

Vorpal Sword

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has deathtouch.
{5}{B}{B}{B}: Until end of turn, this Equipment gains "Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Equip {B}{B}

Whispersilk Cloak

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

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Glaring Spotlight

Creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.
{3}, Sacrifice this artifact: Creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.

Kamber, the Plunderer

Partner with Laurine, the Diversion (When this creature enters, target player may put Laurine into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Lifelink
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life and create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Diabolic Tutor

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

Font of Agonies

Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment.
{1}{B}, Remove four blood counters from this enchantment: Destroy target creature.

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara 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.

Sol Ring

Diamond Mare

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

Eye of Vecna

When Eye of Vecna enters, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {2}. If you do, you draw a card and you lose 2 life.

Deathgreeter

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Shadow Alley Denizen

Whenever another black creature you control enters, target creature gains intimidate until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Feed the Swarm

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

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Malicious Affliction

Morbid — When you cast this spell, if a creature died this turn, you may copy Malicious Affliction and may choose a new target for the copy.
Destroy target nonblack creature.

Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Marsh Casualties

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.)
Creatures target player controls get -1/-1 until end of turn. If this spell was kicked, those creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn instead.

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Demon's Horn

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

Underworld Connections

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}, Pay 1 life: Draw a card."

Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.
Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Leechridden Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)
This land enters tapped.
{B}, {T}: Each opponent loses 1 life. Activate only if you control two or more black permanents.

Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped.
{T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Shred Memory

Exile up to four target cards from a single graveyard.
Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Swamp

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.

Cut of the Profits

Casualty 3 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 3 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)
You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Hand of Vecna

At the beginning of combat on your turn, equipped creature or a creature you control named Vecna gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Equip—Pay 1 life for each card in your hand.
Equip {2}

Dimir Machinations

Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Exile any number of those cards, then put the rest back in any order.
Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Massacre Girl

Menace
When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.)
Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Garza's Assassin

Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.
Recover—Pay half your life, rounded up. (When another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay half your life, rounded up. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, exile this card.)

Temple of Aclazotz

(Transforms from Arguel's Blood Fast.)
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.

Arguel's Blood Fast

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, you may transform Arguel's Blood Fast.

Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz

Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.

Genju of the Fens

Enchant Swamp
{2}: Until end of turn, enchanted Swamp becomes a 2/2 black Spirit creature with "{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn." It's still a land.
When enchanted Swamp is put into a graveyard, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Reaper from the Abyss

Flying
Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, destroy target non-Demon creature.

Detection Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Sudden Death

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

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."

Malakir Mire

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

Smolder Initiate

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, target player loses 1 life.

Tymaret, Chosen from Death

Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
{1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.

Eternity Vessel

This artifact enters with X charge counters on it, where X is your life total.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have your life total become the number of charge counters on this artifact.

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}

Dark Ritual

Barren Moor

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Zof Bloodbog

Zof Consumption

Each opponent loses 4 life and you gain 4 life.

Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog

Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Agent of the Shadow Thieves

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn."

Hagra Broodpit

Hagra Mauling

This spell costs {1} less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands.
Destroy target creature.

Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit

Staff of the Death Magus

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

Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature 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.)

Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Nihilistic Glee

{2}{B}, Discard a card: Target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Hellbent — {1}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card. Activate only if you have no cards in hand.

Erebos's Titan

As long as your opponents control no creatures, this creature has indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Whenever a creature card leaves an opponent's graveyard, you may discard a card. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature.
Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

Soot Imp

Flying
Whenever a player casts a nonblack spell, that player loses 1 life.

Merrow Bonegnawer

{T}: Target player exiles a card from their graveyard.
Whenever you cast a black spell, you may untap this creature.

Blessing of Leeches

Flash
Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life.
{0}: Regenerate enchanted creature.

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.

Torgaar, Famine Incarnate

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature sacrificed this way.
When Torgaar enters, up to one target player's life total becomes half their starting life total, rounded down.

Netherborn Phalanx

When this creature enters, each opponent loses 1 life for each creature they control.
Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Vona's Hunger

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you have the city's blessing, instead each opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up.

Spawning Pool

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}: This land becomes a 1/1 black Skeleton creature with "{B}: Regenerate this creature" until end of turn. It's still a land. (If it regenerates, the next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Thrull Parasite

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.)
{T}, Pay 2 life: Remove a counter from target nonland permanent.

Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire

Deathtouch
Boast — {1}{B}: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Emergence Zone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.