Essence Extraction

Essence Extraction deals 3 damage to target creature and you gain 3 life.

Traveler's Amulet

{1}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Profane Memento

Whenever a creature card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, you gain 1 life.

Liturgy of Blood

Profane Insight

You draw a card and you lose 1 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Foulmire Knight

Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight

Price of Fame

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a legendary creature.
Destroy target creature.
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.)

Memory of Toshiro

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B}. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.

Life of Toshiro Umezawa

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I, II — Choose one —
• Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• You gain 2 life.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Life of Toshiro Umezawa // Memory of Toshiro

Unexpected Fangs

Put a +1/+1 counter and a lifelink counter on target creature.

Ill-Gotten Inheritance

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

Vicious Rumors

Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then mills a card. You gain 1 life.

Grotesque Mutation

Target creature gets +3/+1 and gains lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Rush of Vitality

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.")

Gríma Wormtongue

Your opponents can't gain life.
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Target player loses 1 life. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, amass Orcs 2.

Hostile Negotiations

Exile the top three cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top three cards of your library in another face-down pile. Look at the cards in each pile, then turn a pile of your choice face up. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. You lose 3 life.

Spark Harvest

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Blood Curdle

Destroy target creature. Put a menace counter on a creature you control. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Murderous Compulsion

Destroy target tapped creature.
Madness {1}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Ecologist's Terrarium

When this artifact enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Curry Favor

You gain X life and each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of Knights you control.

Smitten Swordmaster

Smitten Swordmaster // Curry Favor

Executioner's Capsule

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Subtle Strike

Choose one or both —
• Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

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.)

Certain Death

Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Haunt of the Dead Marshes

When this creature enters, scry 1.
{2}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Evolved Sleeper

{B}: This creature becomes a Human Cleric with base power and toughness 2/2.
{1}{B}: If this creature is a Cleric, put a deathtouch counter on it and it becomes a Phyrexian Human Cleric with base power and toughness 3/3.
{1}{B}{B}: If this creature is a Phyrexian, put a +1/+1 counter on it, then you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Pharika's Cure

Pharika's Cure deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Ob Nixilis's Cruelty

Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead.

Baneful Omen

At the beginning of your end step, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, each opponent loses life equal to that card's mana value.

Cruel Reality

Enchant player
At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. If the player can't, they lose 5 life.

Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Blacklance Paragon

Flash
When Blacklance Paragon enters, target Knight gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Nantuko Shade

{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
{4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Charity Extractor

Unlikely Aid

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

Oathsworn Knight

This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
This creature attacks each combat if able.
If damage would be dealt to this creature while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Torment of Venom

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

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."

Gang Up

Assist (Another player can pay up to {X} of this spell's cost. You choose the value of X.)
Destroy target creature with power X or less.

Black Knight

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Protection from white (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything white.)

Sorin's Thirst

Sorin's Thirst deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.

Murder

Whispersilk Cloak

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

Cartouche of Ambition

Enchant creature you control
When this Aura enters, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.

Orcish Medicine

Target creature gains your choice of lifelink or indestructible until end of turn.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Sarevok, Deathbringer

At the beginning of each player's end step, if no permanents left the battlefield this turn, that player loses X life, where X is Sarevok's power.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Gonti's Machinations

Whenever you lose life for the first time each turn, you get {E}. (You get an energy counter. Damage causes loss of life.)
Pay {E}{E}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Each opponent loses 3 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

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.

Tainted Remedy

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

Lash of the Balrog

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {4}.
Destroy target creature.

Lost Legion

When this creature enters, 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.)

Roiling Horror

Roiling Horror's power and toughness are each equal to your life total minus the life total of an opponent with the most life.
Suspend X—{X}{B}{B}{B}. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {X}{B}{B}{B} and exile it with X 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. It has haste.)
Whenever a time counter is removed from this card while it's exiled, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Without Weakness

Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.)
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Swamp

Stronghold Discipline

Each player loses 1 life for each creature they control.

Grimdancer

This creature enters with your choice of two different counters on it from among menace, deathtouch, and lifelink.

Staff of the Death Magus

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

Renegade's Getaway

Target permanent gains indestructible until end of turn. Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy a permanent with indestructible, and if it's a creature, it can't be destroyed by damage.)

Death's Approach

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -X/-X, where X is the number of creature cards in its controller's graveyard.

Untamed Hunger

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+1 and has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Pestilent Haze

Choose one —
• All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
• Remove two loyalty counters from each planeswalker.

Squelching Leeches

Squelching Leeches's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.

Pharika's Chosen

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Phyrexian Obliterator

Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.

The Eldest Reborn

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
II — Each opponent discards a card.
III — Put target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Bitter Downfall

This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a creature that was dealt damage this turn.
Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.