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.

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

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

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

{T}: Add {C}. You gain 1 life.

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

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

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

Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may have that player lose 1 life.

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

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

Deathtouch Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life. Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Flying Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Deathtouch, lifelink

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.)

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature or pays 3 life.

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

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

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

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.

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

Flying Whenever a player casts a spell, they lose 1 life for each spell they've cast this turn.

When Serrated Scorpion dies, it deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life.

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.

Flying Whenever an opponent casts a spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Sunscorch Regent and you gain 1 life.

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may gain 1 life. Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may have that player lose 1 life.

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink

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.)

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. {3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

{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.

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."

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.

(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.

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

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

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Underworld Dreams deals 1 damage to that player.

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Choose one — • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. You gain X life. • Exile up to twice X target cards from graveyards.

Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker.

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

You gain 3 life. Draw a card.

You gain 1 life for each creature your opponents control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

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

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

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

Kabira Crossroads enters the battlefield tapped. When Kabira Crossroads enters the battlefield, you gain 2 life. {T}: Add {W}.

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

When Obscura Storefront enters the battlefield, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Plains, Island, or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

({T}: Add {W}.)

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

Scoured Barrens enters the battlefield tapped. When Scoured Barrens enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) Snowfield Sinkhole enters the battlefield tapped.

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) Sunlit Marsh enters the battlefield tapped.

({T}: Add {B}.)

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Temple of Silence enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Silence enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

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

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

Destroy all creatures. You gain 1 life for each creature destroyed this way.

Destroy all creatures. You gain life equal to the number of creatures you controlled that were destroyed this way.

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life.

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

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.

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodbond Vampire.

Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

Enchant creature When Dark Favor enters the battlefield, you lose 1 life. Enchanted creature gets +3/+1.

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control."

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When enchanted creature dies, return that card to its owner's hand.

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

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature tokens get -1/-1.

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."

{B}: Nantuko Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1. Enchanted creature has intimidate as long as its controller controls no other creatures. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

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.

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn." When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has "{B}: Regenerate this creature."

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains infect until end of turn. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+1.

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -1/-1, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Flying When Abhorrent Overlord enters the battlefield, create a number of 1/1 black Harpy creature tokens with flying equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature.

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.

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped. Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you gain 1 life.

({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.

Target creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

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.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

{B}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

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

Lifelink When Bloodline Necromancer enters the battlefield, you may return target Vampire or Wizard creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

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

When Court of Ambition enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.

Attacking Vampires you control have deathtouch and lifelink. Whenever a Vampire you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

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}.

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.

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

As Diamond Mare enters the battlefield, choose a color. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Flash Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate Dimir House Guard. 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.)

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

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

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) Destroy target creature.

Flying, first strike Whenever Drana, Liberator of Malakir deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.

When Duskfang Mentor enters the battlefield, put a lifelink counter on target non-Human creature you control. {1}{B}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control with lifelink.

{2}, {T}: You gain 5 life. Shuffle Elixir of Immortality and your graveyard into their owner's library.

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

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

Vigilance, lifelink At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 40 or more life, you win the game.

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

Target opponent loses 1 life for each attacking creature you control. You gain that much life.

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

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.

At the beginning of your upkeep, Ill-Gotten Inheritance deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life. {5}{B}, Sacrifice Ill-Gotten Inheritance: It deals 4 damage to target opponent and you gain 4 life.

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.

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

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

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control. Equip {B/P}{B/P} ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Lifelink Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card. Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Destroy target creature.

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.

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.

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

{2}{B}: Return Persistent Specimen from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Choose one — • Target opponent sacrifices a creature. • Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment.

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block. Enchanted creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life."

When Plaguecrafter enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. Each player who can't discards a card.

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.)

Two target players exchange life totals. You create an X/X colorless Horror artifact creature token, where X is the difference between those players' life totals.

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

When Ravenous Chupacabra enters the battlefield, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

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.

Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage dealt by that creature also causes its controller to gain that much life, and it can't be destroyed by damage or effects that say "destroy.")

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

Target opponent loses 3 life. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

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

+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.

+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, Grim Nemesis 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.

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may gain 1 life.

Target player loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

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

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

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.)

If an opponent would gain life, that player loses that much life instead.

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

When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion. Take an extra turn after this one.

Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Flying, lifelink Whenever The Haunt of Hightower attacks, defending player discards a card. Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on The Haunt of Hightower.

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.

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) 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.)

Flying Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

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

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.)

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

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

{B}: Dread Shade gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

{T}, Sacrifice Magus of the Mirror: Exchange life totals with target opponent. Activate only during your upkeep.

Flying Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life. Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

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.)

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Lifelink, haste

Kicker {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell.) Destroy target creature or planeswalker with mana value 2 or less. If this spell was kicked, instead destroy target creature or planeswalker.

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

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.

{3}, Sacrifice Burnished Hart: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, you gain 3 life. Otherwise, you draw a card. Escape—{3}{B}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Spend only black mana on X. Consume Spirit deals X damage to any target and you gain X life.

Whenever another creature dies, you may gain 1 life.

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

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

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +3/+1, has flying, and is a Demon in addition to its other types. You may cast Demonic Embrace from your graveyard by paying 3 life and discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs.

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

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.)

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

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

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

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with no counters on it. • Remove up to three counters from target creature.

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

({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, Son of Yawgmoth.

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

Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and has trample and lifelink. Equip {3}

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}

When Netherborn Phalanx enters the battlefield, 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.)

Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Draw a card.

As Paradise Plume enters the battlefield, 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.

Destroy target creature. If this spell was foretold, scry 2. Foretell {1}{B} (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.)

As Prism Ring enters the battlefield, choose a color. Whenever you cast a spell of the chosen color, you gain 1 life.

Choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, choose one — • Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. • Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

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.

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.

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Destroy target non-Vampire, non-Werewolf, non-Zombie creature.