Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Xander's Pact

Casualty 2 (As you cast this spell, you may sacrifice a creature with power 2 or greater. When you do, copy this spell.)
Each opponent exiles the top card of their library. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to that spell's mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

Tainted Sigil

{T}, Sacrifice Tainted Sigil: You gain life equal to the total life lost by all players this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

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, Son of Yawgmoth.

Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying
{B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Wound Reflection

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Plains

Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Priest of Fell Rites

{T}, Pay 3 life, Sacrifice Priest of Fell Rites: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
Unearth {3}{W}{B} ({3}{W}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Zhentarim Bandit

Whenever Zhentarim Bandit attacks, you may pay 1 life. If you do, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Talisman of Hierarchy

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

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

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

Starving Revenant

When Starving Revenant enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Bond of Agony

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Each other player loses X life.

Vizkopa Guildmage

{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.

Angel of Suffering

Flying
If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.

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.

Underworld Coinsmith

Constellation — Whenever Underworld Coinsmith or another enchantment you control enters, you gain 1 life.
{W}{B}, Pay 1 life: Each opponent loses 1 life.

Sorin, Grim Nemesis

+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.

Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Verdant Catacombs: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

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

Noble's Purse

Noble's Purse enters tapped and with three coin counters on it.
{T}, Remove a coin counter from Noble's Purse: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Crippling Fear

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Timely Reinforcements

If you have less life than an opponent, you gain 6 life. If you control fewer creatures than an opponent, create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

Verrak, Warped Sengir

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever you activate an ability that isn't a mana ability, if life was paid to activate it, you may pay that much life again. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Bucknard's Everfull Purse

{1}, {T}: Roll a d4 and create a number of Treasure tokens equal to the result. The player to your right gains control of Bucknard's Everfull Purse.

Repay in Kind

Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players.

Snowfield Sinkhole

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

Shambling Ghast

When Shambling Ghast dies, choose one —
• Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Marsh Flats: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord

+1: Target creature you control gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. If it's a Vampire, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
+1: You may sacrifice a Vampire. When you do, Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.
−3: You may put a Vampire creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Children of Korlis

Sacrifice Children of Korlis: You gain life equal to the life you've lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Stirge

Flying
Stirge can't block.
Blood Drain — {1}{B}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Stirge: Draw a card.

Entomb

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

Revenge

Double your life total. Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

Revival

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Revival // Revenge

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.

Font of Agonies

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.

Sinister Concoction

{B}, Pay 1 life, Mill a card, Discard a card, Sacrifice Sinister Concoction: Destroy target creature.

Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Mirran Safehouse

As long as Mirran Safehouse is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all land cards in all graveyards.

Arcane Signet

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

Veinwitch Coven

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

Blood Tribute

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.

Temporal Extortion

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.

Exsanguinate

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

Samwise the Stouthearted

Flash
When Samwise the Stouthearted enters, choose up to one target permanent card in your graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Return it to your hand. Then the Ring tempts you.

The Cauldron of Eternity

This spell costs {2} less to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
Whenever a creature you control dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.
{2}{B}, {T}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Vizkopa Confessor

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.)
When Vizkopa Confessor enters, pay any amount of life. Target opponent reveals that many cards from their hand. You choose one of them and exile it.

Archfiend of Despair

Flying
Your opponents can't gain life.
At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Roaming Throne

Ward {2}
As Roaming Throne enters, choose a creature type.
Roaming Throne is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Soul Spike

You may exile two black cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Soul Spike deals 4 damage to any target and you gain 4 life.

Jailbreak

Return target permanent card in an opponent's graveyard to the battlefield under their control. When that permanent enters, return up to one target permanent card with equal or lesser mana value from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1.
{B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Costly Plunder

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards.

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Debt to the Deathless

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

Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Draw X cards.

Bone Shards

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or discard a card.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Charismatic Conqueror

Vigilance
Whenever an artifact or creature an opponent controls enters untapped, they may tap that permanent. If they don't, you create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

Marching Duodrone

Whenever Marching Duodrone attacks, each player creates a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

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.

Sol Ring

Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Windswept Heath: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Orzhov Signet

Greedy Freebooter

When Greedy Freebooter dies, scry 1 and create a Treasure token. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom. A Treasure token is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Fraying Omnipotence

Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice. Round up each time.

Expedition Map

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

War Room

{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Twilight Prophet

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.

Underworld Connections

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

Sevinne's Reclamation

Return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may copy this spell and may choose a new target for the copy.
Flashback {4}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Chrome Mox

Imprint — When Chrome Mox enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand.
{T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Sanguine Spy

Menace, lifelink
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
At the beginning of your end step, if there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Kaya's Wrath

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

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.

Drana and Linvala

Flying, vigilance
Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.
Drana and Linvala has all activated abilities of all creatures your opponents control. You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate those abilities.

Sunlit Marsh

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

Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Lake of the Dead

If Lake of the Dead would enter, sacrifice a Swamp instead. If you do, put Lake of the Dead onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
{T}, Sacrifice a Swamp: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Razaketh, the Foulblooded

Flying, trample
Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

Lithoform Blight

Enchant land
When Lithoform Blight enters, draw a card.
Enchanted land loses all land types and abilities and has "{T}: Add {C}" and "{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color."

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.

Angel's Grace

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
You can't lose the game this turn and your opponents can't win the game this turn. Until end of turn, damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

Indulging Patrician

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.

Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Astarion, the Decadent

Deathtouch, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, choose one —
• Feed — Target opponent loses life equal to the amount of life they lost this turn.
• Friends — You gain life equal to the amount of life you gained this turn.

Greed

Forsworn Paladin

Menace
{1}{B}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a Treasure token.
{2}{B}: Target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. If mana from a Treasure was spent to activate this ability, that creature also gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Redemption Choir

Lifelink
Coven — Whenever Redemption Choir enters or attacks, if you control three or more creatures with different powers, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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.

Swamp

Nullpriest of Oblivion

Kicker {3}{B} (You may pay an additional {3}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Lifelink
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.